Shabbat - 5/12/07 (24 Iyar 5767)

For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week's reading is a double portion -- Behar-BeChukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34). Topics in Behar: Shemittah/Sabbatical Year, Yovel/Jubilee Year, Sequence of the passages, Redemption of land, Levite cities, Preventing poverty, A Jew’s Jewish "slave", Jewish slave of an idolater, Command against making idols Topics in BeChukotai: Miracles of blessing and curse, The Tochachah/Admonition, The first series of punishments, The second series, The third series, The fourth series, The fifth series, The conclusion of the Admonition, Gifts to the Temple Valuations, Sanctification and redemption of animals, Redemption of houses and fields, Cherem/Segregated property, The second title, The tithe of animals 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