11-30-06 - Chabad of Port Washington

Chabad of Port Washington · Email: rabbi@chabadpw.org · Voice: 516-767-8672 · Web: http://www.chabadpw.org/

	A Word From the Rabbi

At a meeting of the three Shluchim (“Rabbi-Rebbitzin-team”) couples last month we discussed various ideas that could be implemented in our community to further enhance the communal feeling amongst all of us while offering our families more opportunities for Jewish experience and expression.

One of the ideas that was brought up was to offer a Shabbat - Friday night – dinner at Chabad House once a month. In addition to the one or two large scale Shabbatons that we plan each year with over 100 people, why not schedule one once each month on a smaller scale with perhaps 20, 30 or 40 people in attendance. This would give people an opportunity to get together and celebrate Shabbat with other families in a more intimate setting, which is more conducive to participation and meaningful discussion around the Shabbat table. This also offers a regular monthly Shabbat table experience to those who, for whatever reason, don't have a Shabbat dinner every Shabbat. It was agreed that each month at least on of the Shluchim families will be in attendance at Shabbat dinner.

One of those Shabbat dinners is scheduled for next Friday night, December 8th. Why not join us with your family for a wonderful Shabbat table, delicious kosher cuisine, and a joyous, lively atmosphere. My family will, please G‑d, be there, and possibly one or both of the other Shluchim families as well. There is nothing quite like a Shabbat table and the joy and warmth that it offers. I encourage you to sign up now and join us for a grand time, spiritually, socially, Jewishly. Click here to get the details and to sign up. If you like it, you never know; you might just decide to make this a monthly ritual which you and your family can look forward to.

Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel

P.S. I am awed by the response to the Mitzvah Gift Registry. I haven't yet had the chance to thank each one of you personally for your mitzvah-gifts, and to offer the assistance some of you requested in fulfilling those commitments. I promise to be in touch shortly with each of you individually to offer any assistance needed in fulfilling your commitments. For now I just want to say thank-you and that it is the most meaningful gift imaginable. If you have not yet participated in this “mitzvah-drive” it is definitely not too late. Just visit http://www.mitzvahgiftregistry.com/ and make your selection(s). It's a gift that keeps giving!

	Chanukah Events!

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17
FREE ADMISSION * HOT LATKES, DONUTS, COFFEE * COMMUNITY LEADERS | LIVE MUSIC
Main Event: Port Washington - 4PM, LIRR - Main Street
Manhasset - 6:30PM, Park across from Town Hall

NEW THIS YEAR!
In addition to the main event, there will be a daily Menorah lighting in Port Washington. Friday, Dec. 15 @ 3:30PM | Saturday, Dec. 16 @ 6:30PM | Sunday, Dec. 17 (Main Event) @ 4:00PM | Mon, Dec. 18–Thurs, Dec. 21 @ 6:30PM | Friday, Dec. 22 @ 3:30PM.

Look out for Chanukah Menorahs which will be placed on top of the cars of the rabbis at Chabad House. If you would like to purchase a “car Menorah” for your own car roof-top email: maria@chabadpw.org and she will make the arrangements. This would be extremely exciting for your children (and neighbors' children) while adding Chanukah spirit to the entire community. All told, our community will surely feel the Chanukah spirit this year!

We have commissioned the construction of a new 12’ attractive steel menorah for Main Street/LIRR, something that will make us all proud - in addition to Manhasset's 6’ menorah, plus an 8’ menorah in Manorhaven in front of Village Hall!

PUBLIC MENORAH DISPLAYS
Again this year, we'll have 4’ decorative menorahs in Stop N’ Shop, King Kullen Port, King Kullen Manhassset, and North Shore Farms. Please thank the management of these stores when you shop there and see the menorahs.

CTC(Chabad Teen Club) MATISYAHU CONCERT
Saturday Night, Dec 16
See Matisyahu in concert and
go backstage to meet and hang out with the star
RSVP required

CHANUKAH KIDS EXTRAVAGANZA
Sunday December 17, 12PM – 3PM
• Build the world’s largest Lego menorah!
• Make your own olive oil in a real oil press!
• Games, booths, prizes!
• Latkes, doughnuts, chocolate gelt, and more great food!

B"H

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

Shabbat Begins: Dec. 01 2006	4:10 PM
Shabbat Ends: Dec. 02 2006	5:13 PM

Parshah Vayeitzei

CHABAD TEEN CLUB

CHABAD TEEN CLUB!

There's always something new & exciting at CTC! If you know teens who are not on the CTC email list, please forward their email addresses to youth@chabadpw.org so that we can keep them in the loop on upcoming exciting events such as “Meet Matisyahu” and more!

Shul Family News

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:
12/1/2006 Tomer Levin
12/3/2006 Keivan Farhadian
12/3/2006 Audrey Robinowitz
12/4/2006 Marilyn Goldsmith
12/5/2006 Joshua Andrew Farhadian
12/6/2006 Ted Charney

MAZAL TOV!
Lenny and Susan Lebovitch on the birth of their grand-daughter Eden to Mark & Cory Lebovitch!

The Beatus Family on the wedding of their son David to Elisheva

Ronny & Michal Kuta on the Bar Mitzvah of their son Eden.

YARTZTEITS
12/5/2006 Kislev 14, 5767
Rubin Kaplan, father of Sheryl Pinner


	Quick Links
Jewish Birthday Converter Jewish Online Library Multimedia Section

Kiddush Calendar

The Kiddush at Chabad this Shabbat is sponsored by the Malka family in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son.

If you'd like to sponsor a Kiddush at Chabad, please check our online calendar and email your date of choice to Gary Litvak directly. You may also call Maria at 767-TORAH.

	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. Saturday Women's Discussion Group with Dr. Chaya Glogauer after lunch


	Schedule of Services
Sunday morning Tefillin Club: 9:00 - 9:15 am and 11:30 am- 12 noon Monday - Friday at 7:00 a.m. Friday night at 6:00 p.m. Shabbat Morning at 9:30 a.m. followed by Kiddush Luncheon at noon

	Daily Quote
If his finger would be cut, there would flow not blood, but chassidus (chassidic teaching) — Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, speaking of his father-in-law and predecessor, Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch (1773-1827)

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Inner Dimensions

	Home of Stone
Why are we here? The answers fall under two general categories: for ourselves (to enjoy life, realize our potential, achieve transcendence...); or in service of something greater than ourselves (society, history, G‑d...)

	The Jewish Calendar

Friday

Kislev 10 | Dec 1

Liberation of R. DovBer (1826)

Yahrtzeit of R. Y.Y. Kazen (1998)

Monday

Kislev 13 | Dec 4

Talmud completed (475 CE)

Tuesday

Kislev 14 | Dec 5

Reuben Born (1568 BCE)

Rebbe's Marriage (1928)

R. Abraham Maimuni (1237)

R. Baruch Mezhibuzher (1811)

	Daily Thought

Higher Consciousness

Torah observance is not an exercise in behavior compliance. There is only one way a person can learn to fulfill the Torah the way it is meant to be fulfilled. And that is by achieving a higher state of consciousness.

The constant awareness that all you see and hear, the wind against your face and the pulse of your own heart, the stars in the heavens and the earth beneath your feet, all things of this cosmos and beyond,

All are but the outer garments of the King, a projection of His radiance, His will, His thoughts, His words to us, within which He is concealed.

In such a state of mind, Torah becomes natural response.

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 Vayeitzei

Jacob leaves his hometown Be'er Sheva and journeys to Charan. On the way, he encounters "the place" and sleeps there, dreaming of a ladder connecting heaven and earth, with angels climbing and descending on it; G‑d appears and promises that the land upon which he lies will be given to his descendents. In the morning, Jacob raises the stone on which he laid his head as an altar and monument, pledging that it will be made the house of G‑d.

In Charan, Jacob stays with and works for his uncle Laban, tending Laban's sheep. Laban agrees to give him his younger daughter Rachel — whom Jacob loves — in marriage, in return for seven years' labor. But on the wedding night, Laban gives him his elder daughter, Leah, instead — a deception Jacob discovers only in the morning. Jacob marries Rachel, too, a week later, after agreeing to work another seven years for Laban.

Leah gives birth to six sons — Reuben, Shimon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun — and a daughter, Dinah, while Rachel remains barren. Rachel gives Jacob her handmaid, Bilhah, as a wife to bear children in her stead, and two more sons, Dan and Naphtali, are born. Leah does the same with her handmaid, Zilpah, who gives birth to Gad and Asher. Finally, Rachel's prayers are answered and she gives birth to Joseph.

Jacob has now been in Charan for fourteen years and wishes to return home, but Laban persuades him to remain, now offering him sheep in return for his labor. Jacob prospers, despite Laban's repeated attempts to swindle him. After six years, Jacob leaves Charan in stealth, fearing that Laban would prevent him from leaving with the family and property for which he labored. Laban pursues Jacob, but is warned by G‑d in a dream not to harm him. Laban and Jacob make a pact on Mount Gal-Ed, attested to by a pile of stones, and Jacob proceeds to the Holy Land, where he is met by angels.

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