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Sunday / December 3, 2023

Bronislava Gavrilova

Sun, Dec 03 1:00 PM

Steeles Memorial Chapel

Sarah Glatt

Sun, Dec 03 10:30 AM

Graveside Service


Friday / December 1, 2023

Lewis Strasberg

Fri, Dec 01 11:00 AM

Graveside service


Thursday / November 30, 2023

Harold Bronstine

Thu, Nov 30 2:30 PM

Graveside Service

Chaya Leschenko

Thu, Nov 30 12:00 PM

Graveside service at P...

Irwin Zack

Thu, Nov 30 10:30 AM

Steeles Memorial Chapel


Tuesday / November 28, 2023

Evelyn Nefsky

Tue, Nov 28 12:30 PM

Steeles Memorial Chape...

Bryna Zaidman

Tue, Nov 28 11:00 AM

Chapel service at Stee...

David Title

Tue, Nov 28

 


Sunday / November 26, 2023

Esfir Katyshev

Sun, Nov 26 2:00 PM

Graveside service at P...

Russell Spencer

Sun, Nov 26 1:00 PM

Graveside Service - Pa...

Marlene Lerner

Sun, Nov 26 12:30 PM

Graveside Service at B...

Mylene Solomon

Sun, Nov 26 11:00 AM

Chapel service at Stee...

Jacob Goldstein

Sun, Nov 26 11:00 AM

Graveside Service

Florence (Faigie) Bernstein

Sun, Nov 26

Graveside service at P...

Sunday / December 3, 2023

Bronislava Gavrilova

Sun, Dec 03 1:00 PM

Private

 

Sarah Glatt

Sun, Dec 03 10:30 AM

539 Old Orchard Grove


Friday / December 1, 2023

Lewis Strasberg

Fri, Dec 01 11:00 AM

Private

 


Thursday / November 30, 2023

Harold Bronstine

Thu, Nov 30 2:30 PM

Private

85 Belvedere Cres. Ric...

Chaya Leschenko

Thu, Nov 30 12:00 PM

Private

 

Irwin Zack

Thu, Nov 30 10:30 AM

Private

 


Tuesday / November 28, 2023

Evelyn Nefsky

Tue, Nov 28 12:30 PM

Private

 

Bryna Zaidman

Tue, Nov 28 11:00 AM

Private

 

David Title

Tue, Nov 28

Private

 


Sunday / November 26, 2023

Esfir Katyshev

Sun, Nov 26 2:00 PM

Private

 

Russell Spencer

Sun, Nov 26 1:00 PM

Private

67 Canyon Hill Ave., R...

Marlene Lerner

Sun, Nov 26 12:30 PM

Private

 

Mylene Solomon

Sun, Nov 26 11:00 AM

Private

 

Jacob Goldstein

Sun, Nov 26 11:00 AM

101 Fisherville Rd Tor...

Florence (Faigie) Bernstein

Sun, Nov 26

Private

 

Holy Blossom Memorial Park

Cemetery Address

72 Brimley Rd., Toronto, ON M1M 3T1 (On Brimley Road just north of St. Clair)

Cemetery Description

The Holy Blossom Temple sections in Pardes Shalom Cemetery are RR and TT. The cemetery is located on Dufferin Street, north of Major Mackenzie Drive.

Jewish Customs at Cemeteries

Basic respect should be shown. Refrain from eating, shouting, singing. Try to avoid walking on the graves if possible.

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A visit may evoke words of Psalms or the El Maleh Rahamim memorial prayer. Sephardic liturgy’s Hashkaba prayer is said in hope of a peaceful rest for the departed. Syrian Jews read the lines of long acrostic Psalm 119 that spell out the Hebrew name of the deceased. This psalm expresses loyalty to the word of God and hope for salvation. The words that come to mind are also prayers if only written in the prayer book of the heart.

With minor exception you can visit a cemetery or grave on virtually all weekdays. Visitation are customarily not made on chol ha’moed–the middle days of Passover and Succot–nor on Purim, as these are holy days of joy. While visitation of the grave is permitted at almost any time, excessive visits are discouraged. “The rabbis were apprehensive that frequent visiting to the cemetery might become a pattern of living thus preventing the bereaved from placing their dead in proper perspective” (The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning, Maurice Lamm, p. 192).

Because contact with a dead body is considered a defilement, Kohens are not allowed into a cemetery except in the case of a very close relative, because they would then be unclean and unable to perform their priestly function. For the rest of us, the mitzvah (blessing) of performing these services for a departed person outweigh the defilement of being made unclean.

Transitions in Jewish life are often accompanied by water. A body is bathed in a poignant, dignified ceremony before burial. Jews-by-choice mark their entry into the Jewish people by immersing themselves in mikveh waters. Similarly, hands are washed after a cemetery visit to mark the departure from the surroundings of death to an attachment with life. Many of the cemeteries in the Toronto area have hand washing stations, many of which have been built by Steeles Memorial Chapel

When visiting Jewish graves the custom is to place a small stone on the grave using the left hand. This shows that someone visited the gravesite, and is also a way of participating in the mitzvah of burial.

Leaving flowers is not a traditional Jewish practice.

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