Brotherhood Reports

I hope that you all enjoyed the High Holiday services and celebrations.  Watching via the streaming function added a bit of poignancy for me and I was very moved by the services themselves and thankful that we have the technology available to make it happen.  We are truly living in a wondrous age!

Of course, Yom Kippur was closely followed by Sukkot and along with it, the Thanksgiving weekend.  We have much to be thankful for living in this wonderful country, Canada, that we call home.  We have the freedom to worship as we please and belong to this Har Zion Temple Family which holds out its arms to embrace us as does our Brotherhood family.  I am grateful for my beloved wife, Helene,  my children and grandchildren.  I give thanks every day for this blessing.

You all that are getting this email are also one of the blessings in my life.  Since belonging to and getting involved with the Brotherhood, I have made some wonderful friends who have enriched my life.  I hope that you, who are new to our Brotherhood family, take advantage of this opportunity.  It will be a win for you and a win for your new friends.  Each of you who belong to the Brotherhood are VIP’s.  Yes, your membership in the Brotherhood automatically makes you a VIP: A Very Intelligent Person as you are smart or intelligent enough to belong to the Brotherhood.

There, happily, is no news from the sick bay.  This leads me to ask you to remember, if you have an important event occurring in your life,  let me know at harzionbhood@gmail.com or simgreene@rogers.com or call me at 905-886-2447.  We are all in this together!  So let us know!

Speaking as an old guy who has celebrated his 16 birthday for 62 years and who had exercised most of his life, I have gone through periods where my motivation has been replaced by a form of fear that I might hurt myself or of the pain that comes with doing a workout.  Well, I am here to tell you that putting off doing exercise is a fool’s game where the only loser is you!

ENTER Moshe Schwartz, a certified personal trainer, nutritionist and the owner of Gentle Motion https://gentlemotion.ca/  who is devoting his life to helping people to boost their physical,  mental and overall health through pain free ways. I went out for a coffee with Moshe.  We spent a couple of hours together and I believe he is the real deal!

So. On Tuesday, October 29 at 7:30pm, we will have the privilege of meeting Moshe in person and benefiting from his presentation Removing Barriers to Exercise!  What a way to kick off 5780!

After meeting Moshe for coffee, I, believe it or not, went home and did my exercises and have been doing them reasonably regularly ever since.  I’m not saying that the same will happen to you; but the guy has something!

So, remember, on Tuesday, October 29 at 7:30pm, Moshe Schwartz will present his seminar Removing Barriers to Exercise!  This event is open to members of our Brotherhood family only!  And it will be free! As always, there will be snacks and light refreshments available.  This year, we are keeping it to light refreshments because our provider, Temple and Brotherhood past president and all-round good guy, the energetic Cal Avertick was finding the heavy refreshments getting a little heavy. 

Now, Cal needs to know how many to provide for.  So please reply directly to this email or to harzion.ca/events.  That way we will know how many Brothers to provide for!   

I am looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday, October 29, at 7:30 pm!  If I haven’t met you yet, I will be the very heavy guy with a walker.  There are other guys with walkers, but I am the heavy one!

Until then,

Yours in Brotherhood

Sim Greene

President