! Parshas Bechukosai /Chazak June 3-10, 2016 THE WESTMOUNT WEEKLY Leil Shabbos-June 3rd Mincha / Kabolas Shabbos / Maariv Earliest Candle Lighting Latest Candle Lighting Repeat Shema & Count Sefira after 6:30 pm 7:19 pm 8:36 pm 9:44 pm Shabbos June 4th Shiur with the Rabbi: Torah & Chassidus 8:00 am Shacharis 8:45 am Early Kiddush 9:45 am Family Minyan (in the lounge) 9:45 am Say Shema Before 9:26 am Alternative class in the Rabbi s classroom) cancelled Youth programs begin 10:30 am Talk with Rebbetzin Shani Horowitz (in the Rabbi s classroom) 10:30 am Guest speaker: Rabbi Avinoam Horowitz 11:15 am Youth Kiddush 11:30 am Dads' class cancelled Congregational Kiddush 12:00 pm Shabbos Afternoon / Evening Talmud Class with Mordechai Michalowicz 6:10 pm Class with the Rabbi On the Essence of Chassidus 7:00 pm Mincha 8:00 pm Shalosh Seudos Shabbos ends / Maariv / Havdalah 9:45 pm Early Kiddush is sponsored by Earle Friedman on the Yahrzeit of Phyllis mother Edith (Esther bas Freidal) Elias a h Youth Kiddush is sponsored by Stanley Mann on the Yahrzeit of his father Morris Mann a h Congregational Fleishig Kiddush is sponsored by the following families: The Gelbard family on their 30th wedding anniversary & on the Yahrzeit of Rhoda s sister Deborah a h The Segal family on the Yahrzeit of Ilana s father Harry Alsfine a h The Starr family on the Yahrzeits of of Jack and Pola Schonfeld a h Shalosh Seudos is sponsored by Jacob Friedlander Thursday evening Kollel is sponsored by Ria Mann on the Yahrzeit of her husband Morris Mann a h SHABBOS WITH THE HOROWITZ FAMILY: We are delighted to be hosting Rabbi Avinoam & Shani Horowitz from Chevron. Rav Avinoam is the Rosh Hayeshiva of Yeshivas Kiryat Arba. This dynamic couple have been pioneers in the resettling of the the first Jewish city in Israel - Chevron. Rebbetzin Shani will be giving a talk Shabbos morning reflecting on the memorable history of the building up of Chevron by telling fascinating stories she has experienced. Rav Avinoam will be speaking after davening about his memories of the liberation of Jerusalem and Chevron, which will be commemorated this Sunday as Yom Yerushalayim and Monday as Yom Chevron. There will be a satisfying Fleishig Kiddush after davening, with bilkas to wash on, so you can all take a break from cooking Shabbos lunch this week. D-DAY (Dinner Day) IS THIS MONDAY! The much anticipated Westmount Shul 20th Anniversary Dinner will take place this coming Monday. Everything is b h set to go. The entertainment, gifts, raffle, meal, journal, speakers are all ready to go! Over 400 people will pay tribute to our Shul and honourees - The Pillemer & Volfson families. Cocktails at 6:30 pm; dinner at 7:15 pm. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: The new mechitzas will be ready very soon hopefully before Shavuos. There will be 6 mechitzas in total. Sponsorship for each handcrafted designed Mechitza is at $3,600.
Parshas Bechukosai /Chazak June 3-10, 2016 Weekday Davening Schedule Sunday Shacharis 8:00 am Mincha / Maariv 8:40 pm Monday - Friday Shacharis (Mon. & Thur. @ 6:15 am; Tue. @ 6:00 am) 6:30 am Mincha 6:15 pm Maariv 9:45 pm PLEASE NOTE THAT EVENING PRAYERS WILL BE AT THE VENETIAN THIS MONDAY EVENING BEFORE & AFTER THE THE DINNER. MINCHA WILL BE AT 7:00 PM; MAARIV AT 10:15 PM Weekday Learning Schedule ALL CLASSES ARE GIVEN BY THE RABBI UNLESS OTHERWISE MENTIONED Sunday Mishne Brura - Laws of Shabbos 7:15 am The Heart of the Mitzvah (Rabbi Eli Goldwasser) 9:00 am Rambam Laws of Terumos 9:20 pm "Real Power of Living" with the Rebbetzin @ 99 Pondview Dr. Monday Mishne Brura Yomi - Laws of Shabbos 6:00 am Talmud Sotah 7:20 am "Great Jewish Women" @ 7460 Bathurst St. Apt. 409 1:00 pm Talmud Pesachim with Mordechai Michalowicz cancelled Rambam cancelled Tuesday Mishne Brura Yomi cancelled Talmud Sotah 7:20 pm Parsha Class 9:15 pm Parsha Class 8:00 pm Talmud Pesachim with Mordechai Michalowicz Rambam 9:15 pm Wednesday Mishne Brura Yomi 6:00 am Talmud Sotah 7:20 am Ladies class at 180 Glenforest Cr. 1:15 pm Talmud Pesachim with Mordechai Michalowicz Rambam 9:15 pm Thursday Mishne Brura Yomi 6:00 am Talmud Sotah 7:20 am Men's Kollel Chassidic Perspectives on the Parsha with Rabbi Tsvi Heber 10:00 pm Friday Mishne Brura Yomi 6:00 am Tanya 7:20 am Spring Calendar: SAT. / JUNE 4 SHABBOS CHEVRON WITH RABBI HOROWITZ - FLEISHIG KIDDUSH MON. / JUNE 6 WESTMOUNT SHUL 20TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER SAT. / JUNE 11 ALL NIGHT SHAVUOS LEARNING STARTING AT MIDNIGHT SUN. /JUNE 12 LADIES SHAVUOS MORNING KIDDUSH MON. / JUNE 13 YIZKOR TUE. / AUG. 9 SEED BOYS START LEARNING WITH US UNTIL AUG. 21
Westmount Shul 20th anniversary dinner Monday, the sixth of June, 2016 Cocktails at 6;30 pm Dinner at 7:15 pm The venetian 219 Romina drive, concord Honourees: Louis & Lynne Pillemer & Robert & Alla Volfson Guest entertainer: kosher comedian from Los Angeles Robert Cait Couvert $200.00 pp 1 raffle included: trip for 2 to Israel with 2 nights stay in deluxe hotel See additional page for sponsorship opportunities and journal ads
Westmount Shul Anniversary Dinner Sponsorship opportunities & Journal ads Dinner sponsor: el al & carol engel from peerless travel COUVERT: $200.00 per person ( $80.00 is tax deductible) ( Table of 10 for $2000.00 - $800.00 Tax deduction) Raffle: 1 ticket included with admission : Trip for two to Israel on El Al with 2 nights hotel accommodations ( additional tickets sold at event) SPONSORSHIPS: 1. $10,000- Diamond sponsor - 2 tables of 10, full page tribute ($7,600 tax de) 2. $5,000- Emerald Sponsor- 1 table of 10, full page tribute ( $3,800 tax de) 3. $3,000-Sapphire Sponsor- 5 dinner tickets, full page tribute ($2,400 tax de) 4. $1,000-Platinum Sponsor- 2 dinner tickets, 1/2 page tribute ( $760 tax de) JOURNAL ADS: ( Fully tax deductible) 1. GOLD PAGE - $3,600.00 2. SILVER PAGE - $1,800.00 3. BRONZE PAGE - $1,500.00 4. FULL PAGE- $1,000 5. HALF PAGE - $540.00 6. QUARTER PAGE -$360.00 Kindly email your wording to office@westmountshul.com Payment Options for ticket purchases, sponsorships and journal ads: Kindly indicate on the RSVP your commitment for the journal ads and/or ticket requests and/or sponsorships and then: 1. Mail a cheque to Westmount Shul 10 Disera Drive, unit 250, Thornhill ON L4J 0A7 or 2. Call the office with your credit card number or 3. Transfer your payment via email into the Westmount Shul bank account to: office@westmountshul.com Thank you for your support
Westmount Shul & Learning Centre 5776 - Shavuos Schedule: Shabbos June 11: ( Eat Shalosh Seudos at home before coming back to Shul - ideally before 5:09 PM) 8:00 P.M. Mincha 8:30 P.M. Shiur for Men & Women with Rabbi Michalowicz 9:30 P.M. Maariv 9:42 P.M. Earliest Candle Lighting [from pre-existing flame] & begin Yom Tov preparations 12:00 A.M. Ladies Class - with Gail Michalowicz in memory of Lynne Pillimer s parents - Michala bas Shraga & Yaakov Zvi ben Yehudah Leib a"h @ 12 Maimonides Ct. 12:00 A.M. All Night Learning see flyer for details Sponsored by Dr. Martin & Sarena Levin in memory of Martin s grandparents Mordechai ben Harav Yaakov & Rachel bas Raphael a"h & Sarena's aunt Chaviva bas Herschel a h Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz-In Depth Study of the Book of Rus Rabbi Josh Kaller- Exploring Hebrew Letters & Cosmic Kisses - In Depth Expose at Sinai Ian Durbach - Talmud Studies as they apply to Jewish Law Refreshments / Cheesecake & Starbucks Coffee sponsored by: Jacob & Molly Lieberman The Volfson family Shira Kaller 4:27 A.M. Earliest Time to make a Brocha on your Tallis/Tzitzis 4:40 A.M. Sunrise Service (THERE IS NO LATER MORNING SERVICE ON THIS DAY) 5:35 A.M. Sunrise Sunday June 12th: 10:30 A.M. Ladies / Young Women Program: Class & Tehilim with the Rebbetzin in the Shul 10:30 A.M. Children s Program / Babysitting / Ice Cream Party in the Fireside Lounge 11:30 A.M. Ladies Kiddush sponsored by: Esther Greenbaum Ilana Segal on the Yarzeit of her father Harry Alsfine a h Paola Marino Sunday Afternoon: 7:15 P.M. Talmud Class with Shmuel Giblon 8:15 P.M. Mincha 8:30 P.M. Shiur for Men & Women with Rabbi Michalowicz 9:30 P.M. Maariv 9:42 P.M. Earliest Candle Lighting [from a pre-existing flame] & Begin Preparations for Second Night Monday June 13th: 9:15 A.M. Shacharis Service 9:26 A.M. Latest time to say the She ma 10:30 A.M. Early Kiddush / Youth Programs Begin 11:15 A.M. Yizkor Service 12:30 P.M. Approx. End of Davening Monday Afternoon: 6:30 P.M. Talmud Class with Shmuel Giblon 7:30 P.M. Shiur for Men & Women with Rabbi Michalowicz 8:30 P.M. Mincha 8:45 P.M. Neilas Hachag - Pot Luck Family Dairy Dinner [pareve/dairy] 9:51 P.M. Maariv/ Havdalah
How to Celebrate Shavuos 5776: 1. Shabbos immediately precedes Shavuos this year. Therefore, one should ideally light a two or three day Yahrzeit candle prior to Friday evening candle lighting, so that there will be a pre-existing flame from which the women may light from on Saturday and Sunday evening. 2. One is not permitted to prepare for Yom Tov on the preceding Shabbos. Therefore, For this year of 5775, the earliest time to make preparations for Yom Tov, light Yom Tov candles, and to make Kiddush on Saturday night is 9:42 PM. (It would be more ideal after 9:50 PM or even more ideal after 10:12 PM.) 3. One makes 2 blessings on the candle lighting: One for the Mitzvah of lighting the Yom Tov candles and the other Shehechiyanu blessing. Ideally, the women should light by the time the men arrive home from Shul. However, if they did not, they may light the entire night. 4. One may sleep on Shabbos; thereby having the strength to stay up Shavuos night. However, one should not express this before sleeping, as such a verbalization would degrade the holiness of the day. 5. One should ideally finish eating Shalosh Seudos before 5:09 PM in order to be hungry for the Yom Tov meal. Additionally, one should ideally daven Shabbos Mincha before eating Shalosh Seudos. If one forgot or was negligent and did not eat the third meal in time, it may still be eaten afterwards. However, a full meal should not be eaten then. 6. There is a well known minhag to bring flowers into shul and one's home as a remembrance that on Shavuos we are judged on "Peiros Ha'ilon" - fruits. However, one should not cut off branches from fruit bearing trees for this purpose because of the Torah prohibition of "Bal Tashchis. 7. Kiddush on the first night should include blessings of 1) Wine, 2) Kiddush, 3) Candle, 4) Havdala, 5) Shehechiyanu. 8. Many have the minhag to eat a milchige [dairy] meal (and milk and honey) on Shavuos. However, one is also obliged to eat fleishig [beef] to be yotze [discharges his obligation of] Simchas Yom Tov with meat. 9. In order to satisfy all opinions, it is preferable to have a meat meal both in the evening and in the day of both days of Yom Tov [4 meals], and to have a dairy meal or snack in the day before your meat meal. 10. If one finds it difficult to eat meat so late at night, there are opinions that permit you to eat dairy meals at night. 11. All agree that you should have meat meals at least one time on each of the two days of Yom Tov. 12. If one eats milchig but not "hard cheese" (which requires one to wait six hours before eating meat) one need not bentch and wash again before eating meat. However, one should wash his /her mouth well and the tablecloth should be changed. (Other poskim require one to bentch). 13. There is a custom to stay up the night of Shavuos and learn Torah. This is based on the Midrash which says that the Jewish people overslept the night before Matan Torah and Hashem had to awaken them to receive the Torah. Therefore we stay up all night to rectify their oversight. 14. The Arizal [The Kabalist Rabbi Yitzchok Luria] writes that one who does not sleep the night of Shavuos and toils in Torah is assured to live out the year and no harm will occur to him. 15. There is a compilation of Torah learning known as "Tikkun Lay'l Shavuos, which has The Zohar and the writings of The Ari'zal as its source, and many have the minhag to say/learn this on Shavuos night. 16. Generally women should not say the "Tikkun Lay'l Shavuos". However, some say that a woman who counted all the days of Sefiras Ha'omer may learn the portions of the Tikkun which are from Tanach. 17. One who stayed awake all night of Shavuos should, after Alos Hashachar (dawn), use the restroom, wash his hands and then make the berachos of "al netilas yadayim" and "asher yotzar", and listen to Birchas Hatorah from someone who slept. 18. One who stayed awake all night should not make a beracha on his tzitzis. Rather, he should make the beracha on his Tallis Gadol and have in mind to be yotze for his tzitzis with the same beracha. Someone who does not wear a Tallis Gadol, should hear the beracha from someone else who will discharge his obligation. 19. One who stayed awake all night should listen to the berachos of "Elokai Neshama" and "Hamaveir Shayna Mayeinoi" from someone who slept during the night. 20. One who goes to sleep after Alos Hashachar Shavuos morning (or on any day) does not say the beracha of Hamapil. 21. To summarize, for those who have stayed awake all night, the minhag of Ashkenazim is that after Alos Hashachar (4:23 AM) one goes to the bathroom, washes ones hands, makes al netilas yadayim, and asher yatzar, and then listens to and is yotze [discharges his obligation of] Birchas Hatorah, Elokai Neshama, and birchas Hamaavir Chevlei Sheynah, from someone who slept, and then one says all rest of the usual morning berachos for oneself. 22. While reciting Birchos Hatorah on Erev Shavuos, one may clearly stipulate that his berachos should be in effect only until the next morning. In this case, he may recite the berachos on Shavuos morning although he did not sleep. 23. If no person who slept is available, many poskim rule that the berachos of Elokai Neshama and Hamaavir Chevlai Sheynah may be recited even by one who did not sleep. 24. One may not make any Yom Tov preparations on the first day of Yom Tov for the second night, light candles, or make Kiddush until after 9:42 PM. 25. Second night candle lighting is done in the same way as on the first night. Kiddush has the blessings on 1) Wine, 2) Kiddush, and 3) Shehechiyanu. It does not have blessings for the Candle or Havdala.
Ladies Shavuos Event Ladies / Young Women are invited to an inspirational class and Tehillim With Rebbetzin Gail Michalowicz Sunday, June 12th At 10.30 a.m 10 Disera Drive, unit 250 Babysitting/Kids ice cream party running at the same time Kindly RSVP to: office@westmountshul.com Join us for a delicious kiddush sponsored by : -Esther Greenbaum -Ilana Segal in honour of the Yahrzeit of her father Harry Alsfine a h -Paola Marino
Go Gather Presents for young couples and young professionals Building & Grilling: The Essentials of a Jewish Home Wednesday, June 22 5 Edenbridge Drive 7pm - Rain or Shine! for more information: gogathertoday@gmail.com ~ you are invited to share in dedicating Josh & Shira s home with friends and family. Come, gather, and be a part of our wonderful community.