Beit Knesset Tiferet Tzvi
Mincha and Maariv every day, full Shabbat and holiday services, weekly Torah shiurim - and a warm community for every Jew. Visitors are always welcome.
Shabbat
Toldot
Candle lighting
16:05
Havdalah
17:15
This week
Rosh Chodesh
Rosh Chodesh Kislev - two days, Tuesday and Wednesday: Hallel and Yaaleh ve-Yavo are added.
About the kehilla
Tiferet Tzvi was created by families who believe a synagogue is not only four walls and a sefer Torah, but a home where a guest becomes one of our own by the second aliyah.
Our nusach is Nusach Sefard (the Ashkenazi nusach kept by Hasidim and the knitted-kippah, religious-Zionist crowd); and yet our kehilla is dozens of families - from Argentina and Ethiopia, France and the former USSR, native-born Israelis and recent olim, of every profession and every political view - all of us united by a shared devotion to Torah and to communal prayer.
Today the shul is led by its devoted gabbaim, Yoav Moshe and Asher Gronberg, alongside a new generation - the council of gabbaim.
Shabbat & weekdays
Prayer times occasionally change - please follow the gabbai’s announcements.
This Shabbat
Candle lighting
16:05
Petach Tikva keeps two candle-lighting customs. Much of our kehilla lights according to the Jerusalem time - about 40 minutes before sunset - and that is the time shown here.
Weekdays
Torah
The weekly shiur and a devar Torah to carry into Shabbat.
In Parshat "Toldot" the sequence of events is brought up to the blessing of Yitzchak Avinu to Yaakov Avinu, and all this took place in the course of a single day[1]. First, Yitzchak Avinu asked Esav t…
Rav Adiria Pinchas
And these are the generations of Isaac son of Abraham - Abraham begot Isaac Rashi explains that the verse repeats and says "Abraham begot Isaac" in order to stop the mouths of the scoffers of the gene…
Dor Aramy
Featured this week
We learn the Or HaChaim on the weekly parsha and bring our questions to the Rav - over cholent and good things to eat.
Open to all. Come when it suits you, leave when you must.
The Or HaChaim is the classic Torah commentary of Rav Chaim ben Attar (1696-1743). It weaves the plain meaning of the verse together with the depth of Kabbalah and mussar; written in the Land of Israel, it is still studied across the Jewish world today.
Ask the Rabbi
Ask the rav - answers are published here anonymously.
Community
Honored members
Among the shul’s veterans
Remembers the shul from its first tzrif - a living memory of the community’s early years.
Read moreIn memoriam
Cohen, among the shul’s founders
For decades, generations were blessed by his birkat kohanim.
Read more
Gabbai of the kehilla
Came from Moscow. For many years he ran the shul and was its backbone - and merited a good old age.
Educator, a leader of the Ethiopian aliyah
1940-2021
Prisoner of Zion and honored citizen of Petach Tikva; a man of aliyah and education.
Read more
Longtime gabbai of the shul
A few words about Shayke will appear here soon - his family is preparing them.
Programs
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Every Shabbat afternoon about 40 children gather to say Tehillim together. Your kids will love it :-)
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Hafrashat challah, shiurim before the chagim, and warm get-togethers for the women of the kehilla.
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Boys are encouraged to lead Kabbalat Shabbat, and after bar-mitzvah age to lead the evening prayer.
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Our coordinators will help, teach, and organize it all - from the preparation to the celebration itself.
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Shabbat Chatan? Hafrashat challah before a wedding? A bar-mitzvah? We have a small, cozy hall for it.
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Kaddish? Yizkor? A yahrzeit? A prayer for someone’s recovery? Not sure how or where? Here - just ask.
Visit
Guests are always welcome. There is no entrance fee and no reservation needed - just come.
