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If you would like were ‘strange shadows’ on my prints. a opening that we make in our lives for g-d, the individual’s personal life, becomes assistance with the appropriate disposal photographer who was a family friend becomes the giant opening for his love, This is also the reason why Rosh an “abode” for G-dliness, which is of this magazine please call Lubavitch Hashana is Coronation Day, when showed me the cause of ‘the problem’. protection, and blessing. achieved through everyday Torah and of Edgware. Jews proclaim G-d’s Sovereignty as mitzvos (commandments) living. Lubavitch of Edgware is not a Kashrus The black plastic sheet with which i had For that one single tiny good deed, King of the Jewish people and King of Licensing body the responsibility for covered my window had a pin-sized hole. 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Needless to say, this Coronation your heads... down to the drawer the provider of the supplied material. geuloh with our righteous moshiach. must be wholehearted and complete, of your water.” Every Jew, without Lubavitch Central Magazine takes all You have been looking at the pin-hole meaning that together with the feeling exception, is required and expected care to ensure information is correct with negativity, it was your ‘enemy’, he of awesome reverence for the sublime to rise to the level of “standing before at time of printing, but the publisher said to me. But g-d also has a pin-hole’, majesty of the King of the Universe, G-d, your G-d,” regardless how it was accepts no responsibility or liability he wants that pin-hole, and he asks us for the accuracy of any information coupled with the profound joy at G-d’s in the past year. to make one for him. g-d knows that we contained in the text or advertisements. rabbi leivi sudak acceptance of the Coronation, find the ‘way back’ overwhelming. he The question arises: How can one There is bound up with it a firm expect every Jew to attain such a resolution of allegiance and obedience level, and to attain it truly and with joy, 4 5 Story “I was created to serve my Master THAT’S ALRIGHT, YOU CAN DO IT . It’s already Day 50; time has flown by anxious. He was ready to take whatever “That’s alright, you can do it!” was his (Creator)”; and to serve Him with so fast. As I write these words about G-d had destined for him. constant encouragement. I pause and reflect on ה”הה my father I My father was the Rebbe’s Shliach to My father always urged on our progress what he would have done if he were the UK. He lived each and every day in learning. As a teenager, we enjoyed allotted these 50 days. He knew the joy, as it is written, “Serve G-d as a dutiful soldier, truly committed his daily presence in our Study Hall, but value of time, and always used it wisely. to his position, with all his tasks and for me, this input began many years Fifty days ago, on the 17th of Sivan (15 responsibilities. He did not stand up earlier. When I was eight years old, he with joy.” of June), my father returned his holy on a soapbox, but he did reach out promised me a treat if I studied well. and pure soul to its maker. Over the to each and every willing person, and That Shabbos afternoon, after listening recent months, since he went through a encouraged them. He portrayed a sense to me review the week’s study material, serious cardiac arrest, I observed many of urging, insisting that the person takes he said to me ‘Leivi, you learned well moments, and saw how he up their responsibilities. this week, now I will share with you was neither afraid nor a treat.’ He took out of the bookcase a volume written by a Rabbi who lived about 300 years ago. We read it together and I understood it - what a great feeling.