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Shabbat Parashat Beshalach 5775

Beshalach | 11 Shevat 5775 | 31/01/2015

Parashat Hashavua: People, Trees, and the Divine Presence

One of the strong tools for Tanach study is the identification of special expressions that appear in multiple places that link sections of Tanach to each other. This makes it possible to see a broader picture than any individual section would give us. This approach to textual analysis appears in Chazal’s exegesis of halachic elements of the Torah, and even more so regarding aggadic matter. This week we will look at the usage of an uncommon word: in our parasha, in our haftara, and in Parashat Shelach.

Ask the Rabbi: Joining Pieces of Dough for Obligation of Hafrashat Challa

If I make cookies and cupcakes one evening, do the different pieces of dough combine to form an amount that obligates hafrashas challa (the removal of a piece to, in theory, be given to a kohen)?

Ein Ayah: The House of Preparation

180 years before the destruction of the [Second] Temple, the Kingdom of Rome spread over Israel.

P'ninat Mishpat: Sanctions Against Overchargers Against the Rabbi’s Will

In our city, the prices of kosher meat are unjustifiably high. One of several indications is that the prices are much higher than those in other communities in our region. The community banded together to threaten that if the butchers do no lower the prices, we will halachically ban meat consumption. The great majority of the townspeople and lay leaders agreed to this step. The local rabbi did not, but since we felt that he is an interested party, since the number of kosher animals sold is one determinant of his salary, we went through with the ban without his permission. He is now claiming that the ban is not binding, and his family and some others in town have continued to eat meat, which endangers the effort to lower prices. The rabbi’s two claims are that a ban is invalid without the local rabbi’s agreement, and that it is invalid if signed by different people at different sittings. Can you support our position against the local rabbi?

All those who

fell in the war for our homeland.

HaRav Professor

Reuben M. Rudman ob”m

Mrs. Sara Wengrowsky

bat R’ Moshe Zev a”h.

who passed away on 10 Tamuz, 5774

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

17 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

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).