With all the time you’re spending at home, have you considered some décor changes? Add a Jewish book to your home and feel its glow in your heart and mind, make it a central piece of furniture. Enhance your home – buy books!
𝗪𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤. 📚 But, how can we access that timeless knowledge? 💡 One simple step in communing with the expanse of Jewish wisdom is to build a Jewish library of your own. One holy book at a time.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤'𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐯𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 a campaign for "Bayis Molei Seforim - Yavneh V'Chachameha", aka #booksconnect. Accessorize your Jewish home, apartment, room, couch, whatever, with a Jewish book.
Here are your suggested #CONNECT10N actions items:
- Jewish library book starter kit, $118.50, including shipping from Seforim Deals! Click
- Expand your library with these great suggested beginners' lists: 1. Click on Medium 2. Click from our friends up in Plano Legacy Wesk
- Jumbo Judaica is now offering rewards for Books Club Card. Buy 10 books, get the 11th free! Shop local & $ave. Don't forget the essentials: Siddur, Chumash, Tehillim. Click
- While you are shopping, consider including a (Sefer Hamitzvos from the) Rambam? You can then start using it right away with the new international Rambam cycle this Friday, and in less than 5 minutes a day learn the only work that details all of Jewish observance, including those laws which are only applicable when the Holy Temple is in place. More about this at chabaduptown.org/rambam
- Still not sure what this excitement is all about? Here is a replay of Chanie's class on a thoughtful and inspiring discussion about this campaign Click
Mazel tov to Jews everywhere on completing the daily study cycle of Rambam today! Thank you to all those who joined me today at noon to learn the final laws! Join the new cycle, tonight / tomorrow!
Thursday was the Fast of 17th of Tammuz that marks the beginning of The Three Weeks period of mourning which culminates on the 9th of Av, commemorating the conquest of Jerusalem, the destruction of the Holy Temple and the dispersion of the Jewish people. Weddings and other joyful events are not held during this period; like mourners, we do not cut our hair, and various pleasurable activities are limited or proscribed. The Lubavitcher Rebbe urged that the Three Weeks should be a time of increased giving of charity and Torah study (in keeping with the verse (Isaiah 1:27), "Zion shall be redeemed by law, and her returnees by charity"), particularly the study of those portions of Torah that deal with the laws and the deeper significance of the Holy Temple. Links: TheThreeWeeks.com, Some Laws and Customs of the Three Weeks, About Holy Temple
Pinchas' deed evokes many associations -- courage, decisiveness and religious passion are several that come to mind -- but peace hardly seems one of them. Pinchas, after all, killed two people. So why does the Torah describe him as a man of peace? To understand Pinchas' place in the Jewish consciousness, we first need to understand the Torah's conception of the "zealot" (kana'i). Is violence ever a positive trait? Is the zealot the ultimate altruist, or just an angry young (or old) man who has found a holy outlet for his aggression? more…
SHABBOS PARSHAS PINCHAS
Friday, Tammuz 18 - July 10
Candle Lighting at 8:07 pm
Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat at 8:05 pm
Evening Shema after 8:53 pm
Shabbos, Tammuz 19 - July 11
Latest Morning Shema at 9:56 am
Shacharis at 10:00 am
Mincha at 8:05 pm
Pirkei Avos, Chapter 6
Maariv, Havdalla & Shabbos Ends at 9:05 pm
Living Torah #24 at www.70years.com
Sunday, Tammuz 20 - July 12
8:30 am Shacharis
VIRTUAL CLASSES
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Tuesday
12:00 pm - Parsha Class
Wednesday
8 PM YJP CLASS - How is Torah relevant in 2020?
Thursday
12:00 pm - Kitzur Shulchan Aruch - Jewish Law
8:00 pm - Chassidus - Derech Mitzvosecha