Downstairs is cleaned for Pesach! The Pesach kitchen is up and running and so is our Pesach schedule! Did you sell your chametzyet? Joining us for the seder? Order your own shmurah matzah? Check it all out at www.chabaduptown.org/pesachschedule
A beautiful Shabbos with Matt & Yael Trusch, including a "First Fridays" Shabbos dinner with an exclusive debut of byejoe - the new spirit of China!
We went out with the clan to celebrate the bar mitzvah of Rabbi Chaim's nephew's bar mitzvah of Menachem Lazaroff in College Station.
A great time was at the 3rd Annual Houston Kosher Chili Cookoff! Thank you so much to our team! Chefs Randy Lewis, Terry Lewis, Michael Pasternak! Servers and revelers, Karen Nudelman, Aliyah Rudoff, Batami Baskin & Joshua Neuman!! Over seventy people wrapped teffilin at our booth, including 10 who wrapped for the first time!!
Mazel tov to Robert Epstein on his nomination for the Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a former student of Texas A&M University!
Young professionals join together this Wednesday, March 13, for our weekly class, dinner & social for a Model Matzah Bakery & Wine Tasting - with a free pizza dinner at the Chabad Outreach office! Check it out on Facebook. PLEASE RSVP!
Today is 25 Adar, the birthday of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka
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QUESTION: Rabbi...today one of my work friends asked me about this.."“God is punishing me for my sins by taking away my daughter,” Raizy’s father Yitzchak Silberstein said in Yiddish at the funeral. My friend asked me if we believe this, and I said I had never heard of sacrificing a loved one for our sins ( this is very Christian..ie son for their sins etc). Can you tell me what this man meant. It made us so sad. I told my friend this poor man is in the depths of despair and sadness, so maybe he did not realize what he said.
ANSWER: A tragic event it is hard to comment on in many ways. In a state of grief one just expresses that turmoil of whatever is in their mind. Punishment is a complex subject. It is inappropriate and insensitive for us to judge another's misfortune as a punishment for their misdeeds. It is ok for one to inspect themselves and see how they can improve in the wake of a misfortune. But, truthfully, one can never really know Hashem's ways. What we do know is that we don't know. Talkback >
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Shabbos Mevarchim, Parshas Vayakhel- Pekudei
Friday, March 8
Services at 6:30 pm
Candle Lighting at 6:06 pm
Shabbos, March 9
Shabbos Mevarchim Tehillim at 8:30 am
Services at 10 am
Followed by Shabbos Mevarchim Kiddush & Farbrengen
Mincha at 6:05 pm
Maariv, Havdalla & Shabbos Ends at 7:03 pm
Living Torah
Have a good Shabbos!
Rabbi Chaim & Chanie