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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat Candles: 4:10 p.m. Torah: Gen. Gen. 25:19-28:9 Haftarah: Malachi 1:1-2:7 Havdalah: 5:10 p.m. Parashat Toldot is one of the classic “transition” narratives of the Torah; transition in the sense that the narrative is a case study in how the Covenant was transmitted from one generation to another. The core of the narrative […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat Candles: 4:16 p.m. Torah: Genesis 23:-25:17 Haftarah: I Kings 1-31 Havdalah: 5:16 p.m. I have a fondness for Eliezer, Abraham’s faithful servant, whose single task of finding Rebecca secures the Jewish future. As Sforno remarks, “When one generation dies, another has already been set in place to succeed it.” To “succeed” means […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat Candles: 4:17 p.m. Torah: Genesis 18:1-22:24 Haftarah: 5:17 p.m. Havdalah: II Kings 4:1-37 Abraham was blessed, “crowned” through his wife, Sarah, say Midrashim. We know this because when Abraham was distressed by Sarah’s insistence that he banish Hagar and Ishmael (for his mockery of Isaac), God tells Abraham to “listen to her […]

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