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
BEHAR…..the mountain
The Ninth section of the Chumash of Leviticus opens, as Moses hears G-d’s voice in the Tabernacle at the foot of the mountain (Behar, in Hebrew), commanding him to convey to the Jewish people the laws of the sabbatical and jubilee years.
“in the seventh year, the land must be given complete rest…I will command My blessing for you in the Sixth year.” (25:4)
Although leaving the land fallow for a year may indeed improve its fertility, this cannot be the purpose of the Sabbatical year. If it were, G-d would have promised to increase the yield of the year following the fallow year, not the year preceding it. By promising an increased yield in the sixth year – which should naturally be the least fertile and productive! G-d shows us that it is specifically and exclusively His blessing that is the source of the increased yield.
The lesson for us is as follows: As Jews, we are required to spend time every day in prayer and study; we must give charity, support Jewish education, and abstain from work on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays. One may well ask; how can we hope to live financially sound lives when our non – Jewish neighbours, who are not “held back” by any of these obligations and restrictions, struggle to earn their livelihood?
The Sabbatical year teaches us that when we do what G-d wants from us, He will bless us – not only spiritually, but materially as well.
Have a meaningful joyous Shabbat and successful week 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
