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Local Happenings from page 7 The YouTube channel was launched on the first day that is part of a multi-generational family connected to the Temple
the shul was shut down in March 2020, due to COVID-19 Beth El community and the broader West Palm Beach area.
pandemic. Refusing to lose touch with his congregation,
Rabbi Vigler moved his live daily Torah classes online. Since
the channel was launched, over 345,000 students have studied
Torah with Rabbi Vigler!

Beth El Serves up
Pickled Treats

Regular participants of the daily class hail from as near Certified Master Food Preserver Sarah Cohen shared
as Atlanta and as far as Australia and Norway. After the her tips and tricks for preserving fresh produce and
U.S., the majority of viewers are in India, Indonesia, United transforming them into tasty pickled treats during a hands-
Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and Israel. Surprisingly, there on demonstration at Temple Beth El. Each participant had
are 825 viewers in the UAE, 788 viewers in Saudi Arabia, the opportunity to try different selections and prepare two
748 in Pakistan, and just 108 viewers in Qatar, with a global customized jars of refrigerator pickles – perfect to enjoy
student body drawn from 50 countries. in the summer!
Justine from Naples wrote: “I am fortunate enough to Cohen is the owner/founder of Sarah’s Slow Jam, which
study Tanya with you almost every day via YouTube. I produces gourmet, small-batch, seasonal jams and jellies. She
have no yeshiva schooling background. I attempted to learn
Tanya alone and with other teachers and failed to understand
and connect with the concepts. I discovered your channel
and find every video and chapter to be life-changing and
enthralling. I try to listen to it every morning when I wake
up if I can. I feel like when I do, my day is very successful
and I feel more at peace. Thank you for your life-changing
YouTube videos!”
Tom from Norway is a gentile whose life has been moved
through his daily studies with the rabbi: “I really love this, and Is Labor Day a
thank you for the web lectures. It brings immense joy to my
heart. I’ve found a connection to G-d because of your lectures, Jewish Holiday?
and I cannot express my thanks for that through words.”
I think it best that you make up your mind after you read this
article in full.
Believe it or not, the original textbooks of Jewish education
— the Torah and the Talmud —cover extensively the rules of
employee and employer relationships, which are the center of
human resource strategies to this very day.
To illustrate this point, let’s consider that Jewish law requires
the employee to be paid on time or they may secure assets of their
employer; wages must be paid in dollars, not in kind; employees
may strike if working conditions do not treat them with respect
and dignity; arbitrary dismissal is forbidden; lunch breaks are

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