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Tu B'Av - "Jewish holiday of love"
According to the Mishna, Tu B'Av was a joyous holiday in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, marking the beginning of the grape harvest. On Yom Kippur and Tu B'Av, the unmarried girls of Jerusalem dressed in white garments and went out to dance in the vineyards. Like Valentine's Day, Tu B'Av is celebrated in Israel with flowers, cards, romantic dinners, parties and festivals of singing and dancing. Women and men are keeping the tradition of wearing white at many of these celebrations. The holiday is also considered to be a good date for a wedding
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 4 August: Light Candles by 5:17pm Shabbat 5 August: ends at 6:17pm
This Shabbat the Parashat is Eikev (see Synopsis below)
SERVICES: Fri, 4 August, Mincha 5:25pm Shabbat, 5 August, Shacharit 9:15am. Followed by a sit down kiddush kindly sponsored by Simone Virgona in memory of Abraham Rotstein ob'm. Sun, 6 August, Shacharit 8:00am Mon, 7 - Fri,11 August, Shacharit 6:45am Sun, 6 - Thurs, 10 August, Mincha 5:25pm
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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 Laila Engel, Adam Lang, Alfie Ungar, Allegra Mazzotta, Leah Kozminsky, Simon Sokolski, Sharon Frankel, Simone Virgona, Jono Elias, Phillip Grosman, Joshua Prince, Felicia Lazar. We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator.
Anniversary! Victoria & Tal Goldman, Jade & Josh Zajonc, Elana & Braham Sacks, Luisa & Terry Gerler. To many more happy and healthy years together.
Birth! Mazal Tov to Marni, Sam & Tyler Friede on the birth of their son and brother Brodie Jacob. Mazal Tov to the grandparents Sharon & Simon Prince and Karen Friede and Abe Friede. May he be a source of nachas and joy in good health.
Mazal Tov to Lauren, Nathan & Tia Cohen on birth of their son & brother Lev Pete. Mazal Tov to the grandparents Belinda & Michael Ross and Leora & Alon Cohen and great grandparents Elphine & Paul Bridgeman and Nan & Rex Moss May he be a source of nachas and joy in good health.
Yahrtzeits! Shabbat Henry Cyngler - husband of Danka, father of Charles, Jim & Jack Eve Oshlack - wife of George & mother of Alan Gail Rockman - wife of Robert Rockman
Sunday Pesach Degen - father of Zev & Roslyn Philip Gelfand - husband of Annette, father of Jono, Josh Gelfand & Danielle Goldman Faye Lux - mother of Barbara Michaels
Monday Fred Danby - father of Michael & Simon George Elias - father of Leslie Elias Leopold Winter - father of Colin Winter Wendy Melzack - mother of Nicky Kegen
Tuesday Solomon Boltin - father of Mannie Boltin & Cynthia Salter Irene Kaye - mother of Steven Kaye
Wednesday Alec Gibgot - husband of Daisy, father of Wendy Kramer & Sonia Kras, brother of Miriam Berman
Thursday Des Lee - husband of Maya, father of Michael & Jennifer Joseph Fisher - grandfather of Sue Fisher Regina Grosman - mother of Phillip & Alan
Friday Jean Aron - mother of Myra Degen
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 Eikev in a NutshellDeuteronomy 7:12–11:25The name of the Parshah, "Eikev," means "because," and it is found in Deuteronomy 7:12. In the Parshah of Eikev (“Because”), Moses continues his closing address to the children of Israel, promising them that if they will fulfill the commandments (mitzvot) of the Torah, they will prosper in the Land they are about to conquer and settle in keeping with G‑d’s promise to their forefathers. Moses also rebukes them for their failings in their first generation as a people, recalling their worship of the Golden Calf, the rebellion of Korach, the sin of the spies, their angering of G‑d at Taveirah, Massah and Kivrot Hataavah (“The Graves of Lust”). “You have been rebellious against G‑d,” he says to them, “since the day I knew you.” But he also speaks of G‑d’s forgiveness of their sins, and the Second Tablets which G‑d inscribed and gave to them following their repentance. Their forty years in the desert, says Moses to the people, during which G‑d sustained them with daily manna from heaven, was to teach them “that man does not live on bread alone, but by the utterance of G‑d’s mouth does man live.” Moses describes the land they are about to enter as “flowing with milk and honey,” blessed with the “seven kinds” (wheat, barley, grapevines, figs, pomegranates, olive oil and dates), and as the place that is the focus of G‑d’s providence of His world. He commands them to destroy the idols of the land’s former masters, and to beware lest they become haughty and begin to believe that “my power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.” A key passage in our Parshah is the second chapter of the Shema, which repeats the fundamental mitzvot enumerated in the Shema’s first chapter, and describes the rewards of fulfilling G‑d’s commandments and the adverse results (famine and exile) of their neglect. It is also the source of the precept of prayer, and includes a reference to the resurrection of the dead in the messianic age. © Copyright, all rights reserved. If you enjoyed this article, we encourage you to distribute it further, provided that you comply with Chabad.org's copyright policy.©
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