Shabbos Parshas Balak – 5774 שבת פרשת בלק

The Kiddush this week is being sponsored by Yossi Laine and Michoel Slater, each in honor of a Yorzeit. We wish them arichus yomim v’shonim tovos

Good Shabbos.
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Happening this week

Thursday 12 Tammuz, 5774 – July 10, 2014
R. Yosef Yitzchak Born (1880)
Tammuz 12 is the birthday the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch (1880-1950). This is also the day on which he was liberated from exile to the Soviet gulag 47 years later (see below).

Liberation of R. Yosef Yitzchak (1927)
On the 12th of Tammuz of 1927, the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, was officially granted release from his sentence of exile to Kastroma in the interior of Russia.

Twenty-seven days earlier, the Rebbe had been arrested by agents of the GPU and the Yevsektzia (“Jewish Section” of the Communist Party) for his activities to preserve Judaism throughout the Soviet empire and sentenced to death, G-d forbid. International pressure forced the Soviets to commute the sentence to exile and, subsequently, to release him completely. The actual release took place on Tammuz 13, and Tammuz 12-13 is celebrated as a “festival of liberation” by the Chabad-Lubavitch community.
Friday 13 Tammuz, 5774 – July 11, 2014
R. Yosef Yitzchak Freed (1927)
On the 13th of Tammuz of 1927, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, received the documents authorizing his release from a sentence of exile to Kastroma in the interior of Russia. The Rebbe was actually notified of his release on Tammuz 12, but since that day was a legal holiday, the Certificate of Release freeing him to travel home was issued only the next day. Thus both the 12th and 13th of Tammuz are celebrated as a “festival of liberation” by the Chabad-Lubavitch community.

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Candle Lighting

8:12 PM

Friday Mincha

8:22 PM

Kabolas Shabbos

8:57 PM

Shabbos Mincha

8:10 PM

Shabbos Ends

9:20 PM