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providing jewish connections around australia
"Chabad" is a Jewish outreach group with chapters all over the world, and "RARA" stands for rural and regional Australia.
Chabad of RARA is a community organization that serves Jewish people living in rural and regional areas around Australia.
Our team travels great distances to ensure that the needs of those living further away are met, by providing authentic Jewish experinces, support and connection anywhere in Australia.
We demonstrate the values of living a Jewish life, from the womb until the very last breath.
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Shabbat & Holidays
Candle Lighting Times
Melbourne, VIC
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5:31 PM  -  Friday, August 21
Shabbat Ends
6:30 PM  -  Shabbat, August 22
Weekly Torah Portion
Ki Teitzei
Upcoming Holiday
Rosh Hashanah
Sep. 11 - Sep. 13
Daily Thought
Come Home Daily
There’s nothing that matches the joy when a lost child returns home. And you are that child. Because your soul began within G‑d. And she descended into this world to inhabit a body and live as though a stranger to the heavens, captive of a futile dream, journeying upon many winding and perilous roads… Until waking up one day and realizing that none of these lead back home. And now, every day, with every prayer of your heart, with every word of Torah upon your lips, with every mitzvah and...