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Tuesday, 13 October 2026
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Handyman Services
For all your handyman jobs I am your man. No job too small or too big. Leaking taps, blocked gutters, joinery, kitchen doors and units, broken fences, Brocken locks? I can fix it.
No call out fees. Over 40 years experience in property repairs and building trade (ex UK).
Moshe Sadia 0451930432, 0406698353 jackiesadia@yahoo.co.uk
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Monday, 12 October 2026
Conversational Hebrew with David Solomon
A six-week introductory course for adults with some basic Hebrew who want to speak and understand the language with more confidence. Using his own educational system, David focuses on practical, everyday Hebrew in small classes of no more than six participants.
When: Sundays, 18 October to 22 November
Stream A: 4.00pm to 5.00pm | Stream B: 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Where: 638 Inkerman Road, Caulfield North
Cost: $150 for six weeks (plus booking fee)
Rabbinical Lead – Engagement & Heritage
Are you an engaging Rabbi who loves creating new ideas, and building community?
Sassoon Yehuda Sephardi Synagogue is looking for an enthusiastic Rabbi to join our Rabbinical Team and help us shape and grow the next chapter of our growing Sephardi community.
We’re looking for someone who enjoys connecting with people of all ages, can turn ideas into programs, and is excited by the opportunity to help grow involvement in a warm and vibrant Sephardi community.
This is a new role and you will work alongside Rabbi Benjamin Kessly; with a different and complementary focus on community engagement, education, events, culture and Sephardi heritage.
This is a part-time contract position, initially offered on a short-term basis, with the opportunity to extend based on the success of the role.
The position reports to the President, and the successful candidate will need to live within walking distance of our Synagogue in Balaclava.
For more information, please reach out to President Joanne Levy – president@sephardivic.com
Saturday, 10 October 2026
Rabbinical Lead – Engagement & Heritage
Are you an engaging Rabbi who loves creating new ideas, and building community?
Sassoon Yehuda Sephardi Synagogue is looking for an enthusiastic Rabbi to join our Rabbinical Team and help us shape and grow the next chapter of our growing Sephardi community.
We’re looking for someone who enjoys connecting with people of all ages, can turn ideas into programs, and is excited by the opportunity to help grow involvement in a warm and vibrant Sephardi community.
This is a new role and you will work alongside Rabbi Benjamin Kessly; with a different and complementary focus on community engagement, education, events, culture and Sephardi heritage.
This is a part-time contract position, initially offered on a short-term basis, with the opportunity to extend based on the success of the role.
The position reports to the President, and the successful candidate will need to live within walking distance of our Synagogue in Balaclava.
For more information, please reach out to President Joanne Levy – president@sephardivic.com
Smile on Seniors
We’re looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday, October 14, from 7:00–7:45pm, where we’ll be packing Shabbat packets for our cherished seniors.
Sign up here: smileonseniors.org.au/volunteering
Starting next week, we’ll be hosting a Packing Bee every single week, bringing the warmth of Shabbat to our seniors.
Hub Event:
We’ll be creating artwork together — no artistic experience necessary. Come along to enjoy a delicious afternoon tea, shmooze with friends, and hear about Zahava’s life.
Wednesday 14 October 2026
2:30–3:45pm (note new summer time)
Cost: $10
Venue location provided upon booking
RSVP: smileonseniors.org.au/hub | 9507 2368
Enquiries: adina@smileonseniors.org.au
Friday, 9 October 2026
Tzetl: Shabbos Bereishit & Mevarchim Cheshvan
6:15pm - Early candle lighting
7:13pm - Candle Lighting, Friday
8:12pm - Havdalah, Saturday
This Shabbat is Shabbat Mevarchim (“the Shabbat that blesses" the new month): a special prayer is recited blessing the Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month") of the upcoming month of Cheshvan (also known as "MarCheshvan"), which falls on Sunday and Monday of next week.
Prior to the blessing, we announce the precise time of the molad, the "birth" of the new moon. See molad times.
PARSHAH IN A NUTSHELL
Genesis 1:1–6:8
The name of the Parshah, "Bereishit," means "In the beginning" and it is found in Genesis 1:1.
G‑d creates the world in six days. On the first day He makes darkness and light. On the second day He forms the heavens, dividing the “upper waters” from the “lower waters.” On the third day He sets the boundaries of land and sea, and calls forth trees and greenery from the earth. On the fourth day He fixes the position of the sun, moon and stars as timekeepers and illuminators of the earth. Fish, birds and reptiles are created on the fifth day; land animals, and then the human being, on the sixth. G‑d ceases work on the seventh day, and sanctifies it as a day of rest.
G‑d forms the human body from the dust of the earth, and blows into his nostrils a “living soul.” Originally Man is a single person, but deciding that “it is not good that man be alone,” G‑d takes a "side" from the man, forms it into a woman, and marries them to each other.
Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden, and commanded not to eat from the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.” The serpent persuades Eve to violate the command, and she shares the forbidden fruit with her husband. Because of their sin, it is decreed that man will experience death, returning to the soil from which he was formed, and that all gain will come only through struggle and hardship. Man is banished from the Garden.
Eve gives birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain quarrels with Abel and murders him, and becomes a rootless wanderer. A third son, Seth, is born to Adam; Seth’s eighth-generation descendant, Noah, is the only righteous man in a corrupt world.
HAFTORAH IN A NUTSHELL
Nutshell for "Machar Chodesh" Haftorah
Since this Shabbat is the day before Rosh Chodesh, we read a special haftorah that begins with the words "machar chodesh" — "[And Jonathan told David,] 'Tomorrow is the new moon…’”
I Samuel 20:18-42
David, King Saul's son-in-law, fears that his father-in-law views him as competition for his throne, and wishes to have him killed. David enlists his dear friend Jonathan, Saul's son, to ascertain whether indeed Saul has such evil designs. Together they devise a plan, according to which David will be absent from the monthly new moon feast hosted by Saul. At this feast, Jonathan will discover Saul's true intentions with regards to David. Jonathan and David will then rendezvous at a predetermined meeting point where Jonathan will convey to David whether he should return to the royal household or flee.
When everyone is seated at the royal feast, the king notices David's absence and asks Jonathan for his whereabouts. When told that he has gone to Bethlehem to be with his family, the king becomes furious, telling Jonathan to fetch David as he is condemned to death. "And Jonathan knew that it had been decided upon by his father to put David to death."
Jonathan leaves the royal table in anger. The next morning he travels to David's hiding place and the two separate amidst an emotional farewell, promising each other eternal devotion and friendship.
SAGES ON THE PARSHAH
The man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, saying, “I have acquired a man from G‑d” (4:1)
Adam was created from the ground, and Eve from Adam; but henceforth it shall be “in Our image, after Our likeness”—neither man without woman nor woman without man, nor both of them without the Shechinah (divine presence).
(Midrash Rabbah)
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Wednesday, 7 October 2026
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Multicultural Kiddush
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Tuesday, 6 October 2026
BDE: Mrs Feride Boz Khafif OBM
BARUCH DAYAN EMET
With deep sorrow we announce the passing in Brazil of
Mrs Feride Boz Khafif OBM
מרת פרידה בת אסתר ומשה עייה
Wife of Menahem Khafif AH
Mother of
Linda Esses - São Paulo
Esther Haddad- New York
Caroline Zeimer - Melbourne
The Levaya will be held in Har Hamenuhot Jerusalem next Tuesday October 12th .
The family will sit shiva in Jerusalem.
Caroline Zeimer can be contacted by WhatsApp
+61434284072
Hamakom Yenachem Etchem Betoch She'ar Aveilei Tzion ViYerushalayim
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Handyman Services
For all your handyman jobs I am your man. No job too small or too big. Leaking taps, blocked gutters, joinery, kitchen doors and units, broken fences, Brocken locks? I can fix it.
No call out fees. Over 40 years experience in property repairs and building trade (ex UK).
Moshe Sadia 0451930432, 0406698353 jackiesadia@yahoo.co.uk
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Monday, 5 October 2026
Smile on Seniors
Join us for another wonderful Smiles Hub afternoon filled with music, movement, friendship and plenty of shmoozing! 🎶💃☕️
We’re delighted to welcome Deby Rubin David, presenting “Shirim” — a fun, chair-based music and movement session specially designed for seniors.
Torah thoughts by Rebbetzin
Lifshy Ajzenszmidt
Come along and experience the joy of movement while enjoying wonderful Israeli and Jewish music, delicious afternoon tea and the warm company of friends.
📅 Wednesday 7 October 2026
🕑 2:00–3:15pm
💲 Cost: $10
📍 Venue location provided upon booking
Bookings are essential:
smileonseniors.org.au/hub | 9507 2368
Enquiries: adina@smileonseniors.org.au
We’d love to see you there for a joyful afternoon together! 💜
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