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This Week's Parshah: Mishpatim
The Precious Coin
A holy half-shekel reveals the importance of judging one's fellow favorably.
How to Intervene When You Witness a Wrong
If your intervention will not help solve, and possibly even exacerbate, the problem, do you intervene? If you are not positive that a crime has been committed, can you pass judgment? Can you act based on your "sense" that there is a serious problem?
Mishpatim 5770 - February 12, 2010

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Once Upon a Donkey
It was an age of boors and ascetics, a time of conflict between body and soul. Then a master appeared. "Don't beat your beast," he taught, "don't overload him and don't abandon him. Help him"
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The Rebbe's Call
The Rebbe's relentless call for every Jew to never rest

The Rebbe's message was as old as the Torah itself, yet his approach was as rousing as dawn. He urged each person, in personal and communal life, to never be satisfied with yesterday's achievements
Achieving True Peace in Israel
The Torah Solution to Achieving True Peace in Israel.

Throughout Jewish history, through times serene and turbulent, the People of Israel looked to the Torah for guidance and stability. Only through steadfast adherence to Torah principles, - the Rebbe insisted - can Israel achieve true peace.
How everthing can make a difference
How every thought, speech, and deed can make a world of difference.

Although today's world is a scary place, as evident from the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, one good deed can tip the scales. In Waves, hear the Rebbe explain how each deed, however insignificant it may seem, is universally important.
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Candle Lighting Times
Seattle, WA [98115]
Friday, February 12
Light Candles at: 5:09 pm
Shabbat, February 13
Shabbat Ends: 6:15 pm
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Sunday
23 Shvat | February 7
Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
War on Benjamin (1188 BCE)
Monday
24 Shvat | February 8
Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
Zachariah's Prophecy (351 BCE)
Passing of Rebbetzin Menuchah Rachel (1888)
Tuesday
25 Shvat | February 9
Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
R. Israel Salanter (1883)
Wednesday
26 Shvat | February 10
Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
Passing of the Taz (1667)
Thursday
27 Shvat | February 11
Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
The “Simlah Chadashah” (1737)
Friday
28 Shvat | February 12
Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
Hashmonean Holiday (2nd century BCE)
Light Shabbat Candles before sunset.
Shabbat
29 Shvat | February 13
Shekalim
Torah Reading: Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18)
Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
Columbia Tragedy; Israeli Astronaut Perishes (2003)
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Parshat Shekalim
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