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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 8:04 p.m. Torah: Numbers 30:2-32:42 Haftarah: Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 Havdalah: 9:08 p.m. It seems a long way off, but before we know it, summer swelter will give way to autumn cool, and we will be back in synagogue listening to Kol Nidre. The roots of Kol Nidre lie in this week’s parashah, […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 8:08 p.m. Torah: Numbers 25:10-30:1 Our parsha begins with the reward that Pinchas receives for his zealotry. It is important to internalize Pinchas’ uniqueness and understand that the special covenant of peace that he received and the many miracles that helped him [Sanhedrin 82b] were given specifically to a person of […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Candles: 8:12 p.m. Torah: Numbers 22:2-25:9 Haftarah: Micha 5:6-6:8 Havdalah: 9:19 p.m. Whoever has attended a writing workshop knows that the first question to crop up inevitably centers on the viewpoint from which a story is told. This holds true also for parshat Balak which, taken by itself, is essentially a suspenseful, fast-paced […]

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