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Triennial Cycle (Triennial Torah Cycle) / Septennial Cycle (Septennial Torah Cycle)
Three and 1/2 year Lectionary Readings / Second Year of the Triennial Reading CycleAb 13, 5773 – July 19/20, 2013 / Fifth Year of the Shmita Cycle
Candle Lighting and Habdalah Times:
Conroe & Austin, TX, U.S.Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 8:15 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 9:12 PM / Brisbane, Australia
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 4:34 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 5:50 PM / Chattanooga, & Cleveland, TN, U.S.
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 8:36 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 9:37 PM
Jakarta, Indonesia
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 5:35 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 6:26 PM / Manila & Cebu, Philippines
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 6:11 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 7:03 PM / Miami, FL, U.S.
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 7:55 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 8:51 PM
Olympia, WA, U.S.
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 8:42 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 9:56 PM / Murray, KY, & Paris, TN. U.S.
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 7:54 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 8:56 PM / San Antonio, TX, U.S.
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 8:16 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 9:13 PM
Sheboygan & Manitowoc, WI, US
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 8:10 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 9:19 PM / Singapore, Singapore
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 6:58 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 7:49 PM / St. Louis, MO, U.S.
Fri. July 19 2013 – Candles at 8:05 PM
Sat. July 20 2013 – Habdalah 9:08 PM
For other places see: http://chabad.org/calendar/candlelighting.asp
Roll of Honor:
This Torah commentary comes to you courtesy of:
His Eminence Rabbi Dr. Hillel ben David and beloved wife HH Giberet Batsheva bat Sarah
His Honor Paqid Adon David ben Abraham
Her Excellency Giberet Sarai bat Sarah & beloved family
His Excellency Adon Barth Lindemann & beloved family
His Excellency Adon John Batchelor & beloved wife
His Honor Paqid Adon Ezra ben Abraham and beloved wife HH Giberet Karmela bat Sarah,
Her Excellency Giberet Laurie Taylor
His Eminence Rabbi Dr. Adon Eliyahu ben Abraham and beloved wife HH Giberet Dr. Elisheba bat Sarah
Her Excellency Prof. Dr. Conny Williams & beloved family
His Excellency Adon Yoel ben Abraham and beloved family
For their regular and sacrificial giving, providing the best oil for the lamps, we pray that G-d’s richest blessings be upon their lives and those of their loved ones, together with all Yisrael and her Torah Scholars, amen ve amen!
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This Torah Seder Commentary is dedicated to His Eminence Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu praying that the Holy One, Most Blessed be He, be filled wiyth compassion for His Eminence and restore his health, heal him, and strengthen him. And may He send him speedily a complete recovery from heaven for his 248 organs and his 365 blood vessels, together with all of the sick people of Israel, a recovery of the body and of the spririt, may it come speedily, swiftly an soon, Amen ve Amen!
Shabbat Nachamu 1
1st Sabath of Strengthening/Consolation
Shabbat / Torah Reading: / Weekday Reading:תְּרוּמָה / Saturday Afternoon
“T’rumah” / Reader 1 – Shemot 25:1-9 / Reader 1 – Shemot 26:1-3
“a heave offering” / Reader 2 – Shemot 25:10-16 / Reader 2 – Shemot 26:4-6
“una ofrenda” / Reader 3 – Shemot 25:17-22 / Reader 3 – Shemot 26:7-9
Shemot (Exod.) 25:1-40 / Reader 4 – Shemot 25:23-30
Ashlamatah: Is. 60:17 – 61:3, 9 / Reader 5 – Shemot 25:31-33 / Monday & Thursday
Mornings
Special: Is. 40:1-26 / Reader 6 – Shemot 25:34-36 / Reader 1 – Shemot 26:1-3
Psalm 59:1- / Reader 7 – Shemot 25:37-40 / Reader 2 – Shemot 26:4-6
Abot: 3:7 / Maftir: Shemot 25:37-40 / Reader 3 – Shemot 26:7-9
N.C.: Mk 8:5-10;
Acts 16:9-12 / Isaiah 40:1-26
Blessings Before Torah Study
Blessed are You, Ha-Shem our G-d, King of the universe, Who has sanctified us through Your commandments, and commanded us to actively study Torah. Amen!
Please Ha-Shem, our G-d, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May we and our offspring, and our offspring's offspring, and all the offspring of Your people, the House of Israel, may we all, together, know Your Name and study Your Torah for the sake of fulfilling Your desire. Blessed are You, Ha-Shem, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Amen!
Blessed are You, Ha-Shem our G-d, King of the universe, Who chose us from all the nations, and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, Ha-Shem, Giver of the Torah. Amen!
Ha-Shem spoke to Moses, explaining a Commandment. "Speak to Aaron and his sons, and teach them the following Commandment: This is how you should bless the Children of Israel. Say to the Children of Israel:
May Ha-Shem bless you and keep watch over you; - Amen!
May Ha-Shem make His Presence enlighten you, and may He be kind to you; - Amen!
May Ha-Shem bestow favor on you, and grant you peace. – Amen!
This way, the priests will link My Name with the Israelites, and I will bless them."
These are the Laws for which the Torah did not mandate specific amounts: How much growing produce must be left in the corner of the field for the poor; how much of the first fruits must be offered at the Holy Temple; how much one must bring as an offering when one visits the Holy Temple three times a year; how much one must do when doing acts of kindness; and there is no maximum amount of Torah that a person must study.
These are the Laws whose benefits a person can often enjoy even in this world, even though the primary reward is in the Next World: They are: Honouring one's father and mother; doing acts of kindness; early attendance at the place of Torah study -- morning and night; showing hospitality to guests; visiting the sick; providing for the financial needs of a bride; escorting the dead; being very engrossed in prayer; bringing peace between two people, and between husband and wife; but the study of Torah is as great as all of them together. Amen!
Contents of the Torah Seder
· Materials for the Sanctuary – Exodus 25:1-7
· Purpose of the Sanctuary – Exodus 25:8-9
· The Ark – Exodus 25:10-16
· The Mercy-Seat and the Cherubim – Exodus 25:17-22
· The Table of Showbread – Exodus 25:23-30
· The Menorah (Candlestick) – Exodus 25:31-40
Reading Assignment:
The Torah Anthology: Yalkut Me’Am Lo’Ez - Vol. IX: The Tabernacle
By: Rabbi Yaaqov Culi & Rabbi Yitschaq Magriso, Translated by: Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
Published by: Moznaim Publishing Corp. (New York, 1990)
Vol. 9 – “The Tabernacle,” pp. 3-78
Rashi & Targum Pseudo Jonathan
for: Shemot (Exod.) 25:1-40
RASHI / TARGUM PSEUDO JONATHAN /1."The Lord spoke to Moses saying: / 1. ¶ And the Lord spoke with Mosheh, saying,
2. "Speak to the children of Israel, and have them take for Me an offering; from every person whose heart inspires him to generosity, you will take My offering. / 2. Speak unto the children of Israel, that they will set apart (take) before me a Separation: of every one whose heart is willing, but not by constraint, you will take my separation.
3. And this is the offering that you shall take from them: gold, silver, and copper; / 3. And this is the separation which you will take of them: gold, and silver, and brass;
4. blue, purple, and crimson wool; linen and goat hair; / 4. and hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen; and goats' skins,
5. ram skins dyed red, tachash skins, and acacia wood; / 5. and skins of rams dyed red, and purpled skins, and woods of sittin,
6. oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the incense; / 6. and olive oil for the light, and aromatics for the confection of the pure anointing oil, and of the fragrant incense;
7. shoham stones and filling stones for the ephod and for the choshen. / 7. gems of beryl that are gems of perfection, for engraving and insertion in the ephod and in the breastplate.
8. And they shall make Me a sanctuary and I will dwell in their midst / 8. And they will make a Sanctuary to My Name, that My Shekinah may dwell among them.
9. according to all that I show you, the pattern of the Mishkan and the pattern of all its vessels; and so shall you do. / 9. According to all that I show you, the likeness of the tabernacle and the likeness of all its vessels, so shalt thou make.
10. They shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height. / 10. ¶ And they will make an ark of sitta wood; two cubits and a half its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
11. And you shall overlay it with pure gold; from inside and from outside you shall overlay it, and you shall make upon it a golden crown all around. / 11. And you will cover it with pure gold within and without, and will make upon it a crown of gold round about.
JERUSALEM: A coronal of gold shall surround it.
12. And you shall cast four golden rings for it, and you shall place them upon its four corners, two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side. / 12. And you will cast for it four rings of gold, and set them upon its four corners; two rings for one side, and two rings for the second side.
13. And you shall make poles of acacia wood and you shall overlay them with gold. / 13. And you will make staves of sitta wood, and cover them with gold;
14. And you shall bring the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark with them. / 14. and you will introduce the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, that the ark may be carried upon them.
15. The poles of the ark shall be in the rings; they shall not be removed from it. / 15. The staves will be inlaid in the rings of the ark, and not be removed from it.
16. And you shall place into the ark the testimony, which I will give you. / 16. And thou shalt put within the ark the testimony that I will give you.
17. And you shall make an ark cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width. / 17. And you will make a (kaphortha) mercy-seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half the length, and a cubit and a half the breadth, and its depth shall be a handbreadth (pusheka).
18. And you shall make two golden cherubim; you shall make them of hammered work, from the two ends of the ark cover. / 18. And you will make two cherubim, of pure beaten gold will you make them on the two sides of the mercy-seat.
19. And make one cherub from the one end and the other cherub from the other end; from the ark cover you shall make the cherubim on its two ends. / 19. You will make one cherub on this side, and one cherub on that side of the mercy-seat; you will make the cherubim on its two sides.
20. The cherubim shall have their wings spread upwards, shielding the ark cover with their wings, with their faces toward one another; [turned] toward the ark cover shall be the faces of the cherubim. / 20. And the cherubim will stretch forth their wings above, their heads over against each other, their wings overshadowing the mercy-seat, and their faces over against each other; towards the mercy-seat will be the faces of the cherubim.
21. And you shall place the ark cover on the ark from above, and into the ark you shall place the testimony, which I will give you. / 21. And you will put the mercy-seat above upon the ark, and within the ark you will lay the Tables of the Testimony that I will give you.
22. I will arrange My meetings with you there, and I will speak with you from atop the ark cover from between the two cherubim that are upon the Ark of the Testimony, all that I will command you unto the children of Israel. / 22. And I will appoint My Word with you there, and will speak with you from above the mercy-seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, concerning all that I may command you for the sons of Israel.
23. And you shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits its length, one cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height. / 23. ¶ And you will make a table of sitta wood; two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.