Doar Shalom: October 22, 2020 / 4 Cheshvan, 5781
Candle lighting 5:47pm
Havdalah: 6:52pm
Parashat Noach 5781 / פרשת נֹחַ
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Saturday October 24, 10 am (Parashat Noach)
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Saturday October 31, 10 am (Parashat Lech-Lecha)
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Saturday November 7, 10 am (Parshat Vayera)
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See our new Event Calendar for details and Zoom links for upcoming programs, services, and events.
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Friday October 23 to Thursday October 29 |
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Friday, October 23
9:00 am
Men's Torah Study Group
Parashat Noach / פרשת נֹחַ
(ship building, alcoholism, linguistics)
Join via Zoom. Meeting ID: 892 7010 9069; Passcode: 572724
1:00 pm
Friday Tehillim
Healing Prayers for the Human Family led by John Fuerst.
It is a custom to read the psalm that is the age of a person who is ill and in need of healing. This Friday, asking for healing for a member who is 59 years of age, we will learn and daven two psalms that add up to 59, Psalms 20 and 39. Psalms are available in Hebrew and English here.
Join via Zoom. Meeting ID: 873 2214 6883; Password: 200901
6:00 - 6:30 pm
Erev Shabbat Candle Lighting
- led by Harriet Frost and Robert Albanese.
Candle lighting, Kiddush, Motzi. Erev Shabbat blessings are available here.
Join via Zoom. Meeting ID: 869 8020 1086; Passcode: 850712
Saturday, October 24
10:00 - 11:45 am
Shabbat Morning Service Zoomed from the Bayit
Parashat Noach / פרשת נֹחַ
P’sukai D’zimra - Motti Lis
Shacharit – Charles Kaplan and R’ Laura Duhan Kaplan
Torah Service – Avi Dolgin
Healing prayer – Avril Orloff
Closing – Avril Orloff
Zoom Shamash – Linda Peritz
Join via Zoom. Meeting ID: 868 6114 7274; Passcode: 057932
Sunday, October 25
2:30 - 5 pm
B'Yachad
- with Matthew Gindin and Harriet Frost
For registered Simchat-Mitzvah students.
7:00 - 7:30 pm
Virtual Evening Minyan
- led by Rabbi Susan Shamash
For a transliterated and translated weekday evening liturgy, please click here (pg 69 to 125).
Join via Zoom. Meeting ID: 833 2450 4014; Passcode: 621727
7:30 pm
Chanting and Chocolate
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You're invited to join Chanting and Chocolate with the Vancouver Band
on Zoom. Meeting ID: 830 1385 4215; Passcode: 856295
Wednesday, October 28
8:00 pm
Board Meeting
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Announcing the New Tikkun Olam Book Club! |
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Please join for 7 intimate book conversations concerning climate emergency, systemic racism, and Indigenous wisdom. Focusing mostly on Canada, these books will hit us hard in our uncomfortable places, offer guidance and direction on how we can make a tikkun, a repair, in radically new ways, as partners with the Holy One on this earth.
Feel free to join any and all of our 7 book conversations. Discussions are open to all, just join the Zoom session at the scheduled time (Zoom links are saved in the Events Calendar and will be announced in the Doar closer to the date).
The first two books in the series are:
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Sunday November 15, 7:30 pm - NEW TIME! |
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Sunday December 13, 7:30 pm - NEW TIME! |
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Please see the Tikkun Olam Book Club webpage with all 7 titles and descriptions of each of our books, including resources for borrowing or purchasing books. |
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Programs Open For Registration |
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Fall 2020 Zusia Course Offerings!
This year, the first Zusia courses begin November 2020. See course descriptions below for details and course fees; Special rates for Or Shalom members!
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Spinoza: Jewish Philosophy In The Time of Covid-19
Spinoza was among the most fearless of philosophers. He formed his thought both in tension with, and inspired by, his Jewish background. His vision of personal and communal ethics is as countercultural today as it was in the 17th century, and is still provoking revolutionary thought and action.
In this 4 week online class we will look at Spinoza’s potent insights on joy, human flourishing and freedom, democracy, and community and how these can offer us guidance during our current moment of overlapping crises.
Instructor: Matthew Gindin
Prerequisite: None:
Dates: Tuesdays, November 3 – November 24, 2020
Time: 7-9 PM
Investment: Members $60; Non-Members $98
Please find further details and registration here.
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Return to the Place: The Wisdom of Sefer Yetzirah
Sefer Yetzirah is an ancient and foundational work of Jewish mysticism. This brief and cryptic book imagines letters as the building blocks of the universe, focusing our attention on the components of space, time, and soul and the elements of air, fire, and water. Its goal is to allow adepts to contemplate, and even partake in, the Divine creative process.
In this series, we will explore sections from the book closely as well as use images from the text to meditate and reflect on our own spiritual experience. In the worldview of the Sefer Yetzirah, we and all things are part of the One, and all we need to do is remember and return.
This course will consist of a series of three pre-recorded video lessons with downloadable text, online chevruta work in study assigned groups, and a final (4th) session that is an interactive webinar with Rabbi Hammer.
Instructor: Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD
Prerequisite: None:
Dates: Tuesdays, November 3 – November 24, 2020
Time: 7-9 PM
Investment: Members $60; Non-Members $98
Register by October 30.
For a list of Rabbi Hammer's publications, further details, and registration, see here.
Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, is the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, and the co-founder of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute.
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Children and Youth Programs |
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Shabbat Sheli
We have returned this year with a new teacher - Samantha Fogel! Sammy is coming to us after a year of working with kids in the same age range at
Har-El in North Vancouver. She has years of experience working with kids as well as in positions of service to the community at large and we are lucky to have her. See here for further details and registration .
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B'Yachad
The B’yachad program has been reimagined as a two year course with the option to stay on for another year after your child’s Simchat Mitzvah at no additional cost, as a way to support the connection and continuous learning of youth of our community.
Our new curriculum focuses on a broad knowledge of Jewish culture, religion, history and values, with a goal of offering a greater breadth of portals to Jewish identity. Harriet Frost will teach an expanded Hebrew and Trope curriculum, which will give the students a deeper knowledge of Hebrew and allow them to spend more time working on preparing individual Torah portions in preparation for their Simcha! See here for further details and registration .
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Important Notice!
Rabbi Hannah Dresner is away for a few weeks.
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As in past years, Or Shalom is conducting a winter tzedakah project, which involves donating $10 gift cards to people in need in our neighbourhoods. These cards are redeemable for food at McDonald's restaurants. The project is supported by McDonald's who have donated coupons for additional free food. Last year we collected more than $2,500 from Or Shalom members and assistance was provided to over 250 people.
As in the past, OrShniks are invited to participate in this worthwhile tzedaka opportunity. We will purchase the gift cards and distribute them on your behalf.
Donations received before 01 Jan 2021 will qualify for 2020 CRA tax receipts and be greatly appreciated by the recipients, especially in these challenging times of Covid-19. You can make an online donation to the East Side Fund at Or Shalom's online donation page, either by cheque or by credit card.
We have partnered with select social service agencies. For example, here's a message from the Vancouver Native Health Society:
I am a social worker at Vancouver Native Health Society and I was very surprised to find out that we had received a donation of McDonald's gift cards to our program.
I wanted to thank you very much for this contribution. I work with many clients who struggle with food security and I also work within a system that can often make it challenging to find appropriate resources for these clients. Your contribution will make an immediate difference to someone in need.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful and generous contribution.
Kind regards,
Colton Holzermayr BSW, RSW
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- A donation was made by Jackie Day to the Rabbi's Program Fund in Honour of the magnificent work of Sandra Cohen on the construction of our new Parochet.
- A donation was made by Wendy Oberlander to the Rabbi's Special Program Fund, in Honour of Ross Andelman and Rabbi Hannah.
- A donation was made by Gloria Levi to the Or Shalom Lisa Nemetz Education Fund in Memory of Lisa Nemetz, ז’לֹ.
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- Thank you to Michael Corber for preparing and sending digital Yahrzeit reminder letters for November 2020.
- Thank you to Sally Thorne and Mary Adlersberg for hosing Erev Shabbat Candle Lighting on Friday, October 16.
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Thank you to Tiferet Welch, Motti Lis, Dave Kauffman, Avril Orloff, Heidi Mannis, Dalia Margalit-Faircloth, Casey Collins, Rabbi Susan Shamash for their leadership during the Shabbat Morning Service on Saturday October 17, and thank you to Sally Thorne for providing tech support.
- Thank you to Rabbi Susan Shamash for leading the 'More Talmud' class on Sunday, October 18.
- Thank you to Harley Rothstein for leading the Sunday Evening Minyan service on October 18.
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Thank you to Michal Fox, Avril Orloff, Marianne Rev, Alexis Kellum-Creer, Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta, and Tammy McCurry for organizing the new Tikkun Olam Book Club offering.
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Our sincere apologies if your name has inadvertently been missed. We still love you and appreciate all that you do! Please don't hesitate to contact the office office@orshalom.ca about an omission. We promise to acknowledged you in the next Doar.
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