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Chabad of Port Washington Email: rabbi@chabadpw.org Voice: 516-767-8672 www.ChabadPW.org
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Want to know where someone's real interests lie? Find out what they do on vacation, when they're free.
Summer is for many of us a time when we slow down and take some much needed down time. Include some Torah texts and online viewing and learning of Torah subjects (chabadpw.org; torahcafe.com) in your "pile of stuff" to do when your time is your own.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
P.S. I am planning a communal trip to the Ohel on Sunday, July 1 (see details below) in connection with the Rebbe's yahrzeit. I encourage you to join me for a most meaningful, spiritual outing. Feel free to invite friends or family members to come along. RSVP here. (no charge).
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Chabad Trip to Israel - February 2013!
Chabad of Port Washington is joining together with Chabad of the Upper East Side for a Mission to Israel. You won't want to miss this trip, the first for our Chabad, which will be offered in FIVE STAR fashion.
We will be celebrating Purim in Israel, in Chevron no less! You don't want to miss this. We'd LOVE to have you join us for the time of your lives!
Dates of the trip: Sunday, February 17 - Monday, February 25
Click here for more info and to RSVP.
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Registration is still open for our amazing summer camp.
Register your child for The Ethel and Irving Berkowitz Gan Israel day camp. Click here for more info or email: director@funsummercamp.org.
NEW FOR THIS SUMMER: Sports instructions by professional coaches from Island Garden Basketball and Shooting Stars Soccer.
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Trip to the Ohel | Sunday, July 1 | 10 AM
Join us for a visit to the Ohel - Gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe - Honoring his 18th Yahrzeit.
Click here for more info and RSVP. |
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Girls Volleyball Clinics | 5 Wednesdays
A 5 week skill development volleyball class begins Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 at 6pm - 7:15pm run by Chris Pinto, former NYU Head Woman's Volleyball Coach and regional volleyball coach of the year.
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Is Cricket the Path to Utopia?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss | Sydney, Australia
Question: The one Jewish ideal that I can't get my head around is Moshiach - the belief in the coming of the Messiah. What good is achieved by waiting for some future utopia? Shouldn't we focus on the present, rather than dreaming about the future? Why is the belief in the coming of the Messiah so central to Judaism?
Answer: Some of the deepest truths I ever learnt were from my cricket coach. He was a sharp guy, with a keen eye for detail. He would observe my batting style and point out what I needed to work on. From him I gained more than just cricket advice.
One consistent flaw in my batting was my follow through. The coach noticed that as soon as my bat hits the ball my arms lock and the bat stops. No good, he said. You need a full follow through. After hitting the ball you must keep swinging, making a complete semi-circle in the air.
This made no sense to me. What difference does it make what I do with the bat after I have hit the ball? Contact has been made between bat and ball, and whatever power I have put into the shot is there already. Will the ball travel further if I follow through? I can understand why backswing is important - the more I pull the bat back, the more momentum the swing has. But once the ball is hit, who cares what I do with the bat? Whether I keep swinging or stop, throw the bat away or eat it should make no difference to the ball that has already been hit. Why follow through?
My coach gave me the answer. The follow through doesn't begin after you hit the ball, it begins as soon as you lift the bat. A swing that will end in a full follow through is a different swing entirely. What will be effects what is. The destination influences the whole journey. Where you are going defines where you are...
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Board of Directors
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Adam Katz, Esq., President
Frank Arnold*
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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9:21 pm
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Daily Thought
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Paradise
Rabbi Sholom Ber of Lubavitch used to say that if the hedonists would know the ecstasy of mystic union, they would instantly drop all their worldly pleasures and chase after it.
It is not just pleasure. It is the source of all pleasures.
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| Parshah: Chukat |
 Was Hitting the Rock Such a Big Deal?
Why is Moses denied entry into the Holy Land? Why does G‑d reject the only personal request of Moses to be recorded in the Bible?
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| Judaism 101 |
 Do Jews Plant Flowers on Graves?
We are planning the unveiling for my mother. Is it ok to plant flowers on her gravesite?
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| Women |
 Timing Is Everything
With the timing of our words, we have the power to raise our loved ones up, or push them down still lower . . .
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| Stories |
 The Clock on the Tower
For as long as anyone could remember, there was a clock mounted high up on the tallest building in the town. But times change. A murmur of discontent was heard . . .
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| Israel |
 Injuries and Evacuations Follow Suspicious Fires Outside Jerusalem
Fires suspected to be the work of arsonists raged near Jerusalem late Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of 300 homes and the closing of the main highway linking the capital and the ocean metropolis of Tel Aviv for hours.
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| North America |
 Delaware Political Establishment Embraces First State's Jewish Growth
Rabbi Chuni and Oryah Vogel don't measure success through political endorsements, but the support and recognition of such individuals as Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, former Gov. Mike Castle, Sen. Tom Carper, various U.S. representatives, judges and attorneys general go far in demonstrating the wide-ranging base that has embraced the strengthening of Jewish life in the nation's "First State."
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| Middle East |
 Excitement Builds in Advance of Special Needs Israel Trip
Max Zwain, 23, is getting ready to go to the Holy Land. His free Birthright Israel trip leaves Monday from Newark Liberty International Airport, and like other members of his diverse group, Zwain's been posting on Facebook for weeks.
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 Israel Endures Fifth Day of Palestinian Rocket Attacks
Residents of Southern Israel remained on high alert Sunday as rockets from the Gaza Strip continued to fall on the fifth day since Palestinian terrorists resumed their targeting of civilians.
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Parshat Chukat
Moses is taught the laws of the red heifer, whose ashes purify a person who has been contaminated by contact with a dead body.
After forty years of journeying through the desert, the people of Israel arrive in the wilderness of Zin. Miriam dies, and the people thirst for water. G‑d tells Moses to speak to a rock and command it to give water. Moses gets angry at the rebellious Israelites and strikes the stone. Water issues forth, but Moses is told by G‑d that neither he nor Aaron will enter the Promised Land.
Aaron dies at Hor Hahar and is succeeded in the high priesthood by his son Elazar. Venomous snakes attack the Israelite camp after yet another eruption of discontent in which the people "speak against G‑d and Moses"; G‑d tells Moses to place a brass serpent upon a high pole, and all who will gaze heavenward will be healed. The people sing a song in honor of the miraculous well that provided them water in the desert.
Moses leads the people in battles against the Emorite kings Sichon and Og (who seek to prevent Israel's passage through their territory) and conquers their lands, which lie east of the Jordan. |
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