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Chabad of Port Washington Email: [email protected] Voice: 516-767-8672 www.ChabadPW.org
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Why not explore the Torah's timeless wisdom on making marriage work?
Continue your spiritual journey and education—join us at our next Jewish Learning Institute Class. "The Art of Marriage" is a perfect course for everyone, from individuals contemplating marriage, to newlyweds, to people happily married for 25 years or more. Married individuals will learn how to enhance their relationship and heighten their intimacy, and those looking to marry will discover the building blocks of a healthy relationship. This course provides more than ways to enhance and strengthen your relationship. It explores the different sides of marriage, from both the spiritual and psychological points of view.
By popular request, this course will be offered on two days in the week - Sunday mornings @ 10AM and Thursday evenings @ 8PM.
Sign up today! Force yourself to make time to do something for yourself, for your Jewish education, and for your relationship.
I expect "The Art of Marriage" to be one of our most popular courses - and I want you to be a part of it. To register please call (516) 767-8672 or online by clicking here.
Why not?
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
P.S. Still not sure? Feel free to test drive the course by attending the first class free of charge as a trial.
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MITZVAH DAY IS COMING UP - GET INVOLVED!
Sunday, April 29 2012
For more info on how to participate please contact our Chabad representatives, Tami Ruben ([email protected]) or Sheryl Pinner ([email protected]).
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Michael Greiff |
Correction to last week's email
Last week we announced the birthday of Michael Greiff. However, we accidentally included the photo of his loving son-in-law Daniel Logvin with the announcement. Here's the real Michael Greiff...
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In connection with Holocaust Remembrance Week, there will be a Kiddush luncheon at the Shul on Saturday, May 5th to honor the memories of our dear Zelik Sander, his wife Sally, and Chaim Greenspan, another survivor from our shul who has passed away.
We will also remember, Paul Schaumberger who very unexpectedly passed away last month. Unlike Zelik, Sally and Chaim, Paul was born in Germany, and immigrated to this country as a teenager. He joined the U.S. Army during WWII and was among the many who were camp liberators. Paul knew we were planning to honor him and now we not only honor him but remember him at the same time.
If you'd like to participate in the Kiddush luncheon please contact Ellen Schaier at [email protected].
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New JLI Course: The Art of Marriage
6 Sundays, Begins May 6 | 10-11:30 AM -OR-
6 Thursdays, Begins May 10 | 8 - 9:30 PM
"The Art of Marriage" is a six session course that will show participants how to attain that for themselves and their spouses, with timeless lessons from both modern and ancient Jewish texts such as the Talmud and Zohar.
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Shabbat Morning, June 9| 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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Is there a Scientific Proof of the Soul?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss | Sydney, Australia
Question: Ever since the death of my brother seven years ago, I have been grappling with the concept of the soul. I wish I could believe in it. I am the type that needs rational arguments to convince me, and it seems the soul is too abstract for my mind. I know these things can't be scientifically proven, but do I have to resort to blind faith to believe in the soul?
Answer: The pain of losing a loved one is so deep because it is so final. You can never replace a person whom you have lost.
But what if you could?
Imagine it were possible to clone your late brother. A genetically identical replica could be created who talks, thinks, looks and smells precisely the same as the person you grew up with. Furthermore, what if science developed a way to preserve and replicate memory. They could take your late brother's memories and insert them into his clone. You could sit with your newly recreated brother and reminisce about childhood experiences, laugh at the good old days, and share a bond that only brothers can.
Would you opt for this? Would you be satisfied with an exact copy of your brother? Would his death be reversed when you met his clone? Would it end your pain?
I can't imagine the answer could be yes. I can't imagine anyone would truly believe that a clone could replace a brother or sister, son or daughter, parent or spouse or best friend.
But why not? Why would a refurbished model be any different from the original?
Because something is missing. This is not your brother. He may have your brother's voice and your brother's expressions, your brother's manner and mind and memory, but he doesn't have your brother's soul. It just isn't him.
That's what soul is. It is what makes you you. It is the fragment of G‑d that makes each one of us unique. Above your body, beyond your personality, transcending genetics and even deeper than memory is the core of your being, the ineffable essence that is you. We call this your soul. It is soul that makes each person irreplaceable. And it is your brother's soul that you miss.
You don't need scientific proof of the soul, neither do you need blind faith. You know it to exist just as you know your own existence. You can choose to ignore it or to live deeper with it. Sometimes you can even feel it. And at those moments when you feel your soul, you will feel your brother's soul too.
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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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Shabbat, Apr 28
8:33 pm
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Kiddush Calendar
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This week's Kiddush will be sponsored by Tali and Aharon Philipson in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son Yuval which will be observed and celebrated at Chabad this Shabbat.
Click here to let us know if you'd like to sponsor a kiddush.
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Daily Thought
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Life's Memories
This experience, to give life, to watch it grow, to be torn apart by it, to receive pleasure from it and to give life again-for this the soul descended from its ethereal heights.
And when it shall return to there, enveloped in these memories, it will finally know their depth. And with them travel ever higher and higher.
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| In Tribute and Celebration |
 Israel
For a Jew, the Land of Israel is more than a place. It is a body for the soul of a people. Discover-and uncover-where Israel is in the heart of a Jew, and where the Jewishness is within the heart of Israel.
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| Tazria-Metzora: Control Your Tongue... |
 Parshah in a Nutshell
The dynamics of birth and the covenant of circumcision, the power of speech and the plague of whiteness, contaminating blood and purifying pools of water.
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| ...Or Shape Up |
 When Was Your Last Spiritual?
What's a "spiritual"? It has all the trappings of the routine checkup we call a "physical"-height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and stress tests on the treadmill and up and down the little staircase . . .
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| Pirkei Avot: Lessons for Life |
 A Path and a Choice
Follow your bliss? If it's going to make other people like you, that's the thing to do? Not the sort of advice you'd expect from a Talmudic sage . . .
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Parshat Tazria-Metzora
The Parshahs of Tazria and Metzora continue the discussion of the laws of tumah v'taharah, ritual impurity and purity.
A woman giving birth should undergo a process of purification, which includes immersing in a mikvah (a naturally gathered pool of water) and bringing offerings to the Holy Temple. All male infants are to be circumcised on the eighth day of life.
Tzaraat (often mistranslated as "leprosy") is a supra-natural plague, which can afflict people as well as garments or homes. If white or pink patches appear on a person's skin (dark pink or dark green in garments or homes), a kohen is summoned. Judging by various signs, such as an increase in size of the afflicted area after a seven-day quarantine, the kohen pronounces it tamei (impure) or tahor (pure).
A person afflicted with tzaraat must dwell alone outside of the camp (or city) until he is healed. The afflicted area in a garment or home must be removed; if the tzaraat recurs, the entire garment or home must be destroyed.
When the metzora ("leper") heals, he or she is purified by the kohen with a special procedure involving two birds, spring water in an earthen vessel, a piece of cedar wood, a scarlet thread and a bundle of hyssop.
Ritual impurity is also engendered through a seminal or other discharge in a man, and menstruation or other discharge of blood in a woman, necessitating purification through immersion in a mikvah.
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