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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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Weekday Shacharit
Ma’ariv
Sun
09:00
19:30
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07:00
19:30
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07:00
19:30
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07:00
19:30
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07:00
19:30
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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.
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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
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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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Similarly, it is Aharon who strikes the Nile
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when bringing about the second plague of
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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
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by striking it, and cursing it.
frogs. And at the third plague of lice, which
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