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Services will be conducted live and also via Zoom with Temple Sholom.

We will use Siddur Hadash (Blue Book), Shabbat and Festivals.

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Parashat Shoftim 5783 / פָּרָשַׁת שׁוֹפְטִים

19 August 2023 / 2 Elul 5783

Parashat Shoftim is the 48th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9

Shoftim (“Judges”) discusses guidelines of leadership, opening with a command to appoint judges and continuing to detail laws of kings, priests, and prophets. It also describes laws relating to cities of refuge for accidental killers, false witnesses, warfare, and the rite performed in a case of unsolved murder. [1]

Triennial year 1

1: 16:18-20 · 3 p’sukim ·

2: 16:21-17:7 · 9 p’sukim ·

3: 17:8-10 · 3 p’sukim ·

4: 17:11-13 · 3 p’sukim ·

5: 17:14-17 · 4 p’sukim ·

6: 17:18-20 · 3 p’sukim ·

7: 18:1-5 · 5 p’sukim ·

maf: 18:3-5 · 3 p’sukim ·  or maf: 21:7-9 · 3 p’sukim ·

Haftarah: Isaiah 51:12-52:12 · 24 p’sukim

Commentary and Divrei Torah

Sefaria OU Torah Jewish Theological Seminary American Jewish University

Hertz Chumash: pp. 820 – 825 Triennial Year 1 (Full Kriyah pp. 820 – 835)