Rabbi Moss: What's More Contagious than COVID-19?

CORONAVIRUS ADVICE FOR NEFESH COMMUNITY

(the following applies to Sydney at the moment)

Use common sense and follow medical advice from official sources, without losing perspective. Panic and hysteria are not helpful.
If you are healthy you should continue attending Synagogue as usual, ensuring proper hygiene by washing hands regularly with soap and/or hand sanitizer, which is provided at the shul entrance and in the bathrooms.
If you are experiencing symptoms of the COVID-19 virus you should not attend Synagogue and should seek medical advice. Details of the symptoms and other relevant information can be found at - https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov
If you have recently travelled or have had contact with someone with the COVID-19 virus, please seek medical advice before attending synagogue
The elderly or those with compromised immune systems should avoid crowds
Following advice of health authorities, we will avoid hand shaking and direct contact between people
Kiddush food will be served by gloved volunteers
Please cover your mouth when coughing or sneezing with a tissue or your arm
IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS VULNERABLE OR ALONE, REACH OUT TO THEM AND OFFER SUPPORT. IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS QUARANTINED, CALL THEM AND BE A FRIEND.

Question of the Week:

This coronavirus thing has really thrown me. I feel like I've lost all sense of certainty. No one knows what will happen next. How do we stay sane when we don't know what's lurking around the corner?

Answer:

It is not that we have lost our sense of certainty. We have lost our illusion of certainty. We never had it to begin with. This could be majorly unsettling, or amazingly liberating.

This tiny virus of 125 nanometres* has sent the entire world into chaos. All of our plans are up in the air, markets are going crazy, entire countries shutting down, and we have no clue what the future holds.

But that is always the case. We never know what the future holds. We only think we do, and keep getting surprised when things don't pan out the way we expected. Now the mask is off. We have to admit our vulnerability.

What will happen next? We don't know. Our experts don't know. Our leaders don't know. Only G-d knows. And that is the point. Only G-d knows.

Close your eyes and feel the uncertainty, make peace with it, let yourself be taken by it. Embrace your cluelessness. Because in all the confusion there is one thing you know for sure. You are in G-d's hands.

Keep calm. Panic and fear are also contagious. Take every precaution as advised by health authorities. Wash your hands well. And every time you do, remember whose hands you are in.

Good Shabbos

Rabbi Moss

*A nanometre is one billionth of a metre.

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SHABBOS SERVICES & COMMUNITY INFORMATION: KI SISA

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Friday, 13 March| 17 Adar 5780

Candle Lighting.......... 6:58pm (not before 6:02pm)

Shabbos Service ........ 6:30-7:20pm

Followed by Kiddush sponsored in memory for the yortzheit of Israel Ben Dovid A"H, also known as Emil Ehrenreich.

Shabbos Day, 14 March 2020 | 18 Adar 5780

Morning Meditation....................... 9:00am

Shabbos Service......................... 10:00am-12:20pm

Kids Program............................. 10:30am

STORY TIME for children ages 3-10 with Rabbi Sufrin..... 11:45am

Followed by Kiddush sponsored anonymously by a friend of Nefesh.

Shabbos Shiur with Nechama Dina............. 5:00pm

Shiur with Rabbi Sufrin............................. 5:50pm

Mincha followed by Seudah Shlishis ............6:50pm

Gematria and Story with Rev Amzalak......... 7:20pm

Shiur with Rabbi Moss............................... 7:35pm

Shabbos ends.......................................... 7:52pm

Followed by Havdalah

WEEKDAY SERVICES

Sunday .............................. 8:00am

Mon - Fri............................. 7:00am

Latest Shema this week........ 9:56am

MAZEL TOV

Alan Hedges & Bianca Goott and their extended families on their wedding this weekend!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Michael Lenn............. 18 Adar/ Saturday 14 March

Jack Reuben..............18 Adar/ Saturday 14 March

Russell Klein..............19 Adar/ Sunday 15 March

Melanie Schwartz....... 22 Adar/ Wednesday 18 March

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Brandon & Deborah Rieders..... 21 Adar/ 17 March

Danny & Romy Lessem............. 22 Adar/ 18 March

Kevin & Valerie Smaller............ 23 Adar/ 19 March

Barry & Taryn Glick................... 24 Adar/ 20 March

Allen & Jacqui Rosenberg......... 24 Adar/ 20 March

Sarah & Matt Michael.............. 24 Adar/ 20 March

LONG LIFE

Gary Lazarus for his late father

Avraham Yitzchak ben Chaim ....... 20 Adar/ Monday 16 March

Magda Schaffer for her late mother

Yittel bat Malka...... 21 Adar/ Tuesday 17 March

Michael Franks for his late father Leopald Franks

Ephraim ben Shlomo...... 22 Adar/ Wednesday 18 March

Darren Segal for his late brother Ryan Segal

Shalom Yisroel Ben Zalmen...... 22 Adar/ Wednesday 18 March

Peter Berger for his late mother Eva Berger

Genendel bat Yosef...... 23 Adar/ Thursday 19 March

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