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) andclick 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.
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) andclick 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.
In these unprecedented and challenging times we are all need of Divine blessing and protection.
Citing a prophecy recorded in the book of Daniel (12:1) that speaks of “Those written in the Scroll will be blessed and protected”, in 1981 the Rebbe launched the writing of ‘Unity Torah Scrolls’ in which Jews all over the world are encouraged to participate, bringing blessings to themselves and to all of humanity.
Every individual letter is indispensable to the Torah as a whole. Even the lack of a single letter renders the Torah incomplete and invalid. Our Sages teach that each letter represents one, single Jew. Accordingly, the letters of Torah express the fact that each and every human being is everything to G-d, and each one of us contributes indispensably to the completeness of humanity.
Chabad of Montreal is reaching out to each and every member of our broader community to participate in one of these unique Torah’s by ‘purchasing’ - for any amount you choose - a letter for each member of the family.
We implore the Al-mighty to end this pandemic as quickly as it came, to grant healing to all who are in need and to fulfill His promises and assurance of a world perfected and redeemed with the coming of Moshiach without delay, Amen!
With best wishes for a healthy happy and kosher Pesach,
Rabbi New
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Montreal Torah Center 28 Cleve Road Hampstead, QC H3X 1A6
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).
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
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Montreal Torah Center 28 Cleve Road Hampstead, QC H3X 1A6
Being quarantined in your home doesn’t mean you are alone G-d forbid. We are here for you in whatever way we can. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
Please click the image below for my personal message to you.
With Hashem’s help we will see each other very soon with happy hearts and under happy circumstances!
Rabbi New rabbinew@themtc.com
Itchy itchy@themtc.com
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Montreal Torah Center 28 Cleve Road Hampstead, QC H3X 1A6
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.
My morning Chassidus class and daily story, as well as Rabbi Levi’s daily Talmud class (for beginners as well as those a bit more advanced) are uploaded daily to YouTube.com/MontrealTorahCenterPlease take a moment to explore the channel for an archive of lectures, classes and playlists on a variety of topics.
Follow us on FaceBook.com/MontrealTorahCenter where we’ll be going live from time to time with classes, including Rabbi Levi’s Monday night Haggadah class at 8:30.
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Please note, G’w, we will send a separate email tomorrow or Friday regarding how to maintain this sense of community even (and especially) on Shabbos.
With prayerful wishes for the well-being of everyone and that Hashem accept with favour our efforts and transform all darkness into light with the coming of Moshiach without delay, Omein!
Please be advised that in view of the current situation, until further notice, MTC is suspending prayer services and the building will be closed.
We turn to you please consider volunteering to help those in particular need during these unprecedented challenging times:
Together with our partner organization The Family Store (TFS), which provides subsidized food to over 3500 members of our community who are in need, we have identified over 70 elderly men and women, among them survivors and the infirm, that need help in procuring adequate food supplies.
Please consider dedicating two hours a week to:
Contact one of the aforementioned each week to ascertain their particular food requirements.
Prepare their food packages in the sanitized premises of the Family Store.
Deliver the package to their home.
To volunteer, please email Rabby Getzy at getzy@themtc.com.
Dear friends, we hope that we will quickly receive at least 70 responses, so that these 70 individuals will be adequately cared for. Upon the success of this project we would like to expand this service to the wider community.
We pray that, without delay, we merit the fulfillment of the Divine promise "I shall remove all illness from within your midst" in a world perfected and redeemed.
On behalf of our colleagues Rabbi Yossi Kessler and Rabbi Getzy Markowitz of The Family Store/ TFS Young Leadership,
