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Chabad of Port Washington Email: rabbi@chabadpw.org Voice: 516-767-8672 www.ChabadPW.org
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As I head to Chicago to spend Shabbat with our son Mendel at his high school's annual "Father's Shabbat", some thoughts on parenting:
What is our relationship with our kids?
They're not "ours"; they're not here "for us". We don't own them. That would be slavery.
(Nor should we treat our kids as if THEY own US, as is too often the case these days. That's equally unhealthy.)
Our kids, like we ourselves, belong to their Creator. (So they're not "his, hers, or ours." They're simply "His")...
We are given the awesome privilige and responsibility of taking care of them the best we can until they develop their own relationship with Him.
The parent-child relationship is much healthier when we realize they're not here for us. They're here to accomplish their own purpose in life. We are here, in part, to get them started on it. Our desperate desire that they succeed is therefore not "about us" but "about them". (Much better chance they'll go along with the plan if they realize its about them).
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Shul this Shabbat is sure to be a treat, with Rabbi Weinberg delivering the sermon and my son Levi doing the Torah reading. An added bonus will be a delicious kiddush lunch, sponsored by the Posner/Kobin family, including some of Lenny's delicious cholent.
(JLI and Tanya class are suspended this weekend. See you next weekend).
Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
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Rabbi Paltiel's article featured on chabad.org internationally syndicated websites
Motivation in a Homeless Shelter | By: Rabbi Shalom Paltiel
When I heard about Samantha Garvey, a 17-year-old from Brentwood, Long Island, who has been named a semifinalist in the national Intel Science Talent Search, I literally had to pull over to the side of the road. For starters, when good news is deemed newsworthy, I pay heed. But this story in particular moved me deeply.
As I listened to the interview, I heard Ms. Garvey say, "I don't have a great home life; I don't have a home. I'm living in a shelter. But I think that motivates me to do the work I do. I want a better life. I want to have a home. I want to show other people that even though you're going through something bad, there's a better side to everything."
Incredible. She is mature beyond her years!
Samantha is an inspiration. She motivates us to take a good look at our own reactions to life's challenges...
CONTINUE>>
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Monthly Parenting Class | At Chabad
Wednesday, February 28 | 10:45 AM
Monthly parenting class lead by Sara Paltiel of Chabad Port Washington. No charge.
Click here for more info. Please RSVP by calling the office 516 767 8672.
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Hebrew School Friday Night Shabbat Dinner
Friday Night, March 16 at 6:30 PM
The students and teachers of Chabad Hebrew School cordially invite you to a Friday night Shabbat dinner for your family and friends. Experience the joy of Shabbat and learn each step of the way with lessons, songs, games and plays prepared by each Hebrew School class to enhance, enliven and entertain.
Fee: $20 Adults | $10 Children (under 12) | Hebrew School Students: Free
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Special Shabbat Lecture
Shabbat Morning, March 24 | 11 AM
Sermon Lecture by Howard Birnbach "The Founding Fathers & the Jews". Services 9:30am, Sermon at 11am followed by Kiddush luncheon. |
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20/20 Foresight
It's a dangerous mistake to entrust Israel's security to surrounding Arab governments. Their leadership structure is entirely unstable.
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Whom Do You Really Love?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss | Sydney, Australia
Question: Here's my problem with Judaism: The Torah says you have to love G‑d with all your heart. That leaves no room to love people. Doesn't the love of G‑d lessen our love of humanity?
Answer: I once knew a man who thought he was a great husband. His wife disagreed.
He did absolutely nothing for her. He never took her out, never bought her anything, never helped around the house, never did what she asked him to do.
Finally she confronted him about his complete lack of response to her wishes. He explained himself by saying: "I love you dearly, more than anything in the world. That's why I don't do anything for you. I'm so busy loving you I can't possibly do anything else."
Such a husband wouldn't last too long. He says he loves her, but really he loves himself, and he loves the feeling he gets from having someone to love. If he indeed loved her, then he would seek to do what pleases her. He can't claim to love her if he never does what she wants.
Nothing pleases G‑d more than when His children love each other. So if your heart is full of love for G‑d, then that love will translate into loving your fellow, for that is exactly what G‑d wants from you.
On the other hand, if someone claims that they love G‑d so much that they have no space for loving others, then this is a sure sign that their love of G‑d is really just a form of self-indulgence. If you love Him so much, why are you not doing what He wants? The same Torah that tells you to love G‑d tells you to love the stranger, to love your fellow as yourself, to help the needy and to care for the broken-hearted.
You can't be a good husband in your heart, your love must lead to action. And you can't love G‑d without doing what He wants from you - starting with loving your neighbour.
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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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Community News
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MAZAL TOV
Mazel Tov to Abie and Roya Neissani on the birth of their first grandson, born to their daughter Jessica and her husband Aryeh Hauptman. Big Mazel tov to Mr & Mrs Isaac Neissani on becoming great grandparents! May you enjoy nachat and simchot for many more years in good health. Mazel tov also to the Esrail and Aghravi families.
Jessica Hauptman
Abie and Roya Neissani
Mr & Mrs Isaac Neissani
BIRTHDAYS
Kate Rose Radler 2/24
Daniel Youssefia 2/24
Benjamin Adler 2/26
Joseph Cohen 2/26
Sharon Lee 2/27
Adam Smith 2/27
Paul Kagan 2/28
ANNIVERSARY
Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Kobrinsky 2/25
YARTZEITS
Leila Waxman,
(Rochel Leah bas Avigdor Hakohen)
2/24/2012 | Adar 1, 5772
observed by Bart & Dorothy Waxman
Dorothy & Bart Waxman
Bella Charney
2/25/2012 | Adar 2, 5772
observed by Sophia Charney
Sheldon Bashinsky, (Sheldon Shis)
2/26/2012 | Adar 3, 5772
observed by Evan & Marlene Friedberg
Friedberg Family
Mary Ruth Weingast
2/27/2012 | Adar 4, 5772
observed by David & Fern Weingast
David and Fern Weingast
Fanny Schepps, (Fagie)
2/28/2012 | Adar 5, 5772
observed by Barry & Donna Jason
Yoha Vaiman
2/28/2012 | Adar 5, 5772
observed by Robert & Irina Kessler
Kessler Family
Jack Schaier
2/29/2012 | Adar 6, 5772
observed by Lenny & Ellen Schaier
Lenny & Ellen Schaier
*CLICK HERE to convert any regular calendar date, birthday or Yartzeit to its corresponding Jewish-calendar date!
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| Building a Home for G‑d Takes... |
 Parshah in a Nutshell
Fifteen materials-including gold, silver, copper, wood, wool, animal skins and gemstones-are forged into a "dwelling for G‑d."
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 Four Reasons to Be Happy
Why should joy be just a tool, a means to an end? It's a good thing in its own right, a better way to be. And it's not that difficult to achieve.
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 Gratefulness and the Holey Bagel
What does chewy bread with a hole in the middle have to do with being Jewish? And with Jewish breakfast in particular?
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| ...and Growth |
 Letting Go Takes Love
He's a day shy of his thirteenth birthday. He's been avoiding physical affection for a year now, but it doesn't get easier for this momma, who just wants to hug and kiss her little boy.
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| PHOTO GALLERY |
 Multinational Jewish Pride on Display at Manhattan Ballroom
Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and their supporters filled the ballroom at the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan for the gala banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. (Photos: Rivka Lifshitz)
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 Jewish Women's Conference a Chance to Connect and Reconnect
While their husbands manned the proverbial forts back home, more than 3,000 Jewish leaders from across the globe camped out in and around Brooklyn, N.Y., last week for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. (Photos: Rivka Lifshitz)
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 Thousands of Jewish Women Fill N.Y. Ballroom With Song
At 4:00 p.m., the Hilton New York in Midtown Manhattan was mobbed with more than 3,000 women of different ages and from locations across the globe, all of them Jewish educators, school administrators, Chabad House directors, inspirational speakers and their supporters.
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 Hundreds of Teenagers Experience Jewish Life in Brooklyn
Hundreds of teenagers representing a total of 54 communities stretching from Las Vegas to Vienna spent a long weekend experiencing traditional Jewish life in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. (Photos: Bentzi Sasson)
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Parshat Terumah
The people of Israel are called upon to contribute fifteen materials-gold, silver and copper; blue-, purple- and red-dyed wool; flax, goat hair, animal skins, wood, olive oil, spices and gems-out of which, G‑d says to Moses, "They shall make for Me a Sanctuary, and I shall dwell amidst them."
On the summit of Mount Sinai, Moses is given detailed instructions on how to construct this dwelling for G‑d so that it could be readily dismantled, transported and reassembled as the people journeyed in the desert.
In the Sanctuary's inner chamber, behind an artistically woven curtain, was the Ark containing the Tablets of Testimony engraved with the Ten Commandments; on the Ark's cover stood two winged cherubim hammered out of pure gold. In the outer chamber stood the seven-branched menorah, and the table upon which the "showbread" was arranged.
The Sanctuary's three walls were fitted together from 48 upright wooden boards, each of which was overlaid with gold and held up by a pair of silver foundation sockets. The roof was formed of three layers of coverings: (a) tapestries of multicolored wool and linen; (b) a covering made of goat hair; (c) a covering of ram and tachash skins. Across the front of the Sanctuary was an embroidered screen held up by five posts.
Surrounding the Sanctuary and the copper-plated altar which fronted it was an enclosure of linen hangings, supported by 60 wooden posts with silver hooks and trimmings, and reinforced by copper stakes.
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