WELCOME TO CHABAD SOUTHEND
We are delighted to welcome you to our new website for Chabad Southend, a branch of Chabad North East London & Essex.
Now in our third year, we have been working in partnership with the Southend & Westcliff Synagogue Community and its leadership, to provide additional educational opportunities from children through adults.
We currently provide:
– Cheder classes each Monday for children aged Year 1 – through to Bar / Bat Mitzvah, with exciting, challenging and fun interactive classes. Innovative reading learning programme tailor made to each child’s ability and level of growth and development. Jewish knowledge taught by way of interactive arts and crafts projects, hands on experiences, all led by Mrs Devorah Sufrin and our Shluchos based in Gants Hill.
– JWC Jewish Women’s Circle, monthly discussion and activity groups on Jewish topics with social interaction led by Mrs Devorah Sufrin
– Men’s monthly discussion groups in an interactive manner on varying Jewish topics relevant to today’s challenges in the Jewish world led by Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin MBE
The monthly discussion groups are hosted in private homes. If you would like to host a meeting or find out more please contact us.
Chabad N E London & Essex currently has three Cheder opportunities for your children each week accross Essex.
Sunday @ Chabad Gants Hill, Monday @ Westcliff & Southend Synagogue, Finchley Road, Southend. Wednesday @ Chabad Buckhurst Hill.
We are continuously looking at ways of enhancing Chabad’s educational & social services for the Community and look forward to sharing more with you as time goes on.
Thought for the week from Rabbi A. M. Sufrin MBE
Va’etchanan….he pleaded
The second section of the Chumash of Devarim opens, as Moses recalls how he pleaded (Va’etchanan in Hebrew) with G-d to allow him to go into the Land of Israel. Moses then continues his review of the 40 years travel in the dessert.
Moses tells the Jewish people; “all of you who are alive today, are lovingly attached to G-d” (4:4)
One might think that the more we are devoted to G-d, the more our personal individuality disappears. The Torah teaches us here that the opposite is true:
Our true individuality depends directly upon the depth of our attachment to
G-d. What we normally mistake for our personality is really our secondary animalistic side. Since we share the same animal drives with the rest of humanity, the personality born of these drives, is at best, a variation on the common theme by which everyone lives. Thus, the apparent individuality of this aspect of our personality is in fact an illusion.
In contrast, since G-d is infinite, the avenues through which His Divinity can manifest itself through us are also infinite; thus, it is only our Divine personality that makes us truly unique. It follows that the more we allow our animalistic side of our personalities to dissolve as we draw closer to G-d, the more we allow our unique, Divine personalities to shine forth.
Have a successful week and a meaningful Shabbat to follow.
Ukraine is under attack.
Many have already fled to safer neighboring countries, but a vast majority have stayed behind.They have stayed behind for a number of reasons, while many have stayed to lend themselves to the resistance, most have stayed behind simply because they do not have the resources to flee to safety, or they have elderly or sickly members of their family who are unable to make the arduous trek.Whatever their reason for staying, they have all been in regular contact with their local Chabad institutions to seek shelter, food, and other critically important necessities needed to survive this Russian invasion.While most Chabad Rabbis have been afforded the opportunity to flee to safety themselves, they opted to be there for their brothers and sisters in their times of distress.A global relief fund has been established to assist in this massive operation at JewsofUkraine.com .When one Jew is in distress, it’s our responsibility to make sure he is tended to. How much more so when tens of thousands of Jews are literally caught in the crossfire?Do your part by visiting https://jewsofukraine.com/dema
