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It's a gloomy day, we're in lockdown again and Tisha B'Av begins this Saturday night. Who can blame one for feeling down... but this Shabbat preceding Tisha B'Av is called Shabbat Chazon - the Shabbat of vision - Reminding us that despite the feelings of glumness, we choose to envision and focus on a better and brighter day with hope and optimism. As Rivki wrote on Facebook this week while sharing some photos of our recent fabulous family holiday to Aireys Inlet and its surrounds: "As we head into another frustrating lockdown, I am choosing to focus on the positive, and to enjoy the moments where we can live freely without restrictions. Here’s a few snaps of our family holiday last week, to remind me that spending time with family in the beautiful outdoors is so precious and can’t be taken for granted. Good luck to everyone to get through this next round!"
Indeed, let us cherish what we have, not only when we're deprived of them, but as we're enjoying them. As always, it's important to stay in touch. Make a call to a family member, friend or neighbour just to say hello. If you're keen for a chat, I'm available on 0433 676 300. Shabbat Shalom, keep well and have a meaningful Fast on Sunday.
Rabbi Shmuel - Scroll down for our forthcoming virtual and in-person events and services.
- Click here to learn more about Tisha B'Av. If you’d like to explore the book of Eicha Lamentations over the course of the Fast day, you can access it here (Heb/Eng with images) or here (Heb/Eng plain text).
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 16 July: Light Candles by 5:02pm Shabbat, 17 July: Fast begins 5:21pm Shabbat ends at 6:03pm This week is Parshat Devarim - See synopsis below. Sunday, 18 July: Fast ends 5:51pm No In-Shule Services due to lockdown The following VirtShule Services will be held on Zoom www.elwoodshule.org/zoom: Tonight Fri Night 4:40pm After Shabbat 6:45pm - See details below Sunday Mincha 4:50pm - With Tallit and Tefillin Mon & Tues Mincha Maariv 5:10pm If lockdown is lifted and we're back in Shule: Wed - Fri Shacharit 6:45am Wed - Fri Mincha & Maariv 5:10pm |
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Tisha B’Av at Elwood Shule - Saturday, 17 July, on Zoom. Click this link to join: www.elwoodshule.org/zoom. 6:45pm Synopsis of Eicha. 7:00pm Presentation screening. We will be screening a multimedia presentation by David Borowski, about the moving and inspirational wartime experience of his grandparents, Bielski Partisans and Elwood Shule members, Judy & Velvel Borowski ob’m.
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Our Hebrew School students learning about the Kotel, the Beit Hamikdash and Tisha B'Av this week.
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We are delighted to reschedule our Australia's Biggest Morning Tea on Sun, 1 Aug, from 10:30am - 12pm in the Karafka Hall. Join us for a cuppa and wonderful company, as we do our part to raise awareness and funds, supporting a cancer free future. We look forward to hearing from Jonathan Granek, Kathy Kaplan OAM and Esther Kleiner. $20 per person. Book online www.elwoodshule.org/morningtea. Please RSVP by Mon, 26 July. Raffle at event to benefit Cancer Council. No need to book again if you booked the first time.
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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 Cara Degen, Vikki Friedman, Harry Granek, Ronny Kowadlo, Jake Lukav, Marian Malkin, Ryan Prince, Nathan sable, Sascha Ungar. We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator.
Happy Anniversary! We wish a very Happy Anniversary to Nathan & Dahlia Sable. To many more happy and healthy years! Yahrtzeits Shabbat Kate Philips - Mother of Freda Zielinski Gitl Fisher - Grandmother of Eva Besen and Sue Fisher Sunday Yehuda Hupert - Father of Anne Grynberg and Sam Eugene Kirsh - Father of Flora Mehl Avraham & Dora Gladkovitser - Uncle and aunt of Valentina Nemirovsky Wednesday Eva Erdi - Grandmother of Gavin Dunhill Margaret Goldman - Mother of Darryl Abram Ostroburski - Father of Malka Lawrence Marcel Kaye - Father of Alan Thursday Michael Hammerman - Father of Pauline Rockman and Sandra Jedwab Aron Tsyskin - Father of Rozana Kleiman Abram Helfenbaum - Father of Leon Friday Esther Miriam Frankel - Grandmother of Pauline Rockman, Sandra Jedwab, Sharon, Susan, Peter, Allan, Michael and Gary Motel Bender - Father of Minnie Boltin We wish the respective families blessings of long life and good health. |
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This week's PARSHA is Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22) On the first of Shevat (thirty-seven days before his passing), Moses begins his repetition of the Torah to the assembled children of Israel, reviewing the events that occurred and the laws that were given in the course of their forty-year journey from Egypt to Sinai to the Promised Land, rebuking the people for their failings and iniquities, and enjoining them to keep the Torah and observe its commandments in the land that G‑d is giving them as an eternal heritage, into which they shall cross after his death. Moses recalls his appointment of judges and magistrates to ease his burden of meting out justice to the people and teaching them the word of G‑d; the journey from Sinai through the great and fearsome desert; the sending of the spies and the people’s subsequent spurning of the Promised Land, so that G‑d decreed that the entire generation of the Exodus would die out in the desert. “Also against me,” says Moses, “was G‑d angry for your sake, saying: You, too, shall not go in there.” Moses also recounts some more recent events: the refusal of the nations of Moab and Ammon to allow the Israelites to pass through their countries; the wars against the Emorite kings Sichon and Og, and the settlement of their lands by the tribes of Reuben and Gad and part of the tribe of Manasseh; and Moses’ message to his successor, Joshua, who will take the people into the Land and lead them in the battles for its conquest: “Fear them not, for the L‑rd your G‑d, He shall fight for you.” Click here to explore the Parsha. |
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