Shavuot is Tuesday to Thursday,

Please email ghettoshul@gmail.com if you are planning on coming.

8:45 pm  Maariv-Please come on time

All night learnign on the Mystical meaning of revelation.

Sunrise Minyan at 4:45

Lunch will be at Dena and Leibish’s house at 2:00

Maariv at Dena at Leibish’s at 9

Shacharis on Thursday at 9:15 at Bagg Street (corner of Clarke and Bagg)

Lunch on Thursday at 12:30 at Dena and Leibish

Thanks

Ghetto Shul

Parshah: Bamidbar
Candle Lighting: 7:59

Services will begin at 8 PM at the Ghetto Shul, located at 3458 Ave Du Parc
Dinner will be at Leibish and Dena’s house, for directions please ask them at services or call them at 514-844-5738, 514-855-3362, or 514-465-5193

A Saturday morning minyan will be held at 9:30 AM at the Bagg Street Shul, or at Chabad
Lunch will be to follow at Leibish and Dena’s house

Shalloshidis will also occur there as well, time TBA

Havdalah is at 9:11 PM

Every year we read Bamidbar (=in the desert) the Shabbos before Shavuot (holiday celebrating anniversary of Sinai Experience). This was set into our calender based on the following teaching:
The Talmud teaches an amazing thing- that anyone who makes themselves ownerless like the desert is given Torah as a gift. There’s one level where Torah is just a book, just information (chas v’shalom.) But of course the deep inner truth is that it is a gift from Above- but how do we experience its “giftness”?
Awesomely, the answer is that we experience its giftness by making ourselves available to teach it without asking for anything in return. This is Rashi’s understanding of “ownerless like a desert”. Not as you might have thought, letting go of tethers to this world to make ourselves available to G-d. Au contraire- letting go of our sense of inability to give to others, by making ourselves AVAILAB LE to teach even the TINY amount of Torah we know to others.
When we intimately know what it is to give Torah, and give it freely, even if we feel we barely have what to give, but we overcome that feeling and give anyway- then we will know and receive the Torah from Above on the level of a gift, then we will reactivate the ancient depth of G-d’s gift to us and be able to love the Torah deeply.
This is why the mitzvah to learn Torah appears nowhere in the Torah in any plain sense of “learn Torah.” Rather, the Torah says- veshinantam levanecha (=and you shall teach your students/children). Teach Torah, says the Torah- you all have a mitzvah to become teachers. So of course, it follows that there is a mitzvah to learn. But essentially- the mitzvah is- discover the Teacher inside you, and enrich the world.
Good Shabbos, and good Shavuos
Tons of love
Leibish Dena and Akiva Shalom

Services begin at 7:30 pm

Shabbat begins at 7:50 pm

Havdallah is at 9:00 pm

April 30, 2010-Parshat Emor:

Friday Night Services begin at 7:30.

Saturday Morning services begin at 10:30.

Shabbat Begins at 7:41

Havdallah at 8:49 on Saturday

See you there!

Looking Forward to Seeing you!

Candlelighting: 7:32

Services: 7:30

Havdallah: 8:41