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The Jewish people are referred to by two names: Jacob & Israel. Israel (Yisroel) contains the word rosh - head, while Jacob (Yaakov) has in it the word ekev - heel.
A great American leader once said Keep your feet on the ground and your head in the sky. As Jews, we play two roles; the head role and the heel role. We play the head role is when we're involved in spiritual pursuits such as at times of prayer and Torah study, or while observing Shabbat and holidays; our heel role is played out when we go about our normal day to day life in the spirit of Judaism, when we're involved in physicality in a meaningful Jewish way.
The goal of a Jew is to combine these two parts of ourselves, to make a seamless peace between body and soul, heaven and earth, thus sanctifying everyday earthiness by infusing it with meaning and purpose.
The holiday month is our most concentrated Israel - head month, when we gather spiritual inspiration for the year that follows. Now, as we go back to the more mundane day to day, it is Jacob time. Time to put that inspiration into action. To live every day with the honesty of Yom Kippur and the joy of Sukkot.
In fact, the traditional Chassidic greeting at this time is: And Jacob went on his way (from Genesis). It's time to get to work.
Today is Rosh Chodesh for the new month of Cheshvan. Let's not leave the holiday month without making a firm Mitzvah resolution. Please share yours, if you would, by clicking here.
See you at shul on Shabbos.
Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi Shalom M Paltiel
P.S. If you are able, please help us reach our goal for the New year appeal. We're this close...
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Membership Shabbat Dinner | Oct 15 | 7 PM
Annual Shabbat Dinner for Chabad member families.
Members please click here to RSVP for your complimentary Shabbat Dinner.
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Mondays | 9:45 -10:45 am
Michelle Lublin, of Om Sweet Om together with Sara Paltiel, director of Chabad of Port Washington, invite you to to join us for a spectacular Mommy and Me with Yoga
Yoga, Music & Movement in a Preschool setting.
Click here for more info and to register online.
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Upcoming JLI Course: Medicine and Morals Your Jewish guide through life's tough decisions
6 Sundays, Oct 24 - Nov 28 | 10 - 11:30 AM
At Chabad of Port Washington
Click here for more info and to register.
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JLI Teens Course: Israel 3D
A journey through time, space, and beyond.
Sundays, Oct 24 - Dec 5 | 7 - 8:30 PM
High School students, Grades 9-12
At Chabad of Port Washington
Click here for more info and to register.
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Can you take a joke?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss
Sydney, Australia
My wife has no sense of humour. She says I make fun of her in public (and she's always happy to tell me just how bad I am - even in public). Shouldn't she be able to take a joke?
Answer:
Jokes are serious. The line between a friendly jibe and a humiliating stab is often a fine one. You have to question whether the laugh you may get is worth the pain you may inflict. But between husband and wife, humiliation is simply criminal. It goes against everything that a marriage is supposed to be: an exclusive oneness.
In the Jewish wedding ceremony, after standing under the Chuppa, the bride and groom are taken to a private room, known as the Yichud room. Yichud means oneness and exclusivity. By entering this room, a secluded place where no one is present but the couple, they create a sacred space that is theirs and theirs alone.
The newlyweds leave the Yichud room after a few minutes, but in a way they should never leave it. The privacy and oneness of the Yichud room must be taken with them in their marriage. The relationship between husband and wife is a sacred and secluded place, and should stay that way. Any word or action that jeopardises the privacy and unity of a marriage must be erased from our repertoire...
Click here to read full article.
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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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Daily Thought
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Dawn of a New Age
At the time of the disarmament talks in the U.N. (January 1992):
On the wall outside the United Nations building, the nations of the world have inscribed their goal, the words of the Prophet Isaiah,
"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning forks."
Now the Cold War has ended and funds for arms will go instead to feed empty stomachs. Armies will be used to bring food to strangers. The prophecy has begun to be realized.
But the Cold War did not end due to Man's power of reason. War never made sense —yet the same rational Man has fought them for millennium. All that is new is that the light of a new age has begun to shine in our world.
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Candle Lighting Times for
Port Washington, NY
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Shabbat Candle Lighting:
Friday, Oct. 8 |
6:09 pm |
Shabbat Ends:
Shabbat, Oct. 9 |
7:06 pm |
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MAZAL TOV
Mazel tov to longstanding Chabad members Becky & Eddie Freifeld on the marriage of their daughter Dana to Steven Richards!
On behalf of all of us at Chabad, I'd like to wish a hearty Mazel Tov to Becky & Eddie, Dana and Michael on this great simcha. The Freifelds were one of the first families Sara and I met, close to 20 years ago, even before moving out to Port Washington. Our first Chabad event was a lecture held at their home.
I will be traveling down to Miami this weekend to be there to officiate for Dana & Steven. I will carry blessings of mazel tov from our entire community to this very special family.
- Rabbi Paltiel
Becky & Eddie Freifeld
Mazel tov to Donald & Arlene Markowitz on the engagement of their son Evan. Only simchas!
Donald & Arlene Markowitz
BIRTHDAYS
Yair Harari 10/9
Sharon Kobrinsky 10/11
Bari Cenname 10/13
ANNIVERSARY
Alan & Judy Karul 10/14
YARTZEIT
Bernard Stenzler (Dov ben Aryeh), observed by Robyn A. Mandor & Leonard Stenzler, Cheshvan 5 - 10/13
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Schedule of Classes
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Coffee & Parsha Class
Monday - Friday | 7:45 - 8:00 AM
Sunday | 9:45 - 10:00 AM
Weekly Tanya Class
Thursdays | 8:30 PM
At a private home in the community. Email rabbiw@chabadpw.org for location.
Tanya Class
With Rabbi Paltiel
Saturdays | 8:45-9:30 AM
Women's Study Group
with Devorah Weinberg
Tuesday | 8 PM
1A Mohegan Ave. Port Washington
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| Parshah |
 The Forty-Day Mikveh
The waters of the flood are like the waters of a ritualarium — a mikveh — where the waters spiritually cleanse the dross that accumulates in the course of our life's endeavors.
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| Spirituality |
 Does G‑d Really Care?
I still struggle with the idea of a personal G‑d since He does not answer our prayers or ease the suffering of the good and innocent.
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| Jewish Practice |
 Jewish Birthday Calculator
Use this handy tool to find out the Hebrew day corresponding to your date of birth — and then discover when it occurs this year.
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Chabad-Lubavitch News from Around the World |
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 Campus Leaders in Running as Jewish Community Heroes
With three days to go until the close of voting in the second-annual Jewish Community Heroes contest, dozens of Chabad-Lubavitch leaders, including three campus Chabad House directors, are in the running for $25,000 to boost their non-profit projects.
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 Azerbaijani President Inaugurates Baku Jewish School
Speaking at the grand-opening ceremony of the new Chabad Ohr Avner day school in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, President Ilham Aliyev noted the country's long Jewish history and praised its 12,000-strong minority Jewish community.
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 Northern Neighbor of Iran, Azerbaijan, Welcomes Jewish School
Three years after his wife, Azerbaijani First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva, helped lay the cornerstone of one of the biggest Jewish educational complexes in Central Asia, President Ilham Aliyev hailed the new Chabad Ohr Avner day school as a beacon of religious tolerance 150 kilometers from Iran.
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| OBITUARY |
 Chabad-Lubavitch Emissary, a Young Mother of Six, Passes Away
A Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Manchester, England, lost a month-long battle for her life Sunday, leaving family and friends straining for answers just six weeks after celebrating the birth of her son.
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the parshah in a nutshell |
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ParshatNoach
G‑d instructs Noah — the only righteous man in a world consumed by violence and corruption — to build a large wooden teivah ("ark"), coated within and without with pitch. A great deluge, says G‑d, will wipe out all life from the face of the earth; but the ark will float upon the water, sheltering Noah and his family, and two members (male and female) of each animal species.
Rain falls for 40 days and nights, and the waters churn for 150 days more before calming and beginning to recede. The ark settles on Mount Ararat, and from its window Noah dispatches a raven, and then a series of doves, "to see if the waters were abated from the face of the earth." When the ground dries completely — exactly one solar year (365 days) after the onset of the Flood — G‑d commands Noah to exit the teivah and repopulate the earth.
Noah builds an altar and offers sacrifices to G‑d. G‑d swears never again to destroy all of mankind because of their deeds, and sets the rainbow as a testimony of His new covenant with man. G‑d also commands Noah regarding the sacredness of life: murder is deemed a capital offense, and while man is permitted to eat the meat of animals, he is forbidden to eat flesh or blood taken from a living animal.
Noah plants a vineyard and becomes drunk on its produce. Two of Noah's sons, Shem and Japeth, are blessed for covering up their father's nakedness, while his third son, Ham, is cursed for taking advantage of his debasement.
The descendents of Noah remain a single people, with a single language and culture, for ten generations. Then they defy their Creator by building a great tower to symbolize their own invincibility; G‑d confuses their language so that "one does not comprehend the tongue of the other," causing them to abandon their project and disperse across the face of the earth, splitting into seventy nations.
The Parshah of Noach concludes with a chronology of the ten generations from Noah to Abram (later Abraham), and the latter's journey from his birthplace of Ur Casdim to Charan, on the way to the Land of Canaan.
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