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Hope you're well! Rosh Hashanah is well and truly in the air. With just over a week to go, we're gearing up for what looks to be the same or very similar scenario to last year. We will be navigating these special days and moments in our homes. But not alone! We as a Shule have been and will continue to support you, as will all the good folk at the Project High Holydays, to make this time of the year as meaningful and uplifting as ever, with resources, events, classes, pre Rosh Hashanah Zoom gathering, shofar blowing outside your home and more. I encourage you, throughout the coming week, to check www.elwoodshule.org/HH for our Shule updates and offerings and www.phh.org.au for community wide updates and offerings. Please scroll through this email for details on a busy week ahead - starting this Saturday night! Mark your calendar and join us! Wishing you a restful, peaceful Shabbat and weekend. Shabbat Shalom and take care!
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 27 Aug: Light Candles by 5:37pm Shabbat, 21 Aug: Shabbat ends at 6:35pm This week is Parshat Ki Tavo - See synopsis below.
No In-Shule Services due to lockdown :( VirtShule Services on Zoom www.elwoodshule.org/zoom: Tonight Friday Night 5:15pm Sun-Thurs Mincha Maariv 5:40pm |
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We were privileged to host Ben Morley last night on Zoom. Over 150 people tuned in for what was an incredibly educational, uplifting and empowering talk. If you missed it you could watch the video here.
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Around the Shules Musical Selichot this Sat night, 8:30pm Please join us as over 30 Melbourne Shules unite for an inspirational and musical Selichot - Journeying from Shule to Shule! Live streamed on www.phh.org.au/live.
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Bee & Honey Presentation! This 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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How to support your family's wellbeing during the pandemic This Sun, 29 Aug, 7:30pm. Live streamed on www.phh.org.au/live. Join Dr Michael Carr-Gregg in a discussion on how to support your family's wellbeing during the pandemic. Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's highest psychologists, author of 14 books, broadcaster and a specialist on parenting, children, adolescents and the use of technology for mental health.
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A Zoom through the Rosh Hashanah prayers with Rabbi Shmuel This Mon, 30 Aug, 8pm - The themes. the meanings. the songs. I’m praying at home - what are the important prayers? Join on www.elwoodshule.org/zoom. BYO Machzor optional to note page numbers.
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Cooking Demo! This 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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A week of Simchas! The show goes on! Mazal Tov to Sal Spencer on his Zoom Bar Mitzvah! (How good does the Shule background look!) Mazal Tov to Cara Grant and Sascha Ungar on their Bat Mitzvah! May they all continue to illuminate the world and give naches to all, in good health.
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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 Jeremy Balbin, Ian Barabash, Miriam Berman, Lily Bruell, Phoebe Chrapot, Brad Davis, James Davis, Luisa Gerler, Jae Grosman, Len Halprin, Ben Kaye, Mia Kline, Mandi Kuran, Nat Landau, Monique Leventer, Sofia Sable, Elena Sacks, Julian Munz, Justin Vogel. We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator.
Happy Anniversary! We wish a very Happy Anniversary to Daniel & Nicole Drehspul, Ilan & Lauren Goldberg, Zvi & Karen Kalb, Rob & Natalee Landau, Norm & Ronit Lieberman David & Rimma Pavlov, Nathan & Gina Ungar. To many more happy and healthy years!
Yahrtzeits Shabbat Simon Nirens - Husband of Beryl, father of Deb Bella Apelbaum - Mother of Phillip Sunday Solomon Joseph Pinch - Father of Leonie Fleiszig Tuesday Jack Cutler - Father of Raphael Norma Sacks - Mother of Pauline Grosman, Sharon Braby and Braham Mania Kegen - Mother of David Nathan Minkovich - Brother of Sophie Ellis Wednesday Moses Somekh - Father of Helena Cyprys Ernest Tarjan - Father of Judy John Hellinger - Father of Tom Thursday Esther Balbin - Mother of Idor Shmuel Rosenkranz - Grandfather of Terri Lazarus, Past President of our Shule Henry Cooper - Father of David We wish the respective families blessings of long life and good health. |
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This week's PARSHA is Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) Moses instructs the people of Israel: When you enter the land that G‑d is giving to you as your eternal heritage, and you settle it and cultivate it, bring the first-ripened fruits (bikkurim) of your orchard to the Holy Temple, and declare your gratitude for all that G‑d has done for you. Our Parshah also includes the laws of the tithes given to the Levites and to the poor, and detailed instructions on how to proclaim the blessings and the curses on Mount Gerizim and Mount Eival—as discussed in the beginning of the Parshah of Re’eh. Moses reminds the people that they are G‑d’s chosen people, and that they, in turn, have chosen G‑d. The latter part of Ki Tavo consists of the Tochachah (“Rebuke”). After listing the blessings with which G‑d will reward the people when they follow the laws of the Torah, Moses gives a long, harsh account of the bad things—illness, famine, poverty and exile—that shall befall them if they abandon G‑d’s commandments. Moses concludes by telling the people that only today, forty years after their birth as a people, have they attained “a heart to know, eyes to see and ears to hear.” Click here to explore the Parsha. |
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