OCTOBER 13, 2018 --- 4 CHESHVAN 5779 PARSHAT NOACH MATTERS

Friday October 12 Shabbat, October 13 Reading: 5:29 pm Earliest Candle Lighting 7:30 am Hashkama Minyan 5:00 pm Bnei Akiva Groups Bereshit 6:9 - 11:32 6:15 pm Candle Lighting 8:15 am Chumash-Rashi Shiur with 5:00 pm Pre-Mincha Shiur with Hertz P. 26 6:25 pm Mincha Melech Halberstadt Strauchler Stone P. 30 9:00 am Shacharit: Sharp Sanctuary 6:05 pm Mincha Friday October 19 & Downstairs Minyan 6:25 pm Haftorah: 5:20 pm Earliest Candle Lighting 9:30 am Pray & Learn with Dr. Malamet 7:16 pm Shabbat Ends Yeshayahu 54:1 - 55:5 6:07 pm Candle Lighting 10:00 am Youth Programs Hertz P. 41 6:15 pm Mincha 10:00 am Teen Minyan Stone P. 1131

TODAH RABAH to the sponsors: MAZAL TOV AND OTHER MEMBERS MATTERS CONGREGATIONAL KIDDUSH: • Mazal Tov to Anne Burger and family on the marriage of her son, AdamAdam, to Laura Mincer. Ian & Pam Rosmarin in • Tzetchem L’shalom and b’hatzlacha to Hymie & Shirley SchildkrautSchildkraut, who are making Aliyah to commemoration of the yahrzeit Israel this fall. of Pam’s mother, Rocha Bayla z”l and Ian’s father, Meir Yahuda z”l Ies & Ruth van Messel in PLEASE WELCOME commemoration of the yahrzeit We are honoured to have an Israeli Air Force CaptainCaptain address our community after Musaf this of Ies’s brother, Jacob van Messel z”l and his mother, Antje Shabbat, in partnership with The Association for the Soldiers of Israel - Canada (ASI ). van Messel z”l The Fienberg family in SHAAREI SHOMAYIM UPCOMING PROGRAMS commemoration of the yahrzeit • of their father, John D. Sunday, October 14, 10:15-11:45 am - NoahNoah’’’’ss Ark Live Animal ShowShow. Fienberg z”l • Mondays, starting October 15, 9:30 am - NeviNevi’’’’imim Acharonim Shiur with Rabbi StrauchlerStrauchler. • Larry & Sarah Krauss in Mondays, resuming October 15, 12:30 pm - Writing GroupGroup with Florence BarikBarik. commemoration of the yahrzeit • Mondays, October 15-November 5, 7:30 pm - & Christianity at the Cross Roads with of Larry’s father, Nathan Rabbi Eli CohenCohen. At Shaarei Shomayim. See flyer on page 3. Krauss z”l • Tuesdays, October 16-30, 7:15 pm - Accessing the with Rabbi ShoreShore. See flyer on p. 3. DOWNSTAIRS MINYAN: • Tuesdays, starting October 16, 8:00 pm - Parshat Hashavua Shiur with Rabbi Elliott DiamondDiamond. • Sholom & Rifka Eisenstat in Wednesdays, starting October 24, 8:00 pm - Personal Growth Shiur with Rabbi Elihu AbbeAbbe. See honour of the birth of their flyer on page 3. grandson, Sidney Alexander • Shabbat, October 26-27 - Shlomo Katz ShabbatShabbat, Friday Night Dinner and Chazzan Zvi ththth SEUDAH SHLISHIT: KatzmanKatzman’’’’ss 40 Birthday TischTisch. See flyer on page 3. • Tuesday, October 30, 12:00 pm - Lunch & Learn with Elliott KatzKatz: “Masculinity - What the Torah Chaim & Maryka Weisz in and Talmud Can Teach Today’s Men.” $10/person. Register by calling Miriam at 416-789-3213. commemoration of the yahrzeit • of Maryka’s father, Oscar Shabbat, November 2-3 - YU Torah MiTzion Fall ShabbatonShabbaton.Shabbaton Berger z”l • Motzei Shabbat, November 3, 7:45 pm - ParentParent----ChildChild Learning Opening Program, with Rabbi Elihu Abbe.Abbe For more information contact Rabbi Abbe at [email protected]. TEEN MINYAN: Elihu Abbe • Friday, November 9, 5:00-6:00 pm - KidsKids’’ Musical Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbi ShoreShore. David & Anna Freudenstein in • Shabbat, November 10 - is back! The first installment, November 10, will be honour of the anniversary of Eliyahu's Bar NewYork FEST. Please join us for another year of special Kiddushim, celebrating various Kiddush foods and the culture that surrounds them.

HONOURING BRIAN CANTOR --- Shabbat, November 10, 2018 Presentation and Kiddush honouring Brian Cantor, our Immediate Past President. Please help make this a very special Shabbat for Brian by making a donation in his honour at shaareishomayim.shulcloud.com/form/BrianCantor.

SHABBAT PRAY & LEARN SERIES - DR. ELLIOTT MALAMET This Shabbat at 9:30 am, we welcome back Dr. ElliottElliott Malamet for the first of five Pray & LearnLearn sessions. We will explore the topic "After the Flood: Life's Challenges and Next Steps." The following sessions will take place on: December 1, January 19, April 6, and June 15. TORAH MATTERS: DATE DAVENING TIMES SHIURIM AND LECTURES Sunday, October 14 8:30 am Shacharit 7:30 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Strauchler 5 Cheshvan 6:15 pm Mincha Monday, October 15 6:55 / 7:45 am Shacharit 6:10 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Strauchler 6 Cheshvan 6:15 pm Mincha 9:30 am Nevi’im Acharonim Shiur with Rabbi Strauchler Tuesday, October 16 7:00 / 7:45 am Shacharit 6:15 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Strauchler 7 Cheshvan 6:15 pm Mincha 9:30 am The Birth of Moral Selfhood Shiur with Dr. Zolty 1:30 pm Yeshayah Shiur with Rabbi Torczyner 7:15 pm Accessing the Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Shore 8:00 pm Parshat Hashavua Shiur with Rabbi Diamond Wednesday, October 17 7:00 / 7:45 am Shacharit 6:15 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Shore 8 Cheshvan 6:15 pm Mincha

Thursday, October 18 6:55 / 7:45 am Shacharit 6:10 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Shore 9 Cheshvan 6:15 pm Mincha Friday, October 19 7:00 / 7:45 am Shacharit 6:15 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Shore 10 Cheshvan 5:20 pm Earliest Candle Lighting 6:07 pm Candle Lighting 6:15 pm Mincha

Kriyat Shema should be recited after 7:12 pm this week. PARSHA MATTERS - by Rabbi Chaim Strauchler FLOODS, NOW AND THEN Comparisons between global warming and Noah’s ark are so overwrought that there has even been a cheesy 2014 Hollywood movie preaching this lesson. Yet, this year, such linkage is inescapable as we read parshat Noach one week after the latest dire UN report on climate change. While most draw parallels with an eye towards extreme weather and rising sea levels, an examination of the social and political failures that brought on the flood is even more disturbingly evocative of today’s global paralysis. Rashi asks why God needed to instruct Noah to build an ark. Couldn’t God have saved his family in a less labour intensive manner? Rashi answers that the ark was a conversation starter. People would ask Noah what he was building and he would answer them by describing the impending flood. This should have spurred them to repent. It did not! The Talmud in 108b describes some of the conversations between Noah and his contemporaries: Noah the righteous would rebuke the people of his generation, and he said to them statements that are harsh as torches [kelapidim], and they would treat him with contempt. They said to him: Old man, why are you building this ark? Noah said to them: The Holy One, Blessed be He, is bringing a flood upon you. They said to him: A flood of what? If it is a flood of fire, we have another item and it is called alita, and it is fireproof. And if it is a flood of water that He brings, if He brings the water from the earth, we have iron plates with which we can plate the earth to prevent the water from rising. And if He brings the water from the heavens, we have an item and it is called ekev, and some say it is called ikkesh, which will absorb the water. The Torah describes a selfish thieving disregard for others ( chamas ) as the reason for the flood. The Talmud depicts how this selfish disregard continued in the people’s response to Noah’s warnings. Jonah delivered a similar message to the sinful people of Ninveh. They heeded his rebuke at the behest of their king. The people in Noah’s generation lacked the political means and the social will to take seriously his rebuke. They responded with a mocking disregard that underlined the very sins that begot the crisis. In thinking about our future, it is worthwhile to reflect not just on ocean temperatures, but also on the “sinful” inability of humanity to work together to address what ails us. Our social environment and physical environment depend on one another.

Rabbi Strauchler will give a preprepre-pre ---MinchaMincha Shiur this Shabbat at 5:00 pm on the topic: "The Seven Noachide Laws: Where Do They come from - What Do They Mean?"

MATTERS Stay and Play Shaar Chadash Shaar Yafo Shaar Aryeh Youth Programs (Ages 0 - 3) (Ages 2 - 5) (Grade 1 - 2) (Grade 3 - 5) 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Room 101 Room 102 Room 103 Room 105 Please note that the centre mechitza will be used on the following Shabbatot: October 27, November 17, and December 8. YAHRZEITS DATE YAHRZEITS BEING OBSERVED Shabbat, October 13 Frida Berkovits, mother of Violet Adler Abraham Brenman, brother of Harvey Brenman 4 Cheshvan Esther Brandys, mother of Miriam Koval Wolf Gordon, father of Annette Schenker Sunday, October 14 Anthony David, brother of Cris David Isaac Perlman, father of Kusiel Perlman 5 Cheshvan Meyer & Tauba Goldrich, parents of Pearl Goldrich Percy Stern, father of Lila Satok Joseph Granatstein, father of Gertrude Hershenhorn Monday, October 15 John D. Fienberg, father of Barry Fienberg and Stanley Harry Skopitz, father of Karen Donin 6 Cheshvan Fienberg Jacob van Messel, brother of Ies van Messel Bess Fyman, mother of Dale Fyman Tuesday, October 16 Sorrell Koven, father of Randall Craig Samuel Mandelker, father of Sarah Gerstl 7 Cheshvan Nathan Krauss, father of Larry Krauss Florence Shainhouse, mother of Marlene Brudner Wednesday, October 17 David Melvin Ellenzweig, father of Lonni Zeifman Mordechai Mandel, father of Jean Greenstein 8 Cheshvan Hilda Chaya Golombek, mother of Harvey Golombek Frances Slavens, mother of Eric Slavens and James Rita Jacobson, mother of Pam Rosmarin Slavens Thursday, October 18 Oscar Berger, father of Maryka Weisz Bernice Henry, mother of Robin Mednick 9 Cheshvan Sam Frohlich, father of Betty Charnaw Antje van Messel, mother of Ies van Messel Friday, October 19 Menachem Mendel Malatzky, father of Aurelia Ostro Benny Wine, father of Yetta Brenman 10 Cheshvan Irene Tucker, mother of Michele Bieler

If you would like some help saying Kaddish, please see Ralph Levine, our Shammas & BaBa’’’’alal Koreh. SHAAREI SHOMAYIM BAR AND BAT MITZVAH PROGRAMS Registration is now open for our Bar and Bat Mitzvah ProgramsPrograms. Join us as we explore Jewish texts and participate in fun and meaningful activities led by talented educators, experienced professionals, renowned and more! Open to members and non members. To register go to shaareishomayim.shulcloud.com/BneiMitzvah. COMMUNITY MATTERS • Sunday, October 14, 2:00 pm - The Canadian Jewish LiteraryLiterary AwardsAwards: honouring authors who have created unique works that reflect their commitment to Jewish writing. At York University. To register go to cjlawards.ca • Sunday, October 14, 7:00 pm - Remembering Yitzhak RabinRabin.Rabin Join Israeli law professor and supreme court nominee, Professor Ruth Gavison, and all of Toronto’s ShinShinim, for a discussion about Rabin’s Legacy and Israeli Democracy. At Beth Tzedec, 1700 Bathurst Street. RSVP by October 7 to [email protected]. • Mondays, starting October 15, 8:00 pm - Bnei Akiva MondayMonday Night Learning with Noa MuscatMuscat. A Beit setting for high school and university students. At B’nai Torah, 465 Patricia Avenue. • Motzei Shabbat, October 20, 8:30 pm - Bnei Akiva ManhigutManhigut Limousine Scavenger HuntHunt. Register at bneiakiva.ca/limo. • Sundays, October 21-May 19, 8:00 pm - Talmud Study forfor WomenWomen. Join Mekorot for a year long study of Tractate Shabbat with Rabbi Noah Sonenberg. At Yeshivat Or Chaim. For registration and info contact [email protected] or 647-708-6724. • Sunday, October 28, 8:30 am–6:30 pm - Limmud Toronto 20182018. A festival of Jewish learning, culture and the arts. At the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, 78 Queens Park. For information and tickets go to limmud.ca. • Shabbat-Sunday, November 2-4 - Bnei Akiva Midwest RegionalRegional Kenes TorahTorah. For grades 11-12. Register at bneiakiva.ca/torah. • Thursday, November 8 - Canadian Magen David Adom (Israel(Israel’(Israel ’’’ss Emergency and Blood Service): An Extraordinary EvEveningening of Insight and IntrigueIntrigue. For tickets and sponsorship call Iris Ehrent at 416-780-0034, or email [email protected].

GO OUT AND VOTE! Election Day is October 22. Advance Polls are open Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 10:00 am-7:00 pm, at Glen Long Community Centre (35 Glen Long Rd) and Armour Heights Community Centre (2140 Avenue Rd). Bring a piece of ID that has your name and address, e.g. a Driver’s license. For more information call 416-398-VOTE. REFUAH SHLEIMAH z

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