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Shabbat Parashat Ki Tavo 5779

Ki Tavo | 21 Elul 5779 | 21/09/2019

Parashat Hashavua: Even the Wicked are Important

We have discussed in the past the connection between the end of Parashat Ki Teitzei, which deals with the struggle against Amalek, and the beginning of Parashat Ki Tavo, which deals with the mitzva of bikurim. Both sections (Devarim 25:18-19; 26:1) include a reference to coming to “the Land that Hashem your Lord has given you as an inheritance.”

Ask the Rabbi: Finding a Discarded Aron Kodesh

I found a discarded wooden box, which someone who sold their apartment left outside a storage room. The neighbors want to throw it out. After opening it, I could tell it was used to store a small sefer Torah. What should to do with it?

Ein Ayah: The Time for Accepting the Torah out of Free Will

Last time we saw the famous gemara about Hashem holding Mt. Sinai over Bnei Yisrael’s head and thereby effectively coercing them to accept the Torah.] From here there is a great moda’ah (Rashi- excuse) [for insufficient observance] about the Torah. (The way that we will see that Rav Kook explains this gemara is somewhat different from Rashi). Rava said: Even so, they accepted it once again at the time of Achashveirosh, as the pasuk says: “The Jews fulfilled(/confirmed) and accepted” (Esther 9:27) – they confirmed that which they had accepted previously.

P'ninat Mishpat: Firing with Insufficient Warning? – part I

The plaintiff (=pl) worked for the defendant (=def), an NPO, in 2012-2013, doing work on their website. In 2014, def asked pl to return in a different, expanded role to help def out of financial woes. Pl explained that he needed work stability and wrote a contract that required def to give him 60 days warning before terminating employment. Toward the beginning of pl’s tenure, def replaced their director. Since pl worked closely with him, pl met with the head of def (=hdef) to ask about his future. Hdef assured pl that he would not be fired. As time went on and pl felt excluded from decisions, he asked to meet with the new director (=ndir), but this took weeks to happen. Finally, on 29.12.14, during his 6th month of employment, ndir fired him and told him he might not get paid for that month. Pl is suing for salary for 60 days after the notification, as well as for 10,200 shekels for payment for travel over the whole period per the contract, and lawyer’s fee (to be discussed in part II). Def said that the contract is to be read that the need for 60 days notice is only after the six-month trial period.

Ki Tavo 5779
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Ki Tavo 5779

We daven for a complete and speedy refuah for:

Nir Rephael ben Rachel Bracha
Refael Yitchak ben Chana

Netanel Ilan ben Sheina Tzipora

Netanel ben Sarah Zehava

Yehuda ben Chaya Esther

Meira bat Esther

Yair Menachem ben Yehudit Chana

Rivka Reena bat Gruna Natna

David Chaim ben Rassa

Lillian bat Fortune

Yafa bat Rachel Yente

Eliezer Yosef ben Chana Liba

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
Iyar 10

Rav Reuven Aberman z"l

Tishrei 9 5776

Mr. Shmuel Shemesh z"l
Sivan 17 5774

R' Eliyahu Carmel z"l

Rav Carmel's father

Iyar 8 5776

Mrs. Sara Wengrowsky

bat R’ Moshe Zev a”h.

Tamuz 10 5774

Rav Asher Wasserteil z"l

Kislev 9 5769

R' Meir ben

Yechezkel Shraga Brachfeld z"l

R' Yaakov ben Abraham & Aisha

and

Chana bat Yaish & Simcha

Sebbag, z"l

Rav Yisrael Rozen z"l
Cheshvan 13, 5778

Rav Benzion Grossman z"l
Tamuz 23 5777

Rav Moshe Zvi (Milton)

Polin z"l

Tammuz 19, 5778

R' Abraham Klein z"l

Iyar 18 5779

Mr. Isaac Moinester z"l

Elul 5

Mrs. Doris Moinester a"h,

Elul 23

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).