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Chabad of Port Washington Email: [email protected] Voice: 516-767-8672 www.ChabadPW.org
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What a couple weeks this has been...
Many of us didn't have power for a long time, some of us still don't. Thank G‑d our town was spared the type of devastation that took place in some other places not too far from home.
As I wrote to you last week, our Chabad suffered some serious damage in the storm. We are already hard at work in restoration and cleanup. (Thank you Suzanne Kolen for helping to expedite this process). If you can contribute to this effort please click here. We will need all the help we can get!
CHABAD ACTIVITIES CONTINUE!
While our building is under construction, the activities will continue at other locations.
PRESCHOOL & HEBREW SCHOOL: The Children's Center at Landmark on Main Street has graciously opened their doors to us during this period. They will host our preschool and hebrew school classes. (No Hebrew School this Sunday, but next Sunday it is on). Our deep gratitude goes to Donna Preminger of The Children's Center for so graciously hosting us. Thanks also to Landmark, and to Fern Cohen for making the connection for us.
SHABBAT SERVICES: Our Shabbat services will take place tomorrow morning, 9:30am, at the home of Burt and Sharyn Falkenstein, 15 Smull Pl, Unit 1. Thank you so much Sharyn and Burt for hosting us. (If you come with small children, please remember this is a private home, so keep and eye that they are well behaved and supervised at all times please).
JLI ADULT EDUCATION: Some of you just joined the new Jewish Learning Institue (JLI) adult ed course "The Kabalah of YOU". Classes will resume next Sunday, November 18. Location to be announced.
SPORTS ACTIVITIES: All sports activities at Chabad's gym are unable to continue at this time. The individual groups operating these programs - Island Garden, Girls Volleyball, Shooting Stars Soccer - will be in trouch with you for further details.
We hope to resume daily morning services sometime during the coming week. Location to be announced. (Possibly at Chabad in an area that isn't affected).
Thank you again to Maura Bros for their efforts pre storm to secure the building. I can only imagine the devastation we would have had were it not for their hard work.
Click here to see photos of storm prep as well as the damages and restoration and cleanup as it is happening.
As I said, please consider supporting our rebuilding efforts. Insurance will cover a large portion of the loss, but we'll still need lots of help to cross the finish line. Click here for details and to make an online gift.
I pray everyone's power is restored asap. (Our own power at home came on last night finally). Our prayers are also with families who lost so much in the storm. Finally, I pray for a quieter week... Hashem, please give us some peace and serenity so we can enjoy the simple things in life that we sometimes take for granted.
Myself and Rabbi Weinberg are spending Shabbos at the Conference of Chabad Rabbis in Brooklyn. We'll see you real soon. If you want to be in touch, email [email protected] (my normal email system is still down). You can also call my cell 516 322 4322.
Shabbat Shalom - a peaceful Shabbat!
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
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Kabbalah of You: Sundays, 10-11:30 AM
Are you all you can be? How can you unleash the infinite power of your soul within? This course provides a mystical roadmap to living a life of happiness, fulfillment, and self-actualization by revealing how you can thrive and be more than just alive.
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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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Why Does a Good G‑d Make Bad Hurricanes?
By: Tzvi Freeman
When I took this job at Chabad.org Ask-The-Rabbi, I didn't realize I was supposed to be G‑d's defense attorney. But for whatever reason, people intuitively see religion as a comfort pillow, a set of answers to questions that will set everything alright so that they can go on living within a stable, explicable world knowing that some rabbi at the other end of their mobile device will have an answer to whatever's gone wrong.
Enough griping, Freeman. People are cold, wet, hungry and exhausted. They've lost their homes, their possessions-their whole future has been abruptly and violently pulled out from under them. And they want you to explain to them how, despite all external appearances, Hurricane Sandy was an act of G‑d, and not just a freak incident of some indifferent entity called nature.
C'mon, Freeman. Torah's gotta have an answer to that.
Whose Garden Is This?
One of the first narratives we heard as kids in Hebrew School is how Adam and Eve got kicked out of the Garden. Nice, simple story, right? No, please, no. The story is deep, so very, very deep...
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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, Nov 9
4:24 pm
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Shabbat, Nov 10
5:24 pm
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Daily Thought
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Journeys
The Baal Shem Tov taught that each of our lives is comprised of forty-two journeys, corresponding to the forty-two journeys of the Children of Israel in the wilderness.
Some of those journeys have pleasant names. Others don't sound so nice. But none are inherently bad.
It is only that you may have to dig deeper and deeper to find the purpose and the good within them.
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| North America |
 Sandy's Survivors Open Homes and Hearts to Devastated Neighbors
Even with entire neighborhoods in the dark and devastation stretching for miles, glimmers of life returning to normal could be seen all across the northeastern United States.
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| North America |
 Chief Rabbi to Address Chabad Emissaries Conference
Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, a Holocaust survivor whose travels around the world have made him an ambassador of Judaism, will address this year's International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York City.
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| Book Bag |
 South African Rabbi Compiles Popular Columns Into Wide-Reaching Book
Rabbi Yossy Goldman, one of the best-known rabbis in South Africa and author of one of the most-popular columns on the Judaism website Chabad.org, has compiled his commentaries on the weekly Torah reading into a new book that aims for an audience as varied as the Jewish world.
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| Campus Life |
 College Student Weekend Begins in Sandy's Aftermath
Rivkie Lipskier, co-director of the Chabad of University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla., arrived in New York City with 31 students Thursday. Amazingly, the transportation difficulties set in motion by Hurricane Sandy did not affect them.
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Parshat Chayei Sarah
Sarah dies at age 127 and is buried in the Machpelah Cave in Hebron, which Abraham purchases from Ephron the Hittite for four hundred shekels of silver.
Abraham's servant Eliezer is sent, laden with gifts, to Charan, to find a wife for Isaac. At the village well, Eliezer asks G‑d for a sign: when the maidens come to the well, he will ask for some water to drink; the woman who will offer to give his camels to drink as well shall be the one destined for his master's son.
Rebecca, the daughter of Abraham's nephew Bethuel, appears at the well and passes the "test." Eliezer is invited to their home, where he repeats the story of the day's events. Rebecca returns with Eliezer to the land of Canaan, where they encounter Isaac praying in the field. Isaac marries Rebecca, loves her, and is comforted over the loss of his mother.
Abraham takes a new wife, Keturah ( Hagar), and fathers six additional sons, but Isaac is designated as his only heir. Abraham dies at age 175 and is buried beside Sarah by his two eldest sons, Isaac and Ishmael. |
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