Shabbos Parshas Noach

INTRODUCTION

Whereas Shabbos Bereishis merely encompassed the coming year’s potential service, Shabbos Noach is the first actual Shabbos of the new year.

Shabbos Noach is the time to examine a ‘real’ (and the first) week of the new year, evaluate our performance and adjust our approach to divine service for the rest of the year based on ‘facts on the ground.’

PERFECTING OUR PRACTICE

• On Shabbos Parshas Noach, we should make an honest accounting of our actual performance of this new year’s divine service – which has already begun; we should examine the particulars of our weekday and Shabbos performance, in order to correct and perfect them to the fullest extent.