5-19-06 - Chabad of Port Washington

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THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL DINNER IS JUST 13 DAYS AWAY!
It's in your power to make a difference - we're counting on you!

Have You Submitted your Dinner RSVP & Journal Ad? Click here to do so! The clock is ticking, the countdown is on and we're waiting anxiously to receive your response!! At a loss for words and having trouble writing your journal ad? No worries - leave that to us by picking from one of our 10 samples. You can also "meet" our honorees online, read the Rabbi's message, view the invitation and more - click here to get started!
You can also email us: mailto:[email protected]%20and we will make the arrangements for you and bill you by mail - we’ll even do all the work for you - just email us your contact info, size and we'll do the rest!

	A Word From the Rabbi

Dear Friends,

Thank you to all who helped organize the beautiful Lag B'Omer barbecue on Tuesday evening at the Roslyn Country Club. Thank you to Alan Slazbank, Zach Salzbank, Esther, Sam & Max Fogel, Nat & Perl Freedman, Emanuel Arounian, Barbara Newman, Joel (Yoel), Steve Kahn, Ellen & Lenny Schaier, Berel & Mendel Paltiel, and so many others who helped make the event so wonderful.

Thank you Manny and Mojdeh Malekan for making the club available for us to enjoy and for helping. Thank you Rob Salzbank for making sure the event is captured on photographs – which will be available on the website shortly. (No doubt there are others who helped that I am forgetting, so please forgive me). Most importantly, thank you Hashem for the great weather!

Best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel

	News at Chabad

Lag B'omer Pictures are Online!
Our Lag B'omer Celebration was a tremendous success & we had a great turnout despite the weather forecasts! We already have photos of our Lag B'Omer Celebration online - thanks to our dear friend, the skilled photographer - Robert Salzbank of Rampage Studios! (Rob did NOT ask for the plug). Click here to view the fabulous photos and see what a great time we all had! If you missed it this year, be sure to be there next year!!

Bikkur Cholim
Announcement: Debbie Harary has accepted the position of Bikur Cholim director. Debbie plans to organize volunteers to visit lonely elderly people at the Sands Point Nursing Home. Stay tuned for more details.

Shabbaton Dinner
Rabbi Mendy & Devorah Lewis and the Chabad Teen Club will be holding a Shabbaton Dinner this Friday night at Chabad House.

Annual Dinner - on the web - update!
Please note that we've updated the dinner ad samples page on our website. There are 2 new ads, #9 and #10, that serve as greetings from Day School and Hebrew School parents, saluting the tremendous efforts of Rabbi & Mrs. Glogauer and Rabbi & Mrs. Lewis. Click here to view all 10 ad samples.

	Community Events: Save These Dates!

MAY 29: MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
Join Chabad Social Action Committee and march with our group in
the Port Washington Memorial Day Parade. Call Maria at the office to register to march or email Mark Fogel.

MAY 31: 15th ANNIVERSARY DINNER
The Dinner will take place at the Woodbury Jewish Center. Guests of Honor will be Michael Faltischeck, and Maurice & Jonathan Mandelbaum and Lenny & Susan Lebovitch. Adam Katz will be Dinner Chairman. Please visit our website to view sample ads, submit your reservation, meet the honorees, read a message from the Rabbi, obtain further information and more - all just a click away: www.chabadpw.org/dinner.

JUNE 1: KABBALAH @ MIDNIGHT
In keeping with the tradition of studying all night long on Shvuot, join us for late night study along with light refreshments. No RSVP. Just show up! Study begins at 11:00 pm on Thursday evening.

JUNE 2: SHAVUOT SERVICES & ICE CREAM PARTY
Join us for a special reading of the Ten Commandments, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Revelation at Sinai more than 3300 years ago. Torah reading will be held at 10:00 AM and will be followed by a spirited ice cream party and holiday lunch for the entire family. Hebrew School reading of the Ten Commandments and Ice Cream Party at 6:00 PM.

JUNE 11: COMMUNITY-WIDE BLOOD DRIVE
Our very active (and beloved) Social Action Committee Chairman, Mark Fogel (aka The Kohen from the back of the shul) has organized another meaningful community event. Reserve the date of June 11, 2006, 8:30 AM to come by to Chabad to give blood. We are inviting the entire community of Port Washington to participate. The goal is to collect 26 pints of blood for the Long island Blood Service. This is a mitzvah. We can literally save lives with this small act.

JUNE 18: COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
C.A.S.H. Max & Ruth Schwartz/Florence Brownstein Preschool Commencement Excercises.

JUNE 18: GRADUATION
Chabad Hebrew School graduation.

JUNE 28: TRIBUTE EVENING
Join all 22 Chabad Centers on Long Island for an evening of learning and inspiration, commemorating the Rebbe’s Yahrzeit. The Dinner and mini-academic conference will be held at the Huntington Town House, beginning at 5 pm. Couvert is $45 / Sponsor: $180. Please click here for further information.

JULY 3: CAMP GAN ISRAEL BEGINS
First day of Ethel & Irving Berkowitz Gan Israel Day Camp.

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	Inspiration

THE BRICK
Submitted by Carol Arnold

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. Continue

B"H

Candle Lighting Times for
Port Washington, NY
[Based on Zip Code 11050]

Shabbat Begins: May. 19 2006	7:50 PM
Shabbat Ends: May. 20 2006	8:57 PM

Parshah Behar-Bechukotai

Kiddush Calendar

Kiddush Calendar Preview:

5/20 - Albert & Vida Malekan
5/27 - Lebovitch Family / Kiddush Club; Lenny Lebovitch will be cooking up his specialty cholent.

We Need A Kiddush Sponsor For Shavuot! Please let us know if you'd like to give a nice dairy Kiddush in honor of this important Holiday, Friday, June 2nd.

Please email [email protected] or call Maria at 767-TORA to sponsor a luncheon in honor of a birthday, anniversary, yahrzeit or any other occasion. They do not have to be costly!

To view our Kiddush Calendar, you can click this link below or click into it from our homepage in the future!

	Shul Family News
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO: 5/20 Revital Laurence 5/21 Mark Lebovitch 5/21 Olivia Rabin 5/21 Wendy Rozio 5/21 Jordan Winn 5/22 Laura Kobrinsky 5/23 Samuel Litvak 5/23 Gabrielle Rozio 5/23 Marcos Sinconegui 5/24 Elan Jadid 5/24 Eyal Maxwell Laurence 5/24 Sara Salzbank 5/25 Alexandra Karul 5/25 Charlotte Rosen 5/25 Sonny Tito

Urgent Tehillim Needed!

URGENT TEHILLIM IS NEEDED FOR A YOUNG KALLAH – BRIDE
to be married this month:

Please take a minute of your time and say a chapter of Tehillim / Psalms for CHANA BAS RASHA ZELDA - A Kallah, less than a month before her wedding, who has just been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Chapters 20 and 22.

Please pass this message on to at least 5 people. In thje merit of everyone's prayers may she be able to walk down to her
Chupah very very soon!!

Also, please encourage at least one more woman besides you to light Shabbat candles in her merit.


	Schedule of Services
Monday - Friday at 7:00 a.m. Friday night at 6:30 p.m. Shabbat Morning at 9:30 a.m. followed by Kiddush Luncheon at noon Sunday at 9:00 a.m.

	Schedule of Classes
Saturday Torah Study Class Rabbi Paltiel at 8:45 -9:30 a.m. Sunday Torah Study Class with Rabbi Paltiel at 10:00 -11:00 a.m. Wednesday Talmud class with Rabbi Lewis at 8:00 pm Saturday Women's Discussion Group with Dr. Chaya Glogauer after lunch

Thought for the Day

Submitted by Carol Arnold

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning.
Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!

G‑d didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Read this line very slowly and let it sink in...

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.


	National Jewish Retreat

	This Week on www.ChabadPW.org

Seasons of the Soul

	Lag BaOmer
The birthday of Jewish mysticism... The spiritual significance of the Bow and Arrow... Can love be true and can truth be loving? ... The practical implications of infinity... What is Kabbalah?

Question

	Thinking Like G‑d
In what way are the laws of the Talmud "the wisdom and will of G‑d"? What's so "wise" about the how to divide a garment that two people are fighting over? Why G‑d would "will" the procedures for buying a donkey?

Inner Dimensions

	The Power of What
The Jewish people are accustomed to this word. We are forever asking: What is the reason? What is the meaning? We ask this question of all commandments and all occurrences, even those we supposedly understand...

Kids

	Jono's Little Mountain Song
Jono learns a lesson about being humble when he has to dress up in a very cute little mountain costume and sing an adorable little song. Oh, and no monologues this week.

	The Jewish Calendar

Thursday

Iyar 20 | May 18

Omer: Day 35
Journey From Mt Sinai (1312 BCE)

Troyes Jews Burned at the Stake (1288)

Venice Jews Forbidden to Practice Law (1637)

Mt. Scopus Hospital (1939)

Pregnant Women Sentenced to Death (1942)

Count "Thirty-Six Days to the Omer" Tonight

Friday

Iyar 21 | May 19

Omer: Day 36
Frank Hanged in Prague (1946)

Kefar Chabad Established (1949)

Count "Thirty-Seven Days to the Omer" Tonight

Shabbat

Iyar 22 | May 20

Omer: Day 37
Shabbat Commanded (1313 BCE)

Jewish Books Confiscated (1731)

Hungarian Jews Deported (1944)

Ethics: Chapter 5

Count "Thirty-Eight Days to the Omer" Tonight

Sunday

Iyar 23 | May 21

Omer: Day 38
Water from a Rock at Rephidim (1313 BCE)

Count "Thirty-Nine Days to the Omer" Tonight

Monday

Iyar 24 | May 22

Omer: Day 39
Germany Surrenders to Allied Forces (1945)

Count "Forty Days to the Omer" Tonight

Tuesday

Iyar 25 | May 23

Omer: Day 40
Toledo Massacre (1355)

Count "Forty-One Days to the Omer" Tonight

Wednesday

Iyar 26 | May 24

Omer: Day 41
R. Saadia Gaon (942)

Ramchal (1746)

R. Eizik of Homel (1857)

Six Day War (1967)

Count "Forty-Two Days to the Omer" Tonight

Thursday

Iyar 27 | May 25

Omer: Day 42
Count "Forty-Three Days to the Omer" Tonight

Friday

Iyar 28 | May 26

Omer: Day 43
Count "Forty-Four Days to the Omer" Tonight

Shabbat

Iyar 29 | May 27

Omer: Day 44
Passing of Samuel (877 BCE)

Jerusalem Liberated (1967)

Ethics: Chapter 6

Count "Forty-Five Days to the Omer" Tonight

	Daily Thought

Fortitude

Maybe you feel you just can't hack it. You know there is nothing to fear, but you are afraid. You know there are no obstacles that cannot be overcome, but those, you claim, are words for the lionhearted. Your heart is somewhat less of iron and more of flesh. You know fear first hand, and it is ugly.

It's true, there are people who do not run from anything in this world. Even as they enter this world, they remain above and beyond. Their feet barely touch the ground.

They are the tzaddikim, who never enter the monster's lair. And therefore, they never truly defeat him. But you, with their strength, you will face that awesome fear inside you and you will wrestle it to the dust. For yourself and for all those after you.

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman. To order Tzvi's book, "Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

	The Parshah In a Nutshell

Parshat Behar-Bechukotai

On the mountain of Sinai, G‑d communicates to Moses the laws of the sabbatical year: every seventh year, all work on the land should cease, and its produce become free for the taking for all, man and beast.

Seven sabbatical cycles are followed by a fiftieth year — the jubilee year, on which work on the land ceases, all indentured servants are set free, and all ancestral estates in the Holy Land that have been sold revert to their original owners. Additional laws governing the sale of lands and the prohibitions against fraud and usury are also given.

G‑d promises that if the people of Israel will keep His commandments, they will enjoy material prosperity and dwell secure in their homeland. But He also delivers a harsh "rebuke" warning of the exile, persecution and other evils that will befall them if they abandon their covenant with Him. Nevertheless, "Even when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away; nor will I ever abhor them, to destroy them and to break My covenant with them; for I am the L-rd their G‑d."

The Parshah concludes with the rules on how to calculate the value of different types of pledges made to G‑d.

	A Little Humor

Submitted by Becky Freifeld

A man walks into shul with a dog. The shammas comes up to him and says, "Pardon me, this is a House of Worship, you can't bring your dog in here."

"What do you mean," says the man, "this is a Jewish dog. Look."

And the shammas looks carefully and sees that in the same way that a St. Bernard carries a brandy barrel round its neck this dog has a tallis bag round its neck.

"Rover," says the man, "kipa!".

"Woof!" says the dog, stands on his hind legs, opens the tallis bag, takes out a kipa and puts it on his head.

"Rover," says the man, "tallis!".

"Woof!" says the dog, stands on his hind legs, opens the tallis bag, takes out a tallis and puts it round his neck.

"Rover," says the man, "daven!".

"Woof!" says the dog, stands on his hind legs, opens the tallis bag, takes out a siddur and starts to daven.

"That's fantastic," says the shammas, "absolutely amazing, incredible! You should take him to Hollywood , get him on television, get him in the movies, he could make millions of dollars!!

"You speak to him," says the man, "he wants to be a doctor."

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