Can't We Just Have One Restaurant?

Lunch and farbrengen with guest this Shabbos!

Question of the Week: Why are there so many different synagogues in our community? I know of six within a one kilometre radius of my house! Wouldn't it be more economical if we pool our resources into one big shul rather than so many smaller ones? Answer: I was just thinking a similar question: Why are there so many restaurants in our neighbourhood? Shouldn't there just be one place to go eat? I have counted a dozen on one street! Would we be better off with just one big restaurant? I don't think foodies would agree. Some love Thai, others prefer Italian. The formal dining experience in one place suits some, while others seek a casual night out. Family friendly fast food joints will not attract the fine diners, and fancy plates with a tiny little gourmet morsel in the middle will not be popular with hungry adolescents. Vegans don't seem to enjoy steak houses. Carnivores don't always go for quinoa burgers. The wide choice of restaurants caters to all the varied tastes and moods. There can't be a one-size-fits-all eatery. It's the same with synagogues. Each one presents Yiddishkeit with a different taste and unique angle. There are Sephardi and Ashkenazi variants, shuls that sing and shuls that don't, informal and intimate communal synagogues and grand pompous ones, kid friendly and mature audience only. Long sermon, short sermon, no sermon. Every community style fills a niche and attracts different souls. Each custom has its customers. This is not factionalism or doubling resources. It is opening doors and giving options. The Jewish people are made up of twelve tribes. Each had their own slightly different way of praying, and yet were all one people with one common Torah. Even the Temple in Jerusalem had twelve different gates for each tribe to enter in their own way. But everyone ended up in the same Holy Temple. Every shul, with its unique style, is a gateway to that Temple. Good Shabbos, Rabbi Moss   PS. The answer above applies to sizable communities with a critical mass that can sustain many shuls. Smaller communities may not have that luxury. Either way, when we are committed to Torah observance and Jewish unity, we can pray all together or in our own communities and remain one people.    To subscribe CLICK HERE or email rabbimoss@nefesh.com.au     VIDEO: Shiur on the Parsha of the Week   THE TRUTH ABOUT THE COZBI SHOW What Was Zimri Thinking?         Welcome to our kitchen! Thanks to the clear weather we were able to successfully fit off the plumbing. The black pipes are made of an extremely high grade (and expensive) plastic used in laboratories that can withstand the chemicals and other products and wastes that go through commercial kitchens on a weekly basis. Shabbat Shalom. Brent.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ALL SERVICES AT NEFESH    1 FRANCIS ST BONDI BEACH   (OFF CAMPBELL PDE, BEHIND NOAH'S BACKPACKERS)   SHABBOS TIMES & COMMUNITY INFO: PINCHAS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Friday, 6 July 2018 | 23 Tammuz 5778 Candle Lighting........................................... 4:41pm Mincha....................................................... 4:50pm Learning with the Bochrim............................ 5:30pm Kids Program ............................................. 6:00pm Shabbos Service.................................. 6:00-6:50pm  Followed by Kiddush sponsored in honour of Bentzion Sufrin's 11th birthday this week- Mazel Tov!   Shabbos Day, 7 July 2018 | 24 Tammuz 5778 In depth parsha class ..................... 9:00am Kids Program ............................... 10:30am Shabbos Service............................ 10:00am-12:20pm Communal Lunch and Farbrengen with special guest Rabbi Mendel Polichenco in honour of the Nefesh Bochrim graduating and receiving their semicha - Mazel Tov!   Mincha and with Pirkei Ovos Chapter 1 followed by Seudah Shlishis ........................ 4:40pm Gematria and Story by Rev Amzalak............. 5:10pm Shiur ....................................................... 5:25pm Shabbos ends............................................ 5:40pm Followed by Havdalah   WEEKDAY SERVICES Mon- Fri............................................ 7:00am Molad/ New Moon- Friday 13 July.......... 6:49:8am Rosh Chodesh Av................................ Friday 13 July Latest Shema this week....................... 9:28am   CONDOLENCES Long Life to Mike Barel and family on the passing of his grandmother   HAPPY BIRTHDAY Chana Moss......... 25 Tammuz/ Sunday 8 July   Elimelech Moss.....25 Tammuz/ Sunday 8 July   Misha Lavecky..... 26 Tammuz/ Monday 9 July Erna Frankfurter.. 27 Tammuz/ Tuesday 10 July Bentzion Sufrin.... 28 Tammuz/ Wednesday 11 July Phoenix Radus..... 29 Tammuz/ Thursday 12 July Victoria Hoch....... 29 Tammuz/ Thursday 12 July   LONG LIFE Joseph Newman for his late uncle Cyril Moshe Shostak ... 23 Tammuz/ Friday 6 July   Jon Shapira for his late mother Judith Esther Shapira Yehudith Esther bat Shmuel... 23 Tammuz/ Friday 6 July   Brian Schwartz for his late mother Rebecca (Becks) Schwartz Sara Rivka bat Moshe... 24 Tammuz/ Saturday 7 July   Rebecca Steiner-Carrion for her late friend Anna Fisher Channa bat Leib... 25 Tammuz/ Sunday 8 July   Rev Amzalak for his late father  Reb Yizchak ben Reb Avraham...27 Tammuz/ Tuesday 10 July   Tauba Tanchum for her late brother Leslie Kaplan  Eliezer ben Tevia...1 Av/ Friday 13 July     SPONSORING A KIDDUSH IS SIMPLE!   FRIDAY NIGHT:  SOUP $75 | BASIC $120| DELUXE $200   SHABBOS DAY: STANDARD $350 | LUNCH *FROM $450   DATES AVAILABLE :Friday Night 13 July, Shabbos Day 14 July, Friday Night 27 July, Shabbos Day 28 July.     EMAIL US: office@nefesh.com.au

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SHABBATON RETREAT IN NATURE SAVE THE DATE August 24-26 bookings open next week   Question of the Week: You are obviously very passionate about the Jewish religion. But that is because you were born into it. Had you been born a Hindu, a Muslim, a Catholic or a Zoroastrian, you would be equally as passionate. So how can you take your beliefs seriously, or see them as truth, when really they are no more than an accident of birth? Answer: There are some big assumptions behind your question. You are assuming that I was born. That is a fair assumption. But you also assume that I am Jewish by accident. That is false. There is no such thing. The very premise makes no sense. The postulation "what if I would be born someone else" is as absurd as asking what if a tomato was actually a carrot, or an apple was a Samsung. I am what I am and I can be no one else. My family, my birthplace, my heritage - this is me. My soul was chosen to be born into a Jewish family. This means that I am the product of thousands of years of Jewishness. I may question it. But it is who I am. Sometimes a question is a question. And sometimes a question is a cop out. Asking "what if I were someone else?" is an example of the latter. But even that probably comes from my Jewishness. Questioning our beliefs is an age old Jewish practice we inherited from our forebears. You are born Jewish and you are born questioning. And with all the questions and all the challenges over all the generations, Judaism is still standing strong. You and I, and all Jews of today, are living testament to the eternity of Judaism. Just by you being you, and me being me. Good Shabbos, Rabbi Moss   To subscribe CLICK HERE or email rabbimoss@nefesh.com.au     VIDEO: Shiur on the Parsha of the Week     Bilam Names Moshiach   We did it!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The community rallied around us last Sunday. We are overwhlemed by the love and support that we were shown. We managed to raise $1 million toward the building of our new centre. Special thank you to the 800+ donors who responded on the day, to our major donors who matched every dollar x3, to our team of energetic and enthusiastic volunteers for making hundreds of calls, to board member Jack Reuben who spearheaded the campaign, and to Charidy for their guidance and support. We are getting close to our goal!    FOMO?   We are still taking donations as we are not all the way there yet!     Make your tax deductible donation HERE  or direct deposit with your name here: Nefesh Building Fund  BSB 082309  ACC 846467026   In spite of more wet weather, we have made progress this week. We have cleaned up a lot of the site and more material deliveries have been dropped in by crane. I guess we just have to stick to the old saying: slow and steady wins the race. When the weather changes things will speed up. Shabbat Shalom. Brent.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ALL SERVICES AT NEFESH    1 FRANCIS ST BONDI BEACH   (OFF CAMPBELL PDE, BEHIND NOAH'S BACKPACKERS)   SHABBOS TIMES & COMMUNITY INFO: BALAK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Friday, 29 June 2018 | 16 Tammuz 5778 Candle Lighting.................................... 4:38pm Mincha................................................ 4:50pm Learning with the Bochrim..................... 5:30pm Kids Program ...................................... 6:00pm Shabbos Service.................................. 6:00-6:50pm  Followed by HOT soup Kiddush, sponsored by a friend.   Shabbos Day, 30 June 2018 | 17 Tammuz 5778 In depth parsha class ..................... 9:00am Kids Program ................................ 10:30am Shabbos Service............................ 10:00am-12:20pm Kiddush in honour of the birth and naming of Karen & Michael Martin's baby girl- Mazal Tov!   Mincha and with Pirkei Ovos Chapter 6 followed by Seudah Shlishis ................... 4:35pm Gematria and Story by Rev Amzalak........ 5:00pm Shiur with Bochrim................................ 5:20pm Shabbos ends....................................... 5:37pm Followed by Havdalah   WEEKDAY SERVICES Sunday 1 July | Fast of the 17th Tammuz Fast Begins .................... 5:37am Shachris......................... 8:00am Fast Ends....................... 5:25pm   Mon- Fri......................... 7:00am Latest Shema this week.... 9:27am   HAPPY BIRTHDAY Miriam Lowinger... 17 Tammuz/ Saturday 30 June Ari Smaller...................... 19 Tammuz/ Monday 2 July Rafael Deubler................. 20 Tammuz/ Tuesday 3 July Deborah Bui.................... 23 Tammuz/ Friday 6 July   LONG LIFE Eric Melman and Brad Melman for their late father and grandfather George Melman Gershon ben Yosef... 17 Tammuz/ Saturday 30 June   Ruth and Ronan Lutman for their late mother and grandmother Meda Sofer Mesuda bat Farcha... 18 Tammuz/ Sunday 1 July   Marlene Franks for her late mother Cecily Wolman Tsovia bat Sabsa Welva... 22 Tammuz/ Thursday 5 July   Zelman Nissen for his late father Michael Judah Nissen Michael Judah ben Avrom... 22 Tammuz/ Thursday 5 July   Judy Swaab for her late mother Adel Reves Sarah bat Avraham... 22 Tammuz/ Thursday 5 July   Adele Glick for her late mother Nachama Rieback... 22 Tammuz / Thursday 5 July   Joseph Newman for his late uncle Cyril Moshe Shostak ... 23 Tammuz/ Friday 6 July   Jon Shapira for his late mother Judith Esther Shapira Yehudith Esther bat Shmuel... 23 Tammuz/ Friday 6 July   SPONSORING A KIDDUSH IS SIMPLE!   FRIDAY NIGHT:  SOUP $75 | BASIC $120| DELUXE $200   SHABBOS DAY: STANDARD $350 | LUNCH *FROM $450   DATES AVAILABLE : Friday Night 6 July, Shabbos Day 7 July, Friday Night 13 July, Shabbos Day 14 July.    EMAIL US: office@nefesh.com.au

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Question of the Day: Do you actually read these emails? I have often wondered how many people do. If you are reading this, can I ask you something? I try to respond to people's questions, but this time I am the one asking. I need your help. We are building for the future and making history. Can you be a partner with us? Nefesh is building a centre for spreading joy the Jewish way. You've seen our video   explaining our vision. You've watched the progress reports in our weekly build up. And you've heard how far Nefesh reaches. If you have gained from reading my weekly answers, please consider responding to this request for help. We need to raise $1 million today to fund the next stage of our building. For 24 hours only, every tax deductible dollar you donate will be quadrupled. But it's all or nothing. If we don't reach our target in time, we get nothing. Go to www.charidy.com/nefeshsydney and give me your response. I thank you deeply, Rabbi Moss

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