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Vayeishev
Shavua tov, dear friends. Our province is looking at days, weeks, months and years of recovery from the terrible flooding, mud slides, and loss of property, animals and of lives. Please take notes of ways you can give tzedakah towards relief efforts. I heard one of the Food Bank managers speak about how they have […]
Vayishlach
Shavua tov, dear friends. On Sunday, Aaron and I took the ferry over to Salt Spring Island to help bury our cousin Uri Cogan. Uri was buried in land dedicated by a local farming family for a natural green burial site, an area of woodlands, and a beautiful resting place for a soul that had […]
Vayeitze
Shavua tov, dear friends. So many opportunities for us to learn with each other. This morning I participated in learning from Rabbi Gila Caine, the first of our speakers in the lecture series so ably led by Marilyn Wolovick. Marilyn and her committee have put together a series of speakers, all of whom bring their […]
Gratitude
Shavua tov, dear friends. A message of gratitude this week. Friday afternoon I received two messages about one of our members being in ICU. He was dying. I needed to go immediately to the hospital. Dropping my groceries, my plans for dinner and for the rest of the day, I drove to the Jubilee and […]
Chayei Sarah
Shavua tov. Last Shabbat morning we celebrated with Sam Greif and his family as Sam was called to Torah. We were, with the amazing technological wizardry of Zoom, able to bring Rabbi Moch into our room. Sam had begun his studies for his Bar Mitzvah with Rabbi Moch. But life rarely moves in a straight line, […]
Vayeira
Shavua tov, everyone. Does life sometimes feel like a mirage? Have you ever wondered if you are really seeing what your eyes appear to be seeing? If seeing is believing, then is nothing lost in translation between sight, vision, perception and belief? What did Avraham actually see on the plains of Mamre, sitting still in […]
Lech Lecha
Shavua tov, everyone. Covid has brought us a number of Back to the Future moments. The Board of Kolot Mayim decided this past week to primarily return to Zoom for delivery of our Shabbat services. The Hybrid model – providing a Zoom of in-person services as/is complicated and our in-person numbers were just too low […]
Noach
I want to continue the conversation I began last week and acknowledge some deeply important teachings that we as Jews share with the many Indigenous Canadian communities around us. As the process of speaking Truth and beginning Reconciliation is a process that will continue over time, so too must we all pay attention to speaking […]
Bereshit
A week of beginnings, and Kabbalat Shabbat brings us into the beginnings of Torah – full circle from the final line in Devarim “… and with all the strong hand and with all the great fear that Moses did before the eyes of all Israel “ to the first line in Bereshit, “When God began […]
Mikeitz
November 28, 2021 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk Tags: hannukah, mikeitz, rosh chodesh •
Hannukah music, videos, food, much to be enjoyed with friends and family. From Neomi Summers: West Side Story Chanukah video. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/jiskf_lZXv8 What is Rosh Chodesh? We prepare for Rosh Chodesh Tevet on December 4th acknowledging the New Moon for the coming month of Tevet, beginning on Sunday.