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I would like to invite you to join my family and I at the National Jewish Retreat coming up in August. This year, the retreat will take place at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA, from August 17 - 22.
I want to make you aware that there is an option of going just for the Shabbos or the long weekend. I encourage you to consider this because I believe you will have the time of your life with like-minded participants from across the country. You will walk away inspired, informed and with a memorable Jewish experience to look back at.
Please Click here for more info. Take a look at this because I believe you will enjoy it thoroughly - should you join even for the Shabbaton option.
See you at shul on Shabbos.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
PS. Have you seen the photos and video of our annual dinner? Click here to get the whole story, including Board Member Felix Sater's speech, you owe it to yourself to do so. This speech is making waves all over the Jewish world, has been featured on most major Jewish websites, and has been viewed by thousands. Click here to watch the 12 minute speech.
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No Prior Knowledge of Anything Required!
7:00 Kabbalat Shabbat
7:15 D'var Torah
7:17 Evening Service
7:30 Kiddush & Light Refreshments
To learn the melodies we use during Kabbalat Shabbat go to http://www.sidduraudio.com and scroll down to the "Carlebach" section of the Friday night - Erev Shabbat service. We sing the Carlebach melodies for Psalm 96, Psalm 98 and Psalm 29, which you can listen to online.
To study a kabalistic essay on the unique spirituality of the land of Israel, click here.
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Chosen People: Doesn't That Sound Racist?
Lecture by Rabbi Shalom Paltiel
Sunday, July 11 | 10 -11:30 AM | At Chabad
Fee: $10 per person | $15 couple | Free for students of most recent JLI course - Beyond Never Again.
Click here to RSVP.
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The Mitzvah - A Holocaust Play
Tuesday, July 20 | 6:30 PM | At Chabad
Fee: $10
The Mitzvah is a drama about what happens when the lives of two human beings — a Polish Jew from Bialystok and a German half-Jew who was an officer in Hitler's army — briefly intersect during the darkest days of The Holocaust.
Followed by optional services at 7 PM and break-the-fast refreshments at 8:54 PM. |
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National Jewish Retreat
Tuesday, August 11 - Sunday, August 22
At the Hyatt Regency, Reston, Virginia
Click here for more info and to RSVP.
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The Land of Milk and Honey
By: Rabbi Aron Moss
Sydney, Australia
My grandmother always told me not to walk around the house in just socks and no shoes. Is there anything to this or is it a bubbemaise superstition?
Answer
There is no law that forbids you to walk around in socks. But our sages teach us to never ignore the sayings of our grandmothers, for there is always some wisdom in them. Indeed, your grandmother's aversion to shoelessness does have some basis.
Jewish law states that one who is mourning the loss of a loved one removes their shoes. Thus walking around in socks makes you look like a mourner, and we don't even want to look like a mourner. This is part of a general Jewish attitude to death. We don't like it. We do whatever we can to stay away from it.
There are many Jewish customs that stem from the desire to avoid anything associated with death. Some people don't sleep with their feet facing the door, because that is how a corpse lies before burial. We don't speak about what will happen when someone dies, but rather what will happen "after 120 years." We wash our hands after attending a funeral, to rid ourselves of the impurity of the cemetery.
This dislike of death is not so much a superstition as an allergy. Our tradition trains us to love life and be allergic to death. Unlike some traditions that venerate death as an ideal and view life as a wretched curse, the Jewish tradition cherishes life as a blessing. Through customs that distance us from death and its trappings, the Jewish people has inculcated a worldview that is life-affirming and this-world focused.
Your grandmother had a point. Death is a part of life. But it need not be given any more space than necessary. Keep your shoes on.
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Board of Directors
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Adam Katz, Esq., President
Frank Arnold
Bert Brodsky
Martin H. Brownstein, M.D.
Howard Fensterman, Esq.
M. Allan Hyman, Esq.
Sara E. Paltiel
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
Alan Rosenzweig
Alan Salzbank
Michael Samuel
Felix Sater
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Candle Lighting Times for
Port Washington, NY
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Shabbat Candle Lighting:
Friday, Jul. 2 |
8:12 pm |
Shabbat Ends:
Shabbat, Jul. 3 |
9:20 pm |
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Schedule of Services
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Sunday Morning
Services: 9:00 AM
Tefillin Club: 11:30 am - 12 noon in the Chabad Library
Monday - Friday
Services: 7:00 AM
Shabbos
Friday Evening: 7:00 PM
Join our all new friday night Shabbat services with song & dance led by Rabbi Weinberg!
Saturday Morning: 9:30 AM
Followed by Kiddush Luncheon at Noon
Mincha: Following Lunch
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Tisha B'Av Schedule of Services:
Monday, July 19
Fast begins | 8:23 PM
Maariv and reading of Book of Lamentations | 9:00 - 10:00 PM
Tuesday, July 20
Morning Service | 7:00 AM
Mincha Service | 7:00 PM
Fast Ends | 8:54 PM
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Schedule of Classes
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Tanya Class
With Rabbi Weinberg
Thursday Evenings
At a private home in the community. Email [email protected] for time & location.
Tanya Class
With Rabbi Paltiel
Saturdays | 8:45-9:30 AM
Women's Study Group
with Devorah Weinberg
every Shabbat after Kiddush lunch
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the parshah in a nutshell |
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ParshatPinchas
Aaron's grandson, Pinchas, is rewarded for his act of zealotry in killing the Shimonite prince Zimri and the Midianite princess: G‑d grants him a covenant of peace and the priesthood.
A census of the people counts 601,730 men between the ages of 20 and 60. Moses is instructed on how the Land is to be divided by lottery among the tribes and families of Israel. The five daughters of Zelophehad petition Moses that they be granted the portion of the land belonging to their father, who died without sons; G‑d accepts their claim and incorporates it into the Torah's laws of inheritance.
Moses empowers Joshua to succeed him and lead the people into the Land of Israel. The Parshah concludes with a detailed list of the daily offerings, and the additional offerings brought on Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh (first of the month), and the festivals of Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret.
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