! Parshas Matos / Masei July 21-28, 2017 THE WESTMOUNT WEEKLY Leil Shabbos - July 21st Erev Shabbas Tish / Torah 6:00 pm Mincha / Kabolas Shabbos NOTE THE TIME!! 6:30 pm Earliest Candle Lighting 7:19 pm Latest Candle Lighting 8:34 pm Repeat Shema 9:42 pm Shabbos - July 22nd Shiur with the Rav - Ramban on the Parsha 8:00 am Sephardic Minyan (in room adjacent to Shul) 8:30 am Shacharis 8:45 am Family Minyan (in the lounge) 9:35 am Early Kiddush 9:45 am Say Shema Before 9:40 am Alternative class with Mike Merkur 10:10 am Youth programs begin 10:30 am Class with the Rebbetzin 10:45 am Rabbi s Drush 11:30 am Youth Kiddush 11:30 am Dads' class with David Fihrer 11:30 am Special Congregational Kipa Kiddush 12:15 pm Shabbos Afternoon / Evening Class on Mystical Midrash with Mike Merkur 6:10 pm Ladies Shalosh Seudos @ 31 Campbell Ave. 6:30 pm Class with the Rav: Pirkei Avos with commentary of Rabbeinu Yonah 7:00 pm Mincha 8:00 pm Shalosh Seudos Shabbos ends / Maariv / Havdalah 9:41 pm Early Kiddush is sponsored by Tony, Phyllis, Mark, and Sue Lasarow and children on the 1st Yahrzeit of their son-in-law and brother-in-law Gidon Shalom ben Pinchas Michel a h Dads & Youth Kiddush are sponsored by David Fihrer Special Congregational Kipa Kiddush is sponsored by Sam Friedlander, Snit Ghosalkar, Shelly Glowinsky, Mike Merkur, Earl Nussbaum, Ian Raskin, Steve Scutaru, Paul Skosowski, and Howard Starr Shalosh Seudos is sponsored by the Shul Thursday night Kollel was sponsored by Moshe Baruchim on the Yahrzeit of his brother Yehuda ben Yonatan a h WESTMOUNT SHUL BUILDING EXPANSION: We are very excited about our building expansion down the hall scheduled to open Sept. 1. The extra 2,000 sq. ft. will provide us with proper shuls for the family minyan and Sephardic Minyan, and adequate space for our children s program. This will enable us to have our High Holiday Educational Programs next door without necessitating people to go to the City Playhouse. We will also refurnish the fireside lounge. Please check the flyer about the many sponsorship opportunities. We have now reached 92 % of our fundraising goal of $700,000. All pledges can be paid over a three year term. Please contact the Rabbi at yossi@rogers.com regarding sponsorships. Nearly all items have been dedicated. We have only the following dedications still available: Family Minyan Name Dedication: $ 50,000 Chazzan Stand in the Sfardi Minyan: $ 10,000 Bima in the Sfardi Minyan: $ 18,000 Furnishings for Sfardi Minyan: $ 3,600 - $18,000 Patron Plaques in the Shul Lobby: $ 5,000 Window Coverings for Both Minyans: $ 3,600 Website Name Dedication: $ 18,000 PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ALL THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE 9 DAYS BEGIN THIS SUNDAY EVENING
Parshas Matos / Masei July 21-28, 2017 Weekday Davening Schedule Sunday Shacharis Mincha / Maariv Monday - Friday Shacharis (Mon. @ 6:00 am & Thur. @ 6:15 am ) 2nd Minyan Mincha Maariv 8:00 am 8:35 pm 6:30 am 8:00 am 6:15 pm 9:45 pm Weekday Learning Schedule ALL CLASSES ARE GIVEN BY THE RABBI UNLESS OTHERWISE MENTIONED Sunday Mishne Berura - Laws of Shabbas 7:15 am The Heart of the Mitzvah (Rabbi Eli Goldwasser) 9:00 am Rambam Laws of Vows 9:25 pm Torah Fix for the Week" with the Rebbetzin @ 99 Pondview Dr. Monday Torah Fix for the Week" with the Rebbetzin @ 7460 Bathurst St. Apt. 409 1:15 pm Talmud Pesachim with Mordechai Michalowicz Rambam 9:15 pm Tuesday Torah Portion of the Week 9:15 am Torah Portion of the Week 8:00 pm Talmud Pesachim with Mordechai Michalowicz Rambam 9:15 pm Wednesday Could You Pass the Conversion Test? 9:15 am Ladies class with the Rebbetzin @ 145 Langtry Pl. 1:15 pm Hebrew Reading Crash Course - Part 2 8:00 pm Talmud Pesachim with Mordechai Michalowicz Rambam 9:15 pm Thursday Men's Kollel / followed by wings & chulent Chassidic Perspectives on the Parsha with Rabbi Tsvi Heber 10:00 pm Friday Sha ar Hayichud V Emuna of the Ba al Hatanya Yizkor Book for 5777 With the passing of Shavuos, we put away our Yizkor book for the year 5777, and the office begins preparing the 5778 edition. Yizkor is a time to remember our loved ones who have passed on and to give to charity on their behalf in order to elevate their souls. Over the years, our Shul has not interrupted holiday services with lengthy and intimidating Yizkor appeals. Instead we design a Yizkor book for each year so there is a permanent reminder for the coming year of our remembering our beloved ones. Your one time donation is meant to cover the 4 times a year we say Yizkor and for all the people you are remembering. Please bear that in mind and respond generously when the office calls. For more information contact our summer student Eitan at 905-881-7485 or email westmountshuloffice@gmail.com WELCOME TO TZVI & JULIE BORR WHO HAVE MOVED BACK TO THORNHILL!
Westmount Shul Ladies Summer Shalosh Seudos SPEAKER: Meira Kirzner TOPIC: Personal Messages of the Chagim: Lessons from Hashem SHABBOS, JULY 22ND @ 6:30 PM VENUE: THE HOME OF LYNNE PILLEMER 31 CAMPBELL AVENUE RSVP TO: OFFICE@WESTMOUNTSHUL.COM www.westmountshul.com 905-881-7485
The Laws of the Nine Days - 5777: 1. The Talmud teaches us When the Jewish month of Av enters, we decrease our happiness. 2. The Jewish month of Av begins Sunday night, July 23rd at sunset. This begins a more intense period of national mourning, which concludes the day after Tisha B av, which is the day after Tuesday, August 1st. 3. All the restrictions that began at the beginning of the Three Weeks are still in force, but they are now intensified. 4. The Talmud explains that one decreases happiness by: Decreasing one s business activities Refraining from construction and planting intended for joyous reasons. Not conducting weddings or making a festive meal to celebrate an engagement. 5. Any construction not necessary for one s dwelling but performed for expansion is prohibited. Similarly, any improvement to the appearance of a house such as painting, hanging new drapes, wall papering and all house decorating can not be done during the Nine Days. 6. Certain types of expansion building would be permitted if it were for necessary living space to accommodate more people living in the home. Consult your local Rabbi in this issue. 7. If you hired a non-jewish contractor to build an addition, and the contractor wants to work during the Nine Days, the Jew is not required to prevent him from doing so. Preferably, one should offer the contractor some financial compensation to refrain from working during the Nine days, but one is not required to offer a significant amount of money to get him to wait until after Tisha B av. 8. It is permitted to weed, water, or mow the lawn during the Nine Days, since these activities are not for enhancement. It is also permitted to plant and maintain a vegetable garden during the Nine Days. 9. One may not wear new clothes during the Nine Days, nor may one tailor or purchase new clothes or shoes. 10. One who does not have appropriate shoes to wear on Tisha B av may buy them during the Nine Days. 11. Similarly, it is prohibited to dry-clean clothes or iron them. 12. We refrain from changing tablecloths, towels, and bed linens during the Nine Days, unless it is absolutely necessary. 13. It is permitted to repair shoes and clothes during the Nine Days. 14. We refrain from doing laundry and wearing freshly laundered clothing during the Nine Days. 15. Therefore, one should prepare before Sunday night, July 23rd at sunset sufficient clothing already worn since it was last laundered. This is ideally accomplished by putting on and wearing a garment for at least a short while [1/2 hr.] Towels should also be used at least once before the Nine Days begin in order to be able to use them. 16. If one s clothing becomes sweaty or soiled during the Nine Days, one is permitted to change into clean clothes. 17. It is permitted to launder children s clothes and linens during the Nine Days. 18. It is permitted to spot-clean a garment if one is concerned that the stain will set. Furthermore, it is permitted to soak a garment that is dirty without completing its laundering in order to make it easier to clean after Tisha B av. 19. We do not bathe or go swimming for pleasure during the Nine Days, but bathing for hygienic and health purposes is permitted. One may go to the Mikveh. Washing only one s face, hands, or feet with cold water is permissible at all times. 20. We do not eat meat or drink wine or grape juice during the Nine days. A sick person may eat meat, under doctor s orders. It is permitted to eat meat or drink wine for all Shabbos meals or at a Mitzva meal [such as a Bris or Siyum, etc.]. 21. One may not eat fleishig [meat] leftovers from Shabbat meals or of a Mitzva meal during the remaining Nine Days. One may not eat meat for Melava Malka. 22. It is permitted to use wine vinegar for cooking. It is also permitted to drink beer, whiskey, and other alcoholic beverages. 23. One is permitted to bathe and to put on freshly laundered clothing in honor of the Shabbat. 24. One can make Havdalah on wine or grape juice. If a young child present is old enough to make a blessing but not old enough to understand that we do not eat meat during the Nine Days, that child should drink the Havdalah cup. If there is no such child available, the person reciting Havdalah should drink the wine or grape juice himself. Others have a custom to use beer for Havdallah. 25. A Jew should avoid scheduling litigation / adjudication during the Nine Days, since this is a month in which the Mazel for Jews is bad. 26. Polishing shoes is permitted. Shining shoes in honor of the Shabbos is also permitted. 27. The Midrash teaches that Hashem will bring forth ten new creations in the era of Moshiach [e.g. death will perish forever, everyone will be joyful, and there will be an end to all sighing and worry]. The Kaf HaChayim states that everyone who meticulously observes the laws of the first ten days of Av, thereby demonstrating his personal mourning over the destruction of Yerushalayim, will merit witnessing these ten miracles. May we all merit seeing these miracles speedily and in our days. 2017 Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz
Yizkor Book of Remembrance 5778 בס ד לזכר נשמת The age-old custom of remembering the souls of the departed and contributing to charity in their memory is embedded in the fundamental Jewish belief in the everlastingness of the soul. The Yizkor service is said on Passover, Shavous, Succos and Yom Kippur. When a person passes on to the next world, the soul can no longer do good deeds to attain merit. However, when we give charity, do good deeds, or say this prayer this indeed can achieve spiritual elevations for your loved ones. G-d treats our prayer and charity as if the deceased gave it. For if not for them the noble act would not have taken place. YIZKOR - (to remember) This summer, The Westmount Shul and Learning Centre will publish our 9th Annual Yizkor Booklet with the prayers written in Hebrew, English and transliterated. The Kol Nidrei service is printed, as well, in full. This beautiful book will be used for all Yizkor services this coming year. We would like to give you the opportunity to have the names of your loved ones in next year s booklet so that they will be remembered by all who use the booklet and will not be forgotten. Attached you will find a list of various ways that you can ensure that, whenever someone says Yizkor from this booklet, it will be an elevation of the soul of your loved one. Please complete this form and enclose it, along with your cheque made payable to WESTMOUNT SHUL & LEARNING CENTRE, in an envelope marked Yizkor. Orders must be submitted by July 28, 2017. Fax to: 905.881.7490 Mail it to: Westmount Shul and Learning Centre 10 Disera Drive #250 Thornhill, Ontario L4J 0A7 For information contact our summer student Eitan at 905.881.7485 or email westmountshuloffice@gmail.com Your Name: Phone: Address: I WANT TO REPEAT THE MEMORIAL FROM LAST YEAR AS IS. I am putting in a new Memorial: (Please choose from the following sizes and prices:) ¼ page memorial is $100 ½ page memorial is $180 Full Page memorial is $360 Donor- $500 [2 opportunities available - First Page and Back Inside cover ] Donor- $500 full 4-colour page in book Donor - $700 [2 donors will have 4 colour full page on inside front of cover / outside back] Donor - $1000 [one donor will have the entire middle page - both sides] In Memory Of is $36 per line. This is a one line listing in a special section. Please indicate the name of the individual(s) and by whom they are being remembered. I wish for our family s name to be included on the following special pages: In Memory Of our departed members $25. This special section will list your name if you wish to remember our members who have passed on: Andrea Friedmann, Morris Mann, Larry Millstein, Izzy Kanowitz, Clive Kingsbury, Stan Corbett and Fay Anne Starr Holocaust, Defenders of Israel, and Victims of Terror Memorial is $25. This special section will list your name if you wish to remember those who perished in the Holocaust, died defending the State of Israel or were victims of Terror. Total due: $ Method of Payment: cheque cash VISA MASTERCARD Card #: Expiry Signature: Text of Ad:
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