NEW SHLUCHIM TO ESSEX
CHABAD N.E. LONDON & ESSEX APPOINT NEW SHLUCHIM TO CHABAD EPPING, ESSEX, UK – RABBI YOSSI & RIVKA POSEN
Coinciding with Gimmel Tammuz & their Annual Fundraising Dinner, Chabad North East London & Essex are delighted to announce Rabbi and Mrs Posen as their newest Shluchim to Epping, Essex UK.
Rabbi Aryeh MBE & Devorah Sufrin, Head Shluchim to Essex UK, have been sowing the seeds within the wider Epping area for some three years, creating the platform for the establishment of a brand new Chabad House in the Epping area, which will serve; Epping, North Weald & Theydon Bois. The Epping Centre, will be the third active Chabad House to open and join the Family of Chabad Houses and Shluchim to North East London & Essex.
Rabbi Sufrin MBE says: “we are thrilled that after a three year search we have confirmed the appointment of Rabbi Yossi & Rivka Posen and their young family (the latest addition as recent as a week ago!). They have visited our community and spent time with friends & residents, showing a lively enthusiasm and initiative in being the suitable candidates to open a brand new full time Chabad Centre, catering the growing needs of the local residents, that have been identified so far and so many more, waiting for these dedicated Shluchim to connect with them even further.
As well as building this new area into a thriving community with a lively and relevant Chabad House at its Centre, they will strengthen our Family of Shluchim together with us. They will be joining our team at present, colleagues Rabbi Odom & Henny Brandman in Buckhurst Hill, Mrs Brocha Muller in Gants Hill, Rabbi Mordechai & Blimi Wallenberg in Woodford, making a real impact across Essex UK for some four decades”.
Chabad N E London & Essex cover numerous other areas within Essex, with regular services and activities down to Westcliffe on Sea, which we hope in due course will have dedicated Shluchim of their own.
Rabbi & Mrs Posen, currently reside in Kfar Chabad Israel. Rabbi Posen has been working as menahel ruchni of the American semicha program in Oholei Temimim. They will be taking up their new post IYH in Ellul in time for the forthcoming Tishrei Yomim Toivim.
“We are humbled by the great zechus to go out on the Rebbe’s Shlichus” says Rabbi Yossi Posen, “and we are looking forward to hosting the first ever minyan for Rosh Hashona and Tekias Shofar in the history of Epping”.
Donations can be made via: https://form.jotformeu.com/91972412151352
WELCOME TO THE CHABAD LUBAVITCH NORTH EAST LONDON AND ESSEX WEBSITE
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Our site is continually being updated, and contains information on whom we are, weekly sermons, religious and community, current activities, photo gallery, news items and upcoming events to name but a few.
You will also find links to our other branches across Essex: Buckhurst Hill, Epping and Westcliff-on-Sea and as we expand these will be added as well.
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Rabbi Aryeh MBE and Mrs Devorah Sufrin
Executive Directors
Thought for the week from Rabbi A. M. Sufrin MBE
TERUMAH – “Contribution”
TERUMAH – “Contribution”
The seventh portion of the Book of Exodus, opens with G-d’s command for the Jewish People to contribute (Terumah, in Hebrew) toward the construction of the Tabernacle. This He began by listing the materials needed, for its construction, as well as defining its purpose.
They must make me a Sanctuary, so that I may dwell in their midst……(25:8)
Not “in its midst” but “in their midst”: G-d told us to make a sanctuary so He may dwell within us. There are three types of sanctuaries included in this commandment: The physical Tabernacle that the Jews built in the desert; the personal inner sanctuary that each of us must construct out of our lives and our sphere of influence in the world; and finally, the world at large, which we must transform into God’s home.
In all three cases, the task is possible only because we are simply revealing the hidden, true nature of reality. The world at large and everything in it exists only because of the Divine energy pulsing within them. So making the world into a place where Divinity is revealed is simply a matter of removing the obstruction that hide this reality. Similarly, the essence of every one of us, is our Divine soul.
So making our lives into a Tabernacle for G-d, is nothing more than allowing our inner essence to shine through the excess material baggage that we have accumulated during our journey through life.
Have a wonderful week followed by a meaningful and peaceful Shabbat
