Shabbat Chazon/SEED Luncheon
Shabbat Schedule
Friday, August 5
- 06:50 am – Shacharit
- 07:00 pm – Mincha
- 07:41 pm – Candle Lighting
Saturday, August 6
- 07:45 am – Shacharit at Salem Towers
- 08:45 am – Shacharit
- 09:15 am – Latest Time for Kriat Shema
- 10:30 am – Junior Congregation
- 11:30 am – SEED Luncheon
- 04:45 pm – Ladies’ Class by Rebbetzin Rabinowitz: “Parenting- An Obligation and an Art, Pt. 1” (at Rabbi & Rebbetzin Rabinowitz’s home, 265 Fellsway East)
- 06:30 pm – Men’s Class in Derech Hashem
- 07:15 pm – Mincha
- 07:45 pm – Se’udah Shlishit
- 08:35 pm – Ma’ariv
- 08:48 pm – Shabbat Ends
Week of August 7 – 12
Shacharit
- 08:00 am – Sunday and Tuesday (Tisha B’Av)
- 06:40 am – Monday and Thursday
- 06:50 am – Wednesday and Friday
Mincha
- 07:35 pm – Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday
- 07:10 pm – Monday
- 07:20 pm – Tuesday
- 07:00 pm – Friday
Ma’ariv
- 08:05 pm – Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday
- 08:15 pm – Monday
- 08:25 pm – Tuesday
Tisha B’Av Schedule
Erev Tisha B’Av / Tisha B’Av Night – Monday, August 8
- 06:40 am – Shacharit
- 12:50 pm – Chatzot (Halachik Midday)
- 07:10 pm – Mincha
- 07:25 pm – Seudah Hamafseket
- 07:56 pm – Fast Begins
- 08:15 pm – Ma’ariv
- 08:25 pm – Megilat Eicha
Tisha B’Av Day – Tuesday, August 9
- 08:00 am – Shacharit and Kinot
- 09:17 am – Latest time for reading Shema
- 10:30 am – Video presentation 1 (running time approx. 1 hr. and 20 min. )
- 12:49 pm – Chatzot (Halachik Midday)
- 06:40 pm – Video presentation 2 [ different from the first ] ( running time approx. 30 min. )
- 07:20 pm – Mincha
- 08:25 pm – Maariv
- 08:39 pm – Fast ends
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Weekly Words of Torah
Where Are You?!
Insights into Parshat Devarim of Assistant Rosh Yeshivat Sha’alvim, Rav Aryeh Hendler, from the Asicha volume, by Rav Re’uven Ungar of Sha’alvim.
“How (Eichah) can I deal with by myself your troubles, burdens and quarrels?” (Sefer Devarim 1: 12). In Ashkenazic communities, this verse is read according to the tune of Lamentations (Megillat Eichah). The Midrash connects this to the first verse in Eichah “How (Eichah) has she sat desolate?” The Zohar (Part I, 29a) connects this with an additional verse. “And He said to him ‘Where are you- Ayecha?'” (Sefer Bereshit 3:9). At this moment- subsequent to Adam HaRishon sinning- Hashem informed him of the future destruction of the Beit HaMikdash. What is the relationship between these two events? The first Rebbe of Chabad (Rav Shlomo Zalman from Liadi, the Ba’al HaTanya) was incarcerated in Czarist Russia, due to the slander of an informant. He was interrogated by an apostate who inquired if the Torah is eternal and applies to everyone at all times. The Rebbe responded in the affirmative. The apostate asked the Rebbe what is the contemporary meaning of the question of Ayecha? The Rebbe answered that Hashem constantly asks us where we are. While a person may reply “I am here!”, that is not necessarily the case; the person may be masquerading as someone else. The Rebbe proceeded to inform the interrogator that he also is being questioned as to where he is. The call of “Ayehca?” is a fundmental concept. Adam HaRishon represents all of humanity. A person must be honest with himself. Failure to do so constitutes a form of personal exile. Rav Kook in Orot HaKodesh (Part III, 141) explains that the sin of Adam HaRishon was his failure to heed to his internal self, listening to the external snake instead. Thus his sin personified the concept of exile. In essence, humans do not sin “G-d created man just” (Kohelet 7:29). This is the case when we heed our inner selves. Problems begin when people listen to external forces. Returning to our true selves corrects the sins that led to exile. “Return us Hashem to You, and let us return; renew our days as of old”.