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Happy Chanukah!DECEMBER 2010 | חנוכה שמח!כסלו תשע"א

A little light... Dispels a Lot of Darknesswww.jEwishMaLiBu.CoM

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The LubaviTcher rebbeRabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

His depth of wisdom, knowledge and understanding is an eternal source of spiritual and moral sustenance for all people.

His belief in, and compassion for each individual illuminates the world with loving kindness.

He continues to inspire, motivate and guide our path to personal and universal redemption.

In DeDiCAtiOn to letter from the rabbI

Greetings and blessings,

To help add meaning and spirit toyour Chanukah celebration, we joyfullypresent to you the enclosed Chanukahinformational booklet.

hether you are of the Jewish faith or not, the story of Chanukah is one that has deep lessons for all of humanity.

Chanukah is observed by kindling candles for eight consecutive nights. When we light the candles we are reminded that we humans are all candles. The force of life within us provides us with our potential flame. The choices we make determine how much light our candles illuminate into our environment.

How do we make our candles shine? Here and now.

Our circumstance and environment in life is a perfect place to begin. For one person, the candle may be music, for another it may be art, for some it is wealth, and for others it is pure knowledge. Whatever G-d-given gift we have can be seen as our personal candle.

Just as with a candle, in order for it to shine she must make herself available to the flame, similarly, when we take the gift that we have and use it to bring love and happiness to others, we embark on the journey of the candle. And just as one candle is capable of lighting countless others, when we allow our own candle to shine we become an inspiration for others to do the same.

We cannot fight darkness. It never worked and it never will. But when we each take our role as a candle to illuminate and transform the darkness in our corner of the world, it’s effect will be like that of a candle resulting in a world filled with true, selfless, light and love.

Happy lighting,

Rabbi Levi Cunin, Chabad of Malibu22933 Pacific Coast Highway Malibu, CA 90265Tel. 310-456-6588 Fax. 310-456-0329 email. [email protected] • www.JewishMalibu.com

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holIday guIde:CHAnukAH!

The Blessings1. Bo-ruch A-toh Ado-noi E-lo-hei-nu Me-lech

Ho-olom A-sher Ki-de sha-nu Be-mitz-vo-sov Vi-tzi-vo-no Le-had-lik Ner Cha-nu-kah.

2. Bo-ruch A-toh Ado-noi E-lo-hei-nu Me-lech Ho-olom She-o-so Nisim La-avo-sei-nu Bayo-

mim Ho-heim Bi-z'man Ha-zeh.

3. Bo-ruch A-toh Ado-noi E-lo-hei-nu Me-lech Ho-olom She-heche-yo-nu Ve-ki-yi-mo-nu Ve-

higi-o-nu Liz-man Ha-zeh.

Blessing #3 is only recited on the first evening (or the first time one kindles the

lights this Chanukah).

Wednesday, Dec. 1

After nightfall

Blessings No. 1, 2 & 3

Thursday, Dec. 2

After nightfall

Blessings No. 1 & 2

Friday, Dec. 3

Before Shabbat

Candle Lighting

Blessings No. 1 & 2

Saturday, Dec. 4

After Shabbat Ends

& Havdalah is Recited

Blessings No. 1 & 2

Sunday, Dec. 5

After nightfall

Blessings No. 1 & 2

Monday, Dec. 6

After nightfall

Blessings No. 1 & 2

Tuesday, Dec. 7

After nightfall

Blessings No. 1 & 2

Wednesday, Dec. 8

After nightfall

Blessings No. 1 & 2

Shammash

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Hanairos Hallolu

We kindle these lights (to commemorate) the saving acts, miracles and wonders which You have performed for our forefathers, in those days at this time, through Your holy Kohanim. Throughout the eight days of Chanukah, these light are sacred, and we are not permitted to make use of them, but only to look at them, in order to offer thanks and praise to Your great Name for Your miracles, for Your wonders and for Your salvations.

a chanukah menorah has eight candle holders in one straight row of equal height. The shammash (servant candle)—an additional candle which is used to light the menorah—is placed higher or set aside from the others. a menorah which uses electric candles can be used as a chanukah decoration, but does not achieve the mitzvah of lighting the menorah.

Part of the Chanukah mitzvah is publicizing the miracle of Chanukah, so we place the menorah in the doorway, opposite the mezuzah, or by a window, clearly visible to the outside.Candles may be used, but because of its role in the Chanukah miracle, a menorah of oil is especially significant.

On Friday afternoon, we light the Chanukah candles just before the Shabbat candles. (On Shabbat, the holy day of rest, it is prohibited to ignite a flame.) On Saturday, the Chanukah menorah is not lit until the end of Shabbat, after the Havdalah prayer is recited.

On the first night of Chanukah, before lighting the Shabbat candles, gather the family for the lighting of the menorah. Before lighting, say the appropriate blessings (see left). Use the shammash to light the first candle on your far right of the menorah.On the second night, light an additional candle to the left of the candle lit the night before. Light the “new” candle first, followed by the one directly to its right. Repeat this pattern each night of Chanukah (see diagram on right side). The candles must burn for at least half an hour. After lighting the candles, recite the “Hanairos Hallolu” (right).

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On the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev, the Maccabees rested from their battle. They marched victoriously into the holy Temple in Jerusalem, ready to reinaugurate the holy service. They would forever serve as role models, or educators, to future generations.

What does a soul look like? Look at the flame of a candle. A flame is bright, jumping, never resting; the natural desire of a soul is to “jump up” to G-d, to break free of physical limitations. The wick and candle anchor a flame; a physical body grounds the soul,

forcing the soul to do its job, to give light and warmth. The human body, precious and holy, is likened to the holy Temple. The Baal Shem Tov, founder of Chasidism, always advised against asceticism, fasts and hurting the body. Better, he would say, to use your body to perform a deed of kindness.

Kindness is contagious. When our soul tells our body to do a kind deed, both the soul and

body are affected. Eventually, other souls around us awaken and influence their bodies to do the same. Before long, we create an international epidemic of kindness. This is one reason why the Chanukah menorah is placed where it can be seen from the street, either in the doorway across from the mezuzah or near a window, reminding us of our duty to share the spiritual light of warmth and wisdom with our surroundings.

The Soul of a Flame

The name “chanukah” is rooted in several different, yet related, sources. it comes from “kah,” the hebrew equivalent of 25, and “chanu,” meaning rest. it is also connected with the words “inauguration” (chanukat) and “education” (chinuch).

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InsIde the sOul OF ArtBy the Lubavitcher Rebbe

The following is a freely translated excerpt from a letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe dated 24 Adar II, 5711 (March 8, 1951)

s to the main point of your letter, in which you complain about your circumstances, your

depression, your despair, etc., and express the wish that we should meet, so that we could discuss the matter face to face: for two good friends to get together is always a positive thing and a spiritual pleasure for them both. but to put off [the resolution of your problem] until then, and in the meantime to remain in a state of despair, G-d forbid—who can allow himself such a thing?

text messages from an OlD FlAme.

“The candle of G-d, is the soul of man.” That’s what the wisest of all men wrote in the Book of Proverbs. And based on this verse, Chabad philosophy sees the flame as a detailed anatomy of the human soul.

So what have the soul experts discovered by gazing at Solomon’s flaming metaphor? Recently, Farbrengen Magazine asked some of its readers to shed some light on what the flame has been telling them lately.

Here is what they said:What physical phenomenon talks louder to your soul than the sight of a burning flame? The pure flame is surely not spiritual, and yet it isn’t completely material either. And that’s what’s fascinating. The flame is like me and you; spiritual beings trapped in a material world.

When I look at a flame, I see a mirror. I see a reflection of my own hopes and burning dreams. Try it.

Next time you light a candle watch the flame push upwards trying to jump free of the physical wick. But even as it dances toward heaven, the flame is already coming back home to the wick in search of life-sustaining oil. And it is this conflicting motion, the simultaneous push and pull, the constant reaching and returning, that actually produces the light.

Now I know why I’m so restless. Or why when I stop for a deli sandwich in lower Manhattan my mind can wander to Jerusalem. Or why I can wake up on Sunday morning and rush to put on my Tefillin. The answer comes from a flame: I’m a spiritual being trapped in a material world.

Mark Kaplan is the former editor of the Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal. Mark studied Chasidic philosophy in Israel and looks forward to going back one day. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.

It’s been told that the Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760), founder of Chasidism, loved light.

Once, it was a freezing Russian winter night and the students had no candles. The holy Baal Shem Tov told his disciples to go outside and bring him the icicles that hung from trees and branches. They did, and he placed them in the golden candle holders. He then lit them with a match. And the ice burned like wax, and there was light.

When Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch heard this story he said: "For the Baal Shem Tov ice can burn with warmth and it’s bright. Today, people

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You do not write of the causes which bring you to this state of mind, so I cannot go into their details to show you how these “causes” are but imaginary and stem from the evil inclination—that is, that even if there is some substance to them, the fact that they lead to despair and depression is folly...

I must therefore confine myself to a general comment with which I hope to illuminate your particular situation. My comment is based on the saying by the Baal Shem Tov—which my father-in-law, the Rebbe, would often repeat—that a person can derive a lesson in the service of G-d from everything he sees or hears about. The primary talent of an artist is his ability to step away from the externalities of the thing and, disregarding its outer form, gaze into its core and perceive its essence, and to be able to convey this in his painting. Thus the object is revealed as it has never before been seen, since its inner content was obscured by secondary things. The artist exposes the essence of the thing he portrays, causing the one who looks at the painting to perceive it in another, truer light, and to realize that his prior perception was deficient.

And this is one of the foundations of man’s service of his Creator. As we know from the Torah—and particularly from the teaching of Chasidism—the entirety of creation stems from the word of G-d, and the word of G-d is what brings it into existence and sustains it in every moment of time. It is only that the divine power of tzimtzum (constriction) holds the divine life-force in a state of

concealment and obscurity, and we perceive only its outer form (i.e., the physical reality).

Our mission in life—based on the simple faith that “there is none else beside Him”—is that we should approach everything in life from this perspective. That we should each strive to reveal, as much as possible, the divine essence in every thing, and minimize, to the extent that we are able, its concealment by the externalities of creation...

So one must take great care that secondary and external matters should not obscure the essentials of life and its ultimate purpose.

A person might experience difficulties, trials and challenges in separating the good from the bad. But these are but the means by which to achieve the purpose of life—that his soul should elevate itself through its positive deeds in this world... So one must never allow the difficulties in overcoming one’s trials, or even the fact that one might occasionally fail and stumble, to overwhelm the joy that one must feel as a child of G-d...

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the soul Is lIke A FlAmeBy gutman Locks

he candle of G-d is the Soul of man.” each of us is likened to a candle that has somehow been placed here in this world. The candle represents our physicality, our individual bodies. each

candle is single and unique. but the candle is just wax and wick, nothing more. it cannot light its own light because it does not have any fire to light it with. The light has to be brought to it from somewhere else.

sit in well-heated and well-lit rooms, and yet it’s cold and dark...”So when I look at a flame I see it as a question to my soul. “Am I making light or am I just getting used to the darkness?

Rabbi Eliyahu Glick is a graduate of the central Chabad Yeshiva in Brooklyn. He currently teaches Chabad philosophy in Antwerp, Belgium.

The last time I looked at a flame was this past Friday evening, when I lit my Shabbat candles. What did I see? I saw was the power of women who ignite the souls of all human beings.And like my mother before me, I too will pass the burning torch to my little girl. And she will light a flame of her own.

Just as a little candle rising up on its own can have many other candles lit from it without diminishing its own fire. So too, a woman’s soul rises in Divine love and joy, and perpetually ignites the same love and joy of G-d in all souls that she encounters.

Shira Gold is copy editor at FridayLight.org, a campaign encouraging one million women to "Lighting Up" on Friday night. She lives with her daughter Maya in Surfside, Florida.

"Rebbe, what is a Chasid?"

"A Chasid is a street-lamp-lighter. A street-lamp-lighter has a pole with fire. He knows that the fire is not his own, and he goes around lighting all lamps on his route."

"But what if the lamp is in a way-out place in the wilderness?"

"Then, too, he goes and lights it.."

"But what if the lamp is in the midst of a sea?"

"Then he takes off the clothes, jumps into the water and lights it there!"

"And that is a Chasid?"

The Rebbe thought for a long moment and then said: "Yes, that is a Chasid."

"But, Rebbe, I see no lamps!"

"Well, that is because you are not a street-lamp-lighter."

(From a conversation between a Chasid and Rabbi Shalom DovBer (1860-1920) of Lubavitch.)

Darker than hell’s cellar, not even a shadow can breathe. A skeletal wick, stiff as starch, lies buried in a pile of dusted hopes. A wind gusts through the rusted bars, blowing the dust off the wick. A flash, a spark, and the wick begins to glow. A flicker, a dance, and the dark cellar becomes a golden heaven.

The world, made of many wicks, made of many bodies, seems to be in perpetual night. But in every night there’s a star, in every body there’s a soul, in every wick – there is a flame.

Mendel Jacobson is a 22-year-old New York based writer working for the Algemeiner Journal. He is the grandson of veteran Yiddish journalist Gershon Jacobson. Between studying Talmud and Kabbalah he teaches Chabad philosophy in lower Manhattan.

Once the candle is lit, we say that the candle is giving us light, but this is not true. The candle is not giving us the light, the candle is merely housing the light. Once the candle is lit, wherever it goes, the light will go with it. This is true until the fire consumes the candle. When the candle's wax and wick are burned up, the light also goes. After the candle is gone there is not even the faintest trace of it ever having been here. That is, unless it used its flame to light another candle. If it did, and if that other candle went on to share its flame with other candles, then the first candle is remembered even long after it is gone.

Lighting the MenorahEach night of Chanukah we light an additional candle, but still, there is only one light in the room.

Chanukah Candle Meditation/ContemplationThe light shining in the room is always just a single light. As we add more candles this light merely gets brighter and brighter. Although there are many candles, many flames, many wicks, there is always only a single light.Here, we are using the light to stand for the spiritual essence, the life of each of us that is always one. The candles stand for our individual bodies, our uniqueness. This is the multiple perspective. Although our bodies are many, our lives are one. Although the candles and flames are many, there light is one. Although the material perspective shows us that there are many, the underlying spiritual perspective shows us that the many are also a single one.

When gazing at the Chanukah candles, we can see that the flame has more than one color in its middle and lower area, but only one color in its upper area. When we look at the physical perspective, we are focusing on the many. When we look at the upper perspective, we see that there is only one. Both are true. Here we are using the flame to stand for the physical reality. Its lower aspect is multiple, while its underlying upper aspect is singular.

Now, go on to see that the area just above the upper tip of the flame is brighter than the many colors in the flame. It is even brighter than the single color that is located in the upper end of the flame. It is brighter than the rest of the areas that surround the sides of the flame. Look above the top tip of the flame to the bright glow that closely surrounds it. This glow is much brighter than the flame itself. Yet, it is beyond the flame. This brightness is

seen in the area just above the physical flame.

This brightness hints to the spiritual essence that all of us really long to experience. It is the brightest. It is clear and formless. It is beyond even the highest tip of the flame, even beyond the physical light. Although it is bright it cannot be called light. It is beyond the light. It is clarity.

ConclusionsThe lower, physical perspective is multiple and beautiful. The upper perspective focuses on the underlying single Entity that all existence really is.The clear brightness above the tip of the flame hints to the spiritual essence that our souls yearn to reveal. Searching for and finding this brightness is an exercise that can move you from the grosser, lower, multiple perspective (the many colors) to the underlying singular nature of existence (the higher singular color or area of the flame) and then train you to go up even higher than the singular perspective, onto the spiritual essence of all existence.

All existence, although multiple is also one. Both of these perspectives are true. By studying the flame we can train ourselves to search for the underlying One. By focusing on the bright clarity that is beyond the flame we can train our minds to reach for the underlying spiritual essence.

The entire material creation is multiple, singular and spiritual. Each definition applies to a different perspective of the same one.

Once these spiritual truths are realized and taken to heart one's behavior toward one's fellow must reflect this higher understanding.

Gutman Locks – also affectionately known as "Guru Gil" – has

been a fixture in the Old City of Jerusalem for two decades.

He is the author of several books and musical tapes.

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spIrItual. Are YOu kiDDing?By Colette Brooks

It’s 5:05AM. Like clockwork, I beat my alarm by ten minutes as a self-affirming exercise that I’m still on my game. My mind reviews the day’s ensuing balancing act as I traverse the crevice between darkness and dawn to feed a pack of snuggling creatures that, like me, only moments before were chasing rabbits in their dreams. I gather yesterday’s composting and take a short jaunt down to the barn to feed my stand-in-her-sleep mare Lucy and her hay-burrowing sidekick Mr. Pigfuddles. After picking up after what only 2,600 pounds of four-legged love can generate, I make some tea and check out the surf report to determine the day’s dawn patrol destination. Ah, morning has broken.

Carried out with the precision of an ROTC cadet, I pick out my alter ego’s wardrobe for the day, grab my board and wetsuit, and burn rubber (not petrol) to my local surf break. And that’s my moment. There I am in the water, one with nature – if you don’t count the 20 other neoprene-clad guys sitting in the line up next to me. If I’m lucky I get an hour of surf time before I have to quick change on the side of the road and head into work. I then move through my day in a perpetual state of implementation with very little thinking time, juggling client work, philanthropic commitments and various eco-evangelical side projects. A journey? Absolutely. Spiritual? You’ve got to be kidding.

Can spirituality be something you can wedge into your day, between picking up the dry cleaning and unloading 50-pound bags of horse feed into the hay barn? Or is it something you make time for, like working out and meditation? Maybe it’s like balance, a concept you don’t quite master at first, but then, after a succession of seemingly unsuccessful attempts, voila, it just happens. And like balance, G-d help the woman who tries to comprehend spirituality through theory alone. This much I know: it takes practice.

Like anything else, the practice of spirituality requires a conscious effort. Taking the time to stop, focus and perform an act that connects you more with the process than with the end result. I am certain that the key to spirituality lies deep within each of us just waiting to be unleashed. And while my spiritual expression seems to hibernate more often than not, it is stirred when I take off on the perfect wave, hold hands with my husband, navigate a rock face, explore random new thoughts, dance with my dogs when no one’s watching, make a meal with no recipe or ride horseback into the hills guided only by the full moon. It is during these moments that I am overcome with gratitude, filled with joy and enveloped in bliss. But while all good, these personal interpretations of spirituality provide only fleeting fulfillment and leave me feeling somewhat bereft of a constant spiritual connection.

So whom do you have to know to get an all-access-laminate to the spiritual backstage? How can one cultivate a sustaining feeling of spiritual connectedness?

While spirituality isn’t necessarily religious in nature, religion is all about spirituality. Or at least it should be. History aside, religion in its purest form provides people with a path to spiritual consciousness, plain and simple. It offers the tools and the guidance for us to reach fulfillment. On the highway to holiness, achieving a sustainable spiritual connection elevates us above life’s speed bumps, making our existence that much more meaningful.

So in knee-jerk fashion, I call upon my Jewish roots. My quest for spiritual sustainability begins with simple acts that help usher in tranquility and reflection. Little rituals that I did without question as a child now remind me to stop, breathe and reflect on what was and what is yet to come. In fact, after further exploration, I’ve discovered that Judaism offers 613 of these trigger mechanisms or mitzvot to help us reconnect with our source.

Whether it’s making a commitment to light the Shabbat candles on Friday night, bake challah, observe mikvah, affix a mezuzah at your door, keep a kosher home, or put a penny a day in a designated household charity jar, these are all small ways in which I can take a moment out of my chaotic schedule to nurture spiritual empowerment and experience that elusive sense of balance.

Each Friday, when I take a moment and light Shabbat candles, the sleeping spiritual giant within me most certainly stirs. Something brightens, the divine spark grows, and I recognize a familiar launching pad for my own spiritual orbit. Making this part of my practice helps make spirituality part of my existence.

Once again, I remind myself that it’s as much about the journey as the destination. Destinations are reached and then left behind. But journeys, well they can go on forever.

Excerpt from FridayLight.org, an online community of women celebrating Shabbat.Colette Brooks, Chief Imagination Officer of Big Imagination group is an avid surfer, yogi and animal rescuer. Collette is a member of the Malibu community. If you would like more info on Shabbat Candles please visit www.fridaylight.org. Or stop in at Chabad of Malibu for your very own Shabbat Candle lighting kit.

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a message tO tHe wOrlDfrom Rabbi Menachem M. schneerson

n explaining the purpose of creation, our sages say that G-d, the essence of all good, created the world as a result of his desire to do good. as it says in Psalm 145, "The L-rd is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works." For as it is the nature of good

to do good unto others, the creation of the universe was a Divine expression of goodness.

Hence, everything that occurs in the world, even the apparent bad, such as natural disasters, must ultimately have redeeming good. Similarly, the negative inclination within human beings, who essentially desire to do good, is but a mechanism by G-d's design, to establish free choice. For had G-d created a world that is totally and exclusively good without any efforts on the part of mankind to achieve it, there would be no or little appreciation of goodness.

In the individual's struggle with evil, the approach should not be one of confrontation. By emphasizing the good in people and in the world, and by bringing the positive to the fore, the evil is superseded by the good until it eventually disappears. G-d created the world giving people free choice, but He has given us the tools and the guidance we need to encourage us to choose the good: a Divine moral code, one that predates all human codes, and the only one that has timeless and universal application for a good, moral civilization.

This Divine code, known as the 7 Laws of Noah, establishes an objective definition of "good" that applies to all people. For as recent history has proven, a morality based on human ideas of good is relative, subjective and not truly persuasive.

Furthermore, as abundantly clear to educators and law-enforcement agents, neither intimidation nor threat of punishment can foster a deep sense of moral obligation. This only comes from the knowledge through education that there is an "Eye that sees and an Ear that hears" to Whom we are accountable.

The Noahide Code of 7 basic Divine laws was given to Noah and his children after the flood. This code would assure Noah and his children, the forebears of the human race, that humanity would not degenerate into a jungle again. The laws, which command the establishment of courts of justice and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, homicide, incest, robbery, and eating the limb of a live animal (cruelty to animals), are the foundation of all morality. And they extend by laws derived from these into all aspects of moral behavior. A particular task [is] to educate and to encourage the observance of the 7 Laws among all people. The religious tolerance of today, and the trend towards greater freedom gives us the unique opportunity to enhance widespread observance of these laws. For it is by observance of these laws, that are in and of themselves an expression of G-d’s goodness, that mankind is united and bound by a common moral responsibility to our Creator. This unity promotes peace and harmony among all people.

Chabad of Malibu is now offering classes on spirituality for people of all religions. If you would like more information please email [email protected]

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