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Chabad North Caulfield

Locality: Caulfield North, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9525 9929

Address: 292 Alma rd 3161 Caulfield North, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.chabad.org.au/

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23.01.2022 A nice story amongst a world gone crazy!

22.01.2022 Vice President Mike Pence spoke movingly today in the Israeli Knesset about the Jewish people's Biblical connection to the land of Israel. Watch the reaction as he says the Shehecheyanu blessing in Hebrew!

22.01.2022 Here's what the Rebbe told wounded IDF veterans.

21.01.2022 Happy 2nd Night of Chanukah!

21.01.2022 An evening not to be missed! The true definition of Kabalah with International guest speakers Rabbi Simon Jacobson, David Solomon and local rabbis and rebbetizens. A packed evening, this coming Sunday 9 August from 7:30pm (AEST). Tune in at sinaidownunder.org.au/live

21.01.2022 shavua Tov Heartbreaking to hear the News of Pittsburg synagogue shooting Our thoughts and Prayers are with the victims and families

20.01.2022 This week's Torah portion contains one of the earliest extant forms of minority rights. Rabbi Sacks explains.

19.01.2022 Purim, the month-long holiday

17.01.2022 Here is a transcript of my Tisha B'Av message video which you can watch here -> https://bit.ly/3gdCoDS. I wish you all a tzom kal, an easy and meaningful Fast. ...--- "Eichah yashva vadad, hair rabati am." How solitary lies the city that was once so full of people! (Eichah 1:1). Those opening words of Megillat Eichah, that picture of Jerusalem, that dominates our understanding of Tisha BAv, has in a strange way this year, the year of the coronavirus pandemic been the dominant image of all the great cities of the world during the period of lockdown. Thats how the Champs-Élysées was. How the Piazza San Marco in Venice was. How Trafalgar Square was. How Times Square in New York was. It was "hair yashva vadad," the centre of the city was empty as if somehow or other the whole world had become Jerusalem and every day was Tisha BAv. And therefore it seems to me appropriate that at this time in this year of all years, it is appropriate to try and find strength within Tisha BAv itself, strength for our world and our time. And we do so in the form of a phenomenon that is paradoxical in the extreme and absolutely, frankly extraordinary. Namely that the great prophets of doom were also the supreme prophets of hope. You take Isaiah, whose words we say on Shabbat Chazon, immediately prior to Tisha BAv, the devastating critique he has of Jerusalem, and says words that are unparalleled anywhere else not only in Judaism but I guess in any religion in the world. "Ufarishchem kapeichem a-alim einai mikem," as you spread your hands out toward Me (in prayer) I will close My eyes, says God, "ki-tarbu tefillah eineni shomaya" the more you pray the less I will listen (Isaiah 1:15). And Isaiah seems to seal the fate of the city when he says in the same passage (Isaiah 1:21) "Eichah haytah lezonah kiryah neemanah!" How has the faithful city become a harlot, a prostitute, lamenting that it has completely abandoned its values. Yet in the very next chapter, Isaiah delivers some of the most famous words of hope, of vision, of peace the world has ever known. Words engraved opposite the United Nations building in New York, that many nations will come and say let us ascend the mountain of the Lord... and the world will come because "Ki Mitzion Teitse Torah udvar Hashem Yerushalayim," the word of Torah will go forth from Zion and the word of God from Jerusalem and they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation anymore, and they will no longer learn for war (Isaiah 2:3-4). That is Chapter two of Isaiah. Chapter one, the glue, Chapter two, the hope, until in Chapter 11 he delivers the greatest vision of all when he talks about the animals living together in peace, and he says they will neither harm nor destroy in all of My holy mountain because the world will be as full of knowledge of the Lord as waters cover the seabed. (Isaiah 11:9). Isaiah, of all the prophets in the Bible, is the poet laureate of hope. So somehow the man who announced the doom of the city also announced the new age that would come that would be greater in its blessings than the destruction. Likewise Jeremiah Jeremiah gives us two of the three haftarot leading up to Tisha BAv, and of all the prophets he was the one who most vividly foresaw what was going to happen and of course in chapter three of Eichah he says Ani hagever (Eichah 3:1). I actually saw it, I didnt just foresee it the way other people did, I actually lived through it. And Jeremiah was known, and indeed in the English dictionary youll see a jeremiad is a prophecy of doom. It was Jeremiah who, in Chapter 31 of the book that bears his name, says in the name of God, "kaasher shakadti aleihem lintosh vlintotz, vlahaross ulhaavid" just as I threw myself into destruction says God, "kein eshkod aleihem livnot vlintoah neum Hashem" (Jeremiah 31:28), I will take that same energy and use it to build and to plant. And of course Jeremiah says something else in Chapter 31 that nobody else says in all of Tanach, which is Thus says the Lord who gives the sun to give light by day and the moon and the stars by night, "im yamooshoo hachukim haeleh milifanai neum Hashem" (Jeremiah 31:6), only if these things cease to be says God, will the children of Israel cease to be. Jeremiah is the person who says the Jewish people will be the eternal people. Now why is it that these supreme prophets of doom became supreme prophets of hope? Well, because they relied on Gods promise, already said in parshat Bechukotai that "af gam zot beyotam beertz oyveihem," even when they are in the land of their enemies, "lo mastim vlo gaaltim lchalotam" (Leviticus 26:44), says God, I will not so despise them as to destroy them, thus invalidating my covenant with them. I will keep my promise. I will never let them be destroyed. They had Gods word and that gave them hope. And that hope led Zechariah, prophet of the Second Temple, to say that one day the four fasts of the Jewish calendar Shivah Asar BTammuz and Tisha BAv and Tzom Gedaliah and Asara bTevet will one day become "leveit Yehudah lesasson ulesimcha" (Zechariah 8:19), those fasts will become festivals. So here you have a unique phenomenon. Jews gave to the world this idea of time as a narrative of hope which meant that what is lost can be regained, what is destroyed can be rebuilt, what disappears may one day return. And the reason is because the prophets were able to see beyond the horizon of history and where everyone else saw doom, they saw the hope that lay just over that horizon, and they understood that there was a route from here to there. Now I think that really is remarkable vision. Let me share with you a moment that, I think, was almost the most mystical moment of my entire life. It happened in the late 1960s. I had gone for the first time to see Jerusalem reunited after the Six Day War, and I was sitting on Har Hatzofim, on Mount Scopus, which of course had been from day one (but not really used since 1949) the site of the Hebrew University. And I was standing at the edge of Har Hatzofim, looking down on the Temple Mount and I suddenly realised that was the spot on which Rabbi Akiva stood in the famous story at the end of Mishna of Makkot when he and his colleagues stood and looked at the Temple in ruins and they wept and he refused to weep. And I thought 2000 years ago, just where I am standing, Rabbi Akiva stood and I wanted to say Rabbi Akiva, please tell me, if you had known it was going to take that long, almost 2000 years, would you still have believed? And at that moment I realised that of course he would. Because that is what it is to be a Jew. You never let go of hope. Because we are the people who gave the concept of hope to the world. And we kept faith and we never gave up and we honestly observed for 26 centuries without a single pause, the line of Psalm 137, "Im Eshkacheich Yerushalayim tishkach yemini," I will never forget you O Jerusalem. And because we never gave up hope we finally came back to Jerusalem. And we were the people, almost 2000 years after Rabbi Akiva, who lived to see it. Hope rebuilds the ruins of Jerusalem. The Jewish people kept hope alive and hope kept the Jewish people alive. That I think is the message of Tisha BAv. And its the message the world needs right now. Because we need to know that what can be lost can be regained. And what has been ruined can be rebuilt. We have a great deal that has been lost or ruined in our world economically, politically, educationally and above all socially. And we have to show what it is never to give up hope - that we can rebuild what has been ruined. The early Zionists had a lovely phrase: "Livnot ULehibanot." To build and to be built. The more you build the stronger you become - the more you yourself are built. And that is what our challenge is. The whole world has seen okay the Temple has not been rebuilt but the whole world has seen Jerusalem today. What it is to take a city that was "haaveilah, vhachareiva, vhabezuya, vhashomeyma" - that was ruined and desolate - and turn it back into "kelilat yofi," one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Jewish people are the people who try and show the world what it is to build. Let each of us, in our way, try and help mend a broken society and do so the right way - "beahavat chinam" - just by love of other people and love of the work. The more we build, the more we will be built. And let us be known as the people that doesnt destroy. We are the people that build.

17.01.2022 Great food in the heart of Caulfield Mention us and get free drink with your mAin meal

17.01.2022 Today is the anniversary of the passing of Maimonides. Watch this short documentary about the remarkable life of Maimonides as you've never seen it before!

17.01.2022 What is the difference between the lights of Chanukah, Shabbat, and Havdalah? Rabbi Sacks with a beautiful 2-minute Chanukah message.

15.01.2022 In the aftermath of the Holocaust, why did this Rabbi insist on having two matzot?

15.01.2022 "You must make the [Outer] Altar." Exodus 27:1 The Outer Altar was used for offering three types of animals: cattle, sheep, and goats. The animal sacrifices we ...offer up in our personal, inner sanctuaries are the various facets of the animal side of our personalities. Our inner cattle are our impulses to be confrontational, to oppose the directives of the Divine side of our personalities. Our inner sheep are our impulses to conform, to follow the crowd in pursuit of creature comforts because we are too weak to assert our Divine nature. Our inner goats are our impulses to be stubborn, brazenly refusing to budge from our preconceived notions. We slaughter our inner animal by renouncing our animalistic orientation toward life. We sprinkle its blood and place its fat on the Altar by re-orienting our enthusiasm (warm blood) and sense of delight (fat) toward Godliness. We burn up our inner animal on the Altar by allowing the Divine side of our personality to consume our animal drives. The fact that the sacrificial Altar was situated outside the Tabernacle, in the Courtyard, teaches us that refining the animal side of our personalities is prerequisite to entering the realm of holiness and Divine consciousness, represented by the Tabernacle itself. --- Published with permission from Daily Wisdom: Inspiring insights on the Torah portion from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, 2017 Chabad House Publications. Available at Kehot.com. #DailyInsights

15.01.2022 an amazing tale

14.01.2022 Inspired by faith, we can change the world! A wonderful Chanukah message from Rabbi Sacks.

13.01.2022 The Fifth Child. Wishing you an inspiring Passover!

10.01.2022 #TodayInJewishHistory - 7 Iyar When Jews returned to Israel from Babylon in 371 BCE to rebuild the Temple, they did not rebuild the walls around Jerusalem, leav...ing the city exposed. Nehemiah the Prophet arrived in 335 BCE to build the walls. One year later, on this day, the great gates were fitted to the towering walls, and the project was complete. For the first time since the destruction of the First Temple eighty-nine years earlier, Jerusalem was secure. Two concurrent parades were held to celebrate this event, one led by Nehemiah, the other by Ezra. The parades converged on the Temple Mount for a joint celebration. See more

10.01.2022 "A people who cry over the destruction of the Temple will merit to see it rebuilt." Tisha B'Av @ the Kotel 2019

08.01.2022 The message of #Chanukah is radical and relevant: Every single one of us is a #light and has the power to transform darkness into light. Pictured is the Preside...nt of Germany proudly and publicly lighting the #menorah tonight in the exact place that Hitler rallied with hate and evil #AmYisraelChai #lovenohate #sharethelights See more

08.01.2022 Rabbi Moshe Bryski shares an amazing story about the power of praying for others.

05.01.2022 New class Monday nights 8.15 pm Torah ,beer and hot chips 292 alma rd

05.01.2022 Special Class Insights into the Passover SEDER Monday April 8th at 8.00pm Chabad house 292 Alma rd Caulfield NorthSpecial Class Insights into the Passover SEDER Monday April 8th at 8.00pm Chabad house 292 Alma rd Caulfield North

04.01.2022 Tonight and tomorrow mark the anniversary of the day the Rebbe formally accepted the leadership of Chabad. The Rebbe created thousands of leaders. Here is one remarkable story.

04.01.2022 Chabad North Caulfield is at @ 292 Alma Rd Cnr Wilks st

04.01.2022 Truly a historic moment King of Bahrain and Jarod Kushner

01.01.2022 SHUIR this Monday 8.15pm 292 Alma rd CNr wilks... Refreshments Served