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Hope you've had a good week. I recently read some fascinating research about complaining. Studies show that complaining or listening to somebody else complain for more than 30 minutes can damage our brains! Complaining actually shrinks our brain, specifically our hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for problem solving, intelligent thought and memory. Complaining also releases the stress hormone cortisol, raising our blood pressure and blood sugar levels, and can impair our immune system as well. If that's not enough, the accumulative effect of complaining also impacts our mental health, our mood and self esteem. So kvetching is bad for our brain, bad for our physical health and bad for our mental health, yet we do it and we do it well and we do it often... Apparently the average person complains anywhere between 15 and 30 times a day. In this week's Parsha our ancestors where taken to task by Gd, for 'being complainers' during their time in the desert. The commentaries explain, the reason they bore the brunt of Gd's anger was because of their lack of gratitude. If they had only shifted their perspective and recognised the extraordinary miracles they were experiencing, they would have been overwhelmed with gratitude. Yet, they chose to focus on what they didn't have and it brought them down. Science agrees. Gratitude is a conscious decision we get to make every moment of every day. By focusing on the good, on the blessings that surrounds us, we fill our heart and minds with happiness and positivity. And we're healthier for it! Shabbat Shalom and a healthy and positive week ahead.
Rabbi Shmuel
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 17 June: Light Candles by 4:49pm Shabbat, 18 June: Shabbat ends at 5:51pm This week is Parshat Beha'alotcha - See synopsis below. Tonight Fri Night: 5:00pm - 5:50pm Shabbat morning: 9:30am - 11:30am, followed by a Kiddush - Kindly sponsored by the Gore and Lindros family in honour of Morrie's 90th birthday and Charlie's Bar Mitzvah Anniversary Sunday Morning: 8:00am - 8:30am Mon - Fri Morning: 6:45am - 7:20am Sun - Thur Mincha Maariv: 4:55pm - 5:25pm Please consider supporting our daily Minyan whenever you're available. This also helps ensure that our members can say Kaddish for their loved ones. |
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Have you booked? Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea - Next Sunday, 26 June, 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. Please RSVP online by clicking here by Mon, 20 June. Raffle at event to benefit Cancer Council
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This week some of our Barmi boys and their dads enjoyed a, educational and hands-on workshop with Scribe Rabbi Eli Gutnick, learning how a Torah, Tefillin and Mezuzah are made.
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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 Marcus Chrapot, Sabrina Drehspul, Ethan Jacobs, Gabe Kagan, Mendy Karnowsky, Sharon Kaye, Lee Kirshon, Simon Marton, Nonna Meister, Naomi Milgrom, Reuben Sable, Carly Stainmagen, David Teitelbaum and Shirley Weiner. We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator.
Happy Anniversary! We wish a very Happy Anniversary to Marvin & Lois Cohen, Eli & Suzette Greenblat. To many more happy and healthy years! Yahrtzeits Shabbat Nancy Elizabeth Miller - Mother of Sonia Gurwitz Jacky Balbin - Brother of Idor Sunday Felix Tuszynski - Uncle of Ian Monday Chawa Iglicki - Mother of Malka Lawrence Tuesday Rosa Mrocki - Mother of Harry Sluva Vainberg - Grandmother of Boris
Wednesday Natan Zielinski - Uncle of family Zielinski and Kuran Alfred Rohde - Grandfather of Norma Lieberman Friday Bernard Lurie - Father of Sandra Mittelman Pesia Helfenbaum - Mother of Leon
We wish the respective families blessings of long life and good health. |
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This week's PARSHA is Beha'alotecha (Numbers 8:1–12:16) Aaron is commanded to raise light in the lamps of the menorah, and the tribe of Levi is initiated into the service in the Sanctuary. A “Second Passover” is instituted in response to the petition “Why should we be deprived?” by a group of Jews who were unable to bring the Passover offering in its appointed time because they were ritually impure. G‑d instructs Moses on the procedures for Israel’s journeys and encampments in the desert, and the people journey in formation from Mount Sinai, where they had been camped for nearly a year. The people are dissatisfied with their “bread from heaven” (the manna), and demand that Moses supply them with meat. Moses appoints 70 elders, to whom he imparts of his spirit, to assist him in the burden of governing the people. Miriam speaks negatively of Moses, and is punished with leprosy; Moses prays for her healing, and the entire community waits seven days for her recovery. Click here to learn more about the Parsha. © Copyright, all rights reserved, Chabad.org. |
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