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Thank You, Hashem!
From 33154

Dearest Community Family,

As we all are commemorating and celebrating Thanksgiving, it brings our attention to our own lives and gratitude.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe lauded the Founding Fathers of this country who saw fit when they arrived on these shores to dedicate an annual date that would be devoted to absolute thanks and gratitude in appreciation to Almighty G-d.

G-d the Creator and Conductor of the Universe who has gifted us to live in a country where we are free to pursue our goals; to serve our G-d; to conduct ourselves as we wish; to observe our customs and individual way of life; and to raise our children and families to maintain the regality of our past foundations, integrating them into our present and future.

For us here in the 33154 neighborhood, this is especially true as in a short period of one generation we sprouted from a seed in a lonely hostile garden to a verdant flourishing orchard.

We thank Almighty G-d for maintaining our clarity of vision and making sure that the primary objective dictated by our Rebbe be realized and fulfilled in an Over-The-Top manner.

The Rebbe is the tour de force who gave us the mandate to start and develop this community to create a lighthouse in the sea of those looking to connect to their spiritual reality and make sure that each person is welcomed without judgment, with total acceptance and a realization that whoever, wherever they are in their stage of spiritual growth, they are always and forever an integral, indivisible part of our beloved family of Israel.
 
This is so evident in the fact that every single person who walks through the doors of our Shul feels comfortable and at home.

Whether you are wearing a Chassidic or Lithuanian black hat, Shtraymel, Kipa Sruga or temporary yarmulke, we all sit together, pray together, learn together, and rejoice to HaShem together.

30 years ago, we followed the recommendation and advice of the former Rishon LeTzion the Holy Revered Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu of blessed memory, who suggested that the ultimate unity would be to include our Sephardic brothers and sisters into our Chabad family where they are able to continue their beautiful melodic prayer styles, Holy Traditions, Halachik discourse and traditional foods.

With thanks to HaShem, we are able to continue this blessed unity of community for the last 30 years and until Moshiach comes.

I once again reiterate with clarity and assurance that our beautiful Shul community center will always have a dynamic and inspirational Sephardic Minyan that will continue to welcome our brothers and sisters with love, respect and a familial attitude and warmth which resonates with an unbreakable unity which is the hallmark of the Chabad Lubavitch philosophy.

Our Shul Community has literally become a model community and a paradigm that has been emulated multiple times.

As we are in the year of Hakhel when it is appropriate to gather all men, women and children to be spiritually motivated, we thank each and every one of you and together express deepest gratitude to Hashem for channeling the best people in the world to come here and to share the common goal of one Jewish Family together.

G-d willing, we will continue to have the unprecedented and over-the-top blessings that the Lubavitcher Rebbe, may his merit shield us, bestows on our community.

With deepest profound thanks and appreciation and best wishes for a great Shabbos, with Torah greetings and blessings.

Sholom D. Lipskar

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