CANDLE LIGHTING
5:07pm - Candle Lighting, Friday.
6:05pm - Havdalah, Saturday.
These times are for Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Eruv Status: KOSHER
Shabbat Shalom!
A year after the Exodus, G-d instructed the people of Israel to bring the Passover offering on the afternoon of Nissan 14, and to eat it that evening, roasted over the fire, together with matzah and bitter herbs, as they had done on the previous year just before they left Egypt. "There were, however, certain persons who had become ritually impure through contact with a dead body, and could not, therefore, prepare the Passover offering on that day. They approached Moses and Aaron ... and they said: '...Why should we be deprived, and not be able to present G-d's offering in its time, amongst the children of Israel?'" (Numbers 9).
In response to their plea, G-d established the 14th of Iyar as a "second Passover" (pesach sheini) for anyone who was unable to bring the offering on its appointed time in the previous month. The day thus represents the "second chance" achieved by teshuvah the power of repentance and "return." In the words of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch, "The Second Passover means that it's never a 'lost case.'"
It is customary to eat matzah today to mark the "Second Passover".
YESHIVA SHULE TIMES
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PARSHAH IN A NUTSHELL
HAFTORAH IN A NUTSHELL
SAGES ON THE PARSHAH
I shall be sanctified among the children of Israel (22:32)
It was resolved in the upper chambers of the house of Nithza in Lod: Regarding every law of the Torah, if a man is threatened, "Transgress, lest you be killed," he may transgress to avoid being killed . . . as it is written (Leviticus 18:5), "[Keep My statutes and My laws, which man should do and] live by them"—not die by them . . . except for idolatry, arayot (incest and adultery), and murder [for which a person must give up his life rather than transgress] . . .
When Rav Dimi came, he said: This applies only if there is no tyrant's decree [whose purpose is to uproot the Jewish faith]; but if there is a tyrant's decree, one must incur martyrdom rather than transgress even a minor precept. When Ravin came, he said in Rabbi Yochanan's name: Even without a tyrant's decree, it was permitted only in private; but in public one must be martyred even for a minor precept rather than violate it. What is meant by a "minor precept"? Rabbah the son of Rav Yitzchak said in Rav's name: Even to change one's shoe strap (from Jewish to gentile custom).
(Talmud, Sanhedrin 74a)
https://w2.chabad.org/media/pdf/16608.pdf
LAMPLIGHTER & ZICHRON YAAKOV
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Mon Passing of Eli
Wed Roman Jews Granted Privileges
Sat Matzah Depleted
In preparation for the festival of Shavuot, we study one of the six chapters of the Talmud's Ethics of the Fathers ("Avot") on the afternoon of each of the six Shabbatot between Passover and Shavuot; this week we study Chapter Four. (In many communities -- and such is the Chabad custom -- the study cycle is repeated through the summer, until the Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah.)
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