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What a wonderful spirit (ruach רוח) there was on Rosh Hashana beautifully led by our team of Rabbis & Chazzans. This upcoming weekend, Yom Kippur will be the emotional climax of the High Holy days. Looking forward to seeing you all in Shule.
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The Team!!
Top - L - R: Rabbi Dovid Rubinfeld and Rabbi Gavriel Fogelgarn Bottom: L-R: Chazzan Mordechai Levin and Chazzan Ronny Kowadlo
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Breaking the fast packs!!
As in previous years the Shule will be providing breaking the fast packs. Please ensure that they are disposed of properly in the bins provided and not left inside the seats. For those fasting we wish you an easy fast.
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Simchat Torah Announcement!! Chatan Torah & Chatan Bereishit
On Simchat Torah, it is the custom to call up to the Torah a Chatan Torah and a Chatan Bereishit. The Chatan Torah is the person who finishes the reading of the Torah, and he is the last person to receive an aliya in Sefer Devarim. After him comes the Chatan Bereishit, who receive the opening aliya in Sefer Bereishit. This year we are honored that Stanley Levin and Allan Levin have accepted the Aliyot of Chatan Torah and Chatan Bereishit.
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Remembering the 50th Anniversary of the Yom Kippur War!!
The 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War occurs this year. The war was launched in 1973 in a surprise attack by Syria and Egypt on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Even though the signs of an imminent attack were noted by the Israeli intelligence, the Israeli government decided to ignore them for political and strategic reasons. Consequently, the country’s borders were very sparsely defended, creating a dangerous void on the front. The invading armies outnumbered the Israelis at a ratio of more than a hundred to one in manpower and ten to one in armor and artillery. Because the bulk of the Israel army is comprised of reservists, it took two days to mobilize and deploy the forces. During these critical days it was up to the vastly outnumbered soldiers on the front and Israeli pilots in the sky to hold the line and stall the attackers. It was the heroism and determination of these men that saved the country. Their devotion and sacrifice compensated for the woeful lack of sufficient equipment and supplies. The strategic depth of the Sinai desert and Golan Heights also provided the country the time needed to mobilize the reservists. This war posed the most serious threat to the existence of Israel in modern history. Even though Israel was eventually able to achieve a military victory, the country paid a steep price, both in lives lost and in the citizenry’s confidence in their leaders and themselves. Almost three thousand soldiers gave their lives — a ratio of one death per one thousand Israelis, a painful price for a nation of three million. Over ten thousand individuals were wounded in the 17 days of fighting. Almost every household and neighborhood was affected. The pain and sorrow felt at the time continues to this day among affected families and the broader Israeli society. Deep within the psyche of the nation, this conflict shattered the conventional wisdom of Israel’s invincibility. It also illustrated the importance of having secure and defensible borders, while highlighting the urgent need for a lasting peace between Israel and its neighbors. An important outcome of the Yom Kippur War was the creation of the 1979 peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, ending more than thirty years of conflict between the two nations.
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The Israelis were taken by surprise by the Egyptian and Syrian offensives in 1973 (Photo: Getty Images)
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 22 Sept: Light Candles by 5:58pm Shabbat 23 Sept: Light after 6:56pm This Shabbat the Parashat is Ha'azinu. (See Synopsis below) SERVICES: Fri, 22 Sept, Mincha 6:00pm
Shabbat, 23 Sept, Shacharit 9:15am. Followed by a sit down kiddush.
Sunday, 24 Sept, Erev Yom Kippur Selichot followed by Shacharit 8:00am FAST BEGINS 6:00pm KOL NIDRE 6:15pm
YOM KIPPUR, Mon, 25 Sept Shacharit 9:00am Reading of the Torah 10:45am Drashah (Sermon) 11:30am Yizkor 12:00pm Musaf 12:20pm Mincha 4:20pm Ne'ilah 6:00pm Fast Ends 6:58pm
Tues, 26 - Thrs, 28 Sept Shacharit 6:45am Mincha 6:05pm
Erev Sukkot - Fri, 28 Sept Shacharit 6:45am
Please help in supporting our daily Minyan whenever you're available. This helps ensure that our members can say Kaddish for their loved ones and for those that are not able to attend in person. |
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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 Kim Schwartz, Darren Frydman, Roman Borisov, Alina Kleiman, Sebastian Banky, Chana Eidelson, Michael Cyprys, Clive Sondheim, Helena Livshiz, Simon Danby, Aimee Mizrahi, Jacob Degen, Natalie Adler, Glynis Lipson, Corinne Marabel-Milgrom, Daniel Levy, . We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator.
Yahrtzeits! Shabbat Miriam Friedmann - sister of Freda Sable Eliasz Kornweitz - father of Svetlana Fleiszig & Helen Taylor Abe Cohen - father of Marvin Cohen
Sunday Fele Pacanowski - mother of Ethel Wittner
Monday Rakhil Sloutzker - mother of Sophie Rybalov
Tuesday Leo Rosner - father of Fran Sondheim Alan Moss - father of Jon Moss
Wednesday
Thursday Niunia Frenkiel - mother of David Frenkiel Icek Hoppe - father of Jack Hoppe & Susie Bemkel Ruth Skillacy - cousin of Avi Paluch Sam Lazarus - father of David Lazarus
Friday Hala Goldstone - mother of Alan Goldstone OAM We wish the respective families blessings of long life and good health.
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Refuah Shlema - (רפואה שלמה) !
For all those that are in need of a Refuah Shlema (רפואה שלמה) - may they be granted a complete and speedy recovery. Please let us know of anyone that you feel should be included in our weekly prayers. (Please provide their Hebrew name and their mothers Hebrew name.).
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Parashat Ha'azinu in a NutshellDeuteronomy 32:1–52The name of the Parshah, "Haazinu," means "Listen" and it is found in Deuteronomy 32:1. The greater part of the Torah reading of Haazinu (“Listen In”) consists of a 70-line “song” delivered by Moses to the people of Israel on the last day of his earthly life. Calling heaven and earth as witnesses, Moses exhorts the people, “Remember the days of old / Consider the years of many generations / Ask your father, and he will recount it to you / Your elders, and they will tell you” how G‑d “found them in a desert land,” made them a people, chose them as His own, and bequeathed them a bountiful land. The song also warns against the pitfalls of plenty—“Yeshurun grew fat and kicked / You have grown fat, thick and rotund / He forsook G‑d who made him / And spurned the Rock of his salvation”—and the terrible calamities that would result, which Moses describes as G‑d “hiding His face.” Yet in the end, he promises, G‑d will avenge the blood of His servants, and be reconciled with His people and land. The Parshah concludes with G‑d’s instruction to Moses to ascend the summit of Mount Nebo, from which he will behold the Promised Land before dying on the mountain. “For you shall see the land opposite you; but you shall not go there, into the land which I give to the children of Israel.”
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Community Noticeboard !
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Appeal Cards!!
You will have noticed two (2) appeal cards on your seats. Zahal Disabled Veterans Organisation (ZDVO) that raises funds for injured soldiers & victims of terror and United Jewish Education Board (UJEB) that gives over 700 school students weekly access to Jewish education. Please leave the cards on your seats, either filled or unfilled, they will be collected next Tuesday.
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Magen David Adom - Community Diary 2023/24
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