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Parshat Ki Tavo

17 Ellul 5777 8 September 2017

Shabbat Kabbalat Shabbat

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(Candle Lighting)

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Shacharit

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Mincha followed by Seudah & Ma’ariv

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Shabbat Ends

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Weekday Shacharit

Mincha & Ma’ariv

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Thought For The Week Don’t Do Me Any Favours This week’s parsha features a lengthy por-

If you begrudgingly buy your loved one a

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tion delineating several curses that will

present and just toss it to them, even if it

07:00

19:30

befall the Jewish People if they do not

was the most expensive gift you have ever

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19:00*

observe Hashem’s commandments. During

bought, they will feel saddened. It’s not

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this passage, the Torah states (28:47) that

about the gift. It’s not about the favour.

part of the cause of these afflictions is

The important part is how much love you

“because you did not serve Hashem, yout

put into the act, whether you were happy

G-d, with joy and goodness of heart”.

to do it. That is what brings you closer to

Candle Lighting * Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat

Chayim Arukim

to all those who have Yahrzeit this week as follows ‫שבת‬

9 Sept 18 Ellul

Larraine Goldwater

Mother

Mon

Howard Klepper Ruth Abisgold

Father Father

Charles Keeney Patricia Alex

Father Mother

This is quite alarming. It seems from this

the recipient.

verse that it is not enough to just do a

That is why we do mitzvot. G-d doesn’t

mitzvah, but one has to enjoy it too. How is

need us to come to Shule, for example, if

this fair? You can’t command an emotion?

we don’t really want to be there, and we’re

To place such a threat on account of this

just doing it to make someone happy. He

Kiddushim

seems unfair?

wants us to do it because of the benefits

9 September Andrea & Jonathan Flax

However, if one reflects on the very pur-

16 September Katherine & Paul Nathan

be more understandable. Hashem has not

23 September Unsponsored

something. Making Kiddush, or shaking a

11 Sept 20 Ellul

Fri

15 Sept 24 Ellul

pose of performing mitzvot, it may start to given us mitzvot to do because He needs

it has for ourselves and the way it brings us closer to Him. This attitude takes time and maturity to understand and develop, and the weeks coming up are an ideal time to do so.

stick and a lemon together doesn’t do any-

Mazaltov to Andrea & Jonathan Flax and to Kitty Joseph on the occasion of Nathan’s Aufruf. Liz Taylor and Michael Rappaport on the birth of a grandson.

thing for Him. We do these things because they are ways of bringing us closer to Him, and making us more G-dlike.

Rabbi Nick Kett

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