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NYJW Sabbath Week

Contemporary Jews are challenged by it and rabbis stand on their head to justify it. I refer to the Akedah, Rosh HaShanah’s second-day Torah reading chronicling Abraham’s sacrificial binding of his son Isaac on Mount Moriah, and God’s last minute intervention to substitute a ram instead [Genesis 22]. Ancient and rabbinic explanations justify the shock […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:07 p.m. Torah: Deut. 26:1-29:8 Haftorah: Isaiah 60:1-22 Havdalah: 8:05 p.m. ‘When you enter into full possession of the Land which the Lord your God is giving to you … then you shall take of the first fruits … and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose” […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:18 p.m. Torah: Deut. 21:10-25:19 Haftorah: Isaiah 54:1-10 Havdalah: 8:17 p.m.             Parshat Ki Tetze contains the perplexing law of the “ben sorer umoreh,” the rebellious son who is put to death for having started down a path of gluttony and defiance [Deuteronomy 21:18-21]. The law, […]

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