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Shabbat Parashat Pekudei 5776

Pekudei | 2 Adar II 5776 | 12/03/2016

Parashat Hashavua: Do Your Part

“The Mishkan was erected” (Shemot 40:17). What do we learn from the use of passive voice? “Moshe said before Hashem: ‘How will I have the power to erect it?’ Hashem answered: ‘You only have to place your hand there, and it will turn out that it is erected by itself’” (Rashi 39:33).

Ask the Rabbi: Halachic Status of Bitcoin

I have been learning about bitcoin. Is it considered like money or a shtar (document) for a variety of halachic issues, e.g., marrying a woman, buying property?

Ein Ayah: Forcing the Liberated Soul to Deal with the Bitter Truth

At the moment that they make a man enter his judgment [after his death], they ask him …

Pninat Mishpat: Women’s Testimony on Seeing a Stolen Object

It was known in the city that Reuven had a theft in his house. A few days later, two young women said that they saw the stolen object in Shimon’s house, but Shimon denies it.

Refuah Sheleymah to

Orit bat Miriam

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated

to the memory of:

those who fell in the war

for our homeland.

Gershon (George)

ben

Chayim HaCohen Kaplan

o.b.m.

Mrs. Sara Wengrowsky

bat R’ Moshe Zev a”h.

who passed away on

10 Tamuz, 5774

Rabbi Reuven Aberman

zt”l

Eretz Hemdah's

beloved friend and

Member of Eretz Hemdah's Amutah
who passed away

on 9 Tishrei, 5776

R' Meir
ben

Yechezkel Shraga Brachfeld

o.b.m

R ' Yaakov ben Abraham & Aisha

and

Chana bat Yaish & Simcha

Sebbag, z"l

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).