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Pesach Times

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ALL SERVICES AT NEFESH POP-UP  1 FRANCIS ST BONDI BEACH (OFF CAMPBELL PDE, BEHIND NOAH'S BACKPACKERS)     PESACH TIMES  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EREV PESACH| Friday, 30 March 2018 | 14 Nissan (Public Holiday) Shacharis ................................................................ 7:00am  Followed by Siyum for Fast of the Firstborn Eat Chometz until ................................................... 11:00am Burn and sell before ................................................ 11:59am Candle Lighting ........................................................ 6:35pm Mincha ................................................................... 5:45pm Pesach/Shabbos Evening Service ................................ 6:00-6:50pm *Kiddush should only be made .................................. from 7:19pm   PESACH, DAY 1 Shabbos, 31 March 2018 | 15 Nissan Morning Service ........................................................ 10:00am - 12:45pm Children's Program .................................................... 11:00am Priestly Blessing ....................................................... 12:30pm Mincha ..................................................................... 6:30pm Earliest Candle Lighting 7:29pm - No second Seder preparations before this time. Evening Service ........................................................ 7:00-7:30pm Begin counting the Omer    PESACH, DAY 2  Sunday, 1 April 2018 | 16 Nissan (*DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ENDS* ALL TIMES BELOW ARE ACCORDING TO THE NEW WINTER CLOCK, SO YOU GET AN EXTRA HOUR'S SLEEP!) Morning Service ....................................................... 10:00 am - 12:45pm Children's Program ................................................... 11:00am Priestly Blessing ...................................................... 12:30pm Mincha followed by words of Torah.............................. 5:30pm  Yom Tov ends and Maariv .......................................... 6:28pm    CHOL HAMOED SHACHRIS Monday (Public Holiday) 2 April -................................... 8:00am Tuesday-Thursday, 3-5 April 2018 - ............................. 7:00am   EREV YOM TOV Thursday, 5 April 2018 | 20 Nissan Eruv Tavshilin Candle Lighting ........................................................... 5:27pm  Mincha ....................................................................... 5:40pm Pesach Evening Service ................................................ 6:00-6:30pm SHEVII SHEL PESACH (DAY 7)  Friday, 6 April 2018 | 21 Nissan Pesach Morning Service ............................................ 10:00am - 12:45pm Children's Program .................................................. 11:00am Priestly Blessing ...................................................... 12:30pm Candle Lighting not before .......................................... 5:26pm Mincha ..................................................................... 5:40pm Shabbos/Yom Tov Evening Service .............................. 6:00-6:50pm   ACHARON SHEL PESACH (DAY 8) Shabbos, 7 April 2018 | 22 Nissan Pesach Morning Service ............................................ 10:00am - 12:45pm Children's Program .................................................. 11:00am Yizkor Memorial Service ........................................... 11:30am Priestly Blessing ..................................................... 12:45pm Mincha ....................................................................4:45pm   Seudas Moshiach  Yom Tov ends and Maariv ....................................... 6:20pm Please allow half an hour before eating chometz that was sold. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Gilda Cohen-Shapira.... 15 Nissan/ Saturday 31 March Asher Rosenberg............... 17 Nissan/ Monday 2 April Bluma Moss................. 19 Nissan/ Wednesday 4 April

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Why Is Seder Night Always a Full Moon?

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SELL YOUR CHOMETZ - www.nefesh.org.au/chometz - by Thursday 29 March  Pesach times below Question of the Week:    I am very connected to the zodiac and was wondering if there is a link between the stars and the timing of Pesach. I have also noticed that the Seder always coincides with the full moon. What is the significance of all this?   Answer:   There is deep astrological significance to the date of Pesach. We celebrate the festival of freedom on the night of the 15th of Nissan in the Hebrew calendar, the night the Israelites were freed from Egypt. This is the full moon of the month of Aries, the ram.   The Egyptians worshipped the ram as a god. Aries is the leader of the star signs, the first and most powerful, and the Egyptians saw themselves as the leaders of the world, receiving their strength and fortitude from their god, the ram.   So the strongest time for the Egyptians would have been the month of Aries, when their god is ascendant. And the strongest day on that month would be its full moon. Egyptian power would reach its zenith on the 15th of Nissan.   And that is exactly when the Israelites left Egypt. Aries was rendered impotent at its very moment of strength.   But there's more. The Israelites ate a festive meal on the night before the exodus, and the main course was a lamb roasted on a spit. They were eating the Egyptian deity, the ram, under the full moon of the month of the ram, in the eyes of all Egypt, and they got away with it.   The message is unmistakable. The world is not run by capricious forces and amoral star signs. There is a G-d who rules heaven and earth, who cares for the innocent and exacts justice from the corrupt. To the stars, our actions make no difference. To G-d, our actions do matter.  The zodiac demands nothing from us. G-d demands we live a life of goodness.   The Jews themselves didn't always get this message. After the exodus, some in the Israelite camp suggested that while the ram of Egypt (Aries) had indeed been trumped, it was not G-d's doing, but rather the next star sign, Taurus, the bull who had beaten Aries. And so they made an idol honouring Taurus, known as the Golden Calf. It's very tempting to fall back on idolatrous beliefs, because they relieve us of responsibility. But they also rob us of our freedom.   Pesach is a celebration not only of freedom of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, but also freedom from being bound by destiny. Our lives are not subject to the impersonal forces of the zodiac. We are free to rise above the limitations of fate and conquer our birth sign. Your fortunes may predict one course for your life. You are free to create another. This idea was brought home on the night of the full moon of Aries.   Good Shabbos and a Happy and Kosher Pesach, Rabbi Moss   To subscribe CLICK HERE or email rabbimoss@nefesh.com.au PESACH VIDEO CLASSES: The Kabbalistic MaNishtana The Magic Number of the Seder  CLICK HERE TO BOOK ONLINE     Good Afternoon everyone, We have spent some time this week fine-tuning the final layout of the Shule and are awaiting some responses from other consultants. As soon as we have the plans finalised, we will proceed, until then, we will continue planning in advance for other important parts of the build coming up when we get out of the ground. Until then, we can enjoy the view with this interesting weekly photo, can you spot the Shul? Have a great weekend. Brent.

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Evening Service ........................................................ 7:00-7:30pm Begin counting the Omer    PESACH, DAY 2  Sunday, 1 April 2018 | 16 Nissan (*DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ENDS* ALL TIMES BELOW ARE ACCORDING TO THE NEW WINTER CLOCK, SO YOU GET AN EXTRA HOUR'S SLEEP!) Morning Service ....................................................... 10:00 am - 12:45pm Children's Program ................................................... 11:00am Priestly Blessing ...................................................... 12:30pm Mincha followed by words of Torah.............................. 5:30pm  Yom Tov ends and Maariv .......................................... 6:28pm    CHOL HAMOED SHACHRIS Monday (Public Holiday) 2 April -................................... 8:00am Tuesday-Thursday, 3-5 April 2018 - ............................. 7:00am   EREV YOM TOV Thursday, 5 April 2018 | 20 Nissan Eruv Tavshilin Candle Lighting ........................................................... 5:27pm  Mincha ....................................................................... 5:40pm Pesach Evening Service ................................................ 6:00-6:30pm SHEVII SHEL PESACH (DAY 7)  Friday, 6 April 2018 | 21 Nissan Pesach Morning Service ............................................ 10:00am - 12:45pm Children's Program .................................................. 11:00am Priestly Blessing ...................................................... 12:30pm Candle Lighting not before .......................................... 5:26pm Mincha ..................................................................... 5:40pm Shabbos/Yom Tov Evening Service .............................. 6:00-6:50pm   ACHARON SHEL PESACH (DAY 8) Shabbos, 7 April 2018 | 22 Nissan Pesach Morning Service ............................................ 10:00am - 12:45pm Children's Program .................................................. 11:00am Yizkor Memorial Service ........................................... 11:30am Priestly Blessing ..................................................... 12:45pm Mincha ....................................................................4:45pm   Seudas Moshiach  Yom Tov ends and Maariv ....................................... 6:20pm Please allow half an hour before eating chometz that was sold.

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A Seder Conspiracy Theory

Infertility Awareness Shabbat

Question of the Week: Whoever wrote the Haggadah seems to have made a major mistake. The name of Moses does not appear in the entire Haggadah! How could the main man of the Exodus who confronted Pharaoh, brought down the plagues, and led his people out of slavery be completely left out of the story? It would be like doing Macbeth without Macbeth, or Star Wars without Luke Skywalker. I have a conspiracy theory: This was no mistake. The Haggadah was written by an anti-Moses faction who tried to write him out of history. That way they would take over the priesthood and control the Temple. Like it? Answer: That's a fantastic conspiracy theory. Really fantastic. But the question is a good one. Moses' absence from the Haggadah is indeed a mystery. To solve it we need to examine the evidence and figure out who wrote the Haggadah. There is one prime suspect. Here are the clues: 1. There is a biblical command to tell your children the story of the exodus every year on the night of Pesach 2. The Haggadah was written as a basis to tell the story 3. The first time a Haggadah would have been needed was the year after the exodus 4. One year after the exodus, the children themselves didn't need to hear the story, as they were there! 5. There was only one family whose children were not present at the exodus, and so needed to hear the story 6. It would seem that the first Haggadah would have been made by this family So whose family was it? Who was the only Israelite who himself experienced the exodus, but his children did not? It was none other than Moses himself. Moses' wife and children were not in Egypt and did not experience the exodus first hand. Moses married Tzipora and had two sons in her homeland of Midyan. When Moses returned to Egypt to free his people, his family remained in Midyan, and only joined the Israelites in the desert after the exodus. So the only person who needed a Haggadah that first year to tell his kids the exodus story was Moses. He wrote the first ever Haggadah. And being the most humble man on the face of the earth, Moses left himself out of the story. He understood that he was no more than an instrument of G-d. He took no credit for the exodus. This is one of the reasons Moses always carried a stick. He was saying, just like the stick has no power of its own other than what the holder bestows upon it, so too I am just a tool in G-d's hands. It is not I that brought the miracles, it is not I that took you out of Egypt, it is G-d Almighty. There's no conspiracy here. Just a powerful lesson. We learn from Moses what humility really means. You can be a leader who changes the course of history and still be humble. When you don't take credit for yourself, when you don't need your name mentioned, you have the infinite power of G-d behind you. Humility does not contradict greatness. It is its secret. Good Shabbos, Rabbi Moss Source: R' Yissachar Dov of Belz Notes: - In fact, Moses is mentioned once in the Haggadah. But not as part of the story, just in passing in a verse: "The people believed in G-d and in Moses His servant." - The Haggadah we have today has many later additions from the talmudic sages. The suggestion is that the kernel of the Haggadah was first composed by Moses, and all later additions left Moses out, as he himself did, to convey the message that it was G-d alone who took us out of Egypt.   To subscribe CLICK HERE or email rabbimoss@nefesh.com.au   VIDEO The Magic Number of the Seder     Good morning everyone, Excavation is now complete! Time to move on to preparation for footings. Speak next week again Shabbat shalom Brent

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