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Sukkot BBQ
With Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur behind us, it was an opportune time to meet and greet in a casual environment our new Rabbi and Rebbetzin and fress at our annual Sukkot BBQ. Although the weather threatened, that did not deter the 80 plus attendees from Shockling & fressing. Rabbi & Rebbetzin Effy and Shayna and the Board would like to thank all those that attended and many thanks to our volunteer cooks, Nick, Johnny & Levi, to Chaim & Mimi for the setting up and Ronny & Jack for their assistance. Thank you to Peter Unger Catering for supplying the delicious food. We now look forward to celebrating Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah.
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Simchat Torah 16 - 18 October: Chusan Torah & Chusan Bereishit
The Shule thought it would be appropriate for this year's Chusan Torah to be our Ba'al Koreh Chazzan Ronny Kowadlo and signifying a new Chapter in the Shule's history the Chusan Bereishit will be our new Rabbi Effy Block. Please join us for singing and dancing. The children's Simchat Torah celebration will take place on Monday evening at 5:30 - 6:30pm. The highlight of the second day, Simchat Torah (“The Joy of the Torah”), is the hakafot, held on both the eve and the morning of Simchat Torah, in which we march and dance with the Torah scrolls around the Bimah (reading table) in the synagogue. (In many synagogues, hakafot are conducted also on the eve of Shemini Atzeret.)
On this joyous day when we conclude the Torah, it is customary for every man to take part in the celebration by receiving an aliyah. The children, too, receive an aliyah! Simchat Torah is the only time of the year when children are called up to the Torah, for the Kol Hane'arim ("All the Youth") aliyah.
After the final aliyah of the Torah, we immediately begin a new cycle from the beginning of Genesis (from a second Torah scroll)
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 14 Oct: Light Candles by 7:18pm Shabbat 15 Oct: ends at 8:17pm This Shabbat is the 6th Day Sukkot. Fri Night: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Shabbat morning: Shacharit: 9:30am - 11:30am. Followed by a Kiddush. Shabbat: Mincha/Maariv: 7:30pm Sun 16th Hoshana Raba: Morning: Shacharit: 8:00am - 9:00am Mincha/Maariv: 7:30pm - 7:00 - 8:00pm
Monday 17th Shemini Atzeret: Morning: Shacharit: 9:30am Yiskor: approx 11:00am Simchat Torah Kids Celebration! 5:30-6:30pm Mincha: 7:30pm Maariv/Hakofot dancing with the Torahs! 8:15pm
Tuesday 18th Simchat Torah: Morning: Shacharit: 9:30am Hakofot Dancing with the Torahs ! 10:15am approx. Community Lunch: 1:00pm Mincha/Maariv: 7:30pm
Wed - Friday: Shacharit - 6:45am - 7:20am Wed - Thrs evening: 7:30pm - 8:00pm
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Yahrtzeits Shabbat
Sunday Simon Zielinski - father of Stephen, Andrew & Bryan Essie Michaels - grandmother of Richard Michaels
Monday Alexander Blumenstock - uncle of Fred Milgrom Minnie Fisher - mother of Vann Fisher
Tuesday Sam Kleiner - father of Chantel, Esther and Jackie Minia Rotstein - mother of David Rotstein
Wednesday Alan Rothman - father of Leon Rothman Dani Aubor - brother of Levi Aubor
Thursday Yehudah Weislitzer - father of Anna Chrapot Hana Zeger - grandmother of Leonie Fleiszig
Friday Samuel Lieberman - father of Norman Lieberman
We wish the respective families blessings of long life and good health.
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Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah in a Nutshell
The Holiday when we become the Torah's "Dancing Feet"Immediately following the seven-day festival of Sukkot comes the two-day festival of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. (In the Land of Israel, the festival is "compacted" in a single day). Shemini Atzeret means "the eighth [day] of retention"; the chassidic masters explain that the primary purpose of the festival is to retain and "conceive" the spiritual revelations and powers that we are granted during the festivals of the month of Tishrei, so that we could subsequently apply them to our lives throughout the year. The "Four Kinds" are not taken on Shemini Atzeret. We still eat in the sukkah (according to the custom of most communities), but without making the special blessing on the sukkah. On the second day of Shemini Atzeret (i.e., the ninth day from the beginning of Sukkot)--and in the Land of Israel—we go back to eating in the home. The second day of Shemini Atzeret is called Simchat Torah ("Rejoicing of the Torah"). On this day we conclude, and begin anew, the annual Torah reading cycle. The event is marked with great rejoicing, especially during the "hakafot" procession, in which we march, sing and dance with the Torah scrolls around the reading table in the synagogue. "On Simchat Torah," goes the chassidic saying, "we rejoice in the Torah, and the Torah rejoices in us; the Torah, too, wants to dance, so we become the Torah's dancing feet." Other festival observances include the special prayer for rain included in the musaf prayer of Shemini Atzeret, and the custom that all are called up to the Torah on Simchat Torah. © 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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