Tetzaveh / Zakhor-Purim
February 23, 2013 / 13 Adar, 5773
Megillah reading
Baby Naming for Ava Grace,
daughter of Jennifer Sidel and Lloyd Lottner
daughter of Jennifer Sidel and Lloyd Lottner
Parnassim: Warren Litwin and Doreen
Saibil
Torah:Exodus 28:31-29:18 (Etz P.508)
Maftir: Deuteronomy 25:17-19 (Etz P. 1135)
Haftarah: I Samuel 15:24-34 (Etz P.1284)
Torah Reading: Jodi Lackman
Haftarah Reading: Chayim Lowen
This week's Kiddush is sponsored
by Jennifer Sidel and Lloyd Lottner
in honour of their daughter Ava
Grace's baby naming.
Candle Lighting:
5:14 PM
Havdalah: 6:23
PM
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PURIM, This Saturday Night.
Children's Carnival...games galore!
Megillah
Reading...stomp the floor!
Purim
Shpiel...sing and hum!
Costume
Contest...lots of fun!
Bellydancing...persian
delight!
Party and
Music...joy all night!
Everyone is
welcome! Bring a friend!
Free for all!
Come attend!
Details:
Saturday, February 23
6:30pm Children's
Carnival
7:00pm Purim
Shpiel/Costume Contest
7:15pm Megillah
Reading
8:45pm Party
FROM THE RABBI'S DESK
REFLECTIONS
ON MY TRIP TO KIEV & ISRAEL
Reliving a revelatory
moment is always a challenge. How do we hold on to, or convey to others,
those extraordinary moments of insight, emotionally laden experiences when we
are transported to an elevated state of mind, or sense that we have
encountered a deeper, abiding truth? Our sages tell us that the purpose of
building theMishkan, the portable ark that the Israelites carried with
them through their wilderness wanderings, was to create a space in which they
could re-experience the Sinai moment. "Let them build me a Sanctuary
that I might dwell among them."
How did building
the Mishkan accomplish this task of holding on to the
ineffable experience? One of the key verbs used in describing this
construction effort is hibarta, "You shall connect." By
making connections with others, relating to them as friends,haverim,
we can come to experience something of the Divine. One of the most basic
objects employed in the construction of the Mishkan, the planks
of acacia wood,kerashim (K-R-SH) also hints at this transcendent
act of making connections. TheDegel Mahaneh Ephraim teaches that
the plank signifies a human being, (adam) the one who make connections, kesher,(K-SH-R)-"the
one who connects all the worlds, unifying one with the other." Were we
to connect with mindlessness, things that are finite and time-bound, this
would be to connect with falsehood, sheker (SH-K-R). Our
goal ought to be to connect with eternal truths, with spiritual goals that
are timeless.
That challenge of retaining
and transmitting an ineffable experience is what I have been grappling with
since I returned from a truly extraordinary journey to Kiev, Ukraine
and Israel. Together with 31 other rabbis from across North America, we
visited under the auspices of the Jewish Federations of North America the
projects that the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Jewish Agency
for Israel (JAFI) are carrying out to support the welfare, social and
educational needs of Jews in Kiev and Israel.
There are so many stories:
the rediscovery of Jewish identities by this generation whose grandparents
hid it from them due to their experiences under the Nazis and the Communists;
the life-saving work of the JDC and JAFI who translate our Federation dollars
into the caring work of the Hesed House or the promotion of Jewish cultural
rebirth through the Beiteinu center; the moving memorial ceremony held at
Babi Yar, where over 100,000 Jews were murdered in 1941, or the equally
moving Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem with Yosef Begun, one of the heroes
of the Soviet Jewry Movement.
The main message that came through in these and the many other experiences of this powerful mission can be summed up in one word: peoplehood. Again and again I felt a vital connection with my people. It came with a sense of pride and optimism when we spontaneously sang Am Yisrael Hai, "the People of Israel lives" as a tribute to the Jews who died at Babi Yar, that their deaths have been redeemed by the new life that flourishes in Kiev today. And once again when we sang those same words in a more joyous, triumphant affirmation together with Yosef Begun, I felt the powerful truth of Am Yisrael Hai.
In those deep connections
that we shared with the Jews of Kiev and Israel, and with the work of JDC and
JAFI, I experienced the Mishkan being rebuilt in our own day. It is that
sense of connection to the life of Am Israel, the eternal
people, that gives me a renewed hope and inspiration that will fuel all my
future efforts on behalf of Klal Yisrael, the people of
Israel.
SYNAGOGUE NEWS
SHABBAT MORNING STUDY
GROUP
Join us once again for
the Shabbat Morning Study group with Carmela Aigen.
ANNUAL
GIVING CAMPAIGN
Thank you to everyone who
has contributed so far to this year's Annual Giving Campaign. We are two
weeks away from the close of our campaign and we are up to 44%participation. Having
100% participation is our mark of success. Please join us at the close if
this year's campaign which will coincide with our annual Purim celebration on
Saturday, February 23. New for this year, everyone who makes a
contribution towards the Annual Campaign, will be entered into a special door
prize draw and will have the chance to win one of two sets of Canadian Hockey
tickets. The hottest tickets in town! We look forward to celebrating with
you! Please contact the office at 514-486-9400 to make your contribution.
MEMBER NEWS
REFUAH SHLAIMA
Zvi ben Taibel v'Yosef
(Harry Fainsilber);
Rachmiel ben Miriam
v'Isacc (Ralph Schwartz);
Yehudit bat Shalom
v'Frieda (Odette Chonchol)
Zlate bat Fishel v'Miriam
(Charlotte Wertheimer)
Yasmin bat Galila (Jasmin
Peleg)
Moshe ben Pia v'Shlomo
(Murray Perelman)
Eliahu ben Leah v'Yacov
(Charley Levy)
Faivel ben Esther
v'Shmuel (Paul Ostroff)
Yehudit bat Zipporah
v'David
Chaim Zvi ben Gitel
v'Avraham (David Pinto)
Avraham ben Rea v’Berel (Larry Lazar)
YAHRTZEITEN FOR THIS WEEK
February 23-March1, 2013
/ 13-19 Adar 5773
Markus Buksbaum , father of Jack Buksbaum David Krelenbaum , father of Marilyn Krelenbaum Etta Riva Lazar , mother of Lawrence Lazar Archie (Arthur) Rosenthal , father of Jack Rosenthal Minnie Shapiro , mother of Micki Keesal Norman Epelbaum , father of Suzie Epelbaum Nathan Gesser , husband of Dora Gesser Maryka Franke Kupitsky , mother of Ronald Kay Celia Cohen , sister of Ben Cohen Abe Croll , father of Reuben Croll Irwin Moss , father of Beverly Shapiro Joseph Bercovitch , father of Mildred Kolodny Nettie Lazar , sister of Lawrence Lazar Bernice Getz Lurie , mother of Lewis Lurie Rosa Trafimowski , mother of Sima Brockstein Dorothy Gottlieb , mother of Linda August Tillie Schneider Lackman , stepmother of Phillip Lackman Alice Shenkier , mother of Maurice Shenkier Bella Dan , mother of Fanny Silviu-Dan Melvin Mike" Salmon" , father of Deborah Salmon Mae Wax , mother of Sandra Goldstein
*Names with an asterisk
(*) indicate a memorial plaque in our sanctuary. We encourage you to consider
adding to our memorial board. To do so, please call Barbi at 514-486-9400
If you would like an
Aliyah for a yahrtzeit on a Shabbat morning, please identify yourself to a
Parnass when you come into the sanctuary.
ETERNAL GARDENS CEMETERY
PLOT RESERVATIONS
Members in good standing
who wish to reserve cemetery plots in Congregation Dorshei Emet's section of
Eternal Gardens Memorial Park should contact Robyn Bennett, Executive
Director at 514-486-9400.
ABOUT TOWN
SEGAL CENTRE STUDIO
PRESENTS du 7 au 23 mars
L'AUGMENTATION de Georges
Perec . Mise en scène ARIEL IFERGAN.
MATZAH TO MITZVAH-A
Passover Experience.
Sunday, March 10, from
2:00-4:30 :
Workshops at Temple Emanu-el
The topics
are: Passover and Easter: Celebrations of Freedom, with me and Father
John Walsh, A New Haggadah for a New Age, with Rabbi Ron Aigen, Keeping
Everyone at the Table: Making Your Seder Interactive, Creative, Meaningful
& Fun, with Rabbi Andrea Myers and Dr. Catherine Masden, Singing
Your Way Through the Seder, with Rachelle Schubert, Passover Cooking.
There will be crafts,
movies, and mitzvah projects for children.
Cost: $5/person,
$15/ family with a donation of a non-perishable food item $7/$20
without. Open to all. valerie@templemontreal.ca
JEWISH PUBLIC
LIBRARY
Thursday, March 7 at 2:00
p.m.
Ami Sands Brodoff,
Montreal novelist, will kick off the Jewish Public Library's Afternoon Book
Review Series with a talk and discussion of the compelling new novel,
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis.
Jewish Public Library,
5151 Cote Ste-Catherine. Advance tickets: (514)-345-6416
SEMINAR SERIES AT
MCGILL
ISGAP | The
Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
presents: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective.
McGill
University , Tuesdays 5:30 to 8:00 PM, Leacock Building, Rm.
738
Feb. 26 - Shalem
Coulibaly
Professor of Philosophy
and Secretary General, Université de Ouagadougou (Burkina
Faso) "Sub-Saharan Africa, Globalization and
Antisemitism".
Mar. 12 - Yigal
Carmon
Founder and Director,
MEMRI.
Apr. 9 - Nora
Gold
Associate Scholar at the
Centre for Women's Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
University of Toronto "'I Don't Know Why They Hate Us - I Don't
Think We Did Anything Bad To Hurt Them': Jewish Girls (Aged 10-12) Reflect on
Their Experiences of Antisemitism".
MORNING MINYAN
Minyan takes place every
Monday and Wednesday morning at 7:30 am, followed by breakfast. Monday is a
traditional davening and Torah reading. Wednesday is a Mindfulness Meditation
minyan.
If you are saying
Kaddish, observing a yahrtzeit, or marking a
special occasion, please join us. It is a wonderful way to
start the week or the day in a warm and
inspiring ambiance among friends.
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