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⚡ Sparks of Jewish Unity ⚡

Congregate. Educate. Illuminate.



Let’s not be led by fear, let’s be led by our united vision.

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*Goal: A women-led Jewish unity movement through everyday ambassadorship

*Guiding principle: Let's not be led by our fear. Let's be led by our united vision.

*Ambassadors: Share ideas at home, work, and in the community


Dedicated to the holy souls who sanctified their lives honoring G-d’s name in Bondi Beach, Australia, Chanukah 5786. ⚡ 8 Lights. 8 Sparks of Jewish Unity ⚡ Dedicated to the holy souls who sanctified their lives honoring G-d’s name in Bondi Beach, Australia, Chanuka 5786 Rabbi Eli Schlanger Hy"d, 41, Matilda Britvan Hy"d, 10, Reuven Morrison Hy"d, 62, Marika Pogany Hy"d, 82, Dan Elkayam Hy"d, 27, Edith Brutman Hy"d, Boris Gurman Hy"d, 69, Sofia Gurman Hy"d, 61, Rabbi Yaakov Levitan Hy"d, 39, Tibor Weitzen Hy"d, 78,  Alex Kleytman Hy"d, 87, Boris Tetleroyd, Boris Tetleroyd Hy"D, 68, Peter Meagher, 61, Tania Tretiak, 68 and Adam Smyth, 50. May their memories be a blessing. May their memories be a blessing.

Jewish Spark of Unity #1 
Get rid of the fear!

⚡Sparks of Jewish Unity #1: ⚡
Get rid of the fear!

📝 Overview
* Fear of others’ opinions can be neutralized by recognizing that G-d is in charge
* Active partnership with God: use your freedom of choice while trusting God controls outcomes

* Core Problem: Fear of neighbors, family, or public figures expressing opposing opinions
* Focus: People you know personally — neighbors, family, coworkers

📖 Story: Reb Meir of Premishlan
* Town mikvah required crossing a hill in winter ❄️
* Elderly man crossed safely because he was “tethered above” (*Farbunden oif oiben*)
* Lesson: Being connected to heaven prevents falling — a metaphor for spiritual tethering 🙏

Freedom of Choice vs. Power of Outcome:
– We choose actions; God determines outcomes
– Others’ opinions cannot change destiny

Daily Practice: Begin the day by reciting Shema to remember God’s sovereignty
– Shema Israel — Listen, me, daughter of Israel
– Hashem Elekeinu -- My G-d who gives me comfort and truth
– Hashem Echad — Is the G-d of all, including my "currently perceived opponent"

Result: Knowing God controls outcomes removes fear and allows open listening 👂

⚡ Practical Steps to Overcome Fear & Promote Unity
* Anchor yourself spiritually before engaging with others 🕊
* Recognize others are guided by God too; respect differing reasoning
* Listen fully and curiously without fearing consequences
* Continue activism and civic participation calmly and confidently 💪

🤝 Partnership with God — Why Actions Matter
* Torah model: “Six days you shall work” — human effort + God’s blessing
* Use freedom of choice to create vessels for God’s blessing ✨
* Do your full effort — vote, act, build institutions, perform mitzvot
* Example: Families during COVID created conditions for doctors to act; they did their part and trusted God for outcome 💖

❓ Responses to Common Questions
Q: If God decides outcomes, why act?
A: Human action is part of divine partnership; effort creates channels for blessing
Q: Can human actions change God’s plan?
A: Mordechai begged Esther "Salvation will come to the Jews but what will be with you and your household?!". G-d's blessing will ultimately come through, yet He begs us to partner with Him in channeling the blessings. The outcome will be good. Our freedom of choice is - will we partner with G-d to bring down his blessings.

📚 Key Terms
* Freedom of Choice — Human responsibility to act and follow Torah values
* Power of Outcome — Divine prerogative; God determines results
* Farbunden oif oiben — Spiritual tethering to heaven; prevents being dragged down
* Shema — Daily affirmation that God is one and serves as personal anchor

📝 Action Items / Next Steps
* Recite Shema each morning to anchor yourself 🌅
* Approach neighbors’ and friends’ opinions with curiosity, not fear 👂
* Continue voting and community work as part of six-day partnership 🏛

🌟 Takeaway
* Jewish unity begins by removing fear through spiritual anchoring and clarity
* People can choose dangerous opinions, but outcomes belong to God
* Act responsibly and energetically as God’s partners, trust that G-d will bring a great outcome.

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Jewish Spark of Unity #2
Find genuine respect

✨ Spark of Jewish Unity #2 ✨
Respect Across Differing Opinions

📝 Overview
• Focus: Building respect even when opinions strongly differ
• Core idea: Distinguish between external traits and the essential soul
• Goal: Learn to respect others by recognizing shared, soul-driven motives

💡 Core Concept — External vs. Essential
• External:
– Opinions, behaviors, appearances
– Changeable and surface-level
• Essential:
– The soul
– Enduring inner drive to improve the world

🔍 Two Layers (Simplified)
• Outside — superficial, flexible, external
• Inside — essential, lasting, soul-level

⚠️ Source of Conflict
• Most conflict happens outside-to-outside
• Worldviews clash on the surface
• Beneath the disagreement, soul motives are often similar

🤝 Respecting Opposing Views
• Reframe the motive:
– Assume the other person wants a better world
– Their opinion is a method, not the ultimate goal

🗣 Questions to Ask in Conversation
• “Why do you want that?”
• “What do you think will happen if that comes about?”
• “What is your vision for the world?”

🎯 Result of This Approach
• Reveals shared desires:
– Ending suffering
– Increasing safety
– Bringing holiness and abundance
• Shifts from fear of disagreement → connection through shared soul goals

🕊 Spiritual Foundation
• Universal soul cry:
– Every soul asks: “How can I make this world a better place?”
• Principle of respect:
– Make the soul more important than the body
• Emotional shift:
– Move from fear of opinions → curiosity about mission

📝 Action Steps / Next Steps
• Ask motive-focused questions in disagreements
• View conflict as external, not soul-level
• Prepare for next lesson on cases where soul motives are hard to identify

📊 Key Takeaways (At a Glance)
• External vs. Essential: Conflict lives on the surface; souls are shared
• Soul Motivation: Every soul seeks goodness and a better world
• Respect Practice: Prioritize soul over body; ask clarifying questions
(• Difficult Cases: Guidance coming in Spark #3)

🌟 Takeaway
• Unity grows when we separate opinions from identity
• Respect emerges when we honor the soul beneath the stance
• Curiosity replaces fear when we seek shared purpose


"Sparks of Jewish Unity" is a project of Bais Chana Women International and The Daily.

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Spark of Jewish Unity #3
Digging deeper; when there's a need for compassion

✨ Spark of Jewish Unity #3 ✨
How to Relate to a Jew Whose Soul Is Not Visible To Me


✨ QUICK REVIEW✨

💡 Spark #1 — Strength Through Connection
• Inner connection to G-d reduces fear of others’ opinions
• When anchored above, you can raise others

💡 Spark #2 — Respect Through the Soul
• Genuine respect comes from seeing the soul, not just opinions
• Most people are driven by a desire to make the world better


🔥 Spark #3 (Main Focus)

How to Relate to a Jew Whose Soul Is Not Visible To Me

🧠 Three-Part Emotional Framework
• Hate the harmful behavior
– Hate has a place. Hate what G-d hates.
• Love the person
– Their soul is intrinsically precious and is worthy of unconditional love
• Compassion for the trapped soul
– The integrating force that banishes the hate and reveals the love

🌶 Analogy
• Hatred is like a tiny ghost pepper — powerful, sharp, necessary at first but overpowered by the other ingredients and the heat of cooking.
• Love is the rest of the delicious ingredients
• Compassion is the heat that softens the pepper's harshness and brings out the good flavors

🎯 Result
• Compassion dissolves hatred
• Love is awakened
• Goal: compassion-led love, not lingering hate


⚖️ Feelings vs Actions — How to respond to wrongdoing?

🔥 Place for Strong Feelings
• Hatred targets the behavior, not the entire person
• Hatred is appropriate sometimes, but temporary.

💗 Compassion as the Corrective
• See their soul as imprisoned
• Compassion dissolves hatred
• Compassion motivates outreach, listening, and connection to their true self.

🛑 Boundaries & Separation
Healthy separation is appropriate in two cases:

• For the other’s benefit
– Do not enable harm
– Require respectful behavior before closeness. This shows respect.

• For self-protection (with humility)
– Recognize personal limits
– Keep boundaries temporary and growth-oriented

• Avoid absolutism — boundaries must be motivated by care and hope


🧭 APPLIED CASES FROM CLASS DISCUSSION

🪖 Soldiers & Moral Pain
• Our actions must be motivated by our values not our feelings.
• Killing a terrorist to stop murder is not because murder upsets us, but because Torah commands it.
• Our soldiers shoulder tremendous emotional pain, the distress of killing, in order to protect the innocent from terror.

👵 Caring for a 96-Year-Old Abusive Parent
• Honoring parents is a mitzvah — heroic models exist
• If care-giving compromises the child’s health:
– Outsource the parents' care to others who can handle it.
– Build support and resilience
– Reassess motives (duty or fear of judgment vs genuine care)

• Distinguish love-based care from care driven by fear


📝 ACTION ITEMS / NEXT STEPS

🧘 Personal Practice
• Choose one strained relationship and apply the three-part framework

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Spark of Jewish Unity #4:
Judging favorably; can it ALWAYS be done?

✨ Sparks of Jewish Unity #4 ✨
Judging Favorably, Humility, and True Unity

📝 Overview
• Focus: How to judge others favorably and cultivate humility toward every person
• Sources: Tanya ch. 30 (Alter Rebbe) and the Mishnah — “Do not judge your fellow until you have stood in his place”

💡 Main Concepts
• What it truly means to judge favorably
• Two levels of “standing in their place”
• Practical steps for favorable judgment
• Clear limits between inner judgment and external action

🧠 Judging Favorably — What It Really Means
• Goal: Feel humbled and see every person as precious and worthy
• Not surface-level tolerance, but sincere inner respect

📍 Two Levels of “Standing in Their Place” (Alter Rebbe)

🌍 Physical Environment
• Consider upbringing, culture, education, and circumstances
• Many behaviors come from “not knowing what they don’t know”
• Examples:
– Cultural etiquette differences
– Family stress, exhaustion, survival mode

🔥 Spiritual / Internal Environment
• Each person has unique inner struggles and inclinations
• Alter Rebbe’s metaphor:
– Some people have an evil inclination that burns like a baker’s fiery oven
• Appreciate unseen daily battles and victories — even when failures are visible

🛠 Practical Application — How to Judge Favorably

⚖️ Become the Person’s Defense Lawyer
• Write down possible supportive explanations for the behavior
• Include both:
– External factors (fatigue, family strain, culture)
– Internal factors (temper, depression, spiritual struggle)

🧩 Assume Greater Struggle
• Default assumption: the other person is dealing with greater challenges than you see
• This creates humility — you may actually be less tested than they are

⏸ Pause Before Judging
• Replace instant condemnation with curiosity
• Remember: appearances don’t reveal daily inner victories

📖 Examples from the Class
• Speeding young driver — generous and kind, but unaware of danger
• Rude passenger who looks religious — possibly under intense internal pressure
• Everyday moments — a distracted friend may be exhausted, overwhelmed, or struggling with depression

⚠️ Limits & Essential Distinctions

🧭 Inner Judgment vs. External Action
• We can judge favorably, recognize their efforts
• While still acting legally and ethically when harm occurs
• Legal or Torah responses address behavior — not condemnation of worth

🚫 Not Enabling Harm
• Understanding circumstances ≠ excusing or enabling destructive behavior
• Apply humility internally
• Act according to moral, legal, and Torah directives

📜 Feelings vs. Commandments
• Safety and justice decisions must follow Torah and ethical law
• Compassion does not contradict responsibility

📘 Key Terms
• Physical Environment — Culture, upbringing, stressors
• Spiritual/Internal Environment — Inner inclinations and struggles
• Baker’s Fiery Oven — Metaphor for intense, constant inner challenge

📝 Action Items / Next Steps

🧠 Daily Mental Drill
• When annoyed, pause and list supportive explanations

⚖️ Defense-Lawyer Exercise
• On paper, build a positive case explaining someone’s negative behavior

🔁 Adopt a Default Assumption
• Assume others face greater struggles — and overcome more — than you

🌟 Takeaway
• True humility and unity require imagining both the external and internal places of others
• Judging favorably is a disciplined habit — assume unseen struggles and victories
• This inner stance strengthens unity while preserving justice, boundaries, and responsibility

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"Sparks of Jewish Unity" is a project of Bais Chana Women International and The Daily.

To join The Daily, live Zoom classes with fellow Jewish women, sign up for free:
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Spark of Jewish Unity #5:
Unity across great distances, physical or other

✨ Sparks of Jewish Unity #5 ✨
How can you unite when there's distance physically, emotionally, or spiritually?

📝 Problem
• Physical distance: They live far away or you don't even know each other
• Emotional: They don't want anything to do with you, or they don't want to hear from you
• Spiritual: The distance in values seems insurmountable

💡 Main Concepts
• You can help someone from a distance with your thoughts, prayers, and mitzvahs!
• We are one body. Strengthening one part of the body strengthens the whole!

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"Sparks of Jewish Unity" is a project of Bais Chana Women International and The Daily.

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Spark of Jewish Unity #6: Make Peace not Politics

✨ Sparks of Jewish Unity #6 ✨
Creating Unity & Peace — Above Politics, With Purpose

📝 Overview
• Spark of Jewish Unity #6 — proactive methods to create unity and peace
• Central theme: Jews as unifiers above political divides
• Jewish role: bring universal moral teachings — the Seven Noahide Laws
• Emphasis on perseverance, spiritual agency, and practical connection with Jews and non-Jews

🌌 Unity in the Heavens & on Earth
• “Oseh shalom b’mromav, Hu ya’aseh shalom aleinu” — God makes peace above and brings peace below
• Aren't the heavens already peaceful? Heaven needs a mediator because spiritual forces have opposing roles
• Unity forms when different forces prioritize serving God rather than opposing one another

🔥 Peace in the Heavens
• Fire vs. Water — Gavriel (strength/discipline) and Michal (kindness) need unity to coexist
• Analogy: King’s Ministers — Treasurer vs. Agriculture: different priorities, same mission
• Egyptian Plague — Hail and fire coexisted without canceling each other
• Lesson: harmony comes from shared higher purpose, not uniformity

🌍 Jewish Role — Above Politics
• As a Jew you are not a pawn of the left. You are not a pawn of the right. You come from above and you have something universal to share.
• Mission: introduce Godly, timeless values beyond culture and trends
• Jews serve as trendsetters for morality, not followers of ideology
• Bring the Seven Noahide Laws as a universal ethical foundation

📜 The Seven Noahide Laws (Summary)
• Recognize one God. Who created all of us and what is His vision for a unified world?
• Don't curse G-d. Recognize that all He does is for our good.
• Respect and protect human life. What does G-d mean when He commands "No Murder"?
• Do not cause needless suffering to animals or destruction of plants or other resources
• Respect the property of others. No stealing, lying or deceiving
• Respect the sanctity of family.
• Establish systems of justice and education
Learn more on chabad.org

🛠 Practical Methods for Creating Unity with a Fellow Jew
• Do something Jewish together — even with differing worldviews
• Use common entry points: meals, traditions, shared experiences
• Be courageous and persistent — every Jew has a spark
• Sometimes wisdom calls for a roundabout approach via trusted intermediaries

🧘 Spiritual Tools 
• Spiritual actions that help others:
– Positive thoughts
– Prayer
– Doing mitzvot on their behalf
• Spiritual seeds may grow slowly — sometimes across generations

👨‍👩‍👧 Emotional & Practical Advice for Families
• Don't lose site — don’t let focusing on what can’t control drain your energy from actions you could be taking instead
• Redirect focus to people you can impact
• Keep praying, hoping, and acting
• Sometimes, people respond better to someone outside the immediate family

📝 For leaders, media figures and influencers
• You are not a stream of income. You are not a political pawn. You have an audience for a reason. Recognize your true power and use it - to educate and unify!

🌟 Closing Thoughts
• Persistent, creative outreach revives even resistant sparks
• Stay above political divides
• Promote unity, morality, and peace
• Keep doing what you know is right — continue spreading light and hope

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"Sparks of Jewish Unity" is a project of Bais Chana Women International and The Daily.

To join The Daily, live Zoom classes with fellow Jewish women, sign up for free:
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Spark of Jewish Unity #7: How to Forgive

✨ Sparks of Jewish Unity #7 ✨
Forgiveness and the Power to Release Old Grudges and Pain

📝 Overview
• Spark of Jewish Unity #7 — forgiveness as a pathway to unity
• Goal: Release grudges, reunite hearts, and transform pain into purpose
• Core idea: True forgiveness holds two truths at once

📖 Key Lessons from the Yosef Story
• Yosef was betrayed and sold by his brothers
• Years later, he revealed himself while in a position of power over them
• Rather than demand amends for their brutality toward him, he was concerned for their dignity, asking them not to be aggreived and to come closer to him.
• What did Yosef know that allowed him to forgive them?
• The key is in the 3 times he asserts “God sent me here”
• He did not deny their wrongdoing — but saw everything that happened to himself as part of a divine plan

⚖️ The Framework for Forgiveness: Two things are true at once
• Truth #1: The perpetrator used their free choice and chose their actions
– Free choice exists
– Guilt and responsibility remain
• Truth #2: Their actions did not ultimately determine my life
– God custom-ordained every experiences I'd ever endure before my soul even got here.
• Practical result:
– Give judgment of the offender to God. Their actions are between them and their Creator.
– Accept your pain as directly from G-d. It plays an indispensable part of your mission

📜 Spiritual Foundation (Tanya, Letter 25)
• Everything that happens to a person is being custom created for them by God
• Offenders remain morally and legally accountable
• The experience itself was sent for a reason
• Forgiveness means releasing culpability to God and accepting what happened to you as coming from God, not from the person who hurt you.
and asking:
• You may then be open to asking “G-d, what do you need from me with this?"

🧰 Practical Steps to Forgive (Class Guidance)

Step 1 — Start Small
• Choose one person or one incident
• Don’t try to fix everything at once

Step 2 — Reframe the Memory
• Picture the offender’s words or actions
• Imagine God receiving those actions — not you
• See the offender as small and limited compared to God

Step 3 — Re-experience your side with God Present
• Revisit the memory
• Picture God holding you and guiding you through the pain
• Ask:
“Hashem, what did You need from me here?”
• Adopt a soldier / mission mindset

Step 4 — Bedtime Forgiveness Prayer
• Recite the forgiveness paragraph before sleep
• Explicitly forgive those who hurt you
• Direct the words toward a specific person

🌱 Benefits & Outcomes
• Inner and spiritual unity becomes possible
• Pain transforms into empathy, resilience, and growth

📘 Key Terms
• Forgiveness (practical) — Releasing judgment to God; not holding it against the person
• Chazakah — Repeated affirmation (Yosef’s threefold statement)
• Rosh Bnei Yisrael — Spiritual leaders guide, but cannot do the work for us
• Soldier Metaphor — Each soul is sent with custom-tailored challenges/training

📝 Action Items / Next Steps
• Choose one painful memory or relationship
• Practice both meditations:
– See God receiving the offender’s actions
– See God guiding your experience
• Recite the bedtime forgiveness prayer with intention
• Then apply the method to another memory
• If needed, seek guidance from a trusted spiritual mentor

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"Sparks of Jewish Unity" is a project of Bais Chana Women International and The Daily.

To join The Daily, live Zoom classes with fellow Jewish women, sign up for free:
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Spark of Jewish Unity #8: Winning the Inner Battle

✨ Sparks of Jewish Unity #8 ✨
Winning the inner battle

✨ Overview
• Topic: Controlling the “animal soul” to achieve Jewish unity
• Main claim: The biggest obstacle to unity is internal — our animal soul — not other people
• Goal: Learn to recognize, understand, and manage inner impulses to reveal godliness and unity

🧠 Core Concepts
• Two inner layers:
• Godly soul: united, eternal, compassionate, seeks connection, Torah, and mitzvot
• Animal soul: self-protective, scarcity-minded, competitive, source of fear, jealousy, anger

• How negative feelings form:
• Emotions begin in the heart → spread through the body → the mind rationalizes them
• Physical sensations (tight chest, clenched jaw, tension) often come before conscious thoughts

• Key strategy:
• Identify physical signs as animal-soul reactions
• Respond to the animal soul, not to the external stimuli, i.e. other people

🔄 How Negative Reactions Arise
• Trigger: External event (e.g., a difficult person)
• Animal-soul response: Emotional surge in heart and body
• Mind reaction: Invents “reasons” to justify the feeling
• Core mistake: Trying to fix others instead of focusing on the real mission, inside of oneself

🛠️ Practical Steps to Manage the Animal Soul
• Step 1 — Identify
• Notice bodily sensations (stomach, shoulders, tension)
• Name it: “This is my animal soul reacting”

• Step 2 — Understand
• Learn your personal animal-soul patterns
• Observe how it escalates (anger, jealousy, despair)

• Step 3 — Responses
• Acknowledge: For some, awareness alone is enough to calm the animal soul
• Converse: For some, conversations with the animal soul are helpful. Calming the fear by remind yourself God is in control, or remembering why the other person is behaving the way they are.
• Distract/redirect: For some, shifting to a new topic or situation brings new positive energy to the situation
• Channel: Remember, you can use the strength of your animal soul positively (e.g., stubbornness for moral persistence)

• Guiding rule: Be the rider — the animal soul is the pet, not the driver.

📓 Tools for learning the voice of your unique animal soul
• Free-writing exercise:
• When upset, write uncensored thoughts for several full pages
• Don’t filter — learn the raw language of your animal soul
• Write past the initial emotion to reach clarity

• Regular practice builds familiarity with the unique tactics of your animal soul

• Observation:
• Notice which situations trigger which reactions

🐂 Using Animal-Soul Traits Positively
• Torah metaphors:
• Ox — strength, hearstrong
• Goat — stubbornness, brazenness
• Sheep — obedience, following

• Transformation:
• Stubbornness → unwavering ethical commitment
• Followership → sincere Torah acceptance

• Principle: Don’t destroy traits — master and redirect them

🌍 Why Winning the Inner Battle Matters
• We are here in this world to bring light (Mitzvahs, Torah study) and ALSO to break forces of darkness that hide G-dliness
• Every refusal to yield to fear, anger, or despair (unholy traits)
• Breaks those forces that conceal G-dliness
• Reveals unity and light in the world
• Benefits the entire community
• Brings joy to the Creator

🔗 Applying All Eight Sparks (Example)
• Temptation: spreading gossip or sensational negativity
• Recognize the animal-soul motive (attention, clicks, ego)
• Choose unity instead
• Reattach: see the other person’s pain or desire to do good
• Act: elevate the moment with a positive Jewish connection

🎯 Action Items
• Practice identifying bodily signals as the animal-soul
• Begin a daily uncensored writing habit when upset (3 pages)
• Pick one recurring trigger and apply. Overcome the desire to identify with the feeling and instead, recognize the mission to weaken the forces of negativity in the world and bring light and unity:

• Share these tools to spread light and unity 💫

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"Sparks of Jewish Unity" is a project of Bais Chana Women International and The Daily.

To join The Daily, live Zoom classes with fellow Jewish women, sign up for free:
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⚡ 8 Lights. 8 Sparks of Jewish Unity ⚡
Dedicated to the holy souls who sanctified their lives honoring G-d’s name in Bondi Beach, Australia, Chanuka 5786
Rabbi Eli Schlanger Hy"d, 41, Matilda Britvan Hy"d, 10, Reuven Morrison Hy"d, 62, Marika Pogany Hy"d, 82, Dan Elkayam Hy"d, 27, Edith Brutman Hy"d, Boris Gurman Hy"d, 69, Sofia Gurman Hy"d, 61, Rabbi Yaakov Levitan Hy"d, 39, Tibor Weitzen Hy"d, 78,  Alex Kleytman Hy"d, 87, Boris Tetleroyd, Boris Tetleroyd Hy"D, 68, Peter Meagher, 61, Tania Tretiak, 68 and Adam Smyth, 50. May their memories be a blessing. Learn more about these holy souls on Chabad.org

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