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Shabbat Parashat Lech Lecha 5780

Lech Lecha | 11 Cheshvan 5780 | 09/11/2019

Parashat Hashavua: The Renegades of Beit El

When Avraham arrived in the Land that Hashem promised to show him, Avraham had to pick a place to set up his tent (see Rashi on Bereishit 12:8). He chose Beit El, which was also the place in which he would build an altar to Hashem and call out in His Name (ibid.).

Ask the Rabbi: Who Should Pay a Ticket?

My friend picked up a trempist (hitchhiker) who did not put on his seatbelt. Police pulled the car over and gave a ticket to the driver (not the passenger) for driving with someone not buckled. Should the passenger reimburse my friend?

Ein Ayah: The Cause of Unfaithfulness

Ulla said: Disgraceful is a bride who commits adultery from within her wedding canopy. [This is a metaphor for the sin of the Golden Calf, right after the giving of the Torah.] Rav Mari said: Where is this found in a pasuk? “While the king was still in his party, the spikenard left its smell [for others - Rashi]” (Shir Hashirim 1:12).

P'ninat Mishpat: Who Should Chip in How Much for a Joint Wall?

The plaintiff (=pl) built his home adjacent to the property of Family Y and, with their blessing, spent 42,000 shekels on a wall on their boundary. In the meantime, Family Y died, their inheritors sold the property to the defendant (=def), and now def has built a home on it. Pl demands that def pay for half the expense of the wall. Def, who at one point agreed to pay, now says that either Family Y already paid pl, or it was their responsibility to do so, not def’s. The inheritors refuse to come to beit din to adjudicate or tell what they claim happened. Def also brought estimates for such a wall for much less money.

Lech Lecha 5780
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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

George Weinstein,

Gershon ben Yehudah Mayer,

a lover of the

Jewish Nation Torah and Land

R’ Eliezer ben R’ Yitzchak Steinberg 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).