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By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Florida
Amongst the varied items for which we seek forgiveness in the confession prayer recited on the holy Yom Kippur, is a somewhat odd class of transgression: “The sins which we have committed before You with the ‘Yetzer hara,’ (evil inclination).”

“But,” as my early days spiritual mentor would rhetorically muse, “Aren’t all sins preformed with the evil inclination? Surely there are no sins committed with the ‘Good inclination?’”

“The sins which we have committed with the evil inclination,” he would offer as a rejoinder, “Refers not to sins which the evil inclination had managed to drag us into, but rather to sins into which we had managed to drag our evil inclination.”

Antagonizing Our Evil Inclination – The “Misoninim” Syndrome

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Florida

Amongst the varied items for which we seek forgiveness in the confession prayer recited on the holy Yom Kippur, is a somewhat odd class of transgression: “The sins which we have committed before You with the ‘Yetzer hara,’ (evil inclination).”

“But,” as my early days spiritual mentor would rhetorically muse, “Aren’t all sins preformed with the evil inclination? Surely there are no sins committed with the ‘Good inclination?’”

“The sins which we have committed with the evil inclination,” he would offer as a rejoinder, “Refers not to sins which the evil inclination had managed to drag us into, but rather to sins into which we had managed to drag our evil inclination.”

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Baby Boy!

Zev and Chaya Mushka Shusterman from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
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Mendel Vardi (Yerushalayim, EY) to Sara Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden) L’Chaim: Tuesday, the 4th of Av, 8:30pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Sholom and Chaya Mushka (nee Rosenfeld) Katz from Lauderhill, FL had a baby girl!
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Ari and Chanie Greenwald from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Israel Guetta (Netanya ,Israel) to Sterna Benmoussa (Paris ,France )
New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
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Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
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Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

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Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
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Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
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New Engagement!

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Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!
By Larry Gordon for the 5 Towns Jewish Times
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It was a beautiful day on March 1, 1994, as Nachum Sasonkin, an Israeli-born 18-year-old student at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn, rode in a van with his friends, returning to yeshiva from a visit to the hospital in Manhattan where their Rebbe, R’ Menachem Mendel Schneerson—lay in a coma. They were young men, teenagers, studying in yeshiva; everything was just the way they had hoped it would be. But then, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, everything went black. Someone was shooting at their school bus.

Growing With Moshe Sasonkin

By Larry Gordon for the 5 Towns Jewish Times
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It was a beautiful day on March 1, 1994, as Nachum Sasonkin, an Israeli-born 18-year-old student at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn, rode in a van with his friends, returning to yeshiva from a visit to the hospital in Manhattan where their Rebbe, R’ Menachem Mendel Schneerson—lay in a coma. They were young men, teenagers, studying in yeshiva; everything was just the way they had hoped it would be. But then, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, everything went black. Someone was shooting at their school bus.

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This Weeks Sholom Zochors

6 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Yosef and Chanie (nee Korolitzky) Pontos
658 Crown St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]

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Zalmen and Chanie Hertzel
770 Lefferts Ave, Apt C2L [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]

Levy and Maryasha (nee Duchan) Djian
Ohel Nosson, 580 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Levi and Sarah (nee Ungar) Dworcan
Mayan Yisroel, 3307 Avenue N, Brooklyn, NY 11234

Chesky and Rochel Litzman
8 Grosser Ln, Monsey, NY 10952

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Defendant Sholom Rubashkin, former Agriprocessors co-vice president, talks to Defense Attorney F. Montgomery Brown during a break in the trial at the Black Hawk County Courthouse on Wednesday, May 26, 2010.

WATERLOO, IA — Defense attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin quizzed the state's lead investigator over the age of Guatemalan and Mexican immigrants detained in the 2008 Agriprocessors raid Thursday.

DCI Investigator Asked to Guess Ages of Agri Workers

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Defendant Sholom Rubashkin, former Agriprocessors co-vice president, talks to Defense Attorney F. Montgomery Brown during a break in the trial at the Black Hawk County Courthouse on Wednesday, May 26, 2010.

WATERLOO, IA — Defense attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin quizzed the state’s lead investigator over the age of Guatemalan and Mexican immigrants detained in the 2008 Agriprocessors raid Thursday.

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by Yonit Tanenbaum

Twelve-year-old Iowa native Meir Simcha Rubashkin documents his personal view of his hometown in Postville with specific snapshots and captions. The story his photographs tell is one of the past, present, and future.

Speaking of Hope Through Our Photo Competition

by Yonit Tanenbaum

Meir Simcha tells the story of Postville through photography.

Twelve-year-old Iowa native Meir Simcha Rubashkin documents his personal view of his hometown in Postville with specific snapshots and captions. The story his photographs tell is one of the past, present, and future.

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From the Inbox: A letter from concerned mother with child care tips.

As a working mother (I would love to stay home but unfortunately there are bills to pay) I am faced with the challenge of finding an appropriate babysitter for my child(ren). In my quest to find a loving, caring, devoted woman to care for my child while I am away-and my experience using some has left me with a haunting question. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILD IS? I started off naïve (like many) thinking that sending my child to an experienced mother of many was surely a good place for him...

For a woman to open a babysitting service in her home takes little or no effort at all. The place is rent free and she takes out her own childrens toys. Many are warm and caring but there are many that do it for the money alone and don’t have your child’s best interest at heart. I am happy to say that my child is (now B’h) by an incredible woman whom he lovingly calls ‘Bubby’ but here are some things that I personally saw and heard from other mothers.

Concerned Mother: Do You Know Where Your Child Is?

From the Inbox: A letter from concerned mother with child care tips.

As a working mother (I would love to stay home but unfortunately there are bills to pay) I am faced with the challenge of finding an appropriate babysitter for my child(ren). In my quest to find a loving, caring, devoted woman to care for my child while I am away-and my experience using some has left me with a haunting question. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILD IS? I started off naïve (like many) thinking that sending my child to an experienced mother of many was surely a good place for him…

For a woman to open a babysitting service in her home takes little or no effort at all. The place is rent free and she takes out her own childrens toys. Many are warm and caring but there are many that do it for the money alone and don’t have your child’s best interest at heart. I am happy to say that my child is (now B’h) by an incredible woman whom he lovingly calls ‘Bubby’ but here are some things that I personally saw and heard from other mothers.

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Honda Motor Company has recently issued a recall that affects one of the most common car used by Jewish families, its Odyssey minivan. The issues is the brake pedal getting soft over time and not stopping the car properly.

Honda Issues Recall Notice for 2007-08 Odyssey Minivans

Honda Motor Company has recently issued a recall that affects one of the most common car used by Jewish families, its Odyssey minivan. The issues is the brake pedal getting soft over time and not stopping the car properly.

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By Debbie Maimon for the Yated Newspaper

As Sholom Rubashkin’s trial over child-labor charges enters its third week, the spectacle of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants stammering fictitious stories before a jury continues to evoke astonishment that such a charade could pass for legitimate proceedings in an American court of law.

Government Fumbles In Rubashkin State Trial

By Debbie Maimon for the Yated Newspaper

As Sholom Rubashkin’s trial over child-labor charges enters its third week, the spectacle of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants stammering fictitious stories before a jury continues to evoke astonishment that such a charade could pass for legitimate proceedings in an American court of law.

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CrownHeights.info and The Avner Institute would like to present a beautiful photo of the Rebbe delivering an address to the lay leaders of Chabad together with their Shluchim (emissaries) in the winter of 1991. During this event, begun in the 1980s by Machane Israel, lay leaders were given the merit to meet with the Rebbe privately to discuss Chabad activities in their cities, as well as personal matters.

Weekly Unique Picture of the Rebbe!

CrownHeights.info and The Avner Institute would like to present a beautiful photo of the Rebbe delivering an address to the lay leaders of Chabad together with their Shluchim (emissaries) in the winter of 1991. During this event, begun in the 1980s by Machane Israel, lay leaders were given the merit to meet with the Rebbe privately to discuss Chabad activities in their cities, as well as personal matters.

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