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Please see the following message from Rabbi Aryeh M Sufrin MBE
The links mentioned in the message are as follows:
To sell your Chometz on-line: https://form.jotform.
Chabad.org: https://www.
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
Re’ei – See, the blessings I set before you….
The Fourth section of the Book of Deuteronomy continues Moses’ second farewell address to the Jewish People.
Moses urged the Jewish people to realise that G-d gives them the choice between good and evil. Their choice will result either in a life of blessings or curses.
Moses told the Jewish people in G-d’s name, “see I set before you today a blessing and a curse.” (11:26)
A Divine curse is actually a blessing that is too great to be revealed within our limited world and must therefore be “disguised” as a curse.
Our challenge is to see it in this perspective, rather than
falling into the trap of becoming angry with G-d. Thus, pain and negativity
exist in order to provide us with free choice. Free choice, in turn, exists in
order to enable us to earn the rewards of our choices, so we need not feel unworthy
of the blessings that G-d bestows upon us.
When we recognise that evil exists solely to provide us with the free choice to
reject it, our struggle with it becomes much easier.
We pray that we are blessed with G-d’s open and revealed Blessings.
Wishing you a successful week followed by a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.
