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Chabad of Port Washington Email: [email protected] Voice: 516-767-8672 www.ChabadPW.org
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This Saturday night and Sunday is the fast of Tisha B'Av, the day on which both the Holy Temple was burnt down to the ground, beginning the exile of our people. Since that day, some 2000 years ago, rather than being G‑d's obviously Chosen People who were the pride of all the nations in Temple days, we became the scapegoat of the nations, driven from land to land, persecuted and hated more often than not.
The Talmud tells us the exile is a result of baseless hatred amongst Jews towards one another. When we don't get along, we become vulnerable and "unhealthy" as a people, much like neglecting one limb of one's body can lead to dangerous infection and cause untold illness to the entire body.
The "cure" to baseless hatred is baseless love. If you overhear a Jew speaking ill of another Jew - be it because they're "far too religious and not our type" or, conversely, because "they're so assimilated and not very Jewish at all" - make an objection to such speech. We've got enough enemies out there, thank you... There's no need for us to hate each other. This is the remedy G‑d is waiting for to bring redemption to the world and His people and rebuild our home - the Holy Temple.
I know this "holiday" is not as popular or as well known as many others. Nevertheless, I want to encourage you to observe Tisha B'Av this year. The way to observe it is very simple: Refrain from eating and drinking for 25 hours, from 8:11 on Saturday night until 8:44 on Sunday night - that's all there is to it! No need to attend services (although that's an extra perk if you can make it) or listen to long drawn out sermons. Just stay home, relax, and get through the fast. It's as simple as that. (These days when we're all trying to lose a few pounds it wouldn't do us harm to go a day without eating. I don't mean you of course, you look great; I'm just talking in general...)
Click here for lots of reading on the meaning of Tisha B'Av. Become more informed about your heritage. I know you may never have observed this day before, but there's always a first. It's an important part of Judaism, so it's important to you as a Jew. How about it?
Please join us for Tisha B'av services. Scroll below for full schedule of services.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
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Tisha B'Av Services:
Saturday Night, July 28
8:00 PM: Shabbat Mincha services
8:11 PM: Fast Begins
9:00 PM: Maariv services
9:01 PM: Shabbat Ends
9:10 PM: Tisha B'Av Services - reading of Eicha, Lamentations
Sunday, July 29
9:00 AM: Morning services
7:30 PM: Mincha services (with Tallis & Tefillin)
8:44 PM: Fast ends
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Camp Gan Israel Photos: Click here to see a photo album of all the summer fun at CGI.
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Daily Torah class at Chabad: Coffee & Parsha
Sundays | 10:00 - 10:30 AM
Monday - Friday | 8:45 - 9:15 AM
In-depth study of weekly Torah portion using the text and classic commentary.
For Men & Women. All are welcome, no membership required. No previous knowledge necessary.
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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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Community Trip to Israel - February 2013!
Sunday, February 17 - Monday, February 25
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.
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The Right G‑d?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss | Sydney, Australia
Question: Due to my business, I travel a lot and meet many people from different religions. I have met Buddhists, Muslims and Christians of all denominations, and each and every one believes that their religion is the one true religion and it is the right one to follow.
We can't all be right. So how are you so convinced that you are not going to burn in hell by not following Catholicism? Or get Allah angry by not being a good Muslim? Ultimately should we pick a religion like we choose our lotto numbers; just hoping that when it all comes to an end we have made the right choice?
Best regards and may the right god be with you.
Answer: Imagine there was one belief that Jews, Christians, Muslims and Buddhists all accepted as true. Wouldn't that be amazing? For these very different religions to agree on something - anything - is nothing short of a miracle. If all the major religions would concur on one divine revelation, there could be no stronger indication that this revelation is true...
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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
*Emeritus
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Shabbat Times
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Friday, Jul 27
7:57 pm
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Shabbat, Jul 28
9:01 pm
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Daily Thought
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Strong Inside
The ego is not a source of strength. It is weakness in disguise.
Inside there is invincible strength. Remove the cloud of the mind's ego, and the inner power will shine through.
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| 3 Weeks and 9 Av |
 Order of the Day
A step-by-step guide to Tisha B'Av observance. The "separation meal," the book of Lamentations, elegies, prayers, Torah readings, the break-fast and more.
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| Video |
 The Warehouse (video)
Two guys alone in a warehouse. But they are not really alone, because there are some others below them (and a suggestion of Someone Above).
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| Parshah |
 What Is the Book of Deuteronomy?
The Book of Deuteronomy primarily contains Moses' last will and testament to the Children of Israel as they are poised to enter the Promised Land.
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| Stories |
 The Making of a Kabbalist
Rabbi Yitzchak Luria was undisputedly the greatest practitioner and expounder of Kabbalah since Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar.
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| Europe |
 Bulgarian Victims Included Young Parents and Parents-to-Be
People around the world learned of Itzik and Gilat Kolangi, a young couple who were on their first holiday since the birth four months ago of their daughter Noya, and their friend Amir Menashe, whose wife Natali survived the attack.
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| Europe |
 Terror Attack Claims Seven Israelis in Bulgaria
The victims had just boarded a tour bus at Sarafovo Airport in the city of Burgas when an explosion ripped through the vehicle carrying 47 Israeli passengers.
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| The Arts |
 Exploring Jewish Mysticism Through Art: Ascent Retreat Focuses on Re-Creation
When most people think of Safed, two things immediately come to mind, aside from the city's sheer beauty and vistas, perched as it is atop Israel's Upper Galilee region: Jewish mysticism and art.
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| Israel |
 Adaptive Israel Trip Forges Special Bonds
Jesse Frankel, 21, recently returned from a trip he didn't want to end. A participant in a Taglit-Birthright Israel project made possible as part of a partnership between trip provider Mayanot and the Friendship Circle, he spent 10 days touring the Holy Land with his peers.
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Parshat Devarim
On the first of Shevat (thirty-seven days before his passing), Moses begins his repetition of the Torah to the assembled Children of Israel, reviewing the events that occurred and the laws that were given in the course of their forty-year journey from Egypt to Sinai to the Promised Land, rebuking the people for their failings and iniquities, and enjoining them to keep the Torah and observe its commandments in the land that G‑d is giving them as an eternal heritage, into which they shall cross after his death.
Moses recalls his appointment of judges and magistrates to ease his burden of meting out justice to the people and teaching them the word of G‑d; the journey from Sinai through the great and fearsome desert; the sending of the spies and the people's subsequent spurning of the Promised Land, so that G‑d decreed that the entire generation of the Exodus shall die out in the desert. "Also against me," says Moses, "was G‑d angry for your sake, saying: You, too, shall not go in there."
Moses also recounts some more recent events: the refusal of the nations of Moab and Ammon to allow the Israelites to pass through their countries; the wars against the Emorite kings Sichon and Og, and the settlement of their lands by the tribes of Reuben and Gad and part of the tribe of Manasseh; and Moses' message to his successor, Joshua, who will take the people into the Land and lead them in the battles for its conquest: " Fear them not, for the L-rd your G‑d, He shall fight for you." |
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