Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 5:40 p.m. Torah: Genesis 6:9-11:32 Haftarah: Isaiah 44:1-45:5 Havdalah: 6:43 p.m. ‘Noah was a righteous man; perfect in his generation.” As many students learn in their first Torah classes, the phrase “in his generation” gave our Rabbis license to fling open the gates of interpretation. Some saw it as additional praise […]
