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What a strange and different Rosh Hashanah it was. How was it for you? I know that for many, not being with family and community was understandably very difficult and challenging. Yet, I also heard from many who were able to find a highlight and make it meaningful in its own way. Whether it was being able to focus on the meaning of the day with family, singing songs, putting an extra emphasis on setting the table and getting dressed in Rosh Hashana best, leading your own service, or hearing the Shofar outside your home with your neighbors or multiple times in the park. For our family, whilst yearning to be in Shule with you, we found joy and meaning in setting up a table in the front garden, enjoying the fresh air and singing our way through the davening as a family. Our neighbours sat in their driveways following along with us. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Mendy and I walked through the St Kilda Botanical Gardens and from 3-4pm blew the Shofar more times then I can remember, for over 150 people over both days - socially distanced, no gathering, masked, even my shofar wore a mask! We were standing just a few hundred meters from the Shule, so close, yet so far... but there was a wonderful feeling of opportunity, gratitude and connectedness. May those feelings continue on until we are back in Shule and beyond - hopefully very soon! Now onto Yom Kippur. Please scroll down and take note of all the happenings. Take care, Shabbat Shalom and a pleasant weekend.
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 10 Sept: Light Candles by 5:48pm Shabbat, 11 Sept: Shabbat ends at 6:46pm This week is Parshat Vayelech - See synopsis below.
No In-Shule Services due to lockdown :( VirtShule Services on Zoom www.elwoodshule.org/zoom: Tonight Friday Night 5:30pm Schedule and Candle lighting times for the High Holydays Click here |
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Enjoy a replay of our Pre Rosh Hashana Zoom gathering! It was heartwarming to see so many of you and to hear everyone wishing each other a Shana Tova! Feedback has been wonderful, with many expressing how they felt supported, connected and like they were sitting in Shule even for just a few moments. www.elwoodshule.org/videos.
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Pre Yom Kippur Yizkor Reflection with Rabbi Shmuel & Ronny LIVE from Elwood Shule Tues, 14 Sept, 7:30-7:50pm on www.elwoodshule.org/zoom.
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Pre Yom Kippur Kol Nidrei Service LIVE from Elwood Shule with Rabbi Shmuel & Ronny Wed, 15 Sept, 4:45 - 5:15pm on www.elwoodshule.org/zoom.
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Post Yom Kippur Final Siren - Shofar, Havdala & L’chaim! With Rabbi Shmuel LIVE from Elwood Shule Thurs, 16 Sept, 7:00pm on www.elwoodshule.org/zoom.
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Uniting and uplifting the community emotionally and spiritually! Join the wider community this Sun, 12 Sept, 8pm on www.phh.org.au/live, featuring the widely acclaimed Rabbi YY Jacobson and Michal Oshman.
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Women & girls around Australia unite to spread Shabbat light! Unite with Women and Girls across Australia next Friday, 17 Sept in lighting Shabbat candles 18 min before Sunset and at a pre-candle lighting virtual event, 4:30-4:45pm. 2 steps to participate: 1) Register your light to add to the count on www.ulight.org.au. 2) Join the virtual event on live.ulight.org.au.
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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 Nicky Antman, Ben Balbin, Helena Cyprys, Charlie Davis, Adela Pakula, Fela Freiberg, Ben Hansky, Dean Horiniak, Emily Kamil, Leila Kline, Amir Lefkovic, Brodie Mondel, Maurice Peters, Jamie Swiatlo, Les Taylor, Yaroslav Vaserman, Lily Vogel, Andrew Walter, Josh Zajonc. We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator.
Happy Anniversary! We wish a very Happy Anniversary to Oren & Danielle Malin, Albert & Debbie Peker, Daniel & Gabi Rees. To many more happy and healthy years!
Condolences We mourn the passing of Betty Borkowski, ob'm. We extend our heartfelt condolences to her husband Paul, her daughters Michelle Rothman and Niki Saltzman and brother Michael Shaw. We wish the whole family and close friends blessings of comfort, healing, good health and long life.
We mourn the passing of Sylvia Friedmann, ob'm. We extend our heartfelt condolences to her children Liat, Noah and Tira and her brother Jeffrey. We wish the whole family and close friends blessings of comfort, healing, good health and long life. Yahrtzeits Sunday Rebecca Sapir - Mother of Shirley Plotnik, grandmother of Sharon Kuran Zinovy Belkin - Father of Gregory and Leonid Monday Clara Leventer - Mother of Rick and Monique Leyka Macner - Mother of Valentina Nemirovsky, grandmother of Paulina Kushnir, Maya Balbin and David Nemirovsky Miriam Kagan - Mother of Rodney and Gary, sister of Abe Lourie Samuel Kuperman - Father of Albert Tuesday Chazan Yitzchak Levy - Husband of Magda Moshe Shmuel Winter - Father of Gene Harris Arnold Kushnir - Father of Simon Wednesday Esther Winter - Mother of Gene Harris Friday Eva Sobolski - Mother of Max Sable and Helen Sokolski Georges Swieca - Father of Marie Keller and John
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This week's PARSHA is Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1-30) The Parshah of Vayelech (“and he went”) recounts the events of Moses’ last day of earthly life. “I am one hundred and twenty years old today,” he says to the people, “and I can no longer go forth and come in.” He transfers the leadership to Joshua, and writes (or concludes writing) the Torah in a scroll which he entrusts to the Levites for safekeeping in the Ark of the Covenant. The mitzvah of hak’hel (“gather”) is given: every seven years, during the festival of Sukkot of the first year of the shemittah cycle, the entire people of Israel—men, women and children—should gather at the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, where the king should read to them from the Torah.| Vayelech concludes with the prediction that the people of Israel will turn away from their covenant with G‑d, causing Him to hide His face from them, but also with the promise that the words of the Torah “shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants.” Click here to explore the Parsha. |
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I am a five-letter word. I sound the same when you remove my first letter. I sound the same when you remove my third letter. I sound the same when my last letter is removed and I sound the same when all three are removed. What word am I?
---- Answer: Empty (-mpty em-ty empt- -m-t-)
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