Minyan Schedule at Chabad of NCI
| Sundays | 8:15AM |
| Monday - Friday | 7:00AM |
| Friday Night | 6:00PM |
| Shabbat Day | 10:00AM |
B'H Chabad of North County Inland has now become the only Shul in our area that has Minyanim everyday. I want to thank everyone for their commitment to making the Minyanim at Chabad of NCI so strong. A Minyan is the Backbone of a Shul and is the Collective Soul of the Community.
Message from the Rabbi
Dear Friends,
Wishing you a Shabbat shalom and a shanah tovah umetukah — a happy and sweet year,
Rabbi Dr. Trestman
Rabbi Moss Question of the Week
Question of the Week:
Answer:
Good Shabbos and Shana Tova!
Rabbi Moss
Yom Kippur Torah Reading in a Nutshell
Leviticus 16:1-34; 18:1-30
The Torah reading for Yom Kippur morning describes the service performed on this day by the Kohen Gadol (high priest) in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
A special feature of the Yom Kippur service was the casting of lots over two he-goats — equal in age, size and appearance — to determine which shall be offered to G‑d in the Holy Temple, and which shall be dispatched to carry off the sins of Israel to the wilderness.
The climax of the service was when the Kohen Gadol entered the innermost chamber in the Temple, the "Holy of Holies." Wearing special garments of pure white linen, the Kohen Gadol would enter the sacred place with a pan of burning coals in his right hand, and a ladle containing an exact handful of ketoret in his left. Inside the Holy of Holies, he would place the ketoret over the coals, wait for the room to fill with its aromatic smoke, and hastily retreat from the holy place.
"This shall be an everlasting statute for you," the Torah reading concludes. "...For on this day He will forgive you, to purify you, that you be cleansed from all your sins before G‑d... once a year."
During the afternoon Minchah service, we read chapter 18 of Leviticus, which details the prohibitions against incest and other deviant sexual behaviors. The Torah reading is followed by a haftorah (reading from the Prophets) which tells the story of Jonah — the prophet who was sent to prophesy the destruction of the sinful city of Ninveh, ran away from G‑d, was swallowed by a fish, and learned the power of prayer and repentance to evoke G‑d's mercy and annul the harshest decrees.
Haftorah Commentary
Yom Kippur Morning Haftorah
(Isaiah 57:14-58:14)
Isaiah tells of the instruction he received from Gd to rebuke the people. The admonishment was directed at the rampant problem of spiritual double standards. On the one hand, there seemed to be an interest in the right thing to do. The various rituals of penitence were also adhered to. But all this penetrated only superficially. People remained selfish, deceitful and oppressive.
Fasting remains a primary means of penitence. Arrogance and indulgence are precipitators of sin, and fasting throws a wrench into such self-confidence. The fast, however, must be viewed as a means. Mere abstinence without an objective is not at all what this is about.
What about the poor? Were the hungry being fed? Were the naked being clothed? Was justice being meted out? Were people helping family members, or ignoring them? Were Jewish slaves being released, as the Torah demands, or were they being kept in slavery? Why was there quarreling, finger-pointing and hate speech?
This is what a fast needed to be about. Gaining the correct perspective and acting upon it would bring endless good and blessing to all those who did—in both this world and the next. Gd would answer the prayers of the people. Even if all around them things would be dark, for them it would be as bright as midday. History would record positively those who restored a broken society and rebuilt the ruins of the world.
Finally, the prophet speaks about Shabbat observance. The verse carries many of the foundational ideas from which the sages extrapolate the laws regarding the spirit of Shabbat. The delight in Shabbat meals, the honor given to it with special Shabbat finery, refraining from un-Shabbat-like conversation and actions—all these and more are contained in this verse. It is not enough that Shabbat be kept; there is a spirit and atmosphere about it that is crucial to the whole idea.
The haftorah finishes with a description of the incredible spiritual elevation that a Jew is given as a result of proper Shabbat observance. The mitzvah of Shabbat is connected with the very essence of the Jewish soul.
This idea is strongly connected to Yom Kippur. The fundamental idea of Yom Kippur is that on this day the essential connection of a Jew with Gd comes to the fore. The entry of the high priest into the Holy of Holies on this day (when the Temple stood) signifies the “entry” and opening of the deepest and holiest part of the Jew on the Day of Atonement. The atonement for sin on this day stems from this fact: in truth, a Jew can never be severed from Gdliness; any un-Gdly act that may have been committed during the year is alien and external to his true being. When the true self of the Jew is exposed, he brings forth the part of himself that is always one with Gd, and there his external and superficial acts melt away.
May all our merits be recorded and our sins forgiven.
Yom Kippur Haftarah Companion by Rabbi Mendel Dubov
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