NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat Candles: 7:29 p.m. Torah: Deut. 3:23-7:11 Haftarah: Isaiah 40:1-26 Havdalah: 8:28 p.m. Within the same Torah portion read on Tisha b’Av, taken from this week’s parsha, lies the promise of redemption. The dialectic of faith embedded in the verses predicting the self-destruction of the Jewish people’s decline into a state of collective […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat Candles: 7:39 p.m. Torah: Deut. 1:1-3:22 Haftarah: Isaiah 1:1-27 Havdalah-Tisha b’Av: 8:39p.m. Fast Ends: 8:31 p.m. (Sun.) ‘These are the words (Eleh devarim)” [Deuteronomy 1:2]. So starts this week’s Torah reading and the entire book of Devarim (Deuteronomy). But whose words are they, God’s or Moses’? Many of our finest commentators suspect […]