Mazal Tov to Joshua & Rivka Luftig on the birth of a daughter!

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Rosh Hashana starts on Wednesday night at 6:07pm. Make an Eruv Tavshillin. On Thursday night, light candles after 7:06pm from a pre-existing flame. Light Shabbat candles on Friday at 6:09pm from a pre-existing flame, and Shabbat ends on Saturday at 7:08pm. The weekly Torah portion is Ha’azinu and Shabbat Shuva.

Move the clock one hour forward on Saturday night.

Sunday is Tzom Gedalia – fast begins 5:28am and ends at 8:01pm.

Mincha switches to summer schedule – 1.45pm at Ainsworth Property – GF/459 Collins Mon-Wed. Join the WhatsApp group where we take a count to confirm each day.

Weekly sushi & shiur is on Wed at 1.20pm (mincha 1.45pm) at A-P GF/459 Collins – and via zoom. Current topic: collecting on debt security. Details here and on the WhatsApp group.

Thought of the Week with thanks to Avi Gordon.

This week’s Torah reading begins with the words “Listen heaven and I will speak and let the earth hear the utterance of my mouth“. This portion is always read around the time of the New Year.

Over the past few weeks as we lead up to Rosh Hashanah we have all been taking upon ourselves additional mitzvot, more chesed, more charity and additional learnings as we strive for growth before the New Year.

However the challenge remains each and every year that once all the excitement and inspiration of these days concludes, do we actually keep up these practices for the balance of the year?

Perhaps this is what was telling us with the opening words of this week’s, reading.

While it is wonderful to take on all these additional practices during these times when we feeling like we are in “heaven”, G-d is telling us that what’s really meaningful is when we come back down to earth – when the regular days of the year resume and we’re back to normal life is when it counts the most.

Wishing everybody a wonderful year full of reveal blessings and only good news for all of us and in particular our brothers and sisters and Israel