Shabbat - 02/02/08 (26 Shevat 5768)

For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here. This week's reading is -- Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18). Topics in Mishpatim: The civil law, Jewish bondsmen, "Sale" of a daughter, Murder and manslaughter, Killing of a slave, Penalty for bodily injury, Death caused by an animal, A pit, An animal damaging property, Stealing livestock, Self-defense: payment for theft, Damages caused by livestock, Laws of custodians, A borrower, Seduction, Sensitivity to the helpless and abandoned, The commandment to extend free loans, Do not curse a leader, Fullness offering and Priestly heave offering, Integrity of the judicial process, Fair dispensation of justice, The Sabbaths of the land and the week, The Three Pilgrimage Festivals, The promise of swift passage to, and conquest of, the land, "We will do and we will obey!", Prophecy at the mountain 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 Updated: Video Added