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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Candlelighting: 5:15 p.m. Torah: Ex. 18:1-20:23 Haftorah: Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6 Havdalah: 6:17 p.m. The Ten Commandments (more literally, the “Ten Statements) are the centerpiece of Yitro [Exodus 20:1-14]. At the center of these 10 pillars are the commands to honor parents and not to commit murder. Number 5, relating to parents, appears at […]

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It is dawn on the seventh day after the Children of Israel walked out of Egypt into the wilderness. We encounter them on the far shore of the Yam Suf, after a night of roaring wind and terror [Exodus 14:21-31]. Half-a-million people, they walked across a dry seabed between towering walls of seawater held back […]

Candlelighting, Readings Shabbat candles: 4:58 p.m. Torah: Ex. 10:1-13:16 Haftarah: Jeremiah 46:13-28 Havdalah: 6:00 p.m.. The Bible often hints at the underlying meaning of a passage by employing key words that repeat throughout the passage. The root “yadoa” (yod/daleth/ayin) — “to know” — appears about 20 times in the story of the Exodus, and in […]

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