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Hope you've had a good week. Ahh! Coffee from a real glass, family and guests in your home, a haircut... Life's blessings we've missed. We still have a bit to go, but it's a good start. And Shule is back! Been a fair few days (81 to be exact) since we've gathered in Shule. We're opening from Sunday morning for weekday services and look forward to resuming Shabbat services on 6 Nov (once we hit the next projected vaccination milestone). We'd love to see you in the coming weeks! Please see here for pre registration requirements. This Shabbat is the International Shabbat Project weekend. Where Jewish communities around the world are highlighting the beauty and the gift of Shabbat! We're joining with a number of other Shules this Sat night for Havdala and song, please details below. Enjoy this poem Rivki wrote for a video Yeshiva Beth Rivka (where she teaches) produced in honour of this Shabbat! Shabbos is our day of rest, A day to be holy and dress our best A day to connect to Hashem above And to spend time with those we love. It reminds us that while time moves so fast We need to focus on things that will last Cherish the time we have with each other And reach out to support one another. It’s time to switch off and put devices away ‘What a relief’ I’m sure you all say Instead, we take time to reflect and to pray Shabbos is so powerful in this way. The Shabbos Project reminds us that shabbos is a gift A way to give our entire week a lift. So this coming Shabbos we’ll be together in spirit As the power of unity has no limit Well done Rivki, beautiful! What will you do this week to enhance your Shabbat experience? Wishing you a peaceful and enjoyable Shabbat, with whoever you choose to spend it with - because you can!!
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 22 Oct: Light Candles by 7:26pm Shabbat, 23 Oct: Shabbat ends at 8:26pm This week is Parshat Vayera - See synopsis below.
Tonight Friday Night 6:00pm on www.elwoodshule.org/zoom
Back in Shule! Sunday Morning 8:00am Mon - Fri Morning 6:45am Sun - Thurs Mincha Maariv 7:30pm Please ensure you scan the QR code on the Shule entrance door, or check in manually with the COVID marshal if you are unable to scan the QR code. Please ensure you have linked your vaccination certificate to your Service Victoria app on your phone.
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Last night over 100 people zoomed in for a fascinating and wide ranging talk with newly installed Supreme Court Judge Rabbi Marcus Solomon SC, brilliantly moderated by Elwood Shule Board member and Lawyer Amanda Mendes Da Costa. A video recording will be available next week.
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Communal Havdalah & Kumzits. After Shabbat, 23 Oct, 8:45pm. An interstate collaboration! LIVE from MELBOURNE, SYDNEY & BRISBANE! Brisbane HC, Elwood Shule, Maroubra Synagogue and St Kilda Shule - Featuring Rabbis Yaakov Glasman, Yossi Friedman, Levi Jaffe & Shmuel Karnowsky // Chazzan Brett Kaye, Ronny Kowadlo, Corey Fooks and Isaac & Alexander Itescu. On YouTube here and on www.facebook.com/elwoodshule.
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I'm honoured to be opening this special Evening of Learning in memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks ob'm. Please join us LIVE online, this Tues night, 26 Oct, 8pm on www.rabbisacks.melbourne. Speakers to include, Rabbi Danny Mirvis, Mrs. Ella Wilhelm, Rabbi Ralph Genende OAM and Rabbi Dovid Gutnick. To mark the first yahrtzeit of Rabbi Sacks, the Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust has launched a Communities in Conversation: A Day of Worldwide Learning in Memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks זצ׳׳ל , inviting individuals, families, schools, organisations and communities from around the world to come together to remember the impact Rabbi Sacks made on the Jewish world and beyond, and to learn and teach some of his Torah.
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Please keep us in the loop by notifying us of your lifecycle events. Birth! Mazal Tov to Sharyn Mittelman & Daniel Kolieb on the birth of their son! Mazal Tov to the grandparents Sandra & Henry Mittelman and Mira & David Kolieb. May Noah Ezra be a source of nachas and joy in good health! Happy - Jewish - Birthday! We wish a very Happy Jewish Birthday to Melanie Baranov, Michele Bartlett, Daniel Besen, Zacharia Davidson, Paul Fleiszig, Harley Goldman, Alan Goldstone, Helen Granek, Max Haber, Paula Hansky, Ronnit Hoppe, Marli Michael, Simi Posner, Michelle Rothman and Abe Rubinfeld, . We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator.
Happy Anniversary! We wish a very Happy Anniversary to Jeff & Linda Grant and Jeremy & Emily Kamil. To many more happy and healthy years! Yahrtzeits Sunday Aaron Lerman - Father of Lana Vainberg Monday Baruch Tzvi Tzemach Weinstein - Father of Rene Van Zuiden Berta Ison - Mother of Boris Tuesday Chana Muhlbauer - Mother of Mimi Lefkovic
Wednesday Lusia Ukrainski - Mother of Freda Sable Roza Fischer - Mother of Ilona Semion Minkovich - Father of Sophie Elllis
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This week's PARSHA is Vayera (Genesis 18:1–22:24) G‑d reveals Himself to Abraham three days after the first Jew’s circumcision at age ninety-nine; but Abraham rushes off to prepare a meal for three guests who appear in the desert heat. One of the three—who are angels disguised as men—announces that, in exactly one year, the barren Sarah will give birth to a son. Sarah laughs. Abraham pleads with G‑d to spare the wicked city of Sodom. Two of the three disguised angels arrive in the doomed city, where Abraham’s nephew Lot extends his hospitality to them and protects them from the evil intentions of a Sodomite mob. The two guests reveal that they have come to overturn the place, and to save Lot and his family. Lot’s wife turns into a pillar of salt when she disobeys the command not to look back at the burning city as they flee. While taking shelter in a cave, Lot’s two daughters (believing that they and their father are the only ones left alive in the world) get their father drunk, lie with him and become pregnant. The two sons born from this incident father the nations of Moab and Ammon. Abraham moves to Gerar, where the Philistine king Abimelech takes Sarah—who is presented as Abraham’s sister—to his palace. In a dream, G‑d warns Abimelech that he will die unless he returns the woman to her husband. Abraham explains that he feared he would be killed over the beautiful Sarah. G‑d remembers His promise to Sarah, and gives her and Abraham a son, who is named Isaac (Yitzchak, meaning “will laugh”). Isaac is circumcised at the age of eight days; Abraham is one hundred years old, and Sarah ninety, at their child’s birth. Hagar and Ishmael are banished from Abraham’s home and wander in the desert; G‑d hears the cry of the dying lad, and saves his life by showing his mother a well. Abimelech makes a treaty with Abraham at Beersheba, where Abraham gives him seven sheep as a sign of their truce. G‑d tests Abraham’s devotion by commanding him to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount) in Jerusalem. Isaac is bound and placed on the altar, and Abraham raises the knife to slaughter his son. A voice from heaven calls to stop him; a ram, caught in the undergrowth by its horns, is offered in Isaac’s place. Abraham receives the news of the birth of a daughter, Rebecca, to his nephew Bethuel. Click here to explore the Parsha. |
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Are people born with a photographic memory, or does it take time to develop?...
There’s no black or white answer, perhaps it depends if they were born in a dark room or not.
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