Minyan at Saranac Synagogue Shabbos Ki Savo (Sept 12-13, 2025 /19-20 Elul, 5785)
David K
Shalom Aleichem!
We expect to have a minyan this Shabbos. THANK YOU for your quick
responses!
Please join us promptly at 10
AM.
Friday: Candle lighting: 7:12 PM, Shabbos begins: 7:30 PM.
Saturday: We expect a minyan this Shabbos. Davening starts at 10 AM. PLEASE BE ON TIME.
Zeman Shema: 10:01 AM - Say Shema on time before davening. Zeman Tefilah: 11:04 AM.
Chatzos: 1:11 PM. (To avoid fasting past Chatzos on Shabbos, some
have coffee or a small snack before davening.)
Pirkei Avos
chapters 3 and 4. Sunset
is 7:28 PM.
Shabbos ends: Shul tradition, 60 min.: 8:28 PM. 42 min.: 8:10 PM; 72 min.: 8:40 PM.
Announcements:
· This week’s drash: “Simcha—Choice or Mitzvah?”
· Everyone is invited to join us for kiddush, and we thank our sponsors!
· At halachic midnight, 1:11 AM Sunday, we begin saying Selichos. Join us at Saranac (a minyan is not expected) or at the synagogue of your choice. From now until Yom Kippur, Selichos are said between halachic midnight and Shacharis, at home or in Shul with a minyan. Davening Shacharis with a minyan takes priority; if necessary, say Selichos afterwards.
· WE STILL NEED THREE. Are you available for Rosh Hashana services? Whether “yes” or “no,” RSVP ASAP, TYVM.
Services: Monday evening, Sept. 22, Tuesday 9/23 morning and evening, Wednesday 9/24 morning.
Ki SAVO
Deuteronomy 26:1–29:8
Moses instructs the people of Israel: When you enter the land that G‑d is giving to you as your eternal heritage, and you settle it and cultivate it, bring the first-ripened fruits (bikkurim) of your orchard to the Holy Temple, and declare your gratitude for all that G‑d has done for you.
Our Parshah also includes the laws of the tithes given to the Levites and to the poor, and detailed instructions on how to proclaim the blessings and the curses on Mount Gerizim and Mount Eival—as discussed in the beginning of the Parshah of Re’eh. Moses reminds the people that they are G‑d’s chosen people, and that they, in turn, have chosen G‑d.
The latter part of Ki Tavo consists of the Tochachah (“Rebuke”). After listing the blessings with which G‑d will reward the people when they follow the laws of the Torah, Moses gives a long, harsh account of the bad things—illness, famine, poverty and exile—that shall befall them if they abandon G‑d’s commandments.
Moses concludes by telling the people that only today, forty years after their birth as a people, have they attained “a heart to know, eyes to see and ears to hear.”
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Regards,
David
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Shmuel Rashkin, President • Bob Alt, Vice President
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