The Shul B”H weekly magazine Weekly Magazine Sponsored By Mr. & Mrs. Martin (OBM) and Ethel Sirotkin and Dr. & Mrs. Shmuel and Evelyn Katz Shabbos Parshas Ki Teitzei Elul 13 - 14 August 24 - 25 CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:30 pm Shabbos Ends: 8:22 pm Chai Elul - August 29 Te Shul - Chabad Lubavitch - An institution of Te Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson (May his merit shield us) Over Tirty fve Years of Serving the Communities of Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Indian Creek and Surfside 9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside, Fl 33154 Tel: 305.868.1411 Fax: 305.861.2426 www.TeShul.org Email: [email protected] www.TeShul.org Email: [email protected] www.theshulpreschool.org www.cyscollege.org The Shul Weekly Magazine Everything you need for every day of the week Contents Nachas At A Glance Welcome to our Shul Bochurim!!! Weekly Message 3 Shmuelie and Yossi we are so glad to have you back and Mendel and.... Thoughts on the Parsha from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar we are looking forward to getting to know you! Celebrating Shabbos 4 -5 Pinchas Gansbourg Schedules, classes, articles and more... Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience I’m super stoked to spend the year with you guys! Community Happenings 6-7 Sharing with your Shul Family I grew up in Montreal QC and spent my yeshiva years in Los Angeles CA, New Haven CT, and I A Time to Pray 8 just got back from Jerusalem Israel where I Check out all the davening schedules and locations throughout the week spent the past year together with a big part of the Bal Harbor crew. I’m really looking forward Inspiration, Insights & Ideas 9-15 to spending the year in your home town and Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE becoming part of your community. Lechaim!! Get The Picture 16 21 The full scoop on all the great events around town Mendel Schwartz French Connection 22 Refexions sur la Paracha Hi my name is Mendel Schwartz. I am very excited to be be doing shlicus in The Shul of Latin Link 23 Bal Harbor. I grew up in Crown Heights and over Refexion Semanal the last couple of years I’ve been in yeshiva 24 in Argentina and Israel. I can’t wait to apply In a woman’s world Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman everything I’ve learned in my time in yeshiva and on shlichus to this coming up year in The Networking 25-28 Shul, to have a successful year and make this Effective Advertising world a proper dwelling place for G-d Almighty. Numbers To Know 29 Contacts at The Shul Yitzchak Pruss Daily Study A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at Hey there Yitzchak here. A new year! Wow, I’m The Shul 30 excited after an amazing experience last year Im Get The Picture back for round two. We have a great group and The full scoop on all the great events around town am sure will be working to help this community 31-32 grow in our small way. Looking forward to an over the top year!!! (P.s. we will miss you Yosef!) Yossi Cohen Quotable Quote Hey guys it’s Yossi Cohen again! After an amazing year last year I am even more Chassidim never say farewell, for they never pumped to continue my shlichus here at The Shul! depart from each other; wherever they are, I’m looking forward to coming back! they are one family Shana Tova! – Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch Thoughts on the Parshah from Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar Shabbos Parshas Ki Tetzei objective and use them to make our world a holier and better place. he Torah portion opens Hashem assures us that when we engage in this confrontation we with the law pertaining will surely be victorious as He is with us and assists us in subduing T to a soldier’s behavior the animal and harnessing it for the benefit of the G-dly. and relationship with his beautiful female captive Particularly during the month of Elul when we make an accounting whom he desires for a wife. It of our past year’s positive behavior, malfeasance or nonfeasance is obvious that the desire to while the King (Hashem) is in the field (our immediate proximity), marry this woman emanates it is an appropriate and beneficial time to convey the mastery of from the physical, hormonal our lives to our G-dly soul, relegating the animal soul to its rightful drive of human animalistic position as serving the needs and desires of the G-dly. passion which the Torah recognizes and establishes a Have a great Shabbos and good week. K’siva V’Chasima Tova permissible outlet for this bad L’Shonah Tovah Umatuka. inclination. Though the Torah warns that this attraction will eventually dissipate and may even turn to revulsion with dire consequences of having problematic delinquent children, still it is permitted under very special conditions. Even when acquiescing to the whim of Rabbi S. Lipskar the Yetzer Horah (evil inclination) the Torah gives full disclosure and ample warning of a future that is built on this treacherous foundation. Everything in the Torah must have relevant application to each of us who study the Torah and look to learn and abide by its instruction. Investing in Earth The literal meaning of this concept is not applicable today as the non-obligatory war wherein this episode occurs cannot be waged. Why are you afraid? Why do you panic? There is however a war that is part of each of our lives wherein these challenges are present. Eagerly and with purpose, your soul plunged downward to live in an earthly realm, Within us are two diametrically opposed forces, each of whom want to enwrap herself in a body of fesh and blood. to dominate our bodies (intellect, emotion and behavior). The G-dly soul seeks to involve every one of our thoughts, speech and actions What emboldened her? What drew her to squeeze in the service of G-d while the animal soul’s interest is indulgence her unbounded light to satisfy our physical pleasures and desires. It is a constant struggle and ongoing battle. into the straitjacket of time and space? The Torah, realizing human frailties as part of our natural instinctive It was neither fear, nor dread, nor panic. bodily function, permits us to enjoy the materialistic world around It was the knowledge that here below us. Though legally permitted, our absorption in the corporeal part is a beauty the highest of angels cannot touch. of our being tends to desensitize us and gives the animal side preeminence over the spiritual. Care for yourself, for your family, for your fellow human beings and our lovely planet earth, Eventually, as the tolerance for our materialistic desires grows, our not out of fear, nor from distress, animalistic natures develop stronger and more brute, pushing the G-dly and spiritual to a secondary or even subconscious place. but out of love and awe for the beauty within The Torah warns us that even as we are blessed with all material that we came to uncover. blessings and success we must be certain to infuse them with a holy 3 Celebrating Shabbos with our Youth Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Weekly Riddle Morah Malkie’s Elisheva Adouth's Tot Shabbat Aleph Wonder Girls Ages: 1 - 4 Grades: 1 - 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Questions: 1) Shatnez is a garment containing wool and linen (fax). Where else in Montessori Classrooom 2 the Torah are those two fabrics mentioned in the same verse? classrooom 2 2) Where in this parsha do bread and water appear in the same verse? 3) Which two of the six “zechirot” - the events we are required to remember (found in most prayer books after the morning service) - are mentioned in this parsha? Raquel Gilinski Pre Tween Girls Tween Girls Answers from last week: Grades: 4 - 5 Grades: 6 - 8 1) In parshas Vayeitzei, Yaakov erected a monument after dreaming of angels ascending and descending the ladder (Genesis 28:18). In 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm parshas Vayislach, Yaakov erected a second monument after Hashem changed his name to Yisrael (Genesis 32:14). Classrooom 4 2)Whenever an animal is slaughtered, one must give the foreleg, the stomach and the jaw to the Kohen (Deut. 18:3). 3) Someone is regarded as an “accidental murderer” if he has shown no signs of hatred “yesterday, and the day before yesterday” (Deut. 19:4, 6). In parshas Mishpatim, the Torah says that an ox is treated as a habitual Hebrew School gorer (mu’ad) if it also gored “yesterday and the day before yesterday” Junior Boys (Exodus 21:29, 36). Grades: 4th - 8th Grades: 1 - 4 RIDDLE RULES 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Answers to the riddles can be given to Rabbi Shaykee Farkash any Classroom 1 time over Shabbos. The frst child to give a correct answer to each of the questions will win an INSTANT prize! Davening With Dad Debbie’s Shmuely's Teen Girls Teen Boys Grades: 7th - 8th Grades: 9th - 12th Grades: 9th - 12th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Montessori 3 Teen Girls Room Haime Library 4 Celebrating Shabbos Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience Kiddush This Week: Kiddush this week is in honor of the wedding of Julian and Jenna Ohayon, Shabbos Schedule sponsored by friends who love you.