Honoring the Sabbath day, known as Shabbat in Hebrew, is considered the most important observance in Judaism. The order to celebrate Shabbat originates in the ten commandments handed down to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. The fourth commandment (Exodus 20: 8-11; Deuteronomy 5: 14-15), translated from Hebrew, reads “Remember [observe] the Sabbath day and keep it holy”. For Jewish people, the celebration of Shabbat honors God for creating the world in six days and resting on the seventh day. Jews around the World celebrate the day of rest and relaxation in many ways, each according to how they interpret their religion. Shabbat commences at sunset on Friday evening and ends on Saturday at night (after 3 stars are visible with the naked eye). The duration of Shabbat should be around 25 hours, and according to the Torah, Motzeh – the end of Shabbat – begins when there [...]
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Jews around the world are observing a predawn-to-dusk fast on Tuesday, the 17th of Tammuz on the Jewish calendar. The fast is scheduled to end at 8:07 p.m. in Jerusalem. The primary focus is the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem by the Romans in the time of the Second Temple, three weeks before its destruction on the Ninth of Av. There are source ...
Weekly Sidra: Matot (Tribes) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 30:2-32:42 Haftorah: Yermiyahu / Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 The word of the HaShem came to me: Before I created you in the womb, I selected you; Before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet concerning the nations. (Jeremiah 1:4-5) This week we read Parashat Mat ...
R. Bechaye writes that when God’s presence filled the Tabernacle, He said: "Today I am causing My Presence to rest among you; if you sin, My Presence will leave you. But when Messiah comes, My Presence will remain with you permanently. Now you see the Divine Presence through fire, but with the advent of the Messiah you will see it clearl ...
Weekly Sidra: Yitro (Jetro) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 18:1-20:23 Haftorah: Yeshayahu / Isaiah 6:1-6:13 (Sephardim) But when Moshe’s (Moses) father-in-law saw how much he had to do for the people, he said, "What is this thing that you are doing to the people? Why do you act alone, while all the people stand about you from morning unt ...
Yitro, Yithro, or Yisro (יתרו — Hebrew for “Jethro,” the second word and first distinctive word in the parshah) is the seventeenth weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in the book of Exodus. It constitutes Shemot / Exodus 18:1–20:23. Jews in the Dias ...
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