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Rosh HaShanah
September 23, 2019 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk •
We are days away from celebrating our New Year, Rosh HaShanah, some of us are making lists of groceries to buy, preparing special desserts, baking round challot, checking to see if we have our supply of honey in. I am practicing my singing to re-embed the special melodies, the nusach, for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Our […]
Ki Tavo: Lessons in Listening
September 16, 2019 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: ki tavo, listening •
Imagine being on the other side of Torah. We read these words, and we “hear” them perhaps, often as if we were speaking these words to ourselves, but imagine if we were there (wherever there is – maybe here?) and we were listening. Lots of words are going by us, hour after hour – how […]
Shoftim
September 10, 2019 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk •
Shavua tov. This has truly been a week of joyful celebration as simcha has followed simcha. We were blessed on Kabbalat Shabbat to hear from inspiring guest speakers including Dr. Joel Fagan, Rabbi Allan Finkel and Dr. Pekka Sinervo, all introduced by Kolot Mayim members. I was very honoured to be introduced by our hard-working […]
Elul
September 1, 2019 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: elul, rosh hashanah •
Very briefly, as you will be hearing from me over Shabbat and next Sunday. I want to invite you into an Elul journey. Elul is understood to be a month of preparation for the next new moon – Rosh Hashanah. We traditionally take time to forgive ourselves for deeds we haven’t been willing to face […]
Tisha B’Av
August 7, 2019 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk •
Dear friends, It has been a week since our beloved mother, Mary Greenhough, died. I have had many notes and calls of consolation from many of you, and I want to tell each of you how grateful I am to all of you. We have been swimming in food, in cake, but most of all […]
Building Audacious Hospitality Together
July 24, 2019 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: audacious hospitality, pinchas, reform judaism •
Dear friends, This has been a wonderful first year at Kolot Mayim for me. We have learned Torah together, we have rearranged where we meet (Deli side), we have begun new duties (Char Ashford has taken on being our Gabbai) and last week we started what I hope will be a regular Friday night Shabbat […]
Balak
July 16, 2019 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: balak •
I am honoured to be at a Bat Mitzvah ceremony this Thursday, July 18, with the family and friends of Annie Marcovitz. The following text is Annie’s D’var Torah, which I thought would be a lovely way to share her simcha with Kolot Mayim members. The photograph is the challah cover that Annie mentions. Shabbat […]
Chukkat
July 9, 2019 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: chukkat, red heifer, shabbat is in the bag •
Shabbat shalom everyone. I will be in Vancouver over the weekend officiating at the wedding of Ben Rolph, son of Wendy and Glenn Rolph Ben will be marrying his beloved Anna Klenin. We wish them and their families mazal tov. Chukkat, our Torah reading for this week, is one of the strangest sections in Torah. […]
Vayelech
October 3, 2019 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: Vayelech •
You have been very kind, sending me messages of condolence after the death of my brother David. I thought I would share with you a few words I sent to India, to be read at his funeral. We send love to David’s wife, Theresa and to all who loved David. We are David’s siblings Lynn, Anne, and Ted […]