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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…
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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…

Cater Your Seder!

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Rabbinic Reflection: Rabbi Jordan Helfman

https://youtu.be/7Pc82AdIxVc For further information about vaccine rollout plans and implementation, please speak directly with your health care professionals or check COVID-19 vaccines for Ontario or Public Health Ontario

Shabbat HaChodesh

A Perfect Offering

Pesach 5781

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Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Yael Splansky

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

https://youtu.be/Nqrur0YuRqA
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Life continues to blossom at the ECC

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Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Zachary Goodman

https://youtu.be/o7gpk6bxIBo
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Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Jordan Helfman

https://youtu.be/O2fdkHhW7o0

The Birthday Girls of HBT

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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…

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Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Yael Splansky

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Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Zachary Goodman

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Shabbat Morning Sermon: Avra Rosen

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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…

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…
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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…
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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…
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Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: December 25, 2020

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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. …

In the News: Holy Blossom Temple

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Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Jonah Pesner

https://youtu.be/A2vNp4WNZXs
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Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Yael Splansky

https://youtu.be/fhvNCPsClNw

Purim @ HBT!

Celebrating 41 Years with Cantor Maissner

HABSTY & HBTeen Mitzvah Bakers
Wednesday, December 16 @ 7:00 pm

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