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- Bonds of Love Our sages teach that the Holy Temple was destroyed because of the baseless hatred that Jews harbored... Read More
Daily Thought
Naturally, we think of the Jewish people as a
conglomerate of many Jews. But the Baal Shem Tov saw the Jewish people as a
single, indivisible whole.
Think of a geometrical point. A point is
indivisible, but not because it is too hard, too big, or too small to cut up. A
point simply has no area to be divided. That’s what makes it a point.
And yet, from a point you can extend infinite
lines radiating in infinite dimensions.
In a somewhat similar way, but far beyond, all
Jews are one Jew. Which means that in any one Jew, you will find all of us—just
from a different angle.
So that whatever happens to any one of us
instantaneously happens to the entire Jewish people. Not by some ripple effect
or resonance. But because any one sample of the whole is the whole and the
whole is one.
And so...
Accordion
Jewish History
Av 3, 5786
Jewish History
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Passing of R. Shimshon of Ostropolle
R. Shimshon of Ostropolle was a saintly individual who was greatly revered both...
Laws and Customs
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"Nine Days'
During the “ Nine Days" from Av 1st to the Ninth of Av, we mourn the destruction ...
Daily Study
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Chumash with Rashi
Devarim, 6th Portion (Devarim (Deuteronomy) 2:31-3...
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Psalms/Tehillim
Chapters 18-22
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Tanya
Iggeret HaKodesh, beginning of Epistle 1
- Rambam
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Halachic Times
New York, NY 10010
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3:49 AM
Dawn (Alot Hashachar)
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4:40 AM
Earliest Tallit and Tefillin (Misheyakir)
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5:39 AM
Sunrise (Hanetz Hachamah)
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9:18 AM
Latest Shema
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10:32 AM
Latest Shacharit
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1:01 PM
Midday (Chatzot Hayom)
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1:40 PM
Earliest Mincha (Mincha Gedolah)
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5:23 PM
Mincha Ketanah (“Small Mincha”)
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6:56 PM
Plag Hamincha (“Half of Mincha”)
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8:07 PM
Candle Lighting
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8:25 PM
Sunset (Shkiah)
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8:57 PM
Nightfall (Tzeit Hakochavim)
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1:02 AM
Midnight (Chatzot HaLailah)
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74:32 min.
Shaah Zmanit (proportional hour)
Shabbat & Holidays
Candle Lighting Times
Light Candles at
Shabbat Ends

