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What a week. I shared my thoughts, feelings and suggestions in a WhatsApp message to our community earlier in the week and I thank so many of you for your kind feedback. (If you're not receiving my periodic Shule related WhatsApp communications and would like to, please let me know). As much as Judaism places an emphasis on remembering and holding on to the past, it equally emphasises the importance of learning from the past and moving forward, constructively and positively. May the coming week be an uplifting one. A week during which we do the right thing and are thoughtful, kind and gentle to ourselves and to those around us. I feel that's really all that matters at the moment. On the Shule front, we have quite a few events coming up for you to enjoy. My daily videos are being very well received - Thank you. We're preparing resources for the High Holydays and we continue to engage and support members of our community in any way we can. To that end, if you know of anyone who requires assistance of any kind, financial support, grocery shopping or just someone to talk to, please let myself (0433 676 300) or Ronny (0413 863 263) know. Wishing you a restful, peaceful and meaningful Shabbat and weekend. Shabbat Shalom and take care!
We want YOU in our Shana Tova Video! As per my message this week, I encourage you in the next few days (by Wednesday latest) to please send me a few second clip of you / your family saying 'Shana Tova Umetuka' or 'Shana Tova' etc. If you have a Shofar, you can give it a blow as well! I'll be collating the videos into one video and will share with our community so we can wish each other a Shana Tova! Please record with your phone in landscape (horizontal) and send to me via WhatsApp or SMS, 0433 676 300. Thanks to those who have already sent one in!
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 20 Aug: Light Candles by 5:31pm Shabbat, 21 Aug: Shabbat ends at 6:29pm This week is Parshat Ki Teitzei - 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 5:40pm |
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Hot off the press and looking beautiful! Our calendars have arrived and will be sent out to you in the next week or two! Thank you to our Elwood Shule talent: Graphic designer Tara Saltzman, Front cover artist Mandy Zielinski (the original hangs in my office) and Printer David & Nicky Kegen of CMYK Colour Online Printing. Thank you to all of our generous calendar sponsors and to all the smiling faces who attend our functions and celebrate their milestones with us throughout the year!
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Today's Shofar blowing and Shabbat Shalom message I've been sounding the Shofar everyday during this month of Elul as is customary, along with a brief thought. Watch the videos on www.elwoodshule.org/videos or on our Facebook and Instagram pages.
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Enter into the New Year with hope, courage, strength and joy! This 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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Cooking Demo! Tues Aug 31, 8pm. In the spirit of unity and fun we will be joining other Shule's for a Pre Rosh Hashana Cooking Demo! You can enjoy the Zoom event by clicking here.
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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 Naomi Basist, Jack Borowski, Lorin Chait, Riley Dahan, Fiona Grinwald, Cara Rubinfeld, Noah Rubinfeld, Ilya Kogan, Michael Lang, Aiden Lewis, Jack Lipson, Yetta Michael, Gary Posner, Ruth Prince, Norman Rosenbaum, Lana Rosenfeld, Yasmin Sable. We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator.
Bar Mitzvah! Mazal Tov to Salvador Spencer on his Bar Mitzvah! Mazal Tov to his parents Tahli Rockman and Michael Spencer and to his grandparents Pauline & Sean ob'm Rockman. We think of Sal's brother Taj ob'm. May Sal continue to be a source of Nachas and joy. Happy Anniversary! We wish a very Happy Anniversary to Adam & Michelle Gordon, Mark & Sharon Kuran, Dan & Eva Presser. To many more happy and healthy years!
Yahrtzeits Shabbat Meir Balbin - Stepfather of Idor Sunday Katy Barabash - Mother of Ian and Syndon Monday Antonina Bernhaut - Mother of Adam Nathan Abelman - Father of Helen Borowski Masha Midler - Mother of Aron Midler Tuesday Bronka Holckner - Mother of Eva Lawrence Wednesday Lusia Finkelstein - Mother of Ray and John Arieh Muhlbauer - Father of Mimi Lefkovic and Dorit Allan Siwak - Father of Renee Gani Thursday Moshe Moses - Uncle of Idor Balbin Joseph Landsberger - Father of Jacob Friday Leon Buchbinder - Father of Sid We wish the respective families blessings of long life and good health. |
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This week's PARSHA is Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) Seventy-four of the Torah’s 613 commandments (mitzvot) are in the Parshah of Ki Teitzei. These include the laws of the beautiful captive, the inheritance rights of the firstborn, the wayward and rebellious son, burial and dignity of the dead, returning a lost object, sending away the mother bird before taking her young, the duty to erect a safety fence around the roof of one’s home, and the various forms of kilayim (forbidden plant and animal hybrids). Also recounted are the judicial procedures and penalties for adultery, for the rape or seduction of an unmarried girl, and for a husband who falsely accuses his wife of infidelity. The following cannot marry a person of Jewish lineage: a mamzer (someone born from an adulterous or incestuous relationship); a male of Moabite or Ammonite descent; a first- or second-generation Edomite or Egyptian. Our Parshah also includes laws governing the purity of the military camp; the prohibition against turning in an escaped slave; the duty to pay a worker on time, and to allow anyone working for you—man or animal—to “eat on the job”; the proper treatment of a debtor, and the prohibition against charging interest on a loan; the laws of divorce (from which are also derived many of the laws of marriage); the penalty of thirty-nine lashes for transgression of a Torah prohibition; and the procedures for yibbum (“levirate marriage”) of the wife of a deceased childless brother, or chalitzah (“removing of the shoe”) in the case that the brother-in-law does not wish to marry her. Ki Teitzei concludes with the obligation to remember “what Amalek did to you on the road, on your way out of Egypt. Click here to explore the Parsha. |
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