8/1/08 - Chabad of Port Washington

Chabad of Port Washington · Email: [email protected] · Voice: 516-767-8672 · www.ChabadPW.org

	A word from the Rabbi

The preparations for this year’s Annual Dinner are well underway. Watch your mailboxes and inboxes for the invitation. This year’s event promises to be something very special, and quite different, as the event will take place at the Talon Air hangar at Republic Airport.

As guests will mingle and enjoy gourmet kosher cuisine with Neshomo Orchestra providing musical backdrop, they will be offered tours of some of the spanking new, shining aircraft from the Talon Air fleet. The “airline” theme will carry over to the theme of the evening: “Onward & Upward” as we celebrate Chabad’s growth over the past 17 years in Port Washington, including the current new building which is already “off the ground”.

Talon’s CEO and Chief Pilot Adam Katz, who will be hosting the dinner, announced yesterday that exciting charter plane and helicopter trips will be offered at the dinner as part of the silent auction! There are some more surprises in store as well.

Congratulations to Jim and Sandra Neuwirth for being named Parents of the Year to be honored at the Dinner. Port Washington Schools Superintendant will be the Guest Speaker. Our devoted Dinner Chairmen Howard Fensterman. This will be a very exciting and interesting evening. Stay tuned!

Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel

	Upcoming Events

September 17: Annual Dinner
Please mark your calendar with the date of our dinner, September 17, to be held at the Talon Air terminal, Republic Airport in Farmingdale, NY. Details and invitation to follow.

	News

Short Video of our Community’s Visit to Rebbe’s Gravesite
Our community commemorated the Rebbe’s yahrzeit with a tribute event on Sunday, June 29th. Following the event, more than 25 people traveled (aboard the Chabad school buses) to visit the Rebbe’s Ohel (gravesite) for prayers and blessings. The official international Chabad news site Chabad On Line (COL) filmed our group and put together a moving short video of our visit including some reaction from our people. Click here to watch the five minute piece.

B"H

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

Shabbat Candle Lighting: Friday, Aug. 1	7:52 pm
Shabbat Ends: Shabbat, Aug. 2	8:55 pm

Torah Portion: Massei

Kiddush Calendar

This Shabbat we will be
celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of
Alexander (Eliezer) Rothkrug. The very proud parents Simon and Bette Rothkrug will be sponsoring the Kiddush luncehon.

Consider sponsoring a future Kiddush at Chabad. Please email [email protected]

	* PATRONIZE OUR SPONSORS *

	Schedule of Services
Sunday morning Services 9:00 AM Tefillin Club: 11:30 am - 12 noon in the Chabad Library Monday - Friday: 7:00 AM Friday night: 6:30 PM Please help us with a Minyan on Friday Night Shabbos 9:30 AM Mincha-Maariv & Shalosh Seudos (3rd meal of Shabbat) at time of Candle lighting

	Schedule of Classes
Tanya Class with Rabbi Paltiel Saturdays, 8:45-9:30 AM Torah Studies: Sundays, 10:00 - 11:30 AM. Click here for info

	This Week @ www.ChabadPW.org

Living

	When Tragedy Strikes
Is it a message from G‑d, calling us all to take heed, or are the tragedies that strike our lives just random events?

Multimedia

	The Aleph
Having mastered the building blocks of the alefbet—the vav and the yud—Miri discovers the secret of letter number one: The Alef. It's the secret of making one out of many.

Q & A

	What Can I Do about My Bad Luck?
Is it possible for someone to have bad luck? I am a college graduate, a learned man, but cannot seem to make any money...

Women

	The Story of a Life
I was born Christel Eckern in a little town in northern Germany in 1934, to devoutly Christian parents who received me as a gift from G‑d. What they could not see was that G‑d had given me a Jewish soul

	Chabad-Lubavitch News from Around the World

NORTH AMERICA

Summer Camp, Forced to Travel, Gives Teenagers Dose of Restructured Fun

CAMPUS LIFE

Expansion Coming to Campus Jewish Center in the Kansas Heartland

PHOTO GALLERY

Visiting Rabbis Strengthen Judaism in India

NORTH AMERICA

Los Angeles Residents Shaken but Unharmed Following Late Morning Quake

	The Jewish Calendar

Friday

Tammuz 29 | August 1

Passing of Rashi (1105)

Shabbat

Av 1 | August 2

Rosh Chodesh
Passing of Aaron (1273 BCE)

Ezra Arrives in Israel (348 BCE)

Rosh Chodesh Observances

"Nine Days" Begin

Ethics: Chapter 2

Passing of "Ari" (1572)

First Temple Invaded (423 BCE)

Shabbat

Av 8 | August 9

Spies Return (1312 BCE)

Civil War in Jerusalem (67 CE)

Shabbat of Vision

Fast Begins this Evening

	the parshah in a nutshell

ParshatMassei

The forty-two journeys and encampments of Israel are listed, from the Exodus to their encampment on the plains of Moab across the river from the Land of Canaan.

Also in Massei: The boundaries of the Promised Land are given, and cities of refuge are designated as havens and places of exile for inadvertent murderers. The daughters of Tzelafchad marry within their own tribe of Menasseh, so that the estate which they inherit from their father should not pass to the province of another tribe.

	Daily Thought

Supermind

Intellect can orbit about the truth forever, but it doesn't have feet to land. There is a faculty, however, that doesn't need to travel to find Truth. For which truth was never hidden or obscured. For it is a native of Truth from birth.

It is not blind faith. It is an inner vision. It is not mind, but even more essential to our very being. It is the foundation from which meaningful thought begins and with it all things resolve. For it knows intimately that which the mind can only peer at through the shifting clouds.

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

This email is sent from Chabad of Port Washington. If you do not wish to receive such emails in the future, please let us know.

Select content and graphics © copyright Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center (www.chabad.org).

More in this section