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Wishing you a pleasant and peaceful Shabbat and weekend! |
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 7 May: Light Candles by 5:09pm Shabbat, 8 May: Shabbat ends at 6:07pm This week is Parshat Behar & Bechukotai - See synopsis below. In-Shule Services - We'd love to see you! Please note the following COVID Government requirements: Weekday: Please scan the QR code on the Shule entrance door. Shabbat: Pre-registration is required - Please Register by clicking here. Tonight Fri Night 5:20pm - L'chaim 5pm Shabbat morning 9:30am Sunday Morning 8:00am Mon - Fri Morning 6:45am Sun - Thur Mincha Maariv 5:10pm |
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Click here to enjoy photos from our Lag B'Omer event! |
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Our 2021 Bar Mitzvah boys will be participating in a hands-on workshop with the Scribe this Thursday, and will learn how a Torah, Tefillin and Mezuzah are made! Contact Ronny, ronnyk@elwoodshule.org, for more info. |
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Have you booked? Join us for a delicious Shavuot dinner, Sun, 16 May, 6:30pm @ Elwood Shule! Bookings close this Tues: www.elwoodshule.org/dinner. Fully catered dairy meal, featuring talks by Rebecca Davis - Writer & former Features Editor, The Australian Jewish News and Danielle Cohen - PSO Victoria Police.
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Shavuot Ice Cream Party! Mon, 17 May, 10:30am all are welcome to come and listen to the reading of the 10 Commandments, followed by a a delicious dairy Kiddush. The kids stand on the Bima for the 10 Commandments and will enjoy a fun Ice Cream party!
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Elwood Shule is delighted to host Australia's Biggest Morning Tea on Sun, 30 May, 10:30am - 12pm. Join us for a cuppa and wonderful company as we do our part to raise awareness and funds, supporting a cancer free future. We look forward to hearing from Kathy Kaplan OAM and Esther Kleiner. Everyone is welcome! Bookings to open this coming week. |
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Our Hebrew School students are getting up close and personal with the Torah, as we learn about and prepare for Shavuot! |
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Please keep us in the loop by notifying us of your lifecycle events! Birth Mazal Tov to Ellie & Elliot Freeman on the birth of their daughter! Mazal Tov to the grandparents Deb Nirens, George & Nicki Braitberg, Ofra Freeman and David Freeman and to the great grandparents Ester Braitberg and Beryl Nirens! May the newborn be a source of Naches and joy, in good health.
Bar Mitzvah Anniversary Mazal Tov to Josh Peker who will be celebrating his BMA in Shule tomorrow, by reading the Torah. Talk to Rabbi Shmuel or Ronny to celebrate yours! Happy - Jewish - Birthday! We wish a very Happy Jewish Birthday to Layla Adler, Mae Arvatz Josh Balbin, Jack Chrapot, Luis Fleiszig, Zak Gelfand, Terry Gerler, Adam Haber, David Kiper, Miriam Rotblat, Natasha Sholl, David Rubinstein, Michael Weingart and Rinat Zalcman . We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator. Yahrtzeits Wednesday Tzvi Hirsh Levin - Husband of Devorah, father of Mordechai Thursday Susie Caplan - Mother of Shirley Weiner, Murray and Nathan We wish the respective families blessings of long life and good health. |
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This week's PARSHA is Behar & Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34) On the mountain of Sinai, G‑d communicates to Moses the laws of the Sabbatical year: every seventh year, all work on the land should cease, and its produce becomes free for the taking for all, man and beast. Seven Sabbatical cycles are followed by a fiftieth year—the Jubilee year, on which work on the land ceases, all indentured servants are set free, and all ancestral estates in the Holy Land that have been sold revert to their original owners. Additional laws governing the sale of lands, and the prohibitions against fraud and usury, are also given. G‑d promises that if the people of Israel will keep His commandments, they will enjoy material prosperity and dwell secure in their homeland. But He also delivers a harsh “rebuke,” warning of the exile, persecution and other evils that will befall them if they abandon their covenant with Him. Nevertheless, “Even when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away; nor will I ever abhor them, to destroy them and to break My covenant with them; for I am the L‑rd their G‑d.” The Parshah concludes with the rules on how to calculate the values of different types of pledges made to G‑d. Click here to explore the Parsha. |
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Bill Gates and his wife are having marital problems. Did they ever think of just turning the marriage off, wait 15 seconds and then turn it back on again? |
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