Saturday, 22 March 2025

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Sunday Shiur Invitation

You are invited to join our interactive women's study group exploring foundations of Judaism. 
 This week, we will be exploring "Insights into the month of Nissan" 
When: Sunday 23rd of March 2025 
Time: 6pm-7pm 
Speaker: Zipporah Oliver O.A.M. 
In memory of Mrs Raizl Cylich OBM
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SCHC - 2nd Night Community Pesach Seder

Join us for an insightful and joyous Pesach Seder led by Rabbi Mendy Ajzenszmidt, hosted at the South Caulfield Hebrew Congregation filled with song, feasting and celebrating!

Please note that this year, there has been a significant increase in catering and service costs. However, we have worked hard to keep the price as low as possible without incurring a significant loss for the Shul.

To attend the Seder, there are several payment options available:

You can pay the cost we are being charged by our caterer per person.
You can also sponsor a seat for someone who is unable to pay for the Seder.
Children aged 3 and under can attend at no charge.

South Caulfield Hebrew Congregation, 47 Leopold St, Caulfield South


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Thursday, 20 March 2025

Shabbos Tzetl: Vayakhel & Parah

6:18pm - Early candle lighting
7:12pm - Candle Lighting, Friday
8:08pm - Havdalah, Saturday
(Melbourne Australia)
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Good Shabbos!


The Torah reading of Parah (Numbers 19) is added to the weekly reading. Parah details the laws of the "Red Heifer" and the process by which a person rendered ritually impure by contact with a dead body was purified.

(When the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem, every Jew had to be in a state of ritual purity in time for the bringing of the Passover offering in the Temple. Today, though we're unable to fulfill the Temple-related rituals in practice, we fulfill them spiritually by studying their laws in the Torah. Thus, we study and read the section of Parah in preparation for the upcoming festival of Passover.)



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ZICHRON YAAKOV


PARSHAH IN A NUTSHELL
Exodus 35:1–38:20
The name of the Parshah, "Vayakhel," means "And he gathered" and it is found in Exodus 35:1.

Moses assembles the people of Israel and reiterates to them the commandment to observe the Shabbat. He then conveys G‑d's instructions regarding the making of the Mishkan (Tabernacle). The people donate the required materials in abundance, bringing gold, silver and copper; blue-, purple- and red-dyed wool; goat hair, spun linen, animal skins, wood, olive oil, herbs and precious stones. Moses has to tell them to stop giving.

A team of wise-hearted artisans make the Mishkan and its furnishings (as detailed in the previous Torah readings of Terumah, Tetzaveh and Ki Tisa): three layers of roof coverings; 48 gold-plated wall panels, and 100 silver foundation sockets; the parochet (veil) that separates between the Sanctuary's two chambers, and the masach (screen) that fronts it; the ark, and its cover with the cherubim; the table and its showbread; the seven-branched menorah with its specially prepared oil; the golden altar and the incense burned on it; the anointing oil; the outdoor altar for burnt offerings and all its implements; the hangings, posts and foundation sockets for the courtyard; and the basin and its pedestal, made out of copper mirrors.

Parah in a Nutshell
Numbers 19
In preparation for the upcoming festival of Passover, when every Jew had to be in a state of ritual purity, the section of Parah (Numbers 19) is added to the weekly reading this week. Parah relates the laws of the Red Heifer with which a person contaminated by contact with a dead body was purified.


HAFTORAH IN A NUTSHELL
Ezekiel 36:16-36.
This week's special haftorah mentions the "purifying waters" that G‑d will sprinkle upon us with the coming of Moshiach. This follows the theme of this week's additional Torah reading — the purifying qualities of the "Red Heifer."

The prophet Ezekiel transmits G‑d's message: The Israelites have defiled the Holy Land with their idol-worship and immoral ways. As a result, they will be sent into exile. "And they came to the nations where they came, and they profaned My Holy Name, inasmuch as it was said of them, 'These are the people of G‑d, and they have come out of His land.'" So G‑d will take them out of their exile — but not by virtue of the Israelites' merits: "Not for your sake do I do this, O house of Israel, but for My Holy Name, which you have profaned among the nations."

G‑d will bring the Israelites back to the Holy Land and purify them with the waters of the Red Heifer. The people will feel ashamed of their actions, and after they will have undergone the process of purification and repentance, G‑d will rebuild the country and bestow upon it prosperity and bounty.

"I will resettle the cities, and the ruins shall be built up. And the desolate land shall be worked, instead of its lying desolate in the sight of all that pass by. And they shall say, 'This land that was desolate has become like the Garden of Eden, and the cities that were destroyed and desolate and pulled down have become settled as fortified [cities].'"


SAGES ON THE PARSHAH

The clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean person... and he shall be clean at evening... [But] he that sprinkles the water of sprinkling... shall be unclean (19:19-21)

All who are involved in the preparation of the Heifer from beginning to the end, become impure, but the Heifer itself purifies the impure! But G‑d says: I have made a chok, decreed a decree, and you may not transgress My decrees.

(Midrash Tanchuma)

The fact that the ashes of the Heifer "purify the contaminated and contaminate the pure" carries an important lesson to us in our daily lives: If your fellow has been infected by impurity and corruption, do not hesitate to get involved and do everything within your power to rehabilitate him. If you are concerned that you may became tainted by your contact with him, remember that the Torah commands the Kohen to purify his fellow Jew, even though his own level of purity will be diminished in the process.

(The Lubavitcher Rebbe)

Vayakhel https://w2.chabad.org/media/pdf/12617.pdf



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Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Pearls Manchester, pre-Pesach

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Tuesday, 18 March 2025

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Celebrate the final week of Adar with an extra dose of energy, joy, and movement! Dance to uplifting Jewish & Israeli music in a women's-only environment. 50 minutes of high-energy fun—no experience needed, just come ready to move!

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Monday, 17 March 2025

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Caulfield Shule events

Monday 24 March at 7:30pm
Last Krav Maga Event with Melanie Slonim

Wednesday 26 March at 10am
Caulfield Bubs with Zahava Pinson
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Sunday, 16 March 2025

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Saturday, 15 March 2025

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Thursday, 13 March 2025

Purim - Matanot La'evyonim


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Shabbos Tzetl: Ki Tisa (& Shushan Purim 😊)

6:27pm - Early candle lighting
7:23pm - Candle Lighting, Friday
8:18pm - Havdalah, Saturday
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Good Shabbos!


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"Triple Purim"

Adar 15 is "Shushan Purim" -- the day on which Purim is observed in Jerusalem and in other ancient walled cities, in commemoration of the fact that in the ancient walled city of Shushan the original Purim celebration was on this date. (see above, Today in Jewish History).

When Shushan Purim falls on Shabbat -- as it does this years -- a unique phenomenon results: the "Triple" or Three-Day Purim (Purim Meshuleshet). Because a number of the Purim mitzvot cannot be performed on Shabbat, the observances are spread over a period of three days: the megillah reading and Giving to the Poor on Friday; Al Hanissim -- the special Purim addition to the daily prayers and Grace After Meals -- on Shabbat; and Sending Food Gifts to Friends and the Purim meal -- on Sunday. For the details of these laws, see summary and links in yesterday's Laws & Customs.

For more on the Three-Day Purim, click here.





PARSHAH IN A NUTSHELL
Exodus 30:11–34:35
The name of the Parshah, "Ki Tisa," means "When you take" and it is found in Exodus 30:11.

The people of Israel are told to each contribute exactly half a shekel of silver to the Sanctuary. Instructions are also given regarding the making of the Sanctuary's water basin, anointing oil and incense. "Wise-hearted" artisans Betzalel and Aholiav are placed in charge of the Sanctuary's construction, and the people are once again commanded to keep the Shabbat.

When Moses does not return when expected from Mount Sinai, the people make a golden calf and worship it. G‑d proposes to destroy the errant nation, but Moses intercedes on their behalf. Moses descends from the mountain carrying the tablets of the testimony engraved with the Ten Commandments; seeing the people dancing about their idol, he breaks the tablets, destroys the golden calf, and has the primary culprits put to death. He then returns to G‑d to say: "If You do not forgive them, blot me out from the book that You have written."

G‑d forgives, but says that the effect of their sin will be felt for many generations. At first G‑d proposes to send His angel along with them, but Moses insists that G‑d Himself accompany His people to the promised land.

Moses prepares a new set of tablets and once more ascends the mountain, where G‑d reinscribes the covenant on these second tablets. On the mountain, Moses is also granted a vision of the divine thirteen attributes of mercy. So radiant is Moses' face upon his return, that he must cover it with a veil, which he removes only to speak with G‑d and to teach His laws to the people.


HAFTORAH IN A NUTSHELL
I Kings 18:20-39.
In this week's haftorah, Elijah the Prophet demonstrates the worthlessness of the Baal, just as Moses chastised the Israelites for serving the Golden Calf, as discussed in this week's Torah reading.

The background of this week's haftorah: King Ahab and Queen Jezebel ruled the Northern Kingdom of Israel, and encouraged the worship of the Baal deity as well as other forms of idolatry. To prove that G‑d alone is in control and provides sustenance, Elijah decreed a drought on the kingdom—no rain fell for three years. When Ahab then accused Elijah of causing hardship for the Israelites, Elijah challenged him to a showdown. He, Elijah, would represent the cause of monotheism, and 450 idolatrous "prophets" would represent their cause. Ahab accepted.

The haftorah begins with Elijah, the Baal prophets, and many spectators gathering atop Mount Carmel. Elijah rebuked the people of Israel, uttering the famous words: "How long will you hop between two ideas? If the L-rd is G‑d, go after Him, and if the Baal, go after him."

Elijah then stated his challenge: "Give us two bulls and let them [the Baal prophets] choose one bull for themselves and cut it up and place it on the wood, but fire they shall not put; and I will prepare one bull, and I will put it on the wood, and fire will I not place. And you will call in the name of your deity, and I will call in the name of the L-rd, and it will be the G‑d that will answer with fire, he is G‑d."

The people agreed to the challenge, and the prophets of the Baal were first. The prophets' entreaties to their god went unanswered. Elijah taunted them: "Call with a loud voice, for you presume that he is a god. [Perhaps] he is talking or he is pursuing [enemies], or maybe he is on a journey; perhaps he is sleeping and will awaken..."

As evening approached, Elijah took center-stage. He built an altar, laid his offering upon it and surrounded it with water. "Lord, the G‑d of Abraham, Isaac and Israel," he declared. "Today let it be known that You are G‑d in Israel and that I am Your servant, and at Your word have I done all these things. Answer me, O L-rd, answer me, and this people shall know that You are the L-rd G‑d..."

A fire immediately descended from heaven and consumed the offering, as well as the altar and the surrounding water. "And all the people saw and fell on their faces, and they said, "The Lord is G‑d, the L-rd is G‑d."


SAGES ON THE PARSHAH

Blot me out of Your book which you have written (Exodus 32:32)

Moses' name appears in every Parshah in the books of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers. (The book of Genesis predates Moses' birth; Deuteronomy consists mostly of a first-person narrative spoken by Moses.) Every Parshah, that is, except for one: the Parshah of Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20–30:10), which includes not a single mention of Moses' name. The reason for this is that Moses said to G‑d: "If You do not [forgive Israel], blot me out of Your book which you have written." For the censure of a righteous person, even if made conditional on an unfulfilled stipulation, always has some effect.

(Baal HaTurim)

While Moses' name does not appear in the Parshah of Tetzaveh, Moses himself is very much present: the entirety of Tetzaveh consists of G‑d's words to Moses. Indeed, the Parshah's first word is ve-atah, "and you"—the "you" being the person of Moses.

Indeed, the word "you" connotes its subject's very self, while a person's name is a more superficial handle on his personality. This means that Moses is more present in this Parshah—that is, present in a deeper, more essential way—than any mention of his name could possibly express.

This is fully in keeping with the Baal HaTurim's explanation cited above. Because Moses was prepared to forgo the mention of his name in the Torah for the sake of his people, he merited that his quintessential self—the level of self that cannot be captured by any name or designation—be eternalized by the Torah. It is this level of Moses' self that is expressed by his "nameless" presence in the Parshah of Tetzaveh.

(The Lubavitcher Rebbe)

https://w2.chabad.org/media/pdf/12293.pdf



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Invitation - Weekly Women's Zoom Shiur --25

You are invited to join our interactive women's study group exploring foundations of Judaism.
This week, we will be exploring
"Messages from Purim"
When: Sunday 16th of March 2025
Time: 6pm-7pm
Speaker: Zipporah Oliver O.A.M.
In memory of Mrs Raizl Cylich OBM
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Wednesday, 12 March 2025

St Kilda Shule Events

Megillat Reading

Grand Purim Carnival

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Events at Caulfield Shule

Tuesday 18 March at 10:30am
Schmoozeday
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Tuesday, 11 March 2025

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Sar-El Newsletter 11 March 2025

Dear Sar-El'ers
Hope you are all doing well!
Here are the items in this newsletter:
  • Join Tammy on the Sar-El parade in NYC in May!
  • Come hear our speakers at Caulfield Shule 26 April
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Events at Caulfield Shule

Monday 17 March at 7:30pm
Krav Maga & Self Defence Series
Melinda Slonim in running a practical, effective self-defence class for women and teenagers.

Friday 21 March at 7:30pm
Shabbat Dinner
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Matzah Shemurah

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Monday, 10 March 2025

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Sunday, 9 March 2025

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