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Shabbat Parashat Devarim| 5768

Devarim | 8 Av 5768 | 09/08/2008

Devarim – The Additional Book

Sefer Bamidbar ends with the pasuk: “These are the laws and the statutes that Hashem commanded Moshe to Bnei Yisrael…” We might have thought that at this juncture, with Bnei Yisrael about to enter Eretz Yisrael, the Torah would be complete. However, the Lawgiver gave us an “additional” chumash, Sefer Devarim, during the last month of the last year in the desert.

The Transition From Shabbat into Tisha B’Av

Could you please explain how to handle the transition from Shabbat into Tisha B’Av (which falls on Motza’ei Shabbat) regarding Seuda Shlishit, Havdalah and removing shoes?

Hashem’s Despair Over Bnei Yisrael’s State of Exile

Rav Yitzchak bar Shmuel said in the name of Rav: There are three mishmarot (“watches”= sections of time) to the night, and for every mishmar Hashem sits and roars like a lion, and says: “Woe on the sons that because of their sins I destroyed My house and burnt My hall and exiled My sons among the idol worshippers.

Workers Who Could Not Work Due to Snow – part I (Harav Akiva Kahana)

Fundamentally, a worker who is unable to show up to work due to a cause that was unexpected to both sides loses his salary (Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 334:1). However, sometimes the ruling differs, if the preventing factor is of a general nature (i.e., affect many people).

This edition of Hemdat Yamim is dedicated in loving memory of

Yitzchak Eizik Ben Yehuda Leib a"h,
whose Yahrtzeit is the
29th of Av

as well as

R ' Meir ben Yechezkel Shraga Brachfeld

o.b.m

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).