Shalom!
Welcome to Clifton Park Chabad Jewish Center! Here at Chabad, you will find a wide array of programming designed to enhance Jewish life in southern Saratoga County. We strive to create an environment where every person is welcome, every individual Mitzvah is cherished, and where Judaism is an accessible reality to all Jews regardless of background, affiliation or age!
Through Shabbat Dinners, Holiday events, Jewish Womens circle, Chabad Hebrew school and everything in between, we are cultivating a community together. We look forward to meeting you in person at a Shabbat dinner, Torah class or a casual coffee date.
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Jewish unity.
Everyone loves to talk about it.
It’s important, necessary, vital for our existence.
Living it is harder. It’s like the childhood-education professor who shouted at kids for running through his freshly poured driveway, then realized: “I love children in the abstract, not in the concrete.”
How do we bring unity from the abstract into the concrete?
First, by knowing what it is - and isn’t.
Jewish unity doesn’t mean agreement on every issue, or even most.
It’s one core agreement: we are family - Mishpacha!
I respect the other as an equal part of Am Yisrael, a human being created in the image of G-d. I don’t have to agree, but I do have to let my humanity see theirs, rising above ego, positions, agendas - even cherished assumptions.
This Sunday is Rosh Chodesh Sivan, when our people arrived at Sinai: “They came to the wilderness of Sinai... and Israel camped before the mountain” (Exodus 19:1–2).
The Torah uses the singular, vayichan, “he camped”, to teach that we stood “like one person with one heart.” That unity was the prerequisite for receiving the Torah. This Shabbat prepares us for that moment.
This week’s portion, Bamidbar, deepens the theme. The census teaches that every soul counts as one - no more, no less. The tribes camped in formation - three on each side around the Mishkan, individual identities aligned around a Divine center. Our individuality becomes an extension of G-d’s Oneness, and each person is indispensable to that whole.
As we journey, we learn we are part of one being. If I matter to the Jewish People, so does the Jew with whom I disagree. With that awareness, we become a vessel for that which is impossible to contain -- for the Infinite Divine Light.
A perfect time to manifest this is Shabbat. Shabbat blesses the coming week, including Rosh Chodesh Sivan, and Shavuot, of course (Thursday evening (to Saturday night)!
Wishing you a good Shabbos and Chodesh Tov! + We bless the new month of Sivan!
Light candles at 7:53 pm
Shabbat ends at 9:02 pm
We will be joining the Jewish Federation Community Shabbat Dinner at the Albany JCC. Hopefully, if you are attending, we can see each other on the concrete (in the tent!).
Forty years ago, heading into the Shabbat before Shavuot, the Rebbe encouraged Jews to come together. It is Divine Providence that this Shabbat is also designated as Shabbat 250, celebrating the Jewish morals and ideals that helped shape the founding of the USA.
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Jewish woman’s circle takes on get the sourdough!! In honor of Shavuot!
I would need to know pretty soon how much starter to prepare so if you do plan on coming (I hope so!) let me know in the next day or two!
If you already signed up- looking forward!
RSVP Here: jewishcliftonpark.org/events/jwc-art-of-sourdough/
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