The Rachel Tear

2012-01-12T06:19:00.000-08:00

RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5772
054-224-2649 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com
WINTER SCHEDULE
AT Beit bnei Rachel. Take Egged #163 Bus to Rachel’s Tomb, walk left past KR to Beit Bnei Rachel, Free Parking OPPOSITE KEVER RACHEL

RABBI EPHRAIM SPRECHER
22 TEVET, JANUARY 17, 2012
4PM Via Egged 163 bus at 3 pm
“Is the Current Exodus Failing Because of Attitudes Against Women?”
A light supperette will follow. Time for socialization and tehillim.

RABBI DR. JOSEPH KLAUSNER, yedidyahu
29 TEVET, JANUARY 24, 2012
4PM Via Egged 163 bus at 3 pm
"The Neviot /Women Prophets: Halacha and Hagadda”
A light supperette will follow. Time for socialization and tehillim.

RABBI SHIMSHON NADEL
In coordination with the Israel Center
8 Shevat, February 1. 2012
Bus leaves Israel Center at 1PM
“The Weeping of Rachel and Her Children”
Presentation of Biblical Art Display of Malla Carl”

RABBI MENDEL KESSIN
21 SHEVAT , FEBRUARY 14, 2012
4PM Via Egged 163 bus at 3PM
“Rachel Imeinu and Purim, the Hidden Relationship”
A light supperette will follow. Time for socialization and tehillim.

ATARA GUR, RACHEL IMEINU SCHOLAR
EVERY WEDNESDAY: TEA AND TORAH
WOMEN ONLY – English, Hebrew on Request VIA 10:00AM Egged #163163
Classes at 11:am Learn from 11 -12noon. Time for Tehillim; Return 12:30 or 2:30pm
INFO: 050-414-2611
Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny, Author "The Twelve Dimensions of Israel"

Book your simchas with RCRF in our lovely Reception Center that can accommodate 100

RCRF5772/2012 Tea and Torah and Supperette Series:

2012-01-12T05:38:00.000-08:00

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RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5772
054-224-2649 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com
WINTER SCHEDULE
AT Beit bnei Rachel. Take Egged #163 Bus to Rachel’s Tomb,
walk left past KR to Beit Bnei Rachel, Free Parking Opposite Kever Rachel

RABBI EPHRAIM SPRECHER
22 TEVET, JANUARY 17, 2012
4PM Via Egged 163 bus at 3 pm
“Is the Current Exodus Failing Because of Attitudes Against Women?”
A light supperette will follow. Time for socialization and tehillim.

RABBI DR. JOSEPH KLAUSNER, yedidyahu
29 TEVET, JANUARY 24, 2012
4PM Via Egged 163 bus at 3 pm
"The Neviot /Women Prophets: Halacha and Hagadda”
A light supperette will follow. Time for socialization and tehillim.

RABBI MENDEL KESSIN
21 SHEVAT , FEBRUARY 14, 2012
4PM Via Egged 163 bus at 3PM
Rachel Imeinu and Purim, the Hidden Relationship”
A light supperette will follow. Time for socialization and tehillim.

ATARA GUR, RACHEL IMEINU SCHOLAR
EVERY WEDNESDAY: TEA AND TORAH
WOMEN ONLY – English, Hebrew on Request VIA 10:00AM Egged #163163
Classes at 11:am Learn from 11 -12noon. Time for Tehillim; Return 12:30 or 2:30pm
INFO: 050-414-2611
Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny, Author "The Twelve Dimensions of Israel"

Book your simchas with RCRF in our lovely Reception Center that can accommodate 100

Sunday Evening, November 6, 2011, 6:30 P.M.

2011-10-07T07:52:00.000-07:00

RACHEL’S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION
The Sevententh Annual NY Citywide Commemoration of the
YAHRZEIT OF RACHEL IMEINU
11 MarCheshvan 5772
JEWISH MOTHER’S DAY
will be marked this year on 9 MarCheshvan, 5772

Sunday Evening, November 6, 2011, 6:30 P.M.
GALA BUFFET JOURNAL DINNER
Manhattan Beach Jewish Center –60 West End Ave Brooklyn, NY
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
RABBI YITZCHOK FINGERER“
Mama Rachel Cry for Us Again:
How One Woman's Sacrifice Shaped World Destiny”

Rachel Imeinu Breaking the Silence Award

ALIZA BASMENACHEM KARP

Rachel Imeinu Chessed Award
SUSAN LASHER

Rachel Imeinu Jewish Leadership Awards
BETH GILINSKY
President,
National Conference
on Jewish Affairs
Founder
Jewish Action Alliance
LORI LOWENTHAL MARCUS
President, Z STREET
National Conference
on Jewish Affairs

Presentation of Actualist Awards
by MALKY GRUNWALD to:
DR. ALEXANDER BERENBLIT
YITZCHAK FRIDMAN
RABBI TAMIR
AND
HILLEL ZALTSMAN

“Remember, A visit to Israel without going to Kever Rachel is like going home and not visiting your mother” Evelyn Haies, founder and president of RCRF and Bnei Rachel Corp

RSVP: $180 per person; $1800 per table;
Donors: $5000 per table; $10,000 per table; Journal Ads
Your donations support our projects for Klal Yisral and Beit Bnei Rachel

Mail to: RCRF 60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235
718-648-2610  www.theracheltear.blogspot.com  212-470-0967 rachelschildren@gmail.com

Tea and Torah Updates Sept 27-Oct 26

2011-09-26T20:36:00.000-07:00

RCRF Tea and Torah Classes Fall 5771/ 5772
at Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel Tomb Complex, Beis Lechem
____________________________________________________________________________________
RABBI SHIMSHON NADEL
***TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2011, 11am***
VIA 9:00AM (Time for Tehillim first) or 10:00AM Egged #163 from Central Bus Station, Jaffa Road3
Classes at 11:am Learn from 11 -12noon. Men and women Invited. Mechitza
"Rosh Hoshanah, the Mitzvah of Simcha"

***TUESDAY OCTOBER 11, 2011, 11am***
"The Succah's Embrace"

Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar and Author,
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5, 2011, 11AMVIA 9:00AM (Time for Tehillim first)
or 10:00AM Egged #163 from Central Bus Station, Jaffa Road3
Classes at 11:am Learn from 11 -12noon. Time for Tehillim; Return 12:30 or 2:30pm
Women ONLY
“Moshiach Ben Yosef, Moshiach Ben David.”INFO: 050-414-2611
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2011, CHOL HAMOED10:00AM Egged #163 from Central Bus Station, Jaffa Road3
Classes at 11:am Learn from 11 -12noon. Men and women Invited. Mechitza
Guest Speaker
ROY NEUBERGER, AUTHOR OF FROM CENTRAL PARK TO SINAI, 20/20 VISION, WORLDSTORM
“Preparing for the Return of the Sukkah of Dovid HaMelech”
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011, DAY OF LEARNING 10AM via Egged Bus 9AM #163 To Rachel’s Tomb,
Program 10AM INFO: 050-414-2611
RIVKA SEGAL: "CHESHVAN, A PROMISING MONTH"
______________ATARA GUR: RACHEL IMEINU SCHOLAR AND AUTHOR_______

EVENING CLASSES October 4, 5, 16, 25,26 Contact Shefi 050-255-7775 6-8:30 pm

BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LOVELY, LARGE RECEPTION CENTER
WHERE THE BIBLICAL ART SHOW OF ELLEN LAPIDUS STERN CONTINUES TO DISPLAY
15 oil paintings. Contact to arrange viewing.
INFO: Chana 050-533-0992
Sponsored by RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5772
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235
Evelyn Haies 718-648-2610 054-224-2649 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com.

Save the Date:Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235
www.theracheltear.blogspot.com 718-648-2610 212-470-0967 054-224-2649
BEIT BNEI RACHEL
rachelschildren@gmail.com,
The Seventeenth Annual NY Citywide Commemoration of the
YAHRZEIT OF RACHEL IMEINU
JEWISH MOTHER’S DAY
11 MarCheshvan 5772
GALA BUFFET JOURNAL DINNER
Manhattan Beach Jewish Center
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Sunday Evening November 6, 2011, 6:30 P.M.
Keynote Speaker
RABBI YITZCHOK FINGERER

Breaking the Silence Award
ALIZA KARP

Rachel Imeinu Chessed Award
SUSAN LASHER

Community Leadership Award
Rachel Imeinu Activist Award
Presentation of Actualist Awards By MALKY GRUNWALD First Bas Mitzvah at Beit Bnei Rachel
to
Yitzchak Friedman
Hillel Zaltsman
Exciting News:RCRF is initiating this New Learning and Lecture Series
“Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu”
at Beit Bnei Rachel, our majority owned property in the walled Kever Rachel Complex

RSVP: $180 per person; $1800 per table;
Donors: $5000 per table; $10,000 per table; Journal Ads
Your donations will help support all our efforts for Klal Yisral and Beit Bnei Rachel
Medreshet Chaya Rachel and Ruth, Museum of Jewish Aliyah, Simcha Reception Center
Replica of KR as 4 columns and Dome as Chuppah in Biblical Garden

RCRF Tea and Torah Classes Fall 5771/ 5772

2011-09-14T16:01:00.001-07:00

Fall Schedule 2011/5771-2

2011-09-06T02:15:00.000-07:00

RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5772
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235 718-648-2610
054-224-2649 theracheltear.blogspot.com
Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel Tomb Complex, Beis Lechem

EVERY WEDNESDAY- WOMEN ONLY – English, Hebrew on Request VIA 10:00AM Egged #163163 Classes at 11:am Learn from 11 -12noon. Time for Tehillim; Return 12:30 or 2:30pm
Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar,
INFO: 050-414-2611: Register for Classes in Hebrew or on Request
Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny, Author "The Twelve Dimensions of Israel"
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BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER
INFO: Chana 0505330992
SAVE THE DATES FOR SPECIAL EVENTS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2011: RABBI SHIMSHON NADEL
"Teshuvah: Transforming the Self"
via Egged Bus 5pm#163 TO Rachel’s Tomb, Program 6PM
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011 10AM
via Egged Bus 9AM #163 TO Rachel’s Tomb, Program 10AM
DAY OF LEARNING WITH
RIVKA SEGAL: "CHESHVAN, A PROMISING MONTH"
ATARA GUR: RACHEL IMEINU SCHOLAR AND AUTHOR
INFO: 050-414-2611
Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny,
Author "The Twelve Dimensions of Israel"
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Tuesday November 8, 2011, 11 Marcheshvan 5772
17th NYCitywide Commemoration of the Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu.Journal Buffet Dinner at Manhattan Beach Jewish Center, Brookly NY 11235
Details to Follow

Rosh Chodesh Elul in Beit Bnei Rachel: The Blessings Came to Me

2011-09-06T02:11:00.000-07:00

Rosh Chodesh Elul in Beit Bnei Rachel: The Blessings Came to MeBy Evelyn Haies, President Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation (1995-2011) and Beit Bnei Rachel
I t used to be every Tuesday that the bus from Efrat came to Kever Rachel and we learned in Beit Bnei Rachel, the RCRF majority owned property just a few feet past Kever Rachel in the Rachel Tomb Walled Complex, but now it is only on each Rosh Chodesh that the Efrat group learns in the memory of my dear friend Sara Blaustein HYD
It was this Tuesday Rosh Chodesh Elul that the shiur was given by Sara Jo Ben-Zvi .It was a talk on Nechemia and problems within the walls. This month’s trip was sponsored by Bryna and Chaim Astor on the occasion of their 24th wedding anniversary. Mazal Tov!
I set the room up for the evening event with HaRav Benjamin Levene. I left and returned to finish setting up before the final Summer Learning Session that included Rabbi Chaim Wasserman, Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz, Rabbi Yosef Klausner, Rabbi Efraim Sprecher to find my belongings misplaced and that another sink that was there in the morning was removed without permission of the Bnei Rachel Corp of which I am founder and president being the sole funding purchaser of the first building.. I was then told it was taken back after 8 years from the gifter by a phone call with the worker and the Rosh Yeshiva who moved into the building uninvited and remains without a lease and doing construction without permission. I checked the basement and found it there. Some wonderful men about to daven in Rachel’s Tomb helped bring it up and put it back.. There was a verbal battle and the sink was re-installed. However, the worker was still there working without permission when the evening groups left.
HaRav Benyamin Levene spoke on “Rachel Imeinu and the Rosh Hoshana Prophecy.” The talk on stories of his grandfather and the tzaddakim of his day relayed a very important message. Tzaddakim are simple and one should always respect and care for one’s fellow man. Ima Rachel cries, sacrifices, has empathy and emunah. Her midos carry her children above the decadence, deceptions and will bring us up from the falls. I recalled that I read Tehillim 24 on my first visit to Kever Rachel after the purchase and I understood it was because of the purchase that David HaMelech conquered Yerusahlayim. Re -reading Tehillim #24 I saw that it was emphasized that there is no possession without truth, honesty, righteousness and good deeds. Possession is a function of merit.
Last and very significant was a visit by HaRav Moshe Wolfson, shlita for a tish. About 200 followers of this great rabbi enjoyed a talk in Yiddish. Yerushalmi kugel, rugelah and other refreshments were served . The women and children were behind the mechitza made by Rabbi Moshe Levi for my .yeshiva Bnei Rachel several years ago. The men ended by praying tehillim and singing shmiros. .I was blessed that all my work for Rachel Imeinu and Beit Bnei Rachel should be with emunah, advancement, rewards and free from conflict. I had been told to get a blessing because of the misdeeds from which I and the American companies were suffering by those who called me a “good ange” and admitted they “conned” me and the American companies. They made no monetary investment and called me a donor for their benefit and not owner as was written in the contract and validated by the money trail..
The wonderful beginning and the ending of ELUL in Beit Bnei Rachel were blemished by those working without rights against the owners and developers. It was such a joy to continue to remember lovely, vibrant, generous, giving, loving Sara Blaustein HYD (murdered on the way) with the women of Efrat. Would that she were still here. It was such a joy to be with HaRav Benjamin Levene again whose roots are deep with Jerusalem history and the stories of his grandfather’s visits to Kever Rachel before it was occupied by the Jordanians and after it was reclaimed in 1967, He expressed the ups and downs of Elul and blessed that I overcome the challenges and continue this holy work for Rachel Imeinu. He was present when I donated a Sefer Torah in 1998 on the wide open streets in front of Rachel’s Tomb that got Kever Rachel open 24 hours and inspired so many visitors and saved the Egged Bus #163. I presented him with a painting by Malky Grunwald who displayed that unity and derech eretz are what bring the Guela. This painting is on display in the Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation Museum of Jewish Aliyah © that just hosted a Biblical Art Exhibit by Ellen Lapidus Stern. Malky Grunwald, my granddaughter had the first Bas Mitzvah at Beit Bnei Rachel. It suffered having been the first, but just this August at age sixteen her mess up was rectified. She was on the NCSY JOLT program visiting the camps her family survived . She is third generation Holocaust Survivior. Four years later she was celebrating her birthday in Beit Bnei Rachel with her contemporaries in rectification of a Bas Mitzvah that was blemished by complications but still most memorable and the inaugurator of so many more simchas in our beautiful Reception Center.. This birthday was so joyous because it was shared and a surprise. It was also a statement for Jewish steadfastness and survival in the merit of Ima Rachel’s tears.
HaRav Moshe Wolfson shlita of Borough Park, Brooklyn spoke of the positives of Elul and our necessity to keep on the derech. Truth, responsibility, good deeds are some of the ingredients that will bring rectification.and redemption. I sincerely thank those for thanking me. Let us thank Hashem for all our successes. Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation is a foundation I formed to save Kever Rachel and to present Ima Rachel as the Jewish Mother par excellence who will show us how to return to our Torah and holy land borders, by learning, sharing and caring. We can reclaim our inheritance by acting according to Hashem’s Pathways of Torah. This is the time we a warned of the curses from going off the derech and advised of the blessings of being righteous.. Let us know only goodness and enjoy the Redemption this Rosh Hoshana as we read the Haftorah of Yirmiahu promising Rachel Imeinu that her children will return to their borders.

Press Release and Summer 2011 Continues

2011-08-07T02:17:00.000-07:00

Press Release: Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation’s Lecture and Supperette series of the Summer 2011/5771 continues to be an educating and inspiring attraction for English speakers. Evelyn Haies, president and founder of RCRF and majority owner of Beit Bnei Rachel told her amazing story of saving Kever Rachel by writing contests, petitions and non-stop activities. The 163 bus only had four riders and by handing out flyers Evelyn increased the ridership 800%. Before Kever Rachel was encaged. Evelyn, by inviting Rabbis to speak on the bus, the buses filled and overflowed. The dedication of the RCRF Sefer Torah on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 1998 brought over 3,000 and since then Kever Rachel is open 24 hours with a recent exception after 10:30pm now for a few hours. When no one would buy the land, Evelyn was the Nachshon ben Aminadav who put down all the money to purchase Beit Bnei Rachel. It was on Haftorah Behar, when Yirmiyhu, in the pit, and in the midst of a war, bought land. Evelyn made the payment to buy this land just feet from Rachel’s Tomb for RCRF while they were shooting at Gilo. Two other adjoining buildings were purchased with initial and closing funds of RCRF where RCRF is still majority owner and Evelyn is President and Trustee. Private investors shared in the purchase of the latter two properties
Rabbi Chaim Wasserman, President of the Young Israel at Heichal Shlomo, renowned teacher and author, gave an inspiring and informative speech on 19th century Religious Zionists, Rav Yehudah Alkalai (1708-1879) and Rav Zvi Hirsh Kalisher (1795-1874), both advocates and authors who ignited a Jewish nationalism movement sixty years before Theodore Herzl. It was a movement for the return to Torah Judaism together with the reclamation of Eretz Hachodesh. Rabbi Wasserman was presented with a print of the Artwork of 15 year old Malky Grunwald who expressed the deeper meaning of Rachel Imeinu with roots united and intertwined and branches spelling Derech Eretz. Without Unity and Derech Eretz there can be no V Shavu Banim L’Gvulum.
Rabbi Dr. Yosef Klausner gave two informative lectures on Rachel Imeinu, Ruth and Beis Lechem. We learned Rachel went ahead as she was expecting a second child. Benyamin was born on the way, on Derech Efrata, She gave life to the only tribe born in Israel proper. He explained how the Kingdom of David and Jewish leadership originated from Beis Lechem, Rachel, Boaz, Naomi and Ruth. He suggested Shlomo walked in the fields just south of Yerushalayim where his father David wrote the tehillim we say so passionately at Rachel’s Tomb.
Rabbi Efraim Sprecher, Dean of diaspora Yeshiva and Lecturer at the OU Israel Center gave a post 17th of Tammuz lecture on Anger Management. Because of anger and hate, the Jewish people went off the derech and suffered the wrath of Hashem. He presented the giving characters of Rachel Imeinu and Benyamin. Rachel gave her
right to be the bride of Yaakov to her sister Leah; Yonaton, descendant of Benyamin, gave his right of kingship to David. Both did not put themselves first but acted for the good of Klal Yisrael.
Rabbi Judge Yitzchak Breitowitz, a lecturer at Ohr Sameach and the OU Israel Center gave an inspiring Rosh Chodesh Av shiur. He spoke of the divisions within the Jewish community and the warring amongst themselves. He quoted Titus as saying, “I don’t have to destroy them because the Jews will destroy themselves.” He presented that there was nothing to be gained in discussing flaws of others and that Jews must fix themselves. He mentioned how Avraham Aveinu stood as a wall against corruption, yet he pleaded for the chance of teshuva for those off the derech; his tent was always open. Love, firmness, tolerance , respect and acceptance were ingredients for spiritual rejew-venation
The educational events continue with socialization while enjoying a healthy home made buffet of delights prepared mostly by Rochelle Eissenstat, the first on the third anniversary of the survival of her family from the bulldozer attack hammering and riding over her Mazda. She says it was definitely the hand of G-d which saved them because of their charity and respect for their parents. Her platters are so sumptuous and she is so generous to continue to host our appetites as we enrich as our minds. There is time afterwards for davening and tehillim.
RCRF is planning its Fall series. We need your help, ideas, donations, preparations. Everyone who attended recommends you bring at least one friend because the RCRF events in Beit Bnei Rachel in the Rachel Tomb Complex are extraordinary, educational and uplifting.
RCRF thanks everyone for participating. The rest of the schedule of evening programs via 5PM Egged #163 Bus and starting at 6PM is as follows:
RABBI EFRAIM SPRECHER
7 av, Sunday, August 7,
“Don’t despair – Hang in there!”
Upcoming debut: ELLEN LAPIDUS STERN:
BIBLICAL ART EXHIBIT AND LECTURE
August 18, 18 Av 6pm
HARAV BENYAMIN LEVENE
Rosh Chodesh Elul, Tuesday, August 30,
“Rachel Imeinu and the Rosh Hashana Prophecy”
*Weekly classes are continuing since 2003: Wednesdays at 11am until 2pm; 10am Egged #163 Bus:
with Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar and Author and Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny, Author of “The Twelve Tribes of Israel”.
Book your simchas with RCRF in our lovely Reception Center that can accommodate 100
Our most recent event, a festive Bas Mitzvah hosted 80. The participants danced from Kever Rachel blowing a shofar, clapping cymbals and using other instruments.
Donors and Volunteers needed to teach, enhance and translate English to Hebrew in RCRF “Museum of Jewish Aliyah” ©
Contact RCRF rachelschildren@gmail.com 054-224-2649 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com
“Remember, a visit to Israel without going to Kever Rachel is like going home and not visiting your mother.” Evelyn Haies
Save the dates: Details to Follow.
Thursday,October 26, 2011 for a pre Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan Day of Learning at Beit Bnei Rachel
Tuesday,November 8, 2011, 11Marcheshvan, 5772, 17th NYCitywide Annual Commemoration of the Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu.

RCRF5771/2011 Lecture and Supperette Series begins with great success

2011-07-04T13:50:00.000-07:00

Press Release: Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation’s opening Lecture and Supperette of the Summer 2011/5771 series opened on a most high and inspiring note. Evelyn Haies, president and founder of RCRF and majority owner of Beit Bnei Rachel told her amazing story in a brightly lit room, surrounded by Biblical Art paintings of Ellen Lapidus Stern. As the third holiest site in Israel, Rachel’s Tomb was on the Oslo chopping block. Her Manhattan Beach neighbors had a meeting to support those who would suffer from Oslo and decided to sponsor a community. As ideas don’t always come into fruition, Evelyn actualized her good idea to twin with Kever Rachel. She wrote the song, “We are Rachel’s Children”

A Writing Contest connected Jewish children with the Rachels in their families, miracle and midos stories and with historical research of Rachel’s Tomb in Beis Lechem.
Viewing an Hachnossat Sefer Torah in her neighborhood, Evelyn thought, if people bought a letter in the Torah then the Sefer Torah would be theirs. If the Torah was in Kever Rachel, they would be very connected and concerned for Ima Rachel’s tomb. Evelyn asked the sofer the cost to write a Torah for Kever Rachel. She was told a discounted price of $25,000. Within weeks of this idea, Evelyn was approached by the accountant who had drawn up the application for the RCRF Tax Exempt Status. He said he usually doesn’t charge charities, but asked her if she would like to buy a raffle. Evelyn asked how much. He said $500. She asked if he had a cheaper raffle. He said he did not. She said, “then I guess I have to buy it.”Evelyn won the raffle; Split the Pot was $26,000, the cost of raffle, Sefer Torah and some towards expenses of a seudah in New York and another in Beis Lechem. Thousands attended the 1998 rosh Chodesh Tammuz event on the wide unwalled streets in front of Rachel’s Tomb. Because of the great showing, the Rabbi of Holy Sites, HaRav Shmuel Rabinowitz announced Kever Rachel, henceforth, to be opened 24 hours a day.
When no one would buy the land, Evelyn was the Nachshon ben Aminadav who put down all the money to purchase Beit Bnei Rachel. It was on Haftorah Behar, when Yirmiyhu, in the pit, and in the midst of a war, bought land. Evelyn made the payment to buy this land just feet from Rachel’s Tomb for RCRF while they were shooting at Gilo.
Rabbi Chaim Wasserman, President of the Young Israel at Heichal Shlomo,renowned teacher and author, gave an inspiring and informative speech on 19th century Religious Zionists, Rav Yehudah Alkalai (1708-1879) and Rav Zvi Hirsh Kalisher (1795-1874), both advocates and authors who ignited a Jewish nationalism movement sixty years before Theodore Herzl. It was a movement for the return to Torah Judaism together with the reclamation of Eretz Hachodesh.
This educational event was culminated with a extravagant buffet of delights prepared mostly by Rochelle Eissenstat on the third anniversary of the survival of her family from the bulldozer attack hammering and riding over her Mazda. She says it was definitely the hand of G-d which saved them because of their charity and respect for their parents.
RCRF is planning more programs. We need your help, ideas, donations, preparations. Everyone who attended recommends you bring at least one friend because the RCRF events in Beit Bne Rachel in the Rachel tomb Complex are extraordinary, educational and uplifting.
RCRF thanks everyone for coming and for their contributions to make a presence and to enhance the evening. The rest of the schedule of evening programs via 5PM Egged #163 Bus and starting at 6PM is as follows:

RABBI DR. JOSEPH KLAUSNER, Yedidyahu
12 Tammuz, Thursday, July 14,
“History of the fields of beis lechem from Rachel, Ruth and in modern times”
4 Av, Thursday, August 4,
“Eicha; the tragedies of walled and unwalled cities, 1300s until present”

RABBI EFRAIM SPRECHER
18 Tammuz, Wednesday, July 20,
“The Key to Anger Management”
7 av, Sunday, August 7,
“Don’t despair – Hang in there!”

RABBI DR. YITZCHAK BREITOWITZ
ROSH CHODESH AV, MONDAY AUGUST 1
“Two Visions of Community in the Book of Bamidbar”

Also “MORNING” program, RSVP for 9am bus
Sefer Torah reading, brunch and lecture
HARAV BENYAMIN LEVENE

Rosh Chodesh Elul, Tuesday, August 30,

Upcoming debut: ELLEN LAPIDUS STERN: BIBLICAL ART SHOW AND LECTURE

*Weekly classes since 2003: Wednesdays at 11am until 2pm; 10am Egged #163 Bus:
Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar and Author
Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny, Author of “The Twelve Tribes of Israel”.
Book your simchas with RCRF in our lovely Reception Center that can accommodate 100

Our most recent event, a festive Bas Mitzvah hosted 80. The participants danced from Kever Rachel blowing a shofar, cymbals and other instruments.

Donors and Volunteers needed to teach, enhance and translate English to Hebrew in RCRF “Museum of Jewish Aliyah” ©

Contact RCRF rachelschildren@gmail.com 054-224-2649 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com
“Remember, a visit to Israel without going to Kever Rachel is like going home and not visiting your mother.” Evelyn Haies

Summer 2011/5771 Programs at Beit Bnei Rachel

2011-07-01T06:24:00.000-07:00

RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5771
054-224-2649 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com
Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel Tomb Complex, Beis Lechem, Israel
5771/2011 RCRF SUMMER SCHEDULE
6 Learning Programs includes light Supperettes ALL at 6pm
Take 5pm Egged #163 Bus to Rachel’s Tomb, walk left past KR to Beit Bnei Rachel, Free Parking OPPOSITE KEVER RACHEL
Register ASAP advance 20nis, at door 30nis includes supperette

Rabbi CHAIM WASSERMAN
"The Religious Roots of Zionism"
Sunday, July 3, 2011 Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
13th Anniversary of grand hochnassat sefer torah since when kever rachel is open 24 hours

RABBI DR. JOSEPH KLAUSNER, Yedidyahu
12 Tammuz, Thursday, July 14,
“History of the fields of beis lechem from Rachel, ruth and in modern times”

4 av, Thursday, august 4,
“Eicha; The tragedies of walled and unwalled cities, 1300s until present”

Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher
18 Tammuz, Wednesday, July 20,
“The key to anger management”

7 Av, Sunday, august 7,
“Don’t despair – Hang in there!”

RABBI DR. YITZCHAK BREITOWITZ
ROSH CHODESH AV, MONDAY AUGUST 1
“Two Visions of Community in the Book of Bamidbar”

Also “morning” program, rsvp for 9am bus
sefer torah reading, brunch and lecture
Harav Benyamin Levene
Rosh Chodesh Elul, Tuesday, August 30,

Upcoming debut: ELLEN LAPIDUS STERN: BIBLICAL ART SHOW AND LECTURE

*Weekly classes since 2003: Wednesdays at 11am until 2pm; 10am Egged #163 Bus:
Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar and Author
Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny, Author of “The Twelve Tribes of Israel”.

Book your simchas with RCRF in our lovely Reception Center that can accommodate 100
Donors and Volunteers needed to teach, enhance and translate English to Hebrew in RCRF “Museum of Jewish Aliyah” ©

“Remember, a visit to Israel without going to Kever Rachel is like going home and not visiting your mother.” Evelyn Haies

June July and August 2011 Events at Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel's Tomb Walled Complex

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May 31, Tuesday, Rosh Chodesh shiur 9:30 am

Wednesdays June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 weekly women's classes with authors Atara Gur and Nechama Nadbury, 11am via 10 am Egged bus and continuing year round.

June 16 Mincha, Light Supperette, Lecture by Rabbi Dr.Joseph Klausner "Parasha Aliyah/ Shelach; Centrality of Eretz Israel for Every Jew" Maariv, Take 5pm Egged Bus or drive; return on 10:30 pm bus. Nis 60

Sunday, July 3, 2011 Rabbi Chaim Wasserman, 19th Century Zionists

Thursday, July 14, 2011 Rabbi Dr. Joseph Klausner "The history of the fields of Beis Lechem from Rachel and Ruth until Today"

Thursday, August 4, 2011 Rabbi Dr. Joseph Klausner "Eicha/ The Tragedies of the Walled and Unwalled Cities"

Tuesday, August 30, Rosh Chodesh Elul Day of Learning

Important Events: March 10 TZVI HIRSH KALISHER 1795-1874 "RETURN TO ZION", March 20 Purim Seuda

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Please forward Calendar to all lists. Bring Friends
1.Thursday, March 10, 4PM
Important Lecture at Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel Tomb Complex :
TZVI HIRSH KALISHER 1795-1874 "RETURN TO ZION"
2.Sunday March 20, 11am Purim Seuda with Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher
3. Wednesdays

RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5771
054-224-2649 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 4PM
Special Lecture at Beit Bnei Rachel,
Rachel Tomb Complex
By Gabriella Lickso

Life and Ideas of
TZVI HIRSH KALISHER 1795-1874
"RETURN TO ZION"
Take 3PM Egged Bus #163

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You’re Invited .
*Sunday, March 20, 2011, 11am* Megillah Reading. Shiur
PURIM SEUDA
Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher "Mother Rachel and Queen Esther,
Most Beloved Heroines in Jewish History"
Register ASAP 70nis, seuda. RSVP We have to order meals .
**

*Weekly classes in Beit Bnei Rachel
Wednesdays at 11am until 2:pm;
Take 10am Egged #163 Bus
Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar and author
Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny, Author of “The Twelve Tribes of Israel”.

Rachel Imeinu Tehillim Therapy #46 - Inquire to particpate in workshops.

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Tehillim Therapy #46
"Hashem is our Coach and our Koach”
by Evelyn Haies
(c)February 23, 2011
We live in a time of trouble, upheaval in our lives and our world
Mountains are weeping tears of hot lava and trees are uprooted and sucked into the sea.
The earth is scorched by lack of rain and forests are burned
Land is washed away in tsunamis and hurricanes,
Cities fall into cracks as the earth quakes, shaken and broken, burying that which it bore,
Rivers rise and cover the ground as high as rooftops
washing away all as they break higher than waves
and many do not escape
the reminders of the times of Noah, mis-guidings and evil doings

We live in a world of trouble, revolutions rage outlandishly in the streets against the outrageous
Evil empires are collapsing even with evil in the chants .
Dictators are banished by the masses they harassed.
Government buildings are fire bombed and chopped just as they chiseled at the Tomb of Joseph.
Hate the Jews, the scapegoat, is the mantra; but the hate is from deprivation
and the jealousy of the Jews
who express kindness and love,
the midos of Avraham and Rachel.

G-d is in the middle of the lashings and bashings,
the ravages of nature and mankind,
the savagery of misfits, the me-its, the made-offs.
The glory is of the Most High
as the world is swooning in the whirlwinds of doom.
He acted to create The Beginning
and now unleashes a painful Re-Awakening

G-d is Our Maker,
the Maker of disasters and desolation,
the Maker of war and peace
He is the Power to shield the earth and mankind
As we remember the givers -
Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov
Sarah, Rivka, Leah and Rachel,
Yosef and Moshe Rabbeinu
As we see the punishments of the fakers, takers, hackers, pirates,
Conquistadors, Crusaders, Inquisitors, Nazis, Jihadists,
a new day is dawning out of the turmoil on the ground and the human poundings and pounded.

Lashings and Bashing are everywhere like cycles of devil-potions, dissolutions;
and then there is silence, re-growth, solution:
appreciation that hate is not the answer,
never was in tune with civilization, the Loving Kind.
Can you hear the exulted music of the Alamos?
He has turned war into peace, swords into plowshares, bombs into blossoms
and there is rejoicing like Purim and nurturing like in the BaMidbar
and He is exalted among all nations.
Selah.

Rachel Imeinu Event: Purim Seuda with Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher at

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RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5771
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235 718-648-2610,
054-224-2649 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com
Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel Tomb Complex, Beis Lechem
*Sunday, March 20, 2011, 11am* Megillah Reading. PURIM SEUDA
Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher

"Mother Rachel and Queen Esther,

Most Beloved Heroines in Jewish History"

Register ASAP , 70nis, seuda, costumes

Purim Katan Celebrated in Beit Bnei Rachel.
By Evelyn Haies
Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation hosted refreshments including hamentashen at Beit Bnei Rachel, the RCRF majority owned Jewish property within the Rachel Tomb Walled Complex in Beis Lechem. Evelyn Haies, founder and president of RCRF and Bnei Rachel Corp spoke of her seventeen year mission to present Rachel Imeinu as the Jewish Mother par excellence who is a role model to make Bnei Rachel proud, reclaim her midos and their identity and also be role models for derech eretz. She named the street in front of her houses Derech Chaya Rachel because keeping the ways of our Matriarch Rachel is a life force. The roots of the past are the foundation of the future.
Rabbi Dr. Joseph C. Klausner emphasized Purim Katan as a small holiday which occurs early in Adar Aleph this being a leap year. It is explained as a lesson in concealing and revealing. Redemption is a spiraling process of praying, revealing the cover ups, taking off the masks that conceal truth, reestablishing Jewish identity, reacting in unity to the dangers and acting together for survival of the community, recognizing the anti-Semitic set ups and trusting in the chesed of Hashem, restoring the connection to Hashem, thanking Hashem.
RCRF will be hosting a Purim Shiur and Sueda on Sunday, March 20, in their large Reception Center in Beis Lechem, where Rachel Imeinu died “on the way” giving birth to Benjamin, ancestor of Mordechai and Esther. Please make your reservations early and be part of the simcha when our confusion leads to clarity, when what is behind the masks is revealed and we are on the derech, the pathways for blessings and simcha. Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher will be speaking on “Rachel Imeinu and Esther HaMalkah, Most Beloved Heroines in Jewish History”. This is the place to celebrate our becoming a nation, surviving and redeeming the promises with joy.
V’Shavu Banim l’gvulum.

New Series: Tehillim Therapy and February and March 2011 Events

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RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5771
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235 718-648-2610,
054-224-2649 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com
Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel Tomb Complex, Beis Lechem
Past speakers: HARAV MAYER HOROWITZ, Rebbitzen Tziporah Heller. HaRav Benjamin Levene, Rabbi Hanoch Teller, RABBI Yonasen ALPREN, Rabbi Dr. David Forhman,
Elissa Grunwald, Roy Neuberger, Esther KiTov, Sara Yocheved Rigler, Rabbi Elan Adler , Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz
*Evelyn Haies, President RCRF will launch this new program
Repeat by Popular Request : Tuesday, February 8, 2011, new time 14:00pm.
Tehillim Therapy #1: "Mom to Son" based on Tehillim 107 –
BY EVELYN Haies
New Series 1. Your presemce and input are needed.
Take 1pm Egged Bus #163

*Thursday, FEBRUARY 10, 2011, 11.00am Take 10am Egged Bus #163
TEHILLIM THERAPY #2 "The Song of the Plagues" #91 by Evelyn Haies, Pres. RCRF
**
*Tuesday, FEBRUARY 15, 2011, 11am* #3"Hashem Ro'i Lo Echsar" #23
Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple, Emeritus Rabbi
of the Great Synagogue, Sydney
Register ASAP for possible Bus at 10am at Inbal Hotel, 50nis, lite refreshments.
**
*Thursday, FEBRUARY 17, 2011, 11am*Rabbi Dr. Joseph C. Klausner / Yedidyahu -
Purim Katan, Concealing and Revealing
Rachel Imeinu and Esther Hamalka , focusing on BeisLechem and Shushan Habira
Register ASAP for possible Bus at Inbal Hotel, 50nis, lite refreshments.
**
*Sunday, March 20, 2011, 11am* Megillah Reading. PURIM SEUDA
Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher
"Mother Rachel and Queen Esther,
Most Beloved Heroines in Jewish History"
Register ASAP for possible Bus at 10am at Inbal Hotel, 70nis, lite refreshments.
**
*Weekly classes in Beit Bnei Rachel
Wednesdays at 11am until 2:pm; Take 101m Egged #163 Bus
Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar and author
Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny, Author of “The Twelve Tribes of Israel”.

Study in the only private Jewish owned houses within theWalled Rachel Tomb Complex
and in Beit Lechem where Ima Rachel died "on the way" to teach Bnei Rachel "Derech Eretz"
and David HaMelech wrote the Tehillim to reconcile with his trials and triumphs.
There will be time for presenting, writing and discussion and saying tehillim in Kever Rachel. .

Your very needed Contributions help us help build Beit Bnei Rachel and our Programs
Book your simchas in our lovely Reception Center that can accomodate 100

Volunteers needed to enhance and translate English to Hebrew
in our RCRF “Museum of Jewish Aliyah” ©
BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER AND BEIT MEDRASH
IMA RACHEL IS CRYING DERECH ERETZ WILL STOP HER TEARS

RCRF EVENTS: Tues. Dec 28 Lilliana Richman, Dec 29 Atara Gur, ThursJan 6 Rosh Chodesh, Jan 13 Rabbi Elan Adler, Jan 20 Rabbi DR. Yiotzchak Breitowitz

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Dear Friends and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, amv"sh
Please help Mama Rochel cry tears of joy... Spread the word...
VESHAVU BANIM LIGVULUM!
And her children will return to their [entitled] boundaries!

RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION
www.theracheltear.blogspot.com rachelschildren@gmail.com

WOMEN'S CLASS IN BEIT BNEI RACHEL every Tuesday and Wednesday,many Thursdays, more.

Directions: Bus Egged 163 at 10am or private car. From entrance to Kever Rachel - do not enter, pass army baricade and follow the outside of the buiding.
Beit Bnei Rachel entrance is immediately past the wall of the Kever
INFO: Bonnie Linder 02-996-3240

Tuesday Dec. 28, 2010__Time: 11 am
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Lilliana Richman
from Efratwill speak on
Rabbi Nachman:Hitbodidut
Shiur in Hebrew
Meet 11 am at entrance to Kever Rachel
Suggested donation: 15 shekel

For more information call Bonnie Linder 02-996-3240
Bus 163 or private car.
Hope to see you there!

EVERY WEDNESDAY
TIME: 11AM via 10 am Egged #163 or private car.
ATARA GUR: RACHEL IMEINU SCHOLAR - 8 YEARS AND STILL MORE TO LEARN.
VESHAVU BANIM LIGVULUM!
And her children will return to their [entitled] boundaries!

RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION
www.theracheltear.blogspot.com rachelschildren@gmail.com

WOMEN'S CLASS IN BEIT BNEI RACHEL, RACHEL TOMB WALLED COMPLEX
INFO: Bonnie Linder 02-996-3240
THURSDAY ,JANUARY 6, 2011
Rosh Hodesh gathering for Women
Details to be announced

Potluck light refreshments

Suggested donation: 50 shekel
For more information call Bonnie Linder 02-9963-240
Bus 163 or private car.

Hope to see you there!

Your donations to RCRF with sponsor more of these weekly events and make Beit Bnei Rachel a most visited Jewish site within the Rachel Tomb Walled Complex.We need your help

Save the dates:
Thursday, January 13, 2011
11 am Rabbi ELAN ADLER
Recent Oleh""Host of Arutz Sheva Derech Eretz Hour"
topic "Derech Eretz, Aliyah and Beshalach"

Thursday, January 20, 2011, Tu B'Shvat
RABBI DR. YITZCHAK BREITOWITZ

RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5771
60 West End Ave, Brooklyn NY 11235 718-648-2610, 054-224-2649
www.theracheltear.blogspot.com
and The OU ISRAEL CENTER
22 Keren Hayesod, Jerusalem, Israel
Naomi, OU Travel Desk, 050-725-8392

cordially invite you to a
Dvar Torah,Tu BShvat Seuda and Tour of Beit Bnei Rachel
Time for Tehillim in Kever Rachel
TREE PLANTING IN OUR BIBLICAL GARDEN

Welcome by EVELYN HAIES,
President RCRF and Bnei Rachel Corp,
Majority Owner of Beit Bnei Rachel

Keynote Speaker
RABBI DR. YITZCHAK BREITOWITZ

RSVP: OU Travel Desk Naomi 050-725-8392
RSVP. Buses from Israel Center at 9:30 am . Lunch Included. Space Limited

IMA RACHEL IS CRYING
RACHEL’S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION
IS STOPPING HER TEARS!

RSVP: Naomi, OU Travel Desk, 050-725-8392

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2010__Esther KiTov

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163 leaves the Central Station at 10 am and arrives before 11 - I suggest those arrving by Egged 163 say tehillim in the kever before and until 11:30
Evelyn

Bonnie Linder wrote:

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RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION
www.theracheltear.blogspot.com rachelschildren@gmail.com

WOMEN'S CLASSES IN BEIT BNEI RACHEL, RACHEL TOMB WALLED COMPLEX
INFO: Bonnie Linder 02-996-3240
10am Egged Bus 163 or private car.
Hope to see you there!

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2010__Time: 11:30 am
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Esther KitovDaughter-in -law of Eliyahu Kitov

Shiur in English and Hebrew
Meet 11:30 am at entrance to Kever Rachel
Suggested donation: 15 shekel

Special addition,bring a small gift to show your support for those who have lost all their household possessions in the fire in the north.
We can't know why this disaster happened but we can grab the opportunity to do chesed for people whom we usually wouldn't have contact with.A small,new household item(no breakables)with a kind message will show them that we care.Hopefully it will help a bit to buffer their trauma and build Ahavat Yisrael.

Hope to see you there!

EVERY WEDNESDAY TIME: 11AM
ATARA GUR: RACHEL IMEINU SCHOLAR -

Your donations to RCRF with sponsor more of these weekly events and make Beit Bnei Rachel a most visited Jewish site within the Rachel Tomb Walled Complex.

Save the dates:
Thursday, January 13, 2011 11 am Rabbi Elan Adler , Radio Talk show Host

Thursday, January 20, 2011, Tu B'Shvat
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

Now A word about RCRF's passionate beloved President Evelyn Hayes from the widely read and circulated Lubavitch publication L'Chaim in this week's publication Parshat Miketz.

L'Chaim
December 3, 2010 - 26 Kislev, 5771

1148: Miketz

Finding Your Passion
It's fascinating to read about people and their passions. For example, there is a woman named Evelyn Hayes who has a passion for the tomb of our Matriarch Rachel (Kever Rachel). Her heart and soul are devoted to Israel, particularly to Kever Rachel. She bought property nearby, does fundraisers for Kever Rachel, writes poetry about it, etc. I wonder where this comes from! I wonder, who was she in a previous incarnation?!
--
Sincerely,
Robin Ticker

Chanukah through Tu BShvat events

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RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION
www.theracheltear.blogspot.com rachelschildren@gmail.com

WOMEN'S CLASSES IN BEIT BNEI RACHEL, RACHEL TOMB WALLED COMPLEX
INFO: Bonnie Linder 02-996-3240
Bus 163 or private car.
Hope to see you there!

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2010__
Time: 11 am
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Sara Yoheved Rigler
author of
Holy Woman, Lights From Jerusalem,
Battle Plans, How to Fight the Yetzer Hara(w Rebbetzin Heller)
Shiur in English on Chanukah
Meet 11 am at entrance to Kever Rachel
Suggested donation: 15 shekel

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010Rosh Hodesh gathering for Women
Time: 9:30 Rav Kimchi
"Chanukah,Helenistic Influences in Modern Day Society"
Time:10:20 Devorah Konikov "Building One's Spiritual Beit Mikdash"

11:10 Hallel-Singing together. Bring Musical Instruments.

11:40-12:25 Dr.June Levitt Laugh Yoga Workshop
Nothing to do with Yoga,Lots to do with bringing light into your life

Special addition,bring a small gift to show your support for those who have lost all their household possessions in the fire in the north.
We can't know why this disaster happened but we can grab the opportunity to do chesed for people whom we usually wouldn't have contact with.A small,new household item(no breakables)with a kind message will show them that we care.Hopefully it will help a bit to buffer their trauma and build Ahavat Yisrael.

Potluck light refreshments

Suggested donation: 50 shekel
For more information call Bonnie Linder 02-9963-240
Bus 163 or private car. Chartered bus from Efrat 8:20A.M.(call Nina Devere for details 02-9931724)

Hope to see you there!

EVERY WEDNESDAY
TIME: 11AM
ATARA GUR: RACHEL IMEINU SCHOLAR -

Your donations to RCRF with sponsor more of these weekly events and make Beit Bnei Rachel a most visited Jewish site within the Rachel Tomb Walled Complex.

Save the dates:
Thursday, January 13, 2011
11 am Rabbi Elan Adler , Radio Talk show Host

Thursday, January 20, 2011, Tu B'Shvat
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

Now A word about RCRF's passionate beloved President Evelyn Hayes from the widely read and circulated Lubavitch publication L'Chaim in this week's publication Parshat Miketz.

L'Chaim
December 3, 2010 - 26 Kislev, 5771

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1148: Miketz

Finding Your Passion
It's fascinating to read about people and their passions. For example, there is a woman named Evelyn Hayes who has a passion for the tomb of our Matriarch Rachel (Kever Rachel). Her heart and soul are devoted to Israel, particularly to Kever Rachel. She bought property nearby, does fundraisers for Kever Rachel, writes poetry about it, etc. I wonder where this comes from! I wonder, who was she in a previous incarnation?!

2010 Pre and Post Dinner

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Press Release: 2010 Pre and Post Dinner
Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation 1995-2011 60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235,
www.theracheltear.blogspot.com, 718-648-2610 212-470-0967
16th Annual NYCitywide Commemoration of the Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu held on 11 MarCheshvan 5771, Monday Evening October 18, 2010 at Manhattan Beach Jewish Center,
Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu was the main theme of the extravaganza of lectures in Beit Bnei Rachel, the majority RCRF Jewish owned property in the Walled Rachel Tomb Complex. RCRF became active when Kever Rachel was on the Oslo chopping block. As Rabbi Menachem Porush cried, Evelyn Haies did twinning ceremonies to alert the Jewish world to the need to visit and save Kever Rachel. She initiated writing contests as testaments of past Jewish presence as well as presenting Rachel Imeinu as a role model for the whole world today. Her petitions which included statements from her Senators and Congressmen and Rav Porush and Chanan Porat's tears and the presence of a Merkas HaRav Kook's single kollel under the leadership of HaRav Avraham Shapira and Rabbi Magnus saved Rachel's Tomb and made it accessible to all. RCRF with the soliciatation of HaRav Benny Elon and Yeshiva Beit Orot was the initial and majority purchaser of Beit Bnei Rachel. This purchase, that Jews owned land south of Kever Rachel caused Kever Rachel and our properties to be included within the wall even while the wall was built in the middle of the road leaving out the Tzvi Hirsh Kalisher and the Nathan Strauss properties. RCRF with the support of HaRav Porush and a group of Hilltop kids just two years ago succeeded in re-establishing access by car. RCRF which needs a van is happy that president and founder Evelyn Haies is always given rides out of Kever Rachel and thanks all those who have gone out of their way to even drive her to her home in Jerusalem. She welcomes you to the Many RCRF sponsored classes in Beit Bnei Rachel, to visit the RCRF Museum of Jewish Aliyah and help in its development. We have celebrated many Bas Mitzvahs and this October had a first Bris in our large Reception Center. You are invited to book your simchas as well as sponsor simchas for others and lectures.
As the Chofetz Chaim inspired Shmiras Haloshen seminars around the world for a cure-all, Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation, a 501c3 has initiated talks emanating from our Loving Matriarch, Ima Rachel. RCRF has adopted the theme of Derech Eretz as an ongoing effort to develop the midos of Bnei Rachel and bring Torah, truth, honesty, unity, empathy and love to the world.
We know Laban had other plans for Yaakov and Rachel who waited seven years to actualize their love. We know both sisters were terrified of being betrothed to Esau, who lusted, terrorized and killed. We know both sisters were part of Hashem’s plan for creation. In unity, the four wives of Yaakov created the 12 tribes of Israel and were mothers of the nation of Israel. We know Yosef’s brothers were off the derech in their actions against him. But, it was G-d’s plan for survival. As Hashem promised Rachel Imeinu who was buried “on the way” to keep Bnei Rachel “on the derech” Bnei Rachel will merit Eretz Hachodesh and Redemption.
Our teacher on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, HaRav Mayer Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of HaNof, was the MC when RCRF dedicated a Sefer Torah on the wide open, empty, unwalled streets of Beis Lechem in 1998. this Sefer Torah celebrated at the ZOA 1997 Annual Dinner is housed in Kever Rachel in the aron kodesh in the wall built by HaRav Goren with stones from Har Habayit until this day. As we read our 2nd Sefer Torah dedicated amazingly seven years later through the Sefer Torah Recycling Network by the Caplan family in 2005, 12 years later in Beit Bnei Rachel, HaRav Mayer Horowitz lit candles remembering his esteemed parents, explained Rosh Chodesh was a festival for women today because of men's sin with the golden calf. Women should not sew nor do heavy work on Rosh Chodesh. In the end of days it would be a festival for both men and women when all come to worship the L-rd. The Kavod shown for his parents and Torah are preliminaries of Derech Eretz.
Another teacher, Rebbitzen Tziporah Heller spoke on “Derech Eretz, Personal Refinement”. As the world suffers from “me-ism”, Rebbitzen Heller who gave a first shir for RCRF in 1996 when Evelyn was petitioning to save the one Egged bus attracting an 800% increase in ridership. explained that mitzvahs make a difference, that control limits and, thus, refines in eating, what one wears, how one speaks and acts.
Ha Rav Benjamin Levene, grandson of “A Tzaddik in our Time” who was on the dais in the 1998 Torah Dedication Ceremony participated in our Rosh Chodesh ELUL Torah reading and shofar blowing, remembered when we could not come to Kever Rachel during the Jordanian occupation as well as when we reclaimed it in 1967. He spoke of when his grandfather Reb Aryeh Levin a”h walked to visit the woman prisoners in Beis Lechem during the time of the British occupation. Geula Cohen noted that Rav Aryeh couldn’t take us out of prison, but brought freedom to us. One of his greatest traits was respect for people in need even with weaker ways of observance. He never belittled; he saw greatness in their little acts influencing them to advance in the right derech. He saw Rochel Imeinu as a role model of caring, kindness and a big heart. She was true Derech Eretz.
The great storyteller Rabbi Hanoch Teller who just released his new book, “Too Beautiful” chose the topic “Derech Eretz – Honorable Mentschen”. He made mention that little considerations mattered. Being late stole time. Writing Thank You Notes made a difference.
Rabbi Yonason Alpren said that when you go to a kever, you don’t just go to cry and pray, you go to find the “straight path”, to contemplate the way to wake up, be straight with Torah application. Caring, sharing, working, striving, persistency, endurance were some of the traits of Rachel and her descendants.
Roy Neuberger noted author and past RCRF dinner participant emphasized the hardships and challenges Bnei Rachel face. As Rachel Imeinu stands for love, motherhood, good deeds and creation, there is a wicked world that believes in world domination, child suicide, mutilation, murder, decapitation and nuclear destrucution.
After an Inspiring summer in Beit Bnei Rachel, RCRF convened its 16th Annual Commemoration of the Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu. Rabbi David Fohrman was the Keynote Speaker He said that a Yahrzeit was an emotional time. Rachel Imeinu's Yahzeit was an emotional time from when Yosef Hatzaddik passed his mother's grave going into exile. It is an emotional time today in Israel as 70,000 went to her grave as well as RCRF enjoyed a full house at MBJC.. Rabbi Fohrman emphasized her legacy of hard life, pain, theft of her husband, rivalry, barrenness. and through this Bnei Rachel has developed their true identity, He links the Esther and the Joseph story and the eradication of terrible wrongs of expulsion, theft and destruction. NYS Assemblyman Steven H Cymbrowitz received the Community Leadership Award for his activities of presenting Holocaust studies to the public schools. Lev and Roza Rivkin received the well deserved Rachel Imeinu Chessed Award, Rabbi Shimon Golding received the Community Service Award. Actualist and Writing Contest Awards were introduced by Malky Grunwald , granddaughter of Evelyn Haies, who had celebrated the First Bas Mitzvah at Beit Bnei Rachel on Rosh Chodesh Elul 2007, experiencing the challenges her mother faced since purchase of this property and before as a fighter to save Kever Rachel. Her painting on Derech eretz is truly noteworthy with its branches including Derech Eretz and its long path expressing the Jewish experience of V'shavu banim l'gvulum. Participants were from Prospect Park Yeshiva, Shulamith and SKA. RCRF is continuing the Writing Contest: Submit Rachel stories, poems, artwork . The theme is Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu. The deadline is November 15 , 2010
BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER AND BEIT MEDRASH.
Attend our Wednesday Women's classes with Atar Gur our Rachel Imeinu scholar for over 7 years. Register for our Learn and Pray sessions with Bonnie Linder. Watch for our future special events. Your donations will help RCRF achieve a daily women's presence in our property as well as support our Special events and help develop our Museum of Jewish Aliyah. Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Benny Elon is overseeing a vibrant kollel in RCRF funded and majority owned Beit Bnei Rachel.

links: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2440 Live interview with Evelyn Haies.
Elul - The Concept of Avos & Imahos and the Attributes of Rachel Imenu -
Rabbi Leff: Special shiur given at the Israel Center - a reapeat of a shiur given for "Rachel's Children" in the home of Evelyn Haies at Kever Rochel on Rosh Chodesh Elul, 5769

PS: Malky Grunwald who had the first Bas Mitzvah in Beit Bnei Rachel with all the difficulties of an initiator is the artist who painted the Kever Rachel- Derech Eretz picture which had so many requests by buyers. We are making canvas board copies. Evelyn Haies is availalble for interviews and to lecture and tell the amazing story of her Kever Rachel Reclamation work that has made access for all Rachel's children.

5771 Yahrzeit Message from President Evelyn Haies

2010-10-20T06:22:00.000-07:00

A Message From the President, Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation
and Bnei Rachel Corp,
Owner of Beit Bnei Rachel and Majority Owner of adjoining properties within the Rachel Tomb Walled Complex
11 MarCheshvan 5771
Evelyn Haies

RACHEL IMEINU WAS BURIED “ON THE WAY “
TO KEEP HER JEWISH CHILDREN “ON THE DERECH”
The Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu is on the eleventh of MarCheshvan which usually falls in Parsha Lech Lecha. In Parasha Lech Lecha, we go from the fall of Adam, the murder of Abel, the flood, the fall of the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gemorah. We change direction and make an aliyah away from the evil society with Avram who became Avraham, Sarai who became Sarah. Abraham goes from Shem to Elon Moreh, Beit El, Mamre which is Hebron. He begins a new derech. He chooses monotheism and the ways of The Creator, creation and not destruction. The Jewish people stop wandering and begin to settle and live according to the “good ideology”, Hashem’s Roadmap.
Some call MarCheshvan a sad month. How can it be sad when the Jewish people chose good over evil, to defeat the King of Cheshbon and to say no to cheshbonot. They gave up materialism for a life filled with midos. Avraham became the father of Hachnosat Orchim. Yitzchak became the wiser when he heard the voice of G-d and was strong in not re-negotiating a broken pact with the Plishtines who wanted Eretz Hachodesh, Yaakov fathered the twelve tribes and kept the ways of the Jews even in his diasporas.
Rachel Imeinu gave birth to Benyamin and completed the twelve tribes and the Nation of Israel. Rachel named him Ben Oni, the son of her sorrow, sadly dying at childbirth at just 36. But such was not acceptable for Yisrael, He named him the son of the right, Benyamin. And, he was a true son of his righteous mother, Rachel.
Because of the choices of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, the Jewish people have been given a derech, a pathway for righteousness.
As Lech Lecha falls in Cheshvan it really is a call to go away from evil and choose goodness. It is a month to begin the good life. Bereishit is the story of creation of the world. Lech Lecha is the story of creation of aliyah to the “good ideology.” In Lech Lecha, Avraham says no to evil and builds the foundation for civilization. Rachel say no to herself, thinking of the future. Because she put herself after her sister, she is the Mother of Sisterhood. Because she pleaded for children and cries for their well being, she is Mother Israel.
Derech Eretz is the lesson learned in Lech Lecha. Derech Eretz denies the philosophy of me and materialism, denies the bad deeds of lies, theft and murder. It chooses midos and that is what matters. Derech Eretz seeks to make the world a better place with Torah borders. If we all act with Derech Eretz, there will be no selfishness, slander, shame, strife, suffering.
We call the name of the road in front of Beit Bnei Rachel, the majority RCRF Jewish owned property, Derech Chaya Rachel. Rachel Imeinu was buried “on the way” to keep all her children on the derech. Let us choose the good derech and know only betterment and a life of Torah truth.

October 18, 2010 16th Annual RCRF Commemoration Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu

2010-10-05T07:32:00.000-07:00

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Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235
www.theracheltear.blogspot.com 718-648-2610 212-470-0967 rachelschildren@gmail.com,
The Sixteenth Annual NY Citywide Commemoration of the
YAHRZEIT OF RACHEL IMEINU
JEWISH MOTHER’S DAY
11 MarCheshvan 5771 GALA BUFFET JOURNAL DINNER
Manhattan Beach Jewish Center, 60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235
Monday Evening, October 18, 2010, 6:30 P.M.
Keynote Speaker
RABBI DAVID FOHRMAN

Community Leadership Award
NYS ASSEMBLYMAN STEVEN H. CYMBROWITZ

Rachel Imeinu Chessed Award
LEV and ROZA RIVKIN

Community Service Award
RABBI SHIMON GOLDING

Presentation of Actualist Awards By
MALKY GRUNWALD
First Bas Mitzvah at Beit Bnei Rachel

5771 Wrting Contest:
Theme” Derech “Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu:
Midos, Manners, Mission”
Rush: Individual and School submissions deadline 10/10/10

Exciting News:RCRF is initiating this New Learning and Lecture Series
“Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu”
at Beit Bnei Rachel, our majority owned property in the walled Kever Rachel Complex
Your donations will help support all our efforts for Klal Yisral and Beit Bnei Rachel
Medreshet Chaya Rachel and Ruth, Museum of Jewish Aliyah, Simcha Center

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Tuesday, October 5, 1PM Beit Bnei Rachel with Special Guest Speaker: Roy Neuberger

2010-10-03T08:06:00.000-07:00

RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5771
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235, 718-648-2610, 212-470-0967
rachelschildren@gmail.com Chana 050-533-0992 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com

***** TUESDAYS AT BEIT BNEI RACHEL *****
AT THE MAJORITY RCRF JEWISH OWNED PROPERTY
WITHIN THE RACHEL TOMB WALLED COMPLEX
Via 11AM Egged Bus #163 or car to Rachel’s Tomb, Weekly Program 12 NOON
Health Coach: Sabrina Schneider:“Derech Eretz: Good Food, Good Mood"

Pre-Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan Gathering and Lecture,
Men and Women Invited / Mechitza Refreshments
Tuesday, October 5, 1PM Special Guest Speaker:
ROY NEUBERGER
“Chodesh Cheshvan:
The Rise and Fall of Ishmael.”Author of 2020 VISION (Feldheim Publishers),
FROM CENTRAL PARK TO SINAI: How I Found My Jewish Soul,
WORLDSTORM: Finding Meaning & Direction Amidst Today's World Crisis.
ROY AND HIS WIFE SPEAK PUBLICLY ON TOPICS RELATED TO HIS BOOKS

Presented by
RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5771
Evelyn Haies, Founder and President
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235, 718-648-2610, 212-470-0967
rachelschildren@gmail.com Chana 050-533-0992 www.theracheltear.blogspot.com

P.S.

Yisroel Neuberger is a noted author (FROM CENTRAL PARK TO SINAI, WORLDSTORM, etc.) and a lecturer.He's been on radio, TV and all over the web.NOW, HE'S IN ISRAEL and IY"H on Tuesday, October 5 at 1 PM, Yisroel is going to be speaking in KEVER RACHEL.Actually, I believe he's speaking in the building NEXT to Kever Rachel. It's going to be a fascinating program.His topic gives me the chills:"Chodesh Cheshvan: The Rise and Fall of Ishmael" Don't miss it.
Shana Tova.Shavua Tov.
Sharon Katz

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Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu was the main theme of the extravaganza of lectures in Beit Bnei Rachel, the majority RCRF Jewish owned property in the Walled Rachel Tomb Complex,
As the Chofetz Chaim inspired Shmiras Haloshen seminars around the world for a cure-all, Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation, a 501c3 has initiated talks emanating from our Loving Matriarch, Ima Rachel. RCRF has adopted the theme of Derech Eretz as an ongoing effort to develop the midos of Bnei Rachel and bring Torah, truth, unity, empathy and love to the world.
We know Laban had other plans for Yaakov and Rachel who waited seven years to actualize their love. We know both sisters were terrified of being betrothed to Esau, who lusted, terrorized and killed. We know both sisters were part of Hashem’s plan for creation. In unity, the four wives of Yaakov created the 12 tribes of Israel and were mothers of the nation of Israel. We know Yosef’s brothers were off the derech in their actions against him. But, it was G-d’s plan for survival. As Hashem promised Rachel Imeinu who was buried “on the way” to keep Bnei Rachel “on the derech” Bnei Rachel will merit Eretz Hachodesh and Redemption.
Our teacher on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, HaRav Mayer Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of HaNof, was the MC when RCRF dedicated a Sefer Torah on the wide open streets of Beis Lechem in 1998 which is housed in Kever Rachel until this day. As we read our 2nd Sefer Torah dedicated through the Sefer Torah Recycling Network by the Caplan family in 2005, 12 years later in Beit Bnei Rachel, HaRav Mayer Horowitz lit candles remembering his esteemed parents, explained Rosh Chodesh was a festival for women today because of men's sin with the golden calf. Women should not sew nor do heavy work on Rosh Chodesh. In the end of days it would be a festival for both men and women when all come to worship the L-rd. The Kavod shown for his parents and Torah are preliminaries of Derech Eretz. Another teacher, Rebbitzen Tziporah Heller spoke on “Derech Eretz, Personal Refinement”. As the world suffers from “me-ism”, Rebbitzen Heller explained that mitzvahs make a difference, that control limits and, thus, refines in eating, what one wears, how one speaks and acts. Ha Rav Benjamin Levene, grandson of “A Tzaddik in our Time” remembered when we could not come to Kever Rachel as well as when we reclaimed it in 1967. He spoke of when his grandfather Reb Aryeh Levin a”h walked to visit the woman prisoners in Beis Lechem during the time of the British occupation. Geula Cohen wrote that although he couldn’t take us out of prison, he brought freedom to us. One of his greatest traits was respect for people in need even with weaker ways of observance. He never belittled; he saw greatness in their little acts influencing them by moving them in the right derech. He saw Rochel Imeinu as a role model of caring, kindness and a big heart. She was true Derech Eretz. The great storyteller and author of numerous books, Rabbi Hanoch Teller who just released his new book, “Too Beautiful” chose the topic “Derech Eretz – Honorable Mentschen”. He made mention that little considerations mattered. Being late stole time. Writing Thank You Notes made a difference. Rabbi Yonason Alpren said that when you go to a kever, you don’t just go to find a place cry and pray, your go to find the “straight path”, to contemplate the way to wake up, be straight with the Torah application. Caring, sharing, working, striving, persistency, endurance were some of the traits of Rachel and her descendants.
Inspired by the summer events in Beit Bnei Rachel, RCRF has organized its 16th evening to commemorate our Jewish Mother Rachel Imeinu par excellence. Rabbi David Fohrman will be the Keynote Speaker. NYS Assemblyman Steven H Cymbrowitz will receive the Community Leadership Award. Lev and Roza Rifkin will receive the Rachel Imeinu Chessed Award, Rabbi Shimon Golding will receive the Community Service Award. Actualist and Writing Contest Awards will be presented by Malky Grunwald who celebrated the First Bas Mitzvah at Beit Bnei Rachel. Our Sumptuous glatt kosher Buffet Dinner will be catered by New Star Caterers.
RCRF is again sponsoring a Writing Contest: Submit Rachel stories, poems, artwork . the theme is Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu. The deadline is October 10, 2010
Volunteers are need in the US and Israel .
BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER AND BEIT MEDRASH.
RSVP ASAP as your presence makes a difference and space is limited.
links: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2440 Live interview with Evelyn Haies.
Elul - The Concept of Avos & Imahos and the Attributes of Rachel Imenu -
Rabbi Leff: Special shiur given at the Israel Center - a reapeat of a shiur given for "Rachel's Children" in the home of Evelyn Haies at Kever Rochel on Rosh Chodesh Elul, 5769

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PRESS RELEASE , AUGUST 20, 2010

The newly RCRF adopted theme of Derech Eretz as an ongoing effort to develop the midos of Bnei Rachel and spread Torah, truth, unity, empathy and love has taken off reaching an enthusiastic audience through inspiring speakers in Beit Bnei Rachel.

Our teacher on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, HaRav Mayer Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of HaNof showed kavod for parents and Torah are preliminaries of Derech Eretz. Rebbitzen Tziporah Heller spoke on “Derech Eretz, Personal Refinement”. As the world suffers from “me-ism”, "ani achad", Rebbitzen Heller explained that mitzvahs make a difference, that controls, limits and, thus, refines in eating, what one wears, how one speaks and acts. Ha Rav Benjamin Levene, grandson of “A Tzaddik in our Time” remembered a time when we could not come to Kever Rachel as well as when we reclaimed it in 1967. He also remembered when his grandfather Reb Aryeh Levin a”h walked to visit the woman prisoners in Beis Lechem during the time of the British occupation. Geula Cohen wrote that although he couldn’t take us out of prison he brought freedom to us. One of his greatest traits was respect for people in need even with weaker ways of observance. He never belittled; he saw greatness and his praise influenced by moving so many in the right derech. He saw Rochel Imeinu as a role model of caring, kindness and a big heart. She was true Derech Eretz.

The great storyteller and author of numerous books, Rabbi Hanoch Teller told so many stories but his emphasis on saying “thank you” with words, notes and a positive attitude motivated the large audience to say “thank you” over and over again and it really makes a difference.

On Thursday, August 26, via the 10am Egged Bus #163 to Rachel’s Tomb, you will meet RCRF at the entrance and walk outside alongside the building in the same direction as inside. Rabbi Yehonason Alpren, highly respected world known lecturer will speak on "Thoughts on Derech Eretz: Rochel Imeinu and her Meaning for her Jewish Generations Today."

Afterwards, this same Thursday, August 26, we are introducing a new continuing program which is sure to be healthy as well as worthy. Health Coach, Sabrina Schneider with be preparing us to keep fit, on the derech and have the strength to be a motivation for others to follow the derech best for themselves and to influence others. Her series will be Torah motivated and present a collection of recipes for healthy living.

It's Elul. Learning in Beit Bnei Rachel will prepare you for Rosh Hoshana, a new you and a better Bnei Rachel.

PRESS RELEASE , AUGUST 20, 2010

The newly RCRF adopted theme of Derech Eretz as an ongoing effort to develop the midos of Bnei Rachel and spread Torah, truth, unity, empathy and love has taken off reaching an enthusiastic audience through inspiring speakers in Beit Bnei Rachel.

Our teacher on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, HaRav Mayer Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of HaNof showed kavod for parents and Torah are preliminaries of Derech Eretz. Rebbitzen Tziporah Heller spoke on “Derech Eretz, Personal Refinement”. As the world suffers from “me-ism”, "ani achad", Rebbitzen Heller explained that mitzvahs make a difference, that controls, limits and, thus, refines in eating, what one wears, how one speaks and acts. Ha Rav Benjamin Levene, grandson of “A Tzaddik in our Time” remembered a time when we could not come to Kever Rachel as well as when we reclaimed it in 1967. He also remembered when his grandfather Reb Aryeh Levin a”h walked to visit the woman prisoners in Beis Lechem during the time of the British occupation. Geula Cohen wrote that although he couldn’t take us out of prison he brought freedom to us. One of his greatest traits was respect for people in need even with weaker ways of observance. He never belittled; he saw greatness and his praise influenced by moving so many in the right derech. He saw Rochel Imeinu as a role model of caring, kindness and a big heart. She was true Derech Eretz.

The great storyteller and author of numerous books, Rabbi Hanoch Teller told so many stories but his emphasis on saying “thank you” with words, notes and a positive attitude motivated the large audience to say “thank you” over and over again and it really makes a difference.

On Thursday, August 26, via the 10am Egged Bus #163 to Rachel’s Tomb, you will meet RCRF at the entrance and walk outside alongside the building in the same direction as inside. Rabbi Yehonason Alpren, highly respected world known lecturer will speak on "Thoughts on Derech Eretz: Rochel Imeinu and her Meaning for her Jewish Generations Today."

Afterwards, this same Thursday, August 26, we are introducing a new continuing program which is sure to be healthy as well as worthy. Health Coach, Sabrina Schneider with be preparing us to keep fit, on the derech and have the strength to be a motivation for others to follow the derech best for themselves and to influence others. Her series will be Torah motivated and present a collection of recipes for healthy living.

It's Elul. Learning in Beit Bnei Rachel will prepare you for Rosh Hoshana, a new you and a better Bnei Rachel.

*RACHELS CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5770
*60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235 718-648-2610,
054-224-2649
www.theracheltear.blogspot.com

*ONGOING: EVERY WEDNESDAY- WOMEN ONLY – English, Hebrew on Request VIA
10:00AM Egged #163 Bus
*
*Classes begin at 11:am Learn from 11 -1:30. Time for Tehillim; Return 12:30
or 2:30pm. Speakers are Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar and Nechama Sarah
G. Nadborny, Author of"The Twelve Dimensions of Israel". There are now
hourly buses.
RCRF is again sponsoring a Writing Contest: Submit Rachel stories, poems,
artwork .
Volunteers can enhance and translate English to Hebrew in our RCRF “Museum
of Jewish Aliyah” ©
BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER AND BEIT MEDRASH.
*
*SAVE THE DATE Monday, October 18, 2010, 11 Marcheshvan 5771 to commemorate
our 16th RCRF Yahrzeit in the Memory of Rachel Imeinu and Jewish Mother’s Day. *

*links: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2440 Live
interview with Evelyn Haies.*

*Elul - The Concept of Avos & Imahos and the Attributes of Rachel Imenu
Rabbi Leff: Special shiur given at the Israel Center - a reapeat of a shiur
given for "Rachel's Children" in the home of Evelyn Haies at Kever Rochel on
Rosh Chodesh Elul, 5769*
**
**
*Please post, forward, tell friends, spread The Rachel Midos to stop our
tears.*
*RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5770
*60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235 718-648-2610,
054-224-2649
www.theracheltear.blogspot.com
Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel Tomb Complex, Beis Lechem
Past Events: ROSH CHODESH TAMMUZ WITH HARAV MAYER HOROWITZ.
July 29 with Rebbitzen Tziporah Heller, ROSH CHODESH ELUL, HaRav Benjamin
Levene, August 17 with Rabbi Hanoch Teller

***** THURSDAY, AUGUST 26. 2010*****
Via 10AM Egged Bus #163 or car to Rachel’s Tomb, Program 11AM
Rabbi Yehonason Alpren
"Thoughts on Derech Eretz: Rochel Imeinu and her Meaning
for her Jewish Generations Today."
And
12:30 PM Introducing Health Coach
Sabrina Schneider
Beginning Series: “Derech Eretz: Good Food, Good Mood”
Recipes from the Torah and for the Palate
Continuing
Thursday, September 2, 11AM
Tuesday, September 14, 11AM

Writing Contest: Submit Rachel stories, poems, artwork
.
Theme:
Derech Eretz: in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu: Midos, Manners, Mission

Volunteers needed to enhance and translate English
to Hebrew in our RCRF “Museum of Jewish Aliyah” ©
as well as picture and story contributions.

BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER AND BEIT MEDRASH

*Save the Date: Monday October 18. 2010, 11MarCheshvan 5771*
*The 16th RCRF NYCitywide Commeration of the Yarhzeit of Rachel Imeinu And
Jewish Mother’s Day *

Press Release: Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu

2010-08-12T10:29:00.000-07:00

Press Release: Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu:

by Evelyn Haies, Pres. RCRF and Bnei Rachel Corp
Summer sessions presented by Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation 054-224-2649
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235,

theracheltear.blogspot.com, rachelschildren@gmail.com
at Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel’s Tomb Complex.

As the Chofetz Chaim has Loshen Hora seminars around the world for a cure-all, Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation has initiated talks emanating from our Loving Matriarch, Ima Rachel. RCRF has adopted the theme of Derech Eretz as an ongoing effort to develop the midos of Bnei Rachel and bring Torah, truth, unity, empathy and love to the world. We know Laban had other plans for Yaakov and Rachel who waited seven years to actualize their love. We know that both sisters were terrified of being betrothed to Esau, who lusted, terrorized and killed. We know both sisters were part of Hashem’s plan for creation. And in unity, the four wives of Yaakov created the 12 tribes of Israel and were mothers of the nation of Israel. We know that Yosef’s brothers were off the derech in their actions against him. But, it was G-d’s plan for survival. We believe survival will be achieved more pleasantly with Derech Eretz. Rachel Imeinu was buried “on the way” to keep Bnei Rachel on the derech to merit Eretz Hachodesh.

Our teacher on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, HaRav Mayer Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of HaNof, was the MC when RCRF dedicated a Sefer Torah on the wide open streets of Beis Lechem in 1998 which is housed in Kever Rachel until this day. As we read our 2nd Sefer Torah dedicated through the Sefer Torah Recycling Network by the Caplan family 12 years later in Beit Bnei Rachel, HaRav Mayer Horowitz lit candles remembering his esteemed parents, explained that Rosh Chodesh was a festival for women today because of men's sin with the golden calf. Women should not sew nor do heavy work on Rosh Chodesh. In the end of days it would be a festival for both men and women when all come to worship the L-rd. The Kavod shown for his parents and Torah are preliminaries of Derech Eretz. Another teacher, Rebbitzen Tziporah Heller spoke on “Derech Eretz, Personal Refinement”. As the world suffers from “me-ism”, "ani achad", Rebbitzen Heller explained that mitzvahs make a difference, that control limits and, thus, refines in eating, what one wears, how one speaks and acts. Ha Rav Benjamin Levene, grandson of “A Tzaddik in our Time” remembered a time when we could not come to Kever Rachel as well as when we reclaimed it in 1967. He also remembered when his grandfather Reb Aryeh Levin a”h walked to visit the woman prisoners in Beis Lechem during the time of the British occupation. Geula Cohen wrote that although he couldn’t take us out of prison he brought freedom to us. One of his greatest traits was respect for people in need even with weaker ways of observance. He never belittled them; he saw greatness in their little acts and influenced them by moving them in the right derech. He saw Rochel Imeinu as a role model of caring, kindness and a big heart. She was true Derech Eretz.
On Tuesday, August 17, the great storyteller and author of numerous books, Rabbi Hanoch Teller will speak at 11AM. Besides taking the 10am Egged Bus #163 to Rachel’s Tomb cars can bring you right to the free parking lot. His topic will be “Derech Eretz – Honorable Mentschen”. Men and Women are invited. There is a Mechitza.

On Thursday, August 26, via the 10am Egged Bus #163 to Rachel’s Tomb, you will meet RCRF at the entrance. Rabbi Yehonason Alpren highly respected lecturer will speak on "Thoughts on Derech Eretz: Rochel Imeinu and her Meaning for her Jewish Generations Today."

It's Elul. Learning in Beit Bnei Rachel will prepare you for Rosh Hoshana.
ONGOING: EVERY WEDNESDAY- WOMEN ONLY – English, Hebrew on Request VIA 10:00AM Egged #163 Bus
Classes begin at 11:am Learn from 11 -1:30. Time for Tehillim; Return 12:30 or 2:30pm. Speakers are Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar and Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny, Author of"The Twelve Dimensions of Israel". There are now hourly buses.
RCRF is again sponsoring a Writing Contest: Submit Rachel stories, poems, artwork .
Volunteers can enhance and translate English to Hebrew in our RCRF “Museum of Jewish Aliyah” ©
BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER AND BEIT MEDRASH.

SAVE THE DATE Monday, October 18, 2010, 11 Marcheshvan 5771 to commemorate our 16th RCRF Yahrzeit in the Memory of Rachel Imeinu and Jewish Mother’s Day.

links: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2440 Live interview with Evelyn Haies.

Elul - The Concept of Avos & Imahos and the Attributes of Rachel Imenu
Rabbi Leff: Special shiur given at the Israel Center - a reapeat of a shiur given for "Rachel's Children" in the home of Evelyn Haies at Kever Rochel on Rosh Chodesh Elul, 5769

Greet the Author Rabbi Henoch Teller Aug 17

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*TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2010; 7 ELUL 5770*
at 10AM Egged Bus #163 TO Rachel’s Tomb, Program 11AM
GREET THE AUTHOR AT BEIT BNEI RACHEL
RABBI HENOCH TELLER
“Derech Eretz – Honorable Mentschen”

Join the Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation "Derech Eretz Club" Let's fix the world in the merit of Rachel Imeinu. 054-224-2649

2010-07-23T00:30:00.000-07:00

RACHEL'S CHILDREN

RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5770
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235

718-648-2610,

054-224-2649

theracheltear.blogspot.com
Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel Tomb Complex, Beis Lechem
*Thursday July 29, 2010 -10 AM*
Take 9 am Egged Bus #163 or arrive by Car for Program beginning at 10am . Walk alongside Kever Rachel till end and enter the first door. It is Beit Bnei Rachel.
Rebbitzen Tziporah Heller
"Derech Eretz - Personal Refinement "
RSVP. Bus may be available by reservation only

054-224-2649
____________________________________________________________________

BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER AND BEIT MEDRASH

BRING YOUR ALIYAH STORIES (ONE PAGE).

BRING YOUR PICTURES.
WATCH FOR MUSEUM OPENING

*ROSH CHODESH ELUL,

AUGUST 11, 2010, 9am*
Services with 2005 Caplan donated Sefer Torah Reading; Shacharit, Layning,
Dvar Torah and Recollections by
HaRav Benjamin Levene,
grandson of HaRav Aryeh Levin,

“A Tzaddik in Our Time”

who visited Women Prisoners in Beis Lechem

during the Mandate Period
RSVP: Buses on order 8am for Shacharit from Har Nof, Israel Center, Tsomet Gilo; Light Brunch 50nis

Special Rosh Chodesh Elul event with HaRav Benjamim Levene

2010-07-20T12:21:00.000-07:00

RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5770
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235 718-648-2610,
054-224-2649 theracheltear@blogspot.com
Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel Tomb Complex, Beis Lechem

ROSH CHODESH ELUL, Wednesday August, 11 2010
Caplan donated Sefer Torah Reading; Shacharit Layning
Dvar Torah and Recollections by
HaRav Benjamin Levene,
grandson of HaRav Aryeh Levin, “A Tzaddik in Our Time” who visited Women Prisoners in Beis Lechem during the Mandate Period
RSVP: Buses from Har Nof, Maalot Daphne, Israel Center and Tsomet Gilo; 50nis includes light brunch.

NEW: EXPRESS YOUR TRUE SELF;
MAKE IMA RACHEL PROUD
THURSDAYS, 11AM TO 3 PM,
JULY 8.15,22, 29, AUGUST 5, 12, 19, 26
WORKSHOPS AT RACHEL’S TOMB COMPLEX
IN HEBREW AND ENGLISH
By REGISTRATION only, SUPPLY FEE Evelyn Haies, 054-224-2649
GROUPS WELCOME

EVERY WEDNESDAY- WOMEN ONLY – English, Hebrew on Request
VIA 10:00AM Egged #163
Classes at 11:am in Beit Bnei Rachel
7TH Year and Still More to Learn about Ima Rachel
Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar,
Learn from 11 -12noon. Time for Tehillim; Return 12:30 or 2:30pm
"The Twelve Dimensions of Israel"
Nechama Sarah G. Nadborny, Author
Time for tehillim in Kever Rachel

BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER AND BEIT MEDRASH

Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5770 Looking back 12 years and moving forward

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12th Year Anniversary of Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation Torah Dedication
60 West End Avenue, Bklyn NY 11235,
theracheltearblogspot.com, rachelschildren@gmail.com, 054-224-2649
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5770, Derech Chaya Rachel,
Rachel's Tomb Complex, Bris Lechem, Israel
It was a beautiful crisp morning when participants began walking the walled in road to Beit Bnei Rachel just a few feet past Kever Rachel. We remembered the wide open street where HaRav Mayer Horowitz was the MC 12 years ago. The double wide street was crowded with several thousand as we danced with the first RCRF Sefer Torah and cried because this was the way it was supposed to be and it was difficult for life to be normal for Jews even in Israel. Evelyn explained the walled in corridor as like an umbilical cord to Mother Rachel and finding solace and promise in her ohel was a force of strength, the roots of the past nourishing the present and solidifying the future.
The Gross/Caplan Sefer Torah donated to RCRF seven years later was read by a minyan that consisted of the Bostoner Rebbe, HaRav Mayer Horowitz, former MK Rabbi HaRav Benyamin Elon, the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Eli and his students, Moshe Burt of the Torah Recycling Network and artist Moshe Braun who came with his painting of Kever Rachel in warm comforting colors and others. As more woman came the women's section behind the mechitza expanded.
The Dvar Torahs that followed related to the Haftorah of Isaiah 66:1-24. HaRav Benny who quoted. "As a Mother comforts her son, so I will comfort you and you will be comforted in Yerushalayim." That is why so many were coming to Rachel's Kever, especially on Rosh Chodesh. From only one bus in 1998 there were now because of the petitions of RCRF 8 double #163 buses many times with standing room only as well as tour buses and private cars. He said that we are in return comforting Rachel Imeinu by giving her this house, Beit Bnei Rachel and applauded the achievements of Evelyn Haies who overcame so many obstacles and Atara Gur who received The Rachel Imeinu Scholarship Award. Women can attend Medreshet Chaya Rachel and Ruth classes every Wednesday at 11am to be followed by a class by Nechama Nadborny, author and illustrator of "The Twelve Dimensions of Israel."
HaRav Mayer Horowitz , the Bostoner Rebbe of Har Nof, who lit candles remembering his esteemed parents, explained that Rosh Chodesh was a festival for women today because of men's sin with the golden calf. Women should not sew nor do heavy work on Rosh Chodesh. In the end of days it would be a festival for both men and women when all come to worship the L-rd as well as all nations.
Moshe Burt indicated the Torah we read was one of two torahs donated from Maryland, USA. He recalled the pain he felt he felt five years ago when he could not reach Beit Bnei Rachel because as a cohain he could not pass through the Kever and the use of the street which we now call Derech Chaya Rachel was forbidden. Today he walked down the street and was happily within the Beit Medrash of Beit Bnei Rachel reading the Torah with a minyan in a full room. He sadly recognized that Rachel Imeinu still had much to cry for and asked for a refuah for our recovering IDF injured on the flotilla, Boris ben Illaina, Yotam ben Dorit, Ido ben Illana, Ro’ee ben Shulamit, Dean ben Svetlana, Daniel Lazar ben Tina Taabal Leah.
The ceremony ended with dancing and a L'Chaim. As we viewed a Museum of Jewish Aliyah panel it was indicated that it was 12 years ago after the RCRF Hachnosat Sefer Torah dedication that Kever Rachel was opened 24 hours a day.
We are again accepting submissions for our Writing and Art Work Contest. Topics include, Rachel Imeinu as a role model for the whole world, The Rachel in My family, My Miracle Rachel Story. Save the Date, October 19, 2010, 11 MarCheshvan 5771 for our 16th Annual NYC wide commemoration of the Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu and Jewish Mother's Day. Celebrate your Bas Mitzvahs and simchas at Beit Bnei Rachel. Volunteers Welcome.

2010-05-27T02:28:00.000-07:00

RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION
60 WEST END AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11235
rachelschildren@gmail.com; theracheltear.blogspot.com
AND THE OU ISRAEL CENTER , 22 KEREN HAYESOT, JERUSALEM
PRESENT
TWELVE YEAR COMMEMORATION OF THE DEDICATION OF THE RCRF SEFER TORAH
TO KEVER RACHEL;
FIVE YEARS SINCE THE RCRF 2ND SEFER TORAH DEDICATION TO BEIT BNEI RACHEL
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5770, Sunday June 13, 2010
Buses 8 am from Israel Center to Beit Bnei Rachel
Shacharit/ Torah Reading and L'Chayim
Greetings and Welcome: Ha Rav Benny Elon, Rosh Yeshiva Beit Bnei Rachel
Dvar Torah HaRav Mayer Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe of Yerushalyim
"The Rachel Mission" by Evelyn Haies, founder and president Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation
Box Lunches.
Award Presentations
Group Learning for Men with Yeshiva Beit Bnei Rachel
Group Learning for Women with Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu scholar.
Time for Tehillim
RSVP Israel Center Naomi 02-560-9100, Evelyn 718-648-2610/ 054-224-2649, Chana 050-533-0992
Your participation remembers Rachel, Yosef, Benyamin and Klal Yisrael
"The roots of the past are the foundation of the future."

Bring your Kever Rachel picture copies so we can make a collage on one of our panels.
Volunteers wanted for Women's Summer Art and Learning Program.
Help RCRF create the Museum of Jewish Aliyah

BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER AND BEIT MEDRASH
NEW LEARNING CURRICULUM: "DERECH ERETZ IN THE MERIT OF RACHEL IMEINU "
Inquire about our Tuesday and Wednesday classes in Beit Bnei Rachel
YOUR SPONSORSHIPS AND DONATIONS WILL HELP STOP IMA RACHEL’S TEARS AND BRING SIMCHA TO ALL RACHEL’S CHILDREN AND KLAL YISRAEL

Melava Malka December 19, 2009

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RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 5755-5770
theracheltear.blogspot.com, rachelschildren@gmail.com

CONTINUE TO BRIGHTEN THE LIGHTS FROM CHANUKAH WITH THE
7MS and Rachel Imeinu
AT MANHATTAN BEACH JEWISH CENTER, 2nd Floor
60 West End Avenue Brooklyn NY 11235
Saturday Evening December 19, 2009 7:30PM
MELAVA MALKA
CELEBRATING IMA RACHEL - A LEGACY OF
MIDOS AND MITZVAHSs FOR MATCHES, MENDING, MIRACLES

Guest Speaker from Israel,
RABBI EPHRAIM SPRECHER
Lecturer at OU Israel Center

and Dean of Diaspora Yeshiva in the Old City of Jerusalem

Lecture, Learning, Latkas and Lasagna
Meet and Mingle

SING ALONG WITH
RABBI DANIEL FINKELMAN

IMA RACHEL IS CRYING
RACHEL’S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION
IS STOPPING HER TEARS

BOOK YOUR SIMCHAS WITH RCRF

IN OUR LARGE RECEPTION CENTER AND BEIT MEDRASH

Your Birthday Party, Anniversary, Bas Mitzvah, Sheva Brochas

will be the most memorable. Catering for 100 available.

NEW LEARNING CURRICULUM:

DERECH ERETZ IN THE MERIT OF RACHEL IMEINU

YOUR SPONSORSHIPS AND DONATIONS WILL HELP

STOP IMA RACHEL’S TEARS AND BRING SIMCHA

TO ALL RACHEL’S CHILDREN AND KLAL YISRAEL

RSVP $26pp Rachel’s Children Reclamation Fdtn,

60 West End Ave, Brooklyn NY 11235 718-648-2610,

Press Release: October 29, 2009; 15th RCRF Rachel Imeinu Yahrzeit Commemoration

2009-10-18T19:14:00.000-07:00

Press Release: Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation's 15th Commemoration of the Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu will be held Thursday evening, October 29 at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center.
It won't be an ordinary dinner. It is much more than the glatt kosher food catered by New Star Caterers at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center on 60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY, that will make this another most meaningful event. 2009 was a very significant year for RCRF. It was so fulfilling to celebrate Tu BShvat at Beit Bnei Rachel. Although our pomegranate and fig trees are inside the house within the walls, they are growing. The number of people coming to our events and to Kever Rachel are increasing. This 5770 Yahrzeit will see the tens of thousands again. The 11th anniversary of the Sefer Torah on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz began with Beit Orot Yeshiva boys laining, sharing breakfast with guests and a shiur on why Rachel Imeinu merits to bring the Geula. Rebbitzen Tsippora Heller, Rabbi Yosef Klausner, Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher, Rabbi Yaakov Gurwitz were some of our inspirational speakers. Rabbi Leff's Rosh Chodesh Elul shiur was filled with exceptional ruach by being in Beit Bnei Rachel. The spirit of this time surpassing message is at http://www.rabbileff.net/shiurim/special/index.htm.
RCRF 60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235, 718-648-2610 is over active in Israel and the US. Working overtime to reclaim our roots, Jewish identity and connect with the "good ideology", RCRF has initiated a very timely program with a memorable theme, "Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu". Although many are hinting at this necessary subject, this will be the theme of weekly classes at Beit Bnei Rachel, the RCRF majority owned Jewish property within the walled Rachel Tomb Complex because Rachel Imeinu's virtues are an example for us all especially in these trying times. She sacrificed herself for the future of Israel and is remembered over 3600 years as Mother Israel and is a role model for the whole civilized world.
Besides visiting the injured in the Gaza War, RCRF has also begun a Newsletter: The Rachel Tear, which can be viewed at theracheltear.blogspot.com.
The Keynote Address at our dinner will be by Rabbi Raymond Beyda, a well known speaker and author of "1 Minute With Yourself". He will be introduced by Rabbi Yaakov Farhi of Torah Israel Sephardic Congregation of Manhattan Beach. Rabbi Moshe Snow who was a guest speaker in our Beit Bnei Rachel on Derech Chaya Rachel will explain "A Monumental Task". The Community Chessed Award will be presented to Mozelle Sammell by Gail Friedlin. The Community Activist Award will be presented to Myrna Zisman by Arlene Fox. Malky Grunwald, a new student at SKA who had the first Bas Mitzvah at Beit Rnei Rachel on Rosh Chodesh Elul 5757 will also address the audience about the meaning of Bas Mitzvahs at Kever Rachel . Please rush your ads and donations as this is our major fundraiser that supports Torah readings, weekly shiurim and the development of a Museum of Jewish Aliyah, a Beit Midrash, a Simcha Center and a Biblical Garden with a replica of ancient Kever Rachel as a chuppah. As we learned about being strong on Tisha B’Av, we were taught that Tu B’Av overcomes. What simcha when the weddings of our Bas Mitzvah girls are celebrated under the chuppah dedicated in the RCRF Biblical Garden. Remember it was RCRF since 1995: we petitioned for the Egged buses, initiated the shiurim, dedicated two Torahs, conduct classes and work so hard to fulfill the Rachel Prophecy, V Shavu Banim L'Gvulum. "Remember, A visit to Israel without going to Kever Rachel is like going home and not visiting your mother." Evelyn Haies
http://www.rabbileff.net/shiurim/special/index.htm
Rabbi Leff Rosh Chodesh Elul Shiur at Rachel Children's Beit Bnei Rachel seuda.

You're Invited: October 29 2009 15th Annual Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu. Journal Dinner

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BS D

Old Kever Rachel Replica to be rebuilt as

Chuppah In our Biblical Garden

Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235
therachetearblogspot.com 718-648-2610 054-224-2649 www.rachelschildren.org
BEIT BNEI RACHEL
rachelschildren@gmail.com,

The Fifteenth Annual NY Citywide Commemoration of the
YAHRZEIT OF RACHEL IMEINU
JEWISH MOTHER’S DAY
11 MarCheshvan 5770
GALA BUFFET JOURNAL DINNER
Manhattan Beach Jewish Center
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Thursday Evening
October 29, 2009, 6:30 P.M.
Keynote Speaker
RABBI RAYMOND BEYDA
Community Activist Award
MRS. MYRNA ZISMAN
Presentation of Actualist Awards By
MALKY GRUNWALD,
First Bas Mitzvah at Beit Bnei Rachel
Community Chessed Award
MRS. MOZELLE SAMMELL
Special Speaker
RABBI MOSHE SNOW

Exciting News:RCRF is initiating this New Learning and Lecture Series
“Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu”
at Beit Bnei Rachel our majority owned property

in the walled Kever Rachel Complex

RSVP: $180 per person; $1800 per table;
Donors: $5000 per table; $10,000 per table; Journal Ads

Your donations will help support all our efforts for Klal Yisral

and Beit Bnei Rachel
Medreshet Chaya Rachel and Ruth, Museum of Jewish Aliyah,

Simcha Center

“Remember, A visit to Israel without visiting Kever Rachel is like going home and not seeing your mother.”
Evelyn Haies, President, RCRF

ONGOING EVENTS, OTHER RCRF INFORMATION

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RACHELS CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION
60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235718-648-2610
www.rachelschildren.org, http://theracheltear.blogspot.com/
BEIT BNEI RACHEL 054-224-2649 RSVP 052-625-3570
rachelschildrenreclamationfdtn@gmail.com

EVERY TUESDAY
9:30am TO 10:15am ,
*10:OOAM to 11:30AM VIA 9:10 AM Egged Bus #163

Guest Speakers including *RABBI YAAKOV GURWITZ

International Speaker and Expert on the Mitzvah of Shatnez

"Shatnes, Adam and Eve and Derech Eretz"

Men and Women invited; Mechitza
EVERY WEDNESDAY- WOMEN ONLY

7TH Year and Still More to Learn about Ima Rachel

Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar,

Meet on 10:10am Egged Bus #163

Learn from 11 -12noon. Time for Tehillim; Return 12:30

CALL TO ARRANGE YOUR OWN SHIUR OR SIMCHA

CATERING AVAILABLE

SPONSORS and VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to help RCRF DEVELOP

A new learning curriculum:
"DERECH ERETZ IN THE MERIT OF RACHEL IMEINU"

A Museum of Jewish Aliyah
Kever Rachel Replica as Chuppah
Midreshet Chaya Rachel and Ruth

SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 29,2009,11 MARCHESHVAN, 5770
15TH ANNUAL NYC COMMEMORATION OF THE YAHRZEIT

OF RACHEL IMEINU

Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation,(Tax ID #11-3346917) is a non-profit organization formed in 1995 to reclaim Jewish Identity, the Midos of the Matriarchs and Patriachs, to save Rachel's Tomb from Oslo Redeployment, and to reclaim Kever Rachel for her Children, Grandchildren and all her Jewish Generations. It has initiated writing contests, written a song, did Twinning Ceremonies, and acquired a Sefer Torah for Kever Rachel and another for Beit Bnei Rachel, the only Jewish owned property within the walled Rachel's Tomb complex of which Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation is the majority owner. It has inaugurated Jewish Mother's Day to recognize Mother Rachel as a role model for the whole world. It is in the process of establishing a post-Ulpana Midreshet Chaya Rachel and Ruth, a Museum of Jewish Aliyah, a Beit Medrash, a Simcha/Bas Mitzvah Center and Biblical Garden with a Replica of the Old Kever Rachel with four columns and a dome which will be as a Chuppah, Dais, and Bandstand for Garden events in the Grand biblical Garden. It sponsors weekly classes in the Beit Medrash, Rosh Chodesh Events with Torah Readings and with major speakers and is developing a major program of Derech Eretz in the Merit of Rachel Imeinu.

The Rachel Tear, a Rosh Hashana Poem

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The Rachel Tear
(c)September 15, 2009
In Memory of Our Lost and for the Redemption this Rosh Hoshanah
by Evelyn Haies,
President Rachels Children Reclamation Foundation(RCRF)
and Bnei Rachel Corp
http://theracheltear.blogspot.com/

Mother Rachel is crying for her children
for those to be born
for those lost and in exile
for those slain and torn from the living
for those who remain outside Torah bordersf
or those whose borders are disordered

Ima Rachel is crying on ramah;
she refuses to be consoled
until she is promised
her children are settled
and secure in their homeland,
no longer to roam

Rachel Imeinu is pleading
never ceding her advocacy
for the pain to cease
the pain of barrenness
the pain of emptiness
the pain of centuries of persecution against her Jewish chilren.

Mother Rachel cries tears of love for her brave children,
tears for their dreams and their efforts,
tears for their falls and bruises
that the crimes and pain should halt
tears against theft and murder, hate and blood libels,
the rants and ravages by those defying GD.

Mother Israel, wife of Yaakov
who became Israel
is promised to know true joy,
reap the rewards of her cares and tears
that challenge fears
and affirm motherhood, creation and her Jewish nation.

May the weeping of Mother Israel
who humbled herself
to multiply Hashems' children
be tears for nourishment and encouragement
tears for teshuva and a homecoming
to fulfill the prophecy,
v'shavu banim l'gvulum.

As we read the Haftorah of Yirmiahu this Rosh Hashanah,
let these holy tears blow through the shofar
as it sounds and resounds for the rebound
because of the midos of our Matriarch Rachel,
buried on the way
to keep her children on their holy derech.

Amen
L Shana Tova

Rachels Children Reclamation Foundation posts Fall 2009 Events

2009-09-13T07:10:00.000-07:00

RACHELS CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION

60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235
718-648-2610

www.rachelschildren.org
BEIT BNEI RACHEL
054-224-2649

rachelschildrenreclamationfdtn@gmail.com
Fall Schedule at Beit Bnei Rachel
Past Programs
TUESDAY, July 28, 2009 9:30am
Rabbi Yosef Klausner, Yedidyahu
“Back to Beis Lechem, Ancient and Modern History of Rachel’s Tomb”
Everyone enjoyed the program. Watch for a monthly follow-up
THURSDAY, August 20, 2009, Rosh Chodesh Elul 5769
Shiurim and Lunch
at Beit Bnei Rachel sponsored by RCRF and OU Israel Center,
Rabbi Ephrain Sprecher:
“Teshuva and Redemption ONLY in the merit of Rachel Imeinu”
12 noon Lunch and Tour of Beit Bnei Rachel
Rabbi Zev Leff:
“Rachel Imeinu, Role Model for Derech Eretz

TUESDAYS, August 11, Aug 25, Sept 1, 8, 15, 2009 and ongoing

9:30am TO 10:15, *10:30 to 11:30AM
*RABBI YAAKOV GURWITZ
International Speaker and Expert on the Mitzvah of Shatnez
"Shatnes, Adam and Eve and Derech Eretz"
Men and Women invited; Mechitza

EVERY WEDNESDAY- WOMEN ONLY
7TH Year and Still More to Learn about Ima Rachel
Atara Gur, Rachel Imeinu Scholar,
Meet on 10:10am Egged Bus #163
Learn from 11 -12noon. Time for Tehillim; Return 12:30

SPONSORS and VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP RCRF DEVELOP
A new learning curriculum:

"DERECH ERETZ IN THE MERIT OF RACHEL IMEINU"
A Museum of Jewish Aliyah

Kever Rachel Replica as Chuppah

Midreshet Chaya Rachel and Ruth

SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 29,2009,

11 MARCHESHVAN, 5770

15TH ANNUAL NYC COMMEMORATION

OF THE YAHRZEIT

OF RACHEL IMEINU