Candle lighting & Havdala times for this Trippple issue First day of Shabbat 7th day of Sh. Parshat HaGadol Pesach Chol HaMoed Pesach Shmini Dates in April 3rd 4th 8th 9th 10th 11th 14th 15th plag 17th reg 18th Yerushalayim 6:24 7:38 6:27 7:41 6:29 7:43 6:32 7:46 5:48 6:34 7:48 S'derot 6:42 7:40 6:45 7:44 6:46 7:45 6:49 7:48 5:50 6:51 7:50 6:40 7:38 6:43 7:42 6:44 7:43 6:47 7:46 5:49 6:49 7:48 Raanana 6:41 7:40 6:44 7:43 6:46 7:45 6:49 7:48 5:50 6:51 7:50 6:40 7:39 6:44 7:42 6:45 7:44 6:48 7:47 5:49 6:50 7:49 Rehovot 6:41 7:40 6:44 7:43 6:46 7:45 6:48 7:48 5:50 6:51 7:50 Netanya 6:41 7:40 6:45 7:44 6:46 7:45 6:49 7:48 5:50 6:51 7:51 Be'er Sheva 6:39 7:39 6:42 7:43 6:43 7:44 6:46 7:47 5:50 6:48 7:49 Modi'in 6:40 7:39 6:44 7:42 6:45 7:44 6:48 7:47 5:49 6:50 7:49 Petach Tikva 6:24 7:39 6:27 7:43 6:29 7:45 6:32 7:48 5:50 6:34 7:50 Maale Adumim 6:24 7:37 6:27 7:41 6:29 7:43 6:32 7:46 5:48 6:34 7:48 Ginot Shomron 6:40 7:39 6:44 7:42 6:45 7:44 6:48 7:47 5:49 6:50 7:49 Gush Shiloh 6:39 7:38 6:43 7:41 6:44 7:43 6:47 7:46 5:48 6:49 7:48 K4 & Hevron 6:40 7:38 6:43 7:42 6:44 7:43 6:47 7:46 5:49 6:49 7:48 Giv'at Ze'ev 6:40 7:38 6:43 7:42 6:44 7:43 6:47 7:46 5:49 6:49 7:49 Yad Binyamin 6:41 7:39 6:44 7:43 6:46 7:45 6:48 7:48 5:50 6:50 7:50 Ashkelon 6:42 7:40 6:45 7:43 6:47 7:45 6:49 7:48 5:51 6:51 7:51 Tzfat 6:29 7:38 6:32 7:42 6:34 7:43 6:37 7:47 5:48 6:39 7:49 Candle lighting for Shabbat HaGadol is "regular" Havdala for Shabbat HaGadol is "regular" (VIHI NO'AM and V'ATA KADOSH are not said at ) Candle lighting for Seder night is L'HADLIK NEIR SHEL YOM TOV and epigdy Preferably, brachot should be said first and then light (rather than the usual Friday way) Havdala for first day of Pesach is wine and Havdala brachot only. Candle lighting and Havdala for Shabbat Chol Hamoed are "regular" Candle lighting for Sh'vi'i shel Pesach is L'HADLIK NEIR SHEL YOM TOV only. Havdala for Yom Tov (that is not also Motza"Sh) is wine and Havdala brachot only. Candle lighting and Havdala for Shabbat Parshat Sh'mini are "regular". Plag (earliest time to light) for Friday is listed for those who will be taking Shabbat early.

OU Center TT 855 % 8 9 PESACH 5769 "THIS 'n THAT" OU Israel Center TT 855 % 1 9 PESACH 5769 "THIS 'n THAT" SHABBAT HAGADOL the 10th, only during that first, original the intercession of Moshe Rabeinu on our 6th day of Pesach Nissan.) behalf. The 13 Midot represent (5th the day of Chol HaMoed, TUE) The date of the first Shabbat HaGadol was The Midrash tells us of the unusual miracle restoration of life to the generation of the Day 5 of the Omer 10 Nissan (as it is this year). And that is Midbar. In that way, the Haftara fits well. that occurred on the original Shabbat particularly significant, because one of the First Torah • 3 people, 14 p'sukim HaGadol. The Egyptians asked the Jews reasons we call it Shabbat HaGadol, has to Shabbat • 3 people Bamidbar 9:1•14 (from B'haalot'cha) what they were doing with the lambs. do with events of the 10th of Nissan 2448. 16 p'sukim from the beginning of Parshat When the Jews told them that they were This portion deals with the first (and only) The Jews in Egypt were commanded • not Sh'mini, as usual for Shabbat Mincha. going to sacrifice them to G•d, the Pesach brought in the Wilderness. a mitzva for the generations, but rather a Egyptians would have been expected to It also contains the mitzvot of Pesach one•time commandment • to take a lamb 4th day of Pesach react with outrage and anger at the Sheni. (or young goat) into their homes on the (3rd day of Chol HaMoed, SUN) "desecration" of their deity. But they 10th of Nissan, four days before they were Day 3 of the Omer 2nd Torah • 4th Aliya, same as day 2 didn't. They took the news calmly. This is to slaughter it as the Korban Pesach. (In considered one of the miracles of the First Torah • 3 people, 16 p'sukim future years, halacha allows one to acquire 7th day of Pesach whole Exodus experience, in addition to Sh'mot 13:1•16 (from Parshat BO) his animal for K.P. even on his way to Har (Wednesday) other miracles of that Shabbat day; this led HaBayit on the afternoon of Erev Pesach. This is the continuation of the reading of Day 6 of the Omer to identify the day throughout the In practice, however, people did desig• the first day of Pesach. It consists of the generations as Shabbat HaGadol. two parshiyot known as KADEISH andFirst Torah • 5 people, 63 p'sukim nate the lamb or goat as early as the 10th Sh'mot 13:17•15:26 (from B'shalach) of Nissan, so it could be properlySince the people of Israel entered into the V'HAYA KI Y'VI'ACHA, which join the inspected for blemishes for the four days realm of mitzvot by fulfilling the command first two portions of the Sh'ma as the four This reading is the continuation of the before its being brought to the Mizbei'ach. to take the KP into their homes, they parshiyot in T'filin. The reading containsreading from the fourth day, which was a But it was required to take the animal on changed their status from KATAN to the mitzvot of the sanctity of firstborns,continuation of the first day, which was a which derives from the eventscontinuation in of the Maftir of Shabbat Mitzrayim. Extensive reference to Pesach HaChodesh. 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THIS PESACH MAKE A DESPERATELY NEEDED FOOD DONATION TO VICTIMS OF TERROR 2nd Torah • 4th Aliya, same as day 2 Mazal Tov to Eitan & Tali Stein Please send your donation to: Ohr Meir & Bracha 455 Viola Road, Spring Valley, NY 10977 or through our secure website www.terror•victims.org.il gny 9 zcled mei and the Infelds on the Bar Mitzva All donations will be immediately followed by a U.S. tax•deducatable receipt (IRS#200082699) dyn xiac of their son/grandson OU Israel Center TT 855 % 2 9 PESACH 5769 "THIS 'n THAT" OU Israel Center TT 855 % 7 9 PESACH 5769 "THIS 'n THAT" know Him (G•d) more intimately. G•d will GADOL, much like a Bar Mitzva boy does MORID HATAL not allow this completely, for it is when he receives upon his shoulders the impossible for any human being, but He yoke of mitzvot. Hence, Shabbat HaGadol. We stop asking forTAL U'MATAR will show Moshe more of Himself (so to Even after Moshe got Shabbat from Par'o after Mincha on Erev Pesach. This includes speak) than anyone else would ever see. for the people as a day of rest, whenstopping to say VA'ANEINU for those G•d then commands Moshe to cut new Shabbat ended, it saw the Jews back into who have continued adding the prayer for LUCHOT and write upon them that which slavery and oppression. Not so times the of drought in Sh'ma Koleinu • if you was written on the first set, "that you Shabbat prior to . That washaven't stopped yet, then stop when we all broke". G•d forgives the People, sends truly a Shabbat HaGadol. stop asking for TAL UMATAR. Moshe back to them with the new We continue to say MASHIV HARU'ACH LUCHOT, and with the special knowledge The Torah calls the first day of Pesach in Maariv and of the first day of of the YUD•GIMEL MIDOT, which the Shabbat (because of the forbidden Pesach. Then we sayT'FILAT TAL and people of Israel are to use in prayer, and activities on Yom Tov, it qualifies to be from Musaf of the first day of Pesach, we some of whose traits, we are to emulate. called Shabbat, a day of rest), as in, "on the morrow of the Shabbat you shall beginwill be sayingMORID HATAL. And at This is followed by a review of the three counting". The Tz'dokim claimed thatMaariv following Yom Tov, we will begin major Chagim, including mitzvot related to Shabbat refers only to Saturday.saying V'TEIN BRACHA in the weekday Pesach. Traditional Judaism claims that there is a (and Chol HaMoed) Amida. 2nd Torah • MAFTIR, same as day 2 "minor" or small Shabbat (Yom Tov) inNote that many congregations in Israel say contrast with Shabbat HaGadol, when"TAL" when they finish putting away the Haftara: 14 p’sukim • Yechezkeil 37:1•14 more Melachot are prohibited. It is theTorahs right before closing the Aron. This portion of the NAVI is the famous Shabbat right before the Yom Tov day in Others follow the common practice of prophecy of the Valley of the Dry Bones. question that got the name ShabbatChutz LaAretz and say TAL as part of the In his vision, the NAVI sees bones HaGadol • because of its closeness to the beginning of the Chazzan's repetition of gradually get covered with sinew, flesh, first day of Pesach, the contrast between Musaf. When TAL is said before the silent and skin. Then G•d tells Yechezkeil to the two is highlighted. Amida of Musaf, then it • meaning the prophesy in His name to the inert bodies Of course, the famous pasuk in prayer the for TAL, constitutes the announce• that G•d will bring to them the breath of Haftara, telling us that G•d will sendment to the congregation to stop saying life and they will live. The message to Eliya(hu) HaNavi before the coming ofMashiv HaRu'ach and to commence saying Yechezkeil (and all of us) is that the Jewish G•d's Day, the great (haGadol) Morid and HaTal. Nation, scattered in Exile among the terrifying one. nations of the world, are like those dry However, when TAL is said after the silent Some say that the long Drashot on this bones. But they are not gone and Amida, an announcement • in the form of a pre•Pesach Shabbat, that sometimes forgotten. They will have the breath of gabbai "kopping" on the shulchan and continue into the night, serve to lengthen G•d breathed into them and they will stating aloud "Morid HaTal" is required. the day into a Shabbat HaGadol. return to life • active spiritual, religious life. Technically, if no one announces Morid This prophecy is also about T’CHIYAT Until this pre•Exodus Shabbat, ShabbatHaTal, then we should continue saying HAMEITIM. only possessed the aspect of acknowl•Mashiv HaRu'ach one more Amida (Musaf) edging G•d for His Creation of the world. and begin Morid HaTal at Mincha (which, There are connections between this With the preparation for KP and of for course, is after T'filat Tal). This will not Haftara and Pesach in general. But one can leaving Mitzrayim, Shabbat took on theusually happen in large congregations with also see a connection to the extra dimension of commemorating theknowledgable memebrs, but it can happen specific to Shabbat Chol HaMoed. After Egyptian experience and the Exodus.in a small minyan with a gabbai that falls the Sin of the Golden Calf, the people Shabbat increased in significance and scope asleep at the switch. Anyone can call out were on the verge of extinction, but for and became then a Shabbat HaGadol. Morid HaTal (and usually, several people

OU Israel Center TT 855 % 6 9 PESACH 5769 "THIS 'n THAT" OU Israel Center TT 855 % 3 9 PESACH 5769 "THIS 'n THAT" do) and that "authorizes" the switch forTorah & other readings Haftara: 15 p’sukim • Yehoshua 5:2•6:1 3rd day of Pesach the congregation. (Shabbat Chol HaMoed) The Torah tells us of Pesach Mitzrayim, (Something that really shouldn't be done • First Day of Pesach and then of the first annual Pesach. After Day 2 of the Omer anytime • is to say things out loud in the (15 , Thursday) that, KP was not brought for the duration Many shuls have the custom of reading middle of one's silent Amida. Many people First Torah • five people, 31 p'sukim of the time in the Midbar. The haftara tells Shir HaShirim before Torah reading on think they are being helpful by sayingSh'mot 12:21•51 (Parshat BO) of the mass circumcision at Gilgal of theShabbat Chol HaMoed. When it is read Morid HaTal or Yaaleh V'Yavo or Al males who were below military age when from a kosher megila scroll, AL MIKRA HaNisim or whatever aloud, but it should This portion is the continuation of what we came out of Egypt and those born in MEGILA and SHE'HE'CHE'YANU are said. not be done. Nonetheless, if a gabbai failed we read on Shabbat HaChodesh. It the Midbar. Following the Mila (which is a The love between G•d and Israel is the to announce Morid HaTal and the person contains the actual procedures to be prerequisite for KP), the first Pesach intheme of Shir HaShirim. That love was next to you wrongly said the words Morid followed in the bringing of the Korban Eretz Yisrael was observed. The Mannaforged in Egypt (and earlier, from the time HaTal aloud within his Amida, that tooPesach, the account of the night of the ceased and the new People of Israel ateof the Avot & Imahot). would constitute an announcement for10th plague, the Exodus, the Exodus•Matza from the harvest of the Land for the first you. Go figure.) connection, reference to Leil Shimurim, time. Yehoshua meets an angel and First is Torah • 7 people, 38 p'sukim and mitzvot related to K.P. Sh'mot 33:12•34:26 (from Parshat Ki Tisa) BTW, in those congregations (Nusach about to begin preparations for battle Ashkenaz in Chutz LaAretz) whereSecond Torah • Maftir, 10 p'sukim against Yericho, the first step in conquer• Who knows 13 • Thirteen are the MIDOT nothing is said in the place of MashivBamidbar 28:16•25 (in Parshat Pinchas) ing the Land. of G•d. This is the main theme of the reading of Shabbat Chol HaMoed. In the HaRu'ach, only T'filat Tal is considered the Contains the Korban Musaf of Pesach. announcement for dropping MHUH, and 2nd day of Pesach aftermath of the Sin of the Golden Calf, Begins with Korban Pesach on the 14th (1st day of Chol HaMoed, FRI) Moshe Rabeinu asks G•d to allow him to therefore, when Tal is said as part of the and repetition of the "comand" to eat repetition, MHUH is said in the silent Day 1 of the Omer matza for seven days. Monday, April 13th (Chol HaMoed) Musaf and dropped from Mincha onward. First Torah • 3 people, 52 p'sukim If one mistakenly says The MASHIV MOSHAV Band Vayikra 22:26•23:44 (from Parshat Emor) and Soul HARU’ACH U'MORID HAGASHEM [G] The bulk of the reading is The Festival once we stop saying it, the Amida isMotzaei Shabbat, April 11th Live @ Tzora Chol Hamoed Pesach Portion, chapter 23 in Vayikra. 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