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Shabbat Sukkot | 5770

| 15 Tishrei 5770 | 03/10/2009

Parashat Hashavuah: The Confidence to Love

After surviving and hopefully thriving with the Yom Kippur experience, we move on to the holiday of Sukkot. Some of the classical Jewish thinkers posited that Yom Kippur is related to service of Hashem through yirah (fear), whereas Sukkot is related to ahava (love). Let us take a look at Sukkot with this distinction in mind.

Ask the Rabbi: Conditons on keeping retaurant open during Sukkot

I own a kosher restaurant and would like to keep it open on Sukkot. However, there is no place for me to put a sukka. May it operate anyway, and, if so, are there conditions I must meet?

Ein Ayah: The Long-Term Impact of the Wise on Others

Fortunate is he who … grew with a good name and expired from this world with a good name.

P’ninat Mishpat: Litigants' Agreement to Special Rules of Adjudication

The mishna (Sanhedrin 24a) discusses a case where the litigants agree that someone who should be invalid to testify or judge in their case, e.g., a sinner or a relative of one of the litigants, will be able to testify. Rabbi Meir says that the litigants can back out of the agreement; Rabbanan say that they cannot. The gemara concludes that they are arguing about a case where one wants to back out of the agreement after the g'mar din (the end of the court case, when the ruling is rendered), and the halacha is that he cannot back out. However, prior to that, either side can back out of the agreement to allow an invalid witness or dayan. If a kinyan (act of finalization) was made, no one can subsequently back out.

Hemdat HaDaf HaYomi: Cancelling a Sale or a Present

This week in the Daf Hayomi, the Gemara (40) deals with the issue of a person who wishes to preemptively nullify the validity of a sale or a gift that he is about to give. The way this is done is by stating before witnesses that the sale or present one is doing is not being done willingly but rather out of coercion. The witnesses then write down this declaration. This is termed moda'ah by the Gemara.

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Newsletter Rosh Hashana 5770

This edition of Hemdat Yamim is dedicated to the memory of
Prof. Emeric Deutsch, z”l

member of
Eretz Hemdah’s Amuta.

This edition of Hemdat Yamim is dedicated to the memory of
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).