Minyan this week at Saranac Synagogue: Shabbos Shelach (June 20-21, 2025 / 25-26 Sivan, 5785)
David K
Please join us at 10 AM.
We will have a nice kiddush luncheon after services.
Friday: Candle lighting: 8:39 PM, Shabbos begins: 8:57 PM.
Saturday: We expect a minyan this Shabbos. Davening starts at 10 AM. PLEASE BE ON TIME.
Zeman Shema: 9:26 AM - Say Shema on time before davening. Zeman Tefilah: 10:43 AM.
This is Shabbos mevorchim Tammuz. “Molad Tammuz is Wednesday, June 25, 9:58 PM. and 4 chalokim.”
“Rosh Chodesh Tammuz yihyeh b’yom chamishi v’ yom shishi b’Shabbos.”
Chatzos: 1:17 PM. (To avoid fasting past Chatzos on Shabbos, some
have coffee or a small snack before davening.)
Pirkei Avos
chapter 3.
Sunset is 8:58 PM. Shabbos ends: Shul tradition, 60 min.: 9:58 PM. 42 min.: 9:40 PM; 72 min.: 10:10 PM.
Announcements:
•
Mazel Tov to Sarah (Alt) Weinstein and Aharon Weinstein on the birth of a
7-lb baby girl!
Mom and daughter are doing fine.
• Rosh Chodesh Tammuz is observed from Wednesday night through Friday afternoon.
• R’ Gurary’s drosh this week: “Pashas Shelach and Nuclear Power.” What does that mean?? We’ll find out!
• Everyone is invited to join us for Kiddush, and we thank our sustaining sponsors!
Shelach
Numbers 13:1–15:41
Moses sends twelve spies to the land of Canaan. Forty days later they return, carrying a huge cluster of grapes, a pomegranate and a fig, to report on a lush and bountiful land. But ten of the spies warn that the inhabitants of the land are giants and warriors “more powerful than we”; only Caleb and Joshua insist that the land can be conquered, as G‑d has commanded.
The people weep that they’d rather return to Egypt. G‑d decrees that Israel’s entry into the land shall be delayed forty years, during which time that entire generation will die out in the desert. A group of remorseful Jews storm the mountain on the border of the land, and are routed by the Amalekites and Canaanites.
The laws of the nesachim (meal, wine and oil offerings) are given, as well as the mitzvah to consecrate a portion of the dough (challah) to G‑d when making bread. A man violates the Shabbat by gathering sticks and is put to death. G‑d instructs us to place fringes (tzitzit) on the four corners of our garments, so that we should remember to fulfill the mitzvot (divine commandments).
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