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What a beautiful and busy week this was with Chanukah celebrations and multiple Simchas (scroll down for photos). The simchas continue into this Shabbat and the next week! How good it feels to finally be able to come together and celebrate these wonderful occasions the way they should be celebrated! Mazal Tov! On the home front, Rivki & I got a lot of naches from Reuvi, as he graduated Primary School and earned an excellence award for learning & Derech Eretz (mentchlichkeit). Both Reuvi and Mendy performed with the school ensemble during the graduation. We are so proud of all our children for enduring this difficult year, doing the best they can and coming through the other side. Onwards and upwards! Rivki & I also got to go out together for the first time in a longtime and enjoyed the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's first live concert since the onset of COVID. It was an amazing night of music. A highlight was watching the phenomenal 14 year old Christian Li play Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Mind-blowing and spine-tingling. What's fascinating when watching and listening to a symphony, is how I find myself going back and forth between being aware of the symphony as a whole and the one piece of music I'm hearing and then being drawn to the individual musician and noticing the unique sound of their instrument within the symphony. Be it a ding of the triangle, the deep rhythm of the double bass, a harmony of the flute or the soft finger plucking of the cello. It becomes apparent that if any of those musicians don't play their instrument, integral notes would be missing, the music would sound completely different and the symphony would be incomplete. There's most definitely a life lesson there, and that is how we should recognise our indispensable role and place in the grand symphony of our universe. It just wouldn't be the same without you, and I. It is only through our unique sound, that we join the chorus of all those around us and bring immense harmony and beauty to our own lives, to our family, community and to our world. So this week, between watching family's celebrate simchas, children graduating, enjoying a symphony experience and sadly listening to someone share how they don't feel like they have a place in the world. The message of the symphony resonates loud and clear. Let us notice and remind those around us that they matter, they are important and to recognise and use the individual blessings and talents that the Almighty, our Conductor, has assigned to to each of us. Wishing us all a Shabbat Shalom and an uplifting and symphonic week ahead!
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 10 Dec: Light Candles by 8:17pm Shabbat, 11 Dec: Shabbat ends at 9:22pm This week is Parshat Vayigash - See synopsis below.
In-Shule Services - We'd love to see you!
Fri Night 6:45pm - Pre-register required by clicking here. Shabbat morning 9:30am - Pre-register required by clicking here. Followed by Kiddush, kindly sponsored in honour of the Mittleman/Aflalo call-up. Sunday Morning 8:00am Mon - Fri Morning 6:45am Sun - Thur Mincha Maariv 7:30pm
This Tuesday is Asara b’Tevet, when we annually fast on the Tenth of Tevet. The fast begins at 4.06am and ends at 9.09pm. In 425 BCE the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem, triggering a devastating chain of events that ultimately led to our holy Temple’s destruction. We refrain from food and drink from daybreak to nightfall, and add Selichot and other special supplements to our prayers. For more info on this day click here. --- You must be fully vaccinated to attend Shule. Pre-registration is required for Shabbat Services. For weekdays, please scan the QR code at the Shule entrance or check in manually with the COVID marshal if you are unable to scan the QR code. Please ensure you have linked your vaccination certificate to your Service Victoria app on your phone.
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It's been a wonderful week of Simchas!! Mazal Tov to Raphy Sable on his Bar Mitzvah! Mazal Tov to Noah Lipshut & Ronit Meltzer on their pre wedding call-up! Mazal Tov to Sophie Harris & Ariel Jacobson on their marriage!
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I had the pleasure in my capacity as Victoria Police Chaplain to collaborate with my colleagues ADF Chaplain Rabbi Dovid Gutnick and ADF Senior Rabbi Ralph Genende for another wonderful Australian Army & Victoria Police Chanukah celebration, kindly hosted by Daniel & Vivien Lipshut. The event was attended by Jewish and non Jewish Army and Police Chaplains, Army and Police representatives, including Assistant Commissioner Russell Barrett, members of the Victoria Police Jewish Network and communal leaders. In the spirit of Chanukah, this was an opportunity to thank those who courageously stand up for what is right and run toward danger to protect all that is just and good. May Gd bless our heroes and keep them safe.
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Sisterhood Book Club this Monday, 13 Dec, 8:15pm Ladies, please join us for our last Book Club Meeting of the year. We’ll be discussing Beneath a scarlet sky by Mark Sullivan. Hosted by the Karnowskys, 7 Vadlure Ave, East St Kilda. All ladies welcome! To get involved in the Sisterhood or to host a Book Club evening, please contact Rivki, sisterhood@elwoodshule.org.
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Join Rivki for a Bat Mitzvah Mum & Daughter Challah Bake this Wed, 15 Dec 7:30pm. Contact rivki@elwoodshule.org for more info.
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Celebrating your Bat / Bar Mitzvah in 2022? Join our educational, fun and meaningful program starting in Feb! Be a part of it! Contact Ronny for more details ronnyk@elwoodshule.org.
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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 Gideon Banky, Dean Banky, Mr Marc Besen, Jackson Braby, Toby Davis, Nicole Degen, Myra Degen, Mandy Feldman, Adam Frenkiel, Michael Frenkiel, Julian Haber, Emily Hellinger, Nathan Karavani, Arlene Lazarus, Leesa Mittelman, Richard Nowak, Sonia Pavlova, Judah Sable, Danie Sable, Julian Schlesinger, Suzy Suss. We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator. Pre wedding call-up! Mazal Tov to Nat Mittleman & Zac Aflalo on their pre wedding call-up this Shabbat! Mazal Tov to the parents Sandra & Henry Mittleman and Atida & Shimon Aflalo. Mazal Tov to the grandparents Mr & Mrs Kausman and Geula Aflalo. Wedding! Mazal Tov Sophie Harris & Ariel Jacobson on their marriage! May you be blessed with a life filled with love and joy in good health! Mazal Tov to Gene & Lawrence Harris and Pauline Wroby! May you enjoy continued nachas and simchas in good health!
Mazal Tov to Leonie & Luis Fleiszig on the recent marriage of their granddaughter Kim Fulop to Philip Rothschild! Mazal Tov to the great grandmother Kato Fleiszig! May you enjoy continued nachas and simchas in good health! Happy Anniversary! We wish a very Happy Anniversary to Sam & Marni Friede, Albert & Joan Krantz, David & Arlene Lazarus. Michael & Sarah Syme. To many more happy and healthy years! Yahrtzeits Shabbat Pola Schneier - Mother of Leah Shaw Sunday Cela Granek - Mother of Harry Monday Shoshanah Birenbaum - Grandmother of Jack Lipson Tuesday Chanoch Gurwitz - Father of Herman Thursday Felix Kaye - Father of Steven Miriam Zaidenshtein - Grandmother of Valentina Nemirovsky Friday Hela Strasberg - Mother of Halina Edelman
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This week's PARSHA is Vayigash (Genesis 44:18–47:27) Judah approaches Joseph to plead for the release of Benjamin, offering himself as a slave to the Egyptian ruler in Benjamin’s stead. Upon witnessing his brothers’ loyalty to one another, Joseph reveals his identity to them. "I am Joseph,” he declares. “Is my father still alive?” The brothers are overcome by shame and remorse, but Joseph comforts them. “It was not you who sent me here,” he says to them, “but G‑d. It has all been ordained from Above to save us, and the entire region, from famine.” The brothers rush back to Canaan with the news. Jacob comes to Egypt with his sons and their families—seventy souls in all—and is reunited with his beloved son after 22 years. On his way to Egypt he receives the divine promise: “Fear not to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of you a great nation. I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again.” Joseph gathers the wealth of Egypt by selling food and seed during the famine. Pharaoh gives Jacob’s family the fertile county of Goshen to settle, and the children of Israel prosper in their Egyptian exile. Click here to explore the Parsha. © Copyright, all rights reserved, Chabad.org. |
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