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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.
The month of Elul is a personal and meaningful gift from G-d, a once in a year opportunity to mindfully reset the rhythm of our daily lives as a preparation for the holy and festive days starting with Rosh Hashana.
Rosh Chodesh itself is a reminder that we are a resilient people, who mourn our sadnesses but look to the future with hope and joy for better times. Just as the moon will reach its full brightness, so too will we continue to celebrate miracles and joy in the tempo of our daily lives as individuals and as a people.
Our Sephardi Shule RCWC group invites you to their event this Tuesday evening to celebrate Rosh Chodesh with joy and purpose. The evening is dedicated to the brave soldiers of the IDF and Shin Bet who not only protect Israel, but ensure the deceased are returned to Israel for burial. They will also be remembering those who were recently murdered, with a memorial prayer. Am Israel Chai 💙 www.trybooking.com/CSKWI
To attend the BCOD RCWC, Perth RCWC or Frankston RCWC events in honour of Rosh Chodesh Elul please message us via facebook or contact us at rcwc.org.au/contact-us/.
We would like to invite you to attend a RCWC event and consider becoming an affiliate of the RCWC yourself. rcwc.org.au/projects/affiliates/ Elul is the month to subscribe or resubscribe for the new year 5784. We have lots of offers during this month and we would love to tell you more.
Chodesh Tov
May this month herald in goodness and sweetness
Shana Tova Ume’tuka
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The Full Moon of Joy
The full moon of Tu B’Av is fixed on the Jewish calendar as the greatest day of joy. Like every other month, Av begins with a potential of what quality the month uniquely represents, with the first sliver of the moon becoming visible on Rosh Chodesh.
Although the joy and luminance of the full moon of Av is yet to shine forth, it is greater than that of any of the other full moon festivals such as Pesach or Shavuot, perhaps due to the contrast with the dark and sad day of Tisha B’Av preceding it.
Soon, however, darkness will be replaced by the full moon of the 15th of Av as it has been marked from the beginning of time that on this day we will experience the “greatest light and joy of all”.
Let’s get a Glimmer
Find your own personal way to experience joy on this 15th of Av and to spread joy to others. Some suggestions:
1) Our Sephardi Shule RCWC group invites you to share in their joyous celebration of Rosh Chodesh Elul, marking the official beginning of the preparation for the High Holidays. See invite below and RSVP here. www.trybooking.com/CSKWI Check out some photos of their last event below.
2) Join the RCWC as an affiliate. If you’d like to subscribe or resubscribe for the upcoming Jewish year 5785, the time to make enquiries is now. Early bird specials apply in the month of Elul no matter when your starting date is. rcwc.org.au/projects/affiliates/
3) Join the Inner Circle and help plan and prepare the highlight Évent of the Year, the 6th annual Eshet Chayil event to take place between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. rcwc.org.au/projects/eshetchayil/, rcwc.org.au/projects/inner-circle/
Happy Tu B’Av
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Vision and Comfort
The Shabbat before Tisha B’Av is called Shabbat Chazon, Shabbat of Vision based on the opening line of the Haftorah read that week. For the same reason the Shabbat after Tisha B’Av is called Shabbat Nachamu.
Open our eyes - what do we see?
Do we see the chaos
Or do we see calm in alignment with truth
Do we see the darkness
Or the slivers of light breaking through
Do we see abandonment
Or do we see the miracles, open and revealed
When we envision a reality of unity, love, goodness and light, we feel the comfort during difficult times and we know that the full comfort will soon be upon us.
Amen.
The fast of Tisha B'Av begins in Melbourne on Monday at 5:42pm and ends on Tuesday at 6:11pm.
Sending our love and our vision of hope and comfort to our people in Israel and everywhere. We pray for the release of the hostages and for the protection, strength and healing of all the hostages and soldiers and we thank them and their families with all our hearts and soul.
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Rosh Chodesh Tammuz.
Today is the first day of Tammuz.
It was a month destined for greatness, but that dream was shattered when the Tablets of Sapphire were broken with the sinning of the golden calf.
The women then, as now, were strong of faith and wise of spirit and did not participate at that terrible moment but it was not enough to save the day.
Yet the dream remains strong that Tammuz will return to its destined glory, its hidden light will be revealed and the women will once again lead the way - speedily in our day!
RCWC News:
Our next RCWC event will take place this week in Perth in honour of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz. Message if you’d like more information.
Check out Perth’s Nissan event rcwc.org.au/events-blog/#perth-nissan
Happy Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 🌻
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Connecting through Candle Lighting
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ברוך אתה ה' ...
“Blessed are you Hashem, our G-d, King of the universe who sets free those that are captive”
Morning Blessings
As we prepare to receive the Torah 'with one heart', our heart overflows with joy thanks to Hashem for the miracle He has performed for us.
When we light our Erev Shavuot candles on Tuesday may we joyfully express our thanks, while beseeching Hashem for the release of the rest of the hostages, the safety of our soldiers, and our people, and for peace and healing.
We salute our courageous soldiers and mourn the loss of Commander Arnon Zamora HY'D.
Shavuot – the festival celebrating the everlasting gift of the Torah, a gift which unites us as a unique people. Every man, woman and child attends Shule and listens with heart and soul to the Ten Commandments – for this is what gives you truth and purpose and unites you with every other Jew. May we all join together as one to receive the Torah with joy and internalise its values for a lasting impact on our lives - bringing us into an era of peace and harmony.
Chag Same’ach 🌼💐🌼
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