8-24-06 - Chabad of Port Washington

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	A Word From the Rabbi

How does your family celebrate a birthday or anniversary? Do you do something really meaningful on a loved one's yartzeit? Here at Chabad, we can help you make any occasion really special! Consider sponsoring a kiddush at Chabad for any reason - birthday, yartzeit, anniversary, graduation, farewell, milestone... Or just because!

Select your date and grade kiddush and we'll help make the arrangements with one of the caterers or delis in the area. Or you can choose to roll up your sleeves and throw a do-it-yourself kiddush with the help of our kiddush club.

As we approach the beginning of a new year at our shul, we ask that you check the kiddush calendar for availability in the coming weeks & months and make your selections. Click here - or call Maria to reserve your date and discuss kiddush opportunities at Chabad: 516-767-TORAH. You may also email Gary Litvak @ [email protected].

Best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom & Shana Tova,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel

	News at Chabad

Chabad Outing to Shea Stadium
The outing to Shea Stadium was most enjoyable, especially in light of the 2-0 victory of the Amazin's. Over 50 Chabadniks attended. Thanks again to Jonathan Brill and Philip Brill for this generous gift. Click here for some pictures of the beautiful day out we all enjoyed. The press is attributing the shutout victory to the Tefillin prayers being offered up in the bleachers in left field...

Membership Drive:

	Weekly Torah Thought

Question: My wife has no sense of humour. She says I make fun of her in public (and she's always happy to tell me just how bad I am - even in public). Shouldn't she be able to take a joke?

Answer: Jokes are serious. The line between a friendly jibe and a humiliating stab is often a fine one. You have to question whether the laugh you may get is worth the pain you may inflict. But between husband and wife, humiliation is simply criminal. It goes against everything that a marriage is supposed to be: an exclusive oneness.

In the Jewish wedding ceremony, after standing under the Chuppa, the bride and groom are taken to a private room... CONTINUE

	Jewish Humor

A man in Paris saw a pit bull attacking a toddler. He killed the pit bull and saved the child's life. Reporters swarmed the fellow to cover the story.... "Tell us! What's your name? All Paris will love you! Tomorrow's headline will be: 'Paris Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!'" The guy says, "But I'm not from Paris ."

Reporters: "That's OK. Then the whole of France will love you and tomorrow's headline will read: 'French Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog"! The guy says, "I'm not from France , either." Reporters: "That's OK also. All Europe will love you. omorrow's headlines will shout: 'Europe 's Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!'" The guy says, "I'm not from Europe, either."

Reporters: "So, where ARE you from?" The guy says, "I'm from Israel ." Reporters: "OK... Then tomorrow's headlines will proclaim to the world: "Jew Kills Girl's Dog!"

B"H

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Shabbat Begins: Aug. 25 2006	7:21 PM
Shabbat Ends: Aug. 26 2006	8:21 PM

Parshah Shoftim

Shul Family News

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO
Alan & Karen Salzbank
Rabbi Noteh & Chaya Glogauer
Rabbi Shalom & Sara Paltiel

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:
8/27/2006 - Nathasa Ariel Chait
8/27/2006 - Emma Ariel Podolsky
8/28/2006 - Jonathan Kobrinsky
8/28/2006 - Adi Levin
8/29/2006 - Leah Weingast
8/30/2006 - Robin Freeman
8/30/2006 - Mr. Fredric H. Gould
8/31/2006 - Gabrielle Arounian
8/31/2006 - Leor Vaknin
8/31/2006 - Oran Vaknin

YARTZEITS:
8/26/2006 / Elul 2, 5766
Jean Icchok Rafalowicz Gutman, Helene's grandpa

8/29/2006 / Elul 5, 5766
Moshe Lanis, father of Arin Lanis

Kiddush Calendar

The Kiddush at Chabad this week is available for sponsorship.

If you'd like to sponsor Kid dush at Chabad, please email mailto:[email protected]or call Maria at 767-TORA H. To view our Kiddush Calendar, click this image:

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Bar & Bat Mitzvah: Check out what we offer!

	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. will resume September 10th] Saturday Women's Discussion Group with Dr. Chaya Glogauer after lunch


	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.

	Daily Quote
One thing I ask of G‑d, only this do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of G‑d all the days of my life, to gaze upon pleasantness of G‑d and to visit His Temple — King David (in Psalms 27, recited during the month of Elul)


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	This Week on www.ChabadPW.org

Comment

	The Third Marriage
What did Moses feel ascending Mount Sinai for the third time, on the early morning of the 1st of Elul, 3,308 years ago?

Current

	They All Prayed...
Chabad brought prayer to the army bases and the streets of Israel, distributed hundreds of thousands of Psalms, lit Shabbat candles with IDF units, and united Jews with letters in Torah scrolls...

Question

	Getting Forgiven
How do you know when you have been forgiven? Or does the guilt just go on and on?

Kids

	Non-For-Prophet
G-fish tries to cheat at board games by pretending to be a prophet (double gulp!)

	The Jewish Calendar

Thursday

Av 30 | Aug 24

Rosh Chodesh
2nd Tablets Hewn (1313 BCE)

Rosh Chodesh Observances

Practice shofar blowing; L'David Hashem Ori

Friday

Elul 1 | Aug 25

Rosh Chodesh
Moses ascends Sinai for 3rd 40 days (1313 BCE)

Rosh Chodesh Observances

Elul observances

Good Year greetings

Shabbat

Elul 2 | Aug 26

Shulchan Aruch published (1555)

Sunday

Elul 3 | Aug 27

Rabbi A. I. Kook (1935)

First Chassidic Aliya (1777)

Moses' parents remarry (1394 BCE)

Spies die (1312 BCE)

Nachmanides Renews Jerusalem community (1267)

	Daily Thought

Spiritual Disdain

As spiritual beings in a material world, we engage it in a posture of descent, in compromise, with a lessening of light. That is why spiritual people disdain all interaction with this world, and strive to minimize it at all costs.

Yet the Torah provides an interface with the world that is more G‑dly than the soul itself. How does it accomplish this? By unlocking the spark of G‑d within each thing.

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 Shoftim

Moses instructs the people of Israel to appoint judges and law-enforcement officers in every city; "Justice, justice shall you pursue," he commands them, and you must administer it without corruption or favoritism. Crimes must be meticulously investigated and evidence thoroughly examined — a minimum of two credible witnesses is required for conviction and punishment.

In every generation, says Moses, there will be those entrusted with the task of interpreting and applying the laws of the Torah. "According to the law that they will teach you, and the judgement they will instruct you, you shall do; you shall not turn away from the thing that they say to you, to the right nor to the left."

Shoftim also includes the prohibitions against idolatry and sorcery; laws governing the appointment and behavior of a king; and guidelines for the creation of "cities of refuge" for the inadvertent murderer. Also set forth are many of the rules of war: the exemption from battle for one who has just married, built a home, planted a vineyard or is "afraid and soft-hearted"; the requirement to offer terms of peace before attacking a city; the prohibition against wanton destruction of something of value, exemplified by the law that forbids to cut down a fruit tree when laying siege (in this context the Torah makes the famous statement "For man is a tree of the field").

The Parshah concludes with the law of Eglah Arufah - the special procedure to be followed when a person is killed by an unknown murderer and his body is found in a field - which underscores the responsibility of the community and its leaders not only for what they do but also for what they might have prevented from being done.

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