Shabbat - 10/27/07 (15 Cheshvan 5768)

For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week's reading is -- Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24). Topics in Lech Lecha: Visiting the sick and hospitality to strangers, The promise of a son is revealed to Sarah, G-d’s love for Abraham, Abraham intercedes for Sodom, Sodom is destroyed, Lot—a perplexing hero, Lot is saved, Lot begs for a concession, Lot’s daughters and the birth of Moab and Ammon: The roots of Jewish monarchy, Abraham in Gerar: Sarah is abducted, Abimelech appeases Abraham and Sarah, The birth of Isaac, Hagar and Ishmael are expelled, Ishmael is saved, The alliance with Abimelech at Beer-sheba, The tenth trial: The Akeidah/Binding of Isaac on the altar, The birth of Rebecca 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