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F Four our Cups. Cups. Any Any Questions? Questions? RABBI JONATHAN GEWI R TZ A man once came to the Beis HaLevi to ask a halachic question. “ Is one permitted to use milk for the arba kosos (four cups) on Pesach instead of wine?” R’ Soloveitchik asked if there was some medical reason the man could not drink wine. As he questioned the man, it came out that he could not afford wine. The Rov told him, “ Noo, one may not use milk instead of wine,” and gave him a “ loan” of twenty rubles for wine. The Beis HaLevi’s family questioned him after the fellow left. “ Wine doesn’t cost so much money. Why did you give him twenty rubles?!” “ Didn’t you hear what he said?” asked the Rav. “ He asked if he could use milk. Since we don’t mix meat and milk, that means he couldn’t afford meat for the Seder either! That is why I gave him so much; so he had enough money for his true needs.” Wh hat the Rav understood was that what people say isn’t necessarily what they mean. Often there is more beneath the surface. On Pesach we read about the four sons. If you compare their questions, it’s hard to see why one is considered a cha-
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cham, or wise son, one a rasha, or wicked son, and one simple. Perhaaps the simpleton is truly wise and is using brevity as Chazal suggest. The wicked son is asking the question exactly like the Torah says he will. Could it not be that he’s trying to do the right thing? Howeverr, what people say doesn’t tell us the whole story. We need to take into account body language, prior history, and even life experiences. By getting to know the person, by thinking about what they say and how they say it, we come to a better understanding of what answers we need to give. In essence, the lesson of the four sons is that we should not take things at face value. Eliyahu HaNavi declared to HaShem, “The Jews haave abandoned Your service, and only a handful are left.” HaShem replied, “ Perhaaps it seems that way to you, but you are wrong.” He therefore made Eliyahu go to every Seder on Pesach night, and there he sees Jews of all stripes coming together to celebrate the redemption of our nation from Egypt. People who may not look like they care, show that they do. People who seem to be distant are suddenly close on Pesach. We invite anyone who has no place to go to join us
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at the Seder. Why? To remind ourselves that everyone should have a seat at the table. The redemption of Pesach came when the Jewish People were at the 49th level of impurity, almost the point of no return. However, HaShem stepped in and saved us all. It wasn’t just the “tzaddikim” who were saved, because there were no tzaddikim. Rather, it was all the Jews because HaShem saw the future that lay buried deep inside of us. HaShem had made a promise to Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov that He would give Eretz Yisrael to their descendants. But how could He do that if we were destined to sink so low that we would not be able to become purified? It’s because HaShem knew that He would never give up on us. He would not let us get to that point where we were too far gone and would find the good in us so we could merit the redemption. We drink wine as a sign of freedom. Wine has the power to change us. It emboldens us, mellows us, gladdens us, and makes us see possibilities we didn’t know existed. With each cup we raise, we find new aspects to the redemption, and new aspects of ourselves and others. On Pesach we celebrate our freedom; freedom from physical slavery as well as freedom from emotional slavery. We are
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not tied to our previous perceptions and in an instant we can see things go from the lowest depths to the greatest heights. That potential exists not only within our people as a nation, but within each and every one of us. We can turn the rasha within us into the wise chacham who recognizes the blessing of Torah and serving HaShem. In fact, during the special time of the Pesach seder we can witness the miraculous transformation of people we never imagined could change. We start to see the potential in every Jew, and view them in a different light. You see, it just might be that the fellow we thought “had all the answers,” was just looking for the right questions to ask. Did you like this article? There’s plenty more where that came from! Pick up The Observant Jew, a compilation of some of the best articles from the first ten years of this column, at your local bookstore or order it online and bring the inspiration home. Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English. E-mail info@JewishSpeechWriter.com and put Subscribe in the subject. © 2014 by Jonathan Gewirtz. All rights reserved.
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United with Torah Shas Rabbi Shalom Cohen To French Jews: United, with Torah Learning, Jews are Protected
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“Our goal is to learn Torah and increase our practice of mitzvot in order to ensure the safety and future of the Jewish people.” dent of the Conference of European Rabbis provided words for chizuk and inspiration. On behalf of French rabbis, Rabbi Rotenberg from Paris completed the 6th volume of the Mishnah Berurah. The gathering concluded with a moving speech from Rabbi Shalom Cohen, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Porat Yosef and a leader of Sephardic Jewry and the Shas rabbinical council, who emphasized that the only protection we have against rising anti-Semitism is to band together and to increase learning Torah. Our goal is to learn Torah and increase our practice of mitzvot in order to ensure the safety and future of the Jewish people, he said. The day-long event focused on the solidarity of international Jewry and prayers for unity, safety and increased Torah study.
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Parnassa Expo 2015 Focused Activity and Solid Gains at 2015 Parnassah Expo SHIMMY BLUM
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It was in high school when Chana’s parents began hearing the words “anxiety” and “depression” again and again. They were dumbfounded. Of course they knew that this happened to some children, but their daughter? Little did they know that her long-sleeved uniform shirts covered the scars she had from cutting herself at late hours of the night, but only when Chana was still wearing those long-sleeved shirts. The short-sleeved ones, or the ones with no sleeves at all, came on at night. The drugs she was taking (of which her parents knew nothing about) was increasing. And, having lost the motivation and concentration for school, her grades started falling into a downward spiral, fast. Her parents were devastated. She was on the brink. The secular psychologist made the situation worse by gradually insinuating to Chana that her religious identity was part of her unhappiness. And so the remnants of Chana’s frum lifestyle—which was fragile already—were torn off. That’s the state Chana was in when she was referred to Evolve Treatment Centers Jewish Community Program, a healing environment offering clinical psychotherapy services for observant Jews – of any age. Directed by renowned psychotherapist Natalie Cohen, MFT, Evolve’s Jewish Community Program opened just 34
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three weeks ago and already employs ten psychologists, social workers, and therapists. JCP exists as a mental health outpatient setting offering a wide variety of services including once-a-week therapy, Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) to longer term Partial Hospitalization (PHP) day programs and educational services for students who are unable to attend school. Natalie Cohen, a preeminent psychotherapist with over twenty years of experience as a marriage and family therapist in the frum Los Angeles community, has treated hundreds of observant families and children with emotional, behavioral, and school issues. Rebbeim far and wide have flocked to her for advice and referrals on what to do with struggling people in the frum community. Oftentimes, she would take on the cases herself, combining her highly experienced background in professional therapy and her knowledge of daas Torah. “But there were only so many hours in the day,” she said, “and many potential clients couldn’t afford a therapist with a private practice.” At Evolve’s Jewish Community Program, the clinic’s psychologists use Torah values in order to help children succeed. “Torah can be part of the solution, not the problem,” says Cohen, adding that many times a child drifts farther from Yiddishkeit when taken to a secular psychologist who does not share the same Torah values as the family. “The professionals on our staff are all from within our community and understand the cultural and spiritual needs of our clients better than an outsider can.” The benefit of Evolve’s Jewish Community Program is
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For those struggling with more serious, possibly lifethat the staff is not only highly professional, open-minded, and knowledgeable about the issues with which frum fami- threatening cases, Cohen has established partial hospitalizalies, parents, and children struggle, all our JCP staff firmly tion programs (PHPs). “One of our clients, who is unable to practices a frum Torah lifestyle. Everything discussed at attend his regular yeshiva now, needs increased therapy sesEvolve’s Jewish Community Program is 1000% confidential. sions and also needs an educational component. The PHP JCP has a broad spectrum of services and treats all ages: program consists of 5 days of treatment a week, 6 hours a from infancy (sometimes a new parent cannot respond to day, combining the same elements as IOP but with more her baby appropriately) to the elderly. We understand that individual therapy. The PHP also includes an educational the frum community requires unique care and professional structure to keep the client from falling behind academically treatment to address their particular physical, mental, emo- and assist with any learning difficulties.” The Jewish Community Program is well equipped to tional, and spiritual development levels. So, we take a holistic approach to meet each of our client’s unique needs and help deal with yeshiva dropouts. The program director, Rabbi them find the right answers for their individual situation. Us- Yoni Lichtman (also known as “our “Rabbi” therapist,” Coing culturally competent therapy to help guide clients toward hen says) is available for clients as a gemara chavrusa for sessions that contain a therapeutic component. Rabbi Lichtman their therapy goals The JCP provides treatment for a wide variety of emo- received smicha from Chofetz Chaim and is an experienced tional issues -- from depression and anxiety to substance program director. “Calm, insightful and unflappable, he has addiction (drugs and alcohol), process addiction (gambling, a great deal of experience working with teenaged boys and overeating, sex, cutting), as well as teenagers struggling to they take to him immediately,” says Cohen. Rabbi Lichtman is able to deal with people with hashkafa issues because of his communicate with their parents. “We are keeping the staff abreast of anything that comes own educational background.” And Cohen’s dreams are still growing. Another goal she from the religious world about education and mental health. The goal is to read everything that the rabbis have to say and has is to create a program specifically for children of divorced parents who need therapy. Cohen is also already working on incorporate it into our work,” says Cohen. “Sometimes, teenagers confuse their emotional problems opening alternative educational programs for high school with religious problems,” says Cohen. “Because our entire boys and girls experiencing emotional distress or family staff are religious, and are professional therapists, we are able trouble. “Our dream is to be a comprehensive facility and resource to be sensitive to the needs of our clients and help them with that can be adaptable and be creative and respond to people’s their sensitive issues. Cohen is having her staff trained in all of the latest thera- needs as they arise,” said Cohen. Already, the JCP offers onsite services such as therapist py techniques so that their clinic will be cutting-edge in both departments – both in the spiritual realm and the profes- placements in schools, and she is working on establishing sional one. Her staff is being trained in dialectical behavioral an anti-bullying program in one-day school. “We have the therapy (DBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and ability to tailor the program depending on the needs of the Reprocessing (EMDR), the two techniques most commonly population. For example, a mother here being treated in famutilized to treat trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. ily therapy also needs individual therapy, so we are providThe staff also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, among other ing that for her. We can easily add in sibling therapy sessions if they were clinically warranted and appropriate.” Cohen is modalities. Evolve’s JCP has two separate teen Intensive Outpatient also considering opening up a special group for three mothPrograms (IOP)-- one for girls and one for boys, geared ers “who are all experiencing challenging situations with their towards high-school-aged kids (although Cohen adds that children, and happen to also all be children of Holocaust surmature, younger children can be serviced as well). These vivors themselves.” “They’re not succeeding in Jewish day schools, but the programs provide nine contact hours of treatment a week in three sessions of three hours at a time. This includes indi- parents don’t want to put them in public school. So we place vidual therapy for the teen, parenting group for the parents, them in our emotionally supportive school with an altered family therapy, and group therapy for the primary client such learning structure, while still teaching limudei kodesh and as EMDR, art therapy, process groups, DBT or CBT groups, limudei chol.” As clinical director, Cohen hand picks her staff and pro12-step meetings, and spirituality/Jewish identity groups, and even opportunities like karate and equine therapy. All vides clinical training and supervision, including dropping in on sessions or groups. According to Cohen the JCP staff the food offered is, of course, kosher. March 24, 2015 •
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“brings an abundance of passion to their work” and with that many talents: one is a professional at CBT and art therapy, another has worked for the APLA, a third has many years experience in the local LA Jewish day schools, and a fourth’s specialty is working with those with developmental disabilities. “I particularly wanted to work with clinicians who are passionate about working in the Jewish community and also passionate about working with teens, children, and families. Our staff are all observant and sensitive to the wide range of observance that exists in our community,” says Cohen, “and are completely nonjudgmental.” Evolve employs a psychiatrist on staff for any medical evaluations or consultations that are needed. Expansion is underway this spring and fall with plans to employ a seasoned Rebbitzin “whose skill set is astounding due in part to her community counseling that she has been doing for years as a Rebbetizin.” Rabbi Zecharya Wallerstein, famed educator and motivational speaker, had been imploring Cohen tried referring potential clients to her two years ago. The Evolve Jewish Community Program was the answer to Wallerstein’s and other Rebbeim’s need to offer to the frum communities need to address mental health and addiction issues in a professional and healing setting.
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For Cohen, whose private practice is full, it was a good opportunity to have a staff that she can handpick, supervise, and safely trust. Cohen’s mission is for the Jewish Community Program to be cutting-edge with a frum approach so that clients receive the latest professional treatment and care available for them by a frum staff. Evolve has the ability to bill insurance companies directly making the financial commitment accessible and enabling a great number of the Jewish community to have access to therapy. For years, Cohen has wanted to mentor and young therapists and so she is planning to create a place “where young therapist can train, where established therapists become excellent, and where there is a great level of unity among the staff.” Having reached a point in her own private practice where rabbis refer more people than she can take care of, as Clinical Director of Evolve Jewish Community Program, she now has a safe place to send observant Jews to find therapy until mashiach comes. For more information, feel free to contact Mrs. Natalie Cohen LMFT, Clinical Director (424) 280-6112 or Rabbi Yoni Lichtman, MFTI, Program Director: (424)645-8228. Visit evolvejcp.com or call 1-800-665-GROW
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My Favorite Haggadah RABBI HAROLD RABINOWITZ
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esach is upon us—and like many, every year I look for a Haggadah to enhance the Seder table—one that will give me a little more incite: a sharp question and an even sharper answer that will inspire and illuminate what has become (for me and for millions of others) the premier religious observance of the year. So far, the book people have always managed to come through with a Haggadah that surprises and delights—as tasty for the mind and soul as good charoset is to the tongue. But one Haggadah has become my favorite: it’s “The Torah Vodaas Haggadah”, edited by Tsemach Glenn and published by Israel Bookshop Publications in 2011. “The Torah Vodaas Haggadah” contains 366 pages with a great deal of small print, the comments of seven of that Yeshiva’s most prominent rabbis— men of learning who have become legends in the annals of American Torah education. Among them was Rav Gedaliah Schorr, a Talmudic scholar famous for his brilliant analysis (he was delivering a Shiur in the Mesivta, the advanced students, when he was in his twenties), and a Rav familiar with American culture, having arrived in the U.S. at the age of twelve. From my third-floor bedroom window on Williamsburg;’s South Third Street, directly across the street from Mesivta Torah Vodaas, I could see Rav Schorr sitting on his seat by the Beth Medrash window. I could pretty much tell
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where they were in the morning Davening by watching Rav Schorr standing and sitting at his place. When I perceived they were close to ending the introductory Psalms (Pesukei De’Zimra), I would “step on it.” I’d get dressed and washed quickly, run downstairs, cross the street and scamper up three flights to the Beth Medrash. Often I would burst into the Beth Medrash (the door was in front, right next to the Ark and the amud, the lectern—for a proper synagogue must have all worshippers facing east, regardless of where the entrance is) and then I’d pirouette, face the front and bow in response to the Reader’s “Borchu”. I was amazed how often I made it just in time—amazed, that is, until I was told that my scampering could be heard in the Beth Medrash, and Readers would slow down to make certain I didn’t just miss “Borchu.” On those many occasions when I did make it in time, I would turn around with a cheeky smile on my face (in spite of Rabbi Rivlin scowling at me angrily; and does anyone who had anything to do with Torah Vodaas in those days not remember Rabbi Rivlin? I don’t think so) and go sit in the only seat then available in that large Beth Medrash—right next to Rav Schorr. As you no doubt have gathered, I have many personal reasons for treasuring The Torah Vodaas Haggadah, though my recommendation is based on the brilliant commentary and
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the beautiful, inspiring Seder and Pesach customs of the seven Rabbis featured in it. But this is my favorite Haggadah because of something that happened at my Seder a few years ago. There, sitting at my left at our Seder table was a friend—a man who was as alienated from traditional Jewish life as one could imagine, but who was there because of his friendship with me (and possibly dim memories of sitting at a Seder decades earlier). As we read the section of the “Four Sons”—“For the sake of four types of children does the Torah speak: one wise (chacham); one evil (rasha); one a simpleton (tam); and one so totally ignorant, he can’t even frame an intelligent question (she’eino yode’a lish’ol).” At that point, my friend gazed at the cover of The Torah Vodaas Haggadah with the portraits of the seven featured rabbis oddly placed on a silver Seder Plate, and, pointing to the portraits of the rabbis, asked a question that I found, well, breathtaking in its sincerity and simple honesty: “Is that what you have to look like in order to learn and study Torah?” “No,” I answered (when I caught my breath). “Not on this night. In fact, that’s the whole point of this section of the Haggadah—perhaps of the entire Seder!” It’s so easy to forget that the Seder is a classic “outreach activity”— designed and meant to reach out to all segments of the Jewish People. At the very beginning of the Seder, we issue two invitations: one to people who cannot afford a Seder; and a second invitation to those who don’t have the know-how. The Torah is the legacy and heritage—the inheritance—of every Jew, whether they know it or not, whether they like it or not. It is a national responsibility to teach it and vouchsafe that inheritance in every generation, reaching out to all manner of Jews. And the Passover Seder— celebrated by more Jews than any other ritual or ceremony—is a good place to start. Moreover, the four “types” we try to teach are also just the right collection to teach at the Seder. This “crew” brings a lot to the Seder—each with its own challenge and mindset that calls upon us to explain. The wise one (notice, he’s not a tzaddik—a righteous one; only smart and knowledgeable) seeks completeness and consistency: He already knows all the types of laws of the Torah; he wants to know how they all fit together. The strategy the Haggadah suggests is: give the customer
what he wants. He wants completeness and consistency? Give it to him, and go through all the byways of thought and argument of the laws, from beginning right down to the afikomon. The road to completeness and consistency is a long one; only some have the stamina (and, after four cups, the sobriety) to travel it. The evil one seems to know the rules: he doesn’t ask what they are; he asks, what good are they? What’s in it for you (and for him)? And this, the Haggadah tells us, reveals his true motive: for him, principles of faith and spirit are worthwhile only if they materially benefit those who adhere and perform the precepts. Such “bottom-line” thinking is doomed, we tell him. Don’t pander or patronize, says the Haggadah: challenge, even insult and curse such an attitude: it denies the core of Jewish values and spirituality. Then there’s the tam. Though often depicted as a dolt, I see this as an individual totally immersed in the culture and environment in which he lives. I here him asking, not just “What’s this?” but: “What the Devil is this” How can these rituals and values possibly fit in with the culture in which I live and to which I am committed?” What can one say to such a person? Tell him: it hasn’t always been so good for us; it was necessary for G-d to rescue us from Egypt and from many other “lands of bondage”—and who can say when it will be necessary again? Then there’s the ignorant. I always felt that he also brings something to the Seder table: he is eager for someone to “open up the dialogue” for him and help frame the questions his assimilated and petrified mind can’t even begin to think of. When that Seder my friend asked his question was over and I walked him to the door, I said to him, “Congratulations, buddy—tonight you graduated from a she’eino yode’a lish’ol to a Tam.” A zisen Pesach to one and all.
The Torah is the legacy and heritage—the inheritance—of every Jew, whether they know it or not, whether they like it or not. It is a national responsibility to teach it and vouchsafe that inheritance in every generation, reaching out to all manner of Jews.
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rosis (thickening and hardening of the arteries) which leads to heart attacks and strokes. Professor Aviram discovered that in addition to excessive levels of LDL cholesterol in the blood, oxidization of cholesterol molecules by exposure to harmful entities such as smoke, pollution and even viruses can be just as harmful. The solution: antioxidants which can block the oxidation of cholesterol and other fats. “In the last 25 years I have studied over 100 different fruits, vegetables, beverages and wines to find out the health benefit of these magical molecules,” he said. “Most of the antioxidants that I found were present in the skin of the fruit. The most cardio-protective foods, I discovered, were pomegranate, red wine and olive oil”. Professor Aviram and his team initially published their findings on the unique properties of red wine in 1995 and since then, their paper has been cited over 600 times in
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further research. It is the skins of the grape, left in the juice during fermentation, which cause the red color of the wine and which also give the wine its powerful antioxidant qualities. A glass of red wine at meal times has been demonstrated to reduce the levels of oxidised bad cholesterol in the bloodstream and thus the potential for developing atherosclerosis. Recently, it was discovered that Israeli wine had five times the amount of a potent antioxidant than the relative UK wine studied. The study suggests that it may be the high levels of sunlight which aids antioxidant production in the grapes grown in Israel. “We are incredibly lucky here in Israel,” explained Yael Gai of the Golan Heights Winery.“Our vineyards are spread across the Golan at varying altitudes and geographical conditions. We have perfected the latest technology to allow us to exploit the fantastic sunshine and variety of temperatures available to us.”
There are now more Israeli wines on the market than ever before and there has been a host of Israeli red wines wining international prizes this past year, including the 2008 Yarden Cabernet Sauvignon and the 2009 Galil Mountain Alon which both won awards at the Decanter Awards in London. Israeli red wines come at a variety of prices to suit a range of budgets. The Mount Hermon Red is Israel’s bestselling wine owing to its popularity amongst wine connoisseurs and novices alike. It is a very affordable, medium bodied and fruity wine making it a great addition to the Seder table. At the other end of the budget, there are a host of limited edition, single vintage wines which will wow guests with their unique flavors. Whatever Israeli red wine you chose to serve this Pesach, drunk in moderation, it is reassuring to know that this treat may be keeping you healthy in addition to tantalizing the taste buds.
Recently, it was discovered that Israeli wine had five times the amount of a potent antioxidant than the relative UK wine studied.
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