Our latest project: The Inner Circle
A core group of women from all sectors of the community, aligned with the vision of the RCWC.
Events: What’s on at the RCWC
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Shabbat times forMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Our Eshet Chayil Project honours our late mothers or grandmothers
View our Eshet Chayil events and find out how you can honour your mother at the RCWC.
Discovering Miriam
Yesterday evening we discovered the ‘Miriam’ within us. What a powerful evening it was! Who would have thought just two weeks before Pesach more than 60 women would be feeling so relaxed, so nurtured and so empowered. Well, it is a Rosh Chodesh Women’s Circle event after all and the possibilities are endless. Women of different ages and from different communities connected with each other and we all had a great time. More in our upcoming newsletter.
Connecting through Candle Lighting
The meditations every week before candle lighting via our broadcast have become a part of many women’s and girls’ candle lighting experience. Every year on the third day of Nissan we change the focus of the broadcast. rcwc.org.au/projects/candlelighting/
What will it be this year? Subscribe to our broadcast api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=+61401612075&text=subscribe for our next year of meaningful broadcasts.
This Erev shabbat candle lighting time is: 7:08pm
Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov
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On Wednesday
A unique and meaningful event for Jewish women of all ages, stages and backgrounds.
All welcome.
The best way to book now is by WhatsApp: 0401 612 075
For more about the event check out our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/b60fb47191d5/discovery-presenters
The Team at the RCWC
A SPECIAL EVENT FOR WOMEN
You are invited to join us to celebrate Rosh Chodesh Nissan
The Jewish Woman: A Journey of Discovery
An inspirational journey of self-discovery through our Jewish heroines
With Hadassa Naparstek, Miriam Suss, Miriam Segal, and Miriam Pacanowski
Wednesday, March 22, arrive at 7:30pm for a 7:45 start.
We look forward to welcoming you.
To find out more check out our newsletter: mailchi.mp/4a68e4de175d/discovery-event1
CONNECTING through CANDLE LIGHTING
Shabbat Parshat Hachodesh: A special reading is read at Shule announcing the importance of the month of Nissan, as a first for the counting on the months as well as the Mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh which is so special for women.
Shabbat Mevorchim Hachodesh: We bless the new month of Nissan.
Rosh Chodesh is on Thursday, March 23.
Double Portion: Vayakhel-Pikudei is read
Shabbat Chazak: A Shabbat of strengthening. The Book of Shemot is completed with the reading of the final portion. The community rises and says together: Chazak Chazak Venitchazek - Be strong, be strong, let us strengthen each other with Torah.
Candle Lighting in Melbourne this week: 7:19pm
A Meditation for Candle Lighting
Shabbat
The focus shifts
Ever so slightly
A sacred space
Where the mind, body and spirit
Become aligned
Nourished and whole
At peace, as one
Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov
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The Joy within the JOurneY
The story of Purim reveals that which was concealed. That Hashem supervises us directly and everything is guided from Above. Joy fills our souls once this becomes clear to us and it is the month of Adar that is conducive to this type of joy.
Tap into the Adar joy and allow yourself to trust that the journey of life is a process of revealing the goodness which may be concealed and revealing it for all to enjoy.
This trust will permeate your days with miraculous moments and cause an increase in joy from day to day.
You will begin to see the JOY within the JOurneY and feel the joy increase in all areas of your life.
At the Rosh Chodesh Women’s Circle, we celebrate Rosh Chodesh with joy as we connect, nurture and empower each other as we journey through life. Our new project, ‘The Jewish Woman: A Journey of Discovery’, takes us to a new level of joyful journeying. We will meet extraordinary women from our past as well as present day contemporaries. Read the flyer below and note the date in your calendar for our Rosh Chodesh Nissan special event.
To receive updates about this event and other RCWC happenings subscribe to our newsletter eepurl.com/dAN-S9. You can also check out events.humanitix.com/discovery1 for more details and to register.
We wish you a joyful Rosh Chodesh Adar on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 21 and 22, as we welcome the happy month of Adar.
Happy Rosh Chodesh Shvat
It is during this month that we celebrate Tu B'Shvat, the New Year for Trees, which motivates a sense of appreciation for the land of Israel, its produce, and all that Hashem provides in the world we live in.
On the 11th day of Shvat in 1951, upon assuming the mantle of leadership, the Lubavitcher Rebbe expounded on the Chassidic teaching that the world is a beautiful garden for which we have been given the tools to cultivate and create harmony and beauty in partnership with Hashem, a garden in which He will feel most ‘comfortable’ to dwell in together with us.
Viewing the world as a garden lifts our spirits and gives us hope that we can reveal the good and the beauty in the world for all to see and enjoy.
What an interesting perspective from Aish HaTorah on Women’s Leadership, the New Moon and Tu B’Shvat. Written by Dina Coopersmith. www.printfriendly.com/p/g/bd2MiW
Rosh Chodesh Shvat is on Monday, 23 January.
Chodesh Tov!
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