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Jewish Summer Camps

Jewish children are having the times of their young lives at summer camps. Jewish camps provide unique learning experiences in a loving community of campers and staff. Summer camps are much more than fun.

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was witness to a great sight at Los Angeles International Airport the other night. Campers and staff who had attended the first session at Camp Moshava of Wild Rose Wisconsin were returning to Los Angeles. The 25 campers came down the stairs at the Continental Terminal as a group. Despite the midnight hour, their faces had smiles.

They hugged their parents who they hadn’t seen in a month. But then they hugged each other. It was as if 25 close friends had gone on an outing as a unit and then returned as an enriched unit. Many had not gone to camp before. Previously experience campers and less experienced campers returned together as a community with shared experiences. There was something (actually many things) very special about watching these children and teens. They had a summer experience which would last a lifetime (pardon the cliché, which in this case is true). They were a different group than had left just about 29 days earlier.

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While this group was returning from the first month session of camp, others would leave the next day for the second session.

Throughout America, Jewish children are having the times of their young lives at summer camps. Jewish camps provide unique learning experiences in a loving community of campers and staff.

Summer camps are much more than fun.

An article in Sh’ma Magazine in the 1980’s asked 100 world Jewish leaders what the greatest influence on their becoming Jewish leaders had been. Was the greatest influence a Rabbi or teacher? A book that had been read? A grandparent or other relative? A school or a Jewish youth group? A trip to Israel? Well over half of these Jewish leaders responded that the greatest influence in their lives which led to their decision to become leaders in the Jewish community had been attending a Jewish summer camp. The majority of Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, and even secular leaders all claimed summer camp as their greatest influence.

In the Sh’ma Magazine article, the leaders described summer camp as where they lived out and experienced the Jewish values they learned about during the year. They had made lifetime friends through camp. These leaders spent multiple summers at sleep-away camps. For many, working as a camp counselor after high school graduation marked their first work experience.

Close to 30 years after the Sh’ma Magazine article, summer camps remain quite popular. Many of the Jewish camps of Southern California are “sold out” well before summer, although new camps have emerged to help handle the demand. The Jewish Community of Los Angeles has even come up with sizable scholarship funds to enable virtually every Jewish child to have an initial

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sleep-away summer camp experience.

Positive experiences are seen in religious-oriented camps, Zionist camps, sports camps, and others. The summer experiences seem to be equally successful no matter what the basis or sponsorship of an accredited camp experience.

The camp becomes during the summer a community of shared experiences and expression. For some, experiencing the Shabbat in a special summer community represents the first time for formal Sabbath observance. For others, camp continues the experience which is already observed at home.

Outdoor Friday evening services unite the campers with special melodies. The campers turn during the L’Chah Dodee to face the setting sun, witnessing the sky turning colors as the natural order of night following day is played out, a sensation mad all the more spectacular by the beautiful camp setting. At Camp Moshava, a highlight each week is the Havdallah service. Singing the melodies together while swaying back and forth is one of those special camp experiences.

During the school year, the youth of the affiliated Bnei Akiva chapters teach others the unifying chants and prayers of the special Havdallah. Those who had never attended camp share in the spirit and joy of those who had the camp experience.

The camp experience involves more than religion. There is a basketball league where campers play basketball.

Volleyball. Swimming. Outdoor camp experiences and hiking. Each experience helps to bring the campers together in a shared community. The sportsmanship and collegiality are all part of the experience.

Youths return better than when they had left. They are energized for the whole year. They want to continue Jewish experiences during the year. They are more likely to attend Jewish youth

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A question has often been asked in the community. Is the summer camp success limited to sleep-away camps?

What about the experience of summer day camps?

This week, in our local community, the Gan Israel day camp goes to Magic Mountain. The whole community seems to be in anticipation of this outing which the campers see as the best trip of the summer.

I personally have seen over the years quite a number of public school students who have been introduced to Judaism through day camp and have gone on to actually plead with their parents to enroll them in a Jewish day school or Yeshiva. The Camp Gan Israel day camp experience has even led to campers who love the experience they have had later choosing to study to become Rabbis

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and teachers. I have heard similar stories with campers from other day camps as well.

The Rabbis have questioned what the Messianic Age will be like. It has been written that the time of the Mashiach will be like every day being Shabbat, with the ever-present peace of that the Sabbath existing every day of the week.

Observing the returning campers from Camp Moshava, I could envision the Messianic Era to be a period when every day is like summer camp, a period of unity and community, of love of Judaism, love of life, and love of all.

To parents of children of the appropriate age, start now to look into scholarship programs. Learn about the camps. Plan now to have your son or daughter enriched by the experience of summer camp. • Robert J. Rome, Ph.D., is a licensed Psychologist in clinical practice in Encino, California.

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Hashanah and Yom Kippur. This clearly implies that our livelihood is predetermined and that we can't do anything to alter that which G-d has prescribed. Yet, if everything is already set, why do we pray three times a day for livelihood? If the answer is that we have some kind of access to another channel of livelihood, then why do we make such a big deal about it during the High Holidays?

Furthermore, if our livelihood is already set on Rosh Hashanah, why do we need to work at all? If we are powerless to change the allocation dictated

by Hashem, what's the point of trying to make a living? Why does the Torah demand from us that we go out work?

It seems that earning a livelihood, something that demands and drains so much of our energy and time, is completely futile!?

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Rav Saadia Gaon lists ten reasons for blowing the shofar, and the first is that it serves as the trumpet for the coronation of the King. This is because the day of Rosh Hashanah primarily serves as the day the Jewish people coronate their Almighty King.

Mystically, the Ari Z"L teaches that Rosh Hashanah is a time of Banyan HaMalchus, building the Divine Kingdom. We are literally placing G-d up on the throne and putting the crown on His head.

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world happened when it arose in G-d’s simple will that He wanted to be a King. There was no creation, time, or anything else, and then suddenly a universe with myriads of creatures came into being. G-d's desire to be a king is driving and motivating this world, and its existence actualizes this desire, because there is now a creation through which He can be a King.

Kingship, by definition, is a relationship. A king takes care of his subjects, he provides for them and protects them, while the subjects are completely dedicated and devoted to the fulfillment of the ambitions and aspirations of the king. There is no king without a people, and this applies to G-d too, because without a creation, He cannot be a King.

A kingdom where the king imposes his will on the people isn’t very fulfilling, and not a true kingdom. G-d wants a kingship that is coming from His subjects. He wants his subjects to submit themselves from their own volition. For this reason, G-d set things up in a way that his ‘contract with the world’ expires on the anniversary of creation, Rosh Hashanah. On this day, the feeling and desire, so-to-say, that G-d has to be a King over the world, completely dissipates. His mood changes and he has no desire to invest within the creation.

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worlds. Billions of angels and other spiritual beings all beseech G-d, crying in unison, crowning Him as the King, but the real action happens in our world, on Earth, through human beings - souls that are incarnated in bodies - because we are the only beings to have pure and proper free will, as G-d's true Greatness is hidden from us. Our world is the place where G-d has a real thrill in creation, so-to-say.

When we choose to surrender our own egos and desires to do the Will of our King, that gives G-d pleasure, and re-interests him to reinvest into the creation.

We know Rosh Hashanah is a day of judgment, and this is intrinsically and inherently connected to the coronation of the King. Once G-d is ready to reinvest into the creation, He must decide how much.

As every respectful and successful businessperson or investor will take time to review his ventures to make sure they are productive and profitable, G-d too, must judge His previous investment and decide how to proceed. G-d takes His kingdom very seriously and closely examines what the creation is fulfilling for Him; if it is reaping the rewards and profits that he hoped for. Is it giving Him what he desired when He created it in the first place? G-d's profit comes from His subjects serving Him in Torah and mitzvos. He examines the world and sees how much Torah and mitzvos have grown in the past year, and based on that He will decide whether and how much to reinvest.

Any entrepreneur will continue to invest, and perhaps invest even more if he sees that a business venture was successful. G-d too, will reinvest and increase his Divine light if He sees fit.

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and then the particular details of each department or employee. So too, there is a two-fold Divine judgment: an overall evaluation of the creation as a whole, and then a specific analysis of each being and object.

G-d judges each of us to determine if the Divine light we merited the previous year was 'profitable' for Him. What did we do with the spiritual energy and goodness that G-d invested with each of us? Did we use it to increase Torah and mitzvah observance for ourselves and the world around us? Hopefully, we have done our part and G-d will grant each of us an increase in health, wealth and family.

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G-d channels his goodness down to us through a progression of spiritual worlds. Because the condition of free will requires that G-dliness is not openly revealed, everything G-d sends down through the worlds must be concealed, or clothed, within a vessel.

These vessels, objects which serve as channels for G-dly light, provide a façade to maintain G-d's concealment in our world.

openly revealed, they didn't disappear, they simply went behind a veil.

Now, we must provide G-d with the vessels, or channels, through which he can provide his goodness to us in a seemingly natural manner. This goodness is granted to us as in investment for one purpose - to fulfill G-d's will through the increase of Torah and mitzvos.

During Elul, we have an opportunity to do our best work. We know our Divine creditor is coming, and we want to show Him that we are working to maintain a profitable creation for Him. Many people feel that this is a time when G-d is pointing at us with a threatening finger, but the Chassidic perspective differs.

Consider a creditor who had a very profitable year, and is going over his books before taking a short vacation.

He is happy to see how much money he made and that overall, his business is thriving. Of course, he has some partners that owe him a bit of money, so he sends them polite reminder notices, indicating that he is doing well and hopes to hear from them soon.

When the debtors receive these letters, most of them can sense the positive energy and encouragement . They scramble and do their best to keep their creditor happy by sending in as much as possible, and an explanation as such, adding that they hope to continue to repay in a timely manner.

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Others may not even respond to his letters, and these debtors upset his mood and he may even terminate his relationship with them.

Similarly in Elul, when G-d does his accounting, he sees that the world is very profitable! The proof is that we have been here for over 5770 years. G-d gets tremendous delight from each and every part of every mitzvah we do, and every letter of Torah that passes through our lips. We have an opportunity to show him, while He is in a great mood, so-to-say, how hard we are trying to make his investments worthwhile.

What happens the rest of the year? We might have earned a deposit from the Divine bank during the High Holidays, but we still need to make our daily withdrawals. Even though G-d has already allocated some goodness to us, the actual transmission happens little by little, every day. G-d renews and recreates the world every day, and each day he delivers the blessing of the day through our prayers and deeds; We still have to draw the funds out from the bank.

There are no ‘laws’ of economics. Just like in the desert, when G-d gave us bread every day straight from heaven, each time anything grows from the earth, or we earn a dollar at the office, it is exclusively and completely a gift from Hashem. It is a constant miracle that, unfortunately, we have become accustomed to expect.

We have to realize this fact every moment we spend at work. If a person is willing to cut time from their Torah study, davening or any other mitzvah observance in order to increase his livelihood, then it's evident that this person sees the business as his source of livelihood, and not G-d.

One who knows that G-d generates all successes (or failures), knows that it makes no sense to cut down on the profit G-d earns from His blessing. We must constantly be aware that G-d blesses us and provides everything we need as an investment so that we can make His world profitable.

May we merit to see the redemption soon, when G-d will send His great light into the creation, and the world will no longer have a need for concealment. Then, as it says, the Earth will directly give forth everything we need. •

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n this week's portion Moshe talks about what was perhaps the most traumatic moment of his career. After spending 40 days and nights on the highest level of spiritual elevation, he returned from Mount Sinai to a scene that filled him with horror.

At the foot of the mountain the Jews were reveling around a golden calf.

The youngster would need a punishment too, whether it be potch (Yiddish for slap), reprimand, lecture, or the withholding of privileges.

Naturally Moshe was appalled.

Here he was, holding the luchos, a G-d-given immortal gift, and he faced a nation plunged into an act of idolatry. He smashes the luchos.

But when a potch or harsh rebuke was due, the rabbi would not give it immediately. He would jot the transgression down in a small notebook and at the end of the week he would approach the young offender. After giving the child a hug and embrace, he reminded the child of the incident and explained to the child that his actions were wrong.

But if we analyze the narrative there is an interesting word that Moshe inserts as he describes his actions on that day. "I descended from the mountain and the two tablet were in my hands. Then I saw and behold! You had sinned unto G-d; you made yourselves a molten calf. So I grasped the two luchos and I threw them from my two hands and smashed them in front of your eyes" (Deuteronomy 9:15-17).

"I should have punished you immediately when I saw you commit your act," he would say, "but honestly, I was angry then, and my punishment may have been one spurred by anger, not admonition.

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Why did he clutch them before throwing them from his hands?

Weren't they already in his hands?

He then proceeded to punish the child in a way that fit the misdeed.

Moshe was upset. But he did not want to throw the luchos down in rage. He therefore grabbed them and held them tight before hurling them. Moshe, in his narrative tells us that he seized the luchos before breaking them. He wanted to send a clear message to the revelers below. That the mussar (ethical reprove) that he was affording with this action was not born out of irrational behavior or in anger.

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e was a short man, less than five-and-a-half feet tall, with brown eyes that darted about like a bird.

He was thin, bald, heavily wrinkled, and in his late eighties. He wore the same second-hand suit for twelve years - a brown pinstripe - with no tie. When he walked, he moved slowly, helped by a cane. His hands were big for a man his size and heavily calloused, the hands of a man who was powerful in his youth.

He came to services at the synagogue, Bais Simcha, every Saturday morning. Each time, he arrived ten minutes after everyone, entered from the back door, and sat in the last seat in the last row of the synagogue by himself. He prayed quietly, without a prayer-book, and then left ten minutes before the service was over, through the same back door. He spoke to no one.

Members of the congregation asked about him from time to time, and each time, Rabbi Levi answered the same way: "His name is Sam Spiegel. He lives at the Gardens Senior Court around the corner. More than that, I do not know."

••• Rabbi Levi had two cell-phones charging on his night table.

When the one with the special private number started vibrating, it wrenched him out of a deep sleep. He opened it and listened.

white hospital coat, and his blue eyes were sharp and focused, even at that late hour. His hair was pure white and wispy, and at sixty-two, there was not a wrinkle on his face.

Rabbi Levi looked at Sam Spiegel, whose breathing was labored, his skin an ashen gray. When Sam opened his eyes, he looked very weak. He reached out and took Rabbi Levi's hand.

With his other hand, he pulled on Dr. Schwartz's hospital coat, and then pointed to the door. When Dr. Schwartz did not move, Sam pulled again, and pointed again.

"Okay, I can take a hint!" Ben said with a small smile. He put away his stethoscope and looked over at Rabbi Levi. He pointed to his cell phone and mouthed the words, "Call me if you need me." Then he left them alone.

Rabbi Levi looked down at the old man and sighed. It was sad to come to this, he thought, dying all alone in a hospital room, with no family or friends to give testimony to the life he led. The only one in the world who cared was a rabbi, and this rabbi barely knew more than the man's name.

Rabbi Levi began saying the twenty-third psalm, the one that began with "The L-rd is My Shepherd." Toward the end of the psalm, he felt a tugging on his hand. Sam was pointing to an envelope lying on the table by the side of the bed, next to his water.

"For you," Sam said, barely above a whisper.

"Someone is asking for you." It was Ben.

Rabbi Levi nodded his head, took the envelope, and put it in his coat pocket.

"What time is it?" Rabbi Levi whispered.

"2:00 AM."

"Is there anything you want to tell me, Sam?" Rabbi Levi asked.

"Who's asking?"

"He says his name is Sam Spiegel."

"Yes … I want to say … thank you … Rabbi."

"Can't it wait?"

Then, Sam Spiegel passed from this world.

"Sure. You and I, we can wait … but G-d, well, I can't speak for Him." "Okay, I get the hint. Where are you?"

"The Health Center. Room 180."

"I'm coming."

Rabbi Levi grabbed his clothes in the dark, and not wishing to awaken Rebecca, tiptoed from his bedroom to the bathroom, put on the light and got dressed. He rubbed the sleep out of his tired brown eyes, and quickly straightened his long salt-and-pepper beard as best he could. He went to the kitchen and wrote a quick note: "Becca, I went to the hospital. I'll call later.

Yankee."

Levi found Room 180. The door was open and Dr. Ben Schwartz was standing by the bed, his stethoscope hanging from his ears, listening to Sam Spiegel's chest. Ben wore his

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Rabbi Levi could not help himself. He cried. He looked up to the Heavens and beseeched the Holy One, Blessed be He, to accept the quiet and lonely soul of the man that lay there.

Rabbi Levi did not return home until 5:00 AM. He undressed quietly and got back into bed. He slept fitfully, only to wake up late. He was alone in the house, Rebecca and the children were already up and out at school.

Rabbi Levi showered, dressed, and brushed his teeth quickly, then rushed out of their house to the synagogue. He arrived at the end of morning services, just as Avi Fingerboard, the seventy-five-year old cantor who was really eighty-two, was asking if anyone wanted to say kaddish, the prayer for the departed. Rabbi Levi stepped forward, put on his tallit, and began: "Yitgadal vayitkadash shmei rabbah…"

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"I was saying it for Sam Spiegel, who died early this morning."

He waited for the whispers and murmurs to quiet down.

"He will be buried at 6:00 o'clock tonight, at a graveside service, over at Sunshine Memorial Cemetery. I would like as many of you as possible to show up so we can have a minyan. Can I see a show of hands of those of you that can make it?"

Only five men, out of the fifteen present, raised their hands. Rabbi Levi sighed, and continued.

"It's very important to me to have a minyan tonight. I realize Sam was a quiet man and practically a stranger to us, but I want to say kaddish for him when we put him to rest. I don't think he has anyone else that can do it. Can I please see another show of hands of everyone who can make it tonight … as a special favor to me?"

Slowly, more hands went up… eight… nine… ten… eleven… until all the hands were raised.

"Thank you," Rabbi Levi said. He turned back around, faced the Torah ark, and began wrapping tefillin around his arm so he could finish his morning prayers.

••• There was $736 in the Bais Simcha Emergency Fund. It was going to cost slightly more than $5,000 for the casket, the burial preparation, and the cemetery plot for Sam Spiegel. Rabbi Levi shrugged, and then went where he always went when there was a financial emergency and not enough money in the emergency fund – to Michael Fein, the attorney and richest Jew in Sunshine, Florida, their little town west of Miami.

As he sat in the waiting room of the Fein Law Firm, he felt something in his inside coat pocket. He pulled out the en-

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velope he stuck there, the envelope from Sam Spiegel's bedside. He opened the envelope and there were two sets of papers. The first set contained a single handwritten sheet of paper stapled to a certificate of some kind. It read: Last Will and Testament of Samuel P. Spiegel I, Samuel P. Spiegel, being of sound mind and body, and having no one else in this life, leave all my worldly belongings to Beis Simcha of Sunshine, Florida, namely the one share of stock attached.

"Rabbi Levi, Mr. Fein will see you now," the receptionist said, interrupting him. He folded up the papers, put them back in the envelope and stuffed it into his coat pocket. Michael Fein was sitting behind his polished mahogany desk, every hair on his head combed perfectly in place. His Pierre Cardin suit was stylish and expensive-looking. When Rabbi Levi walked in, Michael Fein looked up from the legal brief he was concentrating on and smiled. He stood up, reached out, and Rabbi Levi moved forward and shook his hand warmly.

"Well, Rabbi, what a pleasant surprise.

What brings you here today?"

"I was just in the neighborhood and thought I would come by and see how you were doing."

"Oh, G-d, no! Not the 'just in the neighborhood excuse'… every time you use that I know it's going to be an expensive visit."

"What, I can't come by and just say hello?"

"I should live so long."

They both laughed and sat down.

Rabbi Levi began: "I have to bury a member of the congregation, and the emergency fund is short."

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"Yes, Moshe."

"Oh, no… now you are calling me Moshe."

Rabbi Levi smiled. "That's because I am summoning your Jewish soul."

"My Jewish soul is slowly going broke, Rabbi. Better you should summon my secular soul. That still has a few bucks left."

"Moshe, please. You know I wouldn't come to you if there were someone else that could help on such short notice."

"Who is it for?"

"Sam Spiegel."

"Who?" "The elderly man who sat alone in the last row on Shabbat."

"The old guy who wore the same brown suit and never stayed around to talk?"

"Exactly."

"He didn't leave anything?"

"Just one share of stock in some company."

"One share… a big businessman, huh?"

Rabbi Levi reached into his pocket, opened the envelope, and handed the top paper to Michael Fein. Michael read the will quickly, turned the page over and studied the stock certificate. He turned to his computer, clicked on a stock tracker, and typed in some letters. He turned back to the rabbi shaking his head up and down. Rabbi Levi waited for Michael to say something, and when he didn't, he punctuated the silence with: "What?"

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the life G-d gave me.

"So?"

The only thing I have in this world is the one share of stock I bought over forty years ago from a man named Warren. He was standing next to me in the subway station near Columbia University, and when we spoke, he seemed smart and honest, and he didn't talk down to me.

"Each share is worth more than $100,000.

••• Dear Rabbi Levi, I had Jack write this for me two nights ago when my heart felt like it was going to stop and I started to feel like I wasn't going to be around anymore. Jack lives near me in the Gardens and used to work for an attorney. He also wrote the will for me and made sure it was legal.

Rabbi, my parents and I came here from Russia when I was ten. They contracted tuberculosis on the ship, and my first act in America was to bury them in unmarked graves in Queens, New York. My Aunt Ida and Uncle Izzy took me in, but they were crowded into a two-bedroom apartment along with their five children, with barely enough to eat, so I stopped coming to their place and slept out in the streets. I stood outside restaurants and begged for food or ate from garbage cans, like an animal.

One morning, I was awakened by the owner of a truck that I was sleeping in, and he offered me the first and only job I ever had, working at his septic tank company. I never went to school, and didn't learn how to read or write, so I figured it wasn't such a bad job, making septic tanks. We used to dig them out by hand and make the tanks out of bricks and mortar, until we learned how to make them with machines and pre-formed cement. When I got into my forties, my back and knees started to bother me, so Charlie, the owner of the company, put me on the special truck he bought to pump out the tanks when they got full.

The customers liked me and asked for me. They called me Septic Sam, and the nickname stuck for more than twenty years, until I retired at sixty-seven.

Afterwards, I invested a hundred dollars in his company. It was the only investment I ever made because I never made much money to invest.

I do not know what it is worth today, but if it has some value, I would like you to use it to educate a Jewish child so he or she will have more than I had in this life.

Rabbi, thank you for opening the synagogue and allowing me to come on Shabbat and pray with your minyan. It gave me comfort in my last years. May God bless you and keep you.

Sam Spiegel Rabbi Levi cashed in the one share of stock in Berkshire Hathaway, paid for Sam Spiegel's funeral, and then went to the bank and purchased a Certificate of Deposit. It gave Rabbi Levi a special feeling at the beginning of every school year to present a needy Jewish child with the Sam Spiegel Memorial Scholarship. He smiled and thought of Sam, and how the blessings of G-d come in many forms and in through many different people. •

I never got married or had any children, but I never forgot I was a Jew. I could not afford the synagogue dues when I lived in New York, so I didn't attend services, but each morning and each night, I said the Shema prayer. I moved down to Florida when my bones could not take the cold New York winters, and the Gardens Senior Court in Sunshine was the only place that would accept social security as full payment. I used to go for walks in the neighborhood and one day, I noticed that someone had turned the old, boarded-up building down the street into a synagogue. When you were outside painting the trim, I asked what the dues were, and when you told me you didn't have dues, I started to go to synagogue on Shabbat.

I didn't want to disturb anyone and take advantage, so I stayed in the back. I couldn't read the prayer-book, so I just sat and prayed from my heart. In the beginning, I felt a little embarrassed because I wasn't paying or helping out, but then something happened to change me. One day, while I was praying, I suddenly felt deep inside my soul that G-d loved me and appreciated the work I did in my life, that it was necessary work, and someone had to do it. That made me feel good, that I didn't waste

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hen I stand in line in a pizza shop or bagel store, I anticipate the counter fellow asking me, "So what do you need?" That's because I often answer, "bread and water." Then I smile and add, "that's what I need. Now I'll tell you what I want." Of course I go on to order a potpourri of unneeded calories, that are comfortably arranged on the a staple of Western man dough. To some of us those toppings are the deep insight to the verse in this week's portion, "Man does not live by bread alone" (Deuteronomy 8:3). Of course as thinking Jews, we know the verse does not refer to bread or pizza garnishing. The suffix of the verse, contains the important message "rather by everything that emanates from the mouth of G-d does man live".

By all means, this week's portion tells us to keep life in perspective what we want, what we need and an attitude we must ingest and ultimately exude in the way we live our lives.

But the truth is the Torah seems a bit contradictory. It tells us, "He afflicted you and let you hunger, then He fed you the manna that you did not know, nor did your forefathers know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone does man live, rather by everything that emanates from the mouth of G-d does man live."

Did Hashem not sustain us with a physical form of sustenance? Hashem did not say, "Do not worry; survive without bread;" rather he sent us a form, albeit a miraculous form, of bread. So, if eventually we need bread, and it does sustain us, how is He telling us that man does not live by bread alone?

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"Doctor.' the frantic voice on the other end of the phone pleaded. "I must make an appointment for my six-year-old son. He is in desperate need of a therapist."

"And what makes you think he needs a psychologist?"

"Well, his mother and I are separated. During the week, our son stays by his mother. On the weekends he is with me." The man continued. "Well we just began this arrangement. Tonight as his mother was about to put him to bed, he began to wail. 'I want to go back to Daddy!'"

"She tried unsuccessfully to convince him to go to bed and finally gave up. She got him dressed, and drove him across town to my place.”

"How did that work out?" asked the doctor.

"Well," continued the father, “he came to my place.

Everything was fine until he was about to go to bed. Then my son began to cry incessantly. 'I want to go back to Mommy!' This time I had to drive him, and then…" The doctor listened a few more moments and then he interjected, "I don't know if your son needs a therapist, but he definitely needs parents!"

The Torah is telling us a very special message. Of course, we need bread to sustain us. We must use the world's physical resources to aid in our sustenance. But there is a message sent when in the evening we have nothing and the next morning we have manna. The message is that the physical sustenance we need be it agricultural nutrition, medicinal remedies, or a boost in business is all Heavenly ordained.

Hashem afflicted us and starved us. Then he gave us food that was totally measured, meted, and doled by His Divine hand. That daily ritual became a metaphor for eternity. Physical amenities are the very source of physical existence. But the source of that sustenance may never be overlooked. Man needs bread. That is the way of the world. But just don't forget our Father who sends it. We may need therapists. But don't forget the parents!

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But these conversations, as important as they may be, do not do justice to the true power of speech. Speaking serves another, much more potent purpose when the conversation itself, and the connection it creates between people, is the objective. Friends will pick up a phone and call each other simply to keep in touch.

Children call their parents, sometimes for a purpose (financial requests are high on the list of "purposes") -- but usually the point of the conversation is just to touch base.

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Chabad Sola. Mon - Fri, at 8.30AM. 1627 S La Cienega Blvd, opposite Cheder Menachem. If you are interested and could commit to be part of this new Minyan please contact R Menashe at 646 258 6881 or at menashe.borbely@gmail.com.

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Beverly Hills Adjacent Home for Sale 5 Bedroom 3.5 Bath Luxury Home, Marble floors, Lrg Luxury Granite Kitchen, huge living/dining room w/vaulted ceilings, Wet Bar, 2 Master S u i t e s , Jacuzzi, Laundry, Sauna, basketball court. Lots of Built-ins.

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BNEI BRAKISRAEL 4 BR. 2 1/2 bath big living room. dining area. private home. close to shuls and shops. $3000.

516-770-3456 GUEST HOUSE FOR RENT Very nice guest house for rent, furnished, kosher kitchenette, own private entrance, Beverly/La Brea area, female applicant only.

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Dining Guide Listing Please Call 323-965-1544 MEAT Afshan Restaurant RCC 106 W. 9th St. LA, (213) 622-1010 Bocca Steakhouse RCC 16610 Ventura. Encino, 91436 (818) 905-5855 Café Del Mar Meat Kehila 12526 Burbank Blvd. N.H. 91607 (818) 487-8171 Chic N Chow Kehila 9301 West Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 274-5595 Chinese and Kabob Kehila 9180 Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 274-4007 Circa RCC 433 N. Fairfax Avenue, LA, 90036 323-653-1941 Cohen’s Restaurant RCC 316 E Pico Blvd # F LA, CA 90015 (213) 742-8888 Delice Bistro Kehila 8581 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 289-1702 Elat Burger Ben Zaken 9340 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 278-4692 Elite Cuisine RCC 7119 Beverly Blvd. LA, 90036 (323) 930-1303 Bukspan Falafel Express 5577 Reseda Blvd. Tarzana, 9135 (818) 345-5660

Falafel Grill Chabad 5611 Kanan R. Agoura Hills, 91301 (818) 991-8799 Glatt Hut RCC 9303 W. Pico Blvd. 90035 (310) 246-1900 Golan RCC 13075 Victory Blvd. N. H, 91606 (818) 763-5344 Got Kosher? RCC 8914 W. Pico Blvd. 90035 (310) 858-1920 Habayit Bukspan 11921 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90064 (310) 479-5444

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DINING GUIDE

Haifa Ben Zaken 8717 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 888-7700

Temptation Grill Kehila 17547 Ventura B. Encino, 91316 (818) 995-4700

Milk N Honey RCC 8837 West Pico Blvd LA, 90035 (310) 858-8850

Jeffs Gourmet Kehila 8930 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 858-8590

The Meating Place KCA 30313 Canwood St. AH, 91301 (818) 706-1255

Milky Way Kehila 9108 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 859-0004

Kosher Chicks RCC 186081/2Ventura Blvd. Tarzana, 91356 (818) 343-8800

Tierra Sur at Herzog Winery 3201 Camino DelSol Oxnard (818) 752-6866

Nagilla Pizza Kehila 9411 West Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 788-0111

La Gondola Kehila 9025 Wilshire Blvd. BH, 90211 (310) 247-1239

Smokin’ Rabbi Furst 12514 Burbank Boulevard, Valley Village, CA 91607 (805) 983-1560

La Glatt RCC 446 Fairfax Ave. LA, 90036 (323) 658-7730

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Nana Cafe RCC 1509 S Robertson Blvd.

(310) 407-0404 Pico Cafe Kehila 8944 W Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 310-385-9592

DAIRY

Mashu Mashu RCC 12510 Burbank Blvd. 91607 (818)752-ASIA (2742)

Beverly Cafe Elite RCC 7113 Beverly Blvd. LA, 90035 (323) 931-3563

Pizza Maven Kehila 140 North La Brea Blvd. 90036 (323) 857-0353

Metro Glatt RCC 8975 W. Pico Blvd. 90035 (310) 275-4420

Bibis Warmstone Kehila 8928 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 246-1788

Pizza Nosh Rabbi Ami Markel 30313 Canwood St. A.H. 91301 (818) 991-3000

Nagilla Meating Place Kehila 9407 West Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 788-0119

Bramis Pizza

(818) 342-0611

Pizza Station Kehila 8965 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 276-8708

Café Del Mar Dairy Kehila 12526 Burbank Blvd. N.H. 91607 (818) 487-8171

Pizza World Kehila 365 Fairfax Ave. LA, 90036 (323) 653-2896

Circa RCC 8622 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles (310) 854-0592

Sassis Sushi Kehila 16550 Ventura, Encino, 91436 (818) 783-2727

Delice Kehila 8583 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 289-6556

Shalom Pizza RCC 8715 West Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 271-2255

Orange Delight Kehila 13628 Ventura Blvd. SO, 91423 (818) 788-9896 Pats Kehila 9233 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 205-8705 Pico Kosher Deli RCC 8826 West Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 273-9381 Pita Way RCC 8532 Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 652-5236 Sassis Kehila 15622 Ventura, Encino, 91436 (818) 986-5345 Shanghai Kehila 9401 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 553-0998 Shilohs Kehila 8939 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 858-1652 Subway Kehila 8948 W Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 274-1222 Schnitzle Kehila 9216 W. Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 786-8282

RCC

17736 ShermanWay, Reseda 91326

PAREVE

Fish Grill Kehila 7226 Beverly Blvd. LA, 90036 (323) 937-7162 12013 Wilshire Blvd. LA, 90025 (310) 479-1800 9618 W. Pico Blvd. 90035 (310) 860-1182 22935 Pacific Coast Highway (310) 456-8585

Unique Cafe Rabbi Aron Simkin 18381 Ventura Blvd. Tarzana (818) 757-3100 Fish In The Village RCC 12450 Burbank Blvd. N.H, 91607 (818) 769-0085

Jerusalem Pizza Kehila (818) 758-9595

Le Sushi RCC 12524 Burbank Blvd N.H. 91607 (818) 763-6600

La Brea Bagel Kehilla 7308 Beverly Blvd. LA, 90036 (323) 965-1287

SushiKo RCC 9340 West Pico Blvd. LA, 90035 (310) 274-3474

17942 Ventura Blvd. Encino, CA 91316

La Pizza Rabbi Furst 12515 Burbank Blvd. N.H, 91607 (818) 760-8198

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