10/24/08 - Chabad of Port Washington

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

	A word from the Rabbi

You’ve probably heard about our upcoming Jewish Learning Institute seminar entitled Soul Maps, beginning next Sunday, November 9th. I am writing these few lines to tell you why I think you should sign up to take this course, if you haven’t already.

This course will offer an outline of the Kabalistic make up of our souls and how they function, while giving some basic knowledge of Kabalistic concepts relevant to our daily lives. Soul Maps is essentially a book review of the classic work Tanya, which is considered the “Bible” of Chabad philosophy and the textbook for anyone wishing to become acquainted with what I like to call “applied Kabala,” Jewish mysticism in a practical, intellectual and relevant context. We will explore the Torah’s view of our inner conflicts, where challenge and confusion come from, and how to best deal with them.

If you ever wanted to learn Torah, find out more about Kabala or work on your own spiritual growth, this course is for you! In 6 short 1 ½ hour sessions JLI has packed in all of the above and lots more. This course will be time spent, it will offer lots of information, and may even make us happier, better human beings.

Why not give it a try?! Sign up by clicking here: www.chabadpw.org/JLI. Guaranteed money back if you decide you do not want to continue after the first session.

You’ve always wanted to study Torah. Here’s your chance!

Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel

	Upcoming Events & Opportunities

Beginning October 27

Michelle Lublin of Om Sweet Om together with Sara Paltiel, director of Chabad of Port Washington, invite you to join us for a spectacular Mommy & Me with Yoga! Offering Yoga & Music with a Jewish twist. First Session: 6 Mondays, October 27 - December 1st, 10:00 - 11:00 AM. Second Session 6 Mondays, January 5th - February 9th, 10:00 - 11:00 am. Fee: $60 for 6 class session. To register clcik here: www.chabadpw.org/746145

Beginning November 9

Beginning October 28

Take yourself out to the synagogue for a painless crash course in reading Hebrew. You'll be literate in a few short weeks! 7 sessions, Tuesday nights, 8:00 - 9:00 PM, beginning October 28. the course is free but registratio nis required. Call: 516-767-8672 or click here.

B"H

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

Shabbat Candle Lighting: Friday, Oct. 24	5:43 pm
Shabbat Ends: Shabbat, Oct. 25	6:41 pm

Torah Portion: Bereishit

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Shul Family News

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
10/17 Harold Goldsmith
10/17 Hailey Hartglass
10/17 Danny Lee
10/17 Aden Neuwirth
10/19 Ashley Aghravi
10/19 Michael Malekan
10/23 Matthew Joseph Farhadian
10/28 Ellen Savran
10/29 Benjamin Edidin
10/29 Mashi Weinberg
10/30 Jeff Kobrinsky

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Mr & Mrs Milton Josephs 10/21
George Kalinsky & June Azoulay 10/25
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Spatz 10/26

YARTZEITS
10/19 Edna Davis observed by Cohen, Hersh & Fern

10/23 Frieda Feder observed by Waxman, Bart & Dorothy

10/24 Frances Cohen observed by Cohen, Hersh & Fern

10/24 Jerome Kops observed by Becker, Phil & Jacqueline

10/26 Leon Dorfman observed by Charney, Ted & Sophia

10/27 Morris Levine observed by Arnold, Carol

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

COMING SOON:
JEWISH LEARNING INSTITUTE
Six-week series:
Soul Maps
Beginning November 9
@ Chabad, 10 - 11:30 AM
Details to follow

	This Week @ www.ChabadPW.org

Multimedia

	The Creator

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Parshah

	Did You Ask To Be Born?
What kind of "free choice" do we have, if we didn't choose to be presented with that choice?

Women

	Transmuting Impatience
Since leaving the Garden of Eden, human impulse is an admixture of both good and evil. Our task is not to squelch the impulse but to mine it, by toning down the mine aspect.

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MIDDLE EAST

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HOLIDAY WATCH

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ISRAEL

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	the parshah in a nutshell

ParshatBereishit

G‑d creates the world in six days. On the first day He makes darkness and light. On the second day He forms the heavens, dividing the "upper waters" from the "lower waters." On the third day He sets the boundaries of land and sea and calls forth trees and greenery from the earth. On the fourth day He fixes the position of the sun, moon and stars as timekeepers and illuminators of the earth. Fish, birds and reptiles are created on the fifth day; land-animals, and then the human being, on the sixth. G‑d ceases work on the seventh day, and sanctifies it as a day of rest.

G‑d forms the human body from the dust of the earth and blows into his nostrils a "living soul." Originally Man is a single person, but deciding that "it is not good that man be alone," G‑d takes a "side" from the man, forms it into a woman, and marries them to each other.

Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden and commanded not to eat from the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil." The serpent persuades Eve to violate the command, and she shares the forbidden fruit with her husband. Because of their sin, it is decreed that man will experience death, returning to the soil from which he was formed, and that all gain will come only through struggle and hardship. Man is banished from the Garden.

Eve gives birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain quarrels with Abel and murders him, and becomes a rootless wanderer. A third son is born to Adam, Seth, whose tenth-generation descendant, Noah, is the only righteous man in a corrupt world.

	The Jewish Calendar

Friday

Tishrei 25 | October 24

Passing of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1810)

Passing of Chatam Sofer (1839)

Shabbat

Tishrei 26 | October 25

Shabbat Bereishit

Bless New Month

Sunday

Tishrei 27 | October 26

Monday

Tishrei 28 | October 27

Tuesday

Tishrei 29 | October 28

Passing of Rabbi Don Isaac Abravanel (1508)

Wednesday

Tishrei 30 | October 29

Rosh Chodesh
Rosh Chodesh Observances

Thursday

Cheshvan 1 | October 30

Rosh Chodesh
Rosh Chodesh Observances

Month of Cheshvan Begins

Friday

Cheshvan 2 | October 31

Shabbat

Cheshvan 3 | November 1

Passing of R. Israel of Ruzhin (1850)

	Daily Thought

Past the Cosmic Machine

If the cosmos were some giant machine running a procedural program with immaculate precision, G–d’s involvement would be superfluous. But science has long abandoned a mechanical view of the universe. For most of a century, scientists have discussed the basic particles of matter and energy as ideas, without form as we know it.

True, science does not discuss G–d. But it does describe His works. In our times, science has allowed G–d back into the world He envelopes Himself within.

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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