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Rabbi Shmuel's newsletter for week of 11 May 2025





Calendar

This is an overview of upcoming events. Details of each event are below

Sunday, 11 May 2025-Mother's Day. No school. Honor your mother.

Thursday, 15 May 2025-Judaic Studies

Friday & Saturday, 16 & 17 May 2025-Shabbat Services

Sunday, 18 May 2025-In Person Religious School (?) & Adult Hebrew 2

Thursday, 22 May 2025-Judaic Studies

Friday & Saturday, 23 & 24 May 2025-Shabbat Services

Sunday & Monday, 25 & 26 May 2025-Memorial Day Weekend

Thursday, 29 May 2025-Judaic Studies

Friday & Saturday, 30 & 31 May 2025-Shabbat Services

Sunday, 1 June 2025   9:00am - 1:30pm (In Person Religious School 10:00am - 12:00pm & Adult Hebrew Class 12:00pm - 1:00pm)

Monday, 2 June - Tuesday, 3 June 2025   1:00pm - 7:30pm (Shavuot Shacharit Services @ 9:30am - 12:10pm)




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.







*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, 11 May 2025  Mother's Day.

Friday, 16 May 2025   1:00pm - 7:30pm (Shabbat Service @ 7:30pm)

Sunday, 18 May 2025   9:00am - 1:30pm (In Person Religious School 9:30am - 12:00pm & Adult Hebrew 2 12:00pm - 1:00pm)

Friday, 23 May 2025   1:00pm - 7:30pm (Shabbat Service @ 7:30pm)

Sunday, 25 May 2025   9:00am - 1:30pm Memorial Day Weekend

Friday, 30 May 2025   1:00pm - 7:30pm (Shabbat Service @ 7:30pm)

Sunday, 1 June 2025   9:00am - 1:30pm (In Person Religious School 10:00am - 12:00pm & Adult Hebrew Class 12:00pm - 1:00pm)

Monday, 2 June - Tuesday, 3 June 2025   1:00pm - 7:30pm (Shavuot Shacharit Services @ 9:30am - 12:10pm)

(Subject to change. Please call for appointments)




17 May 2025 / 19 Iyyar 5785




(9 May 2025)




Thursday, May 15 2025 @ 7:30pm




Shabbat Times for Ontario, California, USA

🕯️ Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Friday, May 16⋅7:31pm

✨ Havdalah (50 min) / הבדלה - 50 דקות Saturday, May 17⋅8:29pm

Upcoming Services

Shabbat Ma'ariv Service Friday, May 16, 2025 @ 7:30 pm

Shabbat Shacharit / שַׁבָּת Saturday, May 17, 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 Emor 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת אֱמוֹר

17 May 2025 / 19 Iyyar 5785

Parashat Emor is the 31st weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

Torah Portion Triennial year 3: Leviticus 23:23-24:23

1: 23:23-25 · 3 p’sukim  

2: 23:26-32 · 7 p’sukim  

3: 23:33-44 · 12 p’sukim  

4: 24:1-4 · 4 p’sukim  

5: 24:5-9 · 5 p’sukim  

6: 24:10-12 · 3 p’sukim  

7: 24:13-23 · 11 p’sukim  

maf: 24:21-23 · 3 p’sukim  

Haftarah: Ezekiel 44:15-31 · 17 p’sukim

Commentary and Divrei Torah  

 Hertz Chumash: pp. 522 – 528 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 513 – 528)

Artscroll Chumash: pp. 624 – 635 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 608 – 635)

Etz Chaim Chumash: pp. 727 – 733 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 717 – 733)




Hebrew School at Temple Sholom of Ontario 

Zoom Religious School:

No school on May 11 to honor Mother's Day

Next session will be Sunday, May 18 @ 10:00am - 11:30am

(May be in person)

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.







Adult Hebrew Course

Next phase coming soon. Stay tuned!

Preparing for monitoring the weekly Torah Reading

with the NJOP Hebrew Crash Course



Memorial Day

Monday, May 26

Memorial Day on May 26 conjures images of hamburgers, hot dogs, swimming pools, and summertime for many Americans. But the last Monday in May serves, most importantly, as a time to honor those who died while fighting in the U.S. Armed Forces. It's a holiday steeped in somber American history and tradition.




Shavuot 2025 / שָׁבוּעוֹת 5785

Festival of Weeks ⛰️🌸

Shavuot for Hebrew Year 5785 begins in the Diaspora at sundown on Sunday, 1 June 2025 and ends at nightfall on Tuesday, 3 June 2025.

The festival of Shavuot (or Shavuos, in Ashkenazi usage; Shabhuʿoth in Classical and Mizrahi Hebrew Hebrew: שבועות, lit. “Weeks”) is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June). Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day G-d gave the Torah to the entire Israelite nation assembled at Mount Sinai, although the association between the giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and Shavuot is not explicit in the Biblical text. The holiday is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals. It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer.




 Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Sunday, June 1⋅7:42pm 

Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Friday, June 2⋅8:41pm 

Havdalah (50 min) / הבדלה - 50 דקות Saturday, June 3⋅8:42pm

Upcoming Services

Shavuot Ma'ariv Service Sunday, June 1, 2025 @ 7:30 pm (?)

Shavuot Shacharit I Monday, June 2, 2025 @ 9:30 am 

Shavuot Shacharit II Tuesday, June 3, 2025 @ 9:30 am 

Shavuot I / שָׁבוּעוֹת א׳

Monday, 2 June 2025 / 6 Sivan 5785

1: Exodus 19:1-6 · 6 p’sukim 

2: Exodus 19:7-13 · 7 p’sukim 

3: Exodus 19:14-19 · 6 p’sukim 

4: Exodus 19:20-20:14 · 20 p’sukim 

5: Exodus 20:15-23 · 9 p’sukim 

maf: Numbers 28:26-31 · 6 p’sukim 

Haftarah: Ezekiel 1:1-28, 3:12 · 29 p’sukim

Shavuot II / שָׁבוּעוֹת ב׳

Tuesday, 3 June 2025 / 7 Sivan 5785

1: Deuteronomy 15:19-23 · 5 p’sukim 

2: Deuteronomy 16:1-3 · 3 p’sukim 

3: Deuteronomy 16:4-8 · 5 p’sukim 

4: Deuteronomy 16:9-12 · 4 p’sukim 

5: Deuteronomy 16:13-17 · 5 p’sukim 

maf: Numbers 28:26-31 · 6 p’sukim 

Haftarah for Ashkenazim: Habakkuk 3:1-19 · 19 p’sukim

Haftarah for Sephardim: Habakkuk 2:20-3:19 · 20 p’sukim

Megillah

1: Ruth 1:1-22 · 22 p’sukim

2: Ruth 2:1-23 · 23 p’sukim

3: Ruth 3:1-18 · 18 p’sukim

4: Ruth 4:1-22 · 22 p’sukim




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