Dear Friends,
Yet another week has whizzed by!
Mazel tov to Eran and Brenda Namer upon the birth and bris of their twin boys!
- The current course for Young Professionals on Torah's View on Love & Relationships is exceptional... Did you join yet? Here is some feedback we have gotten:
- Rabbi Chaim - This class/series is perhaps the most thought provoking Jewish class that I've attended.
- Excellent class tonight! I look forward to next week.
- My question to YOU is: Will YOU be there next week? :) Join course on Facebook!
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- The Loaves of Love project is up and running... Please contact Chanie if you would like to visit a senior or if you have a senior who could use a visit... See some pics on our photo gallery here.
- Please join us for Shabbat at Uptown.... Schedule below....
- Tisha B'Av begins this Monday evening, July 19 at 8:23 pm. We will have a special service of Maariv and Eicha on Monday at 9:00 pm. The fast ends on Tuesday at 8:54 pm.
Some of the fast's mourning practices--such as refraining from Torah study other than texts related to the events and nature of the fast day--are observed beginning from midday on Monday, July 19.
The final meal before the start of the fast, eaten shortly before sunset, is called seudah hamafseket. Only one cooked food is eaten at this meal, customarily an egg dipped in ashes.
"Eichah"--the Book of Lamentations--is read tonight in the synagogue after evening prayers.
We abstain from eating and drinking, bathing, the wearing of leather footwear, and marital relations--for the night and day of Av 9 (i.e., from sundown on Av 8, Monday July 19, to nightfall on Av 9, Tuesday, July 20).
It is customary to sit on the floor or a low seat until after mid-day on Tuesday, July 20.
Torah study is restricted to laws of mourning, passages describing the destruction of the Temple, and the like. The tefillin are worn only during the afternoon Minchah prayers. (For more laws and customs see link below.)
Links:
Mitzvah Minute: Tisha b'Av
Laws of Tishah B'Av
Please join us for another great Shabbos at Chabad of Uptown...
Shabbos Chazon Parshas Devarim
Friday, July 16
Services 7:30 pm ( RSVP for dinner)
Candle Lighting at 8:06 pm
Shabbos, July 17
Preprayer Torah Study at 9:00 am
Services at 10:00 am
Followed by buffet Kiddush
Mincha at 8:15 pm
Ethics of our Fathers, Chapter 3
Maariv, Havdalla and Shabbos Ends at 9:03 pm
See you on Shabbos!
Rabbi Chaim & Chanie