A.N.#339 Yomtov Winners, Touro College Trip
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I would like to thank all the special people that made Tishrei such a memorable experience for so many. This year each yomtov was experienced fully and joyously at Aliya. Firstly thank you to Mendy Sacho for helping with the auctions. Auctions this year went for tzedakah as well as for New Year resolutions.
Thank you to all our auction winners. Weather you won with tzedakah to aliya or mitzvos they are all greatly appreciated. Here is a list of the major kibbudim that were won over Yomtov:
Yom Kippur: Pesicha Kol Nidrei was won by Rabbi Mendy Baitz and Moishe Witkes, Maftir Yona: Nachman Ziskind, Peciach Neila: Rabbi Mendy Baitz and Yossi Kagan.
Simchas Torah: All the Persukim of Atah Horaisa: Yudi Schechter and Berke Chein, Chosson Torah: Levi Katz and Chosson Beraishis: Zaki Tamir, Matiyahu Abarbaner, Shevach Tamir, Sender Hellinger, Danny Dahan, Isic Chanin and Rabbi Mendy Baitz.
Yudi Schechter not only won the Pesukim with Tzedakah but also made sure each person he gave a possuk to took on a hachlatah for the new year. We have had a lot more young men coming through this week to put on Teffillin following Simchas Torah auctions.
A special thank you also goes out to Moishe Gurkow and Menachem Malka for putting together a five star barbecue on Simchas Torah that everyone enjoyed immensely. Overall it was a great yomtov and everyone enjoyed in a responsible way and was uplifted.
 This past Tuesday night Aliya took a trip to Boropark for an exclusive dinner and tour of Touro College. We met with the dean of the college as well as the admissions director who both said they would do whatever it takes
to help Aliya members get in and get a degree in what they wanted to do. A supporter of Aliya has generously offered to sponsor any of our members that want to learn a trade but don't have the resources. While passed one of the classrooms I noticed and aliya member who is presently studying in Touro daveing Maariv with his classmates at the conclusion of their class. This new relationship between Aliya and Touro will Gd willing turn out to be a
very beneficial one for all our members that are motivated to get a career. Scroll down for some more pictures.
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 Barnum
& Bailey was transferring the circus from one town to another. The elephants were connected trunk to tail. They came along a railroad crossing and as the elephants were halfway across the tracks, a train came along and killed two of them.
Shortly thereafter, B&M Railroad received an invoice from Barnum and Bailey for $10,000. B&M immediately called Barnum & Bailey and requested an explanation for the charge, writing, "What is the cost of a new elephant?"
Barnum & Bailey responded, "$1,000 each."
B&M responded, "But, we only killed two of them!"
Barnum & Bailey said, "Yes, but you pulled the trunks of eight others." |
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 GFC???
Question) what is the connection between the flood waters, and our Global Financial crisis?
Answer) The flood brought upon the world in the days of Noach are commonly understood to be waters of destruction; Waters with which G-d punished its inhabitants for their evil behavior. The Alter Rebbe, (Reb Schnuer Zalman of Liadi) taught us that the flood was also part of a global purification process
similar to a Mikvah. Just as a mikvah is required to contain 40 Se'ah of water to be able to purify a person, so to, the flood waters lasted 40 days. This also explains why these waters were known as 'Mei Noach", "waters of Noach" or "waters of pleasantness". How could waters that caused global destruction be known as "pleasant waters"? The answer is that the primary purpose of the flood was for global purification, which is ultimately for our
own good.
The Rebbe teaches us that those turbulent flood waters of yesterday take on the form of financial pressures in today's climate. Many of us who suffer from financial constraints and difficulties providing for our families can be comforted in knowing that these challenges are actually destined from G-d. Just as the purpose
of a Mikvah is to submerge our being into holiness, leaving behind our egos, so to the purpose of economic struggle is to shake us up and remind us that Parnassah comes from Hashem, not from our own hands. This mindset will humble us, which will open all the channels of blessings for us and cause blessings to shower down on us in infinite quantities!
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Farbrengen Night
Oct. 3, 2013 - 9:00 pm
Thursday night is farbrengen night every week at Aliya rain or shine. A hot delicious cholent is served and is always scraped to the bottom by the end of the night no mater how big we make it. Sometimes there is a guest speaker, most of the time the guys are the speakers. It is by far the highlight of the week.
JLI with Mendy
Oct. 7, 2013 - 8:00 pm
Rabbi Mendy Baitz teaches the famous and fascinating JLI course weekly. Whoever competes the course will receive the official JLI certificate!
GED
Oct. 7, 2013 - 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
GED Monday and Wednesday nights with Steven Graham, professor at Turo College.
Chavrusa and Sushi
Oct. 8, 2013 - 9:00 pm
Tuesday night is Chavrusa night at Aliya. Our members are paired up with community members as well as older bochurim for a serous learning session. Learning is followed by Sushi and counts towards our bi annual shabbatons.
GED
Oct. 9, 2013 - 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
GED Monday and Wednesday nights with Steven Graham, professor at Turo College.
Farbrengen Night
Oct. 10, 2013 - 9:00 pm
Thursday night is farbrengen night every week at Aliya rain or shine. A hot delicious cholent is served and is always scraped to the bottom by the end of the night no mater how big we make it. Sometimes there is a guest speaker, most of the time the guys are the speakers. It is by far the highlight of the week.
JLI with Mendy
Oct. 14, 2013 - 8:00 pm
Rabbi Mendy Baitz teaches the famous and fascinating JLI course weekly. Whoever competes the course will receive the official JLI certificate!
GED
Oct. 14, 2013 - 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
GED Monday and Wednesday nights with Steven Graham, professor at Turo College.
Chavrusa and Sushi
Oct. 15, 2013 - 9:00 pm
Tuesday night is Chavrusa night at Aliya. Our members are paired up with community members as well as older bochurim for a serous learning session. Learning is followed by Sushi and counts towards our bi annual shabbatons.
GED
Oct. 16, 2013 - 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
GED Monday and Wednesday nights with Steven Graham, professor at Turo College.
Farbrengen Night
Oct. 17, 2013 - 9:00 pm
Thursday night is farbrengen night every week at Aliya rain or shine. A hot delicious cholent is served and is always scraped to the bottom by the end of the night no mater how big we make it. Sometimes there is a guest speaker, most of the time the guys are the speakers. It is by far the highlight of the week.
JLI with Mendy
Oct. 21, 2013 - 8:00 pm
Rabbi Mendy Baitz teaches the famous and fascinating JLI course weekly. Whoever competes the course will receive the official JLI certificate!
GED
Oct. 21, 2013 - 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
GED Monday and Wednesday nights with Steven Graham, professor at Turo College.
Chavrusa and Sushi
Oct. 22, 2013 - 9:00 pm
Tuesday night is Chavrusa night at Aliya. Our members are paired up with community members as well as older bochurim for a serous learning session. Learning is followed by Sushi and counts towards our bi annual shabbatons.
GED
Oct. 23, 2013 - 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
GED Monday and Wednesday nights with Steven Graham, professor at Turo College. |
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I was offered to trade places with Abraham Our Father, I wouldn't do it. What would G-d get from this? He'd still have one Abraham and one Zushe!
— Chassidic master Rabbi Zushe of Anipoli |
Parshat Noach
G‑d instructs Noah—the only righteous man in a world consumed by violence and corruption—to build a large wooden teivah (“ ark”),
coated within and without with pitch. A great deluge, says G‑d, will wipe out all life from the face of the earth; but the ark will float upon the water, sheltering Noah and his family, and two members (male and female)
of each animal species.
Rain falls for 40 days and nights, and the waters churn for 150 days more before calming and beginning to recede. The ark settles on Mount Ararat, and from its window
Noah dispatches a raven, and then a series of doves, “to see if the waters were abated from the face of the earth.” When the ground dries completely—exactly one solar year (365
days) after the onset of the Flood—G‑d commands Noah to exit the teivah and repopulate the earth.
Noah builds an altar and offers sacrifices to G‑d. G‑d swears never again to destroy all of mankind because of their deeds, and sets the rainbow as a testimony of His new covenant with man.
G‑d also commands Noah regarding the sacredness of life: murder is deemed a capital offense, and while man is permitted to eat the meat
of animals, he is forbidden to eat flesh or blood taken from a living animal.
Noah plants a vineyard and becomes drunk on its produce. Two of Noah’s sons, Shem
and Japheth, are blessed for covering up their father’s nakedness, while his third son, Ham,
is punished for taking advantage of his debasement.
The descendants of Noah remain a single people, with a single language and culture, for ten generations. Then they defy their Creator by building a great tower to
symbolize their own invincibility; G‑d confuses their language so that “one does not comprehend the tongue of the other,” causing them to abandon their project and disperse across the face of the
earth, splitting into seventy nations.
The Parshah of Noach concludes with a chronology of the ten generations from Noah to Abram (later Abraham), and the latter’s journey from
his birthplace of Ur Casdim to Charan, on the way to the land of Canaan. |
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