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On a beautiful clear night, albeit seasonally chilly, close to 500 people gathered for the Annual Port Washington Menorah Lighting celebration.
To stay warm, we danced up and down and swirled around like human dreidels, ate delicious hot latkes and sipped hot coffee. Plus, traditional Chanukah goodies such as jelly donuts and chocolate "gelt" were enjoyed by young and old alike. "Judah the Macabee" handed out dreidels to all the children in attendance.
The first 200 participants received Chanukah Menorah necklaces which light up when you wear them. Face painters affixed dreidels and menorah on every willing face.
County Legislator Wayne Wink was honored to light the Shamash.
Superintendent of schools Dr. Geoffrey Gordon was honored to make the blessings and light the Menorah. Warren Sabloff on his way to sing at Madison Square Garden joined us to do the anthem at the Menorah Lighting.
The crowd then joined in for a heartfelt "Oseh Shalom"- a Song of Peace.
Thanks are in order to the many people who made the event a success: Port Washington Police Department, Port Washington Fire Department, Town of North Hempstead, Starbucks of Port Washington, Able Equipment, Deputy Chief Ron DeMeo, Chamber of Commerce's Warren Schein, Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman, Councilman Fred Pollack, Rob Salzbank of Rampage Studios Photography, the many teen volunteers, Brett Friedberg, Bryan Sherman, Joel Avelarde, Shmuly Friedman, Rabbi Weinberg, Devorah Weinberg, Marina Shapiro, and Assistant Chief Salerno.
What a great Chanukah spirit! What a wonderful town!
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
P.S. if you have an interest in Torah study with the spiritual and Kabalistic meaning behind it, join me for a journey through the book of Exodus for an 8 week course which begins this Sunday at 10 AM. Register by clicking here. You will NOT be disappointed.
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Click here to view photo album of Menorah Lighting on Main Street.
Click here to view photo album of the Children's Chanukah Celebration.
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New Torah Studies Course: Tools for Living Shmot 5771 | 8 Sundays
Beginning, December 12th | 10:00 - 11:30 AM
At Chabad Port Washington | 80 Shore Road
Class given by Rabbi Paltiel
Each class is self contained and participation in either individual or multiple classes is welcome.
Fee: $60.00 | Couple Fee $90.00
Members: $40.00 | Couple Fee $60.00
Click here for more info and to RSVP.
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Why don't we see miracles today?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss
Sydney, Australia
Why don't we see miracles today like the Jews saw in the story of Chanuka? And don't tell me that every day is a miracle, childbirth is a miracle, the sunrise is a miracle, blah blah blah. I am talking about splitting seas, dead people coming alive, voices from heaven type of miracles. The really supernatural stuff. What happened to that? Why did the people of biblical times get all the special effects and we don't? Has G‑d retired?
Answer:
Have you ever wished you were a child again? Don't kids have it made? Their parents do everything for them. The child is hungry and amazingly food appears in front of them. They hurt themselves and the parent is immediately there to kiss them better. They are lovingly put to sleep at night, and taken out of bed in the morning. It is a comforting and secure existence. But it doesn't last for long.
As the child develops and grows, the parents gradually withdraw. A baby becomes a toddler, they can walk on their own two feet, feed themselves, and look after some of their own needs. Eventually they will grow to be young children, and can even go out of the house for the day, without their parents, and go to school. Then they become teenagers, when they assert their independence even more. Teenagers often brush off their parents' advice, because they have to find their own way, and they think that they know best. As difficult as it is, the parents have to accept this as a part of their child's maturation process, and to some extent allow the teenager to make some silly mistakes. Otherwise they will never grow up.
The parents have to let go, because only then can the child finally grow up, and become an adult. Then, as a developed and mature adult, they can relate to their parents with respect and understanding. They don't need their parents to clothe and feed them anymore, they can do that themselves. But they can enjoy a relationship that is even deeper and more real, because now, as an adult, they have grown to appreciate what their parents have done for them. That they are the person that they are due to the love and attention that their parents devoted to them...
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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Illumination
In truth, there is no need to change the world, but only to illuminate it.
For each thing is created anew at every moment only for the glory of its Maker. It is just that, in the dark, there is no way to understand the purpose of each thing and how it should be used. No way to know whether something is clean and ready for use, or soiled and must first be cleansed.
And so, that which could be cleansed and used for good is despised as hateful, and that which is wholly good is used for evil.
Torah is light and all G‑d's creatures are in need of it.
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Parshat Vayigash
 Judah approaches Joseph to plead for the release of Benjamin, offering himself as a slave to the Egyptian ruler in Benjamin's stead. Upon witnessing his brothers' loyalty to one another, Joseph reveals his identity to them. "I am Joseph," he declares. "Is my father still alive?"
The brothers are overcome by shame and remorse, but Joseph comforts them. "It was not you who sent me here," he says to them, "but G‑d. It has all been ordained from Above to save us, and the entire region, from famine."
The brothers rush back to Canaan with the news. Jacob comes to Egypt with his sons and their families — seventy souls in all — and is reunited with his beloved son after 22 years. On his way to Egypt he receives the Divine promise: " Fear not to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of you a great nation. I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again."
Joseph gathers the wealth of Egypt by selling food and seed during the famine. Pharaoh gives Jacob's family the fertile county of Goshen to settle, and the children of Israel prosper in their Egyptian exile. |
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