Shabbat, 20th June 2020 / 28th Sivan 5780 Dear Member,
Please see below our weekly e-newsletter.
On the advice of the Chief Rabbi's Office, please note that all services at the Synagogue have been cancelled until further notice.
We hope that where possible you will keep to the Government's advice regarding self isolation and avoiding non-essential gatherings.
https://chiefrabbi.org/all-media/principlesforexitinglockdown/
If you are in need of anything then please ring the Synagogue Office on: 0208 629 2780 and we will try to assist you.
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Shabbat Times - Shelach Lecha
Friday night - Candle Lighting at 7.40pm Latest time to light candles is at 9:07pm
Shabbat ends - 10.28pm
The latest time for candle lighting next week (Korach) is at 9.08 pm.
Clarification regarding the Shabbat times during the summer months
Ordinarily Shabbat begins 18 minutes before sunset. However, as we enter the long days of summer in our community we will be bringing Shabbat in at the earlier time of 7.40pm.
This will allow our members to have their Friday night meal at a more convenient hour.
For the benefit of our members who are unable to light candles with the rest of the community at 7.40pm, we will publish in the newsletter the latest time for candle lighting.
News and Views
This week’s parsha deals with the spies, and how they are sent into the land of Canaan to bring back a report for the Jewish people. The Torah tells us that 10 out of the 12 spies returned with a negative report about the land of Israel. They said that the land of Canaan has strong armies, that they were barricaded by defences up to the heavens. There are giants in the land, the spies claimed, and the land will literally consume them all. The Jewish people hear this negative report, and they cry. They say: It is because G-d hates us” - that G-d took us out of Egypt, only to get us destroyed by the Emori, one of the nations that live in the Land of Canaan.
There is a major question which needs to be dealt with here. G-d had promised the Jewish people that they would be able to conquer the land of Israel from their enemies. They had seen G-d’s power, his ability to crush the most powerful nation in the known world of the time - the Egyptians were completely wiped out as a military force single-handedly by G-d. Why did the Jewish people not trust that G-d would do the same thing again? After everything that they had seen, everything that they had experienced, why did they lack faith?
The commentators all pick up on one issue - the spies were scared. They were frightened of going from the known - the comfortable, into the unknown. In the desert, as miraculous as their existence was, it was comfortable - it was known - it was the status quo. Now, they were being asked to move to a place in which they no longer got food from heaven, no longer had clothes which never needed washing, no longer had direct contact with G-d. They were moving into the unknown, and this caused them to have incredible terror. Fear debilitates. It weakens us. It stops us thinking. It stops us being logical. It destroys our sense of self-worth. The antidote to fear is trust - faith that G-d can take and will take care of us.
This faith is something which we need to hold onto during these difficult and challenging times. Finding our faith will dissolve our fears, and G-d willing we will come out of this situation a stronger and braver people.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Steven, Siobhan, Maya and Talia Dansky
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz is next Monday, June 22nd (Yom Sheni) and Tuesday, June 23rd (Yom Shlishi).
The Molad (the time of the first sighting of the moon in Jerusalem) is on Sunday, June 21st at 00.26 and 14 chalakim.
Weekday Shacharit:
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Meeting ID: 863 8503 9085 / Password: 695854
Mincha and Ma'ariv, Monday to Thursday evening at 7:30pm
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Meeting ID: 823 2937 3357 / Password: 582038
Shalom Magazine, Rosh Hashanah 5781 Edition (September 2020) Bored? Fed up with being stuck at home? All contributions will be acknowledged either by email or by telephone. I look forward to hearing from you. - Philippa Stanton - Editor Mildred & Gerald Luton on their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.
Irene & Max Placks on their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
Udi & Eli Myers on their 1st Wedding Anniversary.
Melody Alicoon, Michelle Bolle,
Udi and Eli Myers on the birth of a son.
Linda Myers on the birth of grandson.
Avi and Daniella Myers on the birth of a nephew.
Condolences:-
Barbara Robinson on the loss of her husband, Jeffrey Robinson.
Craig and Russel Robinson on the loss of their father, Jeffrey Robinson.
Manny Robinson and Gilda Melnick on the loss of their brother, Jeffrey Robinson.
Sheila Graham on loss of her husband, Aubrey Graham.
Karla Austin and family on the loss of her husband, Michael Austin.
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We wish Long Life to everyone who is observing a Yahrzeit this week:
Vera Aarons, Barrie Abrahams, Robin Abrahams, Marian Arbiter, Bernice Barber, Anne Barber-Herlitz, Susan Bass, Marion Becker,
Trudy Benson, Ruth Berg, Stacey Bourne, Lorraine Brett,
Maurice Conway, Morris Conway, Mildred Davies, Leslie Davis, Joy Debenham-Burton, Stanley Faw, Hilary Finney, Jillian Gold,
Doreen Golding, Danielle Goldman, Gerald Goodman, Barbara Gordon,
Shirley Greenbaum, Jane Greenberg, Barbara Grew, Richard Grew,
Michael Hart, Lauren Herst, Shirley Kravitz, Ingrid Lancod, Barbara Langer,
Stuart Lasky,Helen Lazarus, Barbara Lennard, Angela Levene, Gary Levene,
Leslie Martin, Estelle Mendoza, Claire Michaels, Janet Mitchell,
Frank Morris, Kay Nathan, David Nathan, Ellayne Noble, Philip Palmer,
Mandy Perez, Diane Rankoff, Evelyn Rose, Betty Rothfarb, Peter Rudd,
Levy Sampson, Evelyn Scholar, Linda Sherman, Lynda Simmons,
Haim Sobel, Marie Sopher, Astrid Tartes, Robert Torz, Serena Torz,
Cyril Vancliff, Susan Wells, Diane Windsor and Lynne Worth.
Shul Office Opening Hours As the Shul office is not open currently please call Estelle on 020 8629 2780 or Michelle on 020 8629 2783 as all the phones have all been redirected.
Rabbi Dansky is available out of hours. You can contact him directly on his mobile 07780 236697 or by calling the Shul office and selecting option 3.
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