Parashat Hashavua: Our King on Rosh Hashana; Our Father on Yom Kippur
One might claim that Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are but identical days of Yamim Nora’im. However, Chazal (Vayikra Rabba 21:4) described Rosh Hashana as “light” and Yom...
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Ask the Rabbi: Attendance at Shabbat Shuva Drasha
Question: Based on my learning preference (covering ground and reviewing) and level (above that of most of the community), and my difficulty concentrating on speakers, our shul’s Shabbat...
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Rav Daniel Mann
Moreshet Shaul: Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
The pasuk in Parashat Shoftim says that whichever soldier is fearful and of a soft...
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Eretz Hemdah
P’ninat Mishpat: A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Case: The defendants (=def), yishuv residents of modest means, employed the plaintiff (=pl), a builder, to do renovations. Their...
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Eretz Hemdah