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As we near the end of 2010, I thank you for your support that has helped us do what we do, offering "Judaism with a Smile" each and every day of the year.
Please consider a year end tax deductible contribution. We need the help!
Also, if you have a good running vehicle, Chabad needs one for our staff. We will give you a full market value tax deduction receipt - plus you'll have a mitzvah!
Don't miss this Shabbos at shul. Kiddush is being sponsored by Michael and Robin Ehrenpreis in honor of the Yahrzeit of Robin's father. A lavish kiddush spread is being catered by Lou G Siegel Caterers, don't miss it.
Wishing you a Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
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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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New JLI course: Towards a Meaningful Life
A soul-searching journey for every Jew
6 Sundays, Feb 6 - March 15 | 10 - 11:30 AM
At Chabad Port Washington | 80 Shore Road
Fee: $99.00 | Couple Fee $149.00
Members: $79.00 | Couple Fee $119.00
Click here for more info and to register.
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The Dating Challenge
By: Rabbi Aron Moss
Sydney, Australia
Why is dating so hard these days? Never in history have people struggled with relationships so much. So many of my friends are still single and looking. And even my married friends seem to have to work hard to keep it together. What's wrong with us?
Answer:
We are a generation of complicated souls. Some of it is our own doing, but some of it is the destiny thrust upon us. The knotty world of modern dating is partly a reflection of the complex nature of the modern soul.
The search for a soulmate will be made easier or harder depending on what type of soul you have. The master kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria taught that only new souls have an easy time finding their soulmate. When your soul comes to this world for the first time, you are fresh and unencumbered. Your vision is clear and your heart is open, and it is easy to recognise your soulmate.
But for those souls who have been here before, reincarnated souls, it doesn't come so easily. Reincarnated souls come to the world with the baggage of their previous life, and though every soul is born pure, a reincarnated soul is born complicated.
So while a new soul will meet and recognise their soulmate immediately, an old soul will have to work harder. They may have to meet many others before they meet the right one. They may need to do a lot of growing and inner development before being ready to recognise their soulmate. There is a lot of stuff to get over first - like unrealistic expectations, over-specific requirements, exaggerated self-images, superficial hang-ups and the residue of relationships of the past. And even when soulmates do find each other, they will have to work hard to make things work.
The kabbalists declared that almost all souls these days have been here before. Very few new souls are coming down. So we can expect the search for soulmates to be more challenging now than ever. Our souls are carrying baggage - some we have inherited and some our own doing - and only by working through those layers do we remove the barriers that stand between our soul and our soulmate.
The best way to bring about meeting your soulmate is to be more in touch with your own soul. When your soul is pulsating with inspiration and clarity, when you are spiritually grounded and bringing goodness to your surroundings, then you are most prone to meeting your soulmate. It may take some effort, but that is your destiny.
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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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Confidence & Humility
Confidence is best found among the truly humble.
Moses was the most humble of all men. Yet he had the confidence to stand before the mightiest dictator on earth and assert his demands. He had the confidence to stand before G‑d and listen without losing his composure. He had the confidence even to argue with G‑d, when necessary.
Yet he considered himself to be nothing.
The confidence of Moses was not confidence in his own self. He had no self. He was but an agent of Above Above there is infinite power.
Self-confidence is limited, at best. But if you trust in the One who has sent you to be here and do what you need to do —that confidence knows no bounds.
From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman. To order Tzvi's book, "Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.
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Shabbat Times
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Parshat Shemot
 The Children of Israel multiply in Egypt. Threatened by their growing numbers, Pharaoh enslaves them and orders the Hebrew midwives, Shifrah and Puah, to kill all male babies at birth. When they do not comply, he commands his people to cast the Hebrew babies into the Nile.
A child is born to Jocheved, the daughter of Levi, and her husband, Amram, and placed in a basket on the river, while the baby's sister, Miriam, stands watch from afar. Pharaoh's daughter discovers the boy, raises him as her son, and names him Moses.
As a young man, Moses leaves the palace and discovers the hardship of his brethren. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew and kills the Egyptian. The next day he sees two Jews fighting; when he admonishes them, they reveal his deed of the previous day, and Moses is forced to flee to Midian. There he rescues Jethro's daughters, marries one of them - Zipporah - and becomes a shepherd of his father-in-law's flocks.
G‑d appears to Moses in a burning bush at the foot of Mount Sinai and instructs him to go to Pharaoh and demand: " Let My people go, so that they may serve Me." Moses' brother, Aaron, is appointed to serve as his spokesman. In Egypt, Moses and Aaron assemble the elders of Israel to tell them that the time of their redemption has come. The people believe; but Pharaoh refuses to let them go, and even intensifies the suffering of Israel.
Moses returns to G‑d to protest: " Why have You done evil to this people?" G‑d promises that the redemption is close at hand.
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