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Chabad of Port Washington � Email: rabbi@chabadpw.org � Voice: 516-767-8672 � www.ChabadPW.org
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Greetings!
As we observe Holocaust Day, we are all called upon to "Zachor" - to "Remember."
Jewish Tradition has two types of "Zachors." One is to remember the destruction; the other is to remember the world and life that was before the destruction took place.
As much as it is important to remember the atrocities that were committed by the Nazis, it's even more important to remember and to rebuild Jewish life as it was before the Holocaust.
Let's Remember!
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
P.S. Please join us this Shabbat for Holocaust Remembrance Shabbat - Dedicated to the memory of ZELIK SANDER - with our guest speaker Leibel Zissman. Leibel will tell his amazing story on Friday night during Shabbat Dinner (click here to rsvp - still not too late, rsvp deadline 9am Friday morning). Leibel will also lead a farbrengen (discussion) and take questions during Kiddush lunch on Shabbat day (services at 9:30am, lunch at noon, farbrengen discussion to last as long as we want it to). Please join us and bring friends, teens, young people, this is something very special.
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Happy 65th Birthday, Israel!
By: David Harris
For many nations, a 65th birthday may not generate much excitement. But if the country happens to be Israel, which celebrates its birthday this year on April 15-16, it's another story.
Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only UN member state whose right to exist is regularly challenged, whose elimination from the world map is the aim of at least one other UN member state (Iran), and whose population centers are deemed fair game by Hamas-controlled Gaza and Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon...
Click here to read full article.
Special thanks to Arnie Herz for bringing this to my attention
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Yom Hashoa Tefillin Wrap & Lectures by Survivors
More than 50 people joined us last Sunday for our annual Yom Hashoa Tefillin Wrap in honor of the 6 million.
Guest Speakers Leo Ullman and George Wolf spoke to the children about their experiences as hidden children in the Holocaust. Thank you Suzanne Kolen for organizing this program through the Shalshelet program - Teen Holocaust education (click here for more information on Shalshelet and its programs)
Click here to view photos.
Photos Courtesy of Rob Salzbank, Rampage Studios
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Holocaust Remembrance Shabbaton
Dedicated in memory of Reb Zelik Sander OBM
Featuring:
Leibel Zisman
Holocaust Survivor, Author of I BELIEVE,
subject of the award winning film Lion of Judah
Friday Night Dinner: April 12, 7:30 PM
following services at 7:00 pm
Click here for more info and to register.
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Parenting Class | Tuesday, April 16, 11 AM
Monthly parenting class lead by Sara Paltiel of Chabad Port Washington. Topic: Bringing intimacy and holiness into your marriage.
Click here for more info. Please RSVP by calling the office 516 767 8672.
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New JLI course | Curious Tales of the Talmud:
Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages
Everyone loves a good story. Knowing this, the sages of the Talmud used stories to encode messages about life that are far too deep and profound to communicate directly. This course decodes some of these extraordinary Talmudic mysteries to uncover layer within layer of insight into the nature of life, the universe, G-d, and man.
6 Sundays, Beginning Sunday, April 21
10-11:30am | at Chabad of Port Washington
Click here for more info and to register.
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Camp Gan Israel 2013
Registration now open!
Click here for more info and to register.
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Zodiac at the Seder Table?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss | Sydney, Australia
Question: I am very connected to the zodiac and was wondering if there is a link between the stars and the timing of Pesach. I have also noticed that the Seder always coincides with the full moon. What is the significance of all this?
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Daily Thought |
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Transformation
When light pushes away the darkness, eventually another darkness shall come.
When the darkness itself is transformed into light, it is a light that no darkness can oppose.
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| Parshah |
 The Runaway Soul
The signs of tzaraat-a mystical interpretation.
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| Women |
 My Final Post
The hardest part for me about moving on is realizing that I won't have the same relationship anymore with all of you . . .
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 Women and Prayer
Why are men and women separated by a mechitzah in the synagogue? Why aren't women counted for a minyan? Do women wear tallis and tefillin?
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| The Rebbe |
 How To Beat Laziness
Contemplating that G-d is present everywhere, one must act as though he was in front of a king . . .
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Parshat Tazria-Metzora
The Parshahs of Tazria and Metzora continue the discussion of the laws of tumah v'taharah, ritual impurity and purity.
A woman giving birth should undergo a process of purification, which includes immersing in a mikvah (a naturally gathered pool of water) and bringing offerings to the Holy Temple. All male infants are to be circumcised on the eighth day of life.
Tzaraat (often mistranslated as "leprosy") is a supra-natural plague, which can afflict people as well as garments or homes. If white or pink patches appear on a person's skin (dark pink or dark green in garments or homes), a kohen is summoned. Judging by various signs, such as an increase in size of the afflicted area after a seven-day quarantine, the kohen pronounces it tamei (impure) or tahor (pure).
A person afflicted with tzaraat must dwell alone outside of the camp (or city) until he is healed. The afflicted area in a garment or home must be removed; if the tzaraat recurs, the entire garment or home must be destroyed.
When the metzora ("leper") heals, he or she is purified by the kohen with a special procedure involving two birds, spring water in an earthen vessel, a piece of cedar wood, a scarlet thread and a bundle of hyssop.
Ritual impurity is also engendered through a seminal or other discharge in a man, and menstruation or other discharge of blood in a woman, necessitating purification through immersion in a mikvah. |
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