- Mega Holiday Site
- Week's recap Mommy & Me / Shofar Factory
- Young Pros Cocktails & Shabbat Dinner
- RSVP for High Holidays at Hotel 31
- Our holiday sponsors & you
- Shabbos Candle lighting Magnet
- Order your Lulav & Esrog
- Prayer at Rebbe's Ohel
- Shabbos Schedule
- Selichot at Fondren
- BLT = Bagels, Lox & Tefillin
We are almost there! This Shabbos, the final weekend of the Jewish year, is known as Shabbos selichot. We make our final Elul preparations before Rosh Hashana. Check out our mega site for everything you need for the High Holidays at www.chabaduptown.org/high
Recap: We closed out this last week with completing the summer session of Mommy & Me. The Shofar fabrication and blowing workshop was pretty awesome where we all got to toot our own horn!
YOUNG PROS: If you are a young professional in your 20s or 30s, we hope you plan to join us for this momentous weekend of introspection. Our final Young Adult & Professional Cocktails & Shabbat dinner, tomorrow night at 8:30 pm! - It is not too late to join and hang our with friends and perhaps make some new ones!! RSVP at www.chabaduptown.org/shabbatdinner and on Facebook!
Although the RSVP deadline for the Rosh Hashana dinners has passed, we do have a few spots available. Please check out the complete schedule and RSVP for the dinners online at www.chabaduptown.org/services. We look forward to a packed house and starting off the new year on a high note (pun intended)! :)
We would like to thank Saba's Kosher Restaraunt for sponsoring a major portion of the pastries for the kiddushim on the holiday. We would also like to thank event sponsors, the Buzis. You can be an event or kiddush sponsor too! Just click on the RSVP form and be an event or kiddush sponsor in honor or in memory of an occasion or loved one! www.chabaduptown.org/services.
By now you should have gotten the Shabbos candle lighting schedule (refrigerator or anywhere else) magnet sponsored in part by Houston & Village Flowery. We hope you enjoy it and patronize our sponsor! If you have not received one, please do let us know, we will be sure to get you one right away!
Order your Lulav & Esrog! Get your very own set, from the coveted orchards of Calabria (Yanover) Italy. These esrogs are guaranteed that the etrog is from a tree that was inspected to ascertain that it is "purebred." This is one of the reasons why many prefer to use an etrog that comes from the Italian province of Calabria, also known as "Yanover" etrogs. The etrog orchards in this region have been providing etrogs for centuries and are known to be of untainted pedigree. More... You can get your own set, but you need to order by this Sunday, Sept. 25 at www.chabadhouston.com/lulav.
Rabbi Chaim will be making an overnight visit to the Ohel on Sunday evening returning Monday morning. If you would like it would be an honor to bring a prayer on your behalf (or you can come along... :)). Please provide your complete and mother's Hebrew name and prayer you would like to include.
On the day before Rosh Hashanah it is customary to visit the graves of tzaddikim (righteous, saintly people) and there to pray for a sweet new year. We ask the tzaddikim to intercede On High on our behalf, and we pray to G‑d to have mercy on us in the merit of these righteous people at whose resting places we are standing. Today, many gather en masse on this day at the resting place of the Rebbe in the Queens borough of New York City (the "Ohel"). If you can't make it there on this auspicious day, you can email or fax a note with your blessing requests which will be placed by the Ohel. Click here for instructions how to do so.
Shabbos Selichos, Parshas Netzavim-Vayelech
Friday, Sept. 23
Services at 7:30 pm | RSVP for Young Pros dinner!
Candle Lighting at 7:00 pm
Shabbos, Sept. 24
Recitation of entire Tehilim at 8:30 am
Services at 10 am
Followed by Kiddush and special Shabbos Selichos Farbrengen, of course with the best cholent this side of....
Mincha at 7:00 pm
Ethics of our Fathers Chapter 5 & 6
Maariv, Havdalla & Shabbos Ends at 7:53 pm
Screening of Living Torah
Selichot at 1 am - Join Rabbi Chaim @ Chabad main center at 10900 Fondren Road
The series of Selichot ("supplication") prayers recited in preparation for the "Days of Awe" of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur begin 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. Links: More on Selichot
Sunday, September 25
BLT = Bagels Lox & Tefillin @ 9:30 am
Send your letter with Rabbi Chaim to the ohel.
With heartfelt wishes for a Kesiva Vachasima Tova, may you and yours be inscribed and sealed for a happy and healthy New Year,
Rabbi Chaim & Chanie
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