Friday August 5 Erev Shabbos Chazon 5782 News Updates

 Friday, August 5, 2022 / ח׳ אב תשפ״ב ערב שבת פרשת דברים

Weather: 94° A mix of clouds and sun with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Storms may contain strong gusty winds. High 94F.  Chance of rain 40%. Tisha B'av weather hi of 95.

-Candle lighting 7:48 pm

- Shkiah/Sunset 8:06 pm

- Fast of Tisha B'Av begins at shkia shabbos day  8:05 pm.

- Nearly 11,000 customers are without power in Lakewood as a powerful thunderstorm moves through the area. Jersey Central Power & Light says they expect power to be restored by 9pm.

- Numerous calls for LFD with fires and wires down

- Due to current and potential power outages it is advisable to keep the blech on with a stove top fire higher flame.

- 5:45 pm Power outages around Lakewood in Raintree Brookhill area and Westgate lights back on in some places. Estimated restoration 8:00 pm thousands of customers affected 

-Tehillim:  Islamic Jihad fires 70 rockets from Gaza at southern and central Israel people are in shelters going into shabbos. The rocket attacks were carried out hours after a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist was killed in a targeted Israeli Air Force airstrike in northern Gaza. Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that the strikes had been in response to a major terror attack that was being planned by the Islamic Jihad after its leader was arrested on Monday.

-OCHD updated covid cases  7/27/22 - 8/2/22

- 77 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 25585/380

- 80 new covid cases in Jackson totals 14160/150

- 118 new covid cases +2 deaths in Toms River totals 24127/460

- BDE:  Petirah of Rabbi Yaakov Rajchenbach zt”l following an illness. From The levaya will take place this Sunday Tisha B'av  1:00 PM in the JDBY auditorium 3200 West Peterson,Chicago. read more at Matzav

- Tips to prepare for the fast according to Rabbi Yechezkel Aschayek author of the sefer  חיים בריאים כהלכה. One should start preparation  from the morning 2 days before by drinking 50 % more water of his daily intake. Drink 20 before eating and after meals don't  drink until the food is digested in order not to dilute the acids that digest the food. The food should be chewed well before swallowing in order for the body to digest it and not having it sit in the stomach. One should increase protein starting 2 days before, such as eggs fish etc. by the seudas Hamafsekes one should drink 20 minutes before  and no need to drink afterwards.

- BDE - Rebbetzin Fruchthandler AH, wife of YBL"C Reb Yosef shlita and mother in law of Reb Mordechai Respler shlita of Long Beach. Levaya today in Camp Morris in Woodridge, kevura in queens.

 - Motzei shabbos Tisha Bav night Kinus hisoirerus at Ateres Yeshaya  10:45 pm Rav Simcha Bunum Cohen, Rosh Yeshiva BMG HaRav Yisrael Neuman, Rav Yitzchok Basser

- Customers are stealing shopping baskets instead of buying bags, N.J. supermarkets say following ban on plastic bags. They don't want to buy 33-cent reusable bags and simply leaving the store with their groceries stuffed in the shopping baskets.

- Rabbi Eisemann's lawyer submitted a letter opposing an extension to appeal by the prosecutors who wrote they were busy with other cases and didn't have time to work on a brief. Eisemann's lawyer wrote that this is not an excuse. The lawyers  said "Mr. Eisemann has been laboring under this case for years... Had prosecutors fulfilled their basic constitutional obligations, Mr. Eisemann’s saga through the courts would have ended long ago. Now, when it is finally nearing its end, the state asks for more time. The deputy attorney general’s schedule is not more important than Mr. Eisemann’s interest in vindicating his name and getting his life back.

- A Food box distribution truck got delayed last night and did not arrive before 11:30 pm despite the late time there was a long lilne of cars andall the boxes were given out.