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Rabbi Shmuel's newsletter for week of 30 March 2025

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Calendar

This is an overview of upcoming events. Details of each event are below

Sunday, 30 March 2025-Religious School on Zoom & Adult Hebrew School

Friday, 28 & 29 March 2025-Shabbat Services

Thursday, 3 April 2025-Judaic Studies

Friday & Saturday, 4 & 5 April 2025-Shabbat Services

Sunday, 6 April 2025-In-Person Religious School

Thursday, 10 April 2025-Judaic Studies

Thursday, 10 April 2025-Board Meeting

Saturday, 11 & 12 April 2025-Shabbat Services

Sunday, 13 April 2025-Passover 1 Services

Sunday, 13 April 2025-Second Night Seder

Monday, 14 April 2025-Passover 2 Services

Friday & Saturday, 18 & 19 April 2025-Passover 7/Shabbat Services

Sunday, 20 April 2025-Passover 8 Services




For your convenience, we offer Zelle for payments and donations! Use this email: treasurer@templesholomofontario.org

Please note what the payment is for. Thank you.







*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

The Mi Shebarach list has been edited this week deleting names that have been on for many months without verification. Please advise which names you would like to remain on that list or they will be purged. Thank you for your consideration.







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, 31 March 2025   9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30am & Adult Hebrew Course 12:00pm - 1:00pm)

Friday, 4 April 2025   1:00pm - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)

Sunday, 6 April 2025   9:00am - 1:30pm (In-Person Religious School 10:00am - 12:00pm)

Sunday, 10 April 2025   2:00pm - 7:00pm (Board Meeting 7:00pm - 9:00pm)

Sunday, 13 April 2025   9:00am - 1:30pm (Passover 1 Service 9:30am - 12:00pm)

Monday, 14 April 2025   9:00am - 1:30pm (Passover 2 Service 9:30am - 12:00pm)

Friday, 18 April 2025   1:00pm - 7:30pm (Passover 7/Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)

Sunday, 20 April 2025   9:00am - 1:30pm (Passover 8 Service 9:30am - 12:00pm)

Thursday, 24 - Thursday 1 May 2025   1:00pm - 7:30pm (Out of town)

(Subject to change. Please call for appointments)




5 April 2025 / 7 Nisan 5785    



(28 March 2025)





Thursday, 3 April 2025 @ 7:30pm




Shabbat Times for Ontario, California, USA

🕯️ Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Friday, April 4⋅6:58pm

✨ Havdalah (50 min) / הבדלה - 50 דקות Saturday, April 5⋅7:53pm

Upcoming Services

 Erev Shabbat Ma'ariv Service Friday, April 4, 2025 @ 7:30 pm

Shabbat Shacharit / שַׁבָּת Saturday, April 5, 2025 @ 9:30 am 

Shabbat Zoom Links sent in a separate email Friday afternoon.  

Please reply if you do not receive them.

We are now incorporating guitar accompaniment with our Friday Night Shabbat Ma'ariv

Parashat Vayikra 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּקְרָא

5 April 2025 / 7 Nisan 5785

Parashat Vayikra is the 24th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

Torah Portion: Leviticus 1:1-5:26

In Vayikra (“He Called”), the first Torah portion in the Book of Leviticus, God tells Moses about the sacrifices offered in the Mishkan (Tabernacle). Among these are sacrifices entirely burnt on the altar, meal offerings made of flour and oil, peace offerings, and sacrifices brought for sinning inadvertently. [1]

Triennial year 3

1: 4:27-31 · 5 p’sukim  

2: 4:32-35 · 4 p’sukim  

3: 5:1-10 · 10 p’sukim  

4: 5:11-13 · 3 p’sukim  

5: 5:14-16 · 3 p’sukim  

6: 5:17-19 · 3 p’sukim  

7: 5:20-26 · 7 p’sukim  

maf: 5:24-26 · 3 p’sukim  

Haftarah: Isaiah 43:21-44:23 · 31 p’sukim

 

Commentary and Divrei Torah  

 

Hertz Chumash: pp. 419 – 423 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 410 – 423)

Artscroll Chumash: pp. 560 – 567 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 544 – 567)

Etz Chaim Chumash: pp. 567 – 572 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 564 – 572)





Zoom Religious School:

Sunday, March 30 @ 10:00am - 11:30am

First session: 10:00am - 10:40am Hebrew and Prayers

Second session: 10:50am - 11:30am Torah, Prophets, Holidays

 We are planning on a more consistent schedule.  We will have our in-person learning on the first weekend of the month.  The other 3 or 4 weeks will be on Zoom and consist of Hebrew instruction and Torah learning.  We will also discuss the holidays as they come up and other topics, like prophets.


Hebrew School at Temple Sholom of Ontario 

Next In-Person Religious School:

Sunday, April 6 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm

Students will be preparing for: Passover




Adult Hebrew Course

Sunday March 30 @ 12:00pm - 1:00 pm

Preparing for monitoring the weekly Torah Reading

with the NJOP Hebrew Crash Course



Pesach 2025 / פֶּסַח 5785

Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread 


Pesach for Hebrew Year 5785 begins in the Diaspora at sundown on Saturday, 12 April 2025 and ends at nightfall on Sunday, 20 April 2025.

Passover (Hebrew: פֶּסַח Pesach) commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. Passover begins on the 15th day of the month of Nisan in the Jewish calendar, which is in spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and is celebrated for seven or eight days. It is one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays.


Pesach I / פֶּסַח א׳

Sunday, 13 April 2025 / 15 Nisan 5785

1: Exodus 12:21-24 · 4 p’sukim

2: Exodus 12:25-28 · 4 p’sukim

3: Exodus 12:29-36 · 8 p’sukim

4: Exodus 12:37-42 · 6 p’sukim

5: Exodus 12:43-51 · 9 p’sukim

maf: Numbers 28:16-25 · 10 p’sukim

Haftarah for Ashkenazim: Joshua 3:5-7, 5:2-6:1, 6:27 · 19 p’sukim

Haftarah for Sephardim: Joshua 5:2-6:1, 6:27 · 16 p’sukim

Pesach II / פֶּסַח ב׳

Monday, 14 April 2025 / 16 Nisan 5785

1: Leviticus 22:26-23:3 · 11 p’sukim

2: Leviticus 23:4-14 · 11 p’sukim

3: Leviticus 23:15-22 · 8 p’sukim

4: Leviticus 23:23-32 · 10 p’sukim

5: Leviticus 23:33-44 · 12 p’sukim

maf: Numbers 28:16-25 · 10 p’sukim

Haftarah: II Kings 23:1-9, 23:21-25 · 14 p’sukim

Pesach Chol ha-Moed Day 1 / פֶּסַח חוֹל הַמּוֹעֵד יוֹם א׳

Tuesday, 15 April 2025 / 17 Nisan 5785

1: Exodus 13:1-4 · 4 p’sukim

2: Exodus 13:5-10 · 6 p’sukim

3: Exodus 13:11-16 · 6 p’sukim

4: Numbers 28:19-25 · 7 p’sukim

Pesach Chol ha-Moed Day 2 / פֶּסַח חוֹל הַמּוֹעֵד יוֹם ב׳

Wednesday, 16 April 2025 / 18 Nisan 5785

1: Exodus 22:24-26 · 3 p’sukim

2: Exodus 22:27-23:5 · 9 p’sukim

3: Exodus 23:6-19 · 14 p’sukim

4: Numbers 28:19-25 · 7 p’sukim

Pesach Chol ha-Moed Day 3 / פֶּסַח חוֹל הַמּוֹעֵד יוֹם ג׳

Thursday, 17 April 2025 / 19 Nisan 5785

1: Exodus 34:1-10 · 10 p’sukim

2: Exodus 34:11-17 · 7 p’sukim

3: Exodus 34:18-26 · 9 p’sukim

4: Numbers 28:19-25 · 7 p’sukim

Pesach Chol ha-Moed Day 4 / פֶּסַח חוֹל הַמּוֹעֵד יוֹם ד׳

Friday, 18 April 2025 / 20 Nisan 5785

Torah Portion: Numbers 9:1-14, 28:19-25

1: Numbers 9:1-5 · 5 p’sukim

2: Numbers 9:6-8 · 3 p’sukim

3: Numbers 9:9-14 · 6 p’sukim

4: Numbers 28:19-25 · 7 p’sukim

Pesach VII (on Shabbat) / פֶּסַח ז׳ (בְּשַׁבָּת)

Saturday, 19 April 2025 / 21 Nisan 5785

1: Exodus 13:17-19 · 3 p’sukim

2: Exodus 13:20-22 · 3 p’sukim

3: Exodus 14:1-4 · 4 p’sukim

4: Exodus 14:5-8 · 4 p’sukim

5: Exodus 14:9-14 · 6 p’sukim

6: Exodus 14:15-25 · 11 p’sukim

7: Exodus 14:26-15:26 · 32 p’sukim

maf: Numbers 28:19-25 · 7 p’sukim

Haftarah: II Samuel 22:1-51 · 51 p’sukim

Megillah

1: Song of Songs 1:1-17 · 17 p’sukim

2: Song of Songs 2:1-17 · 17 p’sukim

3: Song of Songs 3:1-11 · 11 p’sukim

4: Song of Songs 4:1-16 · 16 p’sukim

5: Song of Songs 5:1-16 · 16 p’sukim

6: Song of Songs 6:1-12 · 12 p’sukim

7: Song of Songs 7:1-14 · 14 p’sukim

8: Song of Songs 8:1-14 · 14 p’sukim

Pesach VIII / פֶּסַח ח׳

Sunday, 20 April 2025 / 22 Nisan 5785

1: Deuteronomy 15:19-23 · 5 p’sukim

2: Deuteronomy 16:1-3 · 3 p’sukim

3: Deuteronomy 16:4-8 · 5 p’sukim

4: Deuteronomy 16:9-12 · 4 p’sukim

5: Deuteronomy 16:13-17 · 5 p’sukim

maf: Numbers 28:19-25 · 7 p’sukim

Haftarah: Isaiah 10:32-12:6 · 25 p’sukim




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