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Tues, Oct 19 8:00-9:30pm Online Free – donations greatly appreciated! Registration Required Zoom link sent upon registration Automatic Closed Captioning
The Torah’s narrative of the binding of Isaac (or Akeidat Yitzhak) is an powerful, disturbing story that has captured artists’ attention for thousands of years. We’ll study and discuss the Torah text from this week’s parashah (portion) together with traditional, rabbinic midrash (interpretation) and contemporary, North American musical midrashim.
Everyone is welcome! No prior Jewish study or Hebrew knowledge required.
Sun, Oct 17 5-6pm Outdoors & In-Person near Bathurst & Dupont (Exact location provided upon registration) Registration Required Just pay for your pizza: $2/slice
Families with kids 0-10! Let’s gather in the park to meet other downtown Jewish families; play fun, active games with a Jewish theme; and enjoy pizza* and drinks (juice boxes & water).
*Pizza will be distributed in a Covid-safe manner.
Posted on by Adina in Class, Programs | Comments Off on Interfaith Couples’ Online Gathering: What’s Torah?
Wed, Oct 13 8-9:30pm Registration Required (Zoom link sent upon registration) FREE – donations greatly appreciated!
ALL* interfaith/intercultural** couples*** are invited to come together (virtually) to join our growing, warm community! We’ll get to know each other better and then learn about and discuss multiple meanings of “Torah.”
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*LGBTQ and straight couples warmly welcome! **We use the term “interfaith” loosely, to include any couples with one Jewish partner and one partner who isn’t Jewish, whether they’re affiliated with another religion or not. (After all, we don’t usually call Judaism a “faith” either, but it’s common parlance in English.) Of course, interfaith couples who are also intercultural or interracial are most welcome as well! ***One or both partners of interfaith couples are welcome to join us.
Posted on by Adina in Programs | Comments Off on Outdoor Friday Night Services
Fri, Oct 8 6-7pm Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Bathurst (Exact location provided upon registration) Registration Required Free – donations greatly appreciated!
Please join us for soulful and song-filled singing to wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat in warm community, together with our friends from Annex Shul.
Click here for more info about health and safety measures, seating, and what to bring.
Posted on by Adina in Class, Programs | Comments Off on Shemirat ha-Guf (Caring for Your Body): Torah & Strength Training
Tues, Oct 5 6-7:30pm Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Bathurst (Exact location provided upon registration) Registration Required PWYC $10-20
Learn Torah and get a workout!
Lorne Opler, M.Ed., a personal trainer and Adjunct Professor of Fitness and Health Promotion at Humber College and Durham College (and member of the Makom community), together with Rabbi Aaron, will be leading a fun and active Torah/fitness class.
We’ll learn Jewish sources on health, disease prevention, healthy eating, and exercise and then Lorne will guide us in strength training exercises using resistance bands.
Posted on by Adina in Class, Programs | Comments Off on Beyond the Torah: Jeremiah
Mondays, Oct 4 – Dec 13 (except Oct 11) 10am-12pm Online via Zoom $250 for 10 sessions Registration Required
The Biblical book of Yirmiyahu/Jeremiah is a collection of powerful, poetic speeches by this prophet of the seventh and sixth centuries BCE. He lived through the Babylonian conquest of the kingdom of Judah, destruction of Jerusalem, and exile of the Jewish people, which led him to challenge both his own people and God in emotional outpourings.
Join us online to learn and discuss a chapter or two each week from a great variety of perspectives: ancient and modern, traditional and academic, literary and historical, etc.
No prior Jewish study or Hebrew knowledge required. Contact Rabbi Aaron for more info and to register.
Posted on by Adina in Programs | Comments Off on Outdoor Friday Night Sukkot Services
Fri, September 24 6:30-7:30pm Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Bathurst Exact location provided upon registration Registration Required Limited Space Free – donations greatly appreciated! (If raining at 5pm or later, services will be cancelled.)
Now that Toronto’s public health situation has markedly improved, we’re enjoying our in-person, outdoor services! Please register now to join us for soulful and song-filled singing to wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat in warm community.
For everyone’s safety, we are following Toronto Public Health’s updated Guidance for Places of Worship, which requires that we maintain physical distancing, but does not require masks outdoors so long as physical distancing is maintained. If you feel unwell or have any COVID-19 symptoms, you must stay home.
Seating will be physically distant and there will be separate sections for women’s, men’s, and mixed (all genders) seating, from which you can choose when you register. Since we’ll be outdoors and not in a regular prayer space, there won’t be curtains between these sections.
Children are welcome if they can sit next to their parent for the full duration of services and maintain physical distancing from all others. Children must be registered as well.
Posted on by Adina in Programs | Comments Off on Outdoor In-Person Friday Night Services
Fri, August 13 7-8:15pm Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Bathurst Exact location provided upon registration Registration Required Limited Space Free – donations greatly appreciated! (If raining at 5pm or later, services will be services will be online.)
Now that Toronto’s public health situation has markedly improved, we’re enjoying our in-person, outdoor services! Please register now to join us for soulful and song-filled singing to wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat in warm community.
For everyone’s safety, we are following Toronto Public Health’s updated Guidance for Places of Worship, which requires that we maintain physical distancing, but does not require masks outdoors so long as physical distancing is maintained. If you feel unwell or have any COVID-19 symptoms, you must stay home.
Seating will be physically distant and there will be separate sections for women’s, men’s, and mixed (all genders) seating, from which you can choose when you register. Since we’ll be outdoors and not in a regular prayer space, there won’t be curtains between these sections.
Children are welcome if they can sit next to their parent for the full duration of services and maintain physical distancing from all others. Children must be registered as well.
Posted on by Adina in Class, Programs | Comments Off on Weekly Wisdom: Torah for Personal Growth – Elul Edition
Tuesdays, Aug 10-31 8-9pm Free – donations greatly appreciated!
Registration Required
Zoom link sent upon registration (Sign up once for the whole series; no need to register each week.) Automatic Closed Captioning
During the month of Elul, leading up to Rosh Hashanah, it’s traditional to work more conscientiously on improving ourselves through ethical and spiritual growth.
Each week, we’ll focus on one piece of the parashah (weekly Torah portion) and through text study and open discussion, we’ll discover positive messages in it that we can apply to our lives.
Everyone is welcome! No commitment; come when you can. No prior Jewish study or Hebrew knowledge required.
Posted on by Adina in Class, Programs | Comments Off on Beyond the Torah: Jeremiah
Mondays, Aug 9-30 10am-12pm Online via Zoom $100 for 4 sessions Registration Required
The Biblical book of Yirmiyahu/Jeremiah is a collection of powerful, poetic speeches by this prophet of the seventh and sixth centuries BCE. He lived through the Babylonian conquest of the kingdom of Judah, destruction of Jerusalem, and exile of the Jewish people, which led him to challenge both his own people and God in emotional outpourings.
Join us online to learn and discuss a chapter or two each week from a great variety of perspectives: ancient and modern, traditional and academic, literary and historical, etc.
No prior Jewish study or Hebrew knowledge required. Contact Rabbi Aaron for more info and to register.
