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Chabad of Port Washington Email: [email protected] Voice: 516-767-8672 www.ChabadPW.org
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 Dear Rabbi Shalom M.,
Beginning Sunday, January 22, I will be giving a course on Jewish business ethics entitled "Money Matters". The course is sponsored by the Jewish Learning Institue (JLI), Chabad's acclaimed international adult education program.
Please consider joining me for this adventure. Join 30 or 40 other adults for 6 consecutive Sunday mornings, accompanied by brunch. Find out how Torah's timeless wisdom is relevant and eye opening on even the most modern and mundane issues.
CLE approval in NYS for this course is still pending, but we'll know for sure shortly.
Click here for info and to register.
Not sure this is for you? Just show up on the 22nd and try the first lesson free, and then decide if you want to continue. Worst case, and you decide you're not taking the course, you're still ahead a bagel and a delicious cup of Kurig coffee.
Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi Shalom M Paltiel
P.S. Please join us at Shul this Shabbos. We're celebrating the life of Reb Chaim Greenspan, while being joined by our Hebrew School children and their parents for the monthly Hebrew School Shabbat (which is fast becoming a hit with kids and parents alike).
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Violence to Preserve Judaism, or Diversity of Opinion?
Various non-mainstream Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) communities in Israel and in the U.S. are clashing with western values embraced by less religious Jews. Daily reports are breaking out of Haredi sects imposing forced gender segregation on buses, spitting on women in the streets who are deemed immodest and rioting against anyone who is perceived different.
What is it that leads to Haredi violence? It seems that the motivation for Haredi resistance to outside influences is an effort to preserve their way of life from perceived secular encroachment. They view outside influences and exposure as a threat to their traditional existence.
read more>>
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This week's Kiddush is sponsored by Alex & Edith Rothschild and Ira & Debbie Greenspan in honor of the yahrzeit of their father, our beloved Hyman (aka Reb Chaim, or Poppy) Greenspan.
Chabad members who have been around for a while remember Reb Chaim well. He was a most beloved man, and a passionate Jew. A Holocaust survivor, he would compare notes with Reb Zelik obm, with whom he became fast friends (although they'd agree to disagree on almost every issue...) On Friday nights in perfect darkness, and then again on Shabbat morning, Reb Chaim, a Shabbos observant Jew, would walk more than 2 miles each way to and from his home (at Edie and Alex's home) in Sands Point. He was a living example of the inner Jewish strength, passion and commitment to heritage that we posses as a people. He was indeed a true example of what a Jew should be. He is still deeply respected, loved and sorely missed, by so many.
Click here to let us know if you'd like to sponsor a kiddush.
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Monthly Parenting Class| At Chabad
Wednesday, February 1| 10:45 AM
Monthly parenting class lead by Sara Paltiel of Chabad Port Washington. Topic: Setting boundaries and how to nourish ourselves so we can nourish others.
Click here for more info. Please RSVP by calling the office 516 767 8672.
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Shooting Stars Soccer
January 4th - February 25th | $149 for 7 weeks
Soccer Lessons for children ages 18 months to 6 years old at Chabad of Port Washington's gym.
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NEW Upcoming JLI Course
Money Matters: Jewish Business Ethics
Is Judaism socialist or capitalist? Who is responsible for preventing poverty? Is unionization a Jewish ideal? Must Walmart pay its workers a livable wage? Where would you draw the line? An ethical, Talmudic, and legal debate on the economic issues of our time.
6 Sundays, Beginning Jan 22 | 10 11:30 AM
At Chabad of Port Washington
Click here for more info and to register online.
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Sensitivity
The Rebbe’s compassionate attention to “the little things”
Click here to watch a 15-minute clip.
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Is Chemistry Enough?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss | Sydney, Australia
Question: Why is there a Chuppah at a Jewish wedding? Is it so important? What does it symbolize?
Answer: Marriage is the union of man and woman. What a silly idea!
Male and female are opposites, and the thought that they can become one is absurd. You can't take opposites and make them work together. It's impossible.
Impossible, that is, unless you do one thing: find something that encompasses both of them. An energy that can include opposites can unite opposites. And the only energy that can include opposites is divine energy. Only G‑d, who is beyond any confines, can do the impossible and bring together opposites. Only G‑d, the source of male and female, can unite male and female. And so only G‑d can create a marriage.
The word Chuppah means an envelopment. It represents the divine presence that hovers above bride and groom to unite them. Because man and woman can only truly become one if they dedicate themselves to something bigger than the both of them. When two people unite for a common higher cause, when they share a goal that lies beyond self, then they are able to transcend the differences between them and become one.
Of course a relationship needs to have chemistry, and biology and physics too. But what will keep it together is metaphysics - shared spiritual values and a common sense of divine purpose. With G‑d as a partner in the marriage, you will be standing under the Chuppah for a lifetime.
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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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Shabbat Times
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Friday, Jan 13
4:31 pm
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Shabbat, Jan 14
5:35 pm
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Daily Thought
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Reinterpretation
There are no things. There are only words. The Divine Words of Creation.
The words become scattered and we no longer understand their meaning. Only then are they things. Words in exile.
If so, their redemption lies in the story we tell with them. Reorganizing stuff into meaning, redefining what is real, and living a life accordingly.
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| Fun Reads |
 An Interview with Shabbat
“I’m away during the week. I’m a stress-management consultant, so I travel all the time . . .”
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| Addressing G‑d |
 Where Is G‑d When It Hurts?
Never in history did G‑d answer this question, the greatest of all questions.
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| Starting the Book of Names |
 Shemot
It was the darkest hour yet in the history of the fledgling nation. Slavery, cruel decrees, a new leader . . .
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| Great Women |
 The Kidney Matchmaker
Chaya does not bring people together for marriage, but to save lives. Her couples will not meet under the chuppah, but in the operating room.
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| PHOTO GALLERY |
 College Students Enjoy Miami Torah Experience
More than 20 Jewish university students spent their winter breaks in sunny Florida hitting the books as part of the annual Miami Torah Experience, a 10-day immersive program run under the auspices of Chabad-Lubavitch of Florida in cooperation with the Chabad on Campus International Foundation.
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| NORTH AMERICA |
 Latin American Jews Celebrate a Home of Their Own
Jewish families from across Central and South America gathered in Manhattan for the dedication of a very special Torah scroll.
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| NORTH AMERICA |
 Mass. Chabad House Moves to Save Town’s Historic Synagogue
Clifford Lander started attending Adas Israel, a historic synagogue in Fall River, Mass., nearly a decade ago. Incorporated in the 1890s, the congregation enjoyed boom years when the city’s manufacturing business thrived.
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| NORTH AMERICA |
 Obama Taps Second Jew as Chief of Staff
Less than a month after Jacob Lew lit the lights of the National Menorah in front of the White House, President Barack Obama announced the appointment of the current director of the Office of Management and Budget to the position of White House of Chief of Staff.
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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 Jochebed, 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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