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SCENTS
Surfers Central Schedule and Rabbi's Greeting
 
Shabbat Shalom Umevarakh!
 
Our Education & Youth Director, Benjy Simons, will be spending his last Shabbat with us
Here is a schedule of his remaining Shiurim and Lectures:-
 
WED AT 7.00 pm    Venue: Surfers Central Syn
Various topical issues:-
21 Feb - The month of Adar and some secrets of Purim
 
THUR AT 7.00 pm       Venue: Surfers Central Syn
A Topical Talk centred around the Torah portion of the week
 
SHABBAT at 4 pm  Venue: 2/37, Markwell Avenue, Surfers Paradise
Ethics from Sinai
All welcome.
 
We thank him for his valuable contribution to the Torah life of our Community.
 
Those who wish to make a contribution for our Purim/Pesach Newsletter  please submit  to lgoriss@bigpond.net.au.
 
Here is our schedule of Shabbat services:-
 
FRI 16 FEB   -    Shabbat begins 6.13 pm
                           Mincha followed by Kabbalat Shabbat 
                           and Maariv  - 6 pm
 
SHABBAT 10 FEB -  Shacharit - 9.00 am 
                                Parashat MISHPATIM
                                Special Reading:  SHEKALIM
                                followed by Musaph and Kiddush
 
The theme of my address this Shabbat will be
 
DOES HOLY EQUAL HOLISTIC?
                                    
Mincha following Kiddush
Seudah Shelishit and Shiur - 6.20 pm
Shabbat ends - 7.07 pm
Mon & Thur Minyanim - 7 am
Shul Open For Davvening 7/52!
 
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Adapted from the Rabbi's Address on Tu b'Shevat
Man is compared in the Torah to a fruit of the tree.  Fruits come in three groups - those with outer shells, those with inner cores and those where you can eat the entire fruit.  Similarly some humans have a tough prickly outer skin but are sweet and soft once you get inside.  Some are immediately and readily accessible but only up to a point - they have an inner core you can't penetrate.  And some are sweet through and through.
 
However we don't boycott fruit just because it has a shell or a stone.  And the mystic scholar Rabbi Chaim Vital (disciple of the AriZal, R. Yitschak Luria) divides the three types of fruit equally, instructing that ten of each kind be eaten on Tu b'Shevat.
Similarly, a Jewish Community, and especially SCS needs all types of human fruit - soft or prickly,  easy-going or tough-nuts -on board if we are to realise our dream and build a Shul and a Community of which we can be proud.  
 
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Chaim Ingram

 

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Shana Tova UMetuka
Thi SHnat Sof Zadon
 
May Taph-Shin-Samech-Zayin be for us and for all Klal Yisrael, as well as the world-at-large, a year when, as it's head-letters spell out, evil's dominion will be removed from the earth and the world be perfected in Justice and Truth under the rulership of Alm-ghty G-D.
 
To achieve this goal is within the grasp of each and every one of us.  In my last sermon of the year last Shabbat, I quoted the famous passage of Rambam (Maimonides) in which he says that since it is impossible to weigh up the relative merit of mitsvot (good deeds) we do as against the demerits of the negatives of which we are guilty, therefore a person should regard himself as half-inocent and half-guilty, and if he also the whole world too. 

If he does one negative thing (or neglects to do something he should do) he pushes himself and the whole world to the brink of the abyss, G-D forbid. But if he does one additional good deed, he could push himself and the whole world towards the side of merit, bringing salvation for the whole world.
 
An impossible thought, surely an exaggeration, I mused.  No, not a bit of it!  I had thought so prior to that extraordinary Presidential election in the USA eight years ago when one George W. Bush was elected on a handful of votes from a single state.  A few stayaways from the polling-booths, a few late changes-of-heart and the destiny of the world these past eight years was decided.  Yes, we all, each of us do make all the difference in - and to - the world!!!
 
FRI 22 SEP -  Shabbat and Yom Tov begin 5.24 pm
                         Services begin 5.30 pm
                         Followed by Kiddush, Challa, Apple and Honey
 
SAT 23 SEP - Rosh HaShana Service commences 8.30 am (Please be PROMPT so
                         that we can finish services at a reasonable time!!!!
                         Followed by Kiddush, Challa and Honey
                         
                         Mincha and Maariv Services - commence 5.30 pm
                          Followed by Kiddush, Challa, Apple and Honey
                          NB Candlelighting not before the conclusion of Shabbat 6.17 pm
 
SUN 24 SEP -   Service commences 8.30 am prompt (as per above) 
                           Shofar approx. 10.30 am
                            Followed by Kiddush, Challa and Honey
                            Mincha and Maariv services commence 5.30 pm
                            Yom Tov ends at 6.18 pm with Havdala
 
My wife and I look forward to greeting you all personally in shul over Rosh HaShana
Eytan Franklin, Amir Martin and I aim to give you services to remember.
But remember - it is YOU who makes all the difference in the world!
Shana Tova!