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  • Why Flags (With Apples and Candles) on Simchat Torah?Many old-timers
    recall the custom for children to carry a candle stuck into an apple on top of
    a...     Read More
  • There Is No Such Thing as a Person of the BookI’ll
    never forget the day a rabbi told me to stop reading so many Jewish
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  • ‘Tishrei in the Moment’: JEM’s Interactive Social-Media Season With the Rebbe WhatsApp and Instagram add a contemporary touch to a timeless experience Read More
  • The Day I Was an AngelIt had been a drizzly morning, gray and overcast, and I stood like a soldier outside a local bagel... Read More
  • The Rebbe and a Young Man With Autism“We have another son, who, unfortunately, is not well. He is autistic. He needs a blessing.” Read More
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Candle Lighting Times
Northwest CT
Light Shabbat Candles at
5:49 PM  -  Friday, October 18
Shabbat Ends
6:47 PM  -  Shabbat, October 19
Light Holiday Candles at
5:46 PM  -  Sunday, October 20
Light Holiday Candles after
6:44 PM  -  Monday, October 21
Holiday Ends
6:43 PM  -  Tuesday, October 22
Weekly Torah Portion
Vezot Hab'rachah
Upcoming Holiday
Sukkot
Oct. 13 - Oct. 20
Daily Thought
Separation Anxiety
Within every love, there is fear: The fear of separation from that which you love. A child fears separation from her parents, a lover from his beloved, the body fears separation from the soul, and the soul from its Source Above. So what do you love? Look at your worries and you will know. If you seethe in worry over your debts and financial future, then it is the material world you love—because you believe in the material world and you see it as the source of all good. If you sit and fret over the comments of others and...