Minyan this week at Saranac Synagogue: Shabbos Shemini (April 25-26, 2025 / 27-28 Nissan, 5785)
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: 7:52 PM, Shabbos begins: 8:10 PM. Count 13 l’Omer.
Saturday: We expect a minyan this Shabbos. Davening starts at 10 AM. PLEASE BE ON TIME.
Zeman Shema: 9:43 AM - Say Shema on time before davening. Zeman Tefilah: 10:53 AM.
This is Shabbos mevorchim Iyar. “Molad Iyar is Sunday, April 27, 8:30 PM. and 2 chalokim.”
“Rosh Chodesh Iyar yihyeh b’yom Sheini v’yom Shlishi b’Shabbos.” We do NOT say “Av Harachamim.”
Chatzos is 1:13 PM.
Sunset is 8:11 PM. Shabbos ends: Shul tradition, 60 min.: 9:11 PM. 42 min.: 8:53 PM; 72 min.: 9:23 PM. Count 14 l’Omer.
Announcements:
• Shabbos Drosh: “Sands of Surprise: the Desert Zoo and Aquarium”—should be fascinating!
• We begin saying Pirkei Avos with Chapter 1.
• Rosh Chodesh Elul is observed from Sunday night through Tuesday afternoon.
• Beginning Wednesday morning we resume saying Tachanun. Some begin observing their Omer restrictions at that time, through until Shavuos.
Shemini
Leviticus 9:1–11:47
On the eighth day, following the seven days of their inauguration, Aaron and his sons begin to officiate as kohanim (priests); a fire issues forth from G‑d to consume the offerings on the altar, and the divine presence comes to dwell in the Sanctuary.
Aaron’s two elder sons, Nadav and Avihu, offer a “strange fire before G‑d, which He commanded them not” and die before G‑d. Aaron is silent in face of his tragedy. Moses and Aaron subsequently disagree as to a point of law regarding the offerings, but Moses concedes to Aaron that Aaron is in the right.
G‑d commands the kosher laws, identifying the animal species permissible and forbidden for consumption. Land animals may be eaten only if they have split hooves and also chew their cud; fish must have fins and scales; a list of non-kosher birds is given, and a list of kosher insects (four types of locusts).
Also in Shemini are some of the laws of ritual purity, including the purifying power of the mikvah (a pool of water meeting specified qualifications) and the wellspring. Thus the people of Israel are enjoined to “differentiate between the impure and the pure.”
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