Calendar
This is an overview of upcoming events. Details of each event are below
Sunday, 20 October 2024-Religious School (?)
Thursday, 24 October 2024-Shmini Atzeret
Friday, 25 October 2024-Simchat Torah
Friday & Saturday, 25 - 26 October 2024-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 27 October 2024-Religious School
Friday, 1 November 2024🌒 Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan / רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ חֶשְׁוָן
Friday & Saturday, 1 & 2 November 2024-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 3 November 2024-Religious School
Friday & Saturday, 8 & 9 November 2024-Shabbat Services
Friday & Saturday, 15 & 16 November 2024-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 17 November 2024-Religious School
Friday & Saturday, 22 & 23 November 2024-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 24 November 2024-Religious School & Semi-Annual Congregation Meeting
Thursday, 28 November 2024-Thanksgiving
Friday, 29 November 2024-Native American Heritage Day
Friday & Saturday, 29 & 30 November 2024-Shabbat Services
We are now offering Zelle for payments and donations! Use this email: treasurer@templesholomofontario.org
Please note what the payment is for. Thank you.
Announcements
-Office Hours
-This week’s 10-Minute
-Events
-Candle Lighting Times for Shabbat (Ontario, CA)
-Shabbat Services
-School
*For your information, I have included below my schedule, including office hours for the next two weeks and specific classes in which I am involved.
**For your convenience and information, Zoom links will be provided in separate emails for security purposes.
***I continue to update our Mi Sheberach מי שברך list for those in need of healing. For your convenience, I am attaching this revised list to this email that only goes to members of Temple Sholom of Ontario. Thank you.
Going forward, I am planning on conducting Hebrew School from my office and making Sunday an office day when applicable to be more available.
Sunday, 20 October 20, 2024 9:00am - 2:30pm (?)
Thursday, 24 October 2024 9:30am - 7:30pm (Shmini Atzeret & Erev Simchat Torah)
Friday, 25 October 2024 9:00am - 7:30pm (Simchat Torah & Shabbat Services)
Sunday, 27 October, 2024 9:00am - 2:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30am)
Friday, 1 November 2024 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 3 November, 2024 9:00am - 2:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30am)
(Subject to change. Please call for appointments)
Adult Torah Study Class
Next Session: Wednesday, October 23 (?) at 7:30 pm PT
Zoom Links sent in separate email Wednesday morning. Please reply if you do not receive them.
Parashat Bereshit 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת בְּרֵאשִׁית
26 October 2024 / 24 Tishrei 5785
Parashat Bereshit is the 1st weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Genesis 1:1-6:8
Bereishit (“In the Beginning”), the first parashah in the annual Torah reading cycle, begins with God’s creation of the world. The first people, Adam and Eve, eat from the Tree of Knowledge and are banished from the Garden of Eden. Their elder son, Cain, kills their younger son, Abel, and Cain is destined to a life of wandering. [1]
Because of the subsequent Jewish holidays which occupy Thursday evenings until November, Judaic Studies will resume November 7.
Shmini Atzeret/Simcha Torah/Shabbat Times for Ontario, California, USA
🕯️ Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Wednesday, October 23⋅5:51pm
🕯️ Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Thursday, October 24⋅6:43pm
🕯️ Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Friday, October 25⋅5:48pm
✨ Havdalah (50 min) / הבדלה - 50 דקות Saturday, October 26⋅6:41pm
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Upcoming Services
Shmini Atzeres Shacharit/ שְׁמִינִי עֲצֶרֶת Thursday, October 24, 2024 @ 9:30 am
Erev Simchas Torah / שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה Thursday, October 24, 2024, 2024 @ 7:30 pm
Simchas Torah Shacharit / שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה Friday, October 25, 2024 @ 9:30 am
Erev Shabbat Ma'ariv Service Friday, October 25, 2024 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Shacharit / שַׁבָּת Saturday, October 26, 2024 @ 9:30 am
Shabbat Zoom Links sent in a separate email Friday afternoon.
Please reply if you do not receive them.
Shmini Atzeret 2024 / שְׁמִינִי עֲצֶרֶת 5785
Eighth Day of Assembly ✡️
Shmini Atzeret for Hebrew Year 5785 begins at sundown on Wednesday, 23 October 2024 and ends at nightfall on Thursday, 24 October 2024.
Shemini Atzeret (שמיני עצרת - “the Eighth [day] of Assembly”) is a Jewish holiday. It is celebrated on the 22nd day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei (first month of calendar). In the Diaspora, an additional day is celebrated, the second day being separately referred to as Simchat Torah. In Israel and Reform Judaism, the holidays of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah are combined into a single day and the names are used interchangeably.
Shmini Atzeret / שְׁמִינִי עֲצֶרֶת
Thursday, 24 October 2024 / 22 Tishrei 5785
Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17; Numbers 29:35-30:1
1: Deuteronomy 14:22-29 · 8 p’sukim
2: Deuteronomy 15:1-18 · 18 p’sukim
3: Deuteronomy 15:19-16:3 · 8 p’sukim
4: Deuteronomy 16:4-8 · 5 p’sukim
5: Deuteronomy 16:9-17 · 9 p’sukim
maf: Numbers 29:35-30:1 · 6 p’sukim
Haftarah: I Kings 8:54-66 · 13 p’sukim
Simchat Torah 2024 / שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה 5785
Day of Celebrating the Torah ✡️
Simchat Torah for Hebrew Year 5785 begins at sundown on Thursday, 24 October 2024 and ends at nightfall on Friday, 25 October 2024.
Simchat Torah or Simḥath Torah (also Simkhes Toreh, Hebrew: שִׂמְחַת תורָה, lit., “Rejoicing with/of the Torah,”) is a celebration marking the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle. Simchat Torah is a component of the Biblical Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret (“Eighth Day of Assembly”), which follows immediately after the festival of Sukkot in the month of Tishrei (mid-September to early October on the Gregorian calendar).
Erev Simchat Torah / עֶרֶב שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה
Thursday, 24 October 2024 / 23 Tishrei 5785
Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 33:1-17
1: Deuteronomy 33:1-7 · 7 p’sukim
2: Deuteronomy 33:8-12 · 5 p’sukim
3: Deuteronomy 33:13-17 · 5 p’sukim
Simchat Torah / שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה
Friday, 25 October 2024 / 23 Tishrei 5785
Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12; Genesis 1:1-2:3; Numbers 29:35-30:1
1: Deuteronomy 33:1-7 · 7 p’sukim
2: Deuteronomy 33:8-12 · 5 p’sukim
3: Deuteronomy 33:13-17 · 5 p’sukim
4: Deuteronomy 33:18-21 · 4 p’sukim
5: Deuteronomy 33:22-26 · 5 p’sukim
6: Deuteronomy 33:27-34:12 · 15 p’sukim
7: Genesis 1:1-2:3 · 34 p’sukim
maf: Numbers 29:35-30:1 · 6 p’sukim
Haftarah: Joshua 1:1-18 · 18 p’sukim
We are now incorporating guitar accompaniment with our Friday Night Shabbat Ma'ariv
Parashat Bereshit 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת בְּרֵאשִׁית
26 October 2024 / 24 Tishrei 5785
Parashat Bereshit is the 1st weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Genesis 1:1-6:8
Bereishit (“In the Beginning”), the first parashah in the annual Torah reading cycle, begins with God’s creation of the world. The first people, Adam and Eve, eat from the Tree of Knowledge and are banished from the Garden of Eden. Their elder son, Cain, kills their younger son, Abel, and Cain is destined to a life of wandering. [1]
Triennial year 3
1: 5:1-5 · 5 p’sukim
2: 5:6-8 · 3 p’sukim
3: 5:9-14 · 6 p’sukim
4: 5:15-20 · 6 p’sukim
5: 5:21-24 · 4 p’sukim
6: 5:25-31 · 7 p’sukim
7: 5:32-6:8 · 9 p’sukim
maf: 6:5-8 · 4 p’sukim
Haftarah for Ashkenazim: Isaiah 42:5-43:10 · 31 p’sukim
Commentary and Divrei Torah
Hertz Chumash: pp. 16 – 20 Triennial Year 2 (Full Kriyah pp. 2 – 20)
Artscroll Chumash: pp. 22 – 29 Triennial Year 2 (Full Kriyah pp. 2 – 29)
Etz Chaim Chumash: pp. 30 – 34 Triennial Year 2 (Full Kriyah pp. 3 – 34)
Mevorchim Chodesh Cheshvan / מְבָרְכִים חוֹדֶשׁ חֶשְׁוָן
Saturday, October 26
Molad Cheshvan: Fri, 5 minutes and 14 chalakim after 4:00pm
Any Shabbat that precedes and begins the week during which there will be a day or days of a new Hebrew month (Rosh Chodesh) is known as Shabbat Mevarchim (mevarchim means "they [the congregation] bless" [the forthcoming new month].
The 26th Annual Jewish Federation Book Festival will take place on Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 10 AM at Temple Sholom of Ontario. The event will feature Margalit Fox and her book The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized Crime Boss.
The festival will run from October 27 to December 15, 2024. You can register for the festival at jewishsgpv.org
Hebrew School at Temple Sholom of Ontario
See you in the fall!
Start date will be either Sunday, October 27 or November 3.
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 sunset - Fri, 25 Oct 2024 nightfall
Dates listed are for Diaspora (outside of Israel) 22-23 Tishrei 5785
Eighth Day of Assembly. Immediately following Sukkot, it is observed as a separate holiday in the Diaspora and is combined with Simchat Torah in Israel.
Shmini Atzeret: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 sunset - Thu, 24 Oct 2024 nightfall
Shacharit Shmini Atzeret : Thursday, 24 October 2024 9:30am - 12:15pm
Simchat Torah: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 sunset - Fri, 25 Oct 2024 nightfall
Ma'ariv Simchat Torah: Thursday, 24 October 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Shacharit Simchat Torah: Friday, 25 Ocober 2024 9:30am - 12:15pm
Semi-Annual Congregation Meeting
Sunday, 24 November 2024 @ 1pm
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