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Shabbat Parashat Noach 5778

Noach | 1 Cheshvan 5778 | 21/10/2017

Parashat Hashavua: The Ancestors and Enemies of Avraham

It is clear from the p’sukim of Parashat Bereishit that Adam, Chava, Kayin, and Hevel all believed in Hashem and in fact had the privilege to engage in discussion with Him, each in his or her own way. Even when they strayed from the proper path, they merited hearing words of rebuke from Hashem, which, along with the harsh words, showed great closeness.

Ask the Rabbi: Maintaining a Possibly Grafted Tree

I bought property with a nectarine tree and do not know if it is grafted. What do I do with it?

Ein Ayah: A Leader Who Goes Down and Brings Up

R. Shmuel bar Nachmani said in the name of R. Yonatan: Whoever says that the sons of Shmuel sinned is making a mistake, as the p’sukim say: “And so it was when Shmuel became old, and he made his sons judges for Israel… and his sons did not follow in his ways” (Shmuel I, 8:1-3). “In his ways” they did not follow, but they did not sin either. So how does one explain the [continuation of the] pasuk: “they went after improper profits (betza)”? This means that they did not act like their father, as the righteous Shmuel would travel to all the places in Israel and judge the people in their cities, as the pasuk says: “He would go year by year and would go to Beit El, Gilgal, and the Mitzpa and judged Israel” (ibid. 7:16). In contrast, his sons did not do so, but they sat in their cities so that they could increase the profits of their assistants and scribes.

P'ninat Mishpat: Too Late to Fix a Wig?

The plaintiff (=pl) bought a wig from the defendant (=def) at the price of 10,500 shekels, with several checks dated for different times starting with May 2015. Def delivered the wig in July, soon before pl traveled abroad for several weeks. Upon returning, pl gave back the wig to def, due to a defect that both agree makes it unusable. Def promised to have the wig producer fix it before the chagim of Tishrei, and while def did not return the uncashed checks, she said she would not cash anymore of them. When the chagim passed and the wig was not yet fixed, pl demanded her money back (def had actually cashed almost all the checks). Def refused, claiming that the defect was done by the wig manufacturer, whom she already paid. Since they refuse to return the money to def but only to repair it, pl must keep to her agreement with def and wait for the fixed wig.

Noach 5778
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Noach 5778

We daven for a complete

and speedy refuah for:

David Chaim ben Rassa

Lillian bat Fortune

Eliezer Yosef ben Chana Liba

Yehoshafat Yecheskel ben Milka

Ro'i Moshe Elchanan ben Gina Devra

Together with all cholei Yisrael

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated

to the memory of:

those who fell

in wars

for our homeland

Eretz Hemdah's beloved friends

and Members of

Eretz Hemdah's Amutah

Rav Shlomo Merzel z”l
whose yahrtzeit

is the 10th of Iyar

Rav Reuven Aberman

z"l

who passed away

on 9 Tishrei, 5776

Mr. Shmuel Shemesh
who passed away on

Sivan 17, 5774

R' Eliyahu Carmel,

Rav Carmel's father,

who passed away on the

8th of Iyar 5776

Mrs. Sara Wengrowsky

bat R’ Moshe Zev a”h.

who passed away on

10 Tamuz 5774

Rav Asher Wasserteil z"l

who passed away on

Kislev 9, 5769

R' Meir ben

Yechezkel Shraga Brachfeld

o.b.m

R ' Yaakov ben Abraham & Aisha

and

Chana bat Yaish & Simcha

Sebbag, z"l

George Weinstein z"l

Gershon ben Yehudah Mayer,

a lover of the Jewish Nation Torah and Land.

Rav Benzion Grossman

z"l
who passed away
23rd of Tamuz 5777

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).