Parashat Hashavua: “Not Yaakov … but Yisrael”
We have explained in the past that our third patriarch’s journey to Charan was characterized as a trek by foot, making the name Yaakov, from the root akev...
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Harav Yosef Carmel
Ask the Rabbi: Whose Pronunciation Should the Oleh Use?
Question : In my shul , the “functionaries” do the havara (custom of pronunciation) as they like. This week, the ba’al korei (= bk ) did Sephardi/Israeli, while...
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Rav Daniel Mann
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: Preparation for Shemitta – #177 – part I
Date and Place : 1 Tevet 5669 (1908), Yafo
Recipient : This is a public letter to the residents and farmers of the agricultural settlements of Eretz Yisrael .
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Eretz Hemdah
P’ninat Mishpat: Compensation for Transfer of Business to One Partner – part VII
(based on ruling 78039 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts) Case : The plaintiff (= pl ) and the defendant (= def ) opened a center that...
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Eretz Hemdah