The Fifteenth of Shevat is the
New Year for Trees
(Rosh Hashanah 2:A)

We serve our creator with theory. You shall teach them to your children to speak them while you sit in your home, whil you walk in the way, when you retire and when you arise, (Deut. 11:19)

We serve our creator with practice. Now what does Hashem your G-d ask of you? To fear Hashem your G-d, to go in all His ways and to love Him, to observe the commandments of the L-rd and His decrees (Deut. 10:12)

Both of these are necessary for our worship to be complete. We therefore place Tefillin on our head directed to our intellect and on our arm directed to our deeds to subjugate both of these to service ourr Creator.

 

 

"For Man is likened to the tree of the field." (Deut. 20:19)

The fifteenth of Shevat is the New Year for the trees. (Talmud Rosh Hashanah 2A). It marks the day on which the trees of the Holy Land emerge from their state of dormancy and the sap begins once again to flow within their inward structure. Shevat is also the month in which Moses chose to review with clarity the entire Torah in their last year of wandering (Deut 1:5).

Ohev Shalom Congregation was founded and incorporated in 1960 by Rabbi Pinchas A. Weberman who started with a group of 12 families living in the north end of Miami Beach.

Services were first held in the living room of an apartment on Abbott Avenue. It moved to the Florida room of the Landow family home on Collins Avenue and 78th Street. In December of that year it moved to a rented storefront at 911 Normandy Drive.

In 1965, property was bought on Bonita Drive, Miami Beach and plans were drawn for the construction more....