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Question of the Week:
   
How can a rational thinking person believe in G-d, when there is absolutely no evidence for his existence? Today we have x-ray, radar, satellites, infrared photography, ultrasound imaging, gamma-ray telescopes and CCTV, and yet we still have found no trace of G-d. If he is supposed to be everywhere, why is he nowhere to be seen? My logic says, if you are nowhere, you don't exist...
 
Answer:
 
Being everywhere doesn't make you easy to find. On the contrary, logic says if you are everywhere, it's as if you're nowhere. A bit like our fridge.
 
As our family grew we needed more fridge space, so we bought an old fridge online. It was a bargain. We soon found out why. After we plugged it in it started humming quite loudly. At first we thought we couldn't live with this constant, monotonous buzz coming from the kitchen. But in a day or two we didn't even notice it anymore.
 
You can only hear a noise if that noise sometimes goes silent. But if it's always there, it's like its not there at all. Ask our kids what that buzzing noise is coming from the fridge, and they wouldn't even know what you are talking about. When you live with a noisy fridge, buzzing is silence.
 
It's the same with G-d. We live in a reality where the buzz of G-d is everywhere. There is no place devoid of Him, no moment when He is absent. So of course we can't detect Him. You can only detect the presence of something if you can detect its absence. The very definition of finding something is knowing where it is, but for that you have to know where it isn't. As the Baal Shem Tov taught, G-d is all and all is G-d. There is nowhere that he isn't. So we never see Him, because we are always looking right at Him.
 
This leads to an interesting conclusion. It's not that you can't see G-d. You actually can't miss Him. It just depends how you are looking.  Put down your telescope and look at your life. You'll see He's been right there all along.
 
Good Shabbos,
Rabbi Moss 

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SHABBOS SERVICES TIMES AND COMMUNITY INFO 
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Friday, 16 June, 2017 | 22 Sivan 5777
Candle Lighting...................... 4:35pm  
Mincha................................. 4:45pm
Making Sense of the Siddur
(a class with Rabbi Moss)........ 5:30-6:00pm
Friday Evening Service............ 6:00pm
Kiddush sponsored by Eli, Taryn & Larnce Gold in honour of the yohrzeit of their late father and grandfather, David Goldbaum (David ben Baruch) on 22 Sivan- Long Life.
 
Shabbos, 17 June, 2017 | 23 Sivan 5777
In depth Parsha Class............... 9:00am
Children's program .................. 10:45am
Shabbos Morning Service ........ 10:00am- 12:20pm 
Communal Lunch sponsored by Jerome and David Stern in honour of the yohrzeit their mother Gerda Stern
(Yehudit bat Mordechai)- Long Life.
 
L'Chaim sponsored by Vitali Broyda in honour of the yohrzeit of his grandfather Pinches ben Lipa on 18 Sivan- Long Life.
 
Mincha with Pirkei Ovos Ch 3
followed by Seudah Shlishis ....................   4:30pm
Gematria and story by Rev Amzalak............. 4:55pm
Shiur with Rabbi Moss............................... 5:15pm
Shabbos ends and Maariv.......................... 5:34pm
Followed by Havdalah
 
WEEKDAY SHACHARIS SERVICES
Sunday ........................... 8:00am
Mon - Fri.......................... 7:00am
Latest Shema this week...... 9:25am
 
MAZAL TOV TO
Brian & Tanya Poggo on the birth of twin girls, Chava Baila and Maya Razel!
Rev and Mrs Amzalak on the birth of a great-granddaughter Leah to Ricky and Mendy Gelman!
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO
Justin Rosenberg................ 26 Sivan/ Tuesday 20 June
Amber Radus..................... 28 Sivan/ Thursday 22 June
Gemma Lessem................... 30 Sivan/ Saturday 24 June
 
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO
John & Linda Isdale.......... 27 Sivan/ Wednesday 21 June
Wendy & Barry Steinberg.. 27 Sivan/ Wednesday 21 June
Ben & Melissa Schwarz...... 27 Sivan/ Wednesday 21 June
 
LONG LIFE TO
Jonathan Shapira for his late father Miron Shapira
Meir ben Yosef.... 24 Sivan/ Sunday 18 June
Anne Sarzin for her late mother Bertha Elizabeth Levy, (aka Betty)
Elisheva bat Avraham.... 25 Sivan/ Monday 19 June
Jackie Regos for her late father Paul Vertes
Henanya Meyer ben Shmuel Yehuda.... 25 Sivan/ Monday 19 June
Jerome Stern & David Stern for their late mother Gerda Stern
Yehudith bat Mordechai.... 26 Sivan/ Tuesday 20 June
Adam Pisk for his late grandfather Alan Kaufman Milston
Avraham ben Yaacov.... 28 Sivan/ Thursday 22 June
Eric Borecki for his late father Osher Borecki
Asher ben Yoseph.... 29 Sivan/ Friday 23 June