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The Rebbe says:

1. The Talmud tells us that when Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our teacher) ascended to the Heavenly heights to receive the Torah the ministering angels asked Hashem (G-d) why He was giving the precious and coveted Torah “which has been stored by Hashem for two thousand years before the creation of the world” to people of flesh and blood and not “bestowing His glory upon the Heavens”. Hashem then told Moshe Rabbeinu to answer the angels.

Moshe said, “Master of the Universe, the Torah that You are giving me, what is written in it? ‘I am Hashem your G-d Who has taken you out of the land of Egypt’”. Moshe then said to the angels, “Did you descend to Egypt? Were you enslaved to Pharaoh? Why should the Torah be your?
What else is written in the Torah? ‘There shall not be unto you gods of others’. Do you live among the nations who worship idols?
What else is written in it? ‘Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it’. Do you engage in any labor from which you would need to rest?

Chag HaShavuos – The festival of Shavuos

The Rebbe says:

1. The Talmud tells us that when Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our teacher) ascended to the Heavenly heights to receive the Torah the ministering angels asked Hashem (G-d) why He was giving the precious and coveted Torah “which has been stored by Hashem for two thousand years before the creation of the world” to people of flesh and blood and not “bestowing His glory upon the Heavens”. Hashem then told Moshe Rabbeinu to answer the angels.

Moshe said, “Master of the Universe, the Torah that You are giving me, what is written in it? ‘I am Hashem your G-d Who has taken you out of the land of Egypt’”. Moshe then said to the angels, “Did you descend to Egypt? Were you enslaved to Pharaoh? Why should the Torah be your?
What else is written in the Torah? ‘There shall not be unto you gods of others’. Do you live among the nations who worship idols?
What else is written in it? ‘Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it’. Do you engage in any labor from which you would need to rest?

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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!
New Engagement!

Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Chein (Toulouse, France) to Chanale Greenberg (Shanghai, China) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at 695 East New York Ave
New Engagement!

Schneur Motchkin (Crown Heights) to Sarah Schmukler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Shmayah Schechter (Miami Beach, FL) to Bella Kimball (West Hartford, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 7:30pm at Chabad of Greater Hartford 2352 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT, 06117
Baby Girl!

Shneur and Sara (nee Heber) polter from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yonah Galili (Toronto, Canada) to Ora Zuckerman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, July 7th, 8:00pm at Bais Avraham Yitzchak 305 Remsen Ave
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Baila (nee Spielman) Vogel from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yechezkel Markovitch (Kiev, Ukraine) to Layah Carlbach (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Manssouri (Los Angeles, CA) to Raizy Altschul (Chicago, IL)
New Engagement!

Ari Drizin (New Haven, CT) to Batsheva Lisbon (San Diego, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at The Arches 1394 S. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Berel Laufer (Providence, RI) to Batya Deitsch (Columbus, OH) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Mendel Stolik (Lantana, FL) to Mussie Chanin (Har Shmuel, EY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
D’Ann Lawrence White - The Tampa Tribune
LITHIA, FL — Running her fingers through her middle child's long, curly locks for the last time, Tzippy Rubashkin said she had mixed feelings about her 3-year-old's first haircut.

Called the upsherinish ceremony, the first haircut represents a milestone in the Orthodox Jewish faith. Rubashkin said she will miss the long brown locks she used to capture in a bun and attempt to hold in place beneath a cap, though a few errant curls usually managed to escape.

Long, Curly Locks Of Tradition Fall In 1st Haircut

D’Ann Lawrence White – The Tampa Tribune

LITHIA, FL — Running her fingers through her middle child’s long, curly locks for the last time, Tzippy Rubashkin said she had mixed feelings about her 3-year-old’s first haircut.

Called the upsherinish ceremony, the first haircut represents a milestone in the Orthodox Jewish faith. Rubashkin said she will miss the long brown locks she used to capture in a bun and attempt to hold in place beneath a cap, though a few errant curls usually managed to escape.

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Tom Vogt - The Columbian

Levi Kagan, a scribe from Detroit, attends a Torah inauguration ceremony at the Chabad Jewish Center in Vancouver. Kagan did the first few characters on the Jewish sacred text Friday.

VANCOUVER, WA — This is how important the Torah has been to the family of Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg: It’s measured by the opportunity the Greenbergs had 42 years ago when they were allowed to leave the Soviet Union and settle in the promised land.

A Torah all their own

Tom Vogt – The Columbian

Levi Kagan, a scribe from Detroit, attends a Torah inauguration ceremony at the Chabad Jewish Center in Vancouver. Kagan did the first few characters on the Jewish sacred text Friday.

VANCOUVER, WA — This is how important the Torah has been to the family of Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg: It’s measured by the opportunity the Greenbergs had 42 years ago when they were allowed to leave the Soviet Union and settle in the promised land.

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By Tamar Runyan

Rabbi Levi Welton, as the biblical monarch, enraptures children with his “King David Show.”

Aside from the fact that the holiday of Shavuot marks the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people more than 3,320 years ago, the summer festival has an added significance for Rabbi Levi Welton.

One-Man-Show for Schoolchildren Brings King David to Life

By Tamar Runyan

Rabbi Levi Welton, as the biblical monarch, enraptures children with his “King David Show.”

Aside from the fact that the holiday of Shavuot marks the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people more than 3,320 years ago, the summer festival has an added significance for Rabbi Levi Welton.

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Mrs. Henya Lasky and Mrs. Cipi Junik are sitting Shiva, until Erev Shevuos, after the passing of their husband / father R. Aharon B"R Yakov OBM.

501 Crown St, [between Kingston and Albany Ave]

Email condolences to ajunik@bny.com

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Info to be Menachem Avel Mrs Lasky, Mrs Junik

Mrs. Henya Lasky and Mrs. Cipi Junik are sitting Shiva, until Erev Shevuos, after the passing of their husband / father R. Aharon B”R Yakov OBM.

501 Crown St, [between Kingston and Albany Ave]

Email condolences to ajunik@bny.com

Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Notices
Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
A professor once lamented to the Lubavitcher Rebbe about the depravity of human nature. “While most people,” argued the academic, “seem very nice and charming (politically correct) on the outside, beneath the surface we all tend to share the same ugly essence. We are all selfish, arrogant, and egotistical. Why should the intrinsic character of man be so abhorrent?”

The Rebbe responded with a parable: “When one takes a stroll down the street, one sees lovely houses, green lawns, flowery trees, paved roads and shiny cars. But when one takes a hoe and digs beneath the surface he exposes nothing but dirt and more dirt. The surface beauty is all gone.”

Not realizing where the Rebbe was heading with this, the professor found himself nodding in agreement. The Rebbe was actually affirming his point.

“But,” the Rebbe continued. “If one were not to give-up so quickly and continue digging even deeper, you know what he is likely to find? Water, minerals, perhaps even diamonds.” To encounter the inherent goodness in man one must be willing to dig a little deeper.

Shavuos – The Deeper Self

Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

A professor once lamented to the Lubavitcher Rebbe about the depravity of human nature. “While most people,” argued the academic, “seem very nice and charming (politically correct) on the outside, beneath the surface we all tend to share the same ugly essence. We are all selfish, arrogant, and egotistical. Why should the intrinsic character of man be so abhorrent?”

The Rebbe responded with a parable: “When one takes a stroll down the street, one sees lovely houses, green lawns, flowery trees, paved roads and shiny cars. But when one takes a hoe and digs beneath the surface he exposes nothing but dirt and more dirt. The surface beauty is all gone.”

Not realizing where the Rebbe was heading with this, the professor found himself nodding in agreement. The Rebbe was actually affirming his point.

“But,” the Rebbe continued. “If one were not to give-up so quickly and continue digging even deeper, you know what he is likely to find? Water, minerals, perhaps even diamonds.” To encounter the inherent goodness in man one must be willing to dig a little deeper.

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Lizzy Nielsen - AM NY

NEW YORK, NY — If you haven't installed your air conditioner yet, Friday might be the day to do it.

That's because New York this weekend will be sweltering through a brutal heat wave, the first of 2008.

Daytime highs will soar above 90 degrees from Saturday to Monday, according to Accuweather.com. And the high humidity will make those afternoons feel as though it's hotter than 100.

New York City Braces for Heat Wave

Lizzy Nielsen – AM NY

NEW YORK, NY — If you haven’t installed your air conditioner yet, Friday might be the day to do it.

That’s because New York this weekend will be sweltering through a brutal heat wave, the first of 2008.

Daytime highs will soar above 90 degrees from Saturday to Monday, according to Accuweather.com. And the high humidity will make those afternoons feel as though it’s hotter than 100.

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Mazal Tov! – 11 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Moshe and Nechama Dina (nee Backman) Leeds.
IYH at 386 Crown St, [bet Brooklyn and New York Ave].

Yisroel and Rivky (nee Gurary) Geisinsky.
IYH at 555 Crown St, Apt 3C, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

Avremi and Deena (nee Abend) Andrusier.
IYH at Bais Eliezer Yitzchok, 394 Kingston Ave, [bet Crown and Montgomery St].

Yoske and Devorie Wilmowsky.
IYH at 1522 President St, [bet Albany and Troy Ave]

Mendel and Estie Mockin.
IYH at the Agudah Shul, 456 Crown St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn].

Mendel and Chana (nee Rubin) Silberstein (Larchmont, NY) .
IYH at the Agudah Shul, 456 Crown St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn].

Shalom and Cherry New.
IYH at the Agudah Shul, 456 Crown St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn].

Mendel and Dina Polter.
IYH at 176 Adar Ct, Monsey, NY 10952.

Dovid and Goldie (nee Moscowitz) Tiechtel (Shluchim to Champaign) .
IYH at Chabad, 509 S 4th St, Champaign, IL 61820.

Zushe and Zisi Cunin.
IYH at 16654 Calle Arbolada, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.

Osher and Sarah Feldman.
IYH at 5 Hof St, Cape Town, South Africa.

Stay tuned as we update this list as information becomes available. However, in an unfortunate event that we do not get all the Sholom Zochors this week, we are sorry. But you can help! If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info! Thank You.

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Chabad, Getty, and Neighbors Square Off Over Palisades School Plan

Jane Ulman – Jewish Journal

Rabbi Zushe Cunin, who heads Chabad of Pacific Palisades, with son Zalmen Cunin, 4. – Photo: Al Seib

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA — Rabbi Zushe Cunin, head of Chabad of Pacific Palisades for 16 years, is accustomed to “overcoming and embracing all challenges,” he said. But the uproar surrounding his plans to relocate Chabad’s Palisades Jewish Early Childhood Center to a vacant building off Los Liones Drive — in a canyon below an affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood and off a service road leading to the Getty Villa — has surprised him.

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Chabad.org

Two proud bat mitzvah girls take a break during a grand banquet at S. Petersburg, Russia's famed Great Choral Synagogue.

Some 50 boys and girls celebrated their entrance into Jewish adulthood in a joint ceremony at S. Petersburg, Russia's famed Great Choral Synagogue.

Ceremony Marks Beginning of Jewish Adulthood for S. Petersburg Adolescents

Chabad.org

Two proud bat mitzvah girls take a break during a grand banquet at S. Petersburg, Russia’s famed Great Choral Synagogue.

Some 50 boys and girls celebrated their entrance into Jewish adulthood in a joint ceremony at S. Petersburg, Russia’s famed Great Choral Synagogue.

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