Daily Mincha

The daily mincha minyan at K’hal Tzemach Tzedek is now at 5:00 PM.

N'shei Chabad Bookstore

The following new titles are now in stock:
Fit for a Princess
Shlomo's Little Joke
Inward Bound: Guide to Understanding Kabbalah
NEW DVD: The Rebbetzin (order by Sunday for a special introductory price of $18)
Purim is coming: Queen of Persia, Book or DVD
Pesach is not far behind: Out of Egypt, Book or DVD
And lots more...
To make an appointment please contact Mrs. Abramowitz at 845-558-8249.

Shabbos Kallah

The Shabbos Kallah for Chaya Abramowitz will take place this shabbos at the Abramowitz home, 479 Viola Road, at 4:00 PM. All women and girls are invited to attend.

Shmura Matzah Baking

A group will be baking matzos on Sunday, February 10th, at the Shmura Matzoh Bakery, under the hechsher of CHK, at 1285 36th Street (near 13th Avenue) in Borough Park, Brooklyn. This group observes many chumros, such as all new keilim, switching sticks after each matzo, etc. If you are interested in joining this group or want to purchase some of our matzos, please contact Rabbi Yisroel Fried at 212-864-0041 ext.14 or ryf@chabadwestside.org or Doniel Goldfarb at dgoldfarb770@netzero.com.

Film Showing - The Rebbetzin

The new film just released by JEM, The Rebbetzin, will be shown at K'hal Tzemach Tzedek on Sunday night, February 3, at 8:00 PM. Men and women are invited. The film is 75 minutes long.

The trailer is here:

Bris

David and Chana Rivka Novak will be making a Bris for their newborn son this Tuesday, January 29th at K’hal Tzemach Tzedek. Shacharis will be at 9:30 AM followed by the Bris at 10:15 AM.

Chof Beis Shvat Farbrengen

There will be a farbrengen for men with Rabbi Lesches, in honor of Chof Beis Shvat, this Monday night, January 28th, at K'hal Tzemach Tzedek following Maariv at 9:30 PM. All are encouraged to participate!

Rebbetzin Chaya Mushkah Schneerson, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, passed away on the 22nd of Shevat of the year 5748 (1988).

Mazel Tov Cohens!

Mazal Tov to Yeruchem and Fraida Cohen on the birth of a granddaughter to Eli and Dini Goldman of Los Angeles!

N'shei Chabad Chof Beis Shvat Farbrengen

Shalom Zachor

David and Chana Rivka Novak will be making a Shalom Zachor this friday night at their home, 153 Viola Road in Suffern.

House for Sale

This charming High Ranch in New Hempstead on 3/4 acre lot features:

* Dream kosher kitchen with 2 sinks, 2 stoves, 2 dishwashers, skylight and separate Pesach section
* Extra large eat-in kitchen with a picture window looking out onto the lush backyard, and with a walk-out to deck
* Brand new bi-level deck with BBQ
* Wood floors throughout the living room, dining room, hall and upstairs bedrooms
* 5 bedrooms + office/study and family room
* Built-in bookcases in LR and family room
* 2 and 1/2 baths (2 brand new)
* Newly painted and trimmed inside and out
* Brand new roof
* Central Air
* Extensive, well-established English cottage-syle perennial garden
* Vegetable patch in back
* Sidewalk in front of house
* Move-in condition saves tens of thousands in renovations

Great neighbors and neighborhood! Convenient to everything! Taxes $8,300
.65 of a mile to Tzemach Tzedek (using short cut about 12-15 minute walk at a moderate pace)
Priced to sell at $549,900K

Contact Yaakov & Chaya Esther Ort (up until 5 pm NY time) at: (845) 362-3849 or 011-972-52-449-5858 or at heidi.ort@gmail.com or yaakov.ort@gmail.com.

Mazel Tov Gitlers!

Mazel tov to Yoel Gitler of Monsey on his engagement to Sima Rittri of Zurich, Switzerland!

Mazel Tov Novaks - Twins!

Mazel tov, mazel tov to David and Chana Rivka Novak on the birth of twins - a baby boy and a baby girl!

Boruch Dayan HaEmes

We are deeply saddened to inform you of the very untimely passing of the father of Chanie Labkowski, R' Yisroel (Izzy) Rosenfeld OBM of Crown Heights.

Shiva is at 698 Empire Blvd. in Crown Heights - 718-778-1947.

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim. Vehukeetzu Veranenu Shochnay Ufur vehu besochom.

Ride to Litzman Wedding

If you have room for one person on Tuesday for Litzman's chasuna, please call Reuven Pollock at 914-522-0169 or reuven19@yahoo.com. Thank you.

Tu B'Shvat Farbrengen

There will be a farbrengen at K'hal Tzemach Tzedek with Rabbi Lesches in honor of Tu B'Shvat on Monday night, January 21, following Maariv which is at 9:30 PM. All are encouraged to participate!

Looking for House to Rent

A family of Anash is looking to rent a 4 bedroom house that is walking distance to the Tzemach Tzedek shul. If you know of one please call 845 371-7384 (home) or 845 548-8815 (cell.) Thank you.

Support our Community Businesses

If you have a business or service that you would like advertised on this blog, please email a very short description with the web address or phone number to news@monseychabad.com. For now, there is no charge for members of the community.

I have Come to My Garden - Part 2

Shidduch Meeting for Chabad Singles

Rashi Kaplan and Na’ami Eisenberg with L’chaim Monsey Shidduch Organization are sponsoring a Monsey community Shidduch meeting focusing on Chabad singles. The meeting will take place this Monday, January 21st, at 8:15 PM at the home of Chaya and Rashi Kaplan, 4 Fawn Lane in Suffern. For more information please call 845-664-0830 or 718-404-4384.

Restored Yud Shvat Audio

Jewish Educational Media has obtained a previously-unreleased recording of the Farbrengen of 10 Shevat, 5728 – 1968, corresponding to this year's chapter in the Maamar Bosi L'Gani.
Though recordings of this event were previously available, they were muffled and difficult to follow. The current recording – on loan to JEM for restoration and preservation as part of their Living Archive Restoration Project – is of superior sound quality, enabling you to relive the Farbrengen with much greater richness and clarity.
For comparison, we present the old and new recordings side-by-side. The JEM team, in cooperation with Chabad.org , has decided to release it in its present form in time for the Tenth of Shevat. Click here to listen.
The recording was made by Rabbi Sholom Yisroel Hodakov, and we thank him for sharing it with Klal Yisroel.

Yud Shvat

Yarzeit observances of Yud Shvat

Audio shiurim of Basi Legani with accompanying Hebrew text (by Rabbi Yosef Shusterman of Berverly Hills)

Audio shiurim of Basi Legani (by Rabbi Yossi Paltiel)

Video of the Rebbe saying the Maamer of Basi Legani

Video of the Rebbe davening shacharis for the amud on Yud Shvat

Basi Legani translated in English

Weinstein L'chaim - Vort

Rabbi Naftoli and Sherry Weinstein invite you to a Vort on the occasion of the engagement of their son Sruli to Malky Mirlis, this Monday, January 21st, from 7:30 to 10:30 PM at the Mirlis home, 122 High Street in Passaic.

Special Father-Son Learning Program

This motzoai Shabbos parshas B'shalach will be Cheder Chabad’s annual special Father–Son Learning program in honor of Yud Shvat. There will be a Melave Malka immediately following the learning. The program takes place at K’hal Tzemach Tzedek. The father-son learning begins at 7:30 followed by a special Melave Malka at 8:15 until 8:50 PM. All fathers and sons are invited to join the beautiful ruach and kol Torah this week and every motzoai Shabbos. Special thanks to Rabbi Michoel Hazan and family for sponsoring this week’s Melave Malka.

N'shei Chabad Convention

Baby Gift Baskets Are Back

Cheder Chabad is once again selling their one of a kind, beautiful, baby gift baskets. The baskets are available for sale in the Cheder office. For more information please call Daliah at 845-689-9028 or the Cheder office at 845-356-1213.

Tonight - N'shei Chabad Yud Shvat Farbrengen

All women are invited to come farbreng tonight, Tuesday, with Rabbi Markowitz at the home of Aidel Backman, 520 Viola Road (park across the street from the Backman home on Bedford Road). Rabbi Markowitz will give his weekly shiur in Sichos and Maamarim at 7:45 PM followed by the farbrengen at 9:00 PM. Please join us for some Yud Shvat inspiration and bring along your own stories and thoughts to share.

Cheder Chabad

A New York State police officer speaks with Cheder Chabad UPK and Pre1A boys.

Yud Shvat Farbrengen

There will be a special farbrengen for men with Rabbi Lesches, in honor of Yud Shvat, the yarzeit of the Freirdiker Rebbe and the day that the Rebbe assumed leadership, this Thursday, January 17th at K'hal Tzemach Tzedek. Maariv will be at 8:15 PM followed by the farbrengen at 8:30 PM. All are encouraged to participate!

PS - In honor of his mother's Yarzeit, Yosef Shandling will be saying the Yud Shvat maamar at Maariv on Wednesday night and after Shacharis and Mincha on Thursday.

Mazel Tov Weinsteins!

Mazel tov to Rabbi Naftoli and Sherry Weinstein on the engagement of their son Sruli to Malky Mirlis of Passaic, NJ!

Moshiach and Geulah Shiur

Rabbi Lesches’s popular monthly shiur on Moshiach and Geulah will take place this Monday evening, January 14th at 9:45 PM immediately following Maariv.

Shabbos Before Yud Shvat

Following the minhag of all Anash to get an Aliya on the shabbos before Yud Shvat, this Shabbos, parshas Bo, K’hal Tzemach Tzedek will have a laining at 8:45 AM as well as 3 simultaneous lainings during davening.

Community Calendar

A community calendar has now been added to the blog (scroll down). This will make people aware of all local events as well as help people avoid conflicts when scheduling events. To add an event please email news@monseychabad.com with the relevant details.

Mazel Tov Roths!

Mazel tov to Mordechai and Miriam Roth on the birth of a baby girl! Mazel tov to the grandparents Rabbi Zalmen Leib and Esther Markowitz!

Dovid Kaplan Art Exhibit at Helen Hayes Hospital

Dovid Kaplan invites you to view a large collection of his inspiring photographs on exhibit at Helen Hayes Hospital.
HOSPITAL HOSTS ART EXHIBIT
Helen Hayes Hospital in West Haverstraw is hosting an exhibit featuring the photography of Dovid Kaplan. The exhibit will be on display in the hospital Atrium from January 1 through February 29, 2008.
A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Kaplan completed his degree in Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, after studying Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has traveled extensively, visiting exotic and unusual locations around the world, and began his journey as an amateur nature photographer attempting to share his breathtaking vistas with others through the photographic medium.

Mr. Kaplan started with a 35mm film camera given to him by his father, Lewis, and remembers doing his own black & white developing in his teens and twenties. He got his first digital camera in 1999 and has not looked back since. He thoroughly enjoys the digital ability of viewing a captured photographic moment instantaneously on the digital camera screen and then the gratification of being able to print the image on the same day.

Mr. Kaplan has always been inspired by the essence of g-dliness as seen in nature from the days of playing hide and go seek in the New England woods near his home in Worcester, from the pristine wilderness of South-Eastern Alaska as seen from fishing boats, and from the Far East as a Peace Corps volunteer, to his pre-stroke camping trips and hikes in the various New York State Parks.

Mr. Kaplan has been a stroke survivor since August 2003, was a patient at Helen Hayes Hospital and takes advantage of his new lease on life by continuing his pursuit of capturing nature in its simple pureness with family or friends assisting him with his otherly ableness.

The exhibit at the physical rehabilitation hospital is open to the public on a daily basis and is free of charge. For additional information, call the Public Relations office at 786-4225.

For directions please visit www.helenhayeshospital.org/patient_visitor_info/directions.htm

Cheder Chabad Auction

Preparations for the Cheder Chabad Auction are in full swing. To donate any new merchandise or to sponsor a prize, please contact Daliah at 845-689-9028 or drop off your donation at the Cheder office. This year's auction is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend, Leah Miriam (Hayman) bas Leib Pesach OBM.

Daily Mincha and Rosh Chodesh

Please note the following changes to the Tzemach Tzedek davening schedule:

Daily Mincha:
The daily Mincha minyan is now at 4:30 PM.

Rosh Chodesh:
Shacharis on this Tuesday, Rosh Chodesh Shvat, will begin at 7:00 AM and not at 6:45 AM due to time of netz.

Melave Malka for Girls

There will be a Melave Malka this Motzai Shabbos Vaera, Shabbos Mevorchim Shvat, for girls in grades 8 through 12 at the Schulman home, 83 Southgate Drive, at 7:30 PM. Rabbi Lesches will be the guest speaker. We hope to see you there!

Shiurim by Rabbi Noson Gurary

Shiur for Men:Rabbi Noson Gurary gives a weekly Chassidus shiur for men every Thursday evening at Tzemach Tzedek North, 16 East Willow Tree Road, at 8:15 PM. Shiur for Women:Rabbi Noson Gurary will be giving a women's shiur this Monday, January 7, at 7:45 PM, on the topics of Rosh Chodesh and Tu B'Shevat, at the home of Mrs. Esther Hassan, 21 Deerwood Road (off East Willow Tree). All women are invited.

Job Opportunity

A national Chabad organization that works with university students on exciting programming is seeking an energetic and organized individual with a personable manner to work in our Monsey office. Applicant must be personable, computer literate and have excellent English and telephone skills. Please fax resume to 212-658-9273.

N'shei Event - Ask the Dr.

Tzemach Tzedek Installation Dinner

In a most beautiful event, over 250 members and friends of Anash from around the greater Monsey area gathered last night, on Chof Daled Teves, for a formal dinner, in honor of the installation of HaRav Boruch D. Lesches as the Rav of K’hal Tzemach Tzemach Lubavitch of Monsey. The evening began with words of Divrei Torah by Rabbi Simcha Werner, one of the founders of the Lubavitcher community in Monsey. The shul President, Mr. Yisroel Schulman, told of the tremendous effect Rabbi Lesches has already had in the community and how the community looks forward to growing on all levels for many more years under his inspiring leadership. Rabbi Zalmen Leib Markowitz, the shul Gabbai, presented Rabbi Lesches with a beautifully framed Ksav Rabbunus after which the crowd jumped to their feet in song and dance. Rabbi Lesches then spoke warmly about his move from Australia and about his new Shlichus in Monsey and thanked his family and the community for all of their support. The keynote address was given by the Rebbe’s secretary, Rabbi Leibel Groner, who impressed the crowd with how fortunate the community is to have Rabbi Lesches as its Rav followed by a number of stories of the Rebbe. All participants received a leather bound bencher as a memento of this beautiful occasion.

Breaking News - Tzemach Tzedek Expansion

At the community dinner tonight honoring Rav Lesches it was announced that the President and Vice President of K’hal Tzemach Tzedek, Mr. Yisroel Schulman and Mr. Avrohom Hayman, would contribute $100,000 each towards the expansion of the Tzemach Tzedek shul!