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Shabbat Parashat Nitzavim 5781

Nitzavim | 27 Elul 5781 | 9/4/2021

Parashat Hashavua: Two Creations

The world was created twice – one that was preceded by a state of pre-creation, and another time after the world was already created. The first creation happened in the first month and the second one was in the seventh month. The first one was done based on chesed (kindness), the second one based on din (strict law). The first one was created by Hashem on His own; in the second, he included man as a partner. The second creation was the greater one. “This is the day of the beginning of Your actions.”

Ask the Rabbi: Children Hearing Shofar Blowing

Must children hear shofar blowing, at what age, when, and how many?

Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: Keeping to His Own Interpersonal Style

Avigdor Rivlin, a businessman in Boisk, who kept a personal connection with Rav Kook even after Rav Kook left his rabbinate in Boisk to make aliya.

P'ninat Mishpat: A Check Passing from Hand to Hand

[The actual case included a few more people, whom we “removed” for simplicity’s sake.] While Mrs. L was claiming inheritance of land under government control, she sold future rights to the defendant (=def), who wrote her a check for 130,000 NIS. Mrs. L handed the check over to her ex-husband (=exh), who later gave the check to the plaintiff (=pl). Pl tried to cash the check but was refused due to insufficient funds and now is demanding payment from def. Def claims that the check had been given as a guarantee, with the stipulation that it must not be used for payment, and the deal to which it related did not come to fruition.

Nitzavim 5781
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Nitzavim 5781

We daven for a complete and speedy refuah for:

Nir Rephael ben Rachel Bracha
Yisrael ben Rivka

Rivka Reena bat Gruna Natna

Arye Yitzchak ben Geula Miriam

Neta bat Malka

Meira bat Esther

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, 5771

Rav Reuven Aberman z"l

Tishrei 9 ,5776

Mr. Shmuel & Esther Shemesh z"l

Sivan 17 / Av 20

Mr. Moshe Wasserzug z"l

Tishrei 20 ,5781

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 & Susan Wasserteil z"l
Kislev 9 / Elul 5780

R' Meir ben

Yechezkel Shraga Brachfeld z"l

Mrs. Sara Brachfeld z"l

Tevet 16 ,5780

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

R' Yitzchak Eizik

ben Yehuda Leib Usdan a"h,

Av 29

R' Abraham Klein z"l

Iyar 18 ,5779

Mrs. Gita Klein z"l

Av 4

R' Yitzchak Zev Tarshansky z"l

Adar 28, 5781

Hemdat Yamim
is endowed by Les z"l & Ethel Sutker
of Chicago, Illinois
in loving memory of
Max and Mary Sutker
& 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).