Saranac Synagogue News: Shabbos Emor (16-17, 2025 / 18-19 Iyar, 5785)
David K
Shalom Aleichem!
We expect to have a minyan this Shabbos. See announcements.
Join us at 10 AM.
We will have a nice kiddush luncheon after services.
Friday: Candle lighting: 8:15 PM, Shabbos begins: 8:33 PM. Count Omer 34.
Saturday: We expect a minyan this Shabbos. Davening starts at 10 AM. PLEASE BE ON TIME.
Zeman Shema: 9:29 AM - Say Shema on time before davening. Zeman Tefilah: 10:44 AM.
Chatzos: 1:12 PM. (To avoid fasting past Chatzos on Shabbos, some
have coffee or a small snack before davening.)
Pirkei Avos
chapter 4.
Sunset is 8:34 PM. Shabbos ends: Shul tradition, 60 min.: 9:34 PM. 42 min.: 9:16 PM; 72 min.: 9:46 PM. Count Omer 35.
Announcements:
• This week’s Parsha: “When a Day is a Year”
• B”H, Beth continues her rapid recovery. We expect her release from rehab soon!
• Kiddush is co-sponsored by R’ Sternberg. Everyone is invited to join us, and we thank our sustaining sponsors!
Emor
Leviticus 21:1–24:23
The Torah section of Emor (“Speak”) begins with the special laws pertaining to the kohanim (“priests”), the kohen gadol (“high priest”), and the Temple service: A kohen may not become ritually impure through contact with a dead body, save on the occasion of the death of a close relative. A kohen may not marry a divorcee, or a woman with a promiscuous past; a kohen gadol can marry only a virgin. A kohen with a physical deformity cannot serve in the Holy Temple, nor can a deformed animal be brought as an offering.
A newborn calf, lamb or kid must be left with its mother for seven days before being eligible for an offering; one may not slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day.
The second part of Emor lists the annual Callings of Holiness—the festivals of the Jewish calendar: the weekly Shabbat; the bringing of the Passover offering on 14 Nissan; the seven-day Passover festival beginning on 15 Nissan; the bringing of the Omer offering from the first barley harvest on the second day of Passover, and the commencement, on that day, of the 49-day Counting of the Omer, culminating in the festival of Shavuot on the fiftieth day; a “remembrance of shofar blowing” on 1 Tishrei; a solemn fast day on 10 Tishrei; the Sukkot festival—during which we are to dwell in huts for seven days and take the “Four Kinds”—beginning on 15 Tishrei; and the immediately following holiday of the “eighth day” of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret).
Next the Torah discusses the lighting of the menorah in the Temple, and the showbread; (lechem hapanim) placed weekly on the table there.
Emor concludes with the incident of a man executed for blasphemy, and the penalties for murder (death) and for injuring one’s fellow or destroying his property (monetary compensation)..
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Regards,
David
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Shmuel Rashkin, President • Bob Alt, Vice President
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