The Uptown revolution continues!
- The summer session of the Mommy & Me with a Jewish Twist has concluded! What a grand time with new songs learned, new friends made and fun keepsakes to take home! Today scrapbook materpieces were laid out as a fond memory of childhood!
- Tonight, Wed., Aug. 19 for Young Adults & Professionals :
"Heaven, Hell and the Afterlife". What do Jews believe? why does it matter? - Facebook. - Tomorrow, Thurs., Aug. 20 for everyone :) Lunch from Sabas 12-1:15 or eve at 8-9 pm:
Shoftim: The Jewish Kings The concept that the ideal form of government for the Jewish people is a Monarchy has always been a controversial subject for our people. On the one hand, the idea that a mortal King should rule over us seems to be total anathema to the Jewish mind. Ask any Jewish child with even the most minimal spiritual education who our King is, and they will instinctively and instantly respond “HaShem”. On the other hand, not only does the Torah seem to obligate us to appoint a King, but the fulfilment of two crucial communal mitzvot depends on there being a Jewish monarch: The annihilation of the descendants of Amalek and the building of the Beit Hamikdash both require a King. And yet, despite the mitzvah to appoint a King, when the people approached the prophet Shmuel and requested what would be the first King of the Jewish nation, the prophet displayed intense disappointment and burning anger. In today’s class we’ll examine the original Torah commandment, analyse the Talmudic discussion surrounding it, and see how the Rambam codifies it in Jewish Law. We will also look Shmuel’s response in light of Chassidic teachings. Finally, we will see how we can make the spiritual concepts of Kingship and Monarchy relevant to our daily lives. - Friday, Aug 21 - Rosh Chodesh Elul
7:30 pm - Services
Candle Lighting: 7:39 pm - Shabbos, Aug. 22
9:00 am - Preprayer Torah Study Kabbalistic Insights
10:00 am - Services
Followed by Kiddush with best Cholent this side of......
7:45 pm - Mincha
Study of Ethics of our Fathers - Chap. 6
8:33 pm - Maariv, Havdalla & Shabbat Ends - Sunday, Aug. 23, 8:30 pm: Mastering Happiness and Fulfilling the American Dream (below)
- Uptown in the news:
In time for the approaching holiday of Rosh Hashanah and the beginning of the Jewish year, North America’s third-largest supermarket chain is distributing 500,000 copies of a calendar edited by a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff. …Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff of Houston, Texas, is in the running for the Jewish Community Hero Award after a local resident nominated him for his work as co-director of the Chabad House serving the city’s Uptown community. …
Please join us for an inspiring evening with
Actor, teacher and psychotherapist
Ziv Ben-Dov
presenting
Mastering Happiness and Fulfilling the American Dream
How we get there in 10 easy steps.
Sunday evening, August 23, Elul 3 at 8:30-9:30PM
at Chabad of Uptown
4311 Bettis Drive, Houston
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Ziv Ben-Dov was born and raised in a small kibbutz, near the Israeli Lebanese border. As an Israeli soldier, professional actor, teacher and psychotherapist he was an IDF “street gang counselor” for juvenile delinquents, founding director of The Northeastern Theatre, and taught for seventeen years at the University of Scranton.
Currently Ziv works as a primary therapist at A Better Today – an outpatient facility for substance addictions, and maintains a private psychotherapy practice for teenagers, adults, groups and marriage counseling.