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Jan 23 2019

Ode To The Mainstay

Lifestyle, Moses, Rebbe
by Chabad Intown

Moses speaks first to the women and then to the men. He affirms a truth evident today more than ever; the Jewish woman is the mainstay of the home.   He speaks in terms of conversation, engagement with the women. With the men he speaks in terms of instruction, command.   It's quite obvious without our women, we men would not be here. But, in truth if not for our women we would not only not physically be here but man would have long ago consumed each other.   King Solomon in his famous Aishes Chayil...

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Jan 15 2019

Authentic Service

Challenges, Lifestyle
by Chabad Intown

Do you help the needy when they ask for help so that you'll sleep better or because you really care?   Do you defend the defenseless out of guilt because you really are a kind person?   Don't feel bad, you are not alone. All of us struggle with authenticity. That's because G-d created us with two sides; a right and a left. Traditionally the right is associated with Chesed - kindness, and the left with Gevurah - discipline. You could say that these two are attraction and rejection or love and respect.   Each of...

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Jan 09 2019

The Belt, The Shoe and The Stick

Challenges, Change, Freedom, Lifestyle
by Chabad Intown

They looked for it in the 60's, the 70's and in our own way we are looking for it in the 2010's. It is liberation!   We are looking to be freed from all external constraints. In essence our soul is calling out to us to be freed so we can connect with our truest purpose.   This expedition into freedom and liberation is not reserved for the Passover Seder. In fact, it is every day that one must see oneself as if they are going out of Egypt each and every day.   We look...

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Jan 03 2019

Leadership on the Slope

Challenges, Freedom, Inspiration, leader, Lifestyle, Moses
by Chabad Intown

We all get there, stuck in the rut or slipping down the slope, or whichever other cliche you want to use, it's all the same; we've gotten stuck!   The Talmud states that one who is tied up and can't untie himself. So how does someone who has entered into the stuck zone get unstuck.   When G-d appeared to Moses in the Burning Bush in last week's Torah portion, Moses asks G-d, how will the Jewish People believe in me? G-d answers that Moses is to tell them the code words; "Pukod Pukoditi...

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Dec 27 2018

A Sheep Among The Wolves

Challenges, Change, identity, Lifestyle
by Chabad Intown

The Jewish People have always been a sheep among the wolves. That's part of the Divine masterplan. Why that is, is truly part of the mystery of Creation and a challenge of faith. Nonetheless, that is the way it is and as much as we've tried to run from it by attempting to integrate, history has shown that we remain separate.   In fact, when we embrace our separateness we end up a lot happier because we have a sense of self of who we are and those around us have a...

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Dec 19 2018

Endings, Transitions and New Beginnings

Change, Lifestyle, Rebuilding, Recovery
by Chabad Intown

Life is continuous. A seed is placed in the earth, it rots, new life is formed. A soul completes its journey, it journeys to its heavenly abode and starts a new experience there. One job is terminated a new one is born.   Endings are hard because they seem to have no future.   Transitions are hard because they we fear the unknown.   Beginnings are hard because, well you are breaking in new unfamiliar ground.   In the last few weeks, a close Chabad participant was laid to rest, a new Chabad center opened, a new space...

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Dec 14 2018

Empathy Sympathy

Challenges, Change, leader, Moses
by Chabad Intown

Sympathy is feeling pity and sorry for someone else.   Empathy is being able to share and understand someone else's feeling.   A leader must empathize with the people he or she leads, but at the same time they must be a leader, meaning a separate entity. To be both is quite the challenge.   Moses was destined to be the leader of the Jewish People. He needed to relate to them, understand their pain, feel their hardship, in a word, to empathize with them.   But he also needed to be separate from them, to help them...

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Dec 05 2018

Half Full?

Lifestyle, Trust
by Chabad Intown

Some people wait for the other shoe to drop. Which reminds me of the story;   A guest who checked into an inn one night was warned to be quiet because the guest in the room next to his was a light sleeper. As he undressed for bed, he dropped one shoe, which, sure enough, awakened the other guest. He managed to get the other shoe off in silence, and got into bed. An hour later, he heard a pounding on the wall and a shout: "When are you going to drop...

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Nov 28 2018

Wondering How You Got Here?

Children, Faith, Lifestyle
by Chabad Intown

Do you ever scratch your head and wonder; “how did I get here?” How did I end up in this situation?! Or perhaps your question is a faith based one; “why did things get orchestrated the way they did for me to be in this situation?”   We don’t usually pause to ask those questions when things are going good. It’s usually in frustration or exacerbation that these questions are expressed or contemplated.   In this week's Torah Portion, Jacob, sets into motion a series of events that are to determine the destiny of...

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Nov 22 2018

Moshe Kraus Eulogy

Challenges, Moses, Rebuilding, Recovery
by Chabad Intown

We are gathered here to bid farewell to a special soul – Moshe, Jeff ben Avrohom. I will refer to both Jeff and Moshe in my remarks for the comfort of those that knew him as Jeff as we did initially and then as Moshe once he wanted us to call him by that name.   When our great ancestor Aaron heard of the passing of his sons Nadav and Avihu, the Torah tells us, “Vayidom Aaron”: Aaron was silent.   I’m sure he cried. I’m sure he was in pain. I’m sure he...

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