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Chabad of Washington Heights' Weekly Newsletter 
  
21 Adar 1 5774 | February 21, 2014 | Torah Portion: Vayakheil | Issue #299
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Shabbat Schedule  
shul - kleiman
Shabbos P. Vayakheil
February 21-22

FRIDAY 
Minchah, Kabbolas Shabbos: 5:25 pm

SHABBAT DAY   

Chassidus on the Parshah: 9:00 am

Say Shema before: 9:24 am

Shacharis: 10:00 am 

Minchah immediately following mussaf


Davening followed by a Kiddush,  
sponsored by Anonymous and Mrs. Cohen.
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or call 212-203-3650.
 
Ein Yakov (Talmudic tales) Class: 5:35 pm 
Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 6:19 pm  

Maariv followed by havdalah and a large-screen viewing of the weekly Living Torah video program
Living With the Times; The Weekly Torah Portion
The Day After
By Rabbi Yossi Goldman, emissary of the Rebbe in Johannesburg, South Africa

  

  mishkanSome years ago, the United Nations held the International Summit on Sustainable Development, here in Johannesburg. The Summit was a great success. One wonders, though, whether all the wonderful decisions and resolutions that were adopted were ever implemented. In other words, were they themselves sustainable?

 

Good ideas and worthwhile projects are suggested regularly. The question is, do they get off the drawing board? And if they do, how long do they last? What degree of permanence do they enjoy?

What's the Story?

Yellow Presents
By Devorah Tzuf
Reprinted from the Zarkor-Spotlight eStory series.
 

The small house 

at the end of the street teemed with people. Someone

 threw open the creaky old shutters to let light into the room, but even the sunlight did not manage to chase away the dark.

 

It was a darkness you could almost feel. The woman of the house, who had lived there for 60 years and more, had suddenly died two days before. The door's hinges seemed to squeak, protesting: "Our mistress isn't here anymore!

Continue
The Jewish Joke
The Power Outage
Thanks to Bernie Rappaport for this week's "Jewish Joke"

We had a power outage at my house this morning 
and my PC, laptop, TV, DVD, iPad & my new surround sound music system were all shut down.

Then I discovered that my iPhone battery was flat,
and to top it off it was raining outside, so I couldn't
play golf.

I went into the kitchen to make coffee, and then I
remembered that this also needs power, so I talked
with my wife for a few hours.

She seems like a nice person.

Shabbat Candle Lighting

Shabbos Candles
Light Candles: 5:19 pm
Shabbat Ends: 6:19 pm     

about Shabbat candle lighting
Anticipating the Redemption
Who's Got Talent?
From Living With Moshiach, By Rabbi J. Immanuel Schochet. Published and copyrighted by Kehot Publication Society.
 
"All the women, whose heart inspired them with wisdom, spun the goats' hair." 

-Vayak'hel 35:26

 

Rashi comments on this verse: "This action required extra-ordinary skill, for they spun the hair from off the backs of the goats."

 

The women had not been instructed to do so. They did so on their own, by their own inspiration. They realized that if they were blessed by G-d with this unique ability, they should use it for the service of G-d, for the building of the Sanctuary.

This teaches us the following:

Levana Cooks
 
 

With Thanksgiving approaching, and fresh cranberries flooding produce stalls, I thought I would take cranberries in a different direction, not a relish or chutney or cranberry pie this time. I decided to dream up a chocolate dessert that would incorporate cranberries. A cake? A chocolate pie with cranberry coulis? a brownie-based tart?

 Continue for recipe

Weekly Torah Classes at Chabad of WH
Week of February 23 - March 1
 
torah scroll
Wednesday at 8:30 pm 
"Overcoming Folly"

Thursday at 12 noon
Weekly Torah Portion 
at NYP Hospital

Thursday at 8:30 pm
Weekly Torah Portion
 
Shabbat at 5:45 pm
Ein Yakov - Talmudic Tales
don't worry When Adar comes, we increase in joy!

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

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"Everyone must regard himself and the world as evenly poised between good and guilt...If he performed a good deed, he has shifted the balance of his fate, and that of the entire world to good, and has brought deliverance and salvation upon himself and upon them all."
-Maimonides, Laws of Teshuvah Ch. 3, Law 4