Worship

Daily
Services.

Daily Services

With grateful hearts, while maintaining our daily services on Zoom, we also welcome you back beginning August 3, to in-person Shacharit services in the Mishkan from Monday to Friday each morning (7:30 am). Register for in-person Shacharit services here: https://slotted.co/hbtdailyservices

Mincha and Ma’ariv daily services (6:00 pm), Sunday Shacharit and Government Holidays (9:00 am) will remain online for the time being.

In-person attendees must be double vaccinated and registration for the limited spaces is required. Covid-19 protocols will be in place, including wearing masks, physical distancing and no food. Attendees will also need to fill in the pre-screening form prior to arrival (within two hours before).

Service Times

Our Shacharit Service is held daily at 7:30 am (9:00 am on Sundays and statutory holidays)
Our Mincha/Ma’ariv Service (Erev Tov) is held Monday through Thursday at 6:00 pm

Join our Daily Services

Weekday Morning Shacharit Service:
https://zoom.us/j/93902401402?pwd=dGlOR2dEcGs1RVc0OVFwdkFtOVo5UT09
Password: 667580
Weekday Evening Mincha/Ma’ariv Service:
https://zoom.us/j/96751003961?pwd=THNVdHdxTG4zVk02eFRiemxQSG92dz09
Password: 193785

As of April 5, 2020 all Zoom meetings now require passwords, in order to gain access to the daily services, please use the password associated with each service listed above.

Siddur Pirchei Kodesh Morning & Evening Service Pages

Please find the Holy Blossom Temple Siddur Pirchei Kodesh Weekday Morning & Afternoon Service pages for download below.

Evening Service (weekdays) Morning Service (weekdays) HBT Shiva Book Yom HaZikaron & Yom HaAtzmaut

Yahrzeit and Mi Shebeirach Daily Lists

Below you will find the names of those we are remembering today for Yahrzeit and for Shloshim. If there is a name you wish to have added to the list, please email [email protected]

At this time we think of those who are in need of healing of body, mind, and soul please find the names below. If there is a name you would like to have added to the Mi Shebeirach list, email JoAnne Bieman at [email protected]

Daily Yahrzeit List Daily Mi Sheberach List

Shabbat

Click here to participate in our Shabbat Services.

Kabbalat Shabbat

Fridays at 6 p.m. in the Mishkan on the second floor

Our Synagogue welcomes Shabbat with a warm, communal worship experience. This simple, engaging service is filled with congregational participation and community spirit. An informal service, Kabbalat Shabbat has become an important part of the week for many of our congregants.

5:00pm Zoom service.

Join us this Shabbat, and see if it’s right for you.
Family & Tot Shabbat (first and third Shabbat of the month).
From tots to teens, everyone is included and has a role in our family Friday night Services. The music of Shabbat enhances the feeling of community as we welcome Shabbat with our families.

Contact Lindsay Mockler for more information: [email protected]

Shabbat Morning

Saturdays, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Usually held in our beautiful sanctuary, our Shabbat morning service is the centrepiece of our week. The voices of our Cantors and Temple Singers lead our prayers in celebration of Shabbat.
The teachings of our Rabbis explore Jewish ideas and Jewish ideals.
The life cycle occasions of our congregants – Baby naming, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Aufruf, Special Anniversary, Significant Birthday, acknowledging recovery, accomplishment or loss – bring our congregation together in sacred community to share in each others’ joy and sorrow.
Kiddush-lunch follows for all to gather and greet.

Family Service, Saturdays, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm (when school is in session)

Celebrate Shabbat at this all-ages service. An engaging and family friendly service service led by our Rabbis and David Gershon, with age-aprripriate break out sessions.
Followed by lunch for all to enjoy.

Shabbat at the Barns

Shabbat at the Barns is held 4-5 times throughout the year with the Leo Baeck Day School.
Rabbi Helfman, Rabbi Katz, and Eric Petersiel lead a welcoming Tot Shabbat style service, open to the public, in the theatre near the playground at 9:30 am.
Please contact Neomi Offman for more information: [email protected]

Siddur Pirchei Kodesh

Our new prayerbook is completed. Just the sixth siddur in the 150 plus years of Holy Blossom’s history, this is the only book we ourselves have produced.

Infused with the ethos of the tradition and of Peoplehood, this book is most responsive to the contemporary moment. There are few siddurim in the liberal Jewish world to match Siddur Pirchei Kodesh for its fullness, its elegance, its Jewishness. This will be a siddur to cherish both while praying in our synagogue and while reciting blessings at home. It can be read as a history; it can be studied as a way into Judaism and Jewish prayer; it is an important face of our congregation. The siddur is to be celebrated.

Music of Worship

Music is a language with the ability to permeate our outer shells and nourish our souls on a profound level. Holy Blossom is a place where music has always been an integral component for our congregation and defining what it stands for. It has developed our Jewish identities and connected us with the local community and the world at large.

Whether you experience music through our dynamic and engaging worship or you enjoy the sounds of our renowned concerts and musical events, Holy Blossom is the place to experience, create and feel music through a vast range of participation.

As part of your musical experience at Holy Blossom, there are opportunities for you to engage on multiple levels – and platforms. Whether you decide to join our Temple Singers, take part in one of our hilarious Purim Spiels, attend a tot Shabbat with a child or grandchild, are delighted/moved by the musicality of a world-class artist, or celebrate through worship and life-cycle events, music at Holy Blossom transcends the generations and elevates us in very meaningful ways.

Our new Senior Cantor and Music Director, David Rosen, joined Holy Blossom in 2020 and carries on the legacy of our former cantors – including Cantor Emeritus Benjamin Maissner – with enthusiasm, a depth of musical knowledge and a wide range of experience. Under his dynamic leadership and guidance, Holy Blossom proudly embraces music as a vehicle for connection, engagement, and spirituality.

Click here to enjoy our Music of Worship at Holy Blossom

Sermons

Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Zachary Goodman

https://youtu.be/87xoazj9h04

Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Jordan Helfman

https://youtu.be/rl9vox_iixo

From our Clergy, Our Community Stories, Sermons

Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Jordan Helfman

https://youtu.be/KI5DBVVIcCE

From our Clergy, Our Community Stories, Sermons

Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Yael Splansky

https://youtu.be/KX7Mp1wvkhE

Holy Days and Festivals

Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim (Hebrew: ימים טובים‎, lit. ‘Good Days’, or singular יום טוב Yom Tov, in transliterated Hebrew [English: /ˈjɔːm ˈtɔːv, joʊm ˈtoʊv/]), are holidays observed in Judaism and by Jews throughout the Hebrew calendar. They include religious, cultural and national elements, derived from three sources: biblical mitzvot (“commandments”); rabbinic mandates; Jewish history and the history of the State of Israel.

Jewish holidays occur on the same dates every year in the Hebrew calendar, but the dates vary in the Gregorian. This is because the Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar (based on the cycles of both the sun and moon), whereas the Gregorian is a solar calendar.

Days of Celebration & Commemoration at HBT

Rosh Chodesh

Rosh Chodesh is the name for the first day of every month in the Hebrew calendar marked by the appearance of the new moon.

Rosh Chodesh or Rosh Hodesh is the name for the first day of every month in the Hebrew calendar, marked by the birth of a new moon. Throughout the years it has had different interpretations from Rashi to Rabbi Eliezer but the sages agreed in recognizing this holiday (minor) as a Women’s Holiday. Currently, women have reclaimed this holiday by expressing their own spirituality.

Holy Blossom Temple Sisterhood cordially invites you to join our Rosh Chodesh, Shaharit services at 7:30 am (Sundays 09:00 am). Please note the following Rosh Chodesh dates for the upcoming year 2020/2021.

Shevat	Thursday, January 14, 2021
Adar I	Friday, February 12, 2021
Nisan	Sunday, March 14, 2021
Iyyar	Monday, April 12 & Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Sivan	Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Tammuz	Thursday, June 10 & Friday, June 11, 2021
Av	Saturday, July 10, 2021
Elul	Sunday, August 8* & Monday, August 9, 2021
Tishrei	Tuesday, September 7 & Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Cheshvan	Wednesday, October 6 & Thursday, October 7, 2021
Kislev	Friday, November 5, 2021
Tevet	Saturday, December 4 & Sunday, December 5, 2021 *

* Sunday services begin at 09:00 am. Stay tuned for study session led by a Rabbi, following congregational breakfast.

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Founded in 1856, Holy Blossom Temple is Toronto’s first synagogue with a rich history of tradition and modernity in our religious and spiritual expression.

Daily
Services.

Worship

Daily Services

Service Times

Join our Daily Services

Siddur Pirchei Kodesh Morning & Evening Service Pages

Yahrzeit and Mi Shebeirach Daily Lists

Shabbat

Click here to participate in our Shabbat Services.

Kabbalat Shabbat

Shabbat Morning

Siddur Pirchei Kodesh

Music of Worship

Sermons

Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Zachary Goodman

Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Jordan Helfman

Shabbat Morning Sermon: Rabbi Jordan Helfman

Kabbalat Shabbat Drash: Rabbi Yael Splansky

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