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As we segue from the Days of Awe to the Days of Joy, we begin to celebrate the fact that we've surely been written and inscribed in the Book of Life for a sweet year, 5772. I invite you to join me at Shul during at least one of the Sukkot/Simchat Torah services to partake in the Festival of Joy.
Thank you for your wonderful feedback to the Yom Kippur Yiskor sermon. It is always nice getting positive feedback. More importantly, the thought that people's lives might be affected for the better because of something I said is extremely heartwarming.
I encourage you to take the action I suggested to keep the message with you year-round: Begin the day with saying (and meditating on) the Modeh Ani - Prayer of Thanks for the Soul (or say the same message in your own words). As promised, the text to this prayer is right at your fingertips by clicking here. Please print this out and keep it next your bed for use each morning.
In some congregations they announce the times of Rosh Hashanah services for the following year at the conclusion of the Yom Kippur service :-) I do not follow this custom because I hope to see each of you at shul many times throughout the year. It makes my day when you show up. Surprise me. OK?
With warm personal regards, and my best wishes for a Happy Sukkos,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
P.S. Thank you for your generous response to the Yom Kippur/Yiskor appeal. Click below if you have not yet made your gift or would like to make an additional gift in honor of the holidays. We need your help to do what we do.
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The MOST Important video about Israel |
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Can ancient prophecies about Israel be true? Is the Bible true or relevant today? This video will put those questions to rest!
Click here to watch.
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Sukkot with Chabad | October 12-21
Join Chabad of Port Washington for Holiday services, dinner in the Sukkah, Sukkot family fun day and lots more.
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Sukkot Schedule of Services:
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Wednesday, October 12
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Evening Service
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Dinner in the Sukkah RSVP
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7:00 pm
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Thursday, October 13
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Morning Service
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9:30 am |
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Friday, October 14
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Morning Service
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9:30 am |
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Mommy & Me with Yoga
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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NEW JLI - Fascinating Facts: Exploring the Myths and Mysteries of Judaism
Does Judaism believe in guardian angels? Why do Jews use matchmakers? Who wrote the handwriting on the wall? A fun course in Jewish cultural literacy, full of surprising facts, myths, and mysteries surrounding Jewish tradition and practice.
Begins Sunday, November 6 |10-11:30 AM
At Chabad of Port Washington, 80 Shore Road, PW
Click here for more info and to register online.
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One Sukkah, One Lulav, One People
The two central mitzvos of Sukkos-the sukkah and the Four Kinds - have at their core the theme of Jewish unity.
Click here to watch a 5-minute clip.
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Why now?
By: Rabbi Naftali Silberberg
Question: Why is Sukkot celebrated in the autumn?
Answer: The sukkah commemorates the Clouds of Glory that protected our ancestors in the Sinai Desert, clouds that accompanied them starting when they left Egypt on Passover, during the spring-time. Nevertheless, the Torah specifically commands us to sit in the sukkah during the "seventh month," at the onset of fall.
Several reasons are given for the timing of this holiday...
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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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Shabbat Times
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Wednesday, Oct 12
6:02 pm
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Thursday, Oct 13
6:59 pm
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5:59 pm
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Shabbat, Oct 15
6:56 pm
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Kiddush Calendar
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Thank you to Gary Litvak for helping to arrange Kiddush during Sukkos.
Click here to let us know if you'd like to sponsor a kiddush.
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Daily Thought
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Joyful Emptiness
The beginning of all paths and the foundation of all ascents is to open yourself to receive from Above.
And how do you receive from Above? By being empty-because a full vessel cannot receive, while an empty vessel has a hollow to be filled.
That is why we must run from depression; because a depressed person is so filled with his own self-pity, there is no room left to receive anything, no opening for life to enter.
But a humble, open spirit is vibrant with joy.
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Your one-stop-shop for: guides, stories, recipes, how-to tutorials, insights, audio and video classes, inspiration and much more . . .
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| How to do Sukkot |
 The Sukkah Builder's Manual
From bolts to branches: the what, where and how of sukkah construction.
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| Sukkot: Binding Us as One |
 Unity in Three Dimensions
Unity is the underlying theme of the festival's three precepts: joy, the taking of the Four Kinds, and dwelling in the sukkah.
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| The Message of the Sukkah |
 The Ultimate Shelter (video)
Learn how to leave your problems at the doorstep of the sukkah and enter the "Ultimate Shelter."
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Chabad-Lubavitch News from Around the World |
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 The Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret Torah readings are from Leviticus 22-23, Numbers 29, and Deuteronomy 14-16. These readings detail the laws of the moadim or " appointed times" on the Jewish calendar for festive celebration of our bond with G‑d; including the mitzvot of dwelling in the sukkah (branch-covered hut) and taking the " Four Kinds" on the festival of Sukkot; the offerings brought in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem on Sukkot, and the obligation to journey to the Holy Temple to "to see and be seen before the face of G‑d" on the three annual pilgrimage festivals — Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot.
On Simchat Torah ("Rejoicing of the Torah") we conclude, and begin anew, the annual Torah-reading cycle. First we read the Torah section of Vezot Haberachah, which recounts the blessings that Moses gave to each of the twelve tribes of Israel before his death. Echoing Jacob's blessings to his twelve sons five generations earlier, Moses assigns and empowers each tribe with its individual role within the community of Israel.
Vezot Haberachah then relates how Moses ascended Mount Nebo from whose summit he saw the Promised Land. "And Moses the servant of G‑d died there in the Land of Moab by the mouth of G‑d... and no man knows his burial place to this day." The Torah concludes by attesting that "There arose not a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom G‑d knew face to face... and in all the mighty hand and the great awesome things which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel."
Immediately after concluding the Torah, we begin it anew by reading the first chapter of Genesis (the beginning of next Shabbat's Torah reading) describing G‑d's creation of the world in six days and His ceasing work on the seventh—which He sanctified and blessed as a day of rest.
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