Minyan this week at Saranac Synagogue: Shabbos Re’eh (August 22-23, 2025/ 28-29 Av, 57854)
David K
Shalom Aleichem!
We expect to have a minyan this Shabbos. PLEASE JOIN US PROMPTLY at 10 AM.
There will be a nice luncheon kiddush in Shul after services.
Friday: Candle lighting: 7:48 PM, Shabbos begins: 8:06 PM.
Saturday: We expect a minyan this Shabbos. Davening starts at 10 AM. PLEASE BE ON TIME.
Zeman Shema: 9:52 AM - Say Shema on time before davening.
Zeman Tefilah: 11:01 AM. (To avoid fasting past Chatzos on Shabbos, some have coffee or a small snack before davening.)
· This is Shabbos mevorchim Elul. “Molad Elul is Shabbos, August 23, 11:26 PM. and 6 chalokim.”
“Rosh Chodesh Elul yihyeh b’yom Rishon v’Yom Sheini b’Shabbos.” We do NOT say “Av Harachamim.”
Chatzos is 1:18 PM. Mincha Gedolah is 1:52 PM. Pirkei Avos Chapter 5.
Sunset is 8:04 PM. Shabbos ends: Shul tradition, 60 min.: 9:05 PM. 42 min.: 8:47 PM; 72 min.: 9:17 PM.
Announcements:
• Rosh Chodesh Elul is observed from Motzi Shabbos (Saturday night) through Monday afternoon.
• Beginning Sunday (per nusach Sefard at Saranac), we recite “LeDavid Uri” after Mincha.
(Nusach Ashkenaz and Chabad recite after Ma’ariv).
• From Monday morning until Rosh Hashana, we blow shofar after Shacharis.
Re-eh
Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17
“See,” says Moses to the people of Israel, “I place before you today a blessing and a curse”—the blessing that will come when they fulfill G‑d’s commandments, and the curse if they abandon them. These should be proclaimed on Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal when the people cross over into the Holy Land.
A Temple should be established in "the place that G‑d will choose to make dwell His name there,” where the people should bring their sacrifices to Him; it is forbidden to make offerings to G‑d in any other place. It is permitted to slaughter animals elsewhere, not as a sacrifice but to eat their meat; the blood (which in the Temple is poured upon the altar), however, may not be eaten.
A false prophet, or one who entices others to worship idols, should be put to death; an idolatrous city must be destroyed. The identifying signs for kosher animals and fish, and the list of non-kosher birds (first given in Leviticus 11), are repeated.
A tenth of all produce is to be eaten in Jerusalem, or else exchanged for money with which food is purchased and eaten there. In certain years this tithe is given to the poor instead. Firstborn cattle and sheep are to be offered in the Temple, and their meat eaten by the kohanim (priests).
The mitzvah of charity obligates a Jew to aid a needy fellow with a gift or loan. On the Sabbatical year (occurring every seventh year), all loans are to be forgiven. All indentured servants are to be set free after six years of service.
Our Parshah concludes with the laws of the three pilgrimage festivals—Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot—when all should go to “see and be seen” before G‑d in the Holy Temple.
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