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Times: Shabbat starts on Friday at 4:53 pm and ends on Saturday at5:55 pm. The weekly Torah portion is Korach.
Mincha in the CBD: On Mon/Tue, Mincha is at ABL – 21/333 Collins, on Wed (this week only) at ABL, and on Thu at L1 Capital – 28/101 Collins. Join the WhatsApp group to stay across the latest details.
Study: The Weekly Shiur continues on Wednesday at about 1.15pm (after mincha) at ABL (this week only) – and via Zoom. Current topic: employee eating right transferrability. Details here and on the WhatsApp group.
Thought of the Week with thanks to Isaac Balbin. Regarding Korach’s rebellion of 250 men and women, Rav Y.D. Soloveitchik wrote:
“First, the religious emotion is volatile, ever-changing and unstable, even within one individual. Second, each person feels an experience differently. Rituals would continually have to be reformulated to correspond to the feelings of different individuals at different times. Third, we have no reliable gauge to differentiate secular types of response from the genuinely religious experience. There are many non-religious reactions which claim transcendental qualities of holiness.”