Dear Friends,
What an amazing few weeks!
Have you watched our crazy video yet? www.chabadtexas.org/yeswecan.
- We hope you will join us this Sunday AND BRING THOSE CANS to the Chabad of Uptown CANorah (can menorah) project at 5:30 pm!
- Listen to Rabbi Chaim speak about Chanukah, the Chanukah Parade and the Can Menorah project on 740 KTRH on Friday at 6:20 am with Roger Hudson.
Torah Study this week, lunch only
- There will only by a Thursday lunch class this week (12-1:15pm), when you have no office excuse to miss :). This week's lunch is from Sub on the way. Please reply if you would like to join with your food selection by 10:00 am.
We will not have an evening class. Please join me and Chanie at Chabad of West Houston's chanukah celebration and opening of their new location on Westheimer & Eldridge.
This week's class: Mikeitz: Teshuvah and the Freedom to Choose
Everyone says that we should “just do the next right thing,” but we all know just how difficult that can be. While we’re aware of the difference between right and wrong, there are so many factors in our environments, our personalities and our natural instincts that are pushing us to put off doing the next right thing, and sometimes pulling us to do some very wrong things that are truly harmful to ourselves or to others. These forces can be so very powerful that it is only fair to ask: “Do I always have the choice to be good?” How much free choice do we really have? Moreover, since it is only human for us to justify our behavior, how much free choice do we have to correct our behavior when all we usually want to do is make excuses for ourselves? In this week’s lesson we will study an interaction between Reuven and his brothers, and in doing so explore the key relationship between teshuvah and free choice. As a result, we will see just how far we can go to make things right with others and within ourselves.
Please join us for a great Chanukah Shabbat at Chabad of Uptown. RSVP here.
- Friday, Dec. 26 at 6:30 pm Services, followed by Shabbat dinner at 7:30 pm. (Candle lighting at 5:12 pm)
- Shabbos, Dec. 27 at 10:00 am, Shacharis followed by lunch kiddush.
- 5:15 pm - Mincha followed by Torah Study
- 6:10 pm - Maariv, Menorah Kindling & Havdalla Service
Other upcoming events
- Thursday, Dec. 25, 1 pm - Global Chanukah Rally Hookup for Children @ CLC
- Thursday, Dec. 25, 5 pm - West Houston Chanukah Party
- Thursday, Dec. 25, 5 pm - Texas Medical Center Family Chanukah Party
- Friday & Sat., Dec. 26 & 27 - Uptown Chanukah Shabbaton
- Saturday, Dec. 27, 8:15 pm - Menorah Lighting at Houston City Hall with the Mayor
- Sunday, Dec. 28, 4:30 pm - Car Menorah Mobile Parade to Chabad of Uptown
- Sunday, Dec. 28, 5:30 pm - "CAN-orah" Building & Lighting Ceremony
- Monday, Dec. 29, 5:30 pm - Hoops & Hanukkah @ the Houston Rockets
- Sunday, Jan. 18, 7:00 pm - Aishel House Concert with Dudu Fisher @ Cullen Theatre
- Friday & Sat., Jan. 23 & 24 - Shabbaton with Rabbi Paltiel @ CLC on Fondren
- Friday & Sat., Feb. 6 & 7 - Intercollegiate Shabbaton @ Texas A&M, College Station
The trip to NYC was amazing.
- The kids got to hang with bubby and zaidy, go to the world's only Jewish Children's Museum, the newly renovated Brooklyn Children's Museum, two weddings for Rabbi Chaim's niece and sister, shop on Kingston Ave, sample multiple resturaunts and Pizza shops and of course visit the Ohel. Chanie and I got together with two of the Mayanot-birthright alumni for a dinner one night. We stopped in Philly for some food on the way home, and I do not remember what else to babble on about. For more info, come to Shabbat or of the events above!
We hope to see you real soon and have a Happy Chanukah!
Rabbi Chaim & Chanie