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.
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.
Everybody and every body is welcome!
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.
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.
Please note that washrooms will not be available.
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.
Please note that washrooms will not be available.
Tuesdays, Aug 10-31
8-9pm
Free – donations greatly appreciated!
Zoom link sent upon registration
(Sign up once for the whole series; no need to register each week.)
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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.
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.
Fri, July 30
7-8pm
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.
Please note that washrooms will not be available.
Sat, July 17
10:15-11:30pm
Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Christie
Exact location provided upon registration
Registration Required
Limited Space
Free – donations greatly appreciated!
Rain or Shine (we have shelter)
Please join us for a powerful, contemplative evening marking historical Jewish loss and ongoing brokenness in the world as we usher in Tishah be-Av, the ninth day of the lunar month of Av.This date marks the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history. It is traditionally observed with fasting, refraining from wearing leather, and other mourning customs. (For more background, see here.)
We’ll pray the brief evening service and listen to the Biblical book of Eikhah/Lamentations, hauntingly chanted by community members. We’ll also sing some songs, kinnot (elegies), and niggunim (wordless melodies).
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.
Please bring:
Please note that washrooms will not be available.
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.
FYI, the fast begins Sat at sunset,8:55pm, and ends Sun at nightfall, 9:32pm.
Fri, July 16
7-8pm
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 excited for our first in-person, outdoor services since last Nov! 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.
Please note that washrooms will not be available.