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Shabbat Parashat Toldot | 5771

Toldot | 29 Cheshvan 5771 | 06/11/2010

Parashat Hashavuah: What’s in the Choice of a Wife?

When Chazal want to give an example of a matter in the Torah that we would think is of little importance, the classic one is Eisav’s marriage to one of his wives. However, we will see this week that what appears in Tanach, at first glance, to be one way may actually be very different.

Ask the Rabbi: Should a piece of the cover of a siddur be put in the gniza?

When pieces of the cover or binding fall off an old siddur or sefer, can it be left on the floor or thrown away?

Ein Ayah: Mercy for the Wise Only

It is forbidden to have mercy on whoever does not have wisdom, as the pasuk says: “For they are not a nation of understanding, therefore their Maker will not have mercy on them” (Yeshaya 27:11).

P’ninat Mishpat: Control of a Sefer Torah Given by a Deceased Man to a Beit Knesset

The plaintiff’s (=pl) father presented a beit knesset (=def) in Israel with a sefer Torah he brought with him from Germany in 1939, as matters became dangerous there. Pl said that his father told him several times that he only lent it to def and now, after his father’s death, he wants to take the sefer Torah back...

Hemdat Yamim is dedicated

in loving memory of
Tamar Lichtenstadt z”l.
May her memory be a blessing.

This edition of
Hemdat Yamim
is dedicated
to the memory of
George Weinstein,

Gershon ben
Yehudah Mayer,
a lover of the Jewish Nation Torah and Land

and
R' Meir ben
Yechezkel Shraga
Brachfeld
o.b.m

Hemdat Yamim is endowed by
Les & Ethel Sutker of Chicago, Illinois in loving memory of
Max and Mary Sutker and
Louis and Lillian Klein, z”l.

This week’s Hemdat Yamim
is dedicated in loving memoryof
Jack Levin –
Chaim Yaakov ben shlomo Yitzchak Halevi

- by his family

A weekly divrei Torah leaflet: A Glimpse at the Parasha, Ask the Rabbi, From the writings of Harav Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook, zt”l, Pninat Mishpat (Jewish Monetary Law).