Benoni Chevrah Kadisha

07/03/2026

17/02/2025

17/02/2025

The Funeral Of Ronnie Jankelowitz was attended by the 7th Medium Regiment he was so fond of. A standing salute MinRespect was given to Ronnie as the solo bag piper played

28/07/2024

Let My People Go

29/07/2023

I would like to thank you again for taking all the beautiful pictures and then, still taking the time in tagging every one of them. You are such a mensch. Thank
You

25/07/2023

On Sunday the 23rd July 2023 The formal ceremony, termed a ‘de-consecration service’, led by Rabbi Green and Rabbi Silberhaft was held at The Benoni Shul in Woburn Ave Benoni. It was an emotional day, filled with wonderful memories, laughter and tears which laid the very foundation which had United The Jewish Community of Benoni.

***Thank you to Stephen Kangisser for
taking these exceptional photographs**

28/06/2023

BENONI

Benoni is the word you would use in Israel to ask for a medium-sized cup of coffee. The word connotes something medium, or average. It comes from the proposition bein, meaning in between.

The benoni plays a central role in Jewish ethical literature. He or she is the average person, neither completely righteous nor completely wicked, who has to struggle to try to be better. Maimonides famously defines the benoni as one whose merits and faults are equal. Therefore everyone should see themselves as a benoni at all times; one good deed can tip the balance.

The founder of Chabad Chasidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liady, subtitled his classic work Tanya, Sefer Shel Benonim, The Book of the In-between. Impelled by the talmudic statement of the sage Rabba, "I, for example, am a benoni," Rabbi Shneur Zalman adopts a more exacting definition of the benoni.

If someone as great as Rabba is a benoni, then clearly we need to raise the bar. The Tanya defines a benoni as one who never sins, but nevertheless has stirrings towards sin in his heart that he overcomes.

This is the characterisation of the benoni in the sense that it is a level to which, according to Rabbi Shneur Zalman, we can all realistically aspire

26/05/2023

Shabbat Shalom Everyone ❤️

21/05/2023

A Beautiful Walk Down Our Benoni Jewish Heritage. Each one of us who feels a belonging to The Benoni UHI