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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Shabbat – 10/27/07 (15 Cheshvan 5768)
For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week’s reading is — Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24). Topics in Lech Lecha: Visiting the sick and hospitality to strangers, The promise of a son is revealed to Sarah, G-d’s love for … Continue reading
Torah Honors
The Torah Scroll (also known as the Sefer Torah – Scroll of the Law) is the Five Books of Moses (Chumash in book form) written on parchment made from a kosher animal. The Sefer Torah is hand-written by a specially … Continue reading
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Shabbat – 10/20/07 (8 Cheshvan 5768)
For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week’s reading is — Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27). Topics in Lech Lecha: G-d’s call to Abraham, Abraham comes to Canaan, Abraham and Sarah in Egypt, The return to Eretz Yisrael, … Continue reading
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The Mitzvah of Tefillin
The Tefillin are two leather boxes containing four passages of the Torah that refer to the Tefillin (Exodus 13:1-10,11-16; Deuteronomy 6:4-8, 11:13-21). They are warn by religous Jews (men in Orthodoxy and some women in non-Orthodox sects) during morning prayer … Continue reading
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Shabbat – 10/13/07 (1 Cheshvan 5768)
For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week’s reading is — Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32). Topics in Noach: Noah, decree of the flood, the flood, receding of the waters, Noah making an offering, G-d’s covenant with Noah, the … Continue reading
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Simchat Torah – Dance Everyone!
Simchat Torah (Rejoicing in the Torah) occurs at the conclusion of Sukkot on 23 Tishri (in September or October). No work is permitted on Simchat Torah. Simchat Torah celebrates the conclusion of the annual reading of the Torah and the … Continue reading
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Happy Sukkot!
Fun video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXKPpfoa2qo Sukkot, the Harvest Festival, occurs on 15 Tishri (in September or October). The word Sukkot means booths, and refers to the temporary dwellings (sukkah) that we are commanded to live in during this holiday. Sukkot is also … Continue reading
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Shabbat – 10/06/07 (24 Tishrei 5768)
For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week’s reading is a double-portion — Bereishit (Genesis 1:1-6:8). Topics in Bereishit: the creation of the world and humans, the Sabbath, the Garden of Eden (Gad Eden), Cain and Abel, … Continue reading
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