Best Wishes For A Good And Sweet New Year! ב”ה www.chabadelpaso.com The El Paso Issue 161 CHABAD TIMES A publication of Chabad Lubavitch of El Paso September-October 2020 | Tishrei - Cheshvan 5781 6516 Escondido Drive. • El Paso, TX 79912 • 915.584.8218 WELCOME TO OUR NEW LOCATION! 6516 Escondido Drive | A Place You Can Call Home ב"ה Celebrate High Holidays with Chabad! In-person High Holiday services - with social distancing - open to the entire community. Register online at www.ChabadElPaso.com/HHRSVP See page 11 for detailed schedule. Return Service Requested Service Return Your Holiday Guide El Paso, Texas 79912 Texas Paso, El September 18 - October 11 6516 Escondido Drive Escondido 6516 Chabad Lubavitch of El Paso El of Lubavitch Chabad Pages 8 thru 11 Page 2 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Tishrei - Cheshvan 5781 | September - October 2020 The Rabbi’s Message Thank you, El Paso Jewish Community! of the Chabad Lubavitch Center Humanity was the final species When G-d sees our good for Jewish Life. to enter this beautiful world resolutions and intentions for You built it. It was built for because G-d has a mission the coming year, the blessings each and every one of you and for each and every one of us. come in overflowing waves. for future generations. To take this wholesome and There is much to be proud On the eve of the new year complete physical world and of in our community, but as I the traditional greeting and wish reveal the inherent divinity express my thanks for all that to each other is Shana Tova through studying the wisdom you have done in the past, we U’metuka - that the new year of the Torah and observing the at Chabad commit to better and be even better and sweeter than Mitzvot. greater going forward and we Rabbi Yisrael Greenberg the previous year. Even more Physical without revealed know that you will continue to healthy and more successful in divinity is bland and useless and join us on this journey as friends I wish to express my everything. But as we focus on our mission is to inject reality and partners in the mission of gratitude to every member ensuring the new year brings with the energy of purpose and preparing El Paso for the coming of the El Paso Jewish with it a refreshment of our own objective. Therefore, Elul, the of Moshiach. community for your devoted needs, let us be mindful about preparation month for Rosh Best wishes that you and support, help, friendship and the purpose of why we are here Hashanah is a time to intensify yours be inscribed and sealed partnership over the past 34 and need all of these things in our spiritual commitment as for a good and sweet new year. years. Without you we would the first place. we prepare to beseech G-d never be able to accomplish Adam, the first human was for a better and sweeter year. Shana Tova! all that has happened over created on the sixth day of Asking for more means we are these past three decades, Rabbi Yisrael Greenberg creation, after everything else committing to do better and especially the construction had already been created. greater in the future. 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G-d is a very good description of our wanted the Jews to imbue every Divine service in exile, when the location on earth with holiness as entire Jewish people is likened to preparation for the Messianic era, a “guest.” Our Sages characterized when the entire world will be His the exile as a period in which the “dwelling place.” Jews are like “children who have The Baal Shem Tov (who is also The Rebbe is honored with an Aliya during the Torah reading at prayer services in the main syna- been exiled from their Father’s the “Chasidic ushpiz” on the first gogue at Lubavitch World Headquarters. table.” The rightful and natural night of Sukkot) said something According to the mystical In fact, the Talmud derives from place of a Jew is at G-d’s “table”; similar on the verse in Psalms, teachings of the Zohar, heavenly Abraham that “Having guests is during the exile he is not in his “The steps of man are ordered by “ushpizin” (guests) visit the greater than greeting the Divine natural “habitat,” and is therefore a G-d,” explaining that wherever a sukka on the festival of Sukkot. Presence.” The Torah relates that “guest” in alien territory. Jew finds himself, he should know They are: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, when G-d visited Abraham after Why would G-d create such an that it is not “by coincidence,” but Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David his brit mila, he hastened to usher unnatural situation? Because of the that G-d has deliberately led him (Solomon). Each day, one of these into his tent what he thought were special quality and advantage of there for a Divine purpose. tzadikim is the “main” guest who mortal guests but were really the Jews’ Divine service during the It is precisely through our brings the others along. On the angels. exile. This service is so important service in exile that we will merit first night of Sukkot, the “main” If this was how Abraham acted and beloved to G-d that He was to “greet the Divine Presence” in ushpiz is Abraham. before the Torah was given, willing to transform His children the fullest sense with the Final Our ancestor Abraham was pursuing even those who appeared into “guests.” Redemption, when “the glory of renowned for his outstanding as “Arabs who bow down to the Our Sages said: “G-d did Israel the L-rd will be revealed,” with “hachnasat orchim” (hospitality). dust of their feet” as guests, how a favor (‘tzedaka,’ from the root happiness and gladness of heart. meaning righteousness) that Honor an occasion or a loved one with a leaf on the Tree of Life $600 Bronze: $180 | Silver: $200 | Rose: $220 Call 584-8218 The future of Judaism is in your hands. Remember Chabad Lubavitch of El Paso in your will. To learn more about Planned Giving please visit: chabadelpaso.com/legacy Advisory Committee: Dr. Sam Kupetz, Dr. Steven Lanski, Mr. Sidney Schlusselberg & Mr. Ed Solomon Page 4 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Tishrei - Cheshvan 5781 | September - October 2020 From the Rabbis’ Blog www.chabadelpaso.com/blog Dedicated by Northeast Feed Marching to Victory place in our desert region, some ob- to Seven Seventy and every Jew in In truth, even when there are no served. the world knew that it was a place physical battles to fight, there is a Shortly after the previous they would be heard, cherished and constant spiritual battle raging in the Lubavitcher Rebbe miraculously helped. world in general and within every escaped war ravaged Europe in In the early 1970s as the Rebbe individual as well. The war against 1940, the three story building lo- started sending emissaries to ev- apathy and assimilation. The battle cated at 770 Eastern Parkway was ery country, state, city and town against egocentrism, selfishness and purchased to become the new with Jews a song was composed materialism. headquarters of the centuries-old in summer camps where the future The soldiers marching out of Rabbi Levi Greenberg Chabad movement, becoming the emissaries were being educated on Seven Seventy are charged with the Sunday, August 30 was a special most important address for Jews the importance of committing their mission of bringing the light and day for our community. The inau- around the world, known to all sim- lives to servicing the Jewish world. joy of Torah to every human being guration of our brand new Chabad ply as “Seven Seventy.” “From Seven Seventy we’re to enable everyone to overcome the Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life Ten years later the Rebbe as- marching out, on to victory without many spiritual battles we face on a started a new chapter in the annals sumed leadership of Chabad and a doubt…” daily basis. The three peaked facade of Judaism in El Paso. A new home personal responsibility for the The choice of military language of Seven Seventy has become an for every Jew in the region - a place Jewish world and set in motion to describe the Rebbe’s campaign icon of the ability every person has to celebrate, learn, discover and the greatest Jewish renaissance to create a permanent presence of to be victorious in sharing the beau- thrive.