Dear Friends,
Here we are, approaching the days of Awe... It is customary that from the 15th day of Av, we already wish each other a "Kesiva Vachasima Tova", may you be inscribes and sealed for a good year, as we are in the latter half of the month before the month of Elul, a month of repentance in preparation for the High Holy Days.
Your "Life Membership" as a MOTT (member of the tribe) includes:
• PRIVATE ACCESS TO THE CREATOR
• PREMIUM SENSE OF BELONGING
• UNLIMITED JOY AND GOOD HEALTH
Be sure to use it and join us for the High Holiday Services at the Holiday Inn - Galleria!
This Shabbos is Av 20, the yartzeit (anniversary of the passing) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878-1944), in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was Chief Rabbi of Yekaterinoslav (currently Dnepropetrovsk), and was arrested and exiled to Kazakhstan by the Stalinist regime as a result of his work to preserve Jewish life in the Soviet Union.
Links:
A Brief Biography
Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson's biography, which includes her account of her husband's heroism, arrest and passing.
On 20 Av, exactly twenty years ago, it was also a Shabbos. That year, in honor of my bar-mitzvah, I had the privilege to spend a few hours a mere few feet from the Rebbe's presence at his public farbrengen (public address) in honor of this day, and receive an aliya immediately prior to his. On the following day the Rebbe wished me and my father personal blessings in honor of the occasion. A clip of it appears quickly in the beginning of the "Bar Mitzvah" Living Torah video clip here.
Shabbos Parshas Eikev
Friday, July 30
Services at 7:30 pm
Candle Lighting 7:58 pm
Shabbos, July 31, Chof Av
Preprayer Kabbala Study 9:00 am
Services at 10:00 am
Followed by kiddush
Mincha at 8:00 pm
Ethics of our Fathers, Chapter 5
Maariv, Havdalla and Shabbos Ends at 8:55 pm
Screening of Living Torah
Have a great Shabbos and with wishes of Kesiva Vachasima Tova,
Rabbi Chaim & Chanie