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Shabbat Parashat Rosh Hashana Haazinu 5775

Ha'azinu | 3 Tishrei 5775 | 27/09/2014

Parashat Hashavua: Earth – Where Time is Measured

We place points and lines on the endless procession of time, thus breaking it up into pieces, such as days, weeks, months, and years. However, in the greater world, in an existence that seems eternal, time passes in a manner that seems to not have borders. Yesterday was 5719; today is 5720. If you look at the natural world, you do not see a difference. The sun rises and sets, and there is nothing new or different.

Ask the Rabbi: Shortening Blowing of Teruah to Conform to Tekia

The makree (person who supervises) signals me (a baa’l tokeia) to stop my set of teruot earlier than I want, out of a concern that if I blow more than 9 teruot, the shevarim-teruah may exceed the tekia. I wasn’t taught that is a problem. Is it?

Ein Ayah: Don’t Throw Out the Baby With the Bath Water

There is another statement of Rava bar Mechasya in the name of Rav Chama bar Guria in the name of Rav: If all the seas were filled with ink, and the marshes were full with quills, and the heavens were parchment, and all people were scribes, they would not succeed to write all the thought process that the government has to go through. What pasuk indicates this? “The heavens in regard to height and the earth in regard to depth, and the heart of kings is beyond investigation” (Mishlei 25:3).

P'ninat Mishpat: Payment of Din Torah Award by a Litigant’s Orphans

Beit din decided that since the ruling is in Reuven’s possession, it is as if Reuven has a loan document, in which case Shimon’s inheritors cannot claim that their father paid the amount due (see Shach 39:31). The S’ma (70:19) distinguishes between a document of beit din, regarding which he is not believed without proof that he paid, and a simple ruling, regarding which he can make that claim because it is made to be paid immediately. However, this ruling is like a beit din document because it states that Reuven will first have to accept a cherem, which he did not yet do. This is along the lines of the rule that whoever needs to swear in order to win the case, is not considered to have won until the oath is taken. Also, since Shimon was asked by beit din to pay, and he did not do so when asked, he is considered like one who does not listen to beit din. In such a case, it is not relevant whether the ruling is considered like a document of beit din or not, and he is not believed without proof that he paid.

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated

to the memory of:

All those who

fell in the war for our homeland.

Mr. Isaac Moinester

whose Yahrtzeit is 5^th of Elul

The beloved friend

of Eretz Hemdah

Doris (Doba) Moinester

whose Yahrtzeit is 23^rd of Elul

Mr. Max Prager

who passed away

21 Av, 5774

R' Yitzchak Eliezer

ben

Avraham Mordechai

Jacobson

R' Meir
ben

Yechezkel Shraga Brachfeld

o.b.m

Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Simcha

ben Bina Stern o.b.m

who passed away

21 Adar I, 5774

R' Yaakov ben Abraham & Aisha

and

Chana bat Yaish & Simcha

Sebbag, z"l

R' Shmuel Shemesh z"l

Eretz Hemdah's

Board Member

who passed away

18 Sivan, 5774

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

In memory of our beloved

mother and grandmother

Rivka bat Yissachar Dov Schonfeld a”h

on her 4th Yahrzeit on Elul 29^th

Judith Munk and 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).