
Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Yael Splansky
A Good Week
https://youtu.be/6ipl6ImO1S8
Local hospitals are encouraging COVID-19 vaccine pre-registration for residents aged 80 and over. Community members who meet eligibility requirements may register at the following sites:
Toronto…

Life continues to blossom at the ECC
We did a mitzvah!
Our ECC families fulfilled the Purim mitzvah of giving tzedakah. We collected 37 boxes of Wacky Mac to help feed those in need.
Next week we begin our Passover learning at the ECC. In addition to ECC families receiving…


Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Jordan Helfman
https://youtu.be/7Pc82AdIxVc
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Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Yael Splansky
Making the Hidden Revealed
https://youtu.be/D85nV-XTLec

Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Yael Splansky
https://youtu.be/sFHTxGlkMJM

Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Yael Splansky
https://youtu.be/Nqrur0YuRqA

Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Zachary Goodman
Chag Sameach!
https://youtu.be/pwk5FSts-rc


Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Yael Splansky
Blot out the name of Covid and Never Forget
https://youtu.be/sopNrX0pX7k



Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Zachary Goodman
https://youtu.be/o7gpk6bxIBo

Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Jordan Helfman
https://youtu.be/O2fdkHhW7o0

Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Yael Splansky


Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Zachary Goodman
Lishma
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
Learning together as a community. That has always been the way of the Jewish people. Starting with Moses and continuing through every…


Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Yael Splansky
https://youtu.be/TaFDS6JpPN4

Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Zachary Goodman
https://youtu.be/bpOU4r5de3w

Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Yael Splansky

Shabbat Morning Sermon: Avra Rosen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0yPYTUKM0E&feature=emb_logo



Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Yael Splansky
Rabbi Yael Splansky
Rabbinic Reflections
January 29, 2021
IHRA and Free Speech
"An almond tree blooming in Israel."
In June 2019, the Government of Canada announced its adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance…

Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Yael Splansky
Rabbi Yael Splansky
Rabbinic Reflections
“The Power of Ritual”
January 22, 2021
Senator Jon Ossoff is sworn into office with his hand on a bible which belonged to civil rights activist, Rabbi Rothchild of The Temple in Atlanta.…

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, find us a Match!
Elliott Jacobson and Judy Malkin joined Holy Blossom Temple in 1983, and immediately were asked to join the New Leadership group that fall. Elliott first joined the Board of Directors in 1989 and became President in 1995. Under his…

Reflections on Cantor Rosen’s Installation
Click here to watch the recording of the Installation Service!
As I reflect upon last Shabbat, I am still overwhelmed with joy and gratitude for the wonderful installation service that official welcomed be as the Senior Cantor and Music Director…

The ECC welcomes back students
The ECC continues to remain open and it was so nice to welcome staff and students back to school. We have many more holidays and celebrations to enjoy as well as many projects, exciting learning opportunities in the months ahead. With a relatively…

Our Mother’s Piano
Our Mother's Piano
Our Mother, Allie Herman, was born Alice Suroff in Toronto in 1911. She lived with her parents and six older siblings in a small home on Grace Street. As a child, she studied classical piano on her family’s modest upright…

Introducing Lisa Isen Baumal, Principal of Youth Education and Family Engagement
I am excited and honoured to take on the new role of Principal of Youth Education and Family Engagement here at Holy Blossom. As a newly engaged couple, my husband Aaron and I joined Holy Blossom in 2001, and it wasn’t long before I began…

Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Jordan Helfman
Connection Amidst the Plagues
This week, as we stand in shock at the anti-Semitic vandalism attack in Montreal, as we brace ourselves for the increased loneliness of the lockdown, we turn in our Torah to the Plagues. In that story, we seek…

Protected: 2020 AGM Department Reports
2020 AGM Department Reports
Click on the links below to read our 2020 AGM Reports
Minutes of the 161st Annual General Meeting – November 17, 2019
Holy Blossom Temple Brotherhood Report
Department…

Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Jordan Helfman
https://youtu.be/mIgdSD6WYZo
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Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Jordan Helfman
https://youtu.be/lkPNyB82EEg
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Colum McCann
Colum McCann
Please join us for two evenings of compelling discussion about an inspiring Israeli Palestinian story
We have a very stimulating two evening event coming up later this month!
I’m a real fan of the Irish American author Colum…

What does it mean to experience Israel with Holy Blossom
What does it mean to experience Israel with Holy Blossom
By: Pam Albert
I want to share my perspective on what it means to tour and experience Israel at this point in time with our Holy Blossom community. Be it via our zoom interactive…

Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Jordan Helfman
We the People
"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves…

Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Yael Splansky
Eulogy for Temple Warden, David Hart z”l
By Rabbi Yael Splansky
December 28, 2020 / 13 Tevet, 5781
“Uma’asei yadeinu kon’nah aleinu. Uma’asei yadeinu kon’neihu.”
“May the work of our hands…

Legacy Giving: L’dor Vador Circle
Providing for the future is a core Jewish principle. A planned gift to Holy Blossom Temple is an opportunity to leave a legacy that will benefit our Temple community for generations to come.
Any gift you choose to leave to Holy Blossom…

“Scientific Triumph. Moral Failure” Rabbi Yael Splansky, December 19, 2020
sermon begins at 1:15:41:


Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Yael Splansky
Praying for the Vaccine
It’s a strange in-between time for us. I write to you when congregants and loved ones of congregants are fighting the tough fight against COVID-19. The number of cases is frighteningly high. Lockdown is serious. …


Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Yael Splansky


Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Jonah Pesner
https://youtu.be/A2vNp4WNZXs

Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Yael Splansky
https://youtu.be/fhvNCPsClNw



Gifts of Light: An Interfaith Holiday Concert for COVID-19 Relief
Thursday, December 17 @ 8:00 pm
Thursday, December 17 @ 8:00 pm

Wednesday, December 16 @ 7:00 pm

Wednesday, December 16 @ 6:30 pm

Spreading the Warmth: [email protected] HBT’s Chanukah Celebration and Mitzvah Bake
Tuesday, December 15 @ 7:30 pm
Tuesday, December 15 @ 7:30 pm