SHABBAT BULLETIN Parashat Ha'azinu 21/22 September 2018 • 13 Tishrei 5778 A Seal upon your Heart MAZAL TOV Ryan Folden on his A few years ago I was fortunate to learn a beautiful teaching with Bar Mitzvah Rabbi Miles Krassen. This teaching, from Avraham Weinberg, the last (Main Sanctuary) Slonimer Rebbe, focuses on the period beginning with Rosh Hodesh Elul and concluding with Shemini Atzeret. CANDLE LIGHTING Friday 5:32pm We tend to think of each festival in our calendar as separate entities Saturday 6:28pm with their own set of customs, prayers and rituals. The Slonimer has reframed the High Holiday period. He wants us to understand this TORAH (page 1185) period as a journey, a pilgrimage of the heart and a period of ego Deuteronomy 32:1 - refinement. 32:52 Through the month of Elul to the end of Shemini Atzeret we engage HAFTARAH in teshuvah. By asking for forgiveness from those we have hurt and (page 1296) offended we move from a place of constriction to open-hearted II Samuel 22:1 - 22:51 embodiment of a love that is divine at its source. On Yom Kippur we do SHABBAT SERVICES this through tefilah, (prayer) and fasting. During Sukkot and Shemini Erev Shabbat Atzeret we strive to achieve this through joy, dance and celebration. • 6:15pm - The Slonimer Rebbe develops this idea further by stating that there are Masorti Service two types of festivals. One which embodies “a seal upon your arm,” and (Neuweg) the other, “a seal upon your heart.” (Song of Songs 8:6). • 6:15pm - Shabbat Live During Pesach, Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot we are involved in fulfilling (New Sanctuary) practical mitzvot by eating matzah, blowing the shofar and building a Shabbat Morning succah. These three festivals represent, “seal upon your arm.” • 9:00am - Shavuot, Yom Kippur and Shemini Atzeret do not have any practical Masorti service mitzvot connected to them. They represent a “seal upon your heart, as (New Sanctuary) love is as strong/fierce as death.” • 10:00am - Furthermore during Shemini Atzeret/ Simchat Torah we finish reading Progressive service the Torah and begin the cycle again. The last letter of the Torah is (Neuweg) lamed (Yisrael) and the first letter of the Torah is beth (bereishit)- lev (heart). As we link the end of the cycle to the beginning we set the Renewal Sukkot Torah as a seal upon our hearts and our levavot (hearts) are transformed. Celebration: Music and More - The process that begins during the month of Elul and that concludes Friday with Shemini Atzeret is a time of deepening love. We have opened September 28 from our hearts, “seal upon your hearts,” to the real possibility of authentic 6:15pm (Neuweg) relationship with the mekor hachayim (the source of all life) and all of creation. This relationship allows the divine presence (shechinah) to find Renewal Shabbat a dwelling place in our world. Each and everyone of us, pilgrims, as we Meditations journey together from Rosh Hodesh Elul to Shemini Atzeret open up 9am-10am - Shabbat the possibility for a real spiritual paradigm shift in our lives and in the Mornings in October world. (Neuweg) _________________ May you all be blessed with health, happiness and insight for the coming year. Morning Minyan This Wednesday, Cantor George Mordecai Thursday & Friday at 6:30am (New Sanctuary) 7 Ocean St, Woollahra NSW 2025 • 02 9389 6444 • [email protected] • www.emanuel.org.au SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER - 11:00AM TO 10:00PM Book now for Shir Madness, the Jewish music festival being held this October at Emanuel Synagogue. Tickets are just $75 + booking fee for a full day of musical performances! Featuring 25 acts on multiple stages featuring the best of Australian and international Jewish performers. In addition, Emanuel Synagogue members receive a 10% discount. Simply enter the discount code: emanuel member on the Enter Details screen. Book now at shirmadness.com to take advantage of this special rate! SMALL CHANGES, BIG DIFFERENCES Sunday October 21st from 7:00pm Inspiring stories and practical ideas Sometimes we see the problems of the world and they seem so overwhelming, we wonder what we can do. Join us for a chance to hear from some of our congregants who have made changes big and small and each one has changed the world. Please Support Our Kol Nidre Appeal As we commit to securing our future, we ask that you please give generously to our Kol Nidre Appeal so we can continue to support our community. If you have not yet donated, please see: emanuel.org.au/kn or call 9389 6444 MAZON BAGS A reminder to fill your Mazon Bags Rabbi Jeffrey B. Kamins OAM with non-perishable Arno & Hella Seefeldt Rabbinic Chair Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio Rabbi Rafi Kaiserblueth food to help those in need and return them to the Synagogue before Simchat Torah. If you did not pick up a bag at Yom Kippur, any other strong shopping bag will be suitable. Rev. Sam Zwarenstein Cantor George Mordecai Rabbi Dr Orna Triguboff Director of Communal Engagement WHAT’S ON Kef Kids - Fridays from 4:00pm-5:30pm Kef Kids is an educational program for children in years K–5 - an exciting, fun way for kids to connect with Judaism and their community. Conversations about Israel - every Monday from 10:00am-11:30am This discussion is on hold until October 8 due to Sukkot. Sukkot Celebration: Music and More - Friday September 28 from 6:15pm Enjoy a night of singing, teaching and meditation with Cantor George Mordecai and Rabbi Dr Orna Triguboff followed by pot luck vegetarian dinner. Celebrate Simchat Torah - Monday 1 October from 6:15pm Join us for the celebration of the Torah where we dance and sing and rejoice that we have completed the Torah reading for one year and are ready to begin again. It is a joyous and fun celebration for all, especially children. Border Politics movie - Sunday 28 October from 7:00pm In this fascinating documentary, leading Australian human rights barrister Julian Burnside travels the globe to investigate the role that anti-terrorism legislation is playing not only in the lives of the displaced, but all of us, as he argues this threatens the very core of basic human rights and democratic principles. Producer Lois Harris will present the movie. Sukkah decorating & party Sunday 23 September 2018 5:00pm decorating - 6:15pm service & dinner Come and decorate our sukkah with a birthday party theme for our 80th birthday. We will provide the materials, you provide the creativity. We will follow the decoration with a short service and a light dinner. Fun for all the family! Sushi & Stories in the Sukkah Monday 24th September - 6:15pm services • 6:45pm sushi and stories Come and join us for a night of storytelling in the sukkah about the theme of “home.” Listen to our presenters as they tell personal stories. Join Nefesh Mountain at our Services Shabbat Live - October 5th from 6:15pm Jewish Renewal Shabbat - October 6th from 10:00am followed by pot luck lunch Join us at services for special services led by Shir Madness headliners, New York band Nefesh Mountain. Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg together with their band are pioneers of a transcendent new genre – fusing the apparently disparate worlds of American Appalachian and Jewish traditions! Plus61J together with Emanuel Synagogue present Israel, Jews & the Middle East through film Join us each month for a fascinating festival of film followed by engaging discussion Next month - 10th October, 7:00pm for 7:15pm The Holocaust in Israeli Cinema and culture The Flat (2012, 97 minutes) For more information and to book:emanuel.org.au/films IN MEMORY There are mourners in our community to whom we extend our sincerest sympathies on the death of their loved ones. Shiva: Sophie Diamond, Alfred Parker, Arthur Eizenberg, Gerald Wolff Shloshim: Judith Auerbach, Robin Nahum, Fillip Tveshor, Leah Goodman, Zita Evans, Marie Con, Yoli Dunkel, Rodney Lesley Stern This week we observe the Yahrzeits of (observed by): * Memorial Light Moses (Moshe) Aaron (Reuben Aaron) Felisa Nicdao (Elenita Nicdao) * Jeanette (Nita) Berkman Hetti Penn (Lois Harris) Anne Black (Edna Viner) Dora Perry (Reg Grinberg) Rosa Brender (David Brender, Mathew Radvin (Sandra Radvin) Rodney Brender) * Elias Raymond * Vera Cooks (Andrew Cooks) Herta Reik (Susan Denenberg) Alex Danos (Nicky Stiassny) Ron Ronen (Izhar Ronen) Lynne Davies (Rodney Davies) Erica Mary Rosen (Annette Guerry, Paul De Jong (Gillian De Jong) Susan Lowy, Ernest Rosen) Anne Engelman (Julian Engelman) Albert Isaac Rotenstein Jack Engelman (Julian Engelman) (George Rotenstein) Mary Erdelyi (Anne Slade) Reuben Ezra Saul (Beverley Saul) Marianne Friedlander (Margaret Spinak, Rosy Schweizer (Norbert Schweizer, Jason Spinak, Jenny Spinak, Richard Schweizer) Jeremy Spinak) * Bessie Seamonds (Morris Seamonds) Maria Frocht (David Frocht) * Sarah Sharbanee (Aliza Sassoon, Joseph Gelb (George Gelb) Regina Sassoon) Raymond Hope (Hillel Hope) * Alexander Sterynski Ruth Jacobs (Lynda Greenblo) Alexandr Teplitsky (Masha Yakubson, Norma Kingsbury (Annie Kingsbury) Vladik Yakubson) Dorothy Knoepfler( Nicole Moryosef) * Maryan Terkel George Kulcsar (Suzanne Gelbard) Miriam Wilmers (Robyn Pal) Roma Laurie (Del Freed) Reka Wolman (Kim Gotlieb) Morris Leibowitz (Michael Leibowitz) * Morris Leventhal Robert (Rudi) Markovic (Renee Markovic) * Charles May Charlotte Melkman (Herman Melkman) Abraham Menasce (Andre Menash) Anni Mendelson (Henry Mendelson) * Kate Millstone (Dorothy Kilner) Clement Nachum (Thomas Neumann) Shoah remembrance: Sylva Koenigstein was born in 1890 in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia and lived in Graz, Austria there until 1942 when she was murdered in Lublin, Poland during the Holocaust..