Services are held at the Chabad House - 50 Overlook Terrace, side entrance

Shabbos P. Vayeilech

Shabbos Shuvah

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Minchah, Kabolas Shabbos: 6:35 pm

SHABBAT, SEPTEMBER 27

Tanya & Tuna: 9:30 am

Say Shema before: 9:45 am

Shacharit: 10:00 am

Services followed by a Kiddush-Lunch, not-yet sponsored

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Yom-Kippur-Laws Class: 5:30 pm

Minchah: 6:15 pm

Followed by Seudah Shlishis and Chassidus

Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 7:24 pm

Followed by Havdalah

Judaism and Capitalism

By Rabbi Menachem Feldman, emissary of the Rebbe to Greenwich, CT

At its core, Judaism is about unity: the unity of the one G‑d, the universe and the unity of all people created in the image of G‑d. And yet, Judaism also gives the ordinary man an irrevocable right to his own property—as we see in the Torah’s division of the Land of Israel  to tribes and families, as well as in the command to celebrate the Jubilee year (where all property is returned to its original owners every 50 years). The idea of land ownership by definition creates separation and division within society, contradicting the ideal of unity. How is it possible for us to live with these opposing ideals in our philosophy and practice?

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A Well-Timed Thought For Shofar Blowing

Adapted and supplemented from a WhatsApp submission; taken from Ascentofsafed.com

Before Rosh Hashanah one year in the 1950s, Chaim (not his real name) asked a family in Crown Heights, New York, near the Lubavitcher Rebbe's headquarters, if they could host him for the upcoming holy days. Chaim was anxious to participate in the Rebbe's shofar blowing during the Rosh Hashanah prayers. He had been married for nine years and he and his wife had not been blessed with children. Chaim knew that before blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, the Lubavitcher Rebbe would pray for all the individuals who had turned to him for blessing. He wanted to be there, as close to the Rebbe as possible, to be blessed with a child.

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Repentance, Then Redemption

Based on a talk of the Lubavitcer Rebbe - Likkutei Sichos, Vol. 4, pg. 1071. "From Exile to  Redemption", published by SIE.

“Israel will ultimately repent, and will immediately be redeemed.”

-Rambam, Hilchos Teshuvah 7:5.

The fact that the Redemption will come about specifically by virtue of repentance, is not so only in order that the sins that stand in its way should be erased. Rather, the very process of redemption itself requires the divine service of teshuvah (repentance). For in essence,  teshuvah is an expression of a man’s innermost spiritual core, the yechidah within his soul. (This is what gives teshuvah the power to correct any blemishes which the manifest faculties of the soul may have sustained.) And by means of the avodah of teshuvah one elicits the advent of the Redemption, which in essence is the manifestation of the Divine yechidah — the manifestation of that sublime level of Divine light which transcends the graduated self-screening process by which it normally allows itself to be minimally perceived in this lowly world.

Honey Cake Recipe. Gluten-Free Adaptation Included

By Levana Kirschenbaum | 9/7/10

Levanacooks.com

Rosh Hashanah couldn’t be too far off. It is to the High Holidays what latkas are to Chanukah. This honey cake is for keeps! I actually succeed in turning quite a few people on to my honey cake. It is moist and spicy and easy to love; I trust it will make you forget all the indignities of past dried-out and brittle honey cakes. I make it several ways, all scrumptious, but this is one of my favorite. This one is definitely not for regifting.

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From Torahmates.org

A guy wanted to get into a shul on Yom Kippur, but realized that he was in trouble because at the temple near him, without a ticket they don't let you in.

He said to the doorman, "Look, I just want to give a message to a friend in there."

The guy at the door said, "Sorry, you can't go in without a ticket."

The first guy replied, "Just let me in for one minute, then I'll be right out."

"Alright," said the doorman, "but I better not catch you praying."