Parshas Kedoshim Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Candle Lighting 5:10pm Shacharis 9:00am Mincha 5:10pm Latest time for Shema 9:41am Shkiya 5:27pm Shabbos Mincha 3:30pm & 4:55pm Shabbos Ends 6:09pm Avos Ubonim This week Avos Ubonim will take place at 7:10-7:55pm Special treat - Pizza!!!! SHAAREI DAVENING TIMES NEXT WEEK Shacharis Mincha Maariv Sunday 8:00am 5:10pm* 8:30pm Monday 6:20 / 7:30am 5:10pm 8:30pm Tuesday 6:45 / 7:30am 5:10pm 8:30pm Wednesday 6:45 / 7:30am 5:10pm 8:30pm Thursday 6:30 / 7:30am 5:10pm 8:30pm Friday 6:45 / 7:30am 5:03pm *Mincha followed by Maariv Short Vort on the Parsha In this week's Parsha we have the well-known words 'And you shall love your neighbour like yourself, I am G-d'. (Vayikra 19:18) The commandment to have love for fellow human beings is one of Judaism's most famous legacies to all mankind. The great Rabbi Akiva referred to it a major principle of the Torah. His teacher Hillel, when confronted with a potential convert who wanted to be taught the whole Torah "while standing on one leg", responded with a variation on the theme: "that which is detested to you, do not do to your friend." The difficulty in the command of loving a neighbour comes with the word kamocha, "like yourself". Are we indeed supposed to give him everything that we have? Surely no love can approach the natural elemental power of self-love. How, then, can the individual be expected to love someone else as much as him or herself? The Sefer Ksav Ve'Hakabalah suggests that the command needs to be understood in a different way, as follows: The love that we have to have for our fellow, is defined by kamocha, "like you". This means the same sort of devotion that we expect from others towards us. The amount of devoted care and concern that we naturally expect from others that must serve as a yardstick of how much love we are to display for them. Loving our fellow does not extend to giving him everything that we have; because that is not what we expect from him. (See Ramban for a similar explanation of how to understand this Mitzva)