Minyan at Saranac Synagogue: Shabbos Behar-Bechukosai (23-24, 2025 / 25-26 Iyar, 5785)
David K
Shalom Aleichem!
We expect to have a minyan this Shabbos. See announcements.
Please join us at 10 AM.
We will have a nice kiddush luncheon after services.
Friday: Candle lighting: 8:22 PM, Shabbos begins: 8:40 PM. Count Omer 41.
Saturday: We expect a minyan this Shabbos. Davening starts at 10 AM. PLEASE BE ON TIME.
Zeman Shema: 9:27 AM - Say Shema on time before davening. Zeman Tefilah: 10:42 AM.
This is Shabbos mevorchim Sivan. “Molad Sivan is Tuesday, May 27, 9:14 AM. and 3 chalokim.”
“Rosh Chodesh Sivan yihyeh b’yom revi’i b’Shabbos.” Due to the Omer period, we DO say “Av Harachamim.”
Chatzos: 1:12 PM. (To avoid fasting past Chatzos on Shabbos, some
have coffee or a small snack before davening.)
Pirkei Avos
chapter 5.
Sunset is 8:40 PM. Shabbos ends: Shul tradition, 60 min.: 9:40 PM. 42 min.: 9:22 PM; 72 min.: 9:52 PM. Count Omer 42.
Announcements:
• Rosh Chodesh Elul is observed from Tuesday night through Wednesday afternoon.
• R’ Gurary’s drosh this week: “What’s Your Net Worth?”
• Welcome back, Beth!!
• Condolences to Rick Greenberg and his family on the passing of his brother Shmuel Ber ben Yosef, a regular visitor to our Shul over the years. He will be missed.
• Everyone is invited to join us for Kiddush, and we thank our sponsors!
Behar-Bechukosai
Leviticus 25:1–27:34
On the mountain of Sinai, G‑d communicates to Moses the laws of the Sabbatical year: every seventh year, all work on the land should cease, and its produce becomes free for the taking for all, man and beast.
Seven Sabbatical cycles are followed by a fiftieth year—the Jubilee year, on which work on the land ceases, all indentured servants are set free, and all ancestral estates in the Holy Land that have been sold revert to their original owners. Additional laws governing the sale of lands, and the prohibitions against fraud and usury, are also given.
G‑d promises that if the people of Israel will keep His commandments, they will enjoy material prosperity and dwell securely in their homeland. But He also delivers a harsh “rebuke,” warning of the exile, persecution and other evils that will befall them if they abandon their covenant with Him. Nevertheless, “Even when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away; nor will I ever abhor them, to destroy them and to break My covenant with them; for I am the L‑rd their G‑d.”
The Parshah concludes with the rules on how to calculate the values of different types of pledges made to G‑d, and the mitzvah of tithing produce and livestock.
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