Shabbat - 08/11/07 (27 Av 5767)

For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week's reading is a double portion -- Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17). Topics in Re'eh: Blessing and curse, Sanctity of the Land, Private altars, Permission to eat redeemed offerings, Sacred foods consumed only in Jerusalem, Permission to eat unconsecrated meat, General principles of observance, The prohibition against copying the rites of the Canaanites, A false prophet, One who entices others to go astray, The wayward city, A treasured people, Permitted and forbidden food, The second tithe, Remission of loans, To be warmhearted and openhanded to our brethren, A Jewish bondsman, The three pilgrimage festivals: Pesach, Shavuot, Succot, To come to Jerusalem with offerings 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