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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 4:11 p.m. Torah: Genesis 37:1-40:23 Haftarah: Amos 2:6-3:8 Havdalah: 5:15 p.m. The Joseph story is one of the Bible’s finest literary achievements. The sedras that make up its chapters end at moments of tension that make it practically impossible to wait for the next installment. Much of the vocabulary is found […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 4:11 p.m. Torah: Genesis 28:10-32:3 Haftarah: Hosea 11:17-12:14 (Sephard); 12:13-14:10 (Ashkenaz) Havdalah: 5:14 p.m. ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to now than I have ever known.” So says Sidney Carton, in […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 4:14 p.m. Torah: Genesis 25:19-28:9 Haftarah: I Samuel 20:18-42 Havdalah: 5:15 p.m. One of the very worst of the curses in Deuteronomy 28 is that “you will bear children and they will not be yours” [Deut. 28:41]. This week’s portion of Toldot is very much concerned with the question of whose […]

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