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We're hoping for the best, but everything is up in the air... No matter what happens, your Shule is here for you, to support you and to journey with you through this High Holyday period. We've set up www.elwoodshule.org/HH, where you’ll find links to our videos, upcoming events, resources, inspiration and more, all in one place. Check it every so often, as more content will be added as we get closer to Rosh Hashanah. We have lots going on over the next few weeks, please scroll through this email and diarise the dates for our upcoming events. Wishing you and yours a Shabbat Shalom! Take care. Message from our President Mark Kuran: Thank you to everyone who has responded to the “expressions of interest” for High Holyday services. The data received is an invaluable tool to help with planning. If you haven’t already done so, you can assist by filling in a few questions here. As soon as the State Government announces the easing of restrictions, we will open bookings and registrations with first preference being given to our paid up members. Regarding Yizkor, like last year, we are preparing both a hard copy and a digital copy of the Yizkor booklet with the names of those being remembered. If you would like a departed loved one’s name included in the booklet, and have not yet filled out the form, please fill out and submit the online form here by this Tues, 17 Aug.
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 13 Aug: Light Candles by 5:25pm Shabbat, 14 Aug: Shabbat ends at 6:24pm This week is Parshat Shoftim - See synopsis below.
No In-Shule Services due to lockdown :( VirtShule Services on Zoom www.elwoodshule.org/zoom: Tonight Friday Night 5pm Sun-Thurs Mincha Maariv 5:30pm |
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Get in the groove with my daily Shofar Blowing video! It is customary to sound the Shofar everyday day of the month of Elul in the lead up to Rosh Hashanah. I've been doing so along with a brief thought, and posting the video on www.elwoodshule.org/videos and on our Facebook and Instagram pages. I've also been sharing a 3-5 minute daily video on growth and change via WhatsApp. You can click on this link to receive it - Also posted on our website.
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Making it a Meaningful High Holidays Join Rabbis Shmuel Karnowsky & Daniel Rabin to hear insights and ideas on Rosh Hashana. This Mon, 8-9pm, Click here to join on Zoom. Zoom ID 898 0199 4508 Password SCHC Part 2 Yom Kippur next Monday, 23 Sept, 8-9pm.
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Sisterhood Book Club this Monday, 16 Aug, 8:15pm on Zoom Ladies, please join us for our upcoming Book Club Meeting. We’ll be discussing The man in the white sharkskin suit by Lucette Lagnado. Join on www.elwoodshule.org.zoom. All ladies welcome! To get involved in the Sisterhood or to host a Book Club evening, please contact Rivki, sisterhood@elwoodshule.org.
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Enter into the New Year with hope, courage, strength and joy! Thurs, 26 Aug, 8pm on www.elwoodshule.org/zoom. Join us for a motivational and inspiring evening with Ben Morley. Be empowered by his story and message of hope and strength. Ben is a recovering drug addict. He reached ‘rock bottom’ enslaved to ice and cocaine. Now clean for… 6 years and 2 months.
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Bee & Honey Presentation! Sun, 29 Aug, 12-1pm. Join on www.elwoodshule.org/zoom. Learn about bees, beehives, beekeepers and honey LIVE on zoom with Ben from Ben’s Bees! For all ages!
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Please keep us in the loop by notifying us of your lifecycle events. Birth We wish a hearty Mazal Tov to Reuven & Helena Cyprys on the birth of a great grandson. May the newborn be a source of nachas and joy, in good health. Happy - Jewish - Birthday! We wish a very Happy Jewish Birthday to Adrian Colman, Janette Goldberg, Ruti Karavani, Damien Landau, Pinchas Lemin, David Lewis, Gabriella Platus, Luke Raleigh, John Rockman, Carol Schwartz, Gideon Swiatlo, Brandon Zielinski, Josh Zielinski. We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator.
Happy Anniversary! We wish a very Happy Anniversary to Michael & Anita Oliver and Ilan & Amy Rubin. To many more happy and healthy years!
Condolences We extend our heartfelt condolences to Karin Zafir on the passing of her aunt, Marianne Schwarz, ob'm. We wish the whole family blessings of comfort, healing, good health and long life. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Marc Besen AC on the passing of his wife, to Naomi Milgrom AC, Carol Schwartz AO, Debbie Dadon AM and Daniel Besen on the passing of their mother and to John Gandel AC on the passing of his sister, Eva Besen AO, ob'm. We wish the whole family blessings of comfort, healing, good health and long life. Yahrtzeits Shabbat Seev & Ella Copperman - Parents of Debbie Brown Aubrey Copperman - Brother of Debbie Brown and friend of Year 8, 1966 Mount Scopus College students.
Sunday Harry Jacobs - Father of Sylvia Horiniak and Jack Anna Meyer - Sister of Hinda Rosen Tuesday Alfred Melzack - Father of Nicky Kegen Max Phillips - Father of Phil Wednesday Rachel Halprin - Mother of Andrea Hellinger and Len Hymie Kliman - Husband of Shifra, father of Aviva Hyman and Len Harry Waters - Father of Anne McArdle and David Issak Vainberg - Grandfather of Boris Thursday Joe Sokol - Brother of Rita Migdal Lev Forleytor - Father of Sonia Jablonski
We wish the respective families blessings of long life and good health. |
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This week's PARSHA is Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) Moses instructs the people of Israel to appoint judges and law enforcement officers in every city. “Justice, justice shall you pursue,” he commands them, and you must administer it without corruption or favoritism. Crimes must be meticulously investigated and evidence thoroughly examined—a minimum of two credible witnesses is required for conviction and punishment. In every generation, says Moses, there will be those entrusted with the task of interpreting and applying the laws of the Torah. “According to the law that they will teach you, and the judgment they will instruct you, you shall do; you shall not turn away from the thing that they say to you, to the right nor to the left.” Shoftim also includes the prohibitions against idolatry and sorcery; laws governing the appointment and behavior of a king; and guidelines for the creation of “cities of refuge” for the inadvertent murderer. Also set forth are many of the rules of war: the exemption from battle for one who has just built a home, planted a vineyard, married, or is “afraid and soft-hearted”; the requirement to offer terms of peace before attacking a city; and the prohibition against wanton destruction of something of value, exemplified by the law that forbids to cut down a fruit tree when laying siege (in this context the Torah makes the famous statement, “For man is a tree of the field”). The Parshah concludes with the law of the eglah arufah—the special procedure to be followed when a person is killed by an unknown murderer and his body is found in a field—which underscores the responsibility of the community and its leaders not only for what they do, but also for what they might have prevented from being done. Click here to explore the Parsha. |
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