PARASHA CHUKAT

PARASHA CHUKAT   


Friday June 30, 2017

7:50 pm Candle Lighting

6:30 pm SHARP Mincha followed by Drasha & Arvit

    
Parasha Chukat

 
  

Saturday July 1, 2017
8:36 am (9:21 am GRA) Latest time for shema 

8:45 am   Shaharit
10:00 am Torah Reading  

11:00 am Drasha by Rabbi Yisraeli

11:30 am Kiddush sponsorship is available.

5:45 pm Mishnayot at Rabbi Yisraeli's home for boys ages 8-18 years old.  

6:45 pm Pre-Mincha Shiur at our Kenisa 

7:35 pm Mincha at our Kenisa
7:55 pm Seudat Shlishit
8:35 pm Arvit  
8:53 pm Shabbat Ends

 

Sunday 
   

8:00 am Shaharit at our Kenisa.

9:00 am Special breakfast prepared by Babak Refoua at  Daddy Camp in Westwood Kehilla.  

Monday & Thursday

6:30 am Shaharit followed by breakfast and shiur

Tuesday 4th of July
8:15 am Shaharit followed by breakfast and shiur
 
Wednesday & Friday  

6:45 am Shaharit followed by breakfast and shiur

8:00 am Minyan Monday to Friday 

   

PARASHA

1st Aliya: The laws of the Parah Adumah- the Red Heifer, are detailed.
2nd Aliya: In Nissan of the 40th year, Miriam died. The well dried up and the nation gathered against Moshe and Aharon to complain.
3rd Aliya: The "hitting of the rock" occurred and Moshe and Aharon were refused entry into Eretz Yisrael.
4th Aliya: Moshe requested from Edom permission to travel through their land on the way to Eretz Yisrael. Edom refused.
5th Aliya: Aharon died and Elazar succeeded his father as Kohen Gadol. They encountered the southern Cannanities (13 miles west of the Dead Sea) and bested them in battle. Following Aharon's death the protective clouds departed and the nation began to complain about the living conditions. Hashem sent poisonous snakes to attack the nation and Moshe was instructed to create the "copper snake on a stick" o miraculously save the bitten.
6th & 7th Aliya: The nation traveled to Yeshimon – northeast of the Dead Sea. In the conclusion of Chukat. the nation was refused access to the lands of Sichon and Og and Moshe led them into victorious battle against them.

 

HAFTARAH 

Judges: 11 1:33 

 
In the year 2779 Yiftach HaGiladi became Judge – Shofet. Yiftach is described as a gifted warrior who was seemingly unworthy of becoming the Shofet. His brothers had cast out Yiftach because he was the son of a concubine. While away from his family Yiftach gathered around himself an army of outlaws. Due to the oppression and tyranny of Ammon, Yiftach was asked by the elders of Gilad to return to the family and lead them against the forces of Ammon. Yiftach was victorious and remained Shofet for six years.
There are a number of reason why the story of Yiftach was selected to complement Parashat Chukat. First of all the issue of leadership. The Talmud tell us that "Yiftach in his generation was like Samuel in his generation."
Although Yiftach was not the greatest scholar, he nevertheless was the recognized leader and a prophet. As such he was accorded the absolute support of the Halacha and the people. This support can at times appear as dogmatic as the law of the Red Heifer. However, our absolute support for our acknowledged Torah leadership is the foundation of our legal system and the transmission of Torah from generation to generation.
The second reason has to do with the battle with Sichon. Sichon was king of the Ammonites who had taken possession of lands once belonging to Moab. Sichon refused to allow the Bnei Yisrael to pass through his lands and went to war against them. Sichon was destroyed and his lands were forfeited to the Bnei Yisrael. In our Haftarah, the king of Ammon, as cousins to the Moabites, claimed legal ownership to the lands which Moshe had taken from Sichon, who had taken them from Moab.

  

 

 

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