Welcome
Welcome to the the largest and most inclusive shul in Hendon.
Within our community you will find a full range of activities for all ages and lifestages within a vibrant, modern orthodox framework. This pack highlights just a few of the activities that take place regularly on the Synagogue campus and I am sure that you will find something here for you.
Our synagogue has served the community for over 60 years and has seen many changes both within our membership and beyond. Throughout that time, Hendon United Synagogue has adapted to meet its members needs in a huge variety of ways.
News
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Notice to Members
Bulk mailing to all our members is proving very expensive and, as you will be aware, will be rising… Read more
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Rabbi Jonny Hughes- Book Launch
On Monday night, 5th March, Hendon United Synagogue was bustling with excitement as it hosted the book launch
Weekly Parsha
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Sedra Reflections by Graham Summers
Near the end of the Sedra (Vayikra 24:5-9), we are commanded to bake the lechem hapanim (showbread) and set it up on the shulchan (table) in the Bet HaMikdash. Reish Lakish says in Menachot 29a that on Pesach, Shavuot and Succot they would pick up the shulchan and proclaim: ”Re’u chibaschem lifnei HaMakom” (“See how beloved you are before Hashem”).
The Gemara explains that they were pointing out the miracle of the lechem hapanim that stayed fresh and hot the entire nine days from when it was baked until it was eaten.
Pirkei Avot (5:8) enumerates the ten miracles that occurred in the Bet HaMikdash. Why does the showbread show Hashem’s love more than any other miracles that occurred? Rav Elyashiv (born 1910) explains that Hashem wants us to learn and love the Torah each day.
When people receive a message from a king, they run excitedly to hear it and abide by it; but after that, it becomes stale and uninteresting. Not so the Torah – our ‘message’ from the King! Each day we should treat it as if it is the first time we are hearing it – “asher Anochi metzavechah hayom” (“as if I [Hashem] commanded you today”).
Pesach, Shavuot and Succot are occasions when we come to the Bet HaMikdash to reinvigorate our love and closeness to Hashem. This is the message of the lechem hapanim. When we bake an offering for Hashem, though nine full days have gone by – enough for it to get hard and stale – nevertheless to Hashem it stays fresh and warm. So too in our Torah learning and service of Hashem
we must reciprocate His love for us with a constantly refreshed attitude towards Him and His Torah.
Our Rabbi
Rabbi Ginsbury
Rabbi Mordechai and Judy Ginsbury joined Hendon United Synagogue in February 1999. Prior to this they had spent nearly 14 years as Rabbi and Rebbetzen of the Prestwich Hebrew Congregation in Manchester.
During their tenure with us they have endeared themselves to the Community with their warm, intelligent and welcoming approach and have enhanced and furthered Hendon’s reputation as a dynamic and vibrant Kehilla.
