A Special Erev Shabbat Service of Peace & Healing led by Rabbi Leib & Cantor Zarkh with our Volunteer Choir *Molish Sanctuary & Livestream *Please note the change in location and Livestream We will have additional security at tonight's service.
Dear Friends,
This has arguably been the most traumatic, horrifying and difficult week for world Jewry since the founding of the State of Israel over 75 years ago.
We are all in a state of collective grief and shock trying to come to terms with the unconscionable inhumanity, the inexcusable evil wrought by barbaric Hamas terrorists on completely innocent Israeli citizens and the wanton destruction of their property.
Last Saturday October 7th, 2023 - Simchat Torah no less - will invariably go down as a day of infamy in the long history of the Jewish people. A day that saw the massacre, the slaughter, the capture of more Jewish lives - men, women and children - than at any time since the Shoah, the Nazi Holocaust.
We’ve attended hastily-arranged Israel Solidarity rallies and prayer vigils. We’ve been glued to our TV and social media trying to comprehend the incomprehensible.
But now Shabbat is about to descend upon us. A sabbath that we can only hope and pray will be decidedly different to the last.
An opportunity not to rally the troops and vent our fury but a time to gather together, to reflect, to hold one another in the warm, comforting embrace of Sabbath peace.
We invite you to join us and the volunteer choir - and supportive members of our community - in the Molish Sanctuary at 7:00pm tonight for a service dedicated to peace and healing.
AM YISRAEL CHAI!
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Robert Leib and Cantor Elena Zarkh
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