Shabbat

Candle lighting times and parshiyot

• The daylight hours vary greatly in places so far north. In Trondheim, sunset can be as early as 2:30 PM around winter solstice, and as late as 11:38 PM around summer solstice. And around midsummer it never gets dark enough to see 3 stars on Saturday night.
• The custom of the Jewish community in Trondheim is to start Shabbat and Yom tov at 5:30 PM and end at 6:30 PM throughout the year.
• There is usually a Friday night service every second week (odd week number). The service always starts at 5:30 PM throughout the year.
• Shabbat services ('Shaharith') are held only on special occasions.
• In July there are normally no services.
• If you are shomer shabbat and wish to go by traditional halakhic times, you'll find a table of candle lighting times for Trondheim here.
  Zemanim for other Scandinavian cities and towns can be found here