Kabbalat Shabbat services

IMPORTANT INFORMATION RE COVID-19 SHABBAT SHULE PROCEDURES

Entry will be restricted to healthy individuals who do not have a temperature or any cold or flu-like symptoms; have not been in contact with anyone who has the virus and have not returned from travel in the past 14 days. Congregants at high health risk, such as the elderly or those with significant medical co-morbidities or immune-compromised, should consult their doctor before seeking to attend shule.


Ticket

• The ticket confirmation will not need to be presented but the ticket must be booked before 3pm on the Friday before the date.  A register will be kept of all activities and attendees, to enable traceability and ensure that at no point in time will there be more than 100 individuals present.
• Attendance will be by pre-service sign-up only.

Attending Services

• Entry will be restricted to healthy individuals who do not have a temperature or any cold or flu-like symptoms; have not been in contact with anyone who has the virus and have not returned from travel in the past 14 days. Congregants at high health risk, such as the elderly or those with significant medical co-morbidities or immune-compromised, should consult their doctor before seeking to attend shule.
  
• Prior to entering the shule and while in the the shule building, all individuals must maintain the required social distancing, ie at all times maintain a social distance of 1.5m from other individuals.
  
• On entering the shule, all individuals must adhere to hand hygiene procedures, including thoroughly sanitizing hands upon entry using the hand sanitizer that has been placed at the main entrance or washing hands with soap and water.
• When coughing and/or sneezing cover the nose and mouth with tissues or your elbow and immediately dispose of the tissue/s in the dustbins provided in the shule.
• Avoid all physical contact including handshakes, hugs and high fives.
• Please do not kiss Sifrei Torah, mezuzot, siddurim or any other items under any circumstances (even if they fall to the ground). Touching them should also be avoided.
• If possible, please bring your own siddur / chumash from home before Shabbat, for use at shule. If this is not possible, choose one siddur from shule and keep it in a place that it can be retrieved from by you for future use.
• Only the main shule and the ground-floor toilet facilities may be accessed, all other areas are off-limits and should not be accessed.
• Seats that are available for use during tefilla will be marked with a GREEN sticker or label. No other seats are to be used.

Please be patient and courteous when addressing the people implementing the procedures (which will take time). These people are representatives of the PHC and are acting on direct instruction of the Board of Management and the Rabbi. They are required to apply these policies and procedures in a standardised manner for all individuals, with no exception.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.