10-5-06 - Chabad of Port Washington

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	A Word From the Rabbi

Sukkos is one of those holidays that have gotten the short end of the stick. People don't know much about it, although it is as Biblical as Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. I am therefore happy to report that 75 people have bought Lulav and Etrog sets from our Chabad (we were completely sold out of Lulav/Etrog sets and got more orders than we were able to accommodate), which means Port Washington will be filled with Sukkos joy and observance this year, more than ever before in the history of this wonderful peninsula!

Also, numerous new Sukkahs were erected by families who heretofore have not had their own. During Sukkot, look out for the Sukkah mobiles which will be making the rounds in our community staffed by our rabbis and teens. Our rabbis and volunteers will also be visiting the Sands Point Nursing Home to enable people to bless the Lulav and Etrog and celebrate the holiday.

Help us continue the curve of bringing Sukkot to Port, by attending Shul this Shabbat and/or Sunday in honor of Sukkot. Also, consider next Sat and Sun which is Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah. (See schedule of services in this email).

Happy Holidays!

Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel

	Holiday Traditions: Simchat Torah

Join us for Simchat Torah Hakafot Dancing & Rejoicing @ Chabad!

All are invited Saturday night, October 14th at 6:30 pm for Hakafot, dancing with the Torah, flags for the kids, refreshments, open bar, join us for a wonderful evening of joy and celebration!!

On Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah (Oct. 14-15), we conclude, and begin anew, the annual Torah reading cycle. The event is marked with great rejoicing, and the "hakafot" procession in which we march and dance with Torah scrolls around the reading table in the synagogue. In the words of the Chassidic saying, "On Simchat Torah, we rejoice in the Torah, and the Torah rejoices in us; the Torah, too, wants to dance, so we become the Torah's dancing feet."

	News at Chabad

Construction Update
Exciting news: Picture of the week – new trailor at Chabad house for use until the new building is ready!

	Upcoming Events

Oct. 4 • CTC Sukkah Decorating & BBQ
6:00 PM

Oct. 10 • CTC Pizza in the Hut
6:00 PM

Oct. 11 • Hebrew School Pizza in the Hut
6:00 PM

"The Kosher Version"

B"H

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

Shabbat / Holiday Begins: Oct. 06 2006	6:12 PM
Shabbat Ends / Second Day Holiday Begins: Oct. 07 2006	7:09 PM
Holiday Ends: Oct. 08 2006	7:07 PM

Shul Family News

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:
10/7 Samuel Fogel
10/9 Sheryl Freeman
10/9 Yair Harari
10/11 Sharon Kobrinsky

THANK YOU TO:
Thanks to those responsible for putting up Chabad's Sukkah:
Joseph Esrail, the chief architect and designer, Victor Hovanec, General Buildiner in charge of getting it built, and the team of volunteers: Moshe Haghnazeri, Wesley Hovanec, Sam and Max Fogel, Ari Malekan, Mendel and Berel Paltiel and Joel Avelarde (for lights and table set up)

Kiddush Calendar

This Shabbat the Kiddush is sponsored by Morris & Dalia Djavaheri in honor of Michael's Bar Mitzvah.

Kiddush sponsors are needed for Shemini Atzeret - Saturday, October 14.

If you'd like to sponsor Kiddush at Chabad, please check our online calendar and email your date of choice to Gary Litvak directly at You may also call Maria at 767-TORA H. To view our Kiddush Calendar, click here

	Schedule of Classes
All Torah classes are suspended this week and next week due to the Holidays and will resume Saturday, October 21st and Sunday, October 22nd.


	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

	Holiday Services
Oct. - 6 Eve of Sukkot Services 6:00 PM Oct. 7 - First Day of Sukkot Services 9:30 AM 12:00 Lunch in Sukkah Oct. 8 - Second Day of Sukkot Services 9:30 AM 12:00 Lunch in Sukkah Begin blessing on the Lulav & Etrog Oct. 13 - Hoshana Rabba Services 6:30 PM Oct. 14 - Shemini Atzeret Services 9:30 AM Yizkor 11:00 AM Simchat Torah & Hakafot 6:30 PM Oct. 15 - Simchat Torah Services 9:30 AM

	This Week on www.ChabadPW.org

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	The Bleeding Hat
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Voices

	A Sixth Dimension
They were carrying branches and fruit. They wanted me to wave them in the air, to shake them in all directions. For G‑d. For world peace. For unity...

Inner Dimensions

	The Secret of the Fifteen Steps
At the call of the dawn, two priests sounded their trumpets and began to descend the 15 steps that led down from the Men's Courtyard to the Women's Courtyard...

Story

	Hakafot in Liozna
"Fire consumes fire,." said the Rebbe. "The 'fiery law' of Torah will consume the fever induced by the frost..."

	The Jewish Calendar

Friday

Tishrei 14 | Oct 6

Prepare "Four Kinds" in Sukkah

Shabbat

Tishrei 15 | Oct 7

Sukkot
Eat in Sukkah

The Ushpizin

"Water Drawing" Celebrations

Four Kinds postponed

Links

Sunday

Tishrei 16 | Oct 8

Sukkot
The "Four Kinds"

Monday

Tishrei 17 | Oct 9

Sukkot
Chol Hamoed

Hoshana Rabbah
Hoshana Rabbah

Night Learning

Willow and Hoshaanot

Festive Meal

Shabbat

Tishrei 22 | Oct 14

Shemini Atzeret
Hakafot

Rain Prayer

Yizkor

	Daily Thought

All of Him

That force that holds electrons in their orbit and planets in theirs, explodes incessantly within the stars above and is the darkness that fills the empty space—-that force is a single whole and it is G–d.

It is not all of G–d. It is an expression of G–d. All of it could disappear in a single instant, and for Him nothing would have changed.

Where is it that you can find all of G–d? Wherever He wishes to be found.

Right now, He hides within some scattered branches placed upon an autumn hut.

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

The Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret Torah readings are from Leviticus 22-23, Numbers 29, and Deuteronomy 14-16. These readings detail the laws of the moadim or "appointed times" on the Jewish calendar for festive celebration of our bond with G‑d; including the mitzvot of dwelling in the sukkah (branch-covered hut) and taking the "Four Kinds" on the festival of Sukkot; the offerings brought in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem on Sukkot, and the obligation to journey to the Holy Temple to "to see and be seen before the face of G‑d" on the three annual pilgrimage festivals — Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot.

On Simchat Torah ("Rejoicing of the Torah") we conclude, and begin anew, the annual Torah-reading cycle. First we read the Torah section of Vezot Haberachah, which recounts the blessings that Moses gave to each of the twelve tribes of Israel before his death. Echoing Jacob's blessings to his twelve sons five generations earlier, Moses assigns and empowers each tribe with its individual role within the community of Israel.

Vezot Haberachah then relates how Moses ascended Mount Nebo from whose summit he saw the Promised Land. "And Moses the servant of G‑d died there in the Land of Moab by the mouth of G‑d... and no man knows his burial place to this day." The Torah concludes by attesting that "There arose not a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom G‑d knew face to face... and in all the mighty hand and the great awesome things which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel."

Immediately after concluding the Torah, we begin it anew by reading the first chapter of Genesis (the beginning of next Shabbat's Torah reading) describing G‑d's creation of the world in six days and His ceasing work on the seventh—which He sanctified and blessed as a day of rest.

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