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Parshas Ki Seitzei
Shabbat Candle lighting time: 7:28pm (Friday, August 21, 2026)
Shabbat ends: 8:27pm (Shabbat night, August 22, 2026)
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Lessons for today,
Thursday, 7 Elul, 5786 - August 20, 2026


Sunrise: 6:11am
Sunset: 7:48pm
Latest Shema: 9:35am
Chumash: Ki Seitzei, 5th portion (Deut. 23:25-24:4) with Rashi.
Tehillim: 39-43, Also 19-21
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Rambam:
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Summary of Today's Chumash

The fifth aliyah gives the Torah sources for the laws of divorce. A Jewish divorce requires a written get, placed into the woman's hand. Furthermore the divorced couple can't remarry if the woman remarried in between. The divorce of a Kohen is more complicated, he can't marry any divorced woman, even his own ex-wife. Therefore the "get" process of a Kohen is more involved to prevent "anger of the moment divorces". An interesting fact is that the Gomorra derives all of the Halachas (laws) of Jewish weddings from these few verses in the Torah about divorces.