Coronavirus Community Update

There's something I want to tell you.

Dear friend,

We’re happy to inform you that G’w tomorrow night, Monday 9:00pm, Rabbi Levi New will be conducting a live how-to make-your-Seder demonstration on Zoom. Click here. Password: 024301

And, In case you haven’t already done so, please take note: 

On Passover, we may not OWN any leavened products, in addition to the prohibition of eating such.

To this end, one simply needs authorize the rabbi to sell your chometz to a non-Jew and to buy it back on your behalf after the Holiday. This way, the chometz physically remains in your home, however it does not belong to you for the duration of Passover.

Please take a moment (deadline is Tuesday night, April 7) and click here to authorize me to act as your agent.

I trust everyone is being super vigilant in observing all the recommendations and regulations regarding COVID19. When it comes to protecting lives one cannot be overly cautious. As we all know, preserving human life is the greatest mitzvah of all.

I wish you a healthy, happy Passover.

Rabbi New

Shalom dear friends,

I hope my email finds you and yours healthy and safe, and if you or a loved one has been touched by the virus, I extend my heartfelt wishes and blessings that Hashem grant all in need a speedy and complete recovery, amen.

As we did last week, tomorrow, G'w, at 5:00 I will be delivering my pre- Shabbat sermon which you can watch on Zoom or on FaceBook (click link below). Itchy will commence the program with some exciting announcements regarding a number of new MTC on-line initiatives designed to help you through these challenging times.

And, please join me this Saturday night, Motzoei Shabbat, at 8:45pm for a virtual Havdalah service with inspirational songs and stories (click link below). 

I look forward to seeing you.

Much love,

Rabbi New

My Dear Friends, 

One of the unprecedented realities of our current situation is that we’re all home with our family on Shabbat! 

What a G-d given opportunity for us to connect to, each according to his and her level, the serenity and sanctity and of this special day!

Let’s make the most of it, and draw down the Al-mighty’s blessings for ourselves, all our Jewish brothers and sisters, and for all humankind!

Please click here for inspiration and ‘how-to’ guidance relating to Shabbat.
 
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Please join me Friday, live on-line, at 5:00pm for my (pre) Shabbat Sermon.
Click here to join.

Additionally, I invite and encourage each one of you to celebrate Shabbat this week as a community, together in joy, faith and confidence in the blessings that are sure to come!

So, as you pray at home, say your prayers at the following times. This way we will all be connected to each other:​​​​​​​

• Mincha/Maariv Friday night - 7:00pm. 
  
  
• Shacharit - 10:30am. (Many have the custom on this Shabbat, since it is the Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh, to recite the whole book of Psalms before Shacharit.)
  
  
• Mincha, 7:00pm.
  
  
• Maariv, at the conclusion of Shabbat - 7:53pm.

In the spirit of unity and togetherness, let us share and discuss at our Shabbat family meals - Friday night and Shabbat day - the very same ‘Dvar Torah’ and inspirational story. Please click here for this week's Mosaic Express which includes a summary of the Torah portion, Parsha insights and stories. Please print it out before Shabbat.

After Shabbat, everyone, men and women, are invited to join an on-line Farbrengen in honour of Shabbos Mevorchim Nissan; Shabbos Parshas HaChodesh and the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka’s birthdate anniversary. Saturday night, 9:30 pm. Please click here to enter the ‘Zoom Room.’

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May Hashem grant us the fulfillment of His promise of a world healed, perfected and redeemed in an ‘everlasting Shabbat’ with the coming of Moshiach, without delay, Amen!


Rabbi New

Dear Friend,

The greatest light is one that comes as result of transforming darkness itself into light. It is precisely this that we are clearly tasked with and empowered now by Heaven to achieve. Despite our physical isolation, we shall, with Hashem’s help, become closer to each other and closer to Hashem! The computer and smartphone that has, for too many, been a source of disconnect must now become the tool for meaningful connection to each other on a scale and depth we have never experienced before. This, of course, is why G-d granted us the intelligence to make them in the first place! 

So, dear friend, the link you see below is a link to a "Zoom Meeting Room" that I have created.  Through clicking on the link at the indicated time, you will join a live class or prayer service where all the participants can see and hear each other. The idea is that we will get together daily to learn Torah and pray.  
 
I encourage you to join any of the following:

LEARNING:

• Sunday morning at 8:20 for a class on the upcoming Yom Tov of Pesach. This is a class geared for both the novice and the more advanced student.
• Monday thru Friday morning from 7:20 to 8:00, a more advanced class on Chassidus related to the Parsha and Holidays. This is followed by a chassidic story.
• Friday morning 6:45 to 7:20, a more advanced class on Pesach
• Tuesday 11:00am, a class on Pesach for women, held until now in the home of Debbie Cons.
   

PRAYER TIMES:

• Shacharis: Monday through Friday - 8:15 am.
  Sunday, 9:00 am.
• Mincha/Maariv this week, 7:05 pm.