WELCOME TO THE CHABAD LUBAVITCH EPPING
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We are delighted to announce the appointment of Rabbi Yossi & Rifka Posen, with their children as our new dedicated Shluchim to Chabad Epping.
Rabbi & Mrs Posen have now taken up their post in Epping in time for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
Exciting times ahead, please watch this space
During the last year we have established connections with many families in the wider Epping area, many of whom have been known to us at Chabad for years, as well as meeting new families and faces.
During this time, we have met and discussed the future role of Chabad Lubavitch within the Epping areas. In due course we would like to open a new Chabad Centre, building on the success story of Chabad Gants Hill servicing the community for over thirty years and Chabad Buckhurst Hill over the past ten years.
Activities have included periodic Shabbat services, Shabbat meals, a Yom Kippur service with a “break-fast”, monthly discussion groups.
Chabad has the ability through its dedicated teams of Shluchim (Chabad emissaries) Rabbis & staff, to provide exciting, lively and relevant services within a Family Synagogue setting, coupled with a broad range of social and fundraising events.
We are continuing to build up our database of Jewish families living in the area and interested in getting involved. Please feel free to participate in what’s currently available and becoming part of the team that will build Chabad Epping into the future.
We look forward with great excitement of sharing more with you very soon.
In the meantime please feel free to contact us for more information any queries or just a chat.
Rabbi Aryeh MBE & Devorah Sufrin
Thought for the week from Rabbi A. M. Sufrin MBE
Ha’azinu – to hearken…
Ha’azinu – to hearken…
The Tenth section of the Book of Deuteronomy is composed almost entirely of the Poem of Testimony that G-d taught Moses and instructed him to teach to the Jewish people.
G-d called upon both heaven and earth to bear witness to the message He was about to deliver to the Jewish people.
Listen, O heaven….Hear, O earth.” (32:1)
G-d addressed both heaven and earth, in order to teach us that we are called upon to harmonise the two. The Torah originates in heaven and consists of
G-d’s vision of perfection of the world.
By spreading the knowledge of the Torah to ourselves and to others, we are bringing heaven down to earth.
By reshaping both our own lives and the life of others in accordance with Torah’s teachings, we are bringing life on earth up to heaven. When we have made life into “heaven on earth” – reconciling the division between the two – heaven and earth testify how we have fulfilled our mission on life.
Have a lovely Shabbat and fulfilling week.
This coming Sunday evening 13th October, begins the Festival of Sukkot, (Tabernacles).
Our three Chabad centres all have Sukkot open to the public, feel free to join us for our services followed by Kiddush in the Sukkah, or feel free to drop bye and enjoy our Sukkah and do the Mitzvah of shaking the Lulav & Etrog.
Have a joyous and hopefully dry Sukkot.
