Thurs, Oct 15 12-1pm Online via Zoom Meeting ID: 955 4183 9308, Password: 024117 FREE
Feeling happy about a certain U.S. politician’s illness? Or repulsed by gleeful reactions to it? Or unsure what’s the right way to feel and express yourself in such circumstances?
Through text study and discussion, we’ll explore the wisdom Judaism has to offer us about experiencing joy in another’s misfortune.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME. No prior Jewish learning experience required. Sources presented in both Hebrew and English translation.
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Thurs, Oct 8 12-1pm Online via Zoom Meeting ID: 955 4183 9308, Password: 024117 FREE
Join us for learning and discussion of some fun, lesser-known Jewish sources about Sukkot that will help us better understand key meanings and messages of the holiday.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME. No prior Jewish learning experience required. Sources presented in both Hebrew and English translation.
Next Fri, Sept 4 7-8pm Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Bathurst (exact location provided upon registration) FREE REGISTRATIONABSOLUTELY REQUIRED for public health purposes LIMITED SPACE
If it’s raining at 5pm or later, we’ll be online via Zoom Meeting ID: 955 4183 9308, Password: 024117
Wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat with soulful and song-filled services.
For our community’s and broader society’s safety, we are strictly following Toronto Public Health’s Guidance for Places of Worship.
If you feel unwell or have any COVID-19 symptoms, you must stay home.
Please bring:
MASK that covers your nose, mouth & chin (MANDATORY!)
Blanket, cushion, or chair for sitting (optional)
Siddur/prayer book (optional); we’ll have photocopies of services in Hebrew & phonetic transliteration available
Kippah/head covering (if you wear one during services)
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.
Any children who come must be able to sit next to their parent for the full duration of services and maintain physical distancing from all others. Children must be registered as well.
Next Thurs, Sept 3 12-1pm Online via Zoom Meeting ID: 955 4183 9308, Password: 024117 FREE
Let’s prepare ourselves for the Days of Awe together through three weeks of thematic classes.
What are the physical and spiritual properties of the shofar? How can it help us improve ourselves, our relationships, and the world? We’ll learn and discuss traditional Jewish sources to find out!
Upcoming Topic SELIHOT: Praying for Forgiveness – Sept 10
EVERYONE IS WELCOME. No prior Jewish learning experience required. Sources presented in both Hebrew and English translation.
Shopping: Next Wed, Sept 2, 4-530pm Cooking: Next Thurs, Sept 3, 9-11am
In collaboration with Makom’s neighbour, Fort York Food Bank, we’ll be preparing freshly cooked meals for 75 people experiencing hunger and homeslessness.
We need volunteers to shop for the ingredients on Wed and cook the food at Makom on Thurs morning, in time to take the meals down the block for lunchtime distribution at FYFB.
We’ll follow safety precautions to keep volunteers and meal recipients safe. Food will be both kosher and vegetarian.
To volunteer, please contact David Fishbayn, Makom’s Administrative and Marketing coordinator, ASAP.
In this time of increased need, please help provide nourishing food to our fellow Torontonians who sorely lack it.
Thank you to Brittany Rusinek and Aron Berger for helping to sponsor this program in honour of their recent wedding – mazal tov!
Additional sponsors are welcome. Please contact Rabbi Aaron
Thurs, Aug 27 12-1pm Online via Zoom Meeting ID: 955 4183 9308, Password: 024117 FREE
Let’s prepare ourselves for the Days of Awe together through three weeks of thematic classes. Attend one, two, or all three; it’s up to you!
What’s the nature of teshuvah/repentance? How do we go about doing it? How can it help us improve ourselves, our relationships, and the world? We’ll learn and discuss traditional Jewish sources to find out!
Upcoming Topics Wake Up! The SHOFAR – Sept 3 SELIHOT: Praying for Forgiveness – Sept 10
EVERYONE IS WELCOME. No prior Jewish learning experience required. Sources presented in both Hebrew and English translation.
If it’s raining at 5pm or later, we’ll be online via Zoom Meeting ID: 955 4183 9308, Password: 024117
Wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat with soulful and song-filled services.
For our community’s and broader society’s safety, we are strictly following Toronto Public Health’s Guidance for Places of Worship.
If you feel unwell or have any COVID-19 symptoms, you must stay home.
Please bring:
MASK that covers your nose, mouth & chin (MANDATORY!) Blanket, cushion, or chair for sitting (optional) Siddur/prayer book (optional); we’ll have photocopies of services in Hebrew & phonetic transliteration available Kippah/head covering (if you wear one during services) 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.
Any children who come must be able to sit next to their parent for the full duration of services and maintain physical distancing from all others. Children must be registered as well.
This Fri, Aug 7 7-8pm Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Bathurst
(exact location provided upon registration) FREE REGISTRATION
ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED for public health purposes LIMITED SPACE
If it’s raining at 5pm or later, we’ll be online via Zoom Meeting ID: 955 4183 9308, Password: 024117
Wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat with soulful and song-filled services.
For our community’s and broader society’s safety, we are strictly following Toronto Public Health’s Guidance for Places of Worship.
If you feel unwell or have any COVID-19 symptoms, you must stay home.
Please bring:
MASK that covers your nose, mouth & chin (MANDATORY!)
Blanket, cushion, or chair for sitting (optional)
Siddur/prayer book (optional); we’ll have photocopies of services in Hebrew & phonetic transliteration available
Kippah/head covering (if you wear one during services)
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.
Any children who come must be able to sit next to their parent for the full duration of services and maintain physical distancing from all others. Children must be registered as well.
Next Thurs, Aug 13 12-1pm Online via Zoom Meeting ID: 955 4183 9308, Password: 024117 FREE
What can Judaism teach us about work and workers’ rights? How might this inform our contemporary ethics and policies? Let’s learn and discuss traditional Jewish sources to find out!
EVERYONE IS WELCOME. No prior Jewish learning experience required. Sources presented in both Hebrew and English translation.
Next Fri, Aug 28 7:00-7:45pm Online via Zoom Meeting ID: 955 4183 9308, Password: 024117 FREE
We’ll wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat by singing the joyous melodies of Kabbalat Shabbat together as a community and hearing a brief devar Torah.
Just before bringing in Shabbat with the final stanza of Lekha Dodi, we’ll bid each other Shabbat shalom and log off to light candles and start Shabbat the good ol’ unplugged way.
Have your Shabbat candles ready to light. If you have siddur (prayer book), please use it; we’ll also post the prayers on the screen.
