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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat Candles: 4:58 p.m. Torah Reading: Exodus 25:1-27:19 Haftarah: I Kings 5:26-6:13 Sabbath Ends: 6 p.m. I love Jewish tradition. I also find it puzzling. It is because I puzzle through it, however, that I love it. Take Jewish wisdom for the month of Adar that commences this very week. “When Adar begins,” […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 4:50 p.m. Torah: Exodus 21:1-24:18 Haftarah: Jeremiah 34:8-22; 33:25-26 Havdalah: 5:52 p.m. Mishpatim, coming on the heels of the revelation at Sinai [Exodus 20], is concerned with what it means to struggle with the ins and outs of daily life, without the ecstatic experience of revelation. Last week’s portion of Yitro […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 4:41 p.m. Torah reading: Exodus 18:1-20:23 Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1-7:6 Havdalah: 5:44 p.m. The most seminal event in Jewish history, the miracle that informed, inspired and inflamed our people with passionate commitment to ethical monotheism, was the Revelation at Sinai. How strange that the biblical portion that details this phenomenon is named […]

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