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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat Candles: 4:45 p.m. Torah: Ex. 21:1­ 24:18 Haftarah: Jeremiah 34:8-22; 33:25-26 Havdalah: 5:47 p.m. If two religiously observant Jews are engaged in a disagreement that has financial ramifications, are they permitted to go to a secular court to arbitrate their dispute or must they go to a religious or rabbinic court (beit […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Sabbath candles: 4:37 p.m. Torah readings: Exodus 18:1-20:23 Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6 Shabbat ends: 5:40 p.m. Torah is poetry. Parshat Yitro contains one of the most beautiful examples of the sophisticated metaphorical language of our Torah: “You, yourselves, have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on kanfei nesharim […]

Candlelighting: Readings: Shabbat candles: 4:29 p.m. Torah: Exodus 13:17-17:16 Haftarah: Judges 4:4-5:31 Havdalah: 5:32 p.m. This week’s Torah reading, Beshalach, describes the glorious Jewish march from Egyptian slavery to freedom. When the Jewish people emerge triumphantly out of the Red Sea, they are finally emancipated from 210 years of cruel servitude to despotic pharaohs. The […]

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