JOIN THE CLERGY FOR DAILY SERVICES & CLASSES STREAMING ON FACEBOOK LIVE AND ZOOM! *Please note that you do not need a Facebook account in order to view our Facebook page Click here for a version of kaddish that can be said without a minyan FRIDAY, APRIL 17 An early Kabbalat Shabbat service (up to and including Lecha dodi) When: 6:00 PM With: Cantor Guber Where: FACEBOOK LIVE Sponsor: The Kabbalat Shabbat service is sponsored this evening by Bernice Levine with best wishes for everyone's good health
Candle lighting - 7:46 PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 18 8:48 PM - Havdalah Musical Havdalah Service When: after Shabbat With: Cantor Guber Where: FACEBOOK Sponsor: Tonight's musical Havdalah service is sponsored by Alan Bernstein in honour of his Bar Mitzvah anniversary
SUNDAY, APRIL 19 Shacharit When: 8:00 AM With: Rabbi David Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Mincha/Maariv When: 8:00 PM With: Rabbi Morrison Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM Sponsor: Tonight's service is sponsored by Michael Teitelbaum in loving memory of my dear father, Bernard Teitelbaum ז״ל, whose Yahrzeit begins tonight, and of my dear mother, Sarah Shirley Teitelbaum ז״ל, whose Yahrzeit is at the beginning of July. May their memories forever be a blessing. And, let us all hope and pray that by the beginning of July this awful pandemic will have at least significantly subsided if it has not been fully defeated.
A social evening on ZOOM Ma Shlomchem - How are you? When: 8:30 PM With: Rabbi Morrison and Cantor Guber Where: ZOOM Sponsor: Tonight's social evening is sponsored by Bernice Levine with best wishes for everyone's good health
MONDAY, APRIL 20 Shacharit When: 8:00 AM With: Rabbi David Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Pirkei Avot - The Wisdom of the Sages When: 12:00 PM With: Rabbi Morrison Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Sponsors: Jerry & Janet Loterman are honoured to sponsor this event in memory of the recent yahrzeits of Jerry's mother Sonya ז״ל, and Jerry's sister Rhoda ז״ל. Yasher koach to all the clergy for maintaining a high level of BEBY programming during these difficult times of physical distanicing; and by Sheldon Zelsman in honour of Rabbi Morrison
Mincha/Maariv When: 8:00 PM With: Rabbi Morrison Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Sponsor: Mincha/Maariv in sponsored this evening by Irving Levine in memory of Anne Levine ז״ל
Yom Hashoah Service and Brotherhood Yom Hashoah When: Following Mincha/Maariv With: Rabbi Morrison and Cantor Guber Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM Sponsor: The Yom Hashoah service is sponsored this evening by Howard & Charna Nightingale and family in memory of Frances Nightingale ז״ל
TUESDAY, APRIL 21 Shacharit When: 8:00 AM With: Rabbi David Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Cantor Guber will be participating with Beth David in the reading of the Megillat HaShoah. He will be chanting the el molei. Please check Beth David's website for more information.
Mincha/Maariv When: 8:00 PM With: Rabbi Morrison Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM Sponsor: Mincha/Maariv is sponsored this evening by Irving Levine in memory of Anne Levine ז״ל
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 Shacharit When: 8:00 AM With: Rabbi David Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Pirkei Avot - The Wisdom of the Sages When: 12:00 PM With: Rabbi Morrison Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Sponsor: Today's class is sponsored by Sheldon Zelsman in honour of Eleanor Minuk
Mincha/Maariv When: 8:00 PM With: Rabbi Morrison Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
THURSDAY, APRIL 23 Shacharit When: 8:00 AM With: Rabbi David Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Lunch & Learn When: 12:00 PM With: Rabbi Lipson Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Lunch & Literature - Suanne Kelman discussing Dorit Rabinyan’s book "All The Rivers" When: 1:30 - 3:30 PM Where: ZOOM Sponsor: Today's lunch & literature program is generously sponsored by Qualicare
Torah Reading When: 6:00 PM With: Shlomo Where: Facebook Live
Mincha/Maariv When: 8:00 PM With: Rabbi Morrison Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Kerzner Scholar Presentation with Professor Stephen Berk: Catastrophic Plagues and the Jews Professor Stephen Berk will lecture by Zoom about how experiences in Jewish history can help us contextualize what the COVID-19 crisis might mean for Jews around the world. When: 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Where: ZOOM Sponsor: The Sam & Sarah Kerzner and Joseph Kerzner Holocaust Memorial Institute; this lecture is presented in partnership with Beth Tzedec Congregation
FRIDAY, APRIL 24 Shacharit When: 8:00 AM With: Rabbi David Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
Pirkei Avot - The Wisdom of the Sages When: 12:00 PM With: Rabbi Morrison Where: FACEBOOK LIVE or ZOOM
An early Kabbalat Shabbat service (up to and including Lecha dodi) When: 6:00 PM With: Cantor Guber Where: FACEBOOK LIVE Sponsor: Kabbalat Shabbat is sponsored this evening by Howard & Charna Nightingale and family in memory of Frances Nightingale ז״ל
Candle Lighting - 7:54 PM
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In our new norm with online Clergy led private services, Divrei Torah, Torah Readings, Cantorial Music, Rabbi Lectures and Classes, you too can also sponsor one of these weekly online live sessions in honour of your Simchas or in memory of your loved ones for a donation of $54.00.
Your generous sponsorship will be included in the weekly e-blast, as well as mentioned by the clergy at the beginning and end of the online live session you are sponsoring. While we are temporarily closed due to this health crisis, it is imperative we continue to keep our synagogue operating at this time thereby ensuring we are able to once again open our doors to you - our dedicated members, and to the Jewish community when it is viable to do so.
Please click on the form below to make your sponsorship.
The Executive, Board and Clergy thank you for your continued support during this difficult time. Best wishes for a healthy and safe Shabbat and Passover.
As we begin to look back at Pesach this year, the metaphor of Maror mixed with Charoset is one of celebration mixed with sorrow. As the guarantors of a 4000 year tradition, it was our responsibility to celebrate Pesach in its fullness as the season of our freedom. At the same time, our cup of wine was diminished this year for reasons other than tradition with the sorrow of illness and death surrounding us during this pandemic.
Our Torah portion this Shabbat, Shemini, is also celebration mixed with sorrow. The Parsha begins with the eighth and last day of a festive inauguration ceremony, culminating with the public affirmation of religious worship in the Tabernacle supervised by the Kohanim. Soon after reading the fervor of the celebration, we read the tragic deaths of Nadav and Avihu, two of Aaron's four sons, who brought a strange offering which God had not commanded them. While commentaries abound on what actually transpired, the Torah text focuses on the grieving parent and the community's response.
This Monday, April 20, will also be a mix of celebration and sorrow. At nightfall, we begin to observe Yom Hashoah, the 27th of Nisan, the date designated by the Jewish people to ritualize the memory of the Holocaust. I encourage us to participate in our shul memorial on Zoom following evening services. I also encourage us to light a yahrzeit-yizkor candle at home. This year, we commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
For me personally, the morning of April 20 will be filled with joy. A Bar Mitzvah, originally scheduled for this Shabbat at Beth Emeth, has been rescheduled to a Monday morning service with a few attendees at home and others participating on Zoom.
The combination of a Bar Mitzvah taking place on the same English date as Yom Hashoah is instructive. One lesson following the worst chapter in modern Jewish history is to continue celebrating joyous lifecycle moments like a Bar Mitzvah. Neither the memory of the Shoah nor the contemporary pandemic will halt the affirmation, joy, and celebration of Jewish life.
On this Erev Shabbat following Pesach, I wish everyone a healthy and meaningful Sabbath.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Howard Morrison
KEEPING UP
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DID YOU KNOW?
If you are in need of a prayer book (used) they are outside the shul in the Wilmington parking lot for pickup from 9 AM - 5 PM (weather permitting)
Volunteers have been reaching out to seniors in our community by phone - to say hello and see how they are managing.If there are any specific concerns they will be brought to the attention of the Clergy. If you know of a situation - please let us know.
