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Wedding date
Be honest with yourself. We both know that you've always dreamt of a chance to see the African jungles…. Well now you've got the perfect opportunity!
With G-d's help we will be getting married in Johannesburg South Africa on the fourteenth of Av (August 4th). And we would love for you to participate in our Simcha!
Put away 10 dollars a day for the next three and a half months for this dream vacation and wedding package, and you're on your way for the adventure of a lifetime…Simple enough…
We would live to thank you all for your blessings and warm wishes. May we only share simchas with each other forever and ever, until the greatest simcha of all – the coming of Moshiach!
Chayele and Levi
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And of Beit Chabad F. Bronzetti 18, Milan Italy
5 Reasons Why You Should Gossip
Teacher to Student: If I lend your father one hundred dollars, and he returns only fifty, how much money does he still owe me?
Student: Nothing.
Teacher: You don't know math!
Student: You don't know my father!
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Here are five reasons why you should gossip:
1. Why? Who cares why! It makes you feel good. And like the famous 'American dream' slogan goes: "I'm not hurting anybody" – ye sure.
2. The media and tabloids have shown the world that it is a moral obligation to bring to light everyone's dirty laundry. No, there is no such a thing as privacy; your life is my life, and your mistake is my appetizer.
Not to mention new inventions like 'Google earth', where all sense of privacy has been thrown back to the dark ages, before the days of newspapers, phones (that's a big one), and the whole media business.
3. Because you are G-d's warrior. And just as G-d cannot tolerate falsehood, so too, you as His fighter, have a moral obligation to search, find and spread the neighbors' secrets, so that he should not 'heaven forbid' receive false respect and feel haughty.
It's all in the name of G-d.
4. It is a custom amongst families and communities from way back when, that on many an occasion, especially around the dinner table, a human sacrifice is laid on the table/altar, and slaughtered with verbal knifes and daggers.
Ah, don't you remember the old lady/man sitting on the porch sipping homemade 'Borscht' (beet juice), and screaming on top of her lungs, across a six lane avenue, the greasy details of the newest slice of gossip? It's just the custom.
5. Because you never heard this story:
Rabbi Shmuel, the fourth Rebbe of Chabad, was once sitting in his office studying, while his two sons, Zalman and Sholom, were playing in the yard. His studies were suddenly disrupted by loud cries and screams coming from outside. He rushed outside, and saw his younger son, Sholom, lying helplessly in a pit.
He quickly pulled the boy out of the pit, then turned to Zalman and asked: "What is the meaning of this?"
Zalman angrily responded: "It's not fair; I am the older brother, so I should be the taller one, but Sholom is taller than me. So I threw him into a pit, and now I'm taller!"
"My son, said his father, if you want to be higher than your brother, don't put him down in a pit; you climb on a chair!"
So reason number 6 is: Why feel guilty that you're not the best you should be? Just point out the negative of everyone else and then let the guilt disappear. Throw him in the pit and you will be higher.
Moshiach Now!
Gut Shabbos!
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