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Chabad of Washington Heights' Weekly Newsletter 
  
5 Menachem Av, 5774 | August 1, 2014 | Torah Portion: Devarim | Shabbos Chazon | Pirkei Avos: Ch. 3 | Issue #318
G-d Bless Israel - Say a Quick Prayer
Please take a few moments and pray for the success of the Israel Defense Forces in their current operation and that all the soldiers and citizens of Israel remain completely unharmed.  

Please keep in mind the kidnapped soldier, Hadar ben Chedva Leah and the critically wounded soldier, Rachamim ben Aliza, as well as all the other injured soldiers and civilians.    
CLICK HERE for Psalm 20.
Living with the Times; The Weekly Torah Portion

What's the Story?

Linking Battlefield and Yeshiva

By Yerachmiel Tilles, taken from Ascentofsafed.com

  

This happened last week.


Rabbi Yekutiel ("Kuty") Medovnik teaches at the "Machon Technologiya" ("Technical Institute") of Tsfat, a school for older yeshiva students where they study Torah topics in the morning and the rest of the day study those subjects which will qualify them for a career in technology. A man living in the South district of Tsfat whom Kuty had befriended and influenced to increase in mitzvah observance telephoned him to inform him that he had been summoned for milu'im (reserve duty) and would be leaving soon for the Gaza war front. As an officer, he felt concerned and responsible for the soldiers in his unit and asked that the boys in Kuty's yeshiva should pray for them and study extra Torah for them.

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Levana Cooks
Fresh Seaweed Noodles in Miso Sauce. Gluten-Free Friendly 

To read about Levana's books and recipes, please visit Levana
cooks.com
 

 

You will be as pleased as I am to see that fresh seaweed is getting increasingly more available, in many supermarkets and in sushi restaurants. It is true I haven't seen fresh seaweed in any  form other than salad, in other words, prepared, but the salad is natural and its components do not encroach on the preparation of a larger recipe, like the following dish. I know the seaweed bears a pesky resemblance to astroturf, but once you toss it into the other ingredients its garish greenness disperses and the color and flavor of the finished dish are deliciously funky. The miso imparts its fermented flavor, which works beautifully with all other flavors in the dish.
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Shabbat Candle Lighting

Shabbos Candles
Light Candles: 7:54 pm
Shabbat Ends: 8:57 pm 
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Shabbos P. Devarim
Shabbos Chazon
August 1-2

 

 FRIDAY  

Minchah, Kabbolas Shabbos: 8:00 pm

SHABBAT DAY   
Chassidus on the Parshah: 9:00 am

Say shema before: 9:27 am

Shacharis: 10:00 am  
 

Davening followed by a Kiddush,
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Ein Yakov - Talmudic Tales: 7:10 pm
Minchah: 7:55 pm 
Maariv/Shabbos ends: 8:57 pm
Anticipating the Redemption
Faith in G-d
By Rabbi J. Immanuel Shochet, from"Living With Moshiach," published by Kehot Publication Society.

Israel

"See, I have set the land before you. Come and possess the land G-d swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give unto them and to their descendants after them." 

-Devarim 1:8


 

Rashi comments: "'Come and possess the land'-there is no one to contest the matter, and you need not wage war. Indeed, if they had not sent the spies, they would not have needed any weapons."


 

The Almighty Himself had promised the Jewish People that He would give them the Land of Israel. Quite obviously, then, no one can contest this. The People of Israel, therefore, could have taken possession of the land without a battle, and even without any armor to deter a potential enemy.

The Jewish Joke
The Hot Dog Vendor
Thanks to Bernie Rappaport for this week's Jewish Joke   

The Dalai Lama takes his hot dog and hands the vendor a twenty. The vendor turns away.

"What about my change?" says the Dalai Lama?

"Change comes from within" replies the hot dog vendor.

Wishing you a Good Shabbos and next week in Jerusalem!
   Rabbi Yakov and Elisheva Kirschenbaum

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-Maimonides, Laws of Teshuvah Ch. 3, Law 4