Our Jteen Club met Thursday for a Sukkos celebration, having lots of fun packing all the goodie bags for the Simchas Torah kids dance, making a blessing on the Lulav and Esrog, enjoyed delicious Sushi, awesome competitions and learned about the Jewish unity lessons gleaned from the Sukkah and the Lulav and Esrog.
The joyous holiday of Sukkos continues with
Family Sukkot Party, Sunday, September 26 at 5pm. and Simchat Torah Celebration!
Simchas Torah on Fair Lawn Ave, Tuesday, September 28 7:30pm.
A Celebration of Jewish pride!
Wishing you and your family a Good Shabbos and happy Sukkos.
Rabbi Mendel & Elke Zaltzman
Shabbos Times
Friday, September 24
Candle Lighting: 6:32pm Evening service: 6:35pm
Saturday, September 25
Morning service: 10:00am
Kiddush Brunch: 12pm Evening service: 6:35pm
Shabbos ends 7:29pm
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Bring the family for a night out in the Sukkah.
Delicious, hot buffet dinner in the Sukkah! Music and dancing! Shake the lulav and esrog! Petting Zoo! Crafts for kids!
Reserve below and bring your friends!
Cost: $18 per person.
Includes full dinner and all attractions! Complimentary for Partners in Pride
Simchas Torah Celebration
Tuesday, September 28 7:30pm
Bring the family for a night out on Fair Lawn Ave.
Delicious, hot buffet dinner, singing and dancing with the Torahs
All night open bar for adults
Special children's Torah dance with goodie bags and flags
Join us for this magnificent celebration of Jewish Pride!
No cost for this event, join and bring your friends.
A BISSELE HUMOR
Every day at lunch time Yankel would open his lunch sandwich and utter the same complaint. "Oh no, peanut butter again!”
One day, after seven years, his co-worker finally loses his patience. "Why don't you ask your wife to make you something different, for heaven’s sake?"
"That won't help", Yankel replies, "I make the sandwiches myself."
WEEKLY eTORAH
Once a year, Jews around the world gather in their synagogues and joyously celebrate, dance and sing. The holiday is a celebration of the Torah — as is indicated by its name, Simchat Torah. The timing of this holiday is often questioned: why celebrate our connection to the Torah more than four months after the date when it was given: Shavuot? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to do the hakafot on the day when we actually received the Torah?
The answer given is that our celebration on Shavuot is somewhat muted because the First Tablets were eventually destroyed. Simchat Torah, however, is a celebration of the Second Tablets, which Moses brought down from Heaven when G‑d granted forgiveness for the sin of the Golden Calf on Yom Kippur.
Simchat Torah is the culmination of the three-part Biblical holiday season. With each holiday, the joy steadily increases. After Passover and Shavuot we have Sukkot, a holiday dubbed "the Season of our Joy" — and then we are treated to the unbridled joy of Simchat Torah which eclipses even the joy of Sukkot. And the reason for this great joy? We are celebrating our "second chance."
The great joy generated by the giving of the Second Tablets has a dual nature:
a) To fully appreciate that which one has b) The First Tablets were a gift from Above. Even before the world was created, the Divine master plan centered upon this great gift G‑d would bestow upon His nation. The Second Tablets, however, we earned. It was our sincere repentance and Moses' successful intervention on our behalf which caused G‑d to reconsider His harsh decree and re-give the Torah.
Simchat Torah is the bridge between the holy three-week holiday season and the mundane year which is about to begin. The joy of Simchat Torah is meant to tide us over during the months which follow, energizing us until next year's holiday season, when we will again recharge our spiritual batteries.
On this Simchat Torah, let us all commit to earning our personal Second Tablets. We will then experience the real joy of this exulted day.
