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JULY 27, 2019 JULY 27, 2019 JULY 27, 2019 JULY 27, 2019 ---- 24 TAMMUZ 577924 TAMMUZ 577924 TAMMUZ 577924 TAMMUZ 5779

SHABBAT MEVORCHIM SHABBAT MEVORCHIM SHABBAT MEVORCHIM SHABBAT MEVORCHIM ---- PARSHAT PINCHAS PARSHAT PINCHAS PARSHAT PINCHAS PARSHAT PINCHAS

TODAH RABAH to the sponsors:TODAH RABAH to the sponsors:TODAH RABAH to the sponsors:TODAH RABAH to the sponsors:

CONGREGATIONAL KIDDUSH:CONGREGATIONAL KIDDUSH:CONGREGATIONAL KIDDUSH:CONGREGATIONAL KIDDUSH:

John & Helen Peto in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Helen’s mother, Malka bat Mordechai v'Rivka z”l

Stephen & Carole Title and family in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Carole’s father, Mark Hillman z”l

Michael Klein and family in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Michael’s father, Yishiya Klein z”l

Eric Gertner in commemoration of the yahrzeit of his wife, Elinor Ruth Gertnerz”l

Allan Herman & Lana Sinuk and family in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Lana’s father, Morris Sinuk z”l

DOWNSTAIRS MINYAN:DOWNSTAIRS MINYAN:DOWNSTAIRS MINYAN:DOWNSTAIRS MINYAN:

John & Lori Ulmer in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Lori’s father, Moshe Tamari z”l

Brian & Carole Cantor in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Carole’s mother, Min Parker z”l

BREAKFAST:BREAKFAST:BREAKFAST:BREAKFAST:

Monday July 29, 2nd Minyan

Jonathan Bordan & Pnina Teitelbaum in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Pnina’s parents, Sam & Esther Teitelbaum z”l

Shabbat, July 27Shabbat, July 27Shabbat, July 27Shabbat, July 27 7:30 am Hashkama Minyan 8:15 am Chumash-Rashi Shiur with Melech Halberstadt 9:00 am Shacharit: Sharp Sanctuary & Downstairs Minyan 10:00 am Youth Programs

7:15 pm Pre-Mincha Shiur: Rabbi Shore 8:15 pm Mincha 9:31 pm Shabbat Ends

Friday, July 26Friday, July 26Friday, July 26Friday, July 26 7:15 pm Mincha 8:29 pm Candles (Earliest 7:16 pm)

Friday, August 2Friday, August 2Friday, August 2Friday, August 2 7:00 pm7:00 pm7:00 pm7:00 pm MinchaMinchaMinchaMincha 8:21 pm Candles (Earliest 7:10 pm)

• Wednesday, July 31, 5:00-6:00 pm - Rabbi Shalom Carmy: A Renaissance ManRabbi Shalom Carmy: A Renaissance ManRabbi Shalom Carmy: A Renaissance ManRabbi Shalom Carmy: A Renaissance Man. Shiur with Rabbi Shore.

• Wednesdays, July 31-August 14, 7:30 pm - Summer History Series Summer History Series Summer History Series Summer History Series by Gerald ZiedenbergGerald ZiedenbergGerald ZiedenbergGerald Ziedenberg. Members - free; Non Members - $2.99. No registration required. See flyer on page 3.

• Monday, August 5, 3:00-7:00 pm - Blood Donor Clinic Blood Donor Clinic Blood Donor Clinic Blood Donor Clinic at Shaarei Shomayim. Book your appointment at blood.ca.

• Sunday, August 11, 12:45-8:50 pm - Torah in Motion Tisha BTorah in Motion Tisha BTorah in Motion Tisha BTorah in Motion Tisha B’’’’Av ProgramAv ProgramAv ProgramAv Program at Shaarei Shomayim. See flyer on page 3.

• Wednesdays, August 21 & 28, 7:30 pm - American & Canadian Synagogues: American & Canadian Synagogues: American & Canadian Synagogues: American & Canadian Synagogues: PresentationsPresentationsPresentationsPresentations Tracing their Architectural History from the 1700s to the Present Day Tracing their Architectural History from the 1700s to the Present Day Tracing their Architectural History from the 1700s to the Present Day Tracing their Architectural History from the 1700s to the Present Day by Corey KeebleCorey KeebleCorey KeebleCorey Keeble, Curator Emeritus of the Department of World Culture, ROM. August 21 - American Synagogues. August 28 - Canadian Synagogues. Members - free; Non Members- $2.99. No registration required. See flyer on page 3.

SHAAREI SHOMAYIM UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Please join the women of Shaarei Shomayim on Erev Tisha B’Av, August 10 at 10:15 pm for the inaugural Women’s Reading of Megillat Eicha. If you are interested in reading, please contact Lauren Shore at laurenglassmanshore@gmail.com.

WOMEN’S MEGILLAH READING - EICHA

The Ba’al Tefillah Search Committee has arranged for three probas to take place on the following upcoming Shabbatot: • September 13-14: Chaim FreundChaim FreundChaim FreundChaim Freund • September 20-21: Gabi ShullGabi ShullGabi ShullGabi Shull • September 27-28: Rabbi Jesse ShoreRabbi Jesse ShoreRabbi Jesse ShoreRabbi Jesse Shore The candidates will lead the davening for Kabbalat Shabbat, Maariv, Shacharit and Mussaf. You are encouraged to attend these services and to provide your feedback through the online questionnaire, to be posted on the shul’s website at: shomayim.org/baaltefillah. For those who cannot attend any or all of the probas, samples of recordings by the candidates are posted on the webpage mentioned above.

BA’AL TEFILLAH PROBAS

HIGH HOLIDAYS 5780 GUEST CHAZZANHIGH HOLIDAYS 5780 GUEST CHAZZANHIGH HOLIDAYS 5780 GUEST CHAZZANHIGH HOLIDAYS 5780 GUEST CHAZZAN This coming High Holiday season, we will be welcoming Chazzan Shai Abramson, Chief Cantor of the IDFChazzan Shai Abramson, Chief Cantor of the IDFChazzan Shai Abramson, Chief Cantor of the IDFChazzan Shai Abramson, Chief Cantor of the IDF. Chazzan Abramson will be davening with us on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Stay tuned for more details and for video clips of his beautiful voice on the shul’s website at: shomayim.org/event/chazzanabramson.

Torah Reading: Torah Reading: Torah Reading: Torah Reading: Bamidbar 25:10 - 30:1

Hertz P. 686 Stone P. 876 Haftorah:Haftorah:Haftorah:Haftorah: Yirmiyahu 1:1 - 2:3 Hertz P. 710 Stone P. 1192

Thank you to our outgoing Chazzan, Zvi KatzmanZvi KatzmanZvi KatzmanZvi Katzman, and his family for their wholehearted and dedicated service to our community throughout the years. On Shabbat, August 17, we are planning a special Kiddush in his honour. To sponsor please go to shomayim.org/form/Katzman. See flyer on page 3.

FAREWELL KIDDUSH IN HONOUR OF ZVI KATZMAN

SHABBAT MATTERS

Rabbi Shore Rabbi Shore Rabbi Shore Rabbi Shore will give a PrePrePrePre----Mincha Shiur Mincha Shiur Mincha Shiur Mincha Shiur at 7:15 pm on the topic: “I See that You’ve Listed Manslaughter on Your Leadership Resume: Pinchas, Joshua, and Moses.”

Rabbi Alex Israel is an author, Tanach teacher and international lecturer. He is a teacher at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi and Matan, and is Director of the Community Education Program, Summer Program and the Elmad Online Study Website at the Pardes Institute. Rabbi Israel served as Scholar-in-Residence at Shaarei Shomayim in 2016.

PINCHAS: FIRE AND PASSIONPINCHAS: FIRE AND PASSIONPINCHAS: FIRE AND PASSIONPINCHAS: FIRE AND PASSION

A few years back, my teenage daughter introduced me to the poem “Two Elements,” by the Israeli poet Zelda:

The flame says to the cypress: “When I see how calm, how full of pride you are, something inside me goes wild – How can one live this awesome life without a touch of madness, of spirit, of imagination, of freedom, with only a grim, ancient pride? If I could, I would burn down the establishment that we call the seasons, along with your cursed dependence on earth and air and sun, on rain and dew.”

The cypress does not answer. He knows there is madness in him, and freedom, and imagination, and spirit. But the flame will not understand, the flame will not believe.

The poem talks of the tension and contradiction between the flame – hot, passionate, free, energetic, jumping and gyrating, wild and dangerous – and the cypress, the tall evergreen conifer – controlled, perfect in form and shape, quiet, old, consistent, never changing.

It is the perfect poem to pit the ideological purism of youth against the steadiness of middle age. For my daughter, it may have represented the tension between the “secular,” open world outside Judaism on the one hand and a halakhic lifestyle, a life regulated by ancient laws on the other. Possibly, it was the tension between a passionate Hassidic, spiritual, expressive Judaism that she sees around her, in contradistinction to a more intellectual, quiet, conformist, Judaism that I practice. Or as I said above, the fire is the passion of youth, and the tree is the stability, staidness and caution of middle age.

Pinchas is the quintessential biblical zealot. “Pinchas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was zealous with my zealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my zeal. Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.” (Bamidbar 25:11-13)

Pinchas “made atonement for the people” here, but his action was a violent one. Is this a sustainable course of behaviour for a Jewish leader? And, when it comes to select a national leader, Joshua is chosen rather than Pinchas. Does zeal lend itself to long term national leadership or is it a mere stimulant, a catalyst to change, but after every fire, we need a cypress tree?

And which are you? The flame, or the cypress?

TORAH MATTERS:

Kriyat ShemaKriyat ShemaKriyat ShemaKriyat Shema should be recited after 9:27 pm this week. should be recited after 9:27 pm this week. should be recited after 9:27 pm this week. should be recited after 9:27 pm this week.

PARSHA MATTERS - by Rabbi Alex Israel

MATTERS Stay and PlayStay and PlayStay and PlayStay and Play (Ages 0 - 3) Room 101

Open but no sta? supervisionOpen but no sta? supervisionOpen but no sta? supervisionOpen but no sta? supervision

Shaar ChadashShaar ChadashShaar ChadashShaar Chadash (Ages 3 - 5) Room 102

Shaar Yafo & Shaar AryehShaar Yafo & Shaar AryehShaar Yafo & Shaar AryehShaar Yafo & Shaar Aryeh (Grade 1 - 5) Room 103 SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER ---- Youth ProgramsYouth ProgramsYouth ProgramsYouth Programs

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DATEDATEDATEDATE DAVENING TIMESDAVENING TIMESDAVENING TIMESDAVENING TIMES SHIURIM AND LECTURES SHIURIM AND LECTURES SHIURIM AND LECTURES SHIURIM AND LECTURES

Sunday, July 28 / 25 Tammuz 8:30 am 8:25 pm

Shacharit Mincha

7:30 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Shore

Monday, July 29 / 26 Tammuz 6:55 / 7:45 am 8:25 pm

Shacharit Mincha

6:10 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Shore

Tuesday, July 30 / 27 Tammuz 7:00 / 7:45 am 8:25 pm

Shacharit Mincha

6:15 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Shore

Wednesday, July 31 / 28 Tammuz 7:00 / 7:45 am 8:25 pm

Shacharit Mincha

6:15 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Shore

Thursday, August 1 / 29 Tammuz 6:55 / 7:45 am 8:25 pm

Shacharit Mincha

6:10 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Shore

Friday, August 2 / 1 Av Rosh ChodeshRosh ChodeshRosh ChodeshRosh Chodesh

6:00 am Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Shore 6:45 / 7:45 am 7:00 pm7:00 pm7:00 pm7:00 pm 7:10 pm 8:21 pm

Shacharit Mincha Earliest Candle Lighting Candle Lighting

The cccceeeennnnttttrrrreeee mmmmeeeecccchhhhiiiittttzzzzaaaa will be used on Shabbat, August 10.

We would like to acknowledge your milestones! Please let us know when there is a birth, Bar/Bat mitzvah, graduation, engagement, aufruf, wedding, significant birthday/anniversary, community recognition, illness, bereavement, or unveiling. Call or email the shul oQce at 416-789-3213 or coordinator@shomayim.org or donate online at Shomayim.org/donate.

Rabbi Chaim Strauchler Avital Strauchler, Rebbetzin Rabbi Jesse Shore, Assistant Rabbi Randall Craig, President Nicole Toledano, Executive Director 470 Glencairn Avenue | Toronto, ON M5N 1V8 | Tel 416-789-3213 | Fax 416-789-1728

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YAHRZEITS DATEDATEDATEDATE YAHRZEITS BEING OBSERVEDYAHRZEITS BEING OBSERVEDYAHRZEITS BEING OBSERVEDYAHRZEITS BEING OBSERVED

Shabbat, July 27 24 Tammuz

Mark Hillman, father of Carole Title Rebecca Levine, mother of Abraham Levine

Gladys Resman, sister of Ralph Sutton

Sunday, July 28 25 Tammuz

Helen Adams, mother of Kayla Adams Rachel Kotzer, mother of Brian Kotzer Min Parker, mother of Carole Cantor

Moshe Tamari, father of Lori Ulmer Toby Waltman, mother of Barry Waltman

Monday, July 29 26 Tammuz

Mary Kochman, mother of Ricky Kochman and Helen Peto

Tuesday, July 30 27 Tammuz

Morris Ackerman, father of Sidney Ackerman and Rosalyn Fine Rae Chananie-Zuckerman, mother of Paula Dubrow Elinor Ruth Gertner, wife of Eric Gertner

George Rothbart, father of Evelynne Bernstein Sylvia Shapiro, mother of Paul Shapiro

Wednesday, July 31 28 Tammuz

George Herczeg, husband of Agnes Herczeg and father of Anita Herczeg

Gershon Kershen, father of Hal Kershen Morris Sinuk, father of Lana Sinuk

Thursday, August 1 29 Tammuz

Bayla Kaftan, mother of Linda Fried Yishiya Klein, father of Michael Klein

Sarah Lodish, mother of Helen Goldsmith Harry Silver, father of Mindy Green

Friday, August 2 1 Av

Leonard Bernstein, father of Michael Bernstein Eugene David, husband of Catherine David

Ike Klein, father of Eli Klein

Pinchas Tzvi ben Basya, Yita Hentcha bat Shoshana, Rachmiel ben Dvorah (Randall Craig), Geula Liba Yehudit bat Gittel Tzipra, Leah bat Sarah, Hesha Channah bat Bayla, Michael Mordechai Avraham ben Hinda Rifka, Eliyahu ben Ryejah, Miriam bat Chaya, Yitzchak ben Chaya Raizel, Eliyahu Yom Tov ben Leah, Leah bat Masha, Oved ben Regina, Ophira bat Raanana, Shlomo Shraga ben Esther, Yehuda Yosef ben Miriam Yocheved, Elyakim ben Meril, Yosef ben Esther, Rachel bat Leah, Yekutiel ben Sara, Sara bat Yocheved, Golda bat Sarah, Menachem Mendel ben Devorah, Eliyahu Reuven ben Sarah, Yerachmiel ben Luba, Faygala bat Freda, Dovid Chanoch ben Yhudis Ita, Yehezkiel Yehuda ben Chaya, Mindel bat Rochel, Yacov Israel ben Carmela, Hersh Leib ben Miryam, Chaya bat Tova, Efrat bat Etta Miriam, Zachariah ben Yehudit Rachel, Eliyahu ben Ruth, Pesach ben Faiga.

COMMUNITY MATTERS • Sundays, August 4-25, 10:30 am (no classes July 28 & August 11) - FRUMBA: WomenFRUMBA: WomenFRUMBA: WomenFRUMBA: Women’’’’s Cardio Dance Fitnesss Cardio Dance Fitnesss Cardio Dance Fitnesss Cardio Dance Fitness. For women of all ages. Walk ins welcome! At Shaarei Shomayim. For details email Bette at frumbadance@gmail.com.

• Sunday-Monday, August 18-19 - Ride for KCC: Overnight Muskoka ExperienceRide for KCC: Overnight Muskoka ExperienceRide for KCC: Overnight Muskoka ExperienceRide for KCC: Overnight Muskoka Experience. An all-inclusive 135 km ride in Muskoka. Enjoy riding the beautiful terrain and scenery, and raise funds for the children of Kayla's Children’s Centre. For more information and registration go to rideforkcc.com.

• Wednesday, August 21, 9:00 am - Beit Halochem Annual Golf TournamentBeit Halochem Annual Golf TournamentBeit Halochem Annual Golf TournamentBeit Halochem Annual Golf Tournament. For more information and registration go to beithalochem.ca/event/2019-annual-golf-day.

• Sunday, September 8, 6:30 am-5:00 pm - Barrie 2 BaycrestBarrie 2 BaycrestBarrie 2 BaycrestBarrie 2 Baycrest. Participants in this bike ride will raise vital funds for the new Kimel Family Centre for Brain Health and Wellness. At noon - Finish Line Carnival at Baycrest. Bring the family and enjoy rides, entertainment and games. For information and registration go to b2b.baycrestfoundation.org.

• Tuesday, September 10, 9:30 am - Bnei Akiva Schools 15Bnei Akiva Schools 15Bnei Akiva Schools 15Bnei Akiva Schools 15th th th th Annual IKO Charity Golf TournamentAnnual IKO Charity Golf TournamentAnnual IKO Charity Golf TournamentAnnual IKO Charity Golf Tournament. For information and registration go to ikocharitygolf.com.

• Baycrest Brain Healthy Aging Project: Free Memory Training ProgramsBaycrest Brain Healthy Aging Project: Free Memory Training ProgramsBaycrest Brain Healthy Aging Project: Free Memory Training ProgramsBaycrest Brain Healthy Aging Project: Free Memory Training Programs. If you are 60 to 85 years of age, experiencing changes with memory and/or thinking skills; and able to identify everyday life activities that you want/need to do, but are having trouble with, you may be eligible to participate in this study. Call 416-785-2500 x 3377.

• SAVE THE DATE: SAVE THE DATE: SAVE THE DATE: SAVE THE DATE: November 3-10 - The Sarah & Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre’s Holocaust Education Holocaust Education Holocaust Education Holocaust Education WeekWeekWeekWeek.

REFUAH SHLEIMAHz

To have your message included in the High Holiday BulletinHigh Holiday BulletinHigh Holiday BulletinHigh Holiday Bulletin, please go to shomayim.org/form/RHmessage or call the shul oQce. Deadline for submission is Friday, August 9 at 2:00 pmFriday, August 9 at 2:00 pmFriday, August 9 at 2:00 pmFriday, August 9 at 2:00 pm.

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