Calendar
This is an overview of upcoming events. Details of each event are below
Sunday, 9 February 2025-Religious School on Zoom
Sunday, 9 February 2025-NJOP Hebrew Crash Course
Thursday, 13 February 2025-Board Meeting
Thursday, 13 February 2025-Judaic Studies
Friday & Saturday, 14 & 15 February 2025-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 16 February 2025-Religious School on Zoom
Sunday, 16 February 2025-NJOP Hebrew Crash Course
Monday, 17 Februrary 2025-President's Day
Thursday, 20 February 2025-Judaic Studies
Friday & Saturday, 21 & 22 February 2025-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 23 February 2025-Religious School on Zoom
Thursday, 27 February 2025-Judaic Studies
Friday & Saturday, 28 February & 1 March 2025-Shabbat 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.
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, 9 February 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30pm & NJOP Hebrew Crash Course 12:00pm - 1:00pm) (?)
Thursday, 13 January 2025 1:00pm - 7:00pm (Board Meeting @ 7:00pm)
Friday, 14 February 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 16 January 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30pm & NJOP Hebrew Crash Course 12:00pm - 1:00pm)
Friday, 21 February 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 23 February 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30pm & NJOP Hebrew Crash Course 12:00pm - 1:00pm)
(Subject to change. Please call for appointments)
15 February 2025 / 17 Sh’vat 5785
(7 February 2025)
Thursday, 13 February 2025 @ 7:30pm
Discussing Song of Songs
Shabbat Times for Ontario, California, USA
🕯️ Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Friday, February 14⋅5:18pm
✨ Havdalah (50 min) / הבדלה - 50 דקות Saturday, February 15⋅6:13pm
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Upcoming Services
Erev Shabbat Ma'ariv Service Friday, February 14, 2025 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Shacharit / שַׁבָּת Saturday, February 15, 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 Yitro 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת יִתְרוֹ
15 February 2025 / 17 Sh’vat 5785
Fifteen February Twenty twenty-five/Seventeen Sh’vat Fifty-seven Eighty-five
Parashat Yitro is the 17th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Exodus 18:1-20:23
Exodus Eighteen, One (Nineteen, One) to Twenty, twenty-three
Yitro (“Jethro”) begins as Moses reunites with his father-in-law Yitro and accepts his advice to appoint judges who will help govern the Israelites. The Israelites prepare to encounter God at Mount Sinai. God descends amidst fire, smoke, thunder, and the blast of a shofar and gives the Ten Commandments. [1]
Triennial year 3
1: 19:1-6 · 6 p’sukim
2: 19:7-9 · 3 p’sukim
3: 19:10-13 · 4 p’sukim
4: 19:14-19 · 6 p’sukim
5: 19:20-20:14 · 20 p’sukim
6: 20:15-18 · 4 p’sukim
7: 20:19-23 · 5 p’sukim
maf: 20:21-23 · 3 p’sukim
Haftarah for Ashkenazim: Isaiah 6:1-7:6, 9:5-6 · 21 p’sukim
Commentary and Divrei Torah
Hertz Chumash: pp. 290 – 301 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 288 – 301)
Artscroll Chumash: pp. 400 – 415 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 394 – 415)
Etz Chaim Chumash: pp. 436 – 450 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 432 – 450)
Hebrew School at Temple Sholom of Ontario
Zoom Religious School:
Sunday, February 9 @ 10:00am - 11:30am
We are going to be 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.
Next In-Person Religious School:
Sunday, March 2 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm
Adult Hebrew Course
Sunday February 9 @ 12:00pm - 1:00 pm
Preparing for monitoring the weekly Torah Reading
with the NJOP Hebrew Crash Course
Starting February 9
Sunday, March 2
Stay tuned for details.
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.
Coming Sunday, March 16
Coming Soon: Introduction to Judaism
Please reply or respond with interest and we'll get another course going!
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