Minyan this week at Saranac Synagogue: Shabbos Devarim (August 1-2, 2025 / 7-8 Av, 5785)
David K
Shalom Aleichem!
We expect to have a minyan this Shabbos. Please join us promptly at 10 AM.
We will have a nice kiddush luncheon after services.
The fast of Tisha b’Av begins at sunset Saturday night, 8:34 PM.
Friday: Candle lighting: 8:18 PM, Shabbos begins: 8:36 PM.
Saturday: We expect a minyan this Shabbos. Davening starts at 10 AM. PLEASE BE ON TIME.
Zeman Shema: 9:44 AM - Say Shema on time before davening. Zeman Tefilah: 10:56 AM.
Chatzos: 1:22 PM. (To avoid fasting past Chatzos on Shabbos, some
have coffee or a small snack before davening.)
No Pirkei
Avos this week.
Sunset is 8:34 PM. FAST BEGINS 8:34 pm, so finish your Seuda Shlishis before then.
Shabbos ends: Shul tradition, 60 min.: 9:35 PM. 42 min.: 9:17 PM; 72 min.: 9:47 PM.
Announcements:
• This week’s drash, “Hidden Love in Harsh Words.” Should be interesting!
• Everyone is invited to join us for kiddush, and we thank our sponsors!
• Mincha at Starin this week is at 2 PM.
• The fast begins at 8:34 PM.
• Different congregations have different customs for beginning the fast observances after Shabbos, check with your Rabbi.
• Ma’ariv at Starin this week is at 10 PM.
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 we read the Haftorah of Shabbos Chazon, the last of the three penitential Haftorahs before the fast of Tisha b’Av.
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