This morning on NBC4’s Mornings newscast there was a unique feature on the Exodus Experience where a news crew toured exodus along with Bais Rivka’s 3Rd Grade.
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Yesterday [Thursday] Evening at around 9:45 a girl was mugged on the corner of Lefferts Ave. and Troy Ave. Two younger black males ran up to the girl and snatched her purse, then ran up Troy Ave. Police arrived on scene and took the girl to the police station where they filed a police report.
This come’s just two days after the vicious attack on a 14 year old boy on Schenectady and Carroll, where he was both mugged and severely beaten. In this case B”H they did not assault the girl.
With sunset tonight, like every Friday night, dozens of Orthodox Jews will walk to synagogue. But when Hurricane Wilma damaged the delicate boundaries of the eruv west of Boynton Beach, the walk became a bit challenging.
An eruv turns the public domain into the private, allowing those who strictly follow Jewish law to carry objects from their home to synagogue. Now, after hundreds of hours of painstaking labor, the eruv surrounding Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton Beach is back up.
“People had a real sense of freedom,” said Aaron Itzkowitz, who helped reconstruct the eruv, functional for the first time last week.
This week’s section begins the third book of the Torah and is the follow-up to the book of Exodus.
Perhaps the most dominant sentence in Exodus is G-d’s message to Pharaoh: “Release My people and they will serve Me” and the book of Vayikra explains exactly what that service is: The sacrifices in the Temple.
And so it is today. Although we temporarily have no Temple, we are waiting impatiently for Moshiach to build the third and final one (Rambam, Laws of Kings 11;1) so the sacrifices can again resume with even more strength than before, as we say in the Musaf Prayers “Then we will do (make the sacrifices) before You, G-d, as you truly desire.”
This tiny mountaintop kingdom has one of the largest Passover Seders in the world, with more than 2,000 guests. But getting the Passover goods onto the table is a hi-suspense drama that has, in past years, come to 11th hour resolution.
This year too, Chabad Rabbi Chezy and Chani Lifschitz waited with bated breath for the container carrying tons of matzah and seder food supplies to arrive. Enroute for a month, the container traveled from Israel to India by ship, and from India to Nepal by land. Last year, the 18-wheeler carrying the cargo overturned, with cases of the precious Passover goods spilling out only days before the holiday. It took several helicopters arranged by Rabbi Lifschitz, to retrieve the cases of food and deliver them in the nick of time. The year before, the container arrived 24 hours before the Seder.
Miriam Ferris’ groceries cost about $300 a week — not including the fish and chicken she buys from the kosher butcher. The list includes such items as “20 lbs. of potatoes,” “2 bags of string beans” and “3 cases of eggs.”
And believe it or not, this isn’t her Passover shopping. Though if you attend a normal Shabbat dinner at her house, you might think you are there for a Passover seder.
Three tables are set together end-to-end. Close to 30 people are crammed into a room. Plates and plates of hot food are served to grateful guests, some of whom who dropped in without even a moment’s notice.
Judaism and joy are synonymous for Rabbi Yisroel and Shayna Freeman, a young couple whose own lives are dedicated to serving the Jewish community by providing spiritual and educational enrichment.
In January the Freemans established the Chabad Jewish Center of Sudbury to serve the Jewish communities of Sudbury, Marlborough and Hudson. Their goal is to provide opportunities for local Jews to study and deepen their knowledge of Jewish law and philosophy through a variety of programs from one-on-one Torah study to lively holiday parties for children.
“It’s a very joyful way, the Hasidic style,” said Yisroel Freeman. “When we do Jewish events everyone should go away with happy feelings.”
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