OUDepartment of Public Relations

November 23, 2005

Here Is the Upcoming Schedule for the OU’s Take Five for Torah Program
November 25 – December 7, 2005

Rabbis of Orthodox Union synagogues all over North America are sharing their wisdom with a worldwide audience as part of the Take Five for Torah program, available on the OU website, www.ou.org.

Upcoming Torah Programs:

  • Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein of the Beth Israel Synagogue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Friday, November 25 on “Understanding Havdalah;”
     
  • Rabbi Simcha J. Cohen of Aitz Chaim Congregation in West Palm Beach, Fl, Tuesday, November 29 will begin a three-part series on “Halachic Questions & Answers--My Response.”
     
  • Rabbi Nosson Kaiser of Etz Chaim Synagogue in Jacksonville, Fl on Monday, November 30, “Developing Positive Middot, (personal attributes), through the Torah portion of Toldot;”
     
  • Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow of Congregation Beth Tefilah London, Ontario, Wednesday, December 5 will begin a four-part series on “The Obligation of Women in Torah”; and
     
  • Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Shalom Talmud Torah Congregtion-The National Synagogue Washington, D.C. will begin “A Work on Your Middot Series”- Five minute middot, pep talks based on Mesilat Yesharim, Path of the Just, a masterwork by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto,

(The schedule is tentative and subject to change.)

For further information about submissions for Take Five for Torah, contact Naphtali Lavenda of the OU Department of Community and Synagogue Services, at lavendan@ou.org, or 212-613-8290.

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