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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.
ESHET CHAYIL EVENT
Register at events.humanitix.com/ec5 for our fifth annual Eshet Chayil event. Registration remains open until Sunday, September 24 or when we’ve reached our guest limit.
For full program details, see mailchi.mp/1ec9175edb67/eshet-chayil-program
CONNECTING through CANDLE LIGHTING
Candle Lighting in Melbourne for Erev Shabbat September 22 is at 5:58pm
Candle Lighting in Melbourne for Erem Yom Kippur, September 24 is at 6:00pm
For the Yom Kippur candle lighting blessings: mailchi.mp/1ec9175edb67/eshet-chayil-program
🌺 Shabbat Shalom and a meaningful Yom Kippur. An easy fast. May all your prayers bring an abundance of blessings for the year ahead.
G’mar Chatima Tova
From the team at the RCWC
🌷 ESHET CHAYIL EVENT
Join us for an incredibly meaningful evening on the day after Yom Kippur, Tuesday September 26. Inspiring program with beautiful supper. In a private venue. Register for location: events.humanitix.com/ec5
💐 WEDNESDAY WELCOME
We welcome new affiliates on a Wednesday. Special offers apply until after the chagim. rcwc.org.au/events-blog/#wednesday
🌅 CONNECTING through CANDLE LIGHTING
Lighting times attached. Click the following link for blessings. www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4836/jewish/Rosh-Hashanah-Candle-Lighting.htm
RETURNING by Moussia Antian
The year came
It’s almost done
Have I grown?
Have I seen past the baggage
To notice the sun?
Did I discover better ways
To be my best me?
Did my relationships improve
With friends and family?
Did I welcome a new soul
Into my space?
Did I become a bigger person
Through the difficulties I did face?
And even if I fell
To my pleasures and wills
I believe there is success as I smile
And once again climb that hill
Even if I assumed
My constricting debilitating beliefs
Are worth listening to
Deep down I know what is really true
The Shofar will be blown
On Rosh Hashana day
That means we will tell Hashem
To creation we say AMEN
We will validate this world
For the garden it can be
Treasures found among the tangled weeds
Reveal Divine love, opening our eyes to see
So as Rosh Hashanah comes close
Accept the Shofar’s call
As it welcomes you back
With the blessings it invokes
🌸Shabbat Shalom Shana Tova Umetuka
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ESHET CHAYIL INVITE
Our fifth annual Eshet Chayil event will take place the day after Yom Kippur, Tuesday 26th September. Arrive at 7:30 for a punctual 7:45 start.
Women of the community are most welcome to attend. For more: Message us or click: mailchi.mp/ec3db467dadf/eshet-chayil
CONNECTING through CANDLE LIGHTING
On this, the Shabbat before the new month of Tishrei, in lieu of our traditional blessing for the month, Hashem Himself blesses the month.
With our candle lighting, may we usher in a month and a year filled with G-d’s blessings.
Candle lighting time for Melbourne this week: 🕯️5:46pm
🌸 Shabbat Shalom, Chodesh Tov and Shana Tova 🍏🍯
From the team at the RCWC.
The Wednesday Welcome
Today is Wednesday!
Every Wednesday until after Sukkot RCWC welcomes expressions of interest from new affiliates for the year 5784 (2023-24). Special offers apply. rcwc.org.au/projects/affiliates/
THE WEDNESDAY WELCOME
Our Perth affiliate is leading the way in welcoming new affiliates to the RCWC. The attached photos tell the story of their grand finale Elul event. Our Perth program leader Hinda Katzel put together a beautiful video about the RCWC, with which we are now launching ‘The Wednesday Welcome.’ vimeo.com/858981579/a91f32017d
For the next four upcoming Wednesdays the RCWC will be welcoming new affiliates with special offers for the year 5784, 2023 - 24. Any group can become an affiliate.
We have set aside Wednesday 6 September, Wednesday 13 September, Wednesday 20 September, and Wednesday 27 September as Wednesday Welcomes for potential affiliates. If you feel you may be interested in starting a group, message us here or email info@rcwc.org.au and we will get back to you with our special offers for the coming year. All offers are conditional to subscribing by Wednesday 27 September. Read more about affiliates here rcwc.org.au/projects/affiliates/
NEWSLETTER
A special edition newsletter will be sent to your inbox next week with: ~Eshet Chayil invite, ~Article by Elissa Blaser, ~Poem by Moussia Antian, and more about joining the RCWC as an Affiliate. If you do not receive our newsletters subscribe here: eepurl.com/dAN-S9
CONNECTING through CANDLE LIGHTING
'... and I have found nothing better for a person than silence.' - Pirkei Avot 1:17
Speech is an incredible gift to be used sensitively to validate, to connect, to express, to teach, to reveal beauty or truth or call out injustice.
But like anything powerful, it can do the opposite.
Knowing when to share and when to sit back and listen is a skill that benefits everyone.
Question: How can I be even more careful in my speech in these days leading up to Rosh Hashana?
Based on Dee Family Pirkei Avot project. Full lesson here: rcwc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/TDPAP-1.17.pdf
Light Candles this Friday at 5:40pm
Shabbat Shalom🌷Shana Tova
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