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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Candles: 7:31 p.m. Torah: Lev. 12:1-15:33 Haftarah: II Kings 7:3-20 Havdalah: 8:35 p.m. “And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.” [Leviticus 12:3] The mitzvah of circumcision appears in the midst of the discussion of the impure and pure periods immediately following childbirth. The Talmud specifically derive from […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:24 p.m. Torah: Lev. 9:1-11:47 Haftorah: II Samuel 6:1-7:17 Havdalah: 8:26 p.m. I have two tales about hands. The first concerns the hands of my college president. When we ordain our rabbis and cantors at the Hebrew Union College — an annual event, scheduled this year in just a few weeks’ […]

Passover is not only the first of all the Jewish festivals, but in it is contained all the biblical holidays. In the words of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, “Pesach is thus the time not of one deliverance, but of many. It is the rabbinic sense of time to combine the recollection of many events into a […]

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