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Shabbat Parashat Noach 5780

Noach | 4 Cheshvan 5780 | 02/11/2019

Parashat Hashavua: The Jewish Way is Not Noach’s Way

The navi calls the mabul (Great Flood), “the waters of Noach.” The Zohar explains that he was thereby blamed somewhat for not asking for Hashem’s mercy for the generation. The midrash (Yalkut Shimoni V’Zot Haberacha 951) tells the story of a disagreement attributed to Noach and Moshe. Noach said: I am greater than you, for I was saved from the generation of the mabul. Moshe responded: You saved yourself and did not have the strength to save your generation. But I was able to be responsible for: “Hashem regretted the bad plans that He said He would do to His nation.” This is like the case of two ships in the sea – in one case, the captain saved himself, and in the other, the captain saved himself and the ship.

Ask the Rabbi: Personal Requests on Shabbat

What types of requests are prohibited on Shabbat? Is davening for peace and tranquility in one’s own words permitted?

Ein Ayah: Starting from the Top

“Like a tapuach (which may or may not be an apple tree, and it is not clear which variety) among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men …” (Shir Hashirim 2:3). Why is Israel compared to an apple tree? It is to teach you that just as an apple tree has its fruit begin to grow before its leaves, so too Israel said “we will do” before “we will hear.”

P'ninat Mishpat: Deceptive Developer

The defendant (=def) is a developer who built apartments on land that he owned for the plaintiffs (=pl), a group of 16 households who bought apartments. Pl presented a list of repairs that def did not fix during the allotted time. Also, def promised that each buyer would receive a parking spot in front of the building, but it turns out that the only spots being provided are open to the public. Def accepted the legitimacy of the list of repairs (in what turned into a partial ruling of beit din) and took upon himself to fix them within 30 days. However, many of the elements were not fixed even long after the 30 days. Regarding the parking spots, pl says that zoning laws prevent them from making private parking places.

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We daven for a complete and speedy refuah for:

Nir Rephael ben Rachel Bracha
Efrat bat Sara

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

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).