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Shabbat Parashat Ki Tavo 5773

Ki Tavo | 24 Elul 5773 | 18/08/2013

Parashat Hashavua: “Your Nation Are All Righteous”

In this week’s haftara, we find a famous and optimistic appraisal of our nation, which deserves a look as to what brings us such praise and what needs to be done to maintain it. “Your nation are all righteous; forever they will inherit the land” (Yeshaya 60:21). We will also look at it in connection with the once again, unfortunately, relevant issue of Anti-Semitic opposition to brit mila.

Ask the Rabbi: Priorities in Last Minute Shacharit for Women

During vacation, my teenage daughter is willing to get up to daven by sof z’man tefilla (the end of the proper time for Shemoneh Esrei), but she does no always leave enough time to say everything and still get to Shemoneh Esrei on time. What should she do?

Ein Ayah: The Sanctity of the Torah is Linked to the Nation in the Land

When Chananya the nephew of R. Yehoshua left for the Diaspora, he would set leap years and decide on new months. [The Rabbis of Eretz Yisrael] sent two scholars, Rabbi Yossi ben Kipper and the grandson of Zecharia ben Kabutal, [to protest this practice]. When Chananya saw them, he asked: “Why did you come?” They answered: “We came to study Torah.” Chananya announced about them: “These men are leaders of the generation, and their forefathers served in the Beit Hamikdash.” They started [discussing Torah]. Chananya ruled that something was impure, and they ruled it was pure. He would say something was forbidden, and they would say it was permitted. Chanaya announced about them: “These are men of falsehood and void.” They said to him: “You have already built; you are not able to undo. You have already erected fences; you cannot dismantle them.” [Chanaya asked them why they were arguing for no apparent reason]. They said to him: “Because you are setting leap years and deciding on new months outside of Eretz Yisrael.” He said to them: “Didn’t Akiva, son of Yosef, do that?” They said to him: “Leave Rabbi Akiva out of it, for he left no peers in Eretz Yisrael.”

P'ninat Mishpat: Presumption of Ownership of a Sefer Torah

[We are starting a new feature in this column. We will look into a classical responsa on a topic related to matters of beit din in a condensed form, spoken though the eyes of the posek, along with very brief biographical information and references to later works who applied the rulings to their times.] [The Maharik, Rav Yosef Kolon, was born in France in 1420 and served in several rabbinates, primarily in Italy. He died in Padua, Italy in 1480. One of the later Rishonim, he is quoted often by the Beit Yosef, especially from his work of responsa. He was influenced by the author of the Terumat Hadeshen and was the teacher of Rav Ovadia MiBartenura.]

Ki Tavo 5773
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Ki Tavo 5773

Refuah Sheleimah

for

Rabanit Itah bat Chana

Ehrenreich

Mr. Eliyahu ben Sara Carmel

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

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated

to the memory of

the beloved friend

of Eretz Hemdah

Doris (Doba) Moinester

whose Yahrtzeit is

23^rd of Elul

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).