Saranac Synagogue News: Shabbos Metzorah-Shabbos Hagadol (April 19-20, 2024 / 11-12 Nissan 5784)
David Kunkel
Saranac Synagogue News: Shabbos Metzorah-Shabbos Hagadol (April 19-20, 2024 / 11-12 Nissan 5784)
Shalom Aleichem!
We expect to have a minyan this Shabbos. Please join us promptly at 9:45 AM.
PLEASE COME EARLY SO WE CAN FINISH EARLY/ON TIME!
There will be a nice cold fleishigs kiddush in Shul after services.
Friday: Candle lighting: 7:45 PM, Shabbos begins: 8:03 PM.
Saturday: We expect a minyan this Shabbos. Davening starts at 9:45 AM.
Zeman Shema: 9:48 AM
Say Shema on time before davening.
Zeman Tefilah: 10:57 AM. Chatzos: 1:14 PM. Sunset is 8:05 PM.
· At mincha, some have the custom to read the section of the Haggadah that begins “Avadim Hayyinu.”
Shabbos ends: Shul tradition, 60 min.: 9:05 PM. 42 min.: 8:47 PM; 72 min.: 9:17 PM.
Announcements:
· THANK YOU to all who made this minyan possible!!
• Kiddush sponsored by Ernie Sternberg in honor of the kehillah.
• Be sure to sell your chametz and make a Ma’os Chittim donation to charity before Monday sunset.
• Pesach begins Monday night. Most start the seder after 8:42 PM.
Metzorah
Leviticus 14:1–15:33
Last week’s Parshah described the signs of the metzora (commonly mistranslated as “leper”)—a person afflicted by a spiritual malady which places him or her in a state of ritual impurity. This week’s Torah reading begins by detailing how the recovered metzora is purified by the kohen (priest) with a special procedure involving two birds, spring water in an earthen vessel, a piece of cedar wood, a scarlet thread and a bundle of hyssop.
A home can also be afflicted with tzaraat by the appearance of dark red or green patches on its walls. In a process lasting as long as nineteen days, a kohen determines if the house can be purified, or whether it must be demolished.
Ritual impurity is also engendered through a seminal or other discharge in a man, and menstruation or other discharge of blood in a woman, necessitating purification through immersion in a mikvah.
Learn: Metzora in Depth
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