Thursday 3/3 Rosh Chodesh Adar II Shacharit: 6:15 & 7:00 a.m. Mincha/Maariv: 5:25 p.m.
Friday 3/4 Rosh Chodesh Adar II Shacharit: 6:15 & 7:00 a.m. Mincha: 5:30 p.m. (all locations) Candle Lighting: 5:24 p.m.
HALACHA OF THE WEEK: Purim Part 2: The Arba Parshiyot The Rabbis established the custom to read four special section from the Torah on weeks before Purim and up to Rosh Chodesh Nissan [Megillah 30b].
These four special sections are: 1. "Parshat Shekalim" which is read on the Shabbat of, or the Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh Adar, in commemoration the collection of shekalim that was begun at that time to underwrite the cost of the communal sacrifices.
2. "Parshat Zachor" which is read on the Shabbat before Purim, in fulfillment of the Biblical obligation to remember Amalek and to coincide with the time we read of the destruction of Haman.
3. "Parshat Parah" which is typically read on the Shabbat after Purim, in commemoration of the way people would purify themselves to prepare to celebrate Pesach
4. "Parshat HaChodesh" which is read on the Shabbat of, or the Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh Nisan, to recall the first Rosh Chodesh Nisan which occurred before the Exodus.
Obviously, these four parshiyot cannot be read on four consecutive weeks, because they span a five-week period. Therefore, there needs to be at least one week "off" from the reading. The logic behind choosing which weeks between Shekalim and Rosh Chodesh Nisan should be "off" weeks is, that a) Zachor has to be before Purim, and b) Parah and Chodesh are connected in the theme of preparing for Pesach and therefore should not be separated [Aruch HaShulchan 685:9].
As an aid, the Aruch HaShulchan offered an acrostic to remember which weeks we take a break from the four parshiyot. The acrostic is: "zayin- tu" (7-15); "bet vav" (2-6); "daled-daled" (4-4); and "bet-yud vav" (2-16) and means the following: * "zayin-tu" (7-15) - When Rosh Chodesh Adar Falls on the seventh day (Shabbat), then the week off is the 15th of Adar. * "bet vav" (2-6) - When Rosh Chodesh Adar falls on the second day (Monday), then the week off is the 6th of Adar. * "daled-daled" (4-4) - When Rosh Chodesh Adar is on the fourth day (Wednesday), then the week off is the 4th of Adar; and * "bet-yud vav" (2-16) - When Rosh Chodesh Adar is on the sixth day (Friday), then the 16th of Adar is a week off.
Of course, besides the extra readings these special weeks are Shabbatot when the prayer of Av HaRachamim is not recited, as is true, according to many authorities of the Kel Maley prayer [Aruch HaShulchan, ibid.].
For more halachic information regarding Purimclick here DVAR TORAH "Six days you shall do work, but the seventh day shall be holy for you, a day of complete rest for G-d..." [Shmot 35:2]
The 39 categories of "melacha” that are prohibited on Shabbat are derived from the labors that were needed to build and maintain the Tabernacle. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch explained that the 39 categories represent man's attempt for mastery over the physical world. We work, he explained, to feel as if we are in charge and in control of our own lives and the world itself. Therefore, by resting on Shabbat, we are making the statement that there is a Supreme Master over this world - G-d.
This explanation works well for 38 of the 39 categories of work. However, the prohibition of carrying does not seem to show mastery over anything. The object remains the same as it was before it was carried. So why is it prohibited?
Rabbi Hirsch wrote that 'carrying' represents social interaction -- taking from the private domain into the community and taking from the community into the private domain. Furthermore, as Rabbi Hirsch explained, the sum of all human social interactions can be called 'history'. When one refrains from carrying on Shabbat, one is making the statement that not only is G-d Master over the world, but G-d is Master over history.
This, concluded Rabbi Hirsch, is what we say in the Kiddush. Shabbat is "in commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt" and it is "in commemoration of the Act of Creation". By abstaining from 38 types of labor, we acknowledge that Shabbat is in commemoration of the Act of Creation. By refraining from carrying (the 39th category of labor), we acknowledge the Exodus from Egypt, which represents the Hand of G-d in human history.
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