Saranac Synagogue News: Shabbos Devarim-Chazon (July 17-18 2026 /3-4 Av, 5786)
David K
Shalom Aleichem!
B"H we made our numbers this week and iy"H we WILL be having services!
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FRIDAY EVENING: TIMES ARE GETTING EARLIER!
Candle lighting: 8:32 PM Sunset: 8:50 PM.
SATURDAY:
Services begin: 10 AM. Please be on time! Let’s have a minyan through all the tefillos .
Zeman Shema: 9:35 AM Say Shema on time before services.
Zeman Tefilah: 10:50 AM.
Mincha: Pirkei Avos - Chapter 2.
Chatzos: 1:21 PM. (To avoid fasting past Chatzos on Shabbos, We recommend coffee or a snack before davening.)
Sunset: 8:50 PM.
Shabbos ends: Shul tradition: 9:50 PM. 42 min.: 9:32 PM. 72 min.: 10:02 PM.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
This week’s drash: “Power of a United City”
Everyone is invited to join us for a light kiddush, and we are grateful for our sponsors.
Then we will be joining the Okunov bar mitzvah party at 500 Starin.The fast of Tisha b’Av begins Wednesday, July 22 at sunset, through Thursday, July 23 at nightfall. There will be a separate mailing with details.
The Parshah in a Nutshell
Devarim
Deuteronomy 1:1–3:22
On the first of Shevat (thirty-seven days before his passing), Moses begins his repetition of the Torah to the assembled children of Israel, reviewing the events that occurred and the laws that were given in the course of their forty-year journey from Egypt to Sinai to the Promised Land, rebuking the people for their failings and iniquities, and enjoining them to keep the Torah and observe its commandments in the land that G‑d is giving them as an eternal heritage, into which they shall cross after his death.
Moses recalls his appointment of judges and magistrates to ease his burden of meting out justice to the people and teaching them the word of G‑d; the journey from Sinai through the great and fearsome desert; the sending of the spies and the people’s subsequent spurning of the Promised Land, so that G‑d decreed that the entire generation of the Exodus would die out in the desert. “Also against me,” says Moses, “was G‑d angry for your sake, saying: You, too, shall not go in there.”
Moses also recounts some more recent events: the refusal of the nations of Moab and Ammon to allow the Israelites to pass through their countries; the wars against the Emorite kings Sichon and Og, and the settlement of their lands by the tribes of Reuben and Gad and part of the tribe of Manasseh; and Moses’ message to his successor, Joshua, who will take the people into the Land and lead them in the battles for its conquest: “Fear them not, for the L‑rd your G‑d, He shall fight for you.”
This week’s Haftorah portion, Chazon, is the last and most intense of the three “haftaros of affliction” read before Tisha b’Av.
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