Chabad of Port Washington

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A word from the Rabbi



By now you should have received our Dinner invitation in the mail, as well as by email. I am appealing to you for your generous support of this event.

The dinner is our most important fundraiser of the year and it helps us continue and expand a lot of the programs and projects we offer throughout the year.

This year’s dinner will be something extraordinary! We are planning an unforgettable event at the Talon Air hangar. Look forward to luxurious service by Morrell of Woodbury catering, entertainment by Neshomo Orchestra, luxury charter planes for your viewing pleasure, plus lots of exciting surprises. This will not be your typical organizational dinner, I assure you. Please be there with us to join the festivities.

Our host, Mr. Adam Katz has generously agreed to donate a number of charter airplane and helicopter flights for our silent auction, so this is your chance to fly charter, get a tax deduction, and help Chabad at the same time!

As we prepare for the New Year of 5769 and we ask Al-Mighty G‑d for a health and happy year for ourselves and our loved ones, there’s no better time to give tzedakah – charity as a merit for all the blessings we ask for. Please click here and give generously to the dinner and the journal effort!

Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel

Happening @ Chabad

Hebrew school registration in full swing! Take advant-
age of the following great ways to save on Hebrew School Tuition:

[1] Tell a Friend - for every new family you bring to Hebrew School you will receive 10% off of tuition.

[2] Become a Member: Chabad Members receive a 50% tuition discount. Mebership has its privileges.

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Click here to register online or email Rabbi Weinberg, Hebrew School principal for more information.
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Our community trip featured in the News...

In honor of the Rebbe’s yahrzeit last month a group of 25 people from our Chabad visited the Rebbe’s gravesite (Ohel) for prayer. Chabad onine website featured this short, 5 minute video of our group’s visit.

 
B"H
Candle Lighting Times for
Port Washington, NY
[Based on Zip Code 11050]
Shabbat Candle Lighting:
Friday, Aug. 29
7:14 pm
Shabbat Ends:
Shabbat, Aug. 30
8:12 pm
Torah Portion: Re'eh
 
Kiddush Calendar


Reb Zelik says Thank You!

Kiddush sponsored by Reb Zelik in appreciation of the families who sponsored his 2nd Bar Mitzvah a few months ago. Please join us at shul this Shabbos to celebrate and enjoy a beautiful Shabbos. Reb Zelk will be reading the Haftorah and leading the Musaf prayer.

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


Shul News


MAZEL TOV!


To Alexander Chait (aka Zandy) on his bar mitzvah which will be taking place at Chabad this Monday, Labor Day.

Mazel tov to his very proud mom Peggy and very proud sister Natasha!


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Schedule of Services


Sunday, Aug 31 and Monday, Sept 1 are both Rosh Chodesh Elul, very auspicious days as we begin the spiritual preparations for the New Year.

Services both days will be held at 9:00am. Please join us if you can. On Monday we begin blowing the Shofar each morning after davening.

Sunday morning
Services 9:00 AM
Tefillin Club: 11:30 am - 12 noon in the Chabad Library

Monday: 9:00 AM
Tuesday - Friday: 7:00 AM

Friday night: 6:30 PM

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


Daily Quote
Any love that is dependent on something — when the thing ceases, the love also ceases. But a love that is not dependent on any thing never ceases.
— Ethics of the Fathers, 5:16
 
 
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the parshah in a nutshell
ParshatRe'eh

"See," says Moses to the people of Israel, "I place before you today a blessing and a curse" --  the blessing that will come when they fulfill G‑d's commandments, and the curse if they abandon them. These should be proclaimed on Mount Gerizim and Mount Eibal when the people cross over into the Holy Land.

A Temple should be established in "the place that G‑d will choose to make dwell His name there" where the people should bring their sacrifices to Him; it is forbidden to make offerings to G‑d in any other place. It is permitted to slaughter animals elsewhere not as a sacrifice but to eat their meat; the blood, however (which in the Temple is poured upon the Altar) may not be eaten.

A false prophet, or one who entices others to worship idols, should be put to death; an idolatrous city must be destroyed. The identifying signs for kosher animals and fishes, and the list of non-kosher birds (first given in Leviticus 11) are repeated.

A tenth of all produce is to be eaten in Jerusalem, or else exchanged for money with which food is purchased and eaten there. On certain years this tithe is given to the poor instead. Firstborn cattle and sheep are to be offered in the Temple and their meat eaten by the Kohen (priest).

The mitzvah of charity obligates a Jew to aid a needy fellow with a gift or loan. On the Sabbatical year (occurring every seventh year) all loans are to be forgiven. All indentured servants are to be set free after six years of service.

Our Parshah concludes with the laws of the three pilgrimage festivals — Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot — when all should go to "see and be seen" before G‑d in the Holy Temple.

 

The Jewish Calendar
Friday
Shabbat
Today in Jewish HistoryFlight from Liadi (1812)
Laws and CustomsBless New Month
Laws and CustomsEthics: Chapter 5
Sunday
Rosh Chodesh
Today in Jewish History2nd Tablets Hewn (1313 BCE)
Laws and CustomsRosh Chodesh Observances
Laws and CustomsPractice shofar blowing; L'David Hashem Ori
Monday
Rosh Chodesh
Today in Jewish History Moses ascends Sinai for 3rd 40 days (1313 BCE)
Laws and CustomsRosh Chodesh Observances
Laws and CustomsElul observances
Laws and CustomsGood Year greetings
Tuesday
Today in Jewish HistoryShulchan Aruch published (1555)
Laws and CustomsElul observances
Wednesday
Today in Jewish HistoryRabbi A. I. Kook (1935)
Laws and CustomsElul observances
Thursday
Laws and CustomsElul observances
Friday
Today in Jewish HistoryFirst Chassidic Aliya (1777)
Laws and CustomsElul observances
Shabbat
Laws and CustomsEthics: Chapter 6
Laws and CustomsElul observances
 
Daily Thought
Doors of Healing

If you ignore the need for this blessing to come into our world by natural means, and demand instead a supernatural miracle, you are shirking your responsibility. You are abandoning the earthly realm you were placed within to purify. You are disassociating the human act of healing from the Divine, declaring it foreign to G‑d¹s purpose. The blessing too may run away, seeing it has no door to enter.

But if you do whatever you can to prepare your world to receive this blessing — there is no shortage of means for the Healer of All Flesh to send His healing.

 

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.

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