Additional Prayers:
Prayer for the new month of ELLUL (page 424/383)
Special Event:
Barmitzvah-JAKE CASS
Shabbat Ends:
8.41pm
Thought for the week
This Shabbat we bless the incoming month of Elul, the final month in a Jewish calendar year. This final month reminds us that Rosh Hashanah is now just a matter of days away. Throughout the millennia, it has been clearly established that this month has a totally different feel to it. They call it the 'wind of Elul blowing', as that familiar intensity of preparation for the High Holydays takes on added urgency.
When the physical weather changes and the warm days of summer recede, we dust off our sweaters and coats in anticipation of their use. It is no less important in Elul to brush up on our observance and performance of Judaism. As we get ready for our annual rendezvous, appointment and check-up with G-d, we should put ourselves in the correct mindset by adjusting our priorities accordingly. RABBI MENDEL LEW
Who's Who?
RABBI ANDREW SHAW will address the Barmitzvah
REV STANLEY MICHAELS will lead the service
BERNARD REDHOUSE will lead Pesukei DeZimra
Dr PETER KRAUS will lein the Sedra
Our Barmitzvah JAKE CASS will lein Shishi and Shevii, read the Maftir and Haftarah and lead Anim Zemirot
Hospitality (upstairs): ESTHER BEHRMAN
Hospitality (downstairs): ALAN KROL
This Week’s Presiding Warden: JULIAN SYNETT
SHACHARIT - Main Shul 9.00am
Youth Service 9.30am
Intermediate Service 10.30 Children's Service 10.30am Toddlers' Service 11.00am
MINCHA (omit Tzidkatcha Tzedek) at 7.41pm
to be followed by RABBI ANDREW SHAW'S Shiur.
MA'ARIV at the termination of Shabbat at 8.41pm
RACHEL and STEWART CASS on the occasion of the Barmitzvah of their son
JAKE together with the FAMILIES OF THE GAP YEAR STUDENTS have pleasure
in inviting the congregation to Kiddush in the Freeman Susman Hall following the service.
Sunday - Rosh Chodesh - Shacharit at 8.15am.
Mincha and Maariv at 7.30pm.
Monday - Rosh Chodesh - Shacharit at 7.00am
and commence the blowing of the Shofar and recitation of Psalm 27
Tuesday - Friday - Shacharit at 7.15am
Monday - Thursday - Mincha and Maariv at 7.30pm
Next Friday, Shabbat commences at 7.24am
and service in Shul will be at 7.30pm.
Social and Personal
We wish Mazaltov to:
Jake Cass on the occasion of his Barmitzvah and to his parents
Rachel and Stewart Cass, sister Gemma and brother Sam.
Mazaltov also to grandparents Audrey Cass and Sheila and Peter Lewis.
Valerie and Stephen Alexander on the birth of a grandson,
a son for Deborah and Nicholas Alexander.
Mazaltov also to grandparents Linda and Harry Zeitlin and great grandmother Esme Diner.
We wish “Hatzlacha Rabba”
to the following students who will be spending a gap year in Israel:
Alistair de Kare-Silver who will be studying in Yeshivah and Ilana Angel, Bianca Foux, Alice Goldberg, Tamara Grossmark, Hayley Marks, Joanna Moses, Daniel Stanton, Aimee and Oliver Tenzer who will be on the FZY Year Course.
We offer our sincere condolences to:
Valerie Hames on the loss of her sister Gloria Silver. Shiva terminated.
We wish 'Long Life' on the consecration of Memorial Stones to:
The family of the late Estelle Cozens on Sunday 31 August at 4.30pm at Bushey cemetery.
Ivor Kaye for his wife Jacqueline Kaye on Wednesday 3 September at 4.00pm at Bushey cemetery.
The following consecrations will take place the week beginning Sunday 7 September:
Lewis Emanuel (father of Linda Gill)
Keith Margarette (father of Diane Rogoff)
Samuel Olaff (father of Leslie Olaff)
Hetty Simmons (mother of Ruth Jacobs)
Letter from the BOD
Please click here to read the special letter from the Board of Deputies regarding the Communal Levy.
Please inform the shul office if your child
is going to Israel for a gap year.
Would you like to read a Haftarah on Shabbat or Yom Tov?
If you need help in perfecting your skills, please contact the Honorary Executive
Members should note that the Burial Society office is now located at Bushey.
The telephone number is 020 8950 7767.
PLEASE NOTE THAT UNWANTED RELIGIOUS BOOKS CAN NO LONGER BE BROUGHT TO THE SYNAGOGUE BUILDING.
PLEASE BE KIND ENOUGH TO PHONE BUSHEY CEMETERY TO ARRANGE FOR DISPOSAL.
Our website service "Ask the Rabbi" is a message board where you can post a question that will require a BRIEF answer from Rabbi Mendel Lew.
As it is a message board you will also be able to see other questions and answers - so please visit regularly.
Rabbi Mendel Lew is now replying to previously posted questions - please click the link above to read his answers.
On Shabbat 2nd April 2005, at the conclusion of the service, Stanmore members gave a presentation of their personal reflections on their recent pilgrimage to Auschwitz. This presentation, entitled "60 Thoughts for 60 Years" can be viewed, together with photographs and a five minute video, on the Community Department page.
Communal Diary
Rabbi Mendel and Rebbetzen Rivkie Lew are on holiday
- returning on Monday 1st September.
Chazan Henry and Sally Black are on holiday.
Scouts, Cubs, Beavers, Guides, Brownies, Rainbows, FZY, JLGB, Art
Class, Craft Class, Keep Fit, Israeli Dancing and Ivrit - check with leaders
Rabbi Melvyn Bloom's Shiur - recommences on 8 September
Friendship Club - Tuesday at 12.30pm
J.A.C.S. - Wednesday at 1.30pm
All members of the community are invited to attend an Open Meeting
on Tuesday 9 September at 8.30pm in the Freeman Susman Hall.
An opportunity for you to ask any questions you may have about the Eruv Project
to Rabbi Mendel Lew, the Eruv Committee and the Honorary Executive.
AJEX, in conjunction with the Jewish Culture & Heritage 2008 programme invite
you to visit the Jewish Military Museum in Shield House, Harmony Way, Hendon on
a Sunday 7 September from 10.30am to 4.30pm. Due to strict security maintained
at Shield House visitors are kindly requested to book a time-slot by phoning 020
8202 2322 by Thursday 4 September.
Transport to and from Bushey cemetery for visits during Ellul. A mini bus
will leave Stanmore Station on Sunday 21 and Sunday 28 September at 9.30am,
10.00am, 10.40am, 11.20am, 12noon, 1.40pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm. Please see notice
board for times of return journeys.
HaCheder — Applications for the September term are now welcome. For a registration form or further details please contact the HaCheder Administrator — Carole on 8954 0919.
TLC and LSJS present the ELLUL EXPERIENCE
on Tuesday 16 & 23 September 2008 8-10pm at Stanmore Synagogue.
Week 1: Tuesday 16 September
Session A: 8.00-8.50pm
Dr Raphael Zarum - How to make the key prayers of Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur come alive…
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz - In depth study of the Akeidah (binding of Isaac) and the book of Jonah
Maureen Kendler - The Power of Silence in Jewish Thought and Literature
Session B 9.10-10.00pm
Dr Raphael Zarum - Our journey from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur: What can really happen in 10 days?
Simon Cooper - Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's Philosophy of Repentance
Maureen Kendler -The Greatest Stories of Yom Kippur NEVER told
Week 2: Tuesday 23 September
Session A: 8.00-8.50pm
Dr Raphael Zarum - How to make the key prayers of Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur come alive…
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz - In depth study of the Akeidah (binding of Isaac) and the book of Jonah
Rabbi Shaw -can we really change? If not, what is the point of these holy days?
Session B 9.10-10.00pm
Rabbi Lew - Tuning in to the Tefillah
Simon Cooper - Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's Philosophy of Repentance
Maureen Kendler - The Greatest Stories of Yom Kippur NEVER told
For further information and bookings please phone Sara on 07857 855358
At a Board Meeting on Monday 7 July the Honorary Executive and Board of Management voted that the throwing of sweets in Shul on Shabbat morning should cease.
There is a lift adjacent to the Freeman Susman Hall staircase.
It will work on Sunday and weekdays.
On Shabbat and Yom Tov the lift will operate on automatic shabbat mode.
However please note:
The lift is ONLY for the use of disabled people and the elderly
The maximum capacity is two people at a time
When in automatic mode the lift must be allowed to operate without assistance - the door will open and close very slowly and must not be pushed or pulled as this will damage the mechanism.
Stanmore Synagogue Community Care offers support to the members of the community in all sorts of ways. If you need help in any way whatsoever please contact us on 8954 3300 in total confidence.
If you know anyone who is ill or housebound please contact
Stanmore Synagogue Community Care on 8954 3300
MALE CONGREGANTS ARE REMINDED THAT THE MEHITZA IS IN PLACE AT THE BACK OF THE SHUL DOWNSTAIRS. THEY ARE RESPECTFULLY ASKED NOT TO OCCUPY THE SEATS BEHIND THE MEHITZA AS THEY ARE RESERVED FOR THE USE OF WOMEN FOR ALL SERVICES EXCEPT ON YOMIM NORAIM.
Please inform the Shul office if you wish the name of a relative or friend to be included in the Prayer for the Sick recited on Shabbat morning.
Mazaltov on your Barmitzvah JAKE
Lots of Love Mum, Dad, Gemma and Sam
The loudspeaker system is not in use on Shabbat/Yom Tov.
The shul loop system for the hard of hearing is in use,
for halachic details please see the notice board.
If you notice that a member has not been attending Shul for a few weeks, please inform the Wardens in order that they can make contact.
If you are a first time visitor and would like to be informed regularly of our updates, then please contact us at: info@sacps.org.uk
