Rabbi Shmuel's newsletter for week of 23 March 2025
- Rabbi Stephen Epstein
- Mar 2
- 6 min read
Calendar
This is an overview of upcoming events. Details of each event are below
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
Thursday, 10 April 2025-Judaic Studies
Thursday, 10 April 2025-Board Meeting
Saturday, 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, 13 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, 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)
Sunday, 13 April 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Passover 1 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 - Monday 28 April 2025 1:00pm - 7:30pm (Out of town)
(Subject to change. Please call for appointments)
29 March 2025 / 29 Adar 5785
(14 March 2025)
Thursday, 27 March 2025 @ 7:30pm
Shabbat Times for Ontario, California, USA
🕯️ Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Friday, March 28⋅6:53pm
✨ Havdalah (50 min) / הבדלה - 50 דקות Saturday, March 29⋅7:471pm
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Upcoming Services
Erev Shabbat Ma'ariv Service Friday, March 28, 2025 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Shacharit / שַׁבָּת Saturday, March 29, 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 Pekudei 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת פְקוּדֵי
29 March 2025 / 29 Adar 5785
Parashat Pekudei is the 23rd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Exodus 38:21-40:38, 12:1-20
Pekudei (“Accountings Of”) is the final Torah reading in the Book of Exodus. It describes the making of priestly garments worn in the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and the completion of its construction. At God’s command, Moses erects the Mishkan and puts its vessels in place, and God's presence fills the Mishkan. [1]
Triennial year 3
1: 39:22-26 · 5 p’sukim
2: 39:27-32 · 6 p’sukim
3: 39:33-43 · 11 p’sukim
4: 40:1-8 · 8 p’sukim
5: 40:9-16 · 8 p’sukim
6: 40:17-27 · 11 p’sukim
7: 40:28-38 · 11 p’sukim
maf*: 12:1-20 · 20 p’sukim *Shabbat HaChodesh
Haftarah for Ashkenazim*: Ezekiel 45:16-46:18 · 28 p’sukim *Shabbat HaChodesh
Commentary and Divrei Torah
Hertz Chumash: pp. 387 – 391 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 385 – 391)
Artscroll Chumash: pp. 534 – 541 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 530 – 541)
Etz Chaim Chumash: pp. 567 – 572 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 564 – 572)
Shabbat HaChodesh 2025 / שַׁבָּת הַחֹדֶשׁ 5785
Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh Nissan 🕍
Shabbat HaChodesh for Hebrew Year 5785 begins at sundown on Friday, 28 March 2025 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, 29 March 2025. This corresponds to Parashat Pekudei.
Shabbat HaChodesh (“Sabbath [of the] month” שבת החודש) precedes the first of the Hebrew month of Nisan during which Passover is celebrated. Exodus 12:1-20 and the laws of Passover. On the first day of Nisan, G-d presented the first commandment of how to “sanctify the new moon” (kiddush hachodesh) for the onset of Rosh Chodesh and thus Nisan becomes the first month of the Jewish year (counting by months.).
Rosh Chodesh Nisan 2025 / רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ נִיסָן 5785
Start of month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar 🌒
Rosh Chodesh Nisan for Hebrew Year 5785 begins at sundown on Saturday, 29 March 2025 and ends at nightfall on Sunday, 30 March 2025.
Start of month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. נִיסָן (transliterated Nisan or Nissan) is the 1st month of the Hebrew year, has 30 days, and corresponds to March or April on the Gregorian calendar. רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ, transliterated Rosh Chodesh or Rosh Hodesh, is a minor holiday that occurs at the beginning of every month in the Hebrew calendar. It is marked by the birth of a new moon.
Zoom Religious School:
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 23 @ 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.
We are conveniently located in Tustin, Orange County, across the street from the OC Kosher Market.
The Golden Dreidle has the most extensive collection of Jewish Wedding Gifts, Groom's Mazel Tov Glasses, Tallits, Kiddush Cups, Jewish Wedding Mezuzahs, Chuppah ..
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