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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 6:41 p.m. Torah: Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30 Haftarah: Isaiah 61:10-63:9 Havdalah: 7:38 p.m. Rosh Hashanah candles: 6:33 p.m. (Wed.); 7:30 p.m. (Thu.) ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way,” we say, but we are often wrong. It is self-delusion to suppose that if we always make a sound decision, always expend the extra […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 6:53 p.m. Torah: Deut. 26:1-29:8 Haftarah: Isaiah 60:1-22 Havdalah: 7:51 p.m. Jews love happy endings, even if we have to compose them ourselves. It would be hard to find a more pessimistic section of the Torah than the tokhakha, the 100 curses poised to befall the Jews if they forsake the […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:03 p.m. Torah: Deut. 21:10-25:19   Haftarah: Deut. 21:10-25:19   Havdalah: 8:02 p.m. As a very young rabbi I had the privilege of visiting one of the most revered halachic scholars, Rav Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, already near-blind but still possessed of a razor-sharp mind. I shall never forget the last words he said […]

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