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Shabbat Parashat Eikev 5773

Eikev | 20 Av 5773 | 27/07/2013

Parashat Hashavua: Giants and their Sons – But of What?

As in a few other parshiyot (most recently, Devarim), Parashat Eikev stresses, on the eve of the entry into Eretz Yisrael, the existence of giants in the Land. Yet before the entry and the turning of the Land of C’na’an into the Land of Israel, the giants were destroyed. Let us clarify the process somewhat and understand its significance. “Listen Israel, today you are crossing the Jordan, to come to conquer nations that are greater and more powerful than you … a great and lofty nation, the sons of giants, which you knew and you heard: ‘Who can stand before the sons of giants’” (Devarim 9:1-2). The giants are also mentioned in connection to the inhabitants of the areas captured east of the Jordan (Devarim 2:20-21). The sinful spies also focused their fears on these sons of giants, whom they saw when scouting out the Land (ibid. 1:27-28).

Ask the Rabbi: Returning A Stew With Bones to the Fire on the Night of Shabbat

I have intended to follow the rules in Shemirat Shabbat K’hilchata (1:18) for returning a pot to the flame. However, I noticed that he writes that the requirement that the all the food is fully cooked applies even to the bones. I cook stew on a low flame for hours before Shabbat, have some at night, and return the rest for the day meal. I think that the bones that I eat are cooked by the night but that there are other bones that become fully cooked only overnight. Must I stop returning the pot under these conditions?

Ein Ayah: Even Minor Leaders

He expounded on the pasuk (Divrei Hayamim I 29:11): “To you, Hashem, are the greatness, the strength, the grandeur, the eternity, and the glory, for all that is in the heavens and the earth; to You, Hashem, is the kingdom and the supremacy over every leader.” “Over every leader” – even the head of the irrigation-ditch diggers (Rashi) was appointed from the Heavens.

P'ninat Mishpat: Judging a Non-participant

A couple was married for 34 years, during 12 of which they lived in Europe. The husband dealt with all major financial matters, including the buying and selling of real estate. The family was living in Israel, when the husband decided to abandon his wife and return to their European community, where he is still a key player in the Jewish community. Upon a visit to Israel, he was prevented from leaving the country as one who is making his wife an aguna. This status was lifted when he gave a get and obligated himself, putting up a 50,000 shekel guarantee that he would return to Israel to adjudicate the monetary issues.

Refuah Sheleimah

for

Rabanit Itah bat Chana

Ehrenreich

amongst the sick

of Klal Yisrael

This edition of
Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated
to the memory of
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

Dedicated in memory of

Gital Gila Bat Eliyahu Michael a”h

on the occasion

of her yahrzeit, Av 21^st

Hemdat Yamim of

this week

is dedicated

in memory of

Yitzchak Eizik

ben Yehuda Leib Usdan a"h,

whose Yahrtzeit

is the 29th of Av

Hemdat Yamim
is dedicated
in memory of
Shmuel Rozenhak
o.b.m
who passed away
Iyar 6, 5773

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).