B"H
The Lamplighter
Chabad of Washington Heights' Weekly Newsletter
17 Sivan 5781 | May 28, 2021 | Torah Portion: Beha'aloscha | Pirkei Avot: Ch. 2 | Issue #639
Wishing you a good Shabbos - Shabbat Shalom.
Next week in Jerusalem!
Rabbi Yakov D. Kirschenbaum 
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Weekly Torah Classes
Schedule for Week of May 30-June 5
Classes are held on Zoom - ID# 858-784-1721 Password: 9R3NEZ, on Facebook Live and on the phone at 646-558-6338 - code is 613770#

  • Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 9:00 pm: Daily Tanya
  • Monday at 9:00 pm at Chabad: A Chassidic Discourse
  • Thursday at 9:00 pm: Parshah Insights
  • Shabbos at 9:45 am: Tanya & Tuna
  • Shabbos at 7:20 pm: Pirkei Avos
Friday, May 28
Light Candles at:
8:00 pm

Shabbat, May 29
Shabbat Ends: 9:08 pm

Find out more about Shabbat & Holiday candle-lighting
Services are held at the Chabad House - 50 Overlook Terrace, side entrance

Shabbos P. Beha'aloscha
shul - kleiman
FRIDAY, MAY 28
Minchah, Kabalat Shabbat: 8:05 pm

SHABBAT, MAY 29

Say Shema before: 9:10 am 
Tanya & Tuna: 9:08 am
Shacharit: 10:15 am

Services followed by a Kiddush, part-sponsored by James Behr
To sponsor a kiddush, click here

Pirkei Avos Class: 7:10 pm
Minchah: 7:55 pm
Shabbat Ends/Maariv: 9:08 pm

Followed by Havdalah and a viewing of the Living Torah video program
Who Honored Miriam, and How?
No good deed goes unnoticed
By Rabbi Yossi Ives, rabbi of Cong. Ahavas Yisrael of Pomona, N.Y
The Torah tells us that “Miriam and Aaron  spoke against Moses,” for which they received a severe reprimand. As the instigator, Miriam  was struck with a skin condition called  tzara’at which required that she be barred from entering the Israelite encampment for a full week.

Thus the Torah reads: “So Miriam was confined outside of the encampment for seven days, and the people did not travel until Miriam rejoined. Thereafter the people departed . . .” Now, since the verse explicitly states that “the people departed” only after Miriam’s confinement, why was it necessary to also state that “the people did not travel until Miriam rejoined”? It is saying the same thing twice!
The Proper Art of Eating and Seeing
Adapted by Yerachmiel Tilles from "Torah Wellsprings: Collected Thoughts from Rabbi Elimelech Biderman," and from Hamodia.com.. Taken from Ascentofsafed.com.
A. Eating in Order to Serve

Rebbe Moshe-Mordechai of Lelov would say, "I am able to pray without first going to the mikveh, but I am unable to eat, without going to the mikveh. Serving G-d through eating is an extremely elevated form of serving the Creator."

'Serving G-d through eating' doesn't mean that a person can't enjoy his food. He can eat well, but he should strive to have the right intention and mannerism, and say a sincere blessing. It's doable, matters like these, which make a world of difference. It turns eating into an act of holiness.
Exceedingly Humble
And the man Moshe was very humble, more than all the men upon the face of the earth (B’haaloscha 12:3).

Moshe assumed this humility when he compared himself to the souls of our generation, Ikvisa de’Meshicha "the heels of Moshiach", which are of a very inferior level.
By Levana Kirschenbaum | Feb. 24, 2015
From Levanacooks.com
This Moroccan favorite is a wonderful way to cook Chicken Breasts.

Cooking the chicken Breasts on a stovetop makes them ideally moist and tender. These chicken breasts are elegant enough even for a very festive occasion. This is a perfect dish for Passover too.
CONTINUE for recipe
For a guide on how to halachically wash/check vegetables, click here
From Bernie Rappaport

I googled "how to start a wildfire"...

I got 48,500 matches.
"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
"The time of our redemption has arrived."
The Lubavitcher Rebbe, 1990-1 See Yalkut Shimoni Yeshayahu, remez 499