Shabbat - 4/28/07 (10 Iyar 5767)

For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week's reading is a double portion -- Acharei-Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1-20:27). Topics in Acharei: The death of Aaron’s sons and the Yom Kippur service, The lots, The incense service, The he-goat to Azazel, Removal of the shovel and ladle, Conclusion of the service, The eternal commandment of Yom Kippur, Service outside the Tabernacle, Prohibition against eating blood, Covering blood, Forbidden practices and traditions, Forbidden relationships, Molech, Sodomy and bestiality, The holiness of the land Topics in Kedoshim: Holiness, Piggul/Rejected offerings, Gifts to the poor, Honest dealings with others, Love your fellow, Kil’ayim/Forbidden mixtures, Shifchah charufah/Designated maidservant, Fruit trees, Weights and measures, Punishments, Molech, Penalties for forbidden relationships, The land and immortality, Holiness and kashrus For more information about this week's Parsha, please visit these sites. Orthodox Union Chabad Aish HaTorah United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism Union for Reform Judaism Jewish Reconstructionist Federation