Yizkor was said yesterday, when it is customary to commit to tzedaka. Pesach is usually a peak time for giving and Chabad of Uptown relies on your support. We know it is a hard time for many of you. If you can, please consider giving today to keep our online programming and coronavirus homebound and seniors support going. This will also ensure that the facility is still in operation when everyone returns. www.chabaduptown.org/donate
The holy matzah Pesach experience has come to a close. We now bring back the holy Challah Shabbos experience.
After eight days of Pesach holiness, do we really need to have another holy day immediately afterwards, tonight the holy Shabbos? Don't we we feel holy enough?
This weeek, we read how Nadav and Avihu enter the Holy of Holies, they sought to find Hashem, to experience holiness. Hashem takes their life for offering a foreign fire. Why? What did they do so wrong to deserve such a harsh punishment? They only wanted to get closer to Hashem!
The reason is, they wanted to serve Hashem on their own terms. Especially in this time of social isolation, we surely need to pay heed to this concept. Its not what you want to do that should be pursued but what you need to do. Life has many elusive wants and many that are also within reach. However, just because we can have it, get it, achieve, fulfill it, doesn't mean we should. Hashem, is our guiding light for the correct path. We follow it for a fulfilled purpose and a fulfilled life.
This Shabbos is Shabbos Mevarchim Iyar. The custom is to say the entire book of Tehillim (Psalms) on Shabbos morning, usually done in shul. This week, we will be at home.
The third Lubavitcher Rebbe once said that if we only knew the power of Tehillim and the effects of its recitation, we would recite them constantly. "Know that the chapters of Tehillim shatter all barriers, they ascend higher and still higher with no interference; they prostrate themselves in supplication before the Master of all worlds, and they effect and accomplish with kindness and compassion."
Today, more than ever, we can use the power of Tehillim to keep us all safe and healthy and provide healing to those battling for their health. Please open the book tomorrow and make your voice heard on high.
Wishing you a good Shabbos,
Warm wishes,
Rabbi Chaim & Chanie
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SHABBOS MEVARCHIM IYAR PARSHAS SHEMINI
FRIDAY, NISSAN 23 - APRIL 17
Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat at home at 7:30 pm
Candle Lighting at 7:32 pm
SHABBOS, NISSAN 24 - APRIL 18
Shabbos Mevarchim Tehillim 8:30 am
Shacharis at home at 10:00 am
Latest Morning Shema at 10:04 am
Latest Shacharis at 11:10 am
Read Parshas Shemini
Mincha at 7:30 pm
Ethics of our Fathers, Chapter 1
Maariv, Havdalla & Shabbos Ends at 8:28 pm
WEEKDAY VIRTUAL CHABAD
www.chabaduptown.org/liveclass
DAILY
Shacharis at 8:15 am
TUESDAY
12:00 pm - Parsha Class
WEDNESDAY
8 PM YJP CLASS
THURSDAY
12:00 pm - Kitzur Shulchan Aruch - Jewish Law (Laws of Torah Reading)
8:00 pm - Chassidus - Derech Mitzvosecha (The Mitzvah to Appoint a King)
FRIDAY - Rosh Chodesh Iyar
Shacharis at 8:15 am
Radishes at home