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“Love everyone, help everyone,
bring every Jew closer to their Jewishness”
At Chabad Double Bay we promote Jewish awareness and pride with over 40 events each year that are attended by thousands from around the wider community. These include Chanukah at the Bay, Jewish Street Festivals and monthly Saturday night Havdala services.

We offer adult programs ranging from a basic guide to Judaism and reading Hebrew to Jewish philosophy and includes visits by renowned overseas lecturers. Our Synagogue is welcoming warm and personal, striving to make Shabbat, festivals and Simchot accessible and meaningful.

Our ability to continue to offer these services, essential to the community, is thanks to your continuing generosity and support.
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Shabbat & Holidays
Candle Lighting Times
Sydney, NSW
Light Candles at
6:57 PM  -  Friday, October 23
Shabbat Ends
7:54 PM  -  Shabbat, October 24
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Dec. 4 - Dec. 12
Daily Thought
The Spiral Staircase
The Baal Shem Tov described life as a spiral staircase, constantly deflecting away from your target in order to attain it. In Yiddish it’s called a “swindling staircase.” Some wise chassidim have pointed out a connection: Life swindles you into believing you are going in circles when really you are traveling higher each day. This is the way of every true and lasting ascent: Just as you’re making some progress upward, you see yourself falling away and stumbling in the dark. If you could see the whole picture, how all things resolve in the end, you would see how those periods of darkness and failure are truly steps higher and yet higher. They must be. Because we did not create life. G‑d did. And for Him, there are...
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