Community Magazine June 2019

32 Community Magazine Dear Community Member, הי״ו Over the years, our community has BH seen a beautiful growth in population. There is a group amongst us which is also growing- the many single young men and women waiting to meet their naseeb, their destined ones. We at Congregation Shaare Zion see this as an area of both tremendous importance and need, therefore we have taken the initiative to create Shaare Zion Connect. We thank Dr. Victor Sasson, president of Shaare Zion, for seeing the importance of this project and for helping to ensure its success. SZ Connect serves as a comfortable and confidential resource for our singles to be introduced and meet each other with the purpose of making a blessed match. SZ Connect is the foremost community-wide organization of its kind. SZ Connect features the following: • A Match Center which has ambitiously begun to unite community matchmakers who work with singles from every age group and every religious level. The Match Center is open daily for meetings, interviews, matching & guidance. • A master database which will BH help to multiply the amount of matches manifold by allowing matchmakers greater access to our community singles. This confidential database can be used only by Connect matchmakers & B”H countless matches have already been made with the ease & efficiency of this ever-growing database! • We all have a friend or family member that we pray will find their naseeb. SZ Connect is ready to assist and make the difference that our singles need, fulfilling our collective mitzvah of helping to create beautiful marriages that bring blessing and joy to our families and community for eternity. • Our Sages teach that making a match is comparable to the splitting of the Yam Suf. They go on to state that the sea actually split twice: once for the entire Jewish nation and the second time for two people who hesitated to join! The lesson we learn from here is tremendous: no one gets left behind, even if it means that Hashem has to split the sea for them! • Our mission at SZ Connect is to be the address to which all community members may turn, so that no one is left on the other side of the matrimonial sea. We pray that we merit Divine assistance to be successful in this special misva and that all our work be leShem Shamayim. Rabbi David Maslaton Jimmy Tawil Our lines are always open for questions, or if you are a single who would like to join. Email: ShaareZionConnect@gmail.com Phone: 929-400-7691