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By Rabbi Leiby Burnham
Life was getting rough for Miguel Sanchez. No more were the glory days of “coyotes,” the illegal immigrant smugglers who plied their trade along the porous Mexican-American border. Back then, he could charge $1,500 a head, shove 20 people in the back of a truck, cross the border at night, leave them in the middle of the harsh New Mexico desert, and...
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Using Our Money As God Intended
By Ann Goldberg
The man who stood outside my front door at 9.30 in the evening that cold night, looked fraught and exhausted. It wasn’t the first time he’d asked for help to buy food and we’d always given him something, but this time his plea was more urgent and his request was for a lot more money...
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The Year of the Flying Sukkah Parshat Ha’azinu: Ear O Dynamics
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Parshat Bereishit: A Beginners Guide to the Beginning
By Debbie Shapiro
This story took place close to a decade ago. Although it's about a flying Sukkah, it really began about a week before the holiday, when the stores throughout Jerusalem were selling a new type of Schach that could be used over and over again...
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By Mendel Jacobson
Blue as clarity, clean like a child,
Fresh clouds, softer than whispers
On a lover’s lip, these are the Heavens,
A place of dreams and dreamers, of
Bright thoughts and brighter eyes,
Ideas plentiful like the stars, shining
Like suns on mirrored seas glittering
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By Rabbi Asher Brander
If not for the fact that the Almighty wrote it himself, it would seem blasphemous... Enveloped in the midst of the wondrous but scary song known as Ha'azinu is the tragic depiction of a nation gone astray. One that has forgotten the munificence bestowed upon it by the Master of the Universe. In the classical language of the text - "Yeshurun became fat and kicked"...
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By Rabbi Asher Brander
For most, it remains an enigma. We say it; it seems like it fits – but one suspects that we are essentially clueless (an admitted projection) to its Sukkos significance...I refer to the strange recitation at the end of our bentsching, (grace after meals) where we customarily insert a special request throughout Sukkos...
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By Rabbi Asher Brander
Jews live in calendar dialectics, oscillating between two Jewish New Years (Tishrei/Nissan) and two Judgment Days (Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur). Perhaps the greatest Jewish storyteller of all time, the Dubner Maggid was once asked: Why do we celebrate both Simchat Torah (the completion of the annual Torah cycle) and Shavuot (commemorating the Sinai revelation of the Torah)?
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By Rabbi Asher Brander
It might sound like a strange question – but does God (as it were) abide by His laws of Shabbos? The opening paragraph of Friday night Kiddush, (also chapter 2 of our parsha) may be instructive...
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By Mendel Jacobson
Beginning words:
All beginnings are difficult -
Especially difficult beginnings,
Where nothing exists before
And nothing exists after if
The beginning ceases to begin.
Some make ends meet: taking two
Different points and bringing them
Together
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A Sweet New Year
By Yehoshua Halevi
We dip in honey for a sweet new year - so a trip to the bee farm and the honey factory seemed in order. A look back at how the honey got to your table, from honey to bee. Shana Tova U'metuka! Have a sweet new year!
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Cooking Up The Curious, The Oddly Shaped, The Colorful and The Regular
By Judy Bart Kancigor
You’re shopping for produce, and you spot this spiny magenta...what? You’re curious, but what on earth is it?
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Celebrating Sukkot With Culinary Stars’ Favorites
By Norene Gilletz
To celebrate the agricultural theme, fruits and vegetables take center stage on the Sukkot menu, including stuffed harvest vegetables (cabbage, eggplant, peppers, pumpkin, squash, eggplant and zucchini)...
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Tzimmes Meets Tajine - Sumptuous Stews to Sweeten the New Year
By Faye Levy
Tzimmes is a specialty of Ashkenazi Jews, while tajines come from Morocco. Although they have such different origins...
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All Good Fasts Must Come To An End
By Judy Bart Kancigor
Jewish cooks the world over are shopping and chopping, searing and sauteing – so many dishes, so little time...No sooner is Rosh Hashanah over - dishes put away, leftovers stored - than we're already thinking about the next big feast occurring the following week
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High Holiday Baking
By Debby Segura
Cakes, cookies and breads that I bake for the Holidays, I bake only for the Holidays. Except for testing out recipes, that is. In this way, my High Holiday baked goods are cherished by my family and me... such as my Pumpkin Challah, Classic Jewish Apple Cake and Date Bars... Moroccan-inspired New Year bread... Algerian breads...
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Break-the-Fast Meal Ideas
By Ronnie Fein
After fasting for over 24 hours and spending a day in prayer and contemplation, asking for forgiveness, it’s time to gather with family and friends to celebrate our hopes for a good new year...Everyone is hungry. The smell of fresh coffee coming from the kitchen is like liberation, luring people to a quick sip and maybe just a nibble of a little “something”...But really, we are all eager for dinner, an actual meal...
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12 Tishrei 5769
October 10-11, 2008
Haftarah:
Shmuel II 22:1-51
Special Days:
Yom Kippur is celebrated on Wednesday night, October 8, through Thursday night, October 9.
Sukkot is celebrated Monday night, October 13 through Wednesday, October 15.
Chol Hamoed Sukkot is celebrated on Thursday, October 16 through Sunday, October 19.
Hoshana Rabbah is celebrated on Monday, October 20.
Shemini Atzeret is celebrated on Tuesday, October 21.
Simchat Torah is celebrated Wednesday, October 22 (Diaspora).
Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan is celebrated on Wednesday, October 29 and Thursday, October 30.
The next issue of Shabbat Shalom will come out on Thursday, October 30.
Wishing all our readers a sweet and happy New Year.
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