Enjoyed our services? Want to find out more about us? Speak to one of our Board members following services or contact our office 905-889-0276 x31 or shalom@beitrayim.org www.beitrayim.org
High Holy Day Greetings for 5772 Wish your family and friends at Beit Rayim a Shanah Tovah. Your greeting will appear in both of the High Holy Day supplements. Cost is $18 and is tax deductible. Last date for orders is September 19. Please contact the synagogue office 905-889-0276 x31 Looking for a few good “Shabbat Buddies”
We are looking to create a roster of drivers who would be willing to pick up and take home some of our members who can no longer drive to services. If you would be willing to “Buddy” up with a member, please contact Fran at the synagogue office: admin@beitrayim.org / t.905-889-0276 x31 Ushers and Set-up Volunteers needed for the High Holy Days. Please contact the synagogue office: admin@beitrayim.org or 905-889-0276 x31
Completed Membership Renewal forms must be received and processed before you can receive your High Holy Day tickets. Please contact the synagogue office if you have any questions: admin@beitrayim.org or 905-889-0276 x31
September 10, 2011 ~ 11 Elul 5771 Parashat Ki Tetze
תצא פרשת כי
The congregational Kiddush will be held on Main Street following services.
שב תשלום
Saturday, September 24, 2011 Join us at our special Shabbat to honour our 2011 Judy Stein Volunteer of the Year Award winners; Janice & Stephen Cohen Sandra Gold Millstein along with our many volunteers and Chidon Hatanach participants. Services begin at 9 AM Kiddush following.
Selichot September 24, 2011 Join us for an evening of preparation for the High Holy Days. Program - 8:30 PM By the Waters of Babylon: the Jewish People in Exile—and in Zion Restored presented by Michael Cole. We will explore how the exile in Babylonia 2500 years ago, changed Judaism and the Jewish people in ways that are felt even today. followed by snack and schmooze Selichot Service at 11 PM
Annual Torah reading: Deuteronomy 21:10 - 25:19(Etz Hayim, p. 1112; Hertz, p. 840) Beit Rayim Triennial Reading: Deuteronomy 21:10 - 22:19(Etz Hayim, p. 1112; Hertz, p. 840) Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1 – 10(Etz Hayim, p. 1138; Hertz, p. 857)
ANNOUNCEMENTS/הודעות
The Congregation thanks Ruth and Bill Mandelman for making a donation to the Kiddush fund in honour of rd their 33 wedding anniversary. Mazel Tov. The Congregation extends it’s sympathies to Heather Lisner-Kerbel and Chaleyne and Shael Kerbel on the passing of their husband and father, David Kerbel, z”l. The funeral was held on Thursday. The family will be th sitting shiva at 15-141 Castlerock Drive, Richmond Hill . Evening services will be held on September 10 after Shabbat, at 8 PM. Shiva continues Sunday – Tuesday with visiting from 1-5 PM and 7-9 PM. Services in the evening at 8 PM. The family will be getting up from Shiva on Wednesday morning. If you are receiving an Honour/Aliyah, please make sure to arrive at the beginning of the service and introduce yourself to the Gabbai at the door. This week: September 10, 2011– September 16, 2011 we remember Bernice Render, z”l, mother of Mark Render Imre Bihari, z”l, father of Aggie Stephenson Charles Fruitman, z”l, father of David Fruitman Myer Levy, z”l, father of Evelyn Josephs Golda Lieberman, z”l, aunt of E. Barbara Freedman Ted Riback, z”l, grandfather of Cheryl Green-Ockrant Micky Sherker, z”l, father of Aviva Lifschitz Wilfred Wasserman, z”l, step-father of Suzi Clements May their souls be bound up in the bonds of eternal life, Amen. Celebrate the bounty of Fall at Shoresh's Kavanah Garden! Sunday, September 18 from 12 - 4pm Kavanah Garden, 18 Lebovic Campus Drive
Festivities include: Theatre workshop with Naomi Tessler and Branch Out Theatre! Making awesome blended goodies with a bicycle powered blender! Harvesting vegetables for tzedakah! Garden beautification projects! Music! Dance! Bring instruments, smiles, and a picnic lunch to enjoy! Suggested donation: $6/person, $18/family
www.shoresh.ca
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Sunday, September 11 Revised First Day of Beit Rayim Hebrew School (JK-7) September 21 Synagogue office open from 8:30 am -8 pm for renewals and ticket pick-up Saturday, September 24, 2011 Volunteer and Chidon Participants Honouring Shabbat – 9 AM Selichot Program – 8:30 PM Selichot Service – 11 PM Wednesday, September 28 - Erev Rosh Hashanah Friday, October 7 - Kol Nidre Wednesday October 12 - Erev Sukkot Tuesday, October 18 - Cinema in the Sukkah Thursday, October 20 Shemini Atzeret and Yizkor 9 AM Dance with the Torah with Yitzchak Argamon 6:30 PM Hold the Dates Saturday, November 26 - Trivia Night Sunday, December 18 - Hanukkah Party Saturday, January 28, 2012 - Casino Night
Excerpted from PARASHAT Ki Tetze - Prepared by Rabbi Joseph Prouser (Courtesy of USCJ) Sefer Ha-Chinuch counts 74 individual mitzvot in Parashat Ki Tetzei, though that number is disputed more than such counts in any other Torah portion. Among the commandments and legal categories addressed are the following: the treatment of women taken captive in time of war; the immutability of the birthright; the draconian treatment of the “stubborn and rebellious son”; judicial hangings; the return of lost property; the obligation to assist the owner of an animal that has fallen under its burden; the prohibition against wearing clothing that is intended for the opposite sex and characteristic of it; the commandment to chase off a mother bird before taking its eggs or its young and the reward for fulfilling this imperative; the requirement to build a parapet on your roof and to remove analogous safety hazards from your property; the prohibitions against sowing a vineyard with diverse species, plowing with an ox and ass yoked together, and shaatnez (wearing garments in which wool and linen are combined); the commandment to wear fringes; laws about slander; the procedure followed when a newlywed husband alleges his wife was not a virgin as claimed and the consequences of such claims, whether they are unfounded or accurate; the legal ramifications of adultery and rape and a variety of marital restrictions; conduct and sanitation in a military camp (“keeping the camp holy” would later be expanded into a general mandate to establish worthy communities); the treatment to be accorded an escaped slave; sexual conduct deemed immoral and therefore prohibited; the prohibition against usury; mandates about vows; the legal parameters guiding someone working in a vineyard or field of crops; the fundamental laws of divorce; the special obligations and military exemption attending the first year of marriage; the securing of a debt; the legal treatment of kidnapping; the authority of priests in cases of leprosy; the commandment to remember God’s punishment of Miriam after to her ill-advised criticism of Moses; the fair treatment of laborers and the obligation to provide prompt payment of workers. Fundamental legal principles are addressed: individual responsibility and the principle that people are punished only for their own sins, not the sin of their parents or children; the obligation to deal justly with the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. The obligation to provide justice for society’s most vulnerable finds specific expression in the requirement to leave forgotten sheaves and gleanings for the desperate poor. A maximum of forty lashes is established in cases of judicial flogging. Concern for animals is given expression through the prohibition against muzzling a plow animal at work, keeping it from eating. The law of levirate marriage and its circumvention by the ritual of chalitzah is introduced. Harsh consequences are provided in the case of a woman who violently intervenes in her husband’s physical altercation with another man (as the King James Version euphemistically puts it, she “taketh” the antagonist “by the secrets”). Scripture prescribes amputation of her hand – the only penal mutilation in the Torah, not surprisingly commuted to a punitive fine in rabbinic law. The requirement of honest weights and measures, and the more general principle of integrity in commerce are detailed. The parashah concludes with the requirement to “remember what Amalek did” – that bellicose nation’s merciless attack on the weakest parts of the Israelite camp. Israel is to “blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” These final verses are read as the eponymic maftir aliyah on Shabbat Zachor, just before Purim. The PRIDE OF ISRAEL KOSHER FOOD BANK helps 100 Jewish Welfare families per week. They desperately need non-perishables such as canned goods, pasta, peanut butter and powdered milk. These items should be marked kosher. Or send a cheque to: PRIDE OF ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE KOSHER FOOD BANK OF PRIDE OF ISRAEL 59 Lissom Crescent, Toronto, ON M2R 2P2 Please expect a call from our volunteers. They will be doing pick ups of food donations by postal code (September 11-18). Just leave your donations in a bag outside your front door on the day of the pick up for your neighbourhood. It’s that easy! If you would like to help with this project, please contact Ellin Bessner at ebessner@gmail.com
Cinema in The Sukkah Tuesday, October 18 The Israel Committee will be showing the movie
“Ushpizim” Time and Location will be announced soon.
An initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), with the support of the Government of Israel, Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce - Project HEART — aims to provide the tools, strategy, and information to enable the Government of Israel, the project, and its partners to bring about a small measure of justice to eligible heirs of Jewish victims, the victims themselves, and the Jewish people. Please go to www.heartwebsite.org for more information. Deadline to apply is December 1, 2011 Celebrate your birthday, anniversary or other simcha with your Beit Rayim Family. Receive a special blessing at Shabbat services. “Sponsor” a Congregational Kiddush for $360. or “Co-Sponsor” the Kiddush for $180. (This rate does not apply to the added cost for guests who you invite to attend that week and does not apply to Bar or Bat Mitzvah Kiddushim). “Donate” to the Kiddush is still at a variable rate of your choice. Donations are tax receiptable. Call: 905.889.0276 ext. 31or admin@beitrayim.org We want to stay in touch with you. Please make sure we have a current email address on file. Donate a Chumash or Siddur in honour or memory of a person or a special event. Contact the office for details: shalom@beitrayim.org or 905-889-0276 x31 Founding Rabbi Rabbi Sol Tanenzapf, z”l Clergy Cantor Eli Bard President Larry Miller Immediate Past President Irv Siegel Chairman of the Board of Directors Shelley Isenberg
UJA of Greater Toronto’s Victims of Terror Fund supports southern Israel Funds raised for victims of terror in Israel are allocated to United Israel Appeal Canada Inc. (UIA) on whose behalf the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) delivers services. To donate contact ujadonations.com/victims or call 416-361-5705
With more than 11 million people across East Africa devastated by drought and famine, United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto has established the African Famine Relief Fund to help relieve their suffering. Fund donations will be sent to IsraAID: The Israeli-based Forum for International Humanitarian Aid which, has already deployed a team of specialists to Kenya. In addition, the Government of Canada will match an equivalent amount to drought relief. The United Jewish Appeal African Famine Relief Fund is not part of the annual UJA Federation campaign. 100% of proceeds raised will be designated for IsraAID.
ujadonations.com/AfricanFamine or by calling 416-631-5705.
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