Chabad of Port Washington � Email: [email protected] � Voice: 516-767-8672 � www.ChabadPW.org
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Greetings!
What a Purim! A few THANK YOUS are in order to those who made this Purim so special:
SISTERHOOD'S PURIM BALL on Saturday night was a huge hit! Thank you Sisterhood leaders Tammy Kobin, Tami Ruben, Sheryl Pinner & Orly Calderon-Sherman! More than 100 adults came in costume and celebrated Purim! The place looked spectacular, the spirit was infectiously joyous, in a word - WOW! Thank you also: Colbeh Caterers, Sandy Kramer, Peggy Klat, Laurie Radler, Alicia Ferrara, Ellen Gabe & Bryan Sherman. And of course to all the guests. I'm told Sisterhood has many more plans for future events and programs, so stay tuned. Ladies - for $36 you can be a Sisterhood member and be part of this amazing new energy at our Chabad! Click here to join.
PURIM FAMILY FESTIVAL on Sunday morning was an equally smashing success! The gym was filled with children, parents and grandparents having a blast! Thank you Hebrew School principal Esther Greenspan for making it all happen. Special thanks to our panel of judges for the masquerade contest: Judge Scott Firestone (nice robe...), Blaine Klusky & Howard Abrahams. (And personally I "kvelled" at the way my Mushka led the proceedings with such charisma and pizzazz...
PURIM BASKETS were received by every Chabad family in our shul, Hebrew School and Preschool. Thank you to all who participated in this mitzvah of friendship and community. Special thank you to Marina Shapiro for personally delivering 100 (!) of these Purim gifts. Thank you also to Ellyn & Danny Logvin, Lida Esrail and Lisa Maloul.
Finally, PICTURES are now available on our website capturing all of the above thanks to our dedicated friend ROB SALZBANK!
Coming from such an action packed holiday, we now move on to a whole new bunch of exciting events, as outlined below.
Congratulations and thank you to one and all!
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
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Who wants to be a MINYANAIRE?
Membership in the club requires simply a commitment to attend the morning minyan (services) either Monday or Thursday mornings - or both. Services begin at 7am promptly, and last until 7:45. Those who have the time and can stay for Coffee & Parsha for an additional 30 minutes are invited to do so as well.
Guys - think about what this can do for you - a weekly get together with "the boys" for prayer, camaraderie and a cup of coffee.
Thank you to the current MINYANAIRES: Sanford Lewis, Avi Shilian, Michael Grieff, Burt Falkenstein, Rob Salzbank, Sam Glasser, Bryan Sherman, Larry Hollander, Yaniv Konfino, Howard Abrahams, Jerry Kramer, Jonathan Kramer, Sy Kaplan, Larry Smith, Ron Bieber, Jimmy Neuwirth, Len Schaier & Rabbi Paltiel.
Want to join? Simply email: [email protected] and let the rabbi know. Small investment of time, huge return in terms of focus, inspiration and community connection. The Minyanaire's Club is open to any Jew in the area. One need not be a Chabad member to join. Please come on board and make us stronger!
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New Big Bang evidence supports Biblical creation, says Orthodox physicist
Counters nonreligious professor: The Genesis account of the formation of the heavens and the earth has nothing to do with science.
That there was a creation event as described in Genesis is indisputably confirmed by this week's Big Bang scientific breakthrough, an Israeli physicist who is also an Orthodox Jew claims. A secular Israeli professor, unsurprisingly, insists that the Bible and the Big Bang are "not related"...
Click here to read more.
My thanks to Michael Samuel for bringing this article to my attention
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Do I must Remove it?
By Chani Benjaminson
Question: Is it really necessary to have leaven "removed" from one's property during the eight days of Passover? My plan was to box it up and put it in my shed for the week. Is this acceptable according to Torah? If not, why?
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Friday, Mar 21
6:49 pm
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Shabbat, Mar 22
7:49 pm
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A World Becoming
The times our generation lives in are not ordinary times. We dwell on the interface between two worlds-a world as it was and a world as it is meant to be.
Everything is in place, all the infrastructure to bind the world together as one, the technology by which all of humanity can share deep wisdom, to grasp the secret of oneness with the human mind.
The stage is set.
All that's left is for us to open our eyes.
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Parshat Shemini
On the eighth day, following the seven days of their inauguration, Aaron and his sons begin to officiate as kohanim (priests); a fire issues forth from G-d to consume the offerings on the altar, and the divine presence comes to dwell in the Sanctuary.
Aaron's two elder sons, Nadav and Avihu, offer a "strange fire before G-d, which He commanded them not" and die before G-d. Aaron is silent in face of his tragedy. Moses and Aaron subsequently disagree as to a point of law regarding the offerings, but Moses concedes to Aaron that Aaron is in the right.
G-d commands the kosher laws, identifying the animal species permissible and forbidden for consumption. Land animals may be eaten only if they have split hooves and also chew their cud; fish must have fins and scales; a list of non-kosher birds is given, and a list of kosher insects (four types of locusts).
Also in Shemini are some of the laws of ritual purity, including the purifying power of the mikvah (a pool of water meeting specified qualifications) and the wellspring. Thus the people of Israel are enjoined to " differentiate between the impure and the pure."
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