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The Lamplighter

Chabad of Washington Heights' Weekly Newsletter


19 Marcheshvan, 5787 | October 30, 2026 | Torah Portion: Vayeira | Issue #897

Wishing you a Good Shabbos, Shabbat Shalom. Next week in Jerusalem!

Rabbi Yakov & Shulamit Kirschenbaum

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Weekly Torah Classes

Schedule for Week of November 1-7

Weekday classes can be joined on Zoom - ID#: 248 878 6483 Password: 613770, FB Live, and Phone - 646-558-6338 - code is 613770#.



  • Monday at 8:30 pm: Tanya & Jewish Law
  • Wednesday at 8:30 pm: Parshah Insights
  • Shabbos at 9:30 am: Tanya & Tuna
    

Shabbat Candle-Lighting

Friday, Oct. 30

Light Candles at: 5:36 pm


Shabbat, Oct. 31

Shabbat Ends: 6:35 pm


Read more about Shabbat & Holiday candle-lighting

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


Shabbos P. Vayeira

FRIDAY, OCT. 30


Minchah, Maariv: 5:45 pm


SHABBAT, OCT. 31


Tanya & Tuna: 9:30 am

Say Shema before: 10:00 am 

Shacharis: 10:00 am


Minchah after Musaf


Services followed by a Kiddush- Lunch not-yet sponsored

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Talmudic-Tales Class: 5:20 pm

Chassidus: 6:05 pm

Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 6:35 pm

Havdalah

The Untold Story of Lot and His Daughters

By Mendel Braun; art by Sefira Lightstone

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The narrative of Lot and his two daughters, whose unions in a cave just after the destruction of Sodom birthed two nations, is perhaps one of the most perplexing and hotly debated stories in all of the Pentateuch.



Over the centuries, the incest between Lot and his daughters has raised many questions, debates, and theories among scholars and laymen alike, while the story itself gained much traction in Renaissance biblical art.

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The Rebbe and the Professor

Modified and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles from the book, "The Mashpia, Rav Mendel Futerfas". Taken from Ascentofsafed.com

Reb Mendel related a story that he heard in his childhood directly from the one to whom it happened, when the man himself told it publicly at his brother's wedding.


Rabbi Shmuel Segalowitz, when he was a youth, was one of the students in the Tomchei Tamimim Yeshiva in Lubavitch in the early 1900's . At one point, he became very ill and suffered from severe, persistent headaches. The local doctors were unable to determine the cause of the pain or offer any effective treatment, so young Shmuel traveled to Minsk to be examined by a renowned professor.

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Moshiach and Olives

Taken from "From  Exile to  Redemption", published by SIE

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The Rebbe Rashab, the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, once said: “Moshiach will come to wherever Chassidus is being studied.”


So one of his chassidim asked: “Does the prophet not foretell that on the day that Moshiach appears,‘His feet shall stand upon the Mount of Olives’?!”


“That’s precisely what I said,” replied the Rebbe, “for as you know, olive oil alludes to the mystical secrets of the Torah....”

In Search of the Perfect Schnitzel Recipe

By Levana Kirschenbaum | 3/30/11

Levanacooks.com

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Schnitzel often doesn’t love us back: Too many diners complain that they love it but are disappointed that they get so easily dried out.


My daughter-in-law Ruthie makes the best schnitzel but always keeps insisting she does nothing in particular, so I decided to spy on her once when she made the dish, from beginning to end. The result is some friendly troubleshooting for everyone.

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For a halachic guide to washing/checking

vegetables, fruits, & berries, click here

From Aish.com


The Rosenberg family was on their first trip to Israel and they wanted to do something adventurous so they decided to go skydiving. During the class, Itzik the skydiving instructor was taking questions.


Howie Rosenberg asked, "If our chute doesn't open, and the reserve doesn't open, how long do we have until we hit the ground?"


Itzik looked at Howie and responded straight faced, "The rest of your life."

"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