The Lamplighter
Chabad of Washington Heights' Weekly Newsletter
10 Menachem Av,
5780 | July 24, 2020 | Torah Portion: Va'etchanan | Erev Shabbat Nachamu | Pirkei Avot: Ch. 3 |
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Wishing a Good Shabbos Nachamu - Shabbat Shalom - next week in Jerusalem!
Rabbi Yakov D. Kirschenbaum
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To say a prayer for the good, health and well-being of people everywhere, and for the security of the people of Israel,
click here
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Uptown Jewish Film is coming back for its third year and this time, it's going to be all online!
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Friday, July 31
Light Candles: 7:54 pm
Shabbat, August 1
Shabbat Ends: 8:57 pm
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Services are held at the Chabad House - 50 Overlook Terrace, side entrance
Shabbat P. Va'etchanan
Shabbat Nachamau
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FRIDAY, JULY 31
Minchah, Kaballat Shabbat: 7:55 pm
SHABBAT, AUGUST 1
Say Shema before: 9:24 am
Shacharis: 10:15 am
Services followed by a kiddush, sponsored by Binny Wolfe and Meir Chalou in honor of their birthays
Minchah: 7:00 pm
Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 8:54 pm
Followed by Havdalah and a viewing of the
Living Torah
weekly video program
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Why a Mezuzah Is Not a Mezuzah
By Rabbi Baruch Epstein, emissary of the Rebbe to Illinois. Art by
Sefira Ross
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There is a mezuzah on the entry to the White House. There's a mezuzah leading into every room in the Kremlin. Your avowed atheist neighbor has one that all the neighborhood can see!
I'll explain. The word "mezuzah" means doorpost. In the Book of Deuteronomy we read: "And you shall write them on the doorposts (
mezuzot
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So, if we're to be linguistic nit-pickers, the scroll is affixed to the mezuzah; it is not the mezuzah itself.
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The Miracle of the Yellow Pages Rabbi
Shlomo Schwartz
Adapted
by Yerachmiel Tilles from "I Love when that Happens" -- copyrighted by Rabbi Mendel Schwartz (his son).
Taken from
Ascentofsafed.com
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In the mid-1990's, before cell phones, Facebook, or other social media, I relied on my answering machine and fax machine to conduct business. My phone number was listed in the Yellow Pages, and I'd get fifty to a hundred calls a day that I would screen and call back as my busy schedule would permit. Often, I would ask people to send me a fax with requests or questions. As luck would have it, The Chai Center came up as one of the first Jewish organizations in the Yellow Pages, which was great for business.
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Smoothie: One of my favorite treats!
Smoothies Galore. Delicious enough to be even dessert. Many smoothie joints have recently sprouted all over the city. But none of them will whip up a smoothie as delicious, nutritious, inexpensive and quick as you will. The best part is, for the exact same amount of work you get not one but two, even three perfect smoothies.
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for recipes
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By Bernie Rappaport
This morning I changed a light bulb, later I crossed the road then I walked into a bar.
It was then I realized what a joke my life is.
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Schedule for Week of August 2-8
Classes are held on Zoom - ID# 858-784-1721 Passoword: 9R3NEZ, on Facebook Live and on the phone at 646-558-6338 - code is 613770#.
--Sunday, Tuesday, & Wednesday at 9:00 pm
The Daily Tanya
--Monday at 9:00 pm
Chassidic Philosophy
--Thursday at 9:00 pm
Parshah Insights
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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
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"The time of our redemption has arrived."
The Lubavitcher Rebbe, 1990-1 See Yalkut Shimoni Yeshayahu, remez 499
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