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Haftarah Toledot
Shmuel Alef [1 Samuel] 20:18 - 42Machar ChodeshParashat Toledot"Any loving relationship which depends upon something, [when] that thing is gone, the love is gone. But any which does not depend upon...
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Haftara VaYetze
Hoshea 12:13-14:10Parashat VaYetze[artwork by Naama Nothman]12:13Vayivrach Ya'akov sedeh Aram vaya'avod Yisra'el be'ishah uve'ishah shamarThen [And] Yaakov fled into the field of Aram, and Yisrael...
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Haftarah VaYishlach
Ovadyah 1:1-21Parashat VaYishlach1:1Chazon Ovadyah koh-amar HASHEM Elokim le-Edom shmu'ah shamanu me'et HASHEM vetzir bagoyim shulach kumu venakumah aleiha lamilchamahThe vision of Ovadyah. Thus says...
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Tehillim 119:1
Tehillim [Psalms] 119King David composed this psalm as a prayer for success in matters of the spirit and for completeness in Torah achievement. He arranged the verse in alphabetical order, eight...
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Tehillim 119:2
Tehillim 119:2 Ashrei notzrei edotav bechol-lev yidreshuhuHappy are they who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart.Throughout this psalm "testimonies" refers to the Torah and mitzvot,...
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Tehillim 119:3
Tehillim 119:3 af lo faalu avlah bidrachav halakhuYes, they do no wrong; they walk in His ways.Those who earnestly follow G-d's precepts receive special Divine assistance to avoid doing any...
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Tehillim 119:4
Tehillim 119:4 atah tzivitah fikudeicha lishmor meodYou have ordained Your commands, that we should observe them diligently.King David now goes on to explain why the Holy One has commanded that we...
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Tehillim 119:5
Tehillim 119:5 achalai yikonu derachai lishmor chukeichaMy hopes: that my ways be directed to observe Your statutes!"My hopes" - these are my pleas that I place before You: "That my ways be directed"...
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Tehillim 119:6
Tehillim 119:6 az lo evosh behabiti el kol mitzvoteichaThen I will not be ashamed, when I look at all your commandments.If I will "observe Your statutes" (v119:5), I will also observe Your ordinances....
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Tehillim 119:7
Tehillim 119:7 odcha beisher levav belamdi mishpetei tzidkechaI will give thanks to You with an upright heart, when I learn Your just ordinances.Until here King David spoke in praise of the Torah....
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Tomer Devorah - Emulating G-d: Who is G-d Like You
"The righteous will flourish like the date palm..." (Tehillim 92:13)Tomer Devorah [Palm Tree of Devorah] - an ethical treatise devoted to a Kabbalistic understanding of the commandment to imitate G-d...
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Tomer Devorah - Emulating G-d: Who Pardons Iniquity
"The righteous will flourish like the date palm..." (Tehillim 92:13)Tomer Devorah [Palm Tree of Devorah] - an ethical treatise devoted to a Kabbalistic understanding of the commandment to imitate G-d...
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Yom Teruah - Rosh HaShanah
Rosh HaShanah - begins evening of September 4th; ends evening of September 6th[Zichron Teru'ah - Remembrance of the Sounding of the Shofar]DIRECTING OURSELVES FOR THE COMING YEARThe holiday of Rosh...
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Yamim Noraim - Days of Awe
Yamim Noraim - Days of Awe - Ten Days of RepentanceYou are great and do wonders, You alone, O G-d...In Your hands are the depths of the land and the loftiest mountains too... In His hands are the souls...
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Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement
Yom Kippur - begins evening of September 13th; ends evening of September 14th[G'mar Chatimah Tovah - A Good Final Sealing]Yom Kippur, also known as Yom HaKippurim the Torah literally says in reference...
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Sukkot - Huts & The Four Species
Sukkot - begins evening of September 18th; ends evening of September 25thThe Torah speaks of the commandments of dwelling in a Sukkah and taking the Lulav (VaYikra 23:33-44). The festival is known as...
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Hoshana Rabbah
Hoshana Rabbah - 7th Day of Sukkot - September 25Tradition is that on Hoshana Rabbah (7th day of Sukkot) the judgment of G-d, passed on Yom Kippur, is sealed by a written verdict. During Sukkot the...
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5774 Torah Parashiyot - Weekly Torah Portions
To begin all over again! 5774 Torah ParashiyotThe book of Bereishit (Genesis), which is not merely an account of the beginning, a narration of how it went, but it is the very blueprint for the...
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Haftarah Bereishit
Yeshayahu 42:5 - 43:10[Parashat Bereishit]The Haftarah of Parashat Bereishit opens by declaring HaShem the Creator of heaven and earth. This echoes the recount of HaShem’s creating the world in six...
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Rosh Chodesh - Cheshvan
Beginning of new Hebrew month of Cheshvan - October 4th[Rosh Chodesh - New Moon]The establishing of Rosh Chodesh, the New Moon, did not originally depend on the sighting of the moon, but completely on...
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