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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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This week’s Torah portion, Haazinu, is written as a song. A song has high notes and low notes, yet together they form one beautiful melody.
Life is like that too. There are moments of joy and clarity, and others of uncertainty and challenge. Haazinu reminds us that one difficult note doesn’t define the whole song.
Still, as we enter a new year, we pray for only high notes—for goodness that is open, revealed, and sweet.
Everyone knows the custom of dipping an apple in honey on Rosh Hashanah. There is also a Chassidic custom before Yom Kippur to ask for and receive a piece of lekach—honey cake—together with a blessing for a sweet year.
One explanation is that if we were ever destined to need to ask someone for food during the coming year, we fulfill that now by asking for this piece of cake. From here on, may everything we need come directly from Hashem’s generous hand.
The Rebbe would stand for hours on Erev Yom Kippur, personally giving out lekach to thousands of people and blessing each one with a sweet year.
That’s the kind of year we’re asking for: not only a good year, but a year where we can actually taste its sweetness.
Wishing you a great Shabbos, a Gmar Chasima Tova, and an easy and meaningful fast.
P.S. We continue this beautiful custom of giving out lekach— honey cake —to our community. Did you get yours yet? Let us know — we have a piece waiting for you!
P.P.S. Join us for Shabbat Kiddush and Farbrengen at 12:30 pm this Shabbat, September 19.
Light candles at 6:42 pm
Shabbat ends at 7:40 pm
Rabbi Yossi and his sister Esty OBM getting Lekach with their father Rabbi Rubin
from the Lubavitcher Rebbe 40 years ago.
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"For on this day He will forgive you, to purify you, that you be cleansed from all your sins before G-d." — Leviticus 16:30 🕯️
As we observe the holiest day of the year, we enter a sacred space of reflection, prayer, and profound renewal. May you have a meaningful fast and an easy one, and may you be sealed for a year of sweetness, health, and blessing.
Gmar Chatima Tova.
Join us for services: jewishcliftonpark.org/events/yom-kippur-with-chabad-2026/
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