Calendar
This is an overview of upcoming events. Details of each event are below
Sunday, 2 March 2025-In-Person Religious School
Sunday, 2 March 2025-Purim Carnival
Friday, 7 March 2025-Shabbat Across America
Thursday, 13 March 2025-Board Meeting & Megilla Reading
Friday & Saturday, 14 & 15 March 2025-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 16 March 2025-Movie
Thursday, 20 March 2025-Judaic Studies
Friday & Saturday, 21 & 22 March 2025-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 23 March 2025-Religious School on Zoom
Sunday, 23 March 2025-Adult Hebrew School
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.
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
The Mi Shebarach list is going to be 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, 2 March 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (In-Person Religious School 10:00am - 12:00pm & Purim Carnival 12:00pm - 2:00pm)
Friday, 7 March 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services/Shabbat Across America @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 9 March 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30am & Adult Hebrew Course 12:00pm - 1:00pm)
Thursday, 13 March 2025 2:00pm - 7:00pm (Board Meeting @ 6:00pm & Megilla Reading @ 7:00pm - 9:00pm)
Friday, 14 March 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 16 March 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30am & Adult Hebrew Course 12:00pm - 1:00pm)
Friday, 21 March 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 23 March 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30am & Adult Hebrew Course 12:00pm - 1:00pm)
Friday, 28 March 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 31 March 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30am & Adult Hebrew Course 12:00pm - 1:00pm)
(Subject to change. Please call for appointments)
8 March 2025 / 8 Adar 5785
(28 February 2025)
Thursday, 6 March 2025 @ 7:30pm
We will meet next Thursday, March 6, at 7:30 PM on Zoom, to decide what to study next. (We will not meet the following Thursday because of Purim.)
1. The latest version of the list of suggested topics.
And, to go with the first three items on the list, which may not be self-explanatory, I have included examples:
a. Two pages from the English translation of the summary of the compendium of Jewish law known as the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch – if you aren’t familiar with what it’s like, you can see what it’s like.
b. Two pages from the book Swimming in the Sea of Talmud, the anthology of Talmudic short texts with modern commentary, so you can see what that is like.
c. Two pages from Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s edition of Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers]. These examples have one “mishnah” (verse) from the original text together with his commentary. I thought if you weren’t familiar with Pirkei Avot, seeing examples with commentary would help orient you. If this gets chosen, we can decide if we want to read the original text, which is how we usually operate, or a version with commentary.
Finally, here is a link to five e-cards with whimsical renderings of some romantic quotations from the “Song of Songs,” designed and illustrated by Mollie Suss. We ended class on February 27 by looking at them. They come from the usually more serious and scholarly website “My Jewish Learning.” Enjoy!
Shabbat Times for Ontario, California, USA
🕯️ Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Friday, March 7⋅5:37pm
✨ Havdalah (50 min) / הבדלה - 50 דקות Saturday, March 8⋅6:30pm
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Upcoming Services
Erev Shabbat Ma'ariv Service Friday, March 7, 2025 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Shacharit / שַׁבָּת Saturday, March 8, 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 Tetzaveh 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת תְּצַוֶּה
8 March 2025 / 8 Adar 5785
Parashat Tetzaveh is the 20th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Exodus 27:20-30:10; Deuteronomy 25:17-19
Tetzaveh (“You Shall Command”) opens as God instructs Moses to appoint Aaron and his sons as priests. God details how to make the priestly clothing, how to sanctify the priests and offer sacrifices during the seven days of inauguration in the Mishkan (Tabernacle), and how to build the golden altar. [1]
Triennial year 3
1: 29:19-21 · 3 p’sukim
2: 29:22-25 · 4 p’sukim
3: 29:26-30 · 5 p’sukim
4: 29:31-34 · 4 p’sukim
5: 29:35-37 · 3 p’sukim
6: 29:38-46 · 9 p’sukim
7: 30:1-10 · 10 p’sukim
maf*: Deuteronomy 25:17-19 · 3 p’sukim *Shabbat Zachor
Haftarah for Ashkenazim*: I Samuel 15:2-34 · 33 p’sukim *Shabbat Zachor
Commentary and Divrei Torah
Hertz Chumash: pp. 346 – 349 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 339 – 349)
Artscroll Chumash: pp. 476 – 483 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 464 – 483)
Etz Chaim Chumash: pp. 513 – 518 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 503 – 518)
Shabbat Zachor 2025 / שַׁבָּת זָכוֹר 5785
Shabbat of Remembrance 🕍
Shabbat Zachor for Hebrew Year 5785 begins at sundown on Friday, 7 March 2025 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, 8 March 2025. This corresponds to Parashat Tetzaveh.
Shabbat Zachor (“Sabbath [of] remembrance שבת זכור) is the Shabbat immediately preceding Purim. Deuteronomy 25:17-19, describing the attack by Amalek, is recounted. There is a tradition from the Talmud that Haman, the antagonist of the Purim story, was descended from Amalek. The portion that is read includes a commandment to remember the attack by Amalek, and therefore at this public reading both men and women make a special effort to hear the reading.
Hebrew School at Temple Sholom of Ontario
Next In-Person Religious School:
Sunday, March 2 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm
Students will be preparing for:
Zoom Religious School:
Sunday, March 9 @ 10:00am - 11:30am
We are starting up our religious school.
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.
Adult Hebrew Course
Sunday March 2 @ 10:00am - 11:00 am
(Sunday, March 2 session will be held early due to Purim Carnival during the Adult Learning while the students are participating in the In-Person session)
Sunday March 9 @ 12:00pm - 1:00 pm
Preparing for monitoring the weekly Torah Reading
with the NJOP Hebrew Crash Course
Shabbat Across America and Canada
Friday night, March 7, 2025
Since the terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7th, 2023, the world’s Jewry has gone through some really difficult and dark times. There has been a dramatic increase in antisemitism. Jews have been attacked and made to feel unwelcome. Synagogues have been burned down and covered in graffiti.
What the world needs to see are more displays of Jewish pride and unity. Now is our chance to counter these dark times with Jewish light.
On March 7th, exactly 17 months after those horrific attacks on the Jewish homeland, we are asking your community to join us for NJOP’s 29th Annual Shabbat Across America and Canada, the original Shabbat unity event. This special night is an opportunity to come together as one family and one community, to celebrate Shabbat and spread the light of Jewish unity into the world.
Let’s bring people into our synagogues and Jewish centers like never before. Participating in NJOP’s continent-wide event will enable those in your community to share this special unity experience with thousands of North American Jews. To positively impact upon participants, we invite you to offer an uplifting program including an explanatory service, traditional rituals, a delicious Shabbat meal and lively discussions to ensure a wonderfully inspiring and impactful Shabbat experience.
Daylight Saving Time starts
Sunday, March 9
Daylight saving time will begin Sunday, March 9, at 2 a.m local time in the U.S. The clocks "spring forward" by one hour, meaning sunrise and sunset will occur one hour later. DST will end November 2 when clocks "fall back" by one hour.
Thursday, March 13, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Maintaining schedule of 2nd Thursday of the month and early to accomodate congregational Purim service and Megilla reading at 7:00pm
Movie Day & Silent Auction
Sunday, March 17
Coming Soon: Introduction to Judaism
Please reply or respond with interest and we'll get another course going!
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