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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Candles: 7:07 p.m. (Wed.); after 8:05 p.m. (Thu.); before 7:03 p.m. (Fri.) Torah: Deuteronomy 32:1-52 Haftarah: II Samuel 22:1-51 Havdalah: 8:01 p.m. Fast of Gedalia: 5:06 a.m. to 7:52 p.m. (Sun.) This week’s sedra, Ha’azinu, is one long poem or song, the most important one in all of Torah, according to commentators. Nachmanides […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 6:28 p.m. Torah: Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30 Haftarah: Isaiah 61:10-63:9 Havdalah: 7:25 p.m. The last of the 613 Mitzvot insinuates itself homiletically into this week’s Torah reading: “Now, write for yourselves this ‘shirah’ and teach it to the Israelites. Make them memorize it so that this song will be a witness for the […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:25 p.m. Torah: Deut. 26:1–29:8 Haftarah: Isaiah 60:1-22 Havdalah: 8:25 p.m I had never been to this particular shul before, this renovated hospital turned into a synagogue about two miles from where I grew up in Brooklyn. Nor had I ever prayed with chasidim. But the Klausenberger Rebbe was particularly well […]

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