Times and Schedule for Shabbat
Friday - Shabbat, September 8 - 9, 2023
Torah Reading:  Parshat  Nitzavim - Vayelech - Devarim 29:9 - 31:30
Haftorah: Isaiah 61:10 - 63:9

Pirkei Avot - Chapter 5 - 6

For more about the importance of studying Pirkei Avot after Pesach and throughout the summer, see here 

Friday, September 8 - Erev Shabbat
Candle lighting: 6:59 PM

Minchah: 7:10 PM

Dvar Torah: Rabbi Kugel

Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:40 PM

Shabbat, September 9 - Shabbat Day

Tehillim: 8:15 AM

Shacharit: 9:45 AM

Dvar Torah: Rabbi Ossey


Kiddush - Kiddush is sponsored in part by Eileen Prensky in honor of her 3rd anniversary from surgery. I want to thank Pearl, all the Rebitzens and Rabbis who were there for me during that difficult time and who are still there today and by Daniel Moskowitz l'zecher nishmat Shmuel Chayim Ben Alter Menachem Moshe, loving grandfather and bar mitzvah teacher 
To sponsor a Kiddush, in whole or in part, please click here

Last week's Kiddush was sponsored in part by Isaac Puder in honor of the Kehillah and the rabbis.


Rambam class: 5:50 PM
Minchah : 6:50 PM


Shabbat ends: 7:56 PM
Ma'ariv and Havdallah: 7:56 PM

Farbrengen before Selichos: 11:30 PM

Selichos: 1:00 AM   

Hashem Blesses this coming month

Every month, on the Shabbat preceding the New Moon (Rosh Chodesh), a special prayer is said in Shul announcing the coming month. Such a Shabbat is known as Shabbat Mevarchim (the Shabbat where we bless the coming month). On the Shabbat preceding Rosh HaShannah (which also precedes a New Moon) we make no such declaration or prayer. The Ba’al Shem Tov teaches that we don’t bless the New Moon of Tishrei, because G‑d Himself blesses Tishrei - and with the power G‑d invests in the month of Tishrei, we have the ability to bless the other 11 months of the year. For this reason, the Chabad custom, which is to say the entire Book of Psalms on the morning of Shabbat Mevarchim’s throughout the year, applies this month as well.

Halachic Times

Earliest Talit & Tefillin (latest of the week): 5:47 AM

Latest Shma (earliest of the week): 9:39 AM
For all halachic times, see 
www.chabadwestside.org/zmanim