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Shabbat Nitzavim-Vayelech
Candle Lighting: 19:50
End of Shabbat: 20:55
Blessing Transliteration:
Boruch A-toh Ado-noi E-lo-hei-nu Me-lech Ha-olam A-sher Ki-de-shan-nu Be-mitz-vo-sov Ve-tzi-va-nu Le-had-lik Ner Shel Shabbat Ko-desh.
It is a great mitzvah and responsibility to honor the Sabbath by lighting candles 18 minutes before sunset on Friday evening. This unique commandment, entrusted to the Jewish woman, is rich with meaning and purpose.
It is very important to know the exact candle-lighting time, as we are not allowed, under any circumstances, to kindle these lights after sunset. |
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Dedicated
In loving memory of
ESTHER CHAVA BAS reb PINCHAS
A"H
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THE KING IS IN THE FIELD
When the king is in the city, inside his royal palace, none can enter into his presence except by appointment, and only special people and select individuals... But when he goes out into the field, everyone who so desires is permitted to meet him; he receives them all with a cheerful countenance and shows a smiling face to them all... So, too, by analogy, the month of Elul is when we meet G-d in the field
- Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi |
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in Service Times
Weekly Services
Daily: Sun-Fri
Shacharit: 8:00 am
Mincha: 15:15
Arvit: Nightfall
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Shabbat
Friday Night: 20:00
Kabalat Shabbat
Followed by Kiddush, with the famous Tarte au chocolate of the Balthazar.
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Shabbat Morning: 10:00
Shacharit &
Torah Reading Followed by a Kiddush
The Children's
Shabbat Program
Weekly on Shabbat from 11:00 till 12:15. |
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Friday night Kabalat Shabbat 20:00
Friends,
Hi, I hope you had a good week.
Join us this Shabbat as we remeber those who were brutily taken from us on 9/11. Come stand in solidarty with people around the world. We will be having a memorial service with the reciting of a special prayer in honor of those who lost thier lives on 9/11 along with words of insperation.
This Saturday night we begin the pre High Holiday prayers of Slichot, which will be recited daily until the Start of the New Year Rosh Hashanah. Join us at 1:30 AM for more information please email us.
Should you have any question or need any assistance please contact me at info@theshul.eu.
Looking forward to spending the High Holidays together with you and your family.
Wishing you and yours a Kesivah Vchatima Tova
Shabbat Shalom,
Michoel Rosenblum
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The
Weekly WordBy: Rabbi Levi Y. Garelik -Rabbi of The European Synagogue
This Shabbat is the last Shabbat in the Jewish
calendar year of 5769, and the Shabbat of preparation for Rosh
Hashanah, the holiday that begins the new year of 5770.
A new year brings fresh air and unique
opportunities. The holy Ari, a great sage who started spreading
the Kabala in Safed (approximately 400 years ago) and the Alter Rebbe,
the founder of Chabad Chassidism, two of our greatest leaders and
mystics, taught that on Rosh Hashana a "new, unprecedented energy enters
our lives, and a new light that never existed before shines upon us."
There is no greater message of hope than to know
that regardless of what happened yesterday, despite the mistakes we made or
setbacks we experienced in the past year, we are now given a gift - a new
window of opportunity. Rosh Hashanah gives us the power to begin anew
- to break away from past patterns and initiate fresh ideas, and
to innovate original solutions.
One of the most regrettable things to
see is how the potential of these awesome High Holy Days have been lost to many
of us. We are told that these holy days have the power to change our lives
forever. Yet, how many people are aware of this fact? How many of us are
looking forward to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as indispensable days, offering
us the ability to realize our deepest aspirations and dreams?
Therefore, we at the European Synagogue have
chosen to make these holidays come alive in a deeply personal and relevant way.
The meaning of the prayers are explained during the service, everyone sings
along and there are no long sermons. In the previous years, those who joined us
in the prayers and learning left very enthusiastic, and some even said: "Wow,
we have never enjoyed going to shul like this year!"
Therefore, please join us in the upcoming holiday for a most amazing
experience, and may we all be blessed with a sweet and happy and joyous new
year of 5770!
Shabbat Shalom!
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The Parsha in a Nutshell
The Parshah of Nitzavim includes some of the most fundamental principles of the Jewish faith:
The unity of Israel: "You stand today, all of you, before the L-rd your G-d: your heads, your tribes, your elders, your officers, and every Israelite man; your young ones, your wives, the stranger in your gate; from your wood hewer to your water drawer."
The future redemption: Moses warns of the exile and desolation of the Land that will result if Israel abandons G-d's laws, but then he prophesies that, in the end, "You will return to the L-rd your G-d... If your outcasts shall be at the ends of the heavens, from there will the L-rd your G-d gather you... and bring you into the Land which your fathers have possessed."
The practicality of Torah: "For the Mitzvah which I command you this day, it is not beyond you nor is it remote from you. It is not in heaven... It is not across the sea.... Rather, it is very close to you, in your mouth, in your heart, that you may do it."
Freedom of choice: "I have set before you life and goodness, and death and evil; in that I command you this day to love G-d, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments... Life and death I have set before you, blessing and curse. And you shall choose life."
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The Parshah of Vayelech ("And He Went") recounts the events on Moses' last day of earthly life. "I am one hundred and twenty years old today," he says to the people, "and I can no longer go forth and come in." He transfers the leadership to Joshua, and writes (or concludes writing) the Torah in a scroll which he entrusts to the Levites for safekeeping in the Ark of the Covenant.
The mitzvah of Hak'hel ("Gather") is given: every seven years, during the festival of Sukkot of the first year of the shemittah cycle, the entire people of Israel -- men, women and children -- should gather at the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, where the king should read to them from the Torah.
Vayelech concludes with the prediction that the people of Israel will turn away from their covenant with G-d causing Him to hide His face from them, but also with the promise that the words of the Torah "shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants." |
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A BIT OF HUMOR
See what happens when the Rabbi blows the Shofar.
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