This Shabbos is known as "Shabbos Selichos", when we kick off a series of Selichot ("supplication") prayers recited in preparation for the "Days of Awe" of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur beginning this Saturday night, after midnight (after the Ashkenazic custom; the Sephardic community begins on the 1st of Elul). On subsequent days, the custom is to recite the Selichot in the early morning hours, before the morning prayers, each morning up to and including Elul 29, the eve of Rosh Hashanah. Please let us know if we can count on you for the Selichos minyan this Saturday night at 1:20 am Tishrei, the month of the High Holidays, Days of Awe and Days of Joy are HERE! Chabad of Uptown looks forward to celebrating the High Holidays with you. Since the onset of the pandemic, we have done all we can to provide a safe environment for the community to daven and celebrate. For the increased attendance expected on the High Holidays we will ask all to please use a facemask so everyone can feel comfortable. If you do not feel comfortable attending the services indoors, we recommend that you please attend the 12:30 pm Shofar blowing times on both days, when we will have a Shofar service on the outdoor patio. You may also want to attend the outdoor Tashlich walk, that leaves the shul at 7 pm. The shofar will be blown at the Tashliach service as well. For the complete schedule of services, to RSVP for holiday dinners or lunches, visit www.chabaduptown.org/services. Now is also the time to join or renew your voluntary membership to Chabad. Your partnership allows us to provide free, open and welcoming services to all, for the holidays and year round! CALENDAR OF TISHREI HOLIDAYS: YJP Houston: Next week is September First Fridays Shabbat Dinner! Click here to RSVP $18 until Thursday, $25 after Use promo code: advance Mazel tov to Rabbi Chaim's brother Mendy on his marriage this week to Mindy Scerbo from NJ! SHABBOS SELICHOS PARSHAS KI TAVO Friday, 19 Elul - August 27 Shabbos 20 - August 28
By now you should have received the candle lighting calendar magnet with Shabbat and Holiday start and end times. This project is sponsored each year by Dr. Jerald Simmons of Comprehensive Sleep Medicine Associates and The Shamooelian family of River Oaks Plant House. We thank them for their support! If you did not get one, please reply to this email with your most updated mailing address and we will get one right out to you!
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Mincha at 7:30 pm
Light Shabbat candles at 7:31 pm
Chassidus at 9 am
Shacharis at 10:00 am
Followed by Shabbos Lunch Kiddush
Mincha at 7:30 pm
Ethics of Our Fathers, Ch. 3 & 4
Maariv, Havdalla & Shabbos Ends at 8:25 pm
Living Torah
Selichos at 1:20 am
Updates
Thoughts, notes and happenings...
kicking off the holidays this Shabbos
Torah Siyum news & photos!
JEWISH HERALD VOICE, FRONT PAGE: Dozens of Jewish community members joyfully marched with a police escort near The Galleria on Sunday, Aug. 15, welcoming a new special member to Chabad of Uptown. A brand-new Torah – commissioned in Houston, written in Israel and dedicated in memory of a dear friend in South Africa – made its way down the 610 feeder to Westcreek Lane and to its eventual home on Bettis Drive. “With great pomp and fanfare we completed the Torah and welcomed it to our shul,” Chabad of Uptown Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff told the JHV. Read more... ANASH.ORG: A Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah was held this Sunday at Chabad of Uptown & YJP Houston, but the story behind it began years earlier, with a different Sefer Torah in South Africa. In 2013, Maurice Purcell travelled from Houston to visit his hometown of Cape Town, South Africa, and spent some time with his childhood friend Ronnie Levy. Read more.... PHOTOS: Check out the complete photo gallery here! BTW, did you know that you can see all of our photo galleries from past events on our website? Check out www.chabaduptown.org/photos Tishrei, the month of the High Holidays, Days of Awe and Days of Joy is fast approaching! Now is the time to join or renew your voluntary membership to Chabad.Your partnership allows us to provide free, open and welcoming services to all, for the holidays and year round! Visit our High Holiday section of the website at www.chabaduptown.org/services CALENDAR OF TISHREI HOLIDAYS: SHABBOS PARSHAS KI TEITZEI Friday, 12 Elul - August 20 Shabbos 13 Elul - August 21
Chabad of Uptown welcomed a new Torah this week! What a wonderful celebration! Special thanks to River Oaks Plant House for donating the beautiful flowers and Shlomie Nathanson for the wonderful photography!
www.chabaduptown.org/services
Mincha at 7:30 pm
Light Shabbat candles at 7:39 pm
Chassidus at 9 am
Shacharis at 10:00 am
Followed by Shabbos Lunch Kiddush
Mincha at 7:40 pm
Ethics of Our Fathers, Ch. 1 & 2
Maariv, Havdalla & Shabbos Ends at 8:33 pm
Living Torah
we are getting married this Sunday!
Here is an outline of laws and customs related to a Siyum Sefer Torah for your own knowledge..... PLEASE RSVP FOR NEW TORAH CELEBRATION! Be a part of history and join us on August 15 at the Staybridge Suites - Galleria. www.chabaduptown.org/torah. So we can plan the catering accordingly, please RSVP here Tishrei, the month of the High Holidays, Days of Awe and Days of Joy is fast approaching! Now is the time to join or renew your voluntary membership to Chabad.Your partnership allows us to provide free, open and welcoming services to all, for the holidays and year round! Visit our High Holiday section of the website at www.chabaduptown.org/services CALENDAR: The ancient Greeks were fascinated with the human body, glorifying it and marveling at its finesse and power. more… SHABBOS PARSHAS SHOFTIM Friday, 5 Elul - August 13 Shabbos 6 Elul - August 14 Sunday, 7 Elul, - August 15
This Sunday, you are invited to a wedding! A brand new Torah will be completed and parade under a wedding canopy, with police escort to the Shul for an installation and celebratory buffet dinner with some tables set up outdoors! Wondering why this is a big deal? Read this wonderful letter from the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe that gives a beautiful description of what this looked like in the shtetl.
Mincha at 7:30 pm
Light Shabbat candles at 7:46 pm
Chassidus at 9 am
Shacharis at 10:00 am
Followed by Shabbos Lunch Kiddush
Mincha at 7:45 pm
Ethics of Our Fathers, Ch. 6
Maariv, Havdalla & Shabbos Ends at 8:41 pm
Living Torah
Siyum Sefer Torah at 3 pm Dessert Buffet at Staybridge Suites
www.chabaduptown.org/torah
4 pm (approx.) Torah Parade
Followed by Celebratory Hakafot and Installation Ceremony with a dinner buffet
Elul is here!
Chassidic master Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi likens the month of Elul to a time when "the king is in the field" and, in contrast to when he is in the royal palace, "everyone who so desires is permitted to meet him, and he receives them all with a cheerful countenance and shows a smiling face to them all." Specific Elul customs include the daily recitation of Psalm 27 L'David Hashem Ori and daily sounding of the shofar as a call to repentance. The Baal Shem Tov instituted the custom of reciting three additional chapters of Psalms each day, from the 1st of Elul until Yom Kippur. Elul is also the time to have one's tefillin and mezuzahs checked by an accredited scribe to ensure that they are in good condition and fit for use. Let us know if you want help with this! Links: More on Elul Good Year Greetings From the beginning of Elul and throughout the High Holiday season, we include the blessing "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year" (Leshanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim) in letters and greetings to one another. Links: Bless You! PLEASE RSVP FOR NEW TORAH CELEBRATION! Chabad of Uptown will be dedicating a new Torah scroll. Like a wedding, it is celebrated with great pomp and excitement. Be a part of history and join us on August 15 at the Staybridge Suites - Galleria. www.chabaduptown.org/torah. So we can plan the catering accordingly, please RSVP here Tishrei, the month of the High Holidays, Days of Awe and Days of Joy is fast approaching! Now is the time to join or renew your voluntary membership to Chabad.Your partnership allows us to provide free, open and welcoming services to all, for the holidays and year round! Visit our High Holiday section of the website at www.chabaduptown.org/services CALENDAR: Why Does G-d Send Us False Prophets? Why would G-d need to send a prophet to test us and find out what He surely already knows? more… SHABBOS MEVARCHIM ELUL PARSHAS RE'EH Friday, 28 Av - August 6 Shabbos 29 Av - August 7 Sunday, Rosh Chodesh Elul I, 30 Av - August 8 Monday, Rosh Chodesh Elul II, 1 Elul, - August 9Elul is Here! - This Shabbos we bless the new month of Elul and it is also Erev Chodesh. You can start to feel the Elul winds cool the summer down as we begin to get ready for the holidays. As the last month of the Jewish year, Elul is traditionally a time of introspection and stocktaking -- a time to review one's deeds and spiritual progress over the past year and prepare for the upcoming "Days of Awe" of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. As the month of Divine Mercy and Forgiveness it is a most opportune time for teshuvah ("return" to G-d), prayer, charity, and increased Ahavat Yisrael (love for a fellow Jew) in the quest for self-improvement and coming closer to G-d.
Mincha at 7:30 pm
Light Shabbat candles at 7:52 pm
YJP Houston First Fridays Japan www.yjphouston.org/japan
Shabbos Mevarchim Tehillim at 8:30 am
Shacharis at 10:00 am
Followed by Shabbos Mevarchim Kiddush & Farbrengen
Mincha at 7:50 pm
Ethics of Our Fathers, Ch. 5
Maariv, Havdalla & Shabbos Ends at 8:48 pm
Living Torah
Shacharis at 8:30 am
Begin saying for Elul - L'David Hashem Ori
Followed by breakfast
Shacharis at 6:45 am
Begin Elul Daily Blowing of the Shofar