Rabbi Shmuel's newsletter for week of 16 March 2025
- Rabbi Stephen Epstein
- Mar 2
- 5 min read
Calendar
This is an overview of upcoming events. Details of each event are below
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-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
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 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.
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)
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)
(Subject to change. Please call for appointments)
22 March 2025 / 22 Adar 5785
(14 March 2025)
Thursday, 20 March 2025 @ 7:30pm
Shabbat Times for Ontario, California, USA
🕯️ Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Friday, March 21⋅6:48pm
✨ Havdalah (50 min) / הבדלה - 50 דקות Saturday, March 22⋅7:41pm
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Upcoming Services
Erev Shabbat Ma'ariv Service Friday, March 21, 2025 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Shacharit / שַׁבָּת Saturday, March 22, 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 Vayakhel 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת וַיַּקְהֵל
22 March 2025 / 22 Adar 5785
Parashat Vayakhel is the 22nd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Exodus 35:1-38:20; Numbers 19:1-22
Exodus Chapter Thirty-five, Verse One (Thirty-six, Twenty) to Thirty-eight, Twenty & Numbers Ninteen, One to Twenty-two
Vayakhel (“He Assembled”) opens as God commands the Israelites to observe the Sabbath. Moses asks for material donations for the building of the Mishkan (Tabernacle), and the people donate. A group of artisans designated by God begin building the Mishkan and its vessels. [1]
Triennial year 3
1: 36:20-30 · 11 p’sukim
2: 36:31-38 · 8 p’sukim
3: 37:1-16 · 16 p’sukim
4: 37:17-24 · 8 p’sukim
5: 37:25-29 · 5 p’sukim
6: 38:1-8 · 8 p’sukim
7: 38:9-20 · 12 p’sukim
maf*: Numbers 19:1-22 · 22 p’sukim *Shabbat Parah
Haftarah for Ashkenazim*: Ezekiel 36:16-38 · 23 p’sukim *Shabbat Parah
Commentary and Divrei Torah
Hertz Chumash: pp. 377 – 381 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 373 – 381)
Artscroll Chumash: pp. 522 – 529 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 516 – 529)
Etz Chaim Chumash: pp. 513 – 518 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 503 – 518)
Shabbat Parah 2025 / שַׁבָּת פּרה 5785
Shabbat of the Red Heifer 🕍
Shabbat Parah for Hebrew Year 5785 begins at sundown on Friday, 21 March 2025 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, 22 March 2025. This corresponds to Parashat Vayakhel.
Shabbat Parah (“Sabbath [of the] red heifer” שבת פרה) takes place on the Shabbat before Shabbat HaChodesh, in preparation for Passover. Numbers 19:1-22 describes the parah adumah (“red heifer”) in the Jewish temple as part of the manner in which the kohanim and the Jewish people purified themselves so that they would be ready (“pure”) to sacrifice the korban Pesach.
Zoom Religious School:
Sunday, March 16 @ 10:00am - 11:30am
Sunday, March 23 @ 10:00am - 11:30am
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 16 session will be preempted due to Movie Day and Silent Auction
Sunday March 23 @ 12:00pm - 1:00 pm
Preparing for monitoring the weekly Torah Reading
with the NJOP Hebrew Crash Course
Movie Day & Silent Auction
Sunday, March 16
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.
Coming Soon: Introduction to Judaism
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