Dear {{first_name}}, Please join us this Shabbos for services to celebrate Jewish life together. Israel needs this, the Jewish people need this, each one of us needs this!! We look forward to celebrating Shabbat with you! Friday Night 6:05pm Saturday 10:00am Torah reading 10:45am Kiddush lunch 12:15pm ---------------------------------- You may have heard the big exciting announcement this Yom Kippur about our long anticipated, much needed plans to expand and renovate our Synagogue in order to be able to comfortably and properly accommodate the community that has long called Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn its spiritual home.
You can help make this dream a reality this Monday, October 16 at 7:00pm at the first planning board hearing at Fair Lawn Borough Hall.
It is important that our community attend and show its support of this project especially given that there is formal opposition. The meeting will be held at Fair Lawn Borough Hall 8-01 Fair Lawn Ave. Please arrive at the hearing no later than 7:30pm. But if you cannot arrive until later, it’s ok to come after 7:30pm. We thank you and look forward to seeing you!
Sincerely, Rabbi Mendel & Elke Zaltzman
Shabbos Times
Friday, October 13 Candle Lighting: 6:01pm Evening Service: 6:05pm
The Community joined together to pray, strenghthen each other and resolve in doing more Mitzvot for the safety of our brothers and sisters in our Holy Land!
Hebrew School classes Sunday, October 15 at 10am.
Our Hebrew school offers learning and experiencing Jewish life in a non-judgmental, interactive and warm environment. Hebrew reading, Jewish history, traditions, mitzvot, Israel and holidays come alive with creative and hands on lessons.
A man brings some very fine material to a tailor and asks him to make a pair of pants. When he comes back a week later, the pants are not ready. Two weeks later, they still are not ready. Finally, after six weeks, the pants are ready. The man tries them on. They fit perfectly. Nonetheless, when it comes time to pay, he can’t resist a jibe at the tailor. “You know,” he says, “it took G-d only six days to make the world. And it took you six weeks to make just one pair of pants.” “Ah,” the tailor says. “But look at this pair of pants, and look at the world!”
WEEKLY eTORAH
This week’s parshah is Bereishit, and the Torah reading contains the story of creation, beginning with the well-known line commonly rendered, “In the beginning, G‑d created heaven and earth.” But the Chassidic Masters have interpreted it to also mean: “G‑d created beginnings.” Not only did He create a new world, but He created the idea of new beginnings and new opportunities for all time. Imagine if there was never a time or opportunity to start over again? Our lives would be significantly poorer for it. You may be surprised to learn that, according to the Midrash and Kabbalistic tradition, ours was not the first world G‑d created. He created other worlds too, but they did not please Him and so they did not endure. Only when it came to our world does it say, “And G‑d saw that it was good.” This world found favor in His eyes. The others did not. What is the Midrash telling us? That G‑d made mistakes? That He messed up and had to keep trying over and over again until he got it right? That doesn’t sound like the perfect Supreme Being we subscribe to. Of course, G‑d doesn’t need to practice until He gets it right! By creating several worlds before ours, G‑d was deliberately teaching us an important lesson for life. That it’s OK to make a mistake. That we can start again. That there can be new beginnings. If G‑d could start over, so can we. This Shabbat, known as Shabbat Bereishit, is a time of new beginnings. It is the first Shabbat as we get back to the routine of the new year following the festive Yom Tov season. It is a bridge into the new Jewish calendar year, and is rich with opportunity and potential. It helps us infuse the new year with the inspiration of our High Holiday experiences. Even if there may be areas of our lives which haven’t quite gone the way we would have liked them to, we can be assured that it is not too late to try again. Don’t be discouraged. Let’s grasp this wonderful opportunity for a fresh start and a new beginning.
