Holy Blossom Temple

Friday, February 24, 2012 12:00 am

The new Hebrew month of Adar

Friday, February 24, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Friday, February 24, 2012 9:30 am

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, February 24, 2012 11:00 am

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, February 24, 2012 12:00 pm

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, February 24, 2012 6:00 pm

Youth Chapel

Friday, February 24, 2012 6:30 pm

On the Final Friday of each month, October to June, join other 20- and 30-somethings for an eclectic, warm, and musical Shabbat evening service. Following the service, Generation Aleph hosts a delicious, catered Oneg Shabbat of sushi and wine.

Music begins at 6:20pm.
Kabbalat Shabbat Service begins at 6:30pm.

We look forward to welcoming back our Shabbat Fusion band, led by Aviva Chernick.

Bring a friend or two or three. Or, come to meet others. Entrance is open and complementary.

Saturday, February 25, 2012 12:00 am

Exodus 25:1 – 27:19

Haftarah: I Kings 5:26 – 6:13

Saturday, February 25, 2012 9:00 am

Max E. Enkin Boardroom

The Wisdom of the Talmud
Starting October 15 and throughout the year, every Shabbat morning.

As the Rabbis interpreted the Bible and constructed a new Judaism for very different times, they thought deeply as to how Jews, all people really, ought best live to achieve the sense of being part of something larger – of community, of purpose, of God.

All beginners along with long-time learners – are welcome as we explore Rabbinic thinking on: our relationships with one another, friends, family, strangers; our relationship with God; how we use (or abuse) money, sexuality and work; how freedom and responsibility fit together; and the working out of our particularity and our broader humanity (the observance of ritual and of the Jewish calendar while living in the larger world).

Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:15 am

Michelle Katz, Jewish Meditation Teacher and Spiritual Director

Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:30 am

Main Sanctuary

Our rabbis and cantor lead the congregation in worship, assisted by a choir or the Holy Blossom Temple Singers, our lay choir made up of volunteers from our community. In this communal service, we welcome our new B'nei Mitzvah into the community, honour brides/grooms-to-be with an aufruf and celebrate other life-cycle and congregational events.

During the summer, and on occasional Shabbatot, our Shabbat Morning Services are held in the Youth Chapel, on the third floor.

Saturday, February 25, 2012 1:00 pm

Meet with friends after kiddush on Shabbat. We will gather to study the weekly Torah portion with The Torah, A Women's Commentary.

Sunday, February 26, 2012 9:00 am

Sunday, February 26, 2012 10:00 am

Our Holy Blossom Temple Singers learn the joy of liturgy every Sunday and greatly enhance the
musical and prayer life of the synagogue. Join us for our weekly rehearsals as this volunteer choir sings
at least twice a month at Shabbat and holiday services. New singers are welcome.
Contact Mari Lynn Rusak (ext 224).

Monday, February 27, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Monday, February 27, 2012 10:00 am

Geri Durbin, Sacred Waters in Judaism, History and Traditions of the Mikvah

Monday, February 27, 2012 6:00 pm

Monday, February 27, 2012 7:30 pm

Philip Smith Hall

Monday, February 27, 2012 7:30 pm

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:00 am

Join us as we parse the Hebrew Bible and discover its real meaning.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:00 pm

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:30 am

How did the “Children of Israel” become the “Nation of Israel?” The book of Exodus provides the narrative for this journey of self-discovery.

For more information please call Debbie at 416-789-3291 ext. 239.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:00 am

Enjoy the best of Yiddish literature, read, translated with commentary

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 6:00 pm

Thursday, March 1, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Thursday, March 1, 2012 6:00 pm

Friday, March 2, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Friday, March 2, 2012 9:30 am

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, March 2, 2012 11:00 am

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, March 2, 2012 12:00 pm

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, March 2, 2012 6:00 pm

Philip Smith Foyer and Hall

Tot Shabbat:
Young children, 6 and under, (their parents, siblings, grandparents and anyone they know who could benefit from this service) are invited to enjoy our children friendly Shabbat Service. This service consists of, stories, songs music all Shabbat related. Please join us on the first Friday of every month beginning at 6:00 pm in the Philip Smith Foyer when we have our Shabbat Service and Semi-pot luck dinner following . RSVP‘s are required for this service. Everyone welcome.

Friday, March 2, 2012 6:00 pm

Youth Chapel

Saturday, March 3, 2012 12:00 am

Shabbat before Purim

Saturday, March 3, 2012 12:00 am

Exodus 27:20 – 30:10

Haftarah: I Samuel 15:2 – 15:34 (Shabbat Zachor)

Saturday, March 3, 2012 9:00 am

Max E. Enkin Boardroom

The Wisdom of the Talmud
Starting October 15 and throughout the year, every Shabbat morning.

As the Rabbis interpreted the Bible and constructed a new Judaism for very different times, they thought deeply as to how Jews, all people really, ought best live to achieve the sense of being part of something larger – of community, of purpose, of God.

All beginners along with long-time learners – are welcome as we explore Rabbinic thinking on: our relationships with one another, friends, family, strangers; our relationship with God; how we use (or abuse) money, sexuality and work; how freedom and responsibility fit together; and the working out of our particularity and our broader humanity (the observance of ritual and of the Jewish calendar while living in the larger world).

Saturday, March 3, 2012 10:30 am

Main Sanctuary

Our rabbis and cantor lead the congregation in worship, assisted by a choir or the Holy Blossom Temple Singers, our lay choir made up of volunteers from our community. In this communal service, we welcome our new B'nei Mitzvah into the community, honour brides/grooms-to-be with an aufruf and celebrate other life-cycle and congregational events.

During the summer, and on occasional Shabbatot, our Shabbat Morning Services are held in the Youth Chapel, on the third floor.

Saturday, March 3, 2012 6:00 pm

ROM

For children 5 and up. Kids and parents are invited for a special tour of the ROM at night! Watch "Night at the Museum", get sill with P.J. Karoke, sleep with the dinosaurs, and enjoy a pancake breakfast in the morning. Contact Rabbi Y. Splansky

Sunday, March 4, 2012 9:00 am

Sunday, March 4, 2012 10:00 am

Our Holy Blossom Temple Singers learn the joy of liturgy every Sunday and greatly enhance the
musical and prayer life of the synagogue. Join us for our weekly rehearsals as this volunteer choir sings
at least twice a month at Shabbat and holiday services. New singers are welcome.
Contact Mari Lynn Rusak (ext 224).

Sunday, March 4, 2012 12:00 pm

Holy Blossom Temple

HBTs annual Purim Carnival! Game stations fill every corner of the building. Prizes for everyone! (Adult and teen volunteers needed. Call Shelly Berenbaum at ext. 233).

Monday, March 5, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Monday, March 5, 2012 10:00 am

Annual Purim Party

Monday, March 5, 2012 6:00 pm

Monday, March 5, 2012 7:30 pm

Monday, March 5, 2012 7:30 pm

Philip Smith Hall

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:00 am

Join us as we parse the Hebrew Bible and discover its real meaning.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 6:00 pm

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:00 am

Purim is one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:30 am

How did the “Children of Israel” become the “Nation of Israel?” The book of Exodus provides the narrative for this journey of self-discovery.

For more information please call Debbie at 416-789-3291 ext. 239.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:00 am

Enjoy the best of Yiddish literature, read, translated with commentary

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 6:00 pm

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 6:30 pm

Holy Blossom Temple

A bash for our students in grades 7 – 12. For the 3rd year, this is a Purim celebration designed by and for our teens. Megillah reading, schtick, and a fabulous teen event and special dinner. Admission: A donation of canned goods. Contact Rabbi Thomashow.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 6:30 pm

Holy Blossom Temple

Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:00 am

Purim is one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar

Thursday, March 8, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:00 pm

Friday, March 9, 2012 12:00 am

Purim celebrated in Jerusalem and walled cities

Friday, March 9, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Friday, March 9, 2012 9:30 am

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, March 9, 2012 11:00 am

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, March 9, 2012 11:00 am

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, March 9, 2012 12:00 pm

Philip Smith Foyer

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

Friday, March 9, 2012 6:00 pm

Youth Chapel

Saturday, March 10, 2012 12:00 am

Exodus 30:11 – 34:35

Haftarah: I Kings 18:1 – 18:39

Saturday, March 10, 2012 9:00 am

Max E. Enkin Boardroom

The Wisdom of the Talmud
Starting October 15 and throughout the year, every Shabbat morning.

As the Rabbis interpreted the Bible and constructed a new Judaism for very different times, they thought deeply as to how Jews, all people really, ought best live to achieve the sense of being part of something larger – of community, of purpose, of God.

All beginners along with long-time learners – are welcome as we explore Rabbinic thinking on: our relationships with one another, friends, family, strangers; our relationship with God; how we use (or abuse) money, sexuality and work; how freedom and responsibility fit together; and the working out of our particularity and our broader humanity (the observance of ritual and of the Jewish calendar while living in the larger world).

Saturday, March 10, 2012 10:30 am

Main Sanctuary

Our rabbis and cantor lead the congregation in worship, assisted by a choir or the Holy Blossom Temple Singers, our lay choir made up of volunteers from our community. In this communal service, we welcome our new B'nei Mitzvah into the community, honour brides/grooms-to-be with an aufruf and celebrate other life-cycle and congregational events.

During the summer, and on occasional Shabbatot, our Shabbat Morning Services are held in the Youth Chapel, on the third floor.

Sunday, March 11, 2012 9:00 am

Sunday, March 11, 2012 9:30 am

PSCH / Kitchen

Howard Warren, a layer will speak about mediation / arbitaration.

Sunday, March 11, 2012 10:00 am

Our Holy Blossom Temple Singers learn the joy of liturgy every Sunday and greatly enhance the
musical and prayer life of the synagogue. Join us for our weekly rehearsals as this volunteer choir sings
at least twice a month at Shabbat and holiday services. New singers are welcome.
Contact Mari Lynn Rusak (ext 224).

Monday, March 12, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Monday, March 12, 2012 10:00 am

Stagecraft – Alan Gordon will talk about The Triangle Fire Factory Project which tells the story of the iconic tragedy in a New York City sweatshop one hundred years ago.

Monday, March 12, 2012 6:00 pm

Monday, March 12, 2012 7:30 pm

Philip Smith Hall

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:00 am

Join us as we parse the Hebrew Bible and discover its real meaning.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:00 pm

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:30 pm

In the Kabbalah, the middle column of the Tree of Life is called the path of harmony and balance. In this talk, we learn how to walk in harmony along the middle path. We will learn how to balance mercy and judgment, soul and body, Heaven and Earth.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:30 pm

Influential writings from the first two centuries
BCE and CE that never made it into either
the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Scriptures.
The Jewish heroine Judith who single-handedly
saves her people. Joseph the Patriarch and his
Egyptian wife Aseneth. The messianic Psalms of
Solomon (no, not the Psalms of David). Infancy
tales about Jesus. Mary’s own special birth and
upbringing in the Temple. Mary Magdalene as
the chief apostle. What Thecla did on hearing
Paul preach. And others. We’ll read from
translations of the texts themselves.
Moreover, how did the Bible come to be? On
what grounds were some writings excluded?

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:30 am

How did the “Children of Israel” become the “Nation of Israel?” The book of Exodus provides the narrative for this journey of self-discovery.

For more information please call Debbie at 416-789-3291 ext. 239.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:00 am

Enjoy the best of Yiddish literature, read, translated with commentary

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 6:00 pm

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 7:30 pm

Cantor Maissner Germany/Israel Trip Meeting

Cantor Maissner Germany/Israel Trip Meeting

Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:00 am

Nemesis by Philip Roth

Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:00 pm

Friday, March 16, 2012 7:30 am

Herman Chapel

Friday, March 16, 2012 9:30 am

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, March 16, 2012 11:00 am

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, March 16, 2012 11:00 am

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, March 16, 2012 12:00 pm

Come and get in the mood for Shabbat with music, movement and more! This program is for babies under 13 months of age, accompanied by their parents or grandparents. Please join Mark Weinstock for singing, dancing and storytelling. And each week, participants take home a fresh challah for their own Shabbat tables

To register please contact Elana at the Holy Blossom Temple office: 416-789-3291 ext 221 or efehler@holyblossom.org

Friday, March 16, 2012 5:30 pm

Philip Smith Foyer

Tot Shabbat:
Young children, 6 and under, (their parents, siblings, grandparents and anyone they know who could benefit from this service) are invited to enjoy our children friendly Shabbat Service and Craft. This service consists of, stories, songs music all Shabbat related, and your children make a shabbat related craft. Please join us on the 3rd Friday of every month beginning at 5:30pm in the Philip Smith Foyer.