Hey, kids!!! We wish Refuah Sh’lema to: Rachel Akierman בייה Come downstairs to our beautiful youth room for songs, stories & Lillian Budovitch Paula Meyer Susan Mccallum crafts at 10:30 am. Julia Bahar and her team of volunteers will Rosa Weisberg Pola Sankiewicz David Young guide you in some fun on this Shabbat morning! The Torah Talk Sam Weisberg Abe Swimmer Hedy Green and Treats program begins immediately following the Torah ------
reading! Kids ages 8 and up - please join us in the library for a With reverence, we honour the Yahrzeits of: Betty Saxe 18 Reiner Road, Toronto, Ontario M3H 2K9 416-636-3451 great discussion about this week's Torah portion. Parents, if you Leslie Bernknopf Harry Benjamin Tinianov Mayer Waksberg www.bethradom.com Annie Katz Jenny Okorofsky Norman Slack have suggestions or donations or would like to volunteer to help Parsha Vayetze ------this amazing program please, contact [email protected]! Happy Birthday wishes to: Alanna Streiman ------November 29, 2014 7 Kislev, 5775 Matthew Catzman Carly Levett Yaffa Fortes ------IT’S TIME TO START PLANNING! If you have children born in Ethan Zwirek James Van Bergh Ronald Kantor Torah: page 111 Ch: 30, v. 14 2002 or 2003, then it’s time to take a closer look at Beth Radom’s ------Maftir: page 114, Ch. 31, v. 14 Haftorah: page 118 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Program! Our Canadian Young Judaea Happy Anniversary wishes to: ------partnership combines private Torah/Haftorah tutoring with group Sima & Vladimir Chramow 54th Anniversary Today’s Congregational Kiddush is sponsored by sessions focused on meaningful Jewish living, resulting in a well Lottie & Ralph Glass 58th Anniversary Ed & Linda Saxe in memory of Ed’s late mother, Betty Saxe. rounded Bar/Bat Mitzvah education suitable for Day School and Miriam & Nathan Birnbaum 32nd Anniversary The Kiddush will take place in the Supplementary School students. For details, contact our Bar/Bat ------Belzberg/Weisberg Hall on the lower level. Mitzvah coordinator, Cindy Joseph, [email protected]. CHANUKAH IS ONLY THREE WEEKS AWAY ------For dates & availability call Miriam at 416-636-3451 x24 OY, what do you get for the Bubby and Zaidy The following Minyan times have been requested by Prime 2015 dates are already being reserved! who have EVERYTHING???? members of Beth Radom wishing to say Kaddish: ------Honour your loved ones with a Friday, November 29th at 6:00 pm Volunteers are needed from 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm st LEAF on the TREE OF LIFE or Monday December 1 at 6:00 pm and for the December 18 Bingo Session a DEDICATION in a Sim Shalom Siddur nd Charity Bingo provides Beth Radom with significant revenue Tuesday, December 2 at 7:30 am and 6:00 pm. Call 416-636-3451 x24 or email [email protected] calculated on a per session basis. Please donate an evening of Please plan to attend. It’s a Mitzvah! Orders placed by Dec 8th ------your time and help us fill the required volunteer placements for th will be ready in time for Chanukah. Adult Bowling – Saturday, January 17 , 2015 each assigned session! To volunteer, please Strike away the winter ‘blahs’ by bowling with Beth Radom! contact Jordan Cait [email protected] Bring your friends and family; invite your neighbours! Grab a friend & sign up for FUNdraising $13 (+HST) p/p – for 90 minutes of fun, fun! at one or more of the JANUARY, Pro Bowl – Richmond Hill at 8:00 pm. FEBRUARY & MARCH sessions listed here. Email [email protected] to sign up. Sunday, January 11 from 11 PM to 3 AM ------Thursday, January 22 from 5 PM to 9 PM Shabbat and Candle Lighting Times Thursday, January 29 from 8 PM to 12 PM Friday, November 28th Light Candles at 4:25 pm Tuesday, February 10 from 5 PM to 9PM Saturday, November 29th Shabbat ends at 5:30 pm Sunday, February 15 from 8 PM to 12 PM Friday, December 5th Light Candles at 4:23 pm Sunday, March 8 from 2 PM to 6 PM Saturday, December 6th Shabbat ends at 5:28 pm Sunday, March 22 from 11 PM to 3 AM Regular Weekly Service Times Sunday, March 29 from 5 PM to 9 PM Weekday Mornings at 7:30 am Sunday Mornings at 9:00 am ------Friday Evening at 6:00 pm Shabbat Mornings at 9:30 am It is customary to make a contribution for ------honours received on the Bima. E-mail [email protected]; You can contact us at: Call 416-636-3451 x24, or go to www.bethradom.com
PRESIDENT: Jordan Cait [email protected] and cllick the DONATE NOW! Button. ------RABBI: Rabbi Dr. Geoffrey Haber [email protected] Are there wonderful things happening in your life? Share with GABBAI: Mark Vernon [email protected] your Beth Radom Family by posting your GOOD NEWS in the ADMINISTRATOR: Miriam Sharpe [email protected] Shabbos Sheet! Call 416-636-3451 or email [email protected] HEBREW SCHOOL PRINCIPAL: Cindy Joseph [email protected] RABBINIC REFLECTIONS hydrogen and one part oxygen does not make waterfalls and Beth Radom Congregation is pleased raindrops, brooks and snowflakes, less wonderful. We need to Rabbi Dr. Geoffrey Haber, DMin, BCC to welcome our new exclusive event facilitator! pause from time to time to consider our humanity and our Did you ever watch a baby or toddler as he or she explores his or achievements, to look at nature with its beauty and bounty, and her world. Everything is new; everything is exciting; everything is marvel at what we see. Mitzuyan Kosher Catering Mitzuyan Kosher Caterers, operating under COR supervision, is wonderful. A child’s world is full of awe and wonder. It isn’t by A great religious philosopher finds the origin of religion in “the very excited to bring their new and innovative style of kosher chance that the creators of the hit TV series about a young boy sense of the holy.” In a similar vein, we must look upon our cuisine to our Beth Radom home. Operating out of Beth Radom’s growing up in the 1960s called it “The Wonder Years.” Our years world—filled with its wonders—and find in it a “sense of the holy.” professional kitchen, it is the promise of Mitzuyan to deliver quality of childhood are filled with awe, mystery, magic and wonder. The Bible reminds us in one of the wisest of its passages (Psalm food and superb service on a timely basis, to meet the highest levels Indeed, the great educator and philosopher, John Dewey, 111:10), “The awe of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” We must of customer satisfaction and to set a new standard of excellence for proclaims: “Education begins in wonder and ends in wisdom.” Beth Radom celebrations! learn to say with Jacob of old, “How full of awe is this place.”
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