To new beginnings! ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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Hope you've had a good week!
And just like that the High Holydays are behind us. We've navigated through the month of Elul, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah at home. Let's hope this was the last High Holydays we ever have to experience at home. As a Shule we did our best to stay in touch, engage, support and help give us all a sense of community and togetherness. Our videos, packages, calendars, phone calls, emails and WhatsApps, online services, classes and gatherings, shofar blowing, lulav shaking and Torah celebrating, were all very well received. Rivki & I are extremely grateful and touched for the wonderful support and kind calls and messages we've received over this period. Now onto a fresh start and new beginnings. A New Year, a new Hebrew month, a new DST season and a new cycle of weekly Torah readings, starting with Bereishit, in which we learn about the creation of the universe, the world and our place in it. Thank you to Aaron Zajonc for the striking 'Bereishit themed' image above. Let us move forward with new energy, creativity and a renewed sense of purpose and optimism.
Wishing you a restful and enjoyable Shabbat!
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 1 Oct: Light Candles by 6:06pm Shabbat, 2 Oct: Shabbat ends at 7:05pm This week is Parshat Bereishit - See synopsis below.
No In-Shule Services due to lockdown :( VirtShule Services on Zoom www.elwoodshule.org/zoom: Tonight Friday Night 5:30pm Weekday M-T Mincha Maariv 7:15pm
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Spring forward! DST Begins. Remember to move your clocks an hour forward this Saturday night!
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Please keep us in the loop by notifying us of your lifecycle events. Happy - Jewish - Birthday! We wish a very Happy Jewish Birthday to Jordana Curtis, Michael Goldberg, Toby Gordon, Norma Hoppe, Dani Karavani, Jackie Lewinsohn, Arthur Pay, Jude Pollak, Aaron Vainberg, Josh Virgona. We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator. Condolences We extend our heartfelt condolences to Ruti Karavani on the passing of her father, Nissim, ob'm, in Israel. We wish the whole family blessings of comfort, healing, good health and long life. Yahrtzeits Shabbat Samuel Lieberman - Father of Norman Sunday Leah Peters - Mother of Maurice Tuesday Rabbi Chaim Gutnick - Father of Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick and esteemed Rabbi of our congregation for 45 years Louis Kovacs - Father of Ann and Judith Wednesday Klara Kleiman - Mother of Igor Helen Rosner - Mother of Fran Golda Gelbart - Mother of Phillip, aunt of Michael Oliver Thursday Dennis Prince - Husband of Ruth, father of Antony and Simon Friday Edith Lubransky - Mother of Sue Goldberg Chaim Aronczyk - Father of Rimma Kleiner
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This week's PARSHA is Bereishit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) G‑d creates the world in six days. On the first day He makes darkness and light. On the second day He forms the heavens, dividing the “upper waters” from the “lower waters.” On the third day He sets the boundaries of land and sea, and calls forth trees and greenery from the earth. On the fourth day He fixes the position of the sun, moon and stars as timekeepers and illuminators of the earth. Fish, birds and reptiles are created on the fifth day; land animals, and then the human being, on the sixth. G‑d ceases work on the seventh day, and sanctifies it as a day of rest. G‑d forms the human body from the dust of the earth, and blows into his nostrils a “living soul.” Originally Man is a single person, but deciding that “it is not good that man be alone,” G‑d takes a "side" from the man, forms it into a woman, and marries them to each other. Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden, and commanded not to eat from the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.” The serpent persuades Eve to violate the command, and she shares the forbidden fruit with her husband. Because of their sin, it is decreed that man will experience death, returning to the soil from which he was formed, and that all gain will come only through struggle and hardship. Man is banished from the Garden. Eve gives birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain quarrels with Abel and murders him, and becomes a rootless wanderer. A third son, Seth, is born to Adam; Seth’s eighth-generation descendant, Noah, is the only righteous man in a corrupt world.. Click here to explore the Parsha. |
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