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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 5:00 p.m. Torah: Ex. 18:1­20:23 Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6 Havdalah: 6:03 p.m.. The Covenant between God and Abraham was the National Covenant, a Divine agreement that Abraham’s seed will be eternal, that his descendants will inherit the Land of Israel, and that this nation — despite periods of dreadful persecution and […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Candlelighting: 4:52 p.m. Torah Reading: Exodus 13:17-17:16 Haftarah: Judges 4:4-5.31                   Judges 5:1-31 (Sephardic) Havdalah: 5:54 p.m. We’re used to thinking of time in a linear fashion with a past, present and future. The Torah operates in a different dimension with the past and future blending with the present, and with events in […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Candlelighting: 4:44 p.m. Torah Reading: Exodus 10:1-13:16 Haftarah: Jeremiah 46:13-28 Havdalah: 5:46 p.m.  In the Talmud, three is the critical number. Three generations, that is: the third generation is a turning point. But “turning point” to what? According to the Talmud’s Rabbi Yochanan, three successive generations of Torah scholars guarantee that “Torah will […]

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