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Dear Friend ,
This coming Sunday, the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar, is called Pesach Sheni – the 2nd Passover. A year after the Exodus, G-d instructed the people of Israel to bring the Passover offering on the afternoon of the fourteenth of Nissan, and to eat it that evening, roasted
over the fire, together with Matzah and bitter herbs, as they had done on the previous year just before they left Egypt."There were, however, certain persons who had become ritually impure through contact with a dead body, and could not, therefore, prepare the Passover offering on that day. They approached Moses and Aaron... and they said: '...Why should we be deprived, and not be able to present G-d's offering in its time,
amongst the children of Israel?'" (Numbers 9). In response to their plea, G-d established the 14th of Iyar as a "Second Passover" for anyone who was unable to bring the offering on its appointed time in the previous month. The day thus represents the "second chance" achieved by teshuvah, the power of repentance and "return." In the words of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch, "The Second Passover means that it's never a 'lost case'." So
often we hear people's response to getting involved in Jewish practice and observance "it’s too late for me...I wasn’t raised that way... Why should I start now?”... Along comes the 2nd Passover with its loud and clear message - "It is NEVER too late in Judaism”. Every Mitzvah counts and the Mitzvah of each and every Jew is so precious and longed before by the Al-Mighty. |
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Shabbas Shachris: Saturday at 9:30 a.m.
Shabbas Mincha: Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
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This week we honor the Yahrtzeits of:
Esther Boiman
Ruth Bobier
Shimon David Stein
Yitzchok Winster
Karyn Harris |
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Dr. Yehoshua (Evsey) Neymotin, whose father and grandfather served as faithful frontline soldiers in the spiritual battlefield behind the Iron Curtain, passed away earlier today. He was 75.
Neymotin was both the son and grandson of devoted Chabad-Lubavitcher chassidim, faithful followers of the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, of righteous memory, and his successor the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, and himself maintained a long relationship
with the Rebbe both during and after his time in the Soviet Union.
Neymotin was born on Feb. 24, 1943, in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, where his father R’ Yosef Dovid Neymotin and his grandmother had been exiled following Joseph Stalin’s 1937 arrest and execution of R’ Yosef’s father, R’ Shmuel Neymotin. R’ Shmuel was brutally beaten and tortured before being shot and
buried on the outskirts of Leningrad, today S. Petersburg.
In 1939 Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe’s father, was exiled to the distant and dusty village of Chi’ili, Kazakhstan, where he was joined shortly by his wife (the Rebbe’s mother), Rebbetzin Chana. The village, home to only ethnic Kazakhs and thus no other Jews, was frigid in the winter
and scorching in the summer. Finally, towards the end of his life, an ill Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was allowed to relocate to the Soviet republic’s capital city of Alma Ata. There the great rabbi and kabbalist was cared for by, among others, Dr. Neymotin’s father R’ Yosef, who also took part in preparing Rabbi Levi Yitzchak’s body to be buried after the latter’s passing, later assisting Rebbetzin Chana in safely leaving Alma Ata and making it to Moscow
during her escape from the Soviet Union. For the next three decades he cared for Rabbi Levi Yitzchak’s resting place and Ohel, making sure it was clean and befitting the man.
R’ Yosef and his wife Tzilya later built a mikvah in their home, which was used by Jewish women locally and, being the only mikvah among the three neighboring Soviet republics, by women who flew in once a month. The couple would serve as pillars of Jewish life in Alma Ata throughout the hard decades
that they lived there, the bulk of the post-war Soviet era.
Their son Yehoshua received a PhD in physics and became a successful nuclear engineer, eventually becoming appointed as dean of Kazakh State University. But Soviet anti-Semitism being what it was, his high position did not stop him from being targeted by his peers and superiors, and he decided it
was time, together with his parents, to apply for exit visas. The Neymotins were refused visas by the government for five years, thus becoming Refuseniks, and Dr. Neymotin began considering joining the Soviet Jewry protest movements. That’s when he received a message from the Rebbe in New York discouraging his doing so.
“The Rebbe didn’t want me to start a fight with the government,” Neymotin recalled in an interview with Jewish Educational Media (JEM). “I was ready to start going to demonstrations, but the Rebbe said you will get the permission at the right time and in the right way.”
Not long thereafter the Neymotins received invitations to come America signed by Henry Kissinger.
Neymotin, who was hospitalized two weeks ago, is survived by his wife Margarita (Chaya), children Ita, Freida, and Benjamen, and multiple grandchildren.
The levaya will be held tomorrow, Friday morning. Shomrei Hadas at 9:00AM and passing 770 at 10:30AM with burial at 11:15 AM at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in close proximity to the Ohel and his father’s resting place.
(Burial location: Montefiore Ave and North 7th Street.)
Shiva announcements will be published when available |
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Experience the joy of Jewish traditions through cooking, crafts and electives.
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Delicious dinner served!
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Have a blast helping the community!
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Make new friends!
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April 11th: Aleph Bet yoga and slime making
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April 18th: Bake your own Challa and decorate a Challa cover
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April 25th: Tikkun Olam fair
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May 2nd: Outdoor arts and crafts fest, and family BBQ for Lag Baomer
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May 9th: Fruit leather flowers for Mothers Day, and decorate a dove for Jerusalem Day
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May 16th: Make your own cheesecake for Shavuot
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May 23rd: Ice Cream making
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May 30th: Heart cookies, friendship bracelets and awards ceremony
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6220 E Dublin Granville Road, New Albany, Ohio 43054 |
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Weekly Sessions Starting June 25th |
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Camp Gan Israel offers a full program of sports, games, crafts, dramatics and other enriching camp activities. Campers will have the opportunity to enjoy field trips to children's favorites, such as ice skating, bowling, the Columbus Zoo, Magic Mountain, COSI, Hocking Hills and other activities. Our
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"The Sabbath is to the week what the line break is to poetic language. It is the silence that forces you to return to what came before to find its meaning." |
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$120 for whole Year (includes textbook)
$20 per class |
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 AT 12:00 PM
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19 AT 12:00 PM
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LESSON 3 The Feminine Shabbat
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17 AT 12:00 PM | |
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 AT 12:00 PM
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LESSON 5 Sacred Symbolisms
THURSDAY, MARCH 15 AT 12:00 PM
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LESSON 6
Order from Chaos
MONDAY, APRIL 16 AT 12:00 PM
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TUESDAY, MAY 15 AT 12:00 PM
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Weekly Torah study
Please join us for "A Journey into the Soul of Torah", a weekly Torah study. The class will continue on Thursdays at 7:30 pm at The Lori Schottenstein Chadbad Center. Open to all and free of charge. |
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The Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center offers a full schedule of Shabbat services. Come and be inspired for the rest of the week! For more information, please call us at 614-939-0765.
Daily weekday morning SHACHRIS at 7am
12 Iyar, 5778
Friday, April 27, 2018
Friday Night Service at 6:00 p.m.
13 Iyar, 5778
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Shabbas Shachris at 9:30 am
CKids - ages 5-12, 10:45 a.m.
Torah and Tea*, 10:00 a.m.
*this class is now Dedicated in Memory of Rashi Minkowitz, ob"m, a community leader, mother and Shlucha
Tot Shabbot for 4 and under, 11:00 a.m.
Shabbas Mincha at 7:30 p.m.
14 Iyar, 5778
Sunday, April 29, 2018
Shachris at 9:45 a.m.
Hebrew School—Regular Hours |
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Parshat Acharei-Kedoshim
Following the deaths of
Nadav and Avihu, G‑d warns against unauthorized entry “into the holy.” Only one person, the kohen gadol (“high priest”), may—but once a year, on
Yom Kippur—enter the
innermost chamber in the Sanctuary to offer the sacred
ketoret to G‑d.
Another feature of the Day of Atonement service is the
casting of lots over two goats, to determine which should be offered to G‑d and which should be dispatched to carry off the
sins of Israel to the
wilderness.
The Parshah of Acharei also warns against bringing
korbanot (animal or meal offerings) anywhere but in the Holy Temple, forbids the consumption of
blood, and details the laws prohibiting incest and other deviant sexual
relations.
The Parshah of Kedoshim begins with the statement: “You shall be
holy, for I, the L‑rd your G‑d, am holy.” This is followed by dozens of
mitzvot (divine commandments) through which the Jew sanctifies him- or herself and relates to the holiness of G‑d.
These include: the prohibition against
idolatry, the mitzvah of
charity, the principle of
equality before the law,
Shabbat, sexual
morality,
honesty in business, honor and awe of one’s
parents, and the sacredness of
life.
Also in Kedoshim is the dictum which the great sage Rabbi Akiva called a cardinal principle of Torah, and of which Hillel said, “This is the entire Torah, the rest is commentary”—
“Love your fellow as yourself.”
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Your Questions
Does Judaism Believe in the Apocalypse?
“Six thousand
years is the world, and it is in ruins one [thousand], as it is stated: ‘The L‑rd alone shall be exalted on that day’” |
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Are Human Beings Hardwired for War?
Freud and Einstein
on the nature of conflict, and the Baal Shem Tov on man’s inner struggle. The mystical secret is to know that the world is full of mirrors to place the enemy in plain sight. |
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Parshah
The Gift of Forgiveness
From my perspective as a family
therapist, the greatest treasure in our Torah-inheritance is the instruction to free ourselves of anger and resentment... |
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He Got the Wrong Man!
It did not take long until they
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