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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 • TISHREI 5776 • VOL 11 • ISSUE #266

IN THIS ISSUE: Thank You For Everything Junior Minyan Makes Moving Dedication The Mitzvah To Be Happy

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The Observant Jew

Thank for You Every Thing RABBI JONATHAN GEWIRTZ

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t happened. The nightmare we all fear. I was having cabinets installed in my home and something went wrong!

When you invest so much time, effort, and money in a project, you don’t want it to come out bad. Frantically, I called the cabinet installer. OK, I didn’t call him. I texted him, What’s Apped his boss, and basically had a meltdown. “You’ve got to fix this!” I pleaded, with appropriately desperate emojis.

It was the end of the day and I was afraid they wouldn’t be able to do anything, throwing off our schedule. Worse, I feared there was no way to rectify the problem. I was on my way out to a meeting so I couldn’t wait for him to come but when I got back later that evening, Baruch HaShem, everything was straightened out!

I immediately texted the worker and thanked him for coming out and fixing the problem, doing such a great job, and basically saving my skin. I complimented him to his boss, too, and thanked him for his involvement. At some point though, once I calmed down, it hit me that this man had laid everything out, installed all the cabinets, attached hinges and doors, panels and drawers, and I didn’t comment on it.

It was only once I had a problem with a small (OK, maybe not so small) part, and he swooped in and came to my rescue, that I felt the appreciation for his craftsmanship that I should have felt all along. I should have been thanking him every step of the way for his care and attention to detail, but I didn’t because I just expected everything to go smoothly.

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I’m sure by now you’ve guessed where I’m going with this.

There’s one Craftsman who pays attention to every detail in every one of our lives. Forget a Jewish Carpenter, my Boss is above religion and has many more skills than that!

HaShem constantly works wonders and makes the whole world run for us and everyone else in it. Most of the time we don’t even notice it as we’re going about our business with Him working in the background. Then, all of a sudden, BAM!! Something happens that we weren’t expecting and sometimes we feel like there’s no way to fix the problem.

That’s when we make our frantic calls to Heaven, contort our faces and hearts into pitiful shapes, and try to convey to HaShem just how urgent this problem is. We know it’s out of our hands and He’s the only one who can help us. Sometimes it’s quick, sometimes it’s not, and sometimes we don’t even recognize the fix, but when we do, our hearts explode with joy and appreciation.

That’s when, like I did with my cabinets, we should stop to realize that not only the problem, but everything leading up to it that went smoothly, came from the same source. We should pause to reflect on what we’ve experienced without pain and suffering and how much work HaShem’s put in for us before we even asked.

It’s time to recognize that we’ve been blessed by having all the things we didn’t feel the need to daven about. It’s not that we took them for granted; it’s that we simply didn’t even stop

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to think about it. That’s why Sukkos is so special.

In Tammuz and Av we mourned the Bais HaMikdash and tried to enjoy some sort of summer vacation (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere at least.) Come Elul, we’re busy reflecting, improving, and trying to see what we can do differently.

Tishrei, with Rosh HaShana and the Aseres Yemei Teshuva, means extended davening, early morning selichos, focusing on shofar blasts, and trying to put honey on everything that isn’t nailed down. Then comes Yom Kippur with its frantic pre-fast feast followed by twenty-six hours of trying to be angelic. The minute that’s over we’re running to build the sukkah and make sure we have a lulu of an esrog.

Finally, Sukkos arrives and what is the Mitzvah of the day? SIT! Don’t do anything. Just SIT in the Sukkah. What? No running around delivering Sukkos Manos baskets? Nope. What about measuring our food to make sure we’re eating at least 4 kilos of wheat in under four minutes? Nyet - not necessary.

Just sit there. Sit, and think.

Think about the fact that throughout the year, you’ve put in work, sure. You’ve offered prayers, of course. But now, we sit

and think about all the things we didn’t have to think about, and that’s what makes us thankful.

The Ananei HaKavod, the Clouds of Glory which we commemorate by sitting in the Sukkah, controlled the climate, flattened out the paths we traveled, killed dangerous pests and more. Basically, they kept us rolling along smoothly, without bumps in the road.

What we’re recalling is the fact that we were saved from having to think about all those things.

So, on Sukkos, it’s time to take stock of what we have; to look at all the cabinets, not just the problem ones. It’s finally a chance to not just give a quick “Thanks for everything,” but instead to give a well-considered, heartfelt “thank you,” for every thing.

Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English. E-mail info@JewishSpeechWriter.com and put Subscribe in the subject.

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The

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5q %(1 7=,21 6+$),(5 7+( 6+08= “Because you did not serve HASHEM, your G-d, amid gladness and goodness of heart when everything was abundant.”

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7+( '(67,1< 2) 7+( -(:6 The fate of the Jewish people is unlike that of any other nation. We are either exalted and revered or downtrodden and oppressed — there is no middle ground. If we follow the ways of HASHEM, the Torah assures us that we will live a life of prosperity, abundance, and peace. Secure in our borders, finding only goodness and happiness in our land, we will be blessed. However, if we reject HASHEM’s ways, then we will be cursed; oppressed, and tortured, — hunted down by our enemies until we are thrown out of our land..

At the end of a long prophecy of what will befall us if we don’t follow the ways of HASHEM, the Torah seems to lay the blame on one issue: because you did not serve HASHEM, your G-d, amid gladness and goodness of heart when everything was abundant. It seems the pivotal point of these two extremes is based on simcha.-- Implying that serving HASHEM with happiness is critical to our success 16

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as a nation.

Rabbeinu Bachya explains that this is because the mitzvahs must be done with joy and complete devotion.

When the mitzvahs are done without joyfulness, they are lacking in their effect, and this can be part of the spiral downward.

He then gives an example of a mitzvah that wasn’t done with complete motivation. The Medrash tells us that when Reuvain attempted to save Yosef from his brothers, he said, “Let us put him in the pit.” His intention was to buy some time to eventually save him. However, had he realized that he would be recorded in history as the one who saved Yosef, he would have put him on his shoulders and carried him home to his father. From here we see the importance of doing a mitzvah with complete dedication and commitment.

7+( 32:(5 2) 6,0&+$ This Rabbeinu Bachaya is difficult to understand on two levels. First, how can the Torah command me to be happy?

Being happy isn’t an emotion that we can turn on and off like a light switch. And second, how can we compare the effect of doing a mitzvah joyfully to the case of Reuvain?

That was a classic example of kavod. We are well aware that honor is one of the most powerful driving forces in

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the human condition. Public recognition, fame, and having one’s name in the floodlights of history are things that people in every generation kill for. Granted Reuvain was a tzaddik, but the fact that he would have been titled the savior of Yosef for eternity is something that would propel a man to extremes. How can that be compared to something as minor as joy in the performance of a mitzvah? While happiness when doing a mitzvah may be a nicety, it certainly can’t be ranked up there with kavod as a driving force.

The answer to these questions can best be understood through a different perspective.

it, emotionally we just don’t feel it will happen. With that emotional blindness comes blindness to the value of our actions. Since in our operating reality, I will never die, then what I do or don’t do really doesn’t matter.

If for a flashing moment, I were to see what the World to Come will be like for me, I would effectively lose free will. The extraordinary accomplishment of one mitzvah would so overwhelm me that I would be completely and radically different — not different physically, not smarter, but much more driven to accomplish my purpose in life.

When Chazal tell us over and over again that mitzvahs are worth far more than the greatest treasures in this world, it is because they had that clarity.

They understood what it will be like for each of us as we regale in our great wealth. In that World, we will look back at every chance we had to grow as the greatest opportunity ever given to man. We will look back at our mitzvahs, and they will bring us far more joy than earning than a million dollars an hour.

This seems to be the answer to Rabbenu Bachya. One of the greatest motivators in the human is enthusiasm. That enthusiasm is based on a value system. If I value money, I will be driven to pursue it, and the acquisition of it will bring me great joy. If I gain a deeper perspective on life, then I experience elation, knowing that my net worth in the World to Come is growing at an incredible rate. My investments are paying back in spades. That excitement is one of the most powerful motivating forces — equal even to kavod. With it, a person can reach great heights. Without it, a person’s avodas HASHEM can become stale and lose its potency, thus beginning a downward spiral.

Ultimately, joy is a great force that both allows a person to enjoy his short stay in this world and propels him to achieve the greatness for which he was created.

Doesn’t everyone want to be happy?

,) , :(5( $ 5,&+ 0$1 Sheldon G. Adelson, the son of immigrant parents, grew up in a poor neighborhood of Boston. His father was a taxi driver; his mother ran a knitting store. At a young age, Adelson began showing an entrepreneurial spirit, first by selling newspapers on local street corners, and then by becoming the owner of his first business at age twelve.

Over the course of his working career, he built over fifty companies. He is now the owner of Las Vegas Sands Corp., the parent company of the Venetian Resort.

In 2003, his net worth was ranked at 1.4 billion dollars.

While that is an impressive sum, it didn’t put him anywhere near the richest people in the world. However, when he took his company public, a rather interesting thing happened. His personal wealth increased by 750%. By 2004, his personal worth had increased to over 20 billion dollars, making him the fifth richest man in the world. Forbes magazine estimates that over those two years, Adelson’s fortune had been growing by $1 million every hour.

I want you to imagine for a moment what it must feel like to know that your wealth is increasing at that rate. You sit down to a leisurely lunch and walk away a million dollars richer. Open a Gemarah for the daf HaYomi – there’s another $750,000. Lie down for a Shabbos nap; wake up three million dollars wealthier. What it’s like to be alive!

Every moment I live, I become richer, and richer…. I can’t wait…

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nce, on the evening before Yom Kippur, one of the chassidim of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk asked his Rebbe to allow him to see how he, Rabbi Elimelech, observes the custom of kaaparot. “ How I do kaaparot?” repeated Rabbi Elimelech. “ How do you do kaaparot?” “ I am an ordinary Jew -- I do what everyone else does. I hold the rooster in one hand, the prayer book in the otherr, and recite the text, ‘This is my exchange, this is in my stead, this is my atonement...’”

“That’s exactly what I do,” said Rabbi Elimelech. “ I take the rooster in one hand, the prayer book in the otherr, and recite the text. Actually, there might be a certain diffeerence between your kaaparot and mine: you probably make sure to use a white roosterr, while to me it makes no diffeerence: white, black, brown -- a rooster’s a rooster...”

But the chassid persisted that his Rebbe’s kaparot was certainly no ordinary event. He had been coming to Lizhensk to pray with the Rebbe every Yom Kippur for more than twenty years now, and had always wanted to observe his Rebbe at this most solemn moment. “ You want to see an extraordinary kaaparot?” said Rabbi Elimelech. “Go observe how Moshe the tavern-keeper does kaaparot. Now, there you’ ll see something far more inspiring than my own, ordinary kaaparot.”

The chassid located Moshe’s tavern at a crossroads several miles outside of Lizhensk and asked to stay the night. “ I’m sorry,” said the tavern-keeper. “As you see, this is a small establishment, and we don’t have any rooms to let. There’s an inn a small distance further down the road.” “ Please,” begged the chassid, “ I’ve been traveling all day, and I want to rest awhile. I don’t need a room -- I’ ll just curl up in a corner for a few hours and be on my way.”

“O.K.,” said Moshe. “ We’ ll be closing up shortly, and then you can get some sleep.”

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After much shouting, cajoling and threatening, Moshe succeeded in herding his clientele of drunken peasants out the door. The chairs and tables were stacked in a cornerr, and the room, which also served as the tavern-keeper’s living quarters, readied for the night. Midnight had long passed, and the hour of kaaparot was approaching. The chassid, wrapped in his blanket under a table, feeigned sleep, but kept watch in the darkened room, determined not to miss anything.

Before daawn, Moshe rose from his bed, washed his hands and recited the morning blessings. “ Time for kaaparot!” he called quietly to his wife, taking care not to wake his guest. “ Yeentel, please bring me the notebook -- it’s on the shelf above the cupboard.”

Moshe sat himself on a small stool, lit a candle, and began reading from the notebook, unaaware that his “sleeping” guest was wide awake and straining to hear every word. The

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notebook was a diary of all the misdeeds and transgressions tavern-keeper lifted his eyes heavenward and said: “So you see, the tavern-keeper had committed in the course of the year, the dear Father in Heaven, I have sinned against You. Last year date, time and circumstance of each scrupulously noted. His I repented and promised to fulfill Your commandments, but “sins” were quite benign -- a word of gossip one day, oversleep- I repeatedly succumbed to my evil inclination. But last year I also prayed and begged You for a year of ing the time for prayer on another, ne“Dear Father, today is the health and prosperity, and I trusted in glecting to give his daily coin to charity on You that it would indeed be this way. a third -- but by the time Moshe had read eve of Yom Kippur, when “Dear Father, today is the eve of Yom through the first few pages, his face was everyone forgives and is Kippur, when everyone forgives and is bathed in tears. For more than an hour forgiven. Let us put the past behind us.

Moshe read and wept, until the last page forgiven.

Let us put the I’ll accept my troubles as atonement for had been turned. past behind us.

I’ll accept my sins, and You, in Your great mercy, “Yentel,” he now called to his wife, shall do the same.” “bring me the second notebook.” my troubles as atonement Moshe took the two notebooks in his This, too, was a diary -- of all the troufor my sins, and You, in hands, raised them aloft, circled them bles and misfortunes that had befallen three times above his head, and said: him in the course of the year. On this day Your great mercy, shall do “This is my exchange, this is in my stead, Moshe was beaten by a gang of peasants, the same.” this is my atonement.” He then threw on that day his child fell ill; once, in the them into the fireplace, where the smoldead of winter, the family had frozen for dering coals soon turned the tear-stained pages to ashes. several nights for lack of firewood; another time their cow had died, and there was no milk until enough rubles had been saved to buy another.

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Junior Minyan Makes Moving Dedication Members of a Chabad junior minyan in Los Angeles made a moving dedication to a fellow congregant who passed away this year.

“Kol Yakov Yehuda cannot start tomorrow without a Chaya.”

—Rabbi Mendel Duchman

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osh Hashana at the Rebbe’s Diamond Daveners – Kol Yakov Yehuda, the junior minyan for boys and girls at the Congregation Levi Yitzchok of Los Angeles, will be welcomed with a new addition.

A brand new paroches curtain that covers the Aron Kodesh containing the Sifrei Torah was unveiled this past Friday by the presidium of the shul – Levi Cohen, Yechezkel Pinson andMendel Raeburn.

The paroches was dedicated in memory of Chaya Spalter, a young Shlucha and one of the shul’s energetic congregants who tragically passed away this past year at the age of 11.

“Kol Yakov Yehuda cannot start tomorrow without a Chaya,”

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the shul’s founder Rabbi Mendel Duchman said on Friday during the unavailing in the presence of Chaya’s parents and siblings.

The Spalter family was deeply moved when they were notified that the entire gift –from inception to completion– was handled by the children themselves.

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eshiva Ahron Yaakov/Ohr Eliyahu was honored to have the Rosh HaYeshiva HoRav Akiva Grunblatt Shlit’a of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim visit our Yeshiva on August 31st.

Rav Grunblatt davened shachris with the middle school talmidim and after davening delivered a shmuez to the boys.

Rav Grunblatt spoke about the importance of the realization of each and every person’s greatness and abilities, and the dangers that one may face if he does not have that realization.

The Rosh HaYeshiva then mentioned a story about HoRav Moshe Chait ZT”L the Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim in Yerushalayim.

Rav Chait was once walking many years ago as a young child in the Philadelphia zoo. He saw many animals in cages. One of the animals that the young Rav Chait saw was a ferocious lion. Rav Chait went

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over to a zoo keeper and asked him “excuse me sir, can that lion break through the bars of his cage?”

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Rav Grunblatt concluded by saying that as human beings at times we underestimate our abilities that Hashem gave to us and erroneously think that we cannot accomplish and therefore we do not even try to do our proper avodas Hasem - however we must realize that Hashem gave greatness and immense abilities to each and every one of us.

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n interesting custom is mentioned in conjunction with the upcoming holiday of Sukkos. In the Sha’arei Teshuva (Orech Chayim 625), we find that “one should increase the giving of charity on the eve of Sukkos.” Rabi Yehudah Assad offers an insightful explanation of this custom.

After the nation of Israel was rescued from the pursuing Egyptian nation by the splitting of the Red Sea, they sang a song in praise of Hashem. They uttered the words “ ‘This is my G-d, and I will adorn Him” The Talmud (Shabbos 133b) offers two possible meanings for this passage. One is “adorn yourself before Him in the fulfillment of Mitzvos, namely by making a beautiful Sukkah in His honor, acquiring and using a beautiful Lulav, using a beautiful Shofar, etc. Abba Saul, however, interpreted the passage as “This is my G-d and I will be like him,” meaning we should be like Hashem: just as He is gracious and compassionate, so too we should be gracious and compassionate.

On Yom Kippur, we spent the entire day fasting, praying that we be forgiven and that we be sealed for a good year. As soon as we conclude Yom Kippur, we immediately begin to involve ourselves in the Mitzvos associated with Sukkos, the holiday that occurs a few days later. We build a Sukkah and decorate it so that it is truly a sight to behold. We spend time selecting a beautiful Esrog, looking for a fruit with a beautiful shade of yellow, with no blemishes, with perfect symmetry. We search through the selection of Lulavim available to us, hoping to find one that is as straight as an arrow, meeting all the Halachik stringencies. We do this all so that we, in accordance with the verse, can adorn, can glorify the name of G-d. We attempt to do these Mitzvos in the finest way possible.

However, there is another way to interpret that verse. In our relationship with Hashem, we not only should perform His Mitzvos in the finest way possible. We also have to act with our fellow man in the finest way possible. And we do that by emulating G-d. Yes, we can have a beautiful Esrog. Yes, we can have a magnificent Sukkah.

But if we do not treat our fellow man in the way the G-d would, we have not fulfilled the entire meaning of the verse “This is my G-d and I will adorn Him,” “Zeh Kei’li V’Anvei’hu.” We therefore must remember the poor and needy at this time, when they might find they are lacking the resources needed to properly celebrate the holiday. We

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Reb Mordechi of Nashchiz lived his entire life in penury. His daily diet consisted of only bread and water. For Shabbos, he made sure he was able to purchase of salted fish. Yet, the entire year, he scrimped and saved, putting aside a penny here and penny there, so that he would be able to purchase a beautiful Esrog for Sukkos.

One year before Sukkos, he traveled to the city with a sizable sum of money with which to buy his Esrog. He encountered a man on the side of the road weeping bitterly. Rav Mordechai inquired as to what was troubling the man. The man explained that he supplied water to the townsfolk. Every day he would take his horse and wagon out to the well, fill up his jugs, and bring them back to the city where he would sell the water. This daily ritual brought him barely enough money to support his family. On this day, on the way back to town, the horse collapsed and died. The man had absolutely no savings with which to purchase another horse. Yet without a horse, he had no income and his family would starve.

Hence, he was sitting on the side of the road, despondent. Rav Mordechai took out his money purse and handed every last cent to the water carrier.

Rav Mordechai came home, and was immediately greeted by his disciples. Noting the pleased look upon his face, they assumed he must have purchased a particularly beautiful Esrog. They asked him about his trip. He responded “Hashem has blessed me this Sukkos with an opportunity to do His Mitzvos in a beautiful fashion. The townsfolk will take out their esrog on Sukkos, make a blessing on it, and with that will have glorified Hashem. I, on the other hand, will be able to have my blessing over a horse, and with that I an extremely pleased.”

The holiday after the solemn Yom Kippur, Sukkos, is to be the time when we glorify Hashem by performing all of his dictates, whether they be commandments between Him and us or between our fellow man and us, in the best way possible. By beginning our new year on the right foot, we are setting the course for a year full of spiritual achievement and hopefully for material comfort and achievement as well.

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5775-A Year of Forgotten Victims of Terrorism & War in Israel

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Unlike last summer, when thousands of missiles were being fired at Israeli civilian population centers by Hamas terrorists in Gaza during the IDF’s “Operation: Protective Edge,” which produced headlines all over the world, 5775’s daily stabbings, shootings, stone-throwing’s, car-ramming’s, Molotov cocktail attacks and yes, even the occasional missile attack from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Sinai have barely registered interest amongst the international press corps stationed in Israel.

To underscore the on-going missile threat, terrorists in Gaza attempted to hit the metro Ashkelon area just hours before the start of the new school year on September 1. Though the missile failed to reach its target, the sound of the ‘red alert’ siren in the area was enough to frighten children and parents alike.

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During 5775, terror attacks across Israel cost the lives of at least 9 Israeli citizens, the most horrific of which was the bloody massacre of 4 civilians (including three who held dual American-Israeli citizenship) during morning prayers at the Kehillat Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood on November 17, 2014.

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Does anyone remember, Kay Wilson, the British-Israeli citizen who took her American-born, Christian friend, Kristine Luken, on a hike through the picturesque Jerusalem Hills on December 18, 2010, when they were ambushed by Palestinian terrorists, who promptly hacked Luken to death, while Wilson barely survived the horrifying 19 machete stab wounds she received at the hands of the terrorists?

Since her release from the hospital over four years ago, Kay has suffered from on-going physical pain as a result of her injuries, as well as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Israel’s bureaucratic maze offers limited compensation to victims of terrorism.

For Kay, the forthcoming High Holiday season spurs a range of emotions.

“Rosh HaShanah and the festivals are a joyful time, yet for victims of terrorism such as myself, they come with a bitter-sweet taste. While I am thankful for being alive to celebrate another year ahead and express deep gratitude for the year that has passed, I am unable to skip over the fact that life does not go on as normal for people like myself. I wish life did but it simply cannot,” she revealed. “The effect of terror is eternal. For me, terror is both a physical and metaphorical knife that slashed to pieces all that I was, leaving behind both visible and invisible scars. Scars aren’t always sore but they are always there. My scars are a reminder to me of how fortunate I was to escape death but also a mission to remind people that others are not so fortunate. For survivors of terrorism the miraculous and the agony go hand in hand.”

Kay is but one of thousands of victims of terrorism and war, who are receiving on-going counseling from OneFamily, a cutting-edge organization that was created by a philanthropic Anglo immigrant family, in the aftermath of the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing at the height of the Second Intifada in 2001. OneFamily rehabilitates, reinteSeptember 18, 2015 •

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According to Pini Rabinovich, OneFamily’s Coordinator for Southern Israel, last summer’s missile attacks are still claiming victims to this day.

“A significant number of children actually started suffering from PTSD six months after the war. Sometimes there is a delay and in some cases, where there are many kids in a family, a sister or brother suffering from PTSD can actually drag his/her sibling into PTSD as well,” said Rabinovich. “Just picking up a newspaper and seeing the sometimes foreboding black and red headlines on the front page can inadvertently spur a PTSD episode.”

Yonatan Amit, a staff psychologist at OneFamily concurred. “I am constantly working to strengthen the family unit so people can move forward with their lives. But, based on the on-going violence, people are fearful that another intifada has started. They are afraid to travel on the roads and they are worried about their children. Most problematic is the fact that these victims of terrorism and war don’t see a solution. “ And that is an ominous omen for the forthcoming New Year.

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Recipe Corner SALMON WITH DIJON SAUCE This is the easiest salmon recipe, just sauce up and bake. Enjoy anytime.

Don’t forget to save some extra mustard sauce.

Times Prep Time : 5 min Cook Time : 15 min Ready Time : 20 min Ingredients 4 (6 oz.) salmon fillets Salt and pepper to taste 1/3 cup FRENCH’S® Dijon Mustard

Servings 4

3 tbsp. olive oil 3 tbsp. lemon juice 1 tsp. minced garlic

Directions SEASON salmon with salt and pepper. Place into greased baking dish, skin side down.

BAKE salmon at 400°F for 10 to 15 min. until salmon is cooked through. Serve with the reserved mustard sauce.

Reprinted with permission from www.joyofkosher.com.

MIX remaining ingredients. Reserve 1/3 cup sauce. Spread remaining sauce over salmon pieces.

ROASTED VEGETABLE COUSCOUS I adapted this recipe from Bobby Flay’s and basically any vegetables will work.

I have made it with regular zucchini and peppers and I recently made it this way. Instead of broiling large pieces of zucchini, I sauteed the baby zucchini and pea pods and added the cherry tomatoes at the end.

Times Prep Time : 20 min Cook Time : 15 min Ready Time : 35 min

Servings 8

Ingredients 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar 1 teaspoon Dijon 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 cup olive oil salt and pepper 1 cup baby zucchini, cut into thirds (or 1 large zucchini) 1 cup sugar snap peas, cut into thirds

12 cherry tomatoes, sliced in half 1/4 cup basil 1/4 cup parsley 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 pound Israeli couscous 2 cups water or stock

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Place in a large serving bowl, add the grilled vegetables, tomatoes and herbs and toss with the remaining vinaigrette.

Serve at room temperature.

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PERSIMMON TART Persimmons are only in season for a short time, so grab them while you can and get cooking. This Persimmon tart is simple and easy and highlights the amazing flavor of the persimmon.

Servings 8

Times Prep Time : 5 min Cook Time : 25 min Ready Time : 30 min Ingredients 8 mini frozen pie crusts 4 persimmons, thinly sliced 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 2 tablespoons butter or margarine Date syrup, for glazing

Directions Place sliced persimmons onto crust.

Sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg, and dot with butter or margarine.

Bake in 375˚F degree oven for 25 minutes, until persimmons are tender.

Glaze with date syrup.

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