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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:21 p.m. Torah: Leviticus 16:1-20:27 Haftarah: Amos 9:7-15 (Ashkenaz); Ezekiel 20:2-20 (Sephard) Havdalah: 8:23 p.m. This week’s double portion of Achrei Mot/Kedoshim begins with God speaking to Moshe after the death of Aaron’s two sons, and then instructing Moshe and Aaron about the procedures surrounding Yom Kippur. This section (which we […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:13 p.m. Torah: Leviticus 12:1-15:33 Haftarah: II Kings 7:3-20 Havdalah: 8:15 p.m. Medically speaking, the biblical disease that is usually translated as “leprosy” (tsara’at) has nothing to do with slander (motsi shem ra). But our pre-scientific rabbinic ancestors connected the two as if they did. Tsara’at for them was like advanced […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:06 p.m. Torah: Leviticus 9:1-11:47 Haftarah: II Samuel 6:1-7:17 Havdalah: 8:07 p.m Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik writes in “Halachic Man”: “Man, the creature, is commanded to become a partner with the Creator in the renewal of the cosmos; complete and ultimate creation — this is the deepest desire of the Jewish people.” […]

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