Parshas Naso Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Candle Lighting 4:49pm Shacharis 9:00am Mincha 4:49pm Latest time for Shema 9:56am Shkiya 5:07pm Shabbos Mincha 3:30pm & 4:35pm Shabbos Ends 5:52pm Mazal Tov Mazal Tov to Eli and Tammy Nossbaum on the occasion of Akiva's Barmitzva Mazal Tov to all the family The Barmitzva will take place in Caulfield Shul Hall Shacharis 9am Please note - there will still be a minyan in Shaarei Avos Ubonim This week Avos Ubonim will take place at 7:00-7:45pm Avos Ubonim has been sponsored as a refuah shelayma for Elisheva bas Devorah Shoshana Special treat - Hot Chips!! SHAAREI DAVENING TIMES NEXT WEEK Shacharis Mincha Maariv Sunday 8:00am 4:50pm* 8:30pm Monday 6:30 / 7:30am 4:50pm 8:30pm Tuesday 6:45 / 7:30am 4:50pm 8:30pm Wednesday 6:45 / 7:30am 4:50pm 8:30pm Thursday 6:30 / 7:30am 4:50pm 8:30pm Friday 6:45 / 7:30am 4:50pm *Mincha followed by Maariv Short Vort on the Parsha The Torah mentions in this weeks parsha (6:11) that a Nazir must bring a chatas. What is the reason for this korban? Rashi (6:11) brings the Tanna Rebbi Eliezer HaKappar, who explains that the Nazir has sinned by wrongly withholding wine from himself. Yet the Torah (6:5) indicates that such a person is holy for this act of becoming a Nazir - so is he holy or a sinner? The Kli Yakar resolves this contradiction by noting that the Torah only says that the Nazir has sinned in a case where he desecrated his Nezirus by coming into contact with a corpse. Since this has the effect of cancelling his previous days of Nezirus and requiring the Nazir to start his days of Nezirus all over again, the previous days of refraining from wine have been shown to be in vain. This is why he is branded a sinner, for it turns out that he refrained from wine for no reason. But a regular Nazir who manages to see out his term of Nezirus successfully is not sinner. The Ramban takes a different approach to understanding the reason why a Nazir brings a chatas. He explains that the Nazir needs to bring a chatas because he is now leaving an elevated state of kedusha and going back to his regular lifestyle.