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Shabbat Parashat Shoftim| 5770

Shoftim | 4 Elul 5770 | 14/08/2010

Parashat Hashavuah: Who Brings Them Home?

Our haftara begins with the words: “It is I, it is I [Hashem] who is your consoler” (Yeshaya 51:12) and ends with “… and He who gathers you, the G-d of Israel” (ibid. 52:12). How does Hashem console the nation, and what is His special role in the ingathering?

Ask the Rabbi: Monopolistic market

In a market with a very limited number of stores, is one store allowed to prevent all competition by renting and keeping empty a store that became available, thus allowing him to charge higher prices?

Ein Ayah: The Level of the Leader Relative to the Nation

“Hashem said to Moshe [in the aftermath of the sin of the Golden Calf]: ‘Go, lower yourself’” (Shemot 32:7). Rav Elazar explained [that it was not just that he should descend Mt. Sinai but] that he should go down from his high level. He was in effect saying: “The only reason that I gave you such greatness is because of Israel. Now that Israel has sinned, why do you need [such greatness]?”

P’ninat Mishpat: Backing Out of Relinquishing Rights to a Ketuba

A couple began adjudication, with the husband asking to give a get and the wife asking for reconciliation. The two finally agreed on a get and empowered beit din to come to a compromise ruling on finances. As a result, the wife was to receive, along with her get, 28,000 liras, with which she would have relinquished any claims for a ketuba payment. The couple did not carry out the get, and the wife is now (a year and a half later) asking for reconciliation, including mezonot (spousal support). She claims that they had been living, in the interim, as husband and wife...

Hemdat HaDaf Hayomi: A Partner's Oath (48b)

This week in the Daf Hayomi, we will learn the seventh chapter in Masechet Shevuot, which deals with various oaths that the Sages instituted in special situations. One of these oaths is the partner's oath; an oath that the Sages instituted for someone who deals with money that belongs to someone else, such as one partner who deals with his partner's money.

Hemdat Yamim
of this week is dedicated in memory of
Yitzchak Eizik
Ben Yehuda Leib Usdan a"h,
whose Yahrtzeit is
the 29th of Av

This week’s Hemdat Yamim is dedicated in loving 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).