Aish Thornhill Community Shul Shabbat Bulletin - Bamidbar

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1 949 Clark Ave W Thornhill ON L4J 8G6 PHONE FAX theshul@aish.edu RABBI Avram Rothman x 214 (C) arothman@aish.edu RABBI S ASSISTANT Hadassah Hoffer x 210 hadas.hoffer@gmail.com PRESIDENT Stuart Haber stuarthaber@rogers.com GABBAI: Brian Callan callan.brian@outlook.com YOUTH DIRECTOR: Oren Dishy omdishy@rogers.com Aish Thornhill Community Shul Shabbat Bulletin - Bamidbar June 10/11 11, Sivan 5776 Candle Lighting: Not Before: 7:23 pm - Not After: 8:41 pm Shabbat Ends: 9:55 pm ~ The Ongoing Mission of the Aish Thornhill Community Shul is to Create a Family- Friendly Community where Jews of All Backgrounds can Experience Meaningful Jewish Living and Heritage in an Inspiring, Educational and Welcoming Environment. FRIDAY EVENING Mincha / Kabbalat Shabbat / Maariv Sanctuary 7:00 pm D var Torah Sanctuary SHABBAT MORNING IN THE MAIN SANCTUARY Midrash Class Rabbi Rothman 8:30 am Shacharis 9:00 am Torah Service: Bamidbar pg: 726 9:45 am Haftorah pg: 1180 Rabbi s Drasha Rabbi Rothman 10:10 am Mussaf 10:30 am Announcements / Adon Olam 11:20 am SHABBAT MORNING THROUGHOUT THE SHUL Hashkama Minyan 7:30 am Kiddush & Class with Rabbi Yeres: Jerusalem Hall 9:00 am Dairy Bread : Indirect link to Shavuot Library Minyan 9:30 am Kiddush Jerusalem Hall ~12:20 pm SHABBAT AFTERNOON /GINZBURG LEARNING CENTRE Shabbat Mincha 1-3rd Meal at home Ginzburg Learning Centre Ahavas Yisroel Project - Conference in memory of Mishka Rochel bas Moshe Room 5:00 pm 7:35 pm 8:00 pm Mincha #2 Sanctuary 8:35 pm D var Torah Michael Kirzner Yom Tov Candle Lighting Yom Tov Maariv After 9:55 pm 9:50 pm Return for All Night Learning Program 12:00 AM MAZAL TOV Dr. Alex & Sandy Pister on the birth of their new grand daughter born to Ariella & Zachary Landy

2 KIDDUSH SPONSORED BY HASHKAMA KIDDUSH SPONSORED Anonymously SHALOSH SEUDA SPONSORED BY YOUTH KIDDUSH SPONSORED BY CLASSES DURING MUSSAF BEGIN ~ 10:30 AM ALL CLASSROOM ARE ON THE 2 ND FLOOR UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED GIRLS GROUP GR 4 + Davening, Parsha, Games and Kiddush Carmel Room 10:00 am BACKSTAGE PASS Behind the Ethical Teachings of Judaism Conference Rm Ephraim Silver 10:30 am THE PARSHA Understanding the Weekly Torah Moriah Room Dr. Michael Kirzner 10:30 am PERSPECTIVE Portion, with Focus on Personal Development SHABBAT PRAYERS Connecting to the Shabbat Prayers Zion Room Rabbi Mitch Mandel 10:30 am GINZBURG LEARNING CENTRE: POST MUSSAF CLASSES BEGIN ~ 11:30 AM CLASSES END ~ 12:15 PM WHAT THE ANGEL Understanding who you are & what is expected; Meron Dr. Michael Kirzner 11:30am TAUGHT ME from the teachings of Rav Noach Weinberg zt l Room INTRODUCTION TO Stepping into Tur/Shulchan Aruch, The Laws of Jerusalem Jonathan 11:30 am HALACHA Kiddush (Hebrew text-based). Hall Sherrington RABBI S CLASS Robots: Using the Technology on Shabbat Sanctuary Rabbi Avram 11:30 am Rothman GUY S THING Controversial issues discussed weekly Jerusalem Dr. M Rothman/ 11:30 am Hall Rabbi Mitch Mandel DEPTH OF THE The writings of the Rabbi known as the Malbim Zion Room Rabbi Yair Spitz 11:30 am MALBIM THE TALMUD Advanced based Text Jerusalem Dr. Alex Pister 11:30 am Hall THE CHASIDIC How Chasidic leaders view the Conference Dr. Martin Levin 11:30 am MASTERS holidays & seasons Room THE JEWISH QUESTION Judaism Unraveled using the book of the same name by Rabbi Gavriel Mandel Library Rabbi Stuart Haber 11:30 am NEW Class for Teenage Boys Jerusalem Daniel Meisels 11:30 am THE CHABURA Hall Notice & Reminder About Taking Supplies or Food Items from Locked Areas in the Shul Please do not take, or use any items that are in the storage rooms, refrigerators or locked cabinets without specific permission. This includes, for example, such things as snacks, paper goods, grape juice, liquor or cake and cookies. Such items are placed in secure areas so that they are available for specific programmes and events. Taking or using these items without permission makes it impossible for the Shul to assure that the programmes and events, be they public or private, have the supplies and food items reserved for them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

3 Weekday Davening Times: Sun June 12 Fri June 17, 2016 Shacharit : Sunday Shacharit : Mon Tuesday - Friday Mincha/Maariv: Sun /Mon SEE SHAVUOT SCHEDULE SEE SHAVUOT SCHEDULE 6:45 am SEE SHAVUOT SCHEDULE Tues - Thurs 8:55 pm Next Shabbos Nasso Friday Mincha / Kaballat Shabbat / Maariv Sanctuary 7:00 pm Friday June 17 : Candle Lighting Not Before: 7:25 pm Not After 8:44 pm Shabbat June 18 Shabbat Ends 9:58 pm Weekday Classes Sunday : Library 8:45 AM Cancelled this week Rabbi Rothman Thurs: Library 6:00 AM Halacha Rabbi Mordechai Cohen 7:30 AM Rambam s Mishna Torah Rabbi S Schwartz Wed: Conference Room 10:00 AM Conference Room Rabbi Rothman Weekday Evening Classes Sundays Home 7:00PM Monday Conference pm 9:00 pm Cancelled this week Shabbos Kitchen Cancelled This week Halacha Parsha of The Week Rabbi David Ostriker david.ostriker@gmail.com Rabbi Cohen Rabbi E. Breitowitz Tuesday Conference Room 7:00 PM Zion Room 8:00 pm Wednesday Home 6:30 pm Derech Hashem Plug into the Power of Prayer Women s Parsha Class Interwoven Timelines: World History & Jewish History is a tapestry woven together, often we see only half the threads Reb. Avraham Kleiman Rabbi Avram Rothman Rabbi Avram Rothman Rabbi David Ostriker david.ostriker@gmail.com

4 ATCS Kids Shavuot Night Learning Programme- Saturday Night Midnight until 2 am Torah, Cheesecake & Fun Boys & Girls age 12 & under learn with the Famous Oren Dishy Boys age 13 & older learn with the soon to be Dani Meisels Girls age 12 & older learn with Hadassah Hoffer Join us 2 nd day Shavuot Monday June 13 for our annual Ice Cream Party at 11:30 am This Week s class begins at 8:00 pm

5 Announcement from the Youth Committee Regarding the Youth Director Position. The ATCS Youth Committee wishes to inform the membership that Oren Dishy, who has capably and professionally served our Kehilla over the past two years as Youth Director, will not be accepting a renewed contract for the coming year due to family and personal reasons. On that basis, Oren will be concluding his service to our Synagogue as of July 31, We look forward to Oren and his family remaining an active part of our Shul community, and we wish to take this opportunity to wish him much hatlzacha and thank him for all of his outstanding work with our Shul s youth, and the Shul in general. In light of Oren s departure, The Youth Committee, along with the Board of the ATCS, wish to invite the Kehilla to a meeting at the TCS this Sunday, May 8th from 4:30-5:30 pm, to share thoughts and ideas regarding the next youth director. We strongly encourage the membership to attend. If one is unable to attend, we will accept ideas and discussion points by to: theshul@aish.com. However, it is much preferred that members make every effort to attend this important meeting, as it will shape the future of our Youth Services & Staff. It should be noted that Oren has offered to remain with the Shul until the appropriate replacement is found and, if needed, to assist in the training of the Youth Director. Again, we express our appreciation to Oren for all he has done and look forward to seeing him and his family on an ongoing basis. Continues

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7 Profiles This week we continue our new feature in the bulletin with the second instalment of PROFILES (TCS Editor: and the first instalment actually sent to the TCS editor but we will deal with that later). Each week, we will profile a different family in a (hopefully) fun and non-invasive manner to help us get to know our fellow shul members. This week we feature Brian and Jeannine Callan. TCS: How did you both get involved with TCS? Brian: Back in the 80 s we started going to AISH when it was on Wilson. Once we moved to Thornhill we became involved with Ohr Somayach until it was disbanded. At that point we davened at the BAYT until Rabbi Rothman who we knew from Ohr Somayach reached out to me to help lead Rosh Hashana services for the relatively new AISH shul. TCS: Tell us more about your connection with Rabbi Rothman? Brian: Rabbi Rothman was instrumental in helping me develop my Cantorial skills. He was a teacher but he also encouraged me and introduced influential Chazzans including David Klein from the BAYT to me. TCS: Have you always had this gift of being able to sing so beautifully? Brian: Ever since I was a kid I loved music. My real passion, however, was for musical Dinner Theatre. I moved to Toronto from Ottawa to pursue that dream and worked in the field for a number of years right through University. TCS: Jeannine, you have also been blessed with amazing talent in the Arts. Jeannine: I have always enjoyed a variety of art mediums but my greatest passion and strongest art form is ceramics. In fact I teach ceramics at a Public High School. At home I don t have a studio or the time to paint, but having the facilities at school allows me to create the pottery I love. And my daughter Naomi and I enjoy a week long arts retreat every summer in Haliburton. TCS: Let s see acting, ceramics. A remake of Ghost with Brian as a more mature Patrick Swayze could be a great shul fundraiser. TCS Editor: That movie was not very tzniusdik. Let s move on. TCS: Imagine Shonna as Whoopi Goldberg. TCS Editor: Drop it. TCS: How did you meet each other? Jeannine: We were students at York University and lived on the same floor in the dorms. Brian used to sing and play guitar and I found that attractive. Brian: I had quite the following in those days when I was better known as Briance.

8 TCS: Brian, you have been with York University in the recruitment and admissions office for over 3 decades. What is the biggest change that you have seen over the years? Brian: Kids are a lot needier and parents are more difficult to deal with these days. TCS: Funny, that s exactly what our school principal said. TCS Editor: Actually it was your wife who said it and she was talking about you being needy. TCS: The role of the Gabbai is so critical to the shul yet so underappreciated. How have you managed? Brian: David Grabel has been incredibly helpful as a mentor and I recognize how it is an important part of kiruv. A lot of attention is directed to getting disenfranchised Jews in the door but another side of kiruv is guiding those already on the path who have never had to deal with a bris or saying kaddish. TCS: So can we expect you to challenge David s Lou Gehrig streak of service? Brian: No chance of that happening. My motto is looking to get uninvolved. TCS: Stuart is having a root canal next week and you are Shul president for a day. What changes do you make? Brian: Find a way to get more people involved in lectures, events and activities outside of Shabbat. Jeannine: Fix the doors on the second floor balcony entering the woman s section. They make more noise than dungeon doors. Shabbat Shalom