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Parshat Va’era Rosh Chodesh

Service Times Shabbat (Rosh Chodesh) Kabbalat Shabbat

16:25

(Candle Lighting)

16:25

Shacharit

09:00

Leining

10:00

Mincha followed by Seudah & Ma’ariv

16:25

Shabbat Ends

17:38

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Leining 318 372 232

Maftir 890 1062 696

Haftarah 1208 1489 944

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Weekday Shacharit

Ma’ariv

Sun

09:00

19:30

Mon

07:00

19:30

Tues

07:00

19:30

Wed

07:00

19:30

Thurs

07:00

19:30

Fri

07:00

16:40

In this week’s parsha Hashem commands

required striking the ground, Moshe refused

16:40*

Moshe to bring the plague of blood to the

again to strike it, because the ground saved

* Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat

Egyptians, and start the painful process of

him by covering up the Egyptian taskmaster

Chayim Arukim

forcing Pharoah to let the Jews leave Egypt.

that he had killed in last week’s parsha.

Candle Lighting

Thought For The Week Being Grateful

to all those who have Yahrzeit this week as follows

He tells him that he should stretch his staff

28 January

over the River Nile, and strike the water,

The message for us is that if Moshe was

and this will start the transformation of

able to show such sensitivity to water and

water to blood.

dust which are not living beings, then how

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Joanne Feldman

Father

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Father Father Father Brother Mother Mother Mother Wife Mother Father

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Mother Mother Mother Mother Mother Mother

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Father Father Father Husband Father

3 February 7 Shevat

Ivor Harris

Father

Similarly, it is Aharon who strikes the Nile

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Paul Berman Gerald Berman

Father Father

when bringing about the second plague of

1 Shevat

Sun

29 January 2 Shevat

Mon

30 January 3 Shevat

Thurs

2 February 6 Shevat

Fri

4 February 8 Shevat

much more so do we have to be careful to However, when the plague eventually starts,

show gratitude and sensitivity to anybody

it is not Moshe who strikes the water, but

who does us even the slightest favour, even

rather his brother, Aharon. The famous

something as small as lending a pen or giv-

question is why did Moshe not listen to

ing us directions.

Hashem and do it himself? However big or small the favour or gesture, One answer is that since Moshe was saved

the correct thing to do is to say thank you,

by the River Nile as a baby, he would not be

and try and do something nice in return.

showing appropriate gratitude to the river

Rabbi Nick Kett

by striking it, and cursing it.

frogs. And at the third plague of lice, which

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