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Candlelighting, Readings: Candlelighting: 6:40 p.m. (Wed.); 7:39 p.m. (Thu.); 6:36 p.m. (Fri.) Torah readings: Exodus 33:12-34:26; Numbers 29:17-25 Haftarah: Ezekiel 38:18-39:16 Havdalah. 7:35 p.m. “And you shall take on the first day the fruit of a splendid tree, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook” [Leviticus 23:40]. Normally […]

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