The Rachel Tear: September 2011

Monday, September 26, 2011

Tea and Torah Updates Sept 27-Oct 26

RCRF Tea and Torah Classes Fall 5771/ 5772
at Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel Tomb Complex, Beis Lechem
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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

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

RCRF Tea and Torah Classes Fall 5771/ 5772

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Fall Schedule 2011/5771-2

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

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.

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