Parshas Ha'azinu Shabbos Times Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Candle Lighting 6:01pm Latest time for Shema 9:07am Shkiya 6:19pm Shabbos Ends 7:01pm Special Motzei Shabbos Program Avos Ubonim at Home Avos Ubonim 8:00-8:45pm Join us on Zoom at 8:30pm for this week's RAFFLE Short Vort on the Parsha In the second posuk of our sedra (32:2) we are told that 'My lessons (I.e. the Torah) should drop like rain, and My words should flow like dew.' Why the two expressions dew and rain? The idea has been said that rain and dew represent the two types of 'religious initiation/inspiration' one can have. Rain falls from the sky, and thus represents the times when religious inspiration comes from Above - for example the day of Shabbos (which is fixed by Hashem), or general times when Hashem lights a Divine spark within you. Dew, on the other hand, comes from the ground, and thus represents times of religious inspiration which come from us - for example Yom Tov (which we fix) or general times in the year when we produce our own inspiration by working on ourselves. Therefore, our posuk is telling us that Torah should encompass both types of inspiration - it is Divine Wisdom and thus comes from Above, but it also must be developed and internalised by ourselves, from below.