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Community Kollel Community Kollel (http://www.thekollel.com) is a vibrant community providing quality modern Jewish education, programs and events in Vancouver.

https://ctct.me/rnjdu The Kollel touches the lives of so many people, connecting with them and giving them a warm place to develop and achieve personal growth. We have become the Jewish cultural centre for people in their 20s-40s. We host dozens of events each month including: morning and evening classes, business networking events, Friday night dinners and holiday celebrations.

🎉 ONE SPOT LEFT IN EACH CLUB!A big milestone deserves a meaningful journey.Our Bar & Bat Mitzvah Clubs kick off this Sun...
10/12/2026

🎉 ONE SPOT LEFT IN EACH CLUB!

A big milestone deserves a meaningful journey.

Our Bar & Bat Mitzvah Clubs kick off this Sunday, October 18, and we can't wait to welcome our newest groups!

Through engaging discussions, hands-on projects, interactive activities and games, participants will explore their Jewish identity, build friendships and discover what becoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah means to them.

With dinner included at every session, it's an opportunity to learn, connect and grow together.

Because becoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah is about so much more than one special day. It's about stepping into a new chapter with a stronger sense of identity, belonging and pride.

✨ Just ONE spot remains in each club!

💙 Bar Mitzvah Club: Boys ages 11–13
💗 Bat Mitzvah Club: Girls ages 10–13

📅 First session: Sunday, October 18
🕔 5:00–7:00 PM
📍 The Kids Shul | 1925 West Broadway, Vancouver

Don't miss the chance to be part of this year's journey!

REGISTER HERE:

💙 Bar Mitzvah Club:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/ohel-yaakov-community-kollel/events/bar-mitzvah-club-a-meaningful-and-engaging-journey-1/

💗 Bat Mitzvah Club:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/ohel-yaakov-community-kollel/events/bat-mitzvah-club-a-fun-and-meaningful-journey-1/

Good company makes a Sunday morning. ☕💛And in just two weeks, The Social Table is gathering again!Join us for a leisurel...
10/11/2026

Good company makes a Sunday morning. ☕💛

And in just two weeks, The Social Table is gathering again!

Join us for a leisurely brunch, music, conversation and activities that bring people together. It's a chance to catch up with friends, make some new ones, share a few laughs and enjoy a morning in good company.

Whether you're a familiar face or joining us for the first time, we'd love to have you at the table.

The Social Table is our monthly gathering for Jewish adults 55+.

📅 Sunday, October 25
🕚 11:00 AM
📍 The Kollel | 1965 West Broadway, Vancouver
💛 By donation

Come pull up a chair. We'd love to see you!

Register here:
https://thekollel.crowdchange.ca/158715

A little taste of Israel is coming to your Friday night. 🇮🇱✨Good food. Familiar songs. New faces. A Shabbat table that f...
10/11/2026

A little taste of Israel is coming to your Friday night. 🇮🇱✨

Good food. Familiar songs. New faces. A Shabbat table that feels a little like Israel and a lot like community.

Mark your calendar for October 30! We're bringing young adults together for Shabbat with a Taste of Israel, hosted by Leslie Hacker and the Flora team .

Think Israeli-inspired food, favourite Jewish and Israeli songs, and a welcoming table where familiar faces become friends and new connections happen naturally.

It's everything we love about Friday nights, with a little extra Israeli flavour.

📅 Friday, October 30
🕯 7:30 PM
📍 The Kollel | 1965 West Broadway, Vancouver
🎟 $18 per person

Spots are limited, so get your plans on the calendar early!
https://thekollel.crowdchange.ca/158721

❖ Bereish*t ❖When we think of creation, we imagine making something.And when it’s finished, the work is done.But the Tor...
10/09/2026

❖ Bereish*t ❖

When we think of creation, we imagine making something.

And when it’s finished, the work is done.

But the Torah’s first description of creating a human being is surprisingly different.

“Let us make man.”

Why “us”?

The Baal Shem Tov offers a beautiful interpretation: G-d is speaking to the person He is creating.

Let us make you. Together.

G-d could have created us complete. Instead, He created us with potential.

We are born capable of courage, but we still have to become courageous. Capable of generosity, but we have to practice giving. Capable of loving deeply, but relationships still have to be built. Capable of wisdom, but usually we have to live before we acquire it.

So much of what is most meaningful about us arrives not as a finished quality, but as a possibility.

And then we are given a lifetime to do something with it.

The same idea appears in the world G-d gives us. Adam is placed in the Garden “to work it and care for it.” We aren’t simply inhabitants of creation. We are given a role in bringing it closer to what it was created to be.

We were never meant to receive a finished self, or simply inhabit a finished world.

In both, G-d creates with the expectation that we will take part in what comes next.

Perhaps that’s one of the great dignities of being human.

G-d didn’t only create us.

He invited us to become partners in creation.

✨ As we begin the Torah again, may we recognize what has been entrusted to us and take an active part in developing it. May we build what is still waiting to be built, within ourselves, in our relationships, and in the world around us.

Shabbat Shalom. 🤍

✨ SHABBAT AT THE KOLLEL ✨

🕯 Candle Lighting • 6:17 PM
🍷 Kabbalat Shabbat & Dinner • 7:30 PM
📍 1965 W Broadway

RSVP:
https://thekollel.crowdchange.ca/146540

TOMORROW

🕍 Service • 10:15 AM
👧 Kids Shul • 10:30 AM @ 1925 W Broadway
🍽 Community Lunch • 12:00 PM
🕘 Mincha + Seudah Shlish*t • 6:15 PM

“Let there be light.”They are among the first words spoken in the Torah.What is striking is that the sun, moon and stars...
10/07/2026

“Let there be light.”

They are among the first words spoken in the Torah.

What is striking is that the sun, moon and stars are not created until later. The Torah introduces light before there is even a physical source for it.

Perhaps because light is more than something we see. It is something we bring into the world.

On October 7, 2023, we witnessed unimaginable darkness. Lives were brutally taken. Families were shattered. A nation was changed.

Three years later, we remember not only how those lives ended, but how they were lived.

The photographs and stories tell us about sons and daughters, parents and grandparents, friends and partners. People who loved, celebrated, dreamed, built, gave, laughed and imagined futures that should have been theirs.

Each brought something to this world that was uniquely their own.

And that gives the Torah’s first words a particular resonance today.

A flame does not become smaller when it lights another. Its light continues beyond itself.

We cannot undo the darkness of October 7. But we can choose what we carry forward from those we lost: their stories, their values, their love, their courage, and the particular light they brought into the world.

“Let there be light.”

May the light they brought into this world continue through the lives they touched and the stories we carry forward.

יהי זכרם ברוך

Ready for a new season of Flora? 🌷 What if one evening a month gave you the space to step outside the rush of everyday l...
10/07/2026

Ready for a new season of Flora? 🌷

What if one evening a month gave you the space to step outside the rush of everyday life and think more deeply about where you’re going, who you’re becoming, and the kind of life you want to build?

The Flora Seminar brings Jewish young adults ages 20–45 together for six sessions throughout the year focused on personal and professional growth, meaningful conversations, and the challenges we all navigate along the way.

It’s a place to learn and grow, but also to build something that extends beyond the seminar itself: new friendships, professional connections, potential mentors, and a community of people who want to keep growing alongside you.

Flora participants also have access to exclusive volunteer opportunities with community organizations, creating another way to connect, contribute and make an impact.

🌷 The 2026–27 Flora season begins October 14.

NEW TO FLORA?
Book a short interview to join the new cohort:
https://calendly.com/florathecommunity/flora-2026-27-interviews

ALREADY PART OF THE FLORA COMMUNITY?
No interview needed. Email [email protected] for your 2026–27 registration link.

Come learn. Grow. Connect. And be part of what’s next.

❖ Vezot Haberachah ❖We tend to think growing wiser means becoming more realistic.We learn how the world works. We become...
10/02/2026

❖ Vezot Haberachah ❖

We tend to think growing wiser means becoming more realistic.

We learn how the world works. We become more discerning, less naïve, more careful about getting our hopes up.

But somewhere along the way, experience can make us more certain. A little more hardened. Even a little jaded.

We decide we know what people are like. What we're capable of. What will work. What won't.

And slowly, our world gets smaller.

In Vezot Haberachah, the final parsha of the Torah, Moses dies at 120. For forty years, he has led a people through challenge, conflict, disappointment and loss. And after devoting his life to bringing them to the Promised Land, he knows he will not enter it himself.

Yet the Torah tells us:

“His eyes were undimmed and his natural force unabated.”

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks noticed something in these words. Perhaps these are not two separate descriptions. Perhaps Moses retained his vitality because his vision remained undimmed. He never lost sight of his ideals, or of what he believed was possible.

Moses wasn't naïve. Life had taught him too much for that.

But what he learned from life did not become a limit on what he could still imagine.

Maybe that is part of what keeps us young.

Because sometimes growing old happens in the conclusions we begin to make:

I know how this will go.
That's not for me.
People don't change.
It's too late to start.

Wisdom asks us to learn from experience without allowing it to become the boundary of our lives.

Experience should make us deeper, not smaller.

There can still be more to learn. More to try. More to understand. More in another person than we have allowed ourselves to see. Even more in ourselves than we have discovered yet.

✨ As we reach the final words of the Torah, may we carry forward everything life has taught us without allowing it to close us. May we grow older and wiser with our eyes still undimmed, our curiosity alive, our idealism still vibrant, and our sense of possibility open to what may come next.

Shabbat Shalom & Chag Sameach. 🤍

👇 Full Shabbat & Simchat Torah schedule in the first comment.

This Saturday, Simchat Torah starts early for our youngest dancers. 🎉Bring the whole family for an afternoon filled with...
09/28/2026

This Saturday, Simchat Torah starts early for our youngest dancers. 🎉

Bring the whole family for an afternoon filled with the joy and energy of Simchat Torah: a special family program, early dinner, holiday services, and plenty of singing and dancing with the Torah.

It’s a chance for kids to experience Simchat Torah the way it’s meant to feel: joyful, lively, and surrounded by community.

SIMCHAT TORAH FAMILY CELEBRATION
📅 Saturday, October 3
🕔 5:00–6:30 PM
📍 The Kollel | 1965 W Broadway

Family Program
Early Dinner
Holiday Services
Dancing with the Torah

Come ready to sing, dance and celebrate together. And keep an eye out for Rabbi Shmulik’s famous dance moves. 😉

🎟️ RSVP and bring the family:
https://thekollel.crowdchange.ca/147444

❖ Sukkot ❖After Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we might expect the next holiday to ask even more of us.Instead, Sukkot sa...
09/25/2026

❖ Sukkot ❖

After Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we might expect the next holiday to ask even more of us.

Instead, Sukkot says:
Come in. Sit down. Eat something.

For seven days, we’re invited not simply to visit the sukkah, but to live there. We eat there. Talk there. Read there. Relax there.

We don’t have to make the moment more profound.

The sukkah surrounds us, and suddenly all of us is inside something sacred.

Chassidic thought describes the sukkah as an embrace from G-d. And perhaps that’s what makes an embrace so powerful: it doesn’t ask us to prove anything first.

After weeks of reflection, prayer, repentance and asking ourselves how we can become better, Sukkot makes room for us as we are.

Not because there is nothing left to work on.

But because our relationship with G-d isn’t only found in the moments when we’re reaching higher.

Sometimes it looks like sitting around a table. Sharing food. Talking. Laughing. Resting. Simply being together.

And there is room inside the sukkah for that too.

Our Sages say that all of Israel could sit together in one sukkah. Maybe that’s part of the embrace as well. There is room for each of us, and there is room for us together.

Sometimes holiness asks something of us.
And sometimes, it simply makes room for us.

✨ This Sukkot, may we feel embraced exactly where we are, make room for one another, and enjoy the simple gift of being together.

Happy Sukkot & Shabbat Shalom. 🤍

🕯️ SUKKOT AT THE KOLLEL
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Candle Lighting 6:46 PM | Mincha 7:00 PM
Maariv 7:30 PM | Dinner in the Sukkah 7:45 PM
🎟️ Advance registration required for dinner:
https://thekollel.crowdchange.ca/147426

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Morning Services 10:00 AM | Family Program 10:45 AM
Lunch in the Sukkah 11:45 AM

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Morning Services 10:00 AM | Lunch in the Sukkah 11:45 AM

📍 The Kollel | 1965 W Broadway

If you’ve never experienced Simchat Torah at the Kollel, this is the year to come. 🎉There’s an energy to this night that...
09/24/2026

If you’ve never experienced Simchat Torah at the Kollel, this is the year to come. 🎉

There’s an energy to this night that’s hard to describe until you’re in the middle of it. The room fills with dancing, lively singing, laughter, l’chaims, great food, and people celebrating together.

It’s joyful. It’s high-energy. And it’s one of the most fun nights of the year at the Kollel.

SIMCHAT TORAH 19+ CELEBRATION
📅 Saturday, October 3
🕗 8:00 PM until late
📍 The Kollel | 1965 W Broadway

Come dance with the Torah, celebrate as we finish it and begin again, and experience the kind of energy that keeps the celebration going for hours.

Bring your friends. Come ready to celebrate. We’ll see you on the dance floor.

🎟️ RSVP now:
https://thekollel.crowdchange.ca/147444

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