Rosh Hodesh Tamuz begins the evening of Tuesday, June 28 and ends the evening of Thursday, June 30, 2022.
This Shabbat Shalom is sponsored by Frances & Stephen Kraft and Ruthie & Howie Tatner in honour of their children Sari and Jon on their forthcoming marriage
✡ מזל טוב ✡ Mazal Tov to Jon Tatner and Sari Kraft in honour of their aufruf for their upcoming wedding.
Parashat Sh'lach Numbers 15:8 - 15:41 I Kings 17:1-16
Candlelighting: 8:45 PM
Kabbalat Shabbat Fri. June 24 at 6:00 pm
Kabbalat Shabbat is sponsored by Chava & Joe Lampert in honour of the wedding celebration of Marla & Bryan Shore
✨ Lay Leader Shabbat ✨ Saturday, July 2 Click here for details and to register to attend in person. Deadline to register is Thursday, June 30 at noon to accommodate Canada Day.
Message from Cantor Loomer
Techelet or not!
Parashat Sh’lach speaks of the commandment of tzitzit.
We wear tzitzit or fringes on our tallitot, prayer shawls as a constant reminder of our obligations to God and our strong relationship with Him. The numerical value of the Hebrew word for tzitzit /ציצת is 600. And each of the tassels has 8 threads and 5 knots, totaling 13. The sum of 600 plus 13 is 613, the number of commandments in the Torah.
Part of the mitzvah or commandment of tzitzit is to incorporate a blue dyed thread known as techelet. We see this word techelet in the third paragraph of the Shema prayer, so why aren’t most of us wearing a Tallit with techelet, a thread with a blue dye?
Our Rabbis say that this dye comes from the chilazon (fish). The Talmud describes the chilazon as a rare fish with a blueish blood that surfaces once every seventy years and therefore cannot be harvested very easily. Approximately 120 years ago a group of Chassidim from the Polish city of Rodzin announced that they had discovered the chilazon in a river in Italy. It is referred to as a Deyonon Harochim, which is not actually a fish but a rather a crustacean. The process of harvesting the dye is similar to “milking” venom from a snake. Sixty years ago, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Y. Herzog, proclaimed that the chilazon discovered off South America is in fact the Biblical chilazon. At the present time there is a company in Israel that claims to have the source of this dye and manufactures tzitzit with a blue thread.
So, if this dye is readily available now, why is it that this practice of using the dye in our tallitot is not widely accepted? The answer is that the Talmud states that one must hunt this rare crustacean. The modern process uses a crustacean that is easily obtained along the shoreline. Therefore, many rabbinical authorities do not accept the use of this process. Whether to practice techelet is a personal choice. You may decide to wear techelet because you accept this discovered dye, or you may decide to not because you wish to follow in the footsteps of the many Rabbis who do not accept it. Both choices are acceptable. But if you choose to be one who accepts this newly rediscovered techelet, you have Rabbi Y. Herzog to thank for asserting it’s authenticity.
Click hereto register for morning minyan on Thursday, June 30. Deadline is Wed. June 29 at noon.
The Tuesday, June 28th morning minyan is sponsored by Esther Tozman, Frances Kraft and Karen Reinblatt in loving memory of Eugene Tozman 〰
Morning Minyan: Sunday, June 26 at 8:30am Morning Minyan: Monday, June 27 to Friday, July 1 at 8:00am Evening Minyan Sunday, June 25 to Thursday, June 30 at 7:00pm
We remember with reverence and love those for whom Yahrzeit will be observed this week.
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