Calendar
This is an overview of upcoming events. Details of each event are below
Sunday, 19 January 2025-Religious School
Thursday, 23 January 2025-Judaic Studies
Friday & Saturday, 24 & 25 January 2025-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 26 January 2025-Religious School
Thursday, 30 January 2025-Judaic Studies
Friday & Saturday, 31 January & 1 February 2025-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 2 February 2025-In-Person Religious School
Thursday, 6 February 2025-Judaic Studies
Friday & Saturday, 7 & 8 February 2025-Shabbat Services
Sunday, 9 February 2025-In-Person Religious School
Thursday, 13 February 2025-Board Meeting
Thursday, 13 February 2025-Judaic Studies
Friday & Saturday, 7 & 8 February 2025-Shabbat Services

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.

Announcements
-Office Hours
-This week’s 10-Minute
-Events
-Candle Lighting Times for Shabbat (Ontario, CA)
-Shabbat Services
-School

*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.
Friday, 10 January 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 12 January 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30pm)
Friday, 17 January 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 19 January 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30pm)
Friday, 24 January 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 26 January 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30pm)
Friday, 30 January 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 2 February 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (In-Person Religious School 10:00am - 12:00pm)(?)
Friday, 7 February 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 9 February 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30pm)
Thursday, 13 January 2025 1:00pm - 7:00pm (Board Meeting @ 7:00pm)
Friday, 14 February 2025 10:00am - 7:30pm (Shabbat Services @ 7:30pm)
Sunday, 16 January 2025 9:00am - 1:30pm (Religious School 10:00am - 11:30pm)
(Subject to change. Please call for appointments)
25 January 2025 / 25 Tevet 5785


(17 January 2025)
Inauguration Day
Monday, January 20

Inauguration Day occurs every four years on January 20 (or January 21 if January 20 falls on a Sunday). The inauguration ceremony takes place at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. The next presidential inauguration is scheduled to be on January 20, 2025.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, January 20


Thursday, 23 January 2025 @ 7:30pm
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ Argument for the Sake of Heaven. If you want to get a head start for next week, I attach this chapter as a 12-page PDF file. I think we’ll have a better discussion if we all read it ahead of time.

Shabbat Times for Ontario, California, USA
🕯️ Candle lighting / הדלקת נרות Friday, January 24⋅4:58pm
✨ Havdalah (50 min) / הבדלה - 50 דקות Saturday, January 25⋅5:54pm
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Upcoming Services
Erev Shabbat Ma'ariv Service Friday, January 24, 2025 @ 7:30 pm
Shabbat Shacharit / שַׁבָּת Saturday, January 25, 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 Vaera 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת וָאֵרָא
25 January 2025 / 25 Tevet 5785
Parashat Vaera is the 14th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Triennial year 3: Exodus 8:16-9:35
Vaera (“I Appeared”) opens as God promises to redeem the enslaved Israelites and bring them to the Promised Land. When Pharaoh repeatedly refuses to let the Israelites go, God sends a series of plagues: water turning to blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, death of livestock, boils, and hail. [1]
1: 8:16-23 · 8 p’sukim
2: 8:24-28 · 5 p’sukim
3: 9:1-7 · 7 p’sukim
4: 9:8-16 · 9 p’sukim
5: 9:17-21 · 5 p’sukim
6: 9:22-26 · 5 p’sukim
7: 9:27-35 · 9 p’sukim
maf: 9:33-35 · 3 p’sukimCommentary and Divrei Torah
Hertz Chumash: pp. 240 – 244 Triennial Year 3 (Full Kriyah pp. 232 – 244)
Mevorchim Chodesh Sh’vat / מְבָרְכִים חוֹדֶשׁ שְׁבָט
Saturday, January 25

Molad Sh’vat: Wed, 17 minutes and 17 chalakim after 6:00am
Hebrew School at Temple Sholom of Ontario
Zoom Religious School:
Sunday, January 19 @ 10:00am - 11:30am
Next In-Person Religious School:
Sunday, February 2 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm
We are going to be starting up our religious school.
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.
Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat 2025 / רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ שְׁבָט 5785
Start of month of Sh’vat on the Hebrew calendar 🌒

Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat for Hebrew Year 5785 begins at sundown on Wednesday, 29 January 2025 and ends at nightfall on Thursday, 30 January 2025.
Start of month of Sh’vat on the Hebrew calendar. שְׁבָט (transliterated Sh’vat or Shevat) is the 11th month of the Hebrew year, has 30 days, and corresponds to January or February on the Gregorian calendar. רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ, transliterated Rosh Chodesh or Rosh Hodesh, is a minor holiday that occurs at the beginning of every month in the Hebrew calendar. It is marked by the birth of a new moon.

Shabbat Across America
and Canada
Friday night, March 7, 2025
Since the terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7th, 2023, the world’s Jewry has gone through some really difficult and dark times. There has been a dramatic increase in antisemitism. Jews have been attacked and made to feel unwelcome. Synagogues have been burned down and covered in graffiti.
What the world needs to see are more displays of Jewish pride and unity. Now is our chance to counter these dark times with Jewish light.
On March 7th, exactly 17 months after those horrific attacks on the Jewish homeland, we are asking your community to join us for NJOP’s 29th Annual Shabbat Across America and Canada, the original Shabbat unity event. This special night is an opportunity to come together as one family and one community, to celebrate Shabbat and spread the light of Jewish unity into the world.
Let’s bring people into our synagogues and Jewish centers like never before. Participating in NJOP’s continent-wide event will enable those in your community to share this special unity experience with thousands of North American Jews. To positively impact upon participants, we invite you to offer an uplifting program including an explanatory service, traditional rituals, a delicious Shabbat meal and lively discussions to ensure a wonderfully inspiring and impactful Shabbat experience.
We are conveniently located in Tustin, Orange County, across the street from the OC Kosher Market.
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