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On February 6 I will begin teaching a new and exciting Adult Education course, the Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) winter semester course entitled "Toward a Meaningful Life": A Soul-Searching Journey for Every Jew.
I'm personally very excited about giving this particular course. In these challenging times, I believe this course will be a breath of fresh air, offering new perspectives on life, inspiring people to live more fulfilled, happier lives.
Each session will examine the Torah's perspective on life's day to day issues, and students will be invited to challenge their current views and consider more meaningful approaches to these topical subjects. At times life can become monotonous and give the feeling we're on some sort of treadmill. This course can spice things up. It offers recipes, tips, and techniques for not only discovering where your true meaning lies, but in actually making it a part of your daily existence.
I invite you to join me on this exciting journey. you've attended other courses at Chabad? Don't miss this one. You haven't attended any learning sessions yet? This is a good place to start! Click here for more information and to register. You are also welcome to sample the first class and then decide if you want to register.
Please consider also inviting a friend to attend the course with you. Also, if you are interested in hosting this course at your place of business, let me know and we can set it up for you.
In a nutshell - this is something special. Please avail yourself of it and help me make it available to others around you.
Wishing you a Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
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Not 'Handicapped' but 'Special'
The Rebbe addresses disabled Israeli soldiers and athletes.
Click here to watch.
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The Judaic Basis for Contemporary Law
Shabbat, January 29th | 11 AM
At Chabad Port Washington | 80 Shore Road
A fascinating talk by Howard R. Birnbach, Esq. showing how so much of our modern day contemporary law can be traced back to the Torah.
Services: 9:30 AM
Sermon: 11:00 AM
Kiddush Luncheon: Noon
No Charge or RSVP. Just show up!
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New JLI course: Towards a Meaningful Life
A soul-searching journey for every Jew
6 Sundays, Feb 6 - Mar 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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Why Smash a Glass?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss
Sydney, Australia
I understand the reason I will be breaking a glass under my foot at the end of the wedding ceremony is to commemorate the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem some 2000 years ago. This indeed was a significant event in Jewish history, but it doesn't seem to have any personal relevance to me. What does a destroyed building have to do with my wedding?
Answer:
The destruction of the Temple has extreme personal relevance. It happened to you. The shattering of the glass commemorates not only the fall of Jerusalem, but also a cataclysmic shattering that happened to your very own temple, your soul.
Before you were born, you and your soulmate were one - a single soul. Then, as your time to enter this world approached, G‑d shattered that single soul into two parts, one male and one female. These two half souls were then born into the world to try and find each other and reunite.
At the time, the split seemed tragic. What was once a peaceful unit had become fragmented and incomplete. Why break something just so it should be fixed? If you were meant to be together, why didn't G‑d leave you together?
Only when standing under the Chuppah do you find the answer to this question. At the wedding, these two halves are becoming whole, reuniting never to part again. And you can look back at the painful experience of being separated, and actually celebrate it. For now you realise that the separation brought you closer. Only by being torn apart, living lives away from each other, were you able to develop as individuals, mature and grow, and then come together in a true relationship, a deeper oneness than you had before, because it is created by your choice. Had you never been separated, you would never appreciate what it means to be together, because it wasn't earned. At the wedding you realise that your soul was only split in order to reunite and become one on a higher and deeper level than before.
And so we break a glass under the Chuppah, and we immediately say Mazel Tov. Because now, in retrospect, even the splitting of the souls is reason to be joyous, for it gave your connection depth and real meaning.
So you see, your personal story and the story of Jerusalem's destruction are inextricably linked. The shattering that happened to Jerusalem happened to your soul; and the joy you are experiencing now will one day be experienced by Jerusalem too...
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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Escape
Make a part of your life an act that takes you beyond your bounds-
helping people that are not part of your family or circle of friends,
doing something that does not fit within your own self-definition.
Escape yourself.
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5:29 pm
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MAZAL TOV
Mazal Tov to Roger & Karen Hollander on the birth of a son.
Karen & Roger Hollander
Rabbi Paltiel and Roger at the Bris
CONDOLENCES
Our condolences to Mr Myron Blumenfeld, founder of Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington, on the passing of his beloved wife Ruth.
Myron Blumenfeld with Nassau County Legislator Wayne Wink
BIRTHDAYS
Hannah Gaidis 1/7
Scott Firestone 1/8
Joseph Kaplan 1/9
Alexandra Zahn 1/10
YARTZEITS
Irving Brodsky, observed by Bert E. Brodsky, Shevat 6 - 1/11
Max Krensky (Mordechai ben Abraham), observed by Edwin & Sandra Effune,
Shevat 6 - 1/11
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Parshat Bo
The last three of the Ten Plagues are visited on Egypt: a swarm of locusts devours all the crops and greenery; a thick, palpable darkness envelops the land; and all the firstborn of Egypt are killed at the stroke of midnight of the 15th of the month of Nissan.
G‑d commands the first mitzvah to be given to the people of Israel: to establish a calendar based on the monthly rebirth of the moon. The Israelites are also instructed to bring a "Passover offering" to G‑d: a lamb or kid is to be slaughtered and its blood sprinkled on the doorposts and lintel of every Israelite home, so that G‑d should pass over these homes when He comes to kill the Egyptian firstborn. The roasted meat of the offering is to be eaten that night together with matzah (unleavened bread) and bitter herbs.
The death of the firstborn finally breaks Pharaoh's resistance and he literally drives the Children of Israel from his land. So hastily do they depart, there is no time for their dough to rise, and the only provisions they take along are unleavened. Before they go, they ask their Egyptian neighbors for gold, silver and garments, draining Egypt of its wealth.
The Children of Israel are commanded to consecrate all firstborn and to observe the anniversary of the Exodus each year by removing all leaven from their possession for seven days, eating matzah, and telling the story of their redemption to their children. They are also commanded to wear tefillin on the arm and head as a reminder of the Exodus and their resultant commitment to G‑d.
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