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Chabad Lubavitch of your town
soulwise
VOL. 0 ISSUE 0
FALL 2011
HIGH HOLIDAYS 5771
Chai Today
Dear Friend,
You are the next link in the chain.
Passover is the most ancient of all rituals in the Western world. It has been passed
down in an unbroken chain of tradition for over 3300 years, that’s over 100
generations! That means that every one of your ancestors, without exception, sat at a
Seder and shared the meaning, the mystery and magic of Passover.
Engage all your senses in this dynamic and moving experience. The tastes, the aromas,
the textures, the sounds and the sights of Jewish continuity in action all combine to
achieve the meaningful events of the Seder.
Take the time this year to fully engage yourself and your family in Jewish life. Feel the
passion of the exodus, taste the beauty of freedom, hear the message of personal
growth all brought to life at the Seder.
Join us or try it at home, either way, make this the most meaningful Pesach ever.
May G-d bless you and your family with a Passover filled to overflowing good health
and happiness!
Sincerely,
Rabbi Shliach
Director, Chabad Jewish Center
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your
smartphone,
smarter
By Esther Yukilevitch
Is that an iPad or a digital prayer book?
The prophets spoke about a new world of information that
would flow like a river, filling all space with the knowledge of truth. Could wi-fi be the platform for Jewish life in
the new world?
››1 JewishNewYear.com Anything you can think of that
››5 OK.org Is it Kosher? with one of the largest online data bases of
relates to the Jewish New year is on this mega site.
kosher products, ok.org has become a popular site among people who
just want to know if Cherry Slurpee (and thousands of other products) is
kosher.
››2 Fridaylight.org Join the millions of Jewish women who
retrace the steps of our foremothers every week as they usher in Shabbat
with the lighting of candles. Find out the what, when, why, and how of
this easy-to-do and fulfilling mitzva, and even pick up some tips for your
next candle lighting party!
››3 Hebcal.com This free service provides users with a
downloadable Hebrew calendar (spanning years 0001-9999!), a date
converter to keep track of birthdays, anniversaries, and yartzeits, and a
weekly reminder of the candle-lighting time, delivered straight to your
email!
››4 Askmoses.com Want a heavenly answer for a human
question? Ask Moses is the place to go! With user-friendly options to
submit questions, chat live with a scholar, or browse through answers on
any dimension of Jewish life, no question will go unanswered!
››6 new! Jewpon.com The new arrival in Jewish websites
“Jewpon.com” (Yes, coupons for Jewish items) gets the best deals on Torah
books, Kosher restaurants and Jewish entertainment, with daily deals that
can save you up to half price on most items. And more they’ll send a daily
deal right to your inbox!
››7 Torahcafe.com Whether you want to discover the inner
dimensions on the Torah or hear dating advise from the experts, this site
is the place to go for entertaining and informative videos on any Jewish
subject. Foreign language videos offered too!
››8 MitMazel.com Yiddish for “With Luck” is a unique
dating site named for the traditional Jewish wish bestowed on any new
endeavor, especially becoming engaged or getting married. Looking for
your soulmate check out MitMazel.com
››9 Mikvah.org Take the plunge into this essential feature of
OK Kosher
Food Guide
The OK Kosher Food Guide provides the most up to date database
of products certified kosher by OK Kosher Certification. Search by
company or by category and have the latest info at your fingertips.
Whether you are in the supermarket, on the road, or at home, access
OK’s extensive product list on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
Visit www.OK.org.
the Jewish lifestyle by watching an informative documentary, reading
inspirational and educational articles, and even find a mikva near you!
››10 Moshiach101.com You’ll find loads of information
about Moshiach, the Redemption, The Holy Temple, the Land of Israel,
Global Peace, and much more.
www.FriendshipCircle.com The Friendship Circle is
today’s fastest growing Jewish organization for children
with special needs. With over 79 locations worldwide the
Friendship Circle has cultivated friendships between 5,000
special children and close to 11,000 teen volunteers.
fall 2011
One Jew’s
Journey
into
Facebook
By Rabbi Shmuel Marcus
Rabbi Shmuel Marcus is the
editor of SoulWise Magazine.
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i
’ve got some good news and some bad
news. The bad news is your friends are on
Facebook right now, while you’re reading
this. The good news is your friends are on Facebook right now, while you’re reading this.
Our technological era is both frightening
and exhilarating. And if you want to stay in
touch with the brave new world, you’ll need
a Facebook account.
At first, this Chassidic rabbi held his nose while plunging
into Facebook. And honestly, who wants to know if Bluma
and I had kosher pizza (or was it chicken) for dinner last night?
But my perspective changed after I posted this: “Tonight
is the New Moon, i.e., a very powerful day for rebirth, think
about an old idea, an old passion, perhaps, an old talent that
can use a rebirth in your life.” I quickly got some positive
feedback from readers including, “Rabbi, that was just what I
needed today, thank you.”
Slowly, I delved further into Facebook and clicked on Cre-
“Make a Facebook
post with the Shabbat
Candles information
and now you’re a
guiding light in the new
age of social mitzvah
networking.”
ate an Event. That’s when I posted my
first “Shabbat Dinner Party at my House,”
and guess what happened? I got a house
full of Jews eating matzah ball soup and
toasting L’chaim to the new era of Jews
on Facebook.
Sure, Facebook is mostly random updates about who saw what and where
they may have checked in. But there are
over 400 million people on Facebook—it’s
whole world unto itself. And like the world
it mirrors, the world of Facebook can use a
little spiritual light every now and then. So,
I started posting on Fridays: “Candle lighting time for Los Alamitos is 7:XXpm.”
Thinking of trying this at home? Firstly,
on Fridays you can go to fridaylight.com
and click on the “when to light” icon on
top of the page. Next, you’ll see a box to
enter your zip code. Go ahead and enter it,
hit submit, and boom—you’ve got the exact time for lighting the Shabbat candles
in your area. Make a Facebook post with
the Shabbat Candles information and now
you’re a guiding light in the new age of
social mitzvah networking.
Also, video sharing is a big deal. Facebook is one of the top ways to go viral.
So, find your favorite Torah video on YouTube and hit “Share” just below the video.
That will share it with all your friends. My
personal favorite is TorahCafe.com. I search for new thoughts
and ideas and once I discover a nice video, I share it with my
Facebook friends.
The next big thing is Facebook for causes, votes, donations,
marketing of ideas for change. It’s all on Facebook. But most of
the time I like to keep it simple and post “Mazal Tov to my Hebrew High students.” Or “Come make the minyan on Shabbat.”
But, if you want to know if it was kosher pizza or chicken we
had for dinner last night, you’ll have to find me on Facebook.
Search for “Shmuel Marcus” and hit send friend request.
Run with it!
1. Post Candle Lighting Time in your area //
2. Post your favrite Jewish video from
TorahCafe.com // 3. Share Jewish news and
ideas from Chabad.org
fall 2011
Rabbi Elazar and Rivkah Bloom with their baby.
Read: Total Immersion, edited by Rivkah Slonim
Watch: What Is Mikvah? Online video at Mikvah.org
Tour: Go on a virtual tour at Mikvah.org/tour
Talk: Call your local Chabad center for a private consultation
MikvahCalendar.com
Meet the young woman who simplified the
Talmud for the Rabbis and changed the way
Jews practice the Laws of Intimacy.
T
he laws of Family Purity
(Taharat Hamishpacha) are
among the most complex
in Jewish law. The laws of Family
Purity revolve around each woman’s personal cycle and the laws of
mikvah are thus uniquely calculated for each woman. Now, thanks
to Rivkah Bloom, there is a website
that takes the complexity out of the
equation.
When Rebbetzin Rivkah Bloom started her
Masters in computer science at MIT, she never
imagined that she would be the leader of a technological movement that helps couples fulfill Talmudic laws to maintain a holy marriage. She
just liked technology and enjoyed being in an
atmosphere where people were so passionate
about knowledge. She loved that her colleagues
were able to come up with better ways of doing
all sorts of things.
In creating MikvahCalender.com, she did just
that. Bloom was newly married and living in
Boca Raton Florida. One day, she was talking
about Mikvah with some Jewish women who
hadn’t become Jewishly observant until their
mid 30’s. These ladies said they would love a
tool that could calculate Mikvah times for them.
Bloom herself grew up in a non-observant home
but became observant at a young age. As an
adult, Bloom was comfortable calculating her
own Mikvah calendar, but could see how the
task could be daunting for most people. She
also understood that for some women it might
be uncomfortable going to a Rabbi with every
question.
With a fellow MIT grad, she set about cre-
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ating the computer program that would make
all the calculations easier and error-proof. She
studied Mikvah laws in-depth with Rabbi Fishel
Jacobs to come up with accurate calculations.
(Rabbi Jacobs continues to be involved and helps
keep the process relevant and private, answering any questions members have via email.)
Once the initial program was designed,
Bloom and her programming partner worked to
have the program work with Chabad, Sephardic
and Ashkenazi interpretations. Then, when the
program worked in one location, taking into account sunrise and sunset and man-made adjustments like daylight savings, she adjusted the
program to work in different time zones across
the country and around the world. Members can
access MikvahCalendar.com in English, Hebrew,
French and Spanish.
It took four years to get the program fully
functional, but Bloom says she doesn’t look back
at the challenge as work. She says she just loves
it. “If you love what you do, it’s not work. Others might play a musical instrument or like to go
out to eat on Saturday night after Shabbos. I like
to stay in and do this. I could work on it 100%
of my time.”
She says that one of the best feelings she
gets is when people send her correspondence to
say how MikvahCalendar.com has helped them.
She gets mail from those who had been having
trouble and are grateful for how easy the program is to use. Many tell her that they enjoy
getting the text reminders on their cellphones
of what to do on particular days. Calendar users say they appreciate that all of the dates are
explained so women know the why, not just the
what, of the particular daily activity. She also
gets letters from those who are well-versed
in the laws of Mikvah and use the program to
confirm their calculations. She says the best feeling was getting an email from a woman who
thought she was infertile until she started using
MikvahCalendar.com and found out that her own
calculations had been slightly off. Now she’s a
mother.
Bloom considers it a blessing to be able to
help people keep their marriages holy through
the Mitzvah of Mikvah.
WHAT IS A MIKVAH?
In the most basic terms, a mikvah is a ritual bath used for spiritual purification. It
is used by women after menstruation and
childbirth. The mikvah is also used in the
conversion process, and for immersion of
new dishes and utensils. The intricate laws
of mikva construction allow the required
“living waters” to ensure a unique purifying
experience by adjoining a pool of accumulated rainwater with a separate pool of tap
water with a small adjoining hole. While the
touching waters fulfill the halachic requirement of a natural body of water, the “living”
rainwater is kept uncontaminated and modern innovation ensures the highest level
of sanitation. A central aspect of a Jewish
community, the mikvah provides a monthly
source of both spiritual and physical renewal for couples who observe the laws of
family purity, as any physical contact between spouses is avoided from the onset of
the menstrual cycle until after immersion in
the mikvah. For more visit www.mikva.org.
guide
September 29-30
Rosh Hashanah
October 7-8
YOM KIPPUR
High Holiday
October 13-19
SUKKOT
October 20-21
SHEMINI ATZERET/
SIMCHAT TORAH
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Rosh Hashanah
September 29-30
he Jewish New Year is not about popping
champagne or dropping a large matzah
ball in Manhattan. Rosh Hashanah means,
“head of the year.” Just as the head controls the
body, Rosh Hashanah is seen as the potential for life,
blessing and sustenance for the entire year. // On Rosh
Hashanah, the birthday of our great-grandparents
Adam and Eve, we renew our relationship with G-d.
The shofar awakens our hearts and minds to make
G-d's mission our mission. // Our actions on Rosh
Hashanah set the tone for the year to come. We eat
apples dipped in honey, wishing for a good and sweet
year, and eat new fruits symbolizing new beginnings.
This is reflected in the words that we say during Rosh
Hashanah, “May you be inscribed and sealed for a
good year.” (See "Checklist" on next page.)
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YOM KIPPUR October 7-8
Over 3,500 years ago, our people sinned with the Golden
Calf. Moses pleaded with G-d and on the 10th day of Tishrei,
G-d proclaimed, “I have forgiven.” That day has since been
named "Yom Kippur" or “Day of Atonement.” // Before Yom
Kippur, we observe the Kapparot service by rotating a fowl
or money over our heads, which we then give to the poor. On
Yom Kippur, we do not eat, drink, wash, use perfume, have
marital relations or wear leather shoes. It is a custom to wear
white, symbolic of purity. // Yom Kippur begins with Kol
Nidrei, expressing our timeless commitment to G-d. // Yom
Kippur reveals the essence of the Jewish soul, a spark of G-d
united with its Source. The final prayer of Yom Kippur, when
our judgment for the coming year is sealed, is called Ne’ilah,
“closing the gate,” which culminates with the final sounding
of the shofar.
SUKKOT October 13-19
Sukkot, the season of rejoicing, means “huts,” reminiscent of
the temporary shelters in which the Jewish people dwelled
in the desert. Also called the Festival of Ingathering, Sukkot is
the time that the produce from the field, orchard and vineyard
is collected. It is one of three Pilgrimage Festivals when Jews
would travel to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, demonstrating
their unity. We express this unity by blessing the Four Kinds:
The lulav (palm branch), etrog (citron), haddasim (myrtle) and
aravot (willow). // During the seven days of Sukkot, we eat our
meals outdoors in the sukkah. The sukkah is the only mitzvah
that encompasses us, symbolizing the “clouds of glory,” which
surrounded and protected the Jewish people upon leaving
Egypt. //Hoshanah Rabbah, the last day of Sukkot, means
“great salvation,” and marks the end of our judgment period,
which began on Rosh Hashanah. We traditionally tap the floor
with a bundle of willow branches, and ask G-d to seal our
inscription for a good year.
SHEMINI ATZERET/SIMCHAT TORAH
October 20-21
Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah are the culmination of
the holidays of Tishrei. On Shemini Atzeret, which means
“the eighth day that concludes the festival,” some customarily
eat their meals in the sukkah. In the synagogue, we dance
Hakafot with the Torah—processions amid singing and
dancing—and pray for rains of blessing. // Simchat Torah,
which means “rejoicing with the Torah,” is celebrated with
exuberant dancing. Completing the annual cycle of reading
the Torah, we read the final section of the Torah, after which
we immediately start to read it again. The rest of the year, we
approach the Torah with serious study. On Simchat Torah,
we approach the Torah with joyful dance. // This holiday
emphasizes that the Torah is the inheritance of every single
Jew. By starting to read the Torah anew, we demonstrate that
learning never ends, especially when it comes to the Torah
and its infinite wisdom.
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holiday checklists
Rosh Hashanah:
• Candle lighting, both nights
• Kiddush and festive meals, both
nights and both days
• Apple dipped in honey, first night
• New fruit is enjoyed, second night
• Hear the shofar, both days
• Visit a body of water for Tashlich,
first day
Yom Kippur:
• Kapparot and charity, before Yom
Kippur
• Two festive meals, before the fast
• Yahrzeit memorial candle is lit before
Yom Kippur (if applicable)
• Candle lighting, before sunset
• Fast, from before sundown until after
nightfall
• Yizkor memorial prayers during
daytime services
• Break the fast after the Havdalah
service, marking the end of the holiday
Sukkot:
• Candle lighting, first two nights
• Kiddush and festive meals, first two
nights and first two days
• Eat all meals in the sukkah
• Bless the Four Kinds each day, except
Shabbat
• On Hoshanah Rabbah, eat festive
meal and tap the aravot (willow
branches)
Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah:
• Candle lighting, both nights
• Kiddush and festive meals, both
nights and both days
• Dance Hakafot, both nights and
second day
• Yizkor memorial prayers, first day
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Lulav/Palm Branch
Hadasim/Myrtle
Aravot/Willow
Etrog/Citron
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Enhancing unity, joy and spiritual health.
 The Shofar, Answer The Call: One hundred
blasts are sounded from the shofar each day of
Rosh Hashanah. The shofar is a ram’s horn, the
oldest and most primitive of wind instruments, yet
its call touches the innermost chords of the soul. Its
sound is simple and plaintive—a cry from the heart,
like that of a lost child for its parent. It is a call
to evaluate our actions and improve our ways.The
shofar historically was used to coronate kings. At
Sinai, the Torah tells us, a shofar was sounded. The
Prophets talk about the great shofar that will soon
herald the coming of the final redemption.
 Tashlich: Can You Hear Me Now?
Performed before sunset on the first day of Rosh
Hashanah (or second day, if first occurs on Shabbat).
Tashlich (“cast away") is observed. We visit any
stretch of water containing live fish, and recite
special prayers. The Kabbalah teaches that water is a
sign of blessing, and the "reception" of our prayers is
enhanced by our proximity to the water.
 Teshuvah-”Repentence:" Return to
Sender: Ten Days of Repentance between
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Teshuvah
means “return”—a return to real you. To your inner
self that was always connected to its Source. Start
with sincere regret for transgressions and the
resolve to abandon those ways. You'll develop a
desire to come closer to G-d. The sages suggest
prayer and increased performance of mitzvot,
particularly the giving of charity to the poor, which
“redeem” the soul from spiritual captivity.
 Kol Nidrei: Look at our Hearts, Not our
Clothes The first prayer of Yom Kippur, as the sun
is setting, is Kol Nidrei, the cancellation of vows.
The significance of this prayer dates back to the
persecution of Jews during the Spanish Inquisition
of the 15th Century, when Jews were forced to
convert to Catholicism under the threat of death.
Outwardly, the Jews behaved like their Spanish
neighbors, but in private they remained devout.
Once a year they would gather in secret, declaring
Kol Nidrei to vow their commitment to Judaism,
despite their seemingly Catholic lives. Kol Nidrei
was their proclamation that their external behavior
was not who they were.
 The Sukkah: Seven Days Under His
Roof: Sukkot is a seven-day festival. A sukkah is
an outdoor structure, where we dwell during the
Festival of Sukkot in symbolic demonstration of our
faith in G-d's providence. Its roof is composed of
branches. “Sukkah is the only mitzvah into which
a person enters with his muddy boots,” goes the
Chassidic saying. The sukkah, its walls and roofing,
encompass us entirely. The Zohar teaches that on
each of the seven days of Sukkot, we are joined
in our sukkah by seven spiritual Ushpizin, honored
guests: Abraham, representing the divine sefira
(attribute) of chesed, kindness; Isaac, representing
gevurah, restraint; Jacob, representing tifferet,
beauty and balance; Moses representing netzach,
eternity and perseverance; Aaron, representing
hod, splendor; Joseph, representing yesod, spiritual
foundation, and King David, representing malchut,
sovereignty. The sukkah encompasses its visitors
in unison. In this way, the sukkah reveals the
simple and beautiful oneness of a people rooted
in the oneness of their Creator. When all of Israel
dwells in a single sukkah, our unity transcends our
differences.
 The Four Kinds: All Four One and One
for All: Performed each day of Sukkot, except
for Shabbat. The unity of the Jewish people is
expressed by blessing the Four Kinds: The etrog
(citron) has both a pleasant taste and smell,
representing one who is both knowledgeable in
Torah and proficient in the observance of mitzvot.
The lulav is the branch of the date palm, whose
fruit is tasty but has no scent, representing one
who is accomplished in Torah, though less so in
mitzvot. The hadas (myrtle branch) is tasteless but
aromatic, representing one who, though lacking
in Torah knowledge, is observant in mitzvot. The
tasteless and scentless aravah (willow branch)
represents the individual who lacks in both Torah
and mitzvot. When we are bound together, each
individual makes up for that which is lacking in the
others. The Four Kinds also represent four personas
within each individual: Lulav is the intellectual
within, who does not allow feeling to cloud the
purity of knowledge; hadas is the emotional self,
where feelings comprise the highest ideal, even
at the expense of intellect; etrog is the force that
strives for balance of mind and heart, while aravah
is the capacity for setting aside both intellect and
feeling in commitment to a Higher ideal.
 Dances with the Torah Feel the Beat;
Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah: All
reserve disappears in the exuberant dancing
of Simchat Torah. Every Jew, learned and
unsophisticated, feels a natural desire to take a
Torah in his arms and dance. Simchat Torah taps
a point in the soul that defies the differences that
exist between one Jew and another. The source
for this happiness is of course the Torah. Yet
throughout the entire Hakafot dances, the Torah is
never opened; we dance holding it wrapped in its
mantle. Though the Torah is usually associated with
disciplined study, on Simchat Torah we approach it
differently, singing and dancing in a manner that
bears no apparent relationship to understanding.
We are lifted beyond the realm of our individual
identities and become the “feet of the Torah.”
These celebrations reveal that our bond with
G-d and the Torah is unconfined by the limits of
intellect. Moreover, this celebration anticipates
the ultimate celebrations that will accompany the
coming of Moshiach and the advent of the Era of
the Redemption. May we merit it now.
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High Holiday Insights
Take a deeper look at the traditions of the Jewish New Year
and gleen a whole new perspective on ancient customs.
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher
Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Rosh Hashanah:
CELEBRATING OUR
POTENTIAL
Rosh Hashanah celebrates the
creation of Adam and Eve. When
Adam was created, his soul so
irradiated his being, that all
the creatures wanted to crown
him as their creator. Adam
corrected them, saying, “Come,
let us worship, let us bow down
and kneel before G-d our Maker”
(The Zohar). At that moment, he
actualized the universe’s potential—to
become one with the Divine.
It is only through the creation of Adam
(humanity) that the separate elements of the
universe can unite with one purpose. Only we have
the power to elevate physicality into something spiritual.
When a ram’s horn is blown on Rosh Hashanah, the animal kingdom
is elevated. When we make a blessing before eating an apple dipped
in honey, we elevate the organic kingdom. On this day, we realize the
potential and responsibility we have as human beings.
YOM KIPPUR: THE SOUL ESSENCE
Yom Kippur has a special power, for “whether one repents or does not
repent, Yom Kippur atones.” To quote Maimonides, “The essence of
the day atones.”
Read more of the Rebbe’s High Holiday
Insights at www.chabad.org
SUKKOT: AN
ENDLESS JOY
The spiritual light we
achieve during the High
Holidays through prayer,
meditation and fasting is
again achieved on Sukkot,
but through joy.
What
we
accomplish
through blowing the shofar
is now accomplished by
placing the s’chach branches
on the roof of our sukkah. (The
word s’chach has the numerical
value of 100, equaling the amount
of sounds blown from the shofar
during Rosh Hashanah.) The seven days
between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur can
elevate each day of the coming year; the seven days
of Sukkot elevate the coming year with joy and spirituality.
The cloud of incense offered in the Holy Temple on Yom Kippur is a
manifestation of the “clouds of glory” that protected the Jews leaving
Egypt; a physical sukkah is the spiritual manifestation of these clouds.
Joy is not logical; it is above our comprehension. Our Sages teach,
“joy breaks all boundaries.” Through joy, Sukkot gives us the power to
reach our spiritual potential, by breaking our intellectual boundaries.
SHEMINI ATZERET/SIMCHAT TORAH: SIMPLY DIVINE
The soul has many levels. Though it is a spiritual entity, there is a level
that is affected by our physical transgressions. For this level of the
soul, repentance is required to reattach it to G-dliness.
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot are considered our engagement
with G-d’s Will. Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah constitute our
wedding, the time of “Intimacy with the Divine.”
However, the essence of the soul is literally one with G-d and cannot
be affected by our physicality. On Yom Kippur, G-d reveals this essence
that is hidden throughout the year.
A wedding brings two people together in happiness and fulfillment.
Simchat Torah means “the joy of the Torah,” because we bring joy to
the Torah when we bring her into our lives. Our soul comes from the
essence of the Divine; the Torah is the manifestation of the Divine
Will. It is only when the soul (clothed in a body) adheres to the Torah,
that the Divine Will is actualized and fulfilled. When we dance with
the Torah on Simchat Torah, G-d’s essence and His Torah are reunited,
bringing purpose and fulfillment to each other.
The Hebrew word kapparah has a connotation of “scrubbing”—
meaning that on Yom Kippur, we can scrub off our transgressions and
connect with our essence.
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National Public Radio dubbed Rabbi Taub as the “Expert in Jewish mysticism and the Twelve
Steps” for his work with the Jewish recovery community in Milwaukee where he lived for
six years. He was recently selected to deliver the keynote address “G-d and Recovery” at
the First Annual Conference on the Evolution of Addiction Treatment in Los Angeles.
A New You for
the New Year
Simple advice from Rabbi Shais Tuab
l
ife has taught me that to truly improve
yourself means to completely let go of whatever
holds you back. While Chassidic philosophy teaches
the same idea, I learned it from life. Only after having been
convinced for myself was I able to go back to the books and
articulate my experience.
The Chassidic books use a lot of metaphors for self transformation but my favorite is about a seed. You see, as it is, a
seed has a lot of potential but is very limited. Regardless
of its limitations, to take a seed -- even a very tiny and not
very valuable seed, but a seed nonetheless—and just throw
it away? That’s kind of a wild thing to do. But that’s exactly
what a farmer does. He takes this seed and he sticks it in
the soil. He buries it alive! If the seed refused to change, it
would be lost to the soil, but that’s not what happens.
The outer shell of the seed rots and falls apart. It breaks
down what is holding its life-energy inside. And then suddenly it transforms and it’s not a seed anymore. And right
there at that moment, that’s when everything changes.
When there’s no more seed, that’s the beginning of something incomparably greater. If a seed kept on being a seed,
then no matter how much it grew, it would just be a bigger
and bigger seed. But if it can completely stop being a seed,
then it can become a fruit-bearing tree.
Most people, myself included, aren’t willing to voluntarily break through our own limitations very often, which is
why we usually just try to become bigger, better seeds or
are happy to just stay stuck in the dirt. But if you can meditate on the seed, then next time you feel like you’re getting
buried alive, you can relax and say, “No I’m not. I’m being
planted.”
fall 2011
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The High
Holiday
Anthem
By Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe
Nations, states, provinces and even
some Japanese corporations have
anthems. An anthem is a piece of music
that expresses the essence of the entity
it celebrates, a common theme which
unites all of the diverse people and
variegated activities of life in that place.
F
or example, there are a lot of different types of gatherings at which the
“Star Spangled Banner” is played in the
United States. Some are happy and some sad.
Some are deeply serious, and some are frivolous. Some are large and some quite small. The
common theme the anthem gives voice to is:
we are proud to be Americans, and are grateful for the opportunities this country has given
us; we know that our felicity and security has
been bought with sacrifice and blood, and we
know that only absolute steadfastness in protecting our liberties will retain them. We are
cognizant of these truths both when swearing in
a new president and when enjoying ourselves
at a baseball game, as they are equally crucial
to both.
The High Holiday season also has an “anthem.”
Yom Kippur, we confront the negativity in our
past. We then connect ourselves to our ultimate
Source at a level deeper than our shortcomings
can reach, and with the power of that bond
transform the bitterness of the past into the
sweetness of a better future.
With this new-found closeness to the transcendent, we then enter the festival of Sukkot, where
every aspect of our lives is embraced and suffused with the presence of G-d’s love for us and
our reciprocal love of G-d -- an experience that
engenders the great happiness which culminates in the consummate joy of Shemini Atzeret
and Simchat Torah.
These experiences are very varied, yet are part
of a single continuum. They have an anthem
that expresses that continuity.
your inner song
shine some light on it
We are now entering a season of profound,
powerful, and experientially diverse days on the
Jewish calendar. The festivals and special dates
of this season pluck every string of our being and
sound virtually every note our soul can sing.
The “anthem” of the High Holiday season,
which spans the Jewish months of Elul and
Tishrei, is Psalm 27, “G-d is my Light.”
During the month of Elul we engage in introspection and self-evaluation.
On Rosh Hashanah, we explore our personal and
communal connection to G-d and renew our belief that we can make a difference in our world.
During the Ten Days of Return which climax on
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For fifty days -- from the Rosh Chodesh (“head
of the month”) of Elul to the 7th day of Sukkot (“Hoshana Rabbah”) -- we recite this psalm
twice a day, morning and evening. Its opening
line is the key to all of the aforementioned experiences: “G-d is my light...”
The purpose of light is to reveal. It enables us to
see clearly that which it shines upon. This anthem gives voice to our sense that during this
time of year G-d is uniquely accessible, and we
therefore can open the doors of our consciousness to G-d and allow His light to reveal all that
we possess, but have somehow missed in the
dimmed corridors of everyday life.
This light is the overarching theme of this season:
The light reveals our flaws.
It reveals our potential to transcend those
flaws.
It reveals that our negativity runs no deeper
than a bad dream from which we can awake
with a surge of willed consciousness.
It reveals that our dream of perfection is a vision we are empowered to attain.
It reveals that we are not as far from G-dliness
as we thought we were.
It reveals that we are not a separate entity
from G-d, but an extension of G-d’s essence.
It reveals our ability to see this Divine quality
in everyone else, as well.
It reveals our capacity to rise above the pain of
the transient and ephemeral.
It reveals our capacity to rejoice in the real and
eternal.
As we say these magnificent words each day
during this crucial period, let us open ourselves
up to the G-dly light within us, and transform
ourselves and our world -- for good.
Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe is the Scholar-in-Residence to
Chabad at Harvard, and Dean of the Institute of
American and Talmudic Law in New York, NY.
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“Insightful, moving, mystical and suffused with love of the Jewish people
and its faith, these essays open new doors of understanding into the
thought of one of the greatest spiritual leaders of modern times.”
- Rabbi Professor Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew
Congregations of the Commonwealth
“Chasidic Perspectives: A Festival Anthology is ably translated into
English and deftly adapted for contemporary readers by Rabbi Alter
B. Metzger and features an impressive and thoughtful essays written
by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, The Lubavitcher Rebbe, about
traditional Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Chanukah, Shavuot, and more. Each
penetrating, scholarly essay shows a meticulous insight into the history, understanding, and visceral
meaning of these celebrated days, and ponders at length the role these holidays play in personal
and family life, as well as in the ritual observation of the Jewish faith. Chasidic Perspectives is a
welcome and highly recommended contribution for Judaic Studies supplemental reading lists and
academic reference collections. - Midwest Book Review
“...faithfully transmits in beautiful translation the divrei Torah and Chasidus of the Lubavitcher Rebbe,
of blessed memory, whose words illuminate so many hearts andwhose teachings have been so
influential in American Jewish life.” - Lawrence H. Schiffman, Edelman Professor of Hebrew and
Judaic Studies, New York University
“...provides fresh insight into the festivals and great themes of Jewish life.” - The Capital-Journal
“...an excellent way for `outsiders` to the Hasidic world to gain entree and insight into typical Hasidic
thought.” - Norman Lamm, President, Rabbi Issaac Elchonon Theological Seminary
fall 2011
For more visit www.Jemedia.com. “At the time, the work we were doing was revolutionary,” says JEM’s founder Rabbi
Hillel Dovid Krinsky. “Satellite technology was only just emerging and the technical difficulties involved in filming and
broadcasting were unprecedented.”
The Technology
of Translating
the Rebbe.
Meet Rabbi Manis Friedman: The man
who became the Rebbe’s English voice
to millions.
By Jessica Pollack
Joseph Papp, (L) with Rabbi Manis Friedman (R)
From 1950 through 1992 the Rebbe held gatherings called Farbrengens
at Chabad world headquarters at 770
Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, NY. Thousands came together for these special
occasions up to 50 times a year to hear
the Rebbe speak about a whole range
of current day issues and religious, historic and Talmudic topics.
In the 1980’s, several Fabrengens
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky (L) is credited with first videotaping the Rebbe in the early 1970’s.
each year were made available to many
The phone bank at Chabad Headquarters would take calls from broadcastviewers.
hundreds of thousands more people
through the magic of satellite television.
What made these broadcasts even more
accessible was a Rabbi from Minnesota
in a small office at 770. He was sitting in
front of a closed-circuit television monitor wearing headphones simultaneously
translating everything the Rebbe said
from Yiddish to English. Suddenly, the
Rebbe’s teachings were available to a
vast new audience.
The man behind this magic was Rablonely Jewish sailor aboard a U.S.
bi Manis Friedman. From 1982 through
Destroyer in the ocean off of Iceland
1989, he would fly from Minnesota to Brookfound himself as alone as the icy ocean
lyn, NY about eight times a year for weekday
water buffeting the ship’s metal hull.
Farbrengens. Rabbi Friedman says that looking
back, this simultaneous translation seems like
As he sat on his stiff cot, he flipped through
it should have been an impossible task. He says
whatever television signals the ship’s satellite
that “the trick is, you can’t be thinking” while
could pick up. All of a sudden, he saw the imlistening and translating at the same time. “If
age of a bearded Rabbi speaking Yiddish on the
you try to think, you’re cooked.”
screen! This sight comforted him tremendously
When he first started, Rabbi Friedman atand he called the number on the screen to thank
tempted to get some help with tools or tricks on
them. The Rabbi he saw was Rabbi Menachem
how to properly execute simultaneous language
Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
translations. He went to the United Nations li-
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brary to find that their two most important hints
were of no use to him. First, they advised translators to study the pre-talk notes carefully. The
Rebbe spoke extemporaneously—there were no
pre-talk notes. Second, U.N. translators were
taught to make liberal use of the red button
which lights up on the speaker’s podium to ask
them to slow down for the translators. This tool
certainly didn’t exist at 770, so Rabbi Friedman
was on his own to create methods to fulfill his
translation duties.
An average Farbrengen lasted four to five
hours. The Rebbe would speak on a topic for
about an hour with Rabbi Friedman translating.
There would be a short break with singing, a
L’chaim and some wine. Then the Rebbe would
speak again for about an hour on the next topic.
As the evening continued, the Rebbe would
speak on several items covering ever-deeper
topics. It was an authentic glimpse into the
world of Chabad. Other than the fact that cameras were running, nothing changed. The Rebbe
spoke just as he would at any other Farbrengen.
The broadcasts reached a wide and diverse
audience. For instance, film industry icon Jerry
Weintraub was deeply affected by one of these
broadcasts which led him to become a close
follower of the Rebbe. Weintraub traveled to
New York on several occasions to meet with the
Rebbe personally. So how did Rabbi Friedman
convey the Rebbe’s messages so warmly?
“The strange thing is that as soon as the Rebbe finished, I couldn’t remember what he was
just speaking about,” Rabbi Friedman recalls.
Now, he can review those talks as hundreds of
clips have been preserved and uploaded on the
“The broadcasts reached a wide
and diverse audience. For instance,
film industry icon Jerry Weintraub
was deeply affected by one of these
broadcasts which led him to become a
close follower of the Rebbe.”
said that the Rebbe wasn’t checking to see
if Rabbi Friedman was doing a good job. He
was checking to see what he could do to
make it better. While the Rebbe didn’t alter
the conversations or topics, starting with the
next broadcast the Rebbe started incorporating more English words when he wanted to be
sure that the nuance of what he was saying
wasn’t missed in the translation. Rabbi Friedman was fascinated to discover that the Rebbe
was helping make his job easier by translating
some of the more crucial words for him.
The Rebbe’s teachings are the basis from
which Rabbi Friedman built the first Jewish
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seminary for women, Bais Chana. Since 1971,
from his home base in Minnesota, Rabbi
Friedman has developed a program to offer
religious training to women who haven’t had
much Jewish education. With a team of volunteers, Bais Chana brings these seminars to
women at locations across the United States
and Canada and even to Panama. He is in the
process of updating his book “Doesn’t Anyone Blush Anymore?” based on conversations
with Bais Chana students. It is expected to be
available in time for Rosh Hashanah.
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Internet where they are available to be viewed
and appreciated by a whole new audience. However, now they contain closed caption translations rather than Rabbi Friedman’s English voiceover translations.
Rabbi Friedman says he was never really
sure how he was lucky enough to become the
Rebbe’s English voice. He says that a few young
men tried, but the others quit. About a dozen
years after the broadcasts ended, he became intrigued about what the Rebbe may have thought
about his translations. He sought out Rabbi Krinsky, one of the Rabbis who had worked closely
with the Rebbe, to find out who decided that his
translations were acceptable and worthy of continuing throughout the time of the broadcasts.
He then found out that the Rebbe only ever
viewed one talk with Rabbi Friedman’s translations. He listened to one whole forty-minute
talk from the second Farbrengen broadcast, then
said O.K. and didn’t ask to see the broadcasts
again.
Rabbi Friedman wondered if that meant
that his translation was okay. Rabbi Krinsky
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Visit www.muchnikarts.com to see more of Michoel Muchnik’s work
Artist Profile:
Michoel Muchnik
By Jessica Pollack
“Those who have been divinely gifted in art, have the privilege of being able to convert
an inanimate thing, such as a brush, paint and canvas or wood into living form. It
is the ability to transform the material into spiritual, even where the creation is in
still life, and certainly where the artistic work has to do with living creations and
humans. How much more so if the art medium is used to advance ideas, especially
reflecting Torah and mitzvot, which would raise the artistic skill to its highest level.”
—The Rebbe
The Great Mitzvah Fair
Author: Michoel Muchnik
Text: Chana Colish
Michoel Muchnik creates a
wonderland of Mitzvot with his
charming, intricately detailed,
full-color illustrations. There are
Mezuzah slides, Menorah rides,
a Tzedakah coaster, even a flying Seder plate, all described in
delightful rhyme.
Buy this classic children’s
book for you kids online at
www.kehotonline.com.
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T
hrough his artwork, Chassidic
artist Michoel Muchnik has followed the
Rebbe’s ideal for what art should achieve.
He has taken the brush, paint, canvas, and clay
and implanted within them a spiritual life force.
Muchnik says he first realized his calling
while he was in high school in Summerville,
Pennsylvania. “When I was 16 I started feeling
like I was an artist and that’s what I wanted to do.”
He was able to major in art in high school,
taking mainly art courses as his electives beyond
the required academic work. These courses helped
prepare him for art school at the Rhode Island
School of Design. Everything came together when
he attended Yeshiva at the Rabbinical College of
America in Morristown, NJ after Art School.
Muchnik’s work embodies the Rebbe’s
teaching at the opening of this article. He strives
to use his artistic gift as a form of holy service,
as a way to convey G-d’s teachings. Much if
his works are specifically religious, even those
not created for a specific observance are an
expression of what he learns in his daily Torah
studies. Muchnik teaches Chassidism through his
art. “My focus is always on G-d. It’s my focus 24/7
because it encompasses all.” He says that there
are so many infinite ways of expressing what he
learns from the Torah and he wants to express as
much of it as he possibly can through his art.
Muchnik’s enthusiasm for his work has a very
youthful joy in it. He has illustrated children’s
books and in the fall will release “Bubby Bubby
Menchniks” which he both wrote and illustrated
Set between a pumpkin and white picket fence, it
is a story about the miniature world of Menchick
that has huge problems. The book’s hero is a tiny
Bubby who will surprise you in no small way.
Muchnik’s new book is slated for publication in
2012. His other works are available on his website
www.muchnikarts.com.
BEE FRIENDLY
In the last ten years, up to 80 percent of commercial beehives in affected areas have been lost to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Factors contributing to
CCD include exposure to pesticides, mites, and pollution. Almost 90% of wild honeybees have been lost since 1990 due to urban sprawl and destruction
of natural honeybee habitat. // Bees do not only provide honey. They also pollinate over two-thirds of our crops which need pollination, including apples,
tomatoes, almonds, and cucumbers. If we don’t change the destiny of the honeybee soon, we’re going to lose more than just honey.
As we dip our apples into honey and pray for a sweet year, let’s be aware of what we can do to ensure that there will be honeybees for generations to come
with these simple tips: // Plant bee-friendly plants in your yard // Don’t use chemicals and pesticides around your home // If a colony of bees moves onto
your property, call a bee rescue hotline rather than an exterminator // Buy local, raw honey // Buy local, organic produce // And you can even become an
organic beekeeper yourself!
Rabbi Bee
By Uri Laio
One of the world’s only
Chassidic Beekeepers
takes us on an exclusive
journey into the sweet
world of the Honeybee and
the High Holidays.
O
n Rosh Hashanah we eat many
symbolic foods. The most salient is
honey—we eat honey cake, we dip
challah in honey, and we dip apples
in honey with the request, “May it be Your will
to renew a good and sweet year for us.”
The custom of eating symbolic foods
on Rosh Hashanah comes from the Talmud:
“Abaye said ‘[A]t the beginning of each year,
you should accustom yourself to eat gourds,
fenugreek, leeks, beets, and dates...’,” each
of which symbolizes something good for the
coming year.
But why honey? Why not cane sugar, high
fructose corn syrup, or agave syrup? Firstly,
because those sweeteners were unavailable
or hadn’t been invented yet when the custom
came about (also, honey has antioxidant and
antibiotic properties, which the others lack) .
But on a deeper level, the Talmud teaches
that honey is 1/60th of the manna (“bread
from Heaven”) which sustained our ancestors
in the desert. This comparison is no accident—
it is to remind us on Rosh Hashanah that, like
the manna, all of our material “sweetness”
comes from G-d.
But even more than it is a symbol, honey
is truly a special gift from G-d that many take
for granted.
Bees make honey by fermenting flower
nectar. On average, bees collect nectar from
10 million flowers to produce a little over four
cups of honey. To visit those millions of flowers
takes 10,000 hours of combined flight, or over
37,000 miles of travel. And bees don’t just
make honey. They also make propolis, royal
jelly, and beeswax. Just over two pounds of
beeswax represents the energy from over 15
pounds of honey.
The elegant alchemy achieved through
this chain of events is baffling, mirroring the
mystical concept of “the order of the chainlike descent of creation” by which our reality
exists.
Plants catch the sun’s light (beaming from
about 93 million miles away) and convert
that energy into nectar. The bees collect that
nectar on the brightest days of the year and
carry it into the dark depths of their hives
where part of it is converted into beeswax.
That wax is then harvested by the beekeeper
and made into candles, which are then used
to illuminate the darkest of our nights (there
is a custom to use a beeswax candle to light
the Chanukah menorah).
It all makes you appreciate honey a little
more!
Honey Sponge Cake
6 eggs, separated
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsps. honey
3 Tbsps. strong black coffee
2 Tbsps. oil
1 tsp cinnamon
3 cloves, crushed (optional)
1 Tbsp brandy
1¼ cups flour
1½ tsps. baking powder
1 Preheat oven to 350. 2 In a small mixer
bowl beat egg whites with ½ cup sugar untill
stiff but not dry and set aside. 3 In a separate
bowl, cream egg yolks and ½ cup sugar. Add
honey, coffee, oil, cinnamon, cloves and brandy.
Beat until thick and light in color. 4 With a
spatula, fold in flour and baking powder until
well blended. Then fold in egg whites gently
and carefully until well blended. Pour into
ungreased tube pan. Bake for 1 hour. When done
immediately invert on soda bottle. Cool at least 3
hours before removing so that cake will not fall.
When cool, loosen edges and remove cake from
pan. USE: 10-inch tube pan YIELDS: 1 cake
fall 2011
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DATES TIMES & ACTIVITIES
ROSH HASHANAH
Wednesday, Sept. 28
Make Eruv Tavshilin**
Light Candles at: 0:00 pm
Say Blessings 1 & 4
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Thursday, Sept. 29
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Shofar Sounding: 0:00 am
Tashlich Service: 0:00 pm
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Light Candles* after: 0:00 pm
Saturday, Oct. 8
SHMINI ATZERET
Morning Services: 0:00 am
& SIMCHAT TORAH
Yizkor Memorial Service: 11:00 am
Wednesday, Oct. 19
Afternoon Service: 0:00 pm
Make Eruv Tavshilin**
Neilah Closing Service: 0:00 pm
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Fast Ends at: 0:00 pm
Light Candles at: 0:00 pm
Followed by light refreshments
PREPARE FOR SUKKOT
To purchase Sukkah or
a Lulav and Etrog set,
please call 123-456-7890.
Say Blessings 1 & 4
SUKKOT
Friday, Sept. 30
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Shofar Sounding: 0:00 am
Light Candles* before: 0:00 pm
Wednesday, Oct. 12
Make Eruv Tavshilin**
Light Candles at: 0:00 pm
Say Blessings 3 & 4
Say Blessing 5
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Saturday, Oct. 1
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Shabbat Ends at: 0:00 pm
YOM KIPPUR
Friday, Oct. 7
Kaparot: 0:00 am
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Afternoon Service: 0:00 pm
Light Candles at: 0:00 pm
Say Blessings 2 & 4
Fast Begins at: 0:00 pm
Kol Nidrei Services: 0:00 pm
Thursday, Oct. 13
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Light Candles* after: 0:00 pm
Say Blessings 3 & 4
Friday, Oct. 14
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Light Candles* before: 0:00 pm
Say Blessings 3 & 4
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Followed by Kiddush & Hakafot
Thursday, Oct. 20
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Yizkor Memorial Service: 11:00 am
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Followed by Kiddush & Hakafot
Light Candles* after: 0:00 pm
Saturday, Oct. 15
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Shabbat Ends at: 0:00 pm
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.oFxM¦ G©d mFi l¤W x¯p wi¦l§c©d§l Ep«²E¦v±e ,ei¨zF§v¦n§A
Baruch Atah Ado-noi Elo-hei-nu Melech Ha-olam
Asher Kid-sha-nu Be-mitz-vo-sav Ve-tzi-vanu
Le-had-lik Ner Shel Yom Ha-zi-ka-ron.
1
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.mi¦xªR¦M©d mFi l¤W±e z¨A©U l¤W x¯p wi¦l§c©d§l Ep«²E¦v±e, ei¨zF§v¦n§A
Baruch Atah Ado-noi Elo-hei-nu Melech Ha-olam
Asher Kid-sha-nu Be-mitz-vo-sav Ve-tzi-vanu
Le-had-lik Shel Shabbat V’Shel Yom Ha-ki-pu-rim.
2
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3
Say Blessings 3 & 4
Friday, Oct. 21
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Followed by Kiddush & Hakafot
Light Candles* before: 0:00 pm
Say Blessing 5
Baruch Atah Ado-noi Elo-hei-nu Melech Ha-olam
Asher Ki-de-sha-nu Be-mitz-vo-sav Ve-tzi-vanu
Le-had-lik Ner Shel Yom Tov.
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Saturday, Oct. 2
Morning Services: 0:00 am
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
Shabbat Ends at: 0:00 pm
Say Blessing 5
Evening Services: 0:00 pm
BLESSINGS
Note: Candle lighting times are for Your
town, US only. For other areas, visit
ChabadofYourtown.com/calendar.
* Light only from a pre-existing flame
** For more on Eruv Tavshilin visit
www.chabad.org/2327
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Baruch Atah Ado-noi Elo-hei-nu Melech Ha-olam
She-heh-che-yah-nu Ve-kiye-ma-nu Ve-hi-gi-ah-nu
Liz-man Ha-zeh.
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Baruch Atah Ado-noi Elo-hei-nu Melech Ha-olam
Asher Ki-de-sha-nu Be-mitz-vo-sav Ve-tzi-vanu
Le-had-lik Ner Shel Shabbat Kodesh.
YOUR AD HERE
FALL 2011
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Your Chabad house
NON PROFIT ORG.
U.S. POSTAGE
123 Main Street
Your City, State 12345
PAID
Your City, State
Permit No. 123
JOIN CHABAD OF YOUR TOWN FOR
INSPIRATIONAL
HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES
WITH MEANING, MELODY AND HUMOR!
Rosh Hashanah Begins:
WEDNESDAY,
SEPT. 28TH
Yom Kippur Begins:
FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 7TH
• No Membership Fees or Tickets
• No Affiliation Necessary
• Traditional and Inspirational Services
• Hebrew/English Prayer-Books
• Warm and Friendly Atmosphere
• Special Children's Program & Service
AT CHABAD OF YOUR CITY
1234 Whatever Street, Wherever, USA 12345
For a full schedule of services and programs see holiday schedule Inside.
There is NO CHARGE for seats; your donation is greatly appreciated. Advance reservations are suggested.
For more information or to RSVP please call Chabad at: 987-654-3210
E-mail: Shliach@chabadofyourtown.com
Website: www.chabadofyourtown.com
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