10/26/07 - Chabad of Port Washington

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	A Word From the Rabbi

As I told you many times, Judaism is not all or nothing. For example: if you’re not going to attend shul every Shabbos that does not mean it isn’t meaningful if you attend once in a while. It is for this reason that I look for opportunities to invite you to join me at shul, even if you’re not a regular, due to a special date on the calendar or a special occasion. (If you are a regular, all the power to you!) This way we get to see each other more often than just the High Holidays. I often say: I want to turn “3-day a year Jews” into “12-day a year Jews” by asking people to come once a month.

This Shabbat My daughter Mushka and I are celebrating our birthdays with a Kiddush luncheon. (Services begin 9:30am; Torah reading 10:30am; Kiddush Luncheon at Noon). We also have a special treat - Lenny Lebovitch made his legendary, delicious cholent for this Shabbos kiddush. Please come...

Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel

	Upcoming Events

BLOOD DRIVE THIS SUNDAY
Chabad Teen Club Blood Drive will be holding a blood drive this Sunday in partnership with the Long Island Blood Service. Sunday October 28 - 9:00am-2:30pm at Chabad, 80 Shore Rd., Port Washington. Walk-ins are welcome! Just show up, we need your help! Please donate blood and help save the life of a friend or
neighbor in your community! We need over 800 pints of blood every day to provide the area hospitals with the blood they need to save lives. Thank you for Caring! For travel and medical questions, call 1-800-688-0900.

THE BAGEL TABLE - EVERY SUNDAY!
We are happy to announce that there will be bagels and spreads in the social hall every Sunday morning – for the pleasure of the Hebrew School parents, Torah Studies students or congregants at Chabad. Please feel free to drop by and enjoy a fresh delicious bagel, coffee, hang out and chat or just grab and run!

NEW! Mommy & Me
Our Mommy & Me began last week, led by Sara Paltiel. This new exciting opportunity features fun with Judaism, group play, songs and snacks in a wonderful, welcoming environment. Watch this group become the highlight of your child's week! If you'd still like to join for the remaining 4 Thursdays (and/or the following session of 5 Tuesdays, beginning November 19), call Natalia to register, 516-767-8672 or email [email protected]. For ages 12-30 months; 10:00 - 11:00 AM at Chabad.

COOKING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Here's your opportunity to participate in a hands-on Challah baking workshop! The humorous and renowned, Rebbetzin Chaya Teldon will be leading the demonstration on November 1st - it promises to be a remarkable evening you don't want to miss! Space is limited so make your reservation asap! Visit www.chabadpw.org/cooking or call us at 516-767-8672. Mark your calendar for Cooking in the Neighborhood Part II with the famous, Susie Fishbein, author of the "Kosher by Design" cookbook series. Part II will be held on November 19.

SHABBAT DINNER
Join us next Friday night, November 2, for a beautiful and meaningful Shabbat Dinner for the entire community. Services at 6:30 pm, dinner at 7:00 pm. Click here for more info and to RSVP.

B"H

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

Shabbat Begins: Friday, Oct. 26	5:42 PM
Shabbat Ends: Shabbat, Oct. 27	6:40 PM

Torah Portion: Vayeira

Kiddush Calendar

The Kiddush is sponsored by the Paltiel's in honor of Rabbi Paltiel's 2nd annual 40th & Mushka's 11th!

CORRECTION: Last week was the Bas Mitzvah of Tori Lehrer - we apologize for Leah Weingast's Bat Mitzvah was announced in error. We wish Tori and her wonderful parents lots of joy and happiness!

Consider sponsoring a future Kiddush at Chabad. Please email [email protected] to book your date. This is a beautiful, meaningful way to celebrate a special occasion or commemorate a date on your family calendar.

Shul Family News

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:
10/29 Mashi Weinberg
10/30 Jeff Kobrinsky

YARTZEITS
10/24 Mary Sandman
observed by Alan & Linda Sandman
10/31 Rahmatollah Kohannim
observed by Mojdeh & Manny Malekan

	Schedule of Services
Sunday morning Services 9:00 AM Tefillin Club: 11:30 am - 12 noon in the Chabad Library Minyans for Yahrzeit: This Sunday is the yahrzeit of Karen Salzbank’s father, Meir Zev ben Yehuda Aryeh. Please help us make a minyan so Alan can say the kaddish. Shabbos night, Saturday night, 7PM sharp. Sunday evening, 4:45 (just prior to the mikvah dedication) . Monday - Friday: 7:00 AM Friday night: 6:30 PM PLEASE HELP US WITH A MINYAN TONIGHT! Shabbos Morning: 9:30 AM

	CHANUKAH!
Save the date for our upcoming Menorah Lightings for the entire community! Tuesday, December 4 First Night of Chanukah! LIRR-Main Street: 6:00 PM Manhasset: 8:00 PM

Schedule of Classes

Tanya Class
Saturdays, 8:45-9:30 AM
with Rabbi Paltiel

Torah Studies
Sundays, 10:00 - 11:20 AM

	This Week @ www.ChabadPW.org

Living

	Morality Without G‑d
Is it possible to have a moral society while leaving G‑d out of the equation?

Parshah

	Want It All
I think I know why the Rebbe liked this story so much. The child's question and the grandfather's explanation express two extremes, whose contrast and synthesis are a hallmark of the Rebbe's approach to life

Women

	With My Arms Open
Already at age five, I had moved much further beyond my own mother's boundaries than my daughter could ever imagine, and by age eleven, I had broken out of those boundaries entirely...

Audio & Video

	Episode VIII
To sew your world together, you gotta be tough. You also gotta be empty. Like a needle.

	The Jewish Calendar

Passing of Mattityahu (139 BCE)

Great Flood Begins (2105 BCE)

Birth of Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch (1860)

Lisbon Earthquake (1755)

	Daily Thought

Medical License

The doctor has been licensed from Above to heal, not to make predictions.

Ignore the predictions and think only good thoughts.

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

	the parshah in a nutshell

Parshat Vayeira

G‑d reveals Himself to Abraham three days after the first Jew's circumcision at age 99; but Abraham rushes off to prepare a meal for three guests who appear in the desert heat. One of the three — who are angels disguised as men — announces that, in exactly one year, the barren Sarah will give birth to a son. Sarah laughs.

Abraham pleads with G‑d to spare the wicked city of Sodom. Two of the three disguised angels arrive in the doomed city, where Abraham's nephew, Lot, extends his hospitality to them and protects them from the evil intentions of a Sodomite mob. The two guests reveal that they have come to overturn the place, and to save Lot and his family. Lot's wife turns into a pillar of salt when she disobeys the command not to look back at the burning city as they flee.

While taking shelter in a cave, Lot's two daughters (believing that they and their father are the only ones left alive in the world) get their father drunk, lie with him, and become pregnant. The two sons born from this incident father the nations of Moab and Amon.

Abraham moves to Gerar, where the Philistine king Avimelech takes Sarah — who is presented as Abraham's sister — to his palace. In a dream, G‑d warns Avimelech that he will die unless he returns the woman to her husband. Abraham explains that he feared he would be killed over the beautiful Sarah.

G‑d remembers His promise to Sarah and gives her and Abraham a son, who is named Isaac (Yitzchak, meaning "will laugh"). Isaac is circumcised at the age of eight days; Abraham is 100 years old, and Sarah 90, at their child's birth.

Hagar and Ishmael are banished from Abraham's home and wander in the desert; G‑d hears the cry of the dying lad and saves his life by showing his mother a well. Avimelech makes a treaty with Abraham at Be'er Sheva, where Abraham gives him seven sheep as a sign of their truce.

G‑d tests Abraham's devotion by commanding him to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount) in Jerusalem. Isaac is bound and placed on the altar, and Abraham raises the knife to slaughter his son. A voice from heaven calls to stop him; a ram, caught in the undergrowth by its horns, is offered in Isaac's place. Abraham receives the news of the birth of a daughter, Rebecca, to his nephew Bethuel.

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