Minyan this week at Saranac Synagogue: Shabbos Ki Seitzei (Sept 5-6, 2025 /12-13 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: 7:24 PM, Shabbos begins: 7:42 PM.
Saturday: We expect a minyan this Shabbos. Davening starts at 10 AM. PLEASE BE ON TIME.
Zeman Shema: 9:58 AM - Say Shema on time before davening. Zeman Tefilah: 11:03 AM.
Chatzos: 1:14 PM. (To avoid fasting past Chatzos on Shabbos, some
have coffee or a small snack before davening.)
Pirkei Avos chapters
1 & 2. Sunset is 7:41 PM.
Shabbos ends: Shul tradition, 60 min.: 8:41 PM. 42 min.: 8:23 PM; 72 min.: 8:53 PM.
Announcements:
· This week’s drash: “The Spiritual Lost and Found.”
· Everyone is invited to join us for kiddush, and we thank our sponsors!
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Services: Monday evening, Sept. 22, Tuesday 9/23 morning and evening, Wednesday 9/24 morning.
Ki Seitzei
Deuteronomy 21:10–25:19
Seventy-four of the Torah’s 613 commandments (mitzvot) are in the Parshah of Ki Teitzei. These include the laws of the beautiful captive, the inheritance rights of the firstborn, the wayward and rebellious son, burial and dignity of the dead, returning a lost object, sending away the mother bird before taking her young, the duty to erect a safety fence around the roof of one’s home, and the various forms of kilayim (forbidden plant and animal hybrids).
Also recounted are the judicial procedures and penalties for adultery, for the rape or seduction of an unmarried girl, and for a husband who falsely accuses his wife of infidelity. The following cannot marry a person of Jewish lineage: a mamzer (someone born from an adulterous or incestuous relationship); a male of Moabite or Ammonite descent; a first- or second-generation Edomite or Egyptian.
Our Parshah also includes laws governing the purity of the military camp; the prohibition against turning in an escaped slave; the duty to pay a worker on time, and to allow anyone working for you—man or animal—to “eat on the job”; the proper treatment of a debtor, and the prohibition against charging interest on a loan; the laws of divorce (from which are also derived many of the laws of marriage); the penalty of thirty-nine lashes for transgression of a Torah prohibition; and the procedures for yibbum (“levirate marriage”) of the wife of a deceased childless brother, or chalitzah (“removing of the shoe”) in the case that the brother-in-law does not wish to marry her.
Ki Teitzei concludes with the obligation to remember “what Amalek did to you on the road, on your way out of Egypt.
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