Mishpatim 5777

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Parshat Mishpatim Parshat Shekalim

Shabbat (Mevarchim) Kabbalat Shabbat

17:20

(Candle Lighting)

17:20

Shacharit

09:00

Leining

10:00

Mincha & Seudah

17:15

Shabbat Ends

18:29

Weekday Shacharit

Ma’ariv

Sun*

08:45

19:30

Mon*

06:45

19:30

Tues

07:00

19:30

Wed

07:00

19:30

Thurs

07:00

19:30

Fri

07:00

17:35

28 Shevat 5777 24 February 2017

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Leining 416 478 306

Maftir 484 554 352

Haftarah 1212 1494 992

Thought For The Week Is Being A Nice Guy A Mitzvah? At first glance, the detailed day-to-day

the verse (Shemot 23:1) “Do not bear a

* Rosh Chodesh ** Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat

behaviour laws given in Parashat Mishpatim

false report” – a standard that would leave

Chayim Arukim

seem to contrast with the grandeur of the

most newspapers with many blank pages

10 Commandments in last week’s Parasha.

were they to adopt it! Similarly, we are

In fact they interrupt the account of Matan

told to help our enemy before our friend if

Torah. But Rabbi Yissocher Frand points out

we see them struggling with their donkey

that in order to properly accept the Torah

(Shemot 23:5) or, today, fixing a puncture –

we must first know how to be a mensch.

no other society in the world expects such

The mitzvot that direct our interaction

ethical altruism.

Candle Lighting

17:35**

to Denise & David Marsh on the loss of their mother, Mavis, to Danielle Woolf on the loss of her mother, Paulette, and to all those who have Yahrzeit this week as follows ‫שבת‬

29 Shevat

25 February

Sun

David Sheldon

Mother

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Harvey Beaver

Brother

with other people have to be part of our

Mon

Sonya Bower Joanne Feldman Rena Caplan Barbara Rothburn Lynne Hammond

Mother Mother Mother Father Mother

relationship with Hashem, according to the

In the final analysis the juxtaposition of

principle that ‘Derech Eretz Kadma LaTorah’

the mitzvot between man and man and

– good behaviour precedes adherence to

between man and G-d shows us that our

Ella Lentin

Brother

the Torah.

standards of Derech Eretz (behaviour) are

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Tues

28 February 2 Adar

Thurs

2 March 4 Adar

Fri

3 March 5 Adar

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4 March 6 Adar

divinely mandated and not optional, manGilda Leinhardt

Brother

Michael Green

Mother

Mark Saperia

Brother

Kiddushim 25 February Unsponsored

4 March Debbie & Anthony Horne 11 March Unsponsored

It is also true that without the Torah, we

made rules.

would not know how to behave. Some of the mitzvot in Parashat Mishpatim go

Rabbi Joel Portnoy

beyond what might be considered social norms and mandate a level of ‘super morality’ that Bnei Yisrael are expected to strive towards. The laws of Lashon Hora – not gossiping or telling tales – are derived from

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