
1950 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5P 3K9
(416) 789-3291
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One of our core missions, of course, is to provide comfort at life’s most trying times, but even greater is the mitzvah of Pikuach Nefesh, to save a life. And so… we have made the difficult decision to suspend almost all in-person gatherings and to create connections through virtual platforms. We will host our daily Shacharit and Mincha services through Zoom every morning and afternoon for you to continue to worship with us at Holy Blossom.
We look forward to returning to what we do best — creating sacred connections by coming together for prayer, for learning, for performing deeds of compassion and justice, for gathering in community for celebration and consolation. We are saddened that we must limit physical presence and implement these temporary interruptions to the rhythm of congregational life. We pray that through the use of technology we will continue to provide a Jewish anchor at an unsteady and uncertain time.
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.
Please find the Holy Blossom Temple Siddur Pirchei Kodesh Weekday Morning & Afternoon Service pages for download below.
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]
Fridays at 6 p.m. in the Mishkan on the second floor
5:00pm Zoom service.
Contact Lindsay Mockler for more information: [email protected]
Saturdays, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Family Service, Saturdays, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm (when school is in session)
Shabbat at the Barns
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.
When we’re gathered together in worship at Holy Blossom Temple, the language of music forms the tapestry holding our awareness of being Jewish. Music is one of the most unique ways the Jewish people express themselves liturgically and culturally, and it serves as the vehicle through which we communicate our thoughts and beliefs to the members of our congregation. Truly great music can be the message itself, and music at Holy Blossom Temple has always been of the highest order.
Our internationally renowned cantor, Benjamin Z. Maissner, lives, breathes and exists through music, and in particular, the music of the Jewish People. Carrying the message of music to the congregation and then far beyond the synagogue walls, Cantor Maissner acts as a shaliach tzibbur, an emissary of our people.
At Holy Blossom Temple, music is present everywhere and makes its mark on every aspect of Temple life: worship services, concerts, Oneg Shabbat song sessions, study sessions, lectures, life-cycle events such as Bar/Bat Mitzvah, weddings and funerals, Temple Singers’ rehearsals and children’s choir practices. We believe that music is an integral experience with the power to shape the lives of Jewish people by helping them strive towards holiness. Above all, we strive to build the kind of praying and cultural community that makes our members and guests feel warm, familiar and welcome.
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.
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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1950 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5P 3K9
(416) 789-3291
[email protected]
Emergency Funeral Contact
Cell: 416-565-7561