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What is New inMishpatim?

Each verse and every detail gives usan opportunity to look beyond to the

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Depression, in its simplest and spiritual form, is a sense of lack of connection

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There have been signifi-cant clinical studies done proving the effectiveness of therapeutic doses of omega-3 for the treatment of depres-sion. A therapeutic dose is considered between 1200 and 1800 mg of ome-ga-3 per day to be taken consistently. Omega-3 has little if any side effects and does not interact with other medi-cations, however prior to starting any supplement it is always good to check in with your doctor or health care pro-vider to be sure it is the proper match for you. One important note: be sure to do the math and read the back of the label to take the proper milligrams of omega-3. Often the capsule will have a milligram amount but the omega-3 content will be much less than the to-tal amount per capsule. I also always recommend purchasing an omega-3 supplement that is USP certified to en-sure it will not contain toxins such as mercury.

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Especially when de-pression is brought on by life events or circumstances, counseling can provide the necessary emotional support and guid-ance to help work through the situation and move through the depression to hap-pier times. When the depression seems to be more physiologically based, a counselor can provide consistent support for proper lifestyle and wellness choices to compli-ment any medical treatment.

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The Young Chevra Board planned a stun-ning evening at the exclusive “MARK” event hall. From the valet parking to the elegant hors d’oeuvres and dessert buffet by MGM Caterers, everything was first class. 250 young Lubavitchers from various communi-ties across the Southland attended.

Following cocktail hour, participants were addressed by Rabbi Mendel Greenbaum who shared a D’var Torah, which was followed by a short message about the significance of a Gemach from Rabbi Mendel Goldman, who together with his family provided the seed capital that helped establish the Gemach back in 2008 in memory of his brother, Avremi OB”M for whom the Gemach is named.

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Following the formal part of the evening, Comedian Rob Cait entertained participants with his own very unique spin on Chabad.

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The Tolner Rebbe of Jerusalem Visits Junior High Boys from Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov Ohr Eliyahu, Los Angeles

As Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov Ohr Eliyahu in Los Angeles cel-ebrates its 18th year, the Junior High boys were fortunate to

have the opportunity to visit the Tolner Rebbe, Rabbi Yitzchok Menachem Weinberg, shlita, who was visiting Los Angeles from Yerushalayim as part of the Torah Umersorah Mid-Winter Cur-riculum Conference. The Rebbe, shlita, discussed the love of To-rah and compared missing one day of learning Torah to missing

one day of vacation, and encouraged the boys to run to learn Torah at every opportunity. The Rebbe left each class with a challenge to find connections between the Perek Gemorah they are learning and inyanim in Parashas Beshalach. Correct answers earn them a personalized sefer from the Rebbe! We are grateful to Rabbi Eli Ryzman, who facilitated this wonderful, warm and inspirational opportunity.

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We know that the Torah can be under-stood on many levels, and that while a passage of the Torah may be dealing with something very earthly and commonplace—something like the question of when a transaction be-tween two people involving exchanging one man’s donkey for the other man’s cow is con-sidered complete, a “done deal”—really con-tains lessons and meanings that go beyond the plain situation that occurs in our earthly lives. The rabbinic discussion considers sev-eral acts that might be considered the sealing of the exchange—the “kinyan”—like moving them into each person’s barn; or perhaps one person pulling the reins of one of the animals and leading it away.

In a sense, the laws of such a transaction could be seen as something dealing with the most common and mundane elements of life and business. But if that were the case, then we would be faced with a perplexing prob-lem and puzzle? Why would souls in Heav-en, in Gan Eden, trouble themselves studying these matters? What, in fact, do they make of the most elementary terms of this situation?

There are no donkeys up there, no cows, no barns, no reins… what are the souls of the departed discussing as they learn this pas-sage of Torah?

They are discussing those higher levels of meaning of this verse for which the common act of exchanging one animal for another is a metaphor—an earthly example that on a higher level deals with more spiritual and

ethereal matters that are of concern and rel-evance to souls in Gan Eden. In the language of Kabbalah used in Chassidus, the Torah flows down directly from G-d and makes

its way through the four Olamot—the four levels or “worlds” of existence. It comes into the highest level, the world of “Atzilut”—the level closest to the infinite and unknowable Emanation that come directly from the Al-mighty, and then flows to the subcategories of the lower levels of existence: to the Olam HaBriah (Creational Intelligence); then to the Olam HaYetzirah (Existential Emotion); and finally to the Olam HaAsiyah (Material Activity).

Each morning in our prayers, we thank G-d for, “asher nosan lanu et Toraso,” “giving us His Torah.” So imagine: every law and every detail in every verse in Parshas Mishpatim and in the sections of the Torah packed with precepts and details—each Mitzvah and ev-ery Halachah is a lower, physical metaphor and manifestation of the supernal, infinite and unknowable Intelligence of G-d that flows down to us in the Torah. As we learn and study these precepts and regulations—at whatever level we are capable of understand-ing—we are on a journey upward toward the deeper meaning that contains the Eternal Wisdom of the Mind of the Almighty. In a sense, we are “mingling” our minds with the Mind of Hashem (even though we can only make a rough guess as to exactly what that means).

Before Mishpatim, we were hampered in our understanding by the fact that we didn’t know the characters of the Torah personal-ly—we did not have direct experience with the Patriarchs, their environment and their experiences. But from this point on, we are dealing with matters and circumstances that are part of our world—things we know about. Each verse and every detail gives us an opportunity to look beyond to the deeper meaning and to come closer to an understand-ing of: the Mind of the Creator—something that, though it is infinitely far away (and so may require an infinite journey), we can learn more and more about. This is conveyed to us inside and in the deeper level of whatever Torah we learn, whenever we learn it at any time in our lives. And we will continue delv-ing into and revealing these hidden layers of meaning when we are souls in Heaven.

That is the news of Mishpatim. And that is what I think we would all call “big” news.

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How would you feel? That is a question asked by a wide-ranging group of in-

quisitors ranging from kindergarten teachers chiding their immature charges, to philoso-phy professors lecturing to disciples about the worlds of the theoretical. Its validity sets the tone from issues that vary from the golden rule to admonitions at the supper table. And at first glance it seems that the Torah uses the maxim to mitigate a deficiency in our very own human nature.

“Do not taunt or oppress a ger (newcom-er) because you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Exodus 22:20). According to most commentators, the verse refers to the ger -- a convert to Judaism. Others comment howev-er, that it also applies to any newcomer, be it to a neighborhood, a synagogue, or a school. Rashi explains that the Torah forewarns the Jewish nation from being cocky toward any-one who would join our people. “After all,” Rashi expounds, “the stranger can easily re-mind us of our since-forgotten experience in Egypt, where we, too, were strangers.”

However, something bothers me. The Torah’s set of values is pure and unmitigated by personal partiality. So let us ask. Does it truly matter that we were once strangers? Is not it inherently wrong to taunt a newcomer? Shouldn’t the Torah just say, “Do not taunt a newcomer? It is morally wrong!” Why is there even a mention of our Egyptian experience? Had we gone directly from Jacob’s home to a settled life in the land of Israel, would we then be allowed to taunt newcomers? Of course

not! Our years of servitude should not influ-ence the morality of taunting others! So why does the Torah consider our bad experience a factor?

Dr. Norman Blumenthal has published extensively about the unique experience of Holocaust survivors’ children. Without re-vealing actual details, he related a case history of a young man whose father had escaped from a Nazi concentration camp at the age of 16 years old. The fugitive did not hide in the forest or in a barn, rather he joined a group of gentile partisans. For the duration of the war, he lived with them, ate with them, and killed Nazis with them. Still, the courageous young man never gave up his convictions and feel-ings of Judaism.

On that day his father, by then a very suc-cessful executive who was very active in the American Jewish community, turned to him and said. “Son, now the easy life is over. Just like me, now you must learn what it takes to survive amongst the gentiles!” He sent the young teen to a university in the southern part of the United States where Jews were as rare as snow. Within months, the young man, mercilessly taunted in a foreign environment, suffered a nervous breakdown. It took years of therapy to undo the shambles.

Perhaps we can understand the posuk in a new homiletic light. The sages declare that our experience in Egypt was very necessary, albeit uncomfortable, one to say the least. Under the duress of affliction we fortified our faith. Under the pressure of ridicule we

cemented our resolve. Under the strain of duress we built families and sustained our identity. And perhaps it was that experience that laid the ability to endure far-reaching suf-fering, tests of faith that were only surpassed by the tests of time.

And now enter the convert John Doe who hails from a corporate office in West Virginia and has made a conscious, comfortable deci-sion to join the ranks of Moses’ men. Our first reaction may just be to have him bear the test of the Jew. Like bootcamp in Fort Bragg, or beasting at West Point, we may have the urge even a compulsion to put Mr. Doe through the rigors of our oppression. After all, that is the stuff of which we are made. We may want to taunt and tease because “we were slaves in a foreign land.” The Torah tells us not to do so. “Do not taunt or oppress a ger (new-comer) because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Do not impose your difficult experiences in life on others that are newcom-ers to your present situation. It is easy to say, “such men are made from sterner stuff ” and proceed to harangue those who would join us. That should not be. Life has a personal trainer for every individual, and each soul has a particular program mapped out by the Al-mighty. Jews from birth may have had to suf-fer in Egypt, while converts have other issues to deal with. One’s particular experience may not be fodder for the next person. Do not use your encounters as the standard for the entire world. One cannot view the world from the rear view mirror of his personal experience.

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Parshas Terumah

And in the beginning, G-d was homeless, and so G-d asked His people to set Him up

with some digs. Where does it say that? Well, nowhere, actually. But it does say that G-d instructed Moses to tell the people, “They shall make for Me a Sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.”

Now the question is, was G-d really homeless? Wasn’t He already dwelling with the people? Why, it was just the other week that we read of the revelation at Sinai, where G-d came down from heaven to earth. So why suddenly the need for a Sanctuary for Him?

The answer is that there is a fundamental difference between Sinai and the Sanctuary. Sinai represents a revelation thrust upon the people from above. G-d initiated and acti-vated that encounter. In this experience, the Jewish people were somewhat passive. All the thunder and lightning, physically and spiritu-ally, came at them from on high.

The Sanctuary, however, had to be built by the people themselves. They had to take the initiative. From the fundraising campaign to collect the raw materials needed for the sanctuary, down to the nuts and bolts of con-struction, the Mishkan was a human-made edifice.

At Sinai the heavens opened for the great-est sound-and-light show on earth, leaving a nation mesmerized and awe-inspired. But they themselves were passive recipients of this unique, never-to-be-repeated gift from above.

To build a Sanctuary took a whole build-ing campaign. Men and women, young and old, everybody rolled up their sleeves. It took weeks and months of hard labor, meaningful contributions by every individual, planning

and programming, designing and then actu-ally building a holy house for G-d. We made it happen. And thereby, it was the people who

brought G-d down to earth.Apparently it was important for the Jews

to appreciate the value G-d attaches to self-help and to DIY projects of a spiritual nature. It is not good enough to sit around waiting for the extraordinary revelations, those once-in-a-lifetime supernal visits the good L-rd might bestow upon us. It is necessary for us to create the infrastructure, to take the building blocks in our hands and “make me a Sanctuary.”

To put it simply, are we waiting for G-d, or is G-d waiting for us? Who makes the next move?

I met a guy not long ago and, as often happens to rabbis, the discussion turned to religion. He was pretty blunt about it. “Not for me, rabbi,” he said. “If G-d wanted me to be religious, he’d have made sure I was born in Bnei Brak, or at least into a religious fam-ily here.” I told him he reminded me of the comedian who had a terrible fear of flying,

and argued that “if G-d intended man to fly, he’d have given him wings—or at least made it easier to get to the airport!” So he says, “If G-d wanted me to be an angel, he’d have given me wings too.”

The fact is, G-d did give us wings. That’s what Sinai was all about. He gave us a dose of revelation, of spiritual shock-and-awe that has saturated us with an eternal capacity to fly high, to touch the divine. But those were just the tools; now we have to learn to fly. We may have been endowed with the potential to develop our connection to G-dliness, but af-ter Sinai it’s up to us to make it happen and to actually bring our innate power to the fore.

True revelation is rare. While there cer-tainly are those special moments when we witness the unmistakable presence of G-d in our lives, we cannot wait for lightning to strike. We need to build our personal sanc-tuaries for G-d in order to embrace Him and bring Him into our homes and families.

The Rebbe of Kotzk was once asked by his teacher, “Where is G-d?” He answered, “Wherever you let Him in.”

Rabbi Yossy Goldman was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1976 he was sent by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous mem-ory, as a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to serve the Jewish com-munity of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is Senior Rabbi of the Sydenham Shul since 1986, president of the South African Rabbinical Association, and a frequent contributor to Chabad.org. His book ‘From Where I Stand’ - Life Messages from the Weekly Torah Reading was recently published by KTAV and

Sinai or Sanctuary?BY YOSSY GOLDMAN

The Rebbe of Kotzk was once asked by his teacher,

“Where is G-d?” He answered, “Wherever you let Him in.”


The Lesson of Hot ChocolateA group of graduates, well established in their careers,

were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired.

During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said: “Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. The cup that you’re drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot

chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was

hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eying each others cups.

Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups.

They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to

enjoy the hot chocolate G-d has provided us. G-d makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the

cups. The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything

that they have. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate.

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The year is 2016 and the United States has elected the first woman aswell as the first Jewish president, Susan Goldfarb. She calls up hermother a few weeks after election day and says, ‘So, Mom, I assume youwill be coming to my inauguration?’

‘I don’t think so. It’s a ten hour drive, your father isn’t as young ashe used to be, and my arthritis is acting up again.’

‘Don’t worry about it Mom, I’ll send Air Force One to pick you up andtake you home. And a limousine will pick you up at your door.’

‘I don’t know. Everybody will be so fancy-schmantzy, what on earth wouldI wear?’

‘Oh Mom,? replies Susan, ‘I’ll make sure you have a wonderful gowncustom-made by the best designer in New York .’

‘Honey,’ Mom complains, ‘you know I can’t eat those rich foods you andyour friends like to eat.’

The President-to-be responds, ‘Don’t worry Mom. The entire affair isgoing to be handled by the best caterer in New York , kosher all the way.Mom, I really want you to come.’

So Mom reluctantly agrees and on January 20, 2017, Susan Goldfarb isbeing sworn in as President of the United States . In the front row sitsthe new President’s mother, who leans over to a senator sitting next toher. ‘You see that woman over there with her hand on the Torah, becomingPresident of the United States ??’

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Mom says proudly, ‘Her brother is a doctor.’

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