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5 Adar 5761 - February 28, 2001 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
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CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Tetzaveh, 5761

Sunday, 9 Adar - Shabbos, 15 Adar
(Mar. 4-10, 2001)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Gittin, 25-31
Yerushalmi:
Sanhedrin 16-22

MISHNA YOMIS
Kesuvos, 13:3 - Nedorim 2:1

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim 385:4-392:4

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Terumah (Zochor)
Yerushalayim:
5:02 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
5:17 P.M.

London:
5:27 P.M.
Johannesburg:
6:15 P.M.
Melbourne:
7:40 P.M.

Parshas Tetzaveh
Yerushalayim:
5:07 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
5:22 P.M.

London:
5:39 P.M.
Johannesburg:
6:13 P.M.
Melbourne:
7:30 P.M.

END OF FAST - TA'ANIS ESTHER

Yerushalayim and Arad:
6:09 P.M.

Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Haifa, entire Dan area, and Beer Sheva:
6:11 P.M.

Haifa:
6:10 P.M.

Tfas and Teveria:
6:08 P.M.

New York:
6:25 P.M.

London:
6:30 P.M.

According to the Chazon Ish the end of Ta'anis Esther is:

Yerushalayim:
6:12 P.M.

Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Haifa, entire Dan area, and Beer Sheva:
6:14 P.M.

Haifa and Arad:
6:13 P.M.

Tfas and Teveria:
6:11 P.M.

New York:
6:29 P.M.

London:
6:34 P.M.,
forty-one minutes after sunset.

(Birur Halocho Tinyana, Orach Chaim 562, and Yoreh Dei'ah 262).

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Additional Luach Information

Ta'anis Esther falls on Thursday, 13 Adar (Mar. 8). The takonoh of the ta'anis was to remember that the Jews fasted and beseeched Hashem in the times of Esther to save them from their enemies. The minhag is to give three half shekels as a zecher to the machtzis hashekel.

Purim falls on erev Shabbos, 14 Adar (Mar. 9) and Shushan Purim falls on Shabbos, 15 Adar (Mar. 10) and Sunday, 16 Adar (Mar. 11). Those cities that are mukofos chomah and their Purim is on Shushan Purim read this year the megillah and give matonos le'evyonim on erev Shabbos, 14 Adar, and on Shabbos they say al hanissim in Shemoneh Esreih. Their se'udas Purim and mishlo'ach monos is on Sunday, 16 Adar. (According to the Maharal Choviv the seudah and mishlo'ach monos are on Shabbos). See Mishnah Berurah 688:6.


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