Sabbath Week

Moses Gets A Consultant

Rabbi Arthur Samlan
02/07/2012
Rabbi Arthur Samlan
Special To The Jewish Week

Candlelighting, Readings:
Shabbat candles: 5:05 p.m.
Torah: Exodus 18:1-20:23
Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6 (Ashkenaz);
6:1-13 (Sephard)
Havdalah: 6:09 p.m. 

In this week’s Torah reading, we learn that Yitro, Moshe’s father-in-law, traveled from his home in the Land of Midian into the Sinai Desert, bringing Moshe’s wife, Zipporah, and their two sons to be reunited with him. The details of why Zipporah and their sons had been “sent away” by Moshe are unclear.

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The Call Of The God Of History

Shlomo Riskin
01/31/2012
Shlomo Riskin
Special To The Jewish Week

Candlelighting, Readings:
Shabbat candles: 4:57 p.m.
Torah: Exodus 13:17-17:16    
Haftarah: Judges 4:4-5:312 (Ashkenaz);
5:1-31 (Sephard)
Havdalah: 6:01 p.m.                                                        

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Reparations From Egypt

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
01/24/2012
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman

Candlelighting, Readings:
Shabbat candles: 4:49 p.m.
Torah: Exodus 10:1-13:16
Haftarah: Jeremiah 46:13-28
Havdalah: 5:51 p.m.

Our sedra features one of the most troubling episodes in all of Torah: the so-called despoiling of the Egyptians. Back in Exodus 3, the Israelites are promised that they will leave Egypt not just with their freedom but with great wealth. “You shall strip the Egyptians bare,” goes the promise, in the colloquial English of today.

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Leaving Isn’t So Easy

Shlomo Riskin
01/17/2012
Shlomo Riskin
Special To The Jewish Week

Candlelighting, Readings:
Shabbat candles: 4:40 p.m.
Torah: Exodus 6:2-9:35
Haftarah: Ezekiel 28:25-29:21
Havdalah: 5:43 p.m.

“And Egypt shall know that I am God when I stretch My hand over Egypt: and I shall take the Children of Israel out from among them” [Exodus 7: 5]

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Leaving Isn’t So Easy

Shlomo Riskin
01/17/2012
Shlomo Riskin
Special To The Jewish Week

Candlelighting, Readings:
Shabbat candles: 4:40 p.m.
Torah: Exodus 6:2-9:35
Haftarah: Ezekiel 28:25-29:21
Havdalah: 5:43 p.m.

“And Egypt shall know that I am God when I stretch My hand over Egypt: and I shall take the Children of Israel out from among them” [Exodus 7: 5]

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Living Mouth To Hand

Rabbi Peretz Rodman
01/10/2012
Rabbi Peretz Rodman
Special To The Jewish Week

Candlelighting, Readings:
Shabbat candles: 4:32 p.m.
Torah reading: Exodus 1:1-6:1
Haftarah: Isaiah 27:6-28:13; 29:22-23 (Ashkenaz);
Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 (Sephard)
Havdalah: 5:36 p.m.

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When Universalist Truths Are Particular

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
01/03/2012
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
Special To The Jewish Week

Candlelighting, Readings:
Shabbat candles: 4:25 p.m.
Torah: Genesis 47:28-50:26
Haftarah: I Kings 2:1-12
Havdalah: 5:29 p.m.

Few biblical prophecies have generated as much heat as this week’s blessing of Judah: “The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet.” The verse following, however, adds the caveat, ad sheyavo shiloh, and therein lies the problem.

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The Father Of Pharaoh

Erica Brown
12/27/2011
Erica Brown
Special To The Jewish Week

Candlelighting, Readings:
Shabbat Candles: 4:19 p.m.
Torah reading: Leviticus 12:1-13:59;
Exodus 12:1-20
Haftarah: Ezekiel 45:16-46:18
Havdalah: 5:23 p.m.

In this week’s Torah reading, Joseph brings his family down to Egypt to live in the land of Goshen and enjoy relief from the famine in Canaan. He tells his brothers to send a personal invitation to his father. However, the invitation is marked by irony, a telling word play and a sad statement of family distance.

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The Reconciliation Of Hellenism And Judaism

Shlomo Riskin
12/20/2011
Shlomo Riskin
Special To The Jewish Week

Candlelighting, Readings:
Shabbat candles: 4:14 p.m.
Torah: Gen. 41:1–44:17; Numbers 7:30-41
Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14-4:7
Havdalah: 5:18 p.m.

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Sins, Crimes And Absolute Morality

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
12/13/2011
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman

Candlelighting, Readings:
Shabbat candles: 4:11 p.m.
Torah: Genesis 37:1-40:23
Haftarah: Amos 2:6-3:8
Havdalah: 5:15 p.m.

The Joseph story is one of the Bible’s finest literary achievements. The sedras that make up its chapters end at moments of tension that make it practically impossible to wait for the next installment. Much of the vocabulary is found nowhere else in the Bible. Words are carefully selected to deepen the plot line, and the Midrash adds layers of interpretation that enhance the story’s genius.

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