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Shabbat Parashat Acharei Mot| 5771

Acharei Mot | 12 Nissan 5771 | 16/04/2011

Parashat Hashavuah: Our Bloodline

A common theme between our parasha and the upcoming holiday of Pesach is the significance of blood. The reason given for not drinking blood is that it contains the life of all flesh and that blood of certain animals is singled out to put on the altar for atonement (Vayikra 17:11). Within the Haggada, the blood mentioned is not of a ritual nature, but is part of the Egyptians’ punishment. A further mention of blood that is a later addition to most Haggadot is part of a quote from Yechezkel (16:7), brought as a source expounding on “varav” (apparently referring to Bnei Yisrael’s population growth).

Ask the Rabbi: Is it enough to eat less than a k’zayit of karpas?

I know that we are supposed to eat less than a k’zayit of karpas, but I am not clear why. What happens if someone does have a k’zayit?

Ein Ayah: Benefits and Dangers of Aesthetics

Rav said: The young men of Israel who did not taste sin will, in the future time [of the ideal world], give off a smell like [the fertile region of] Lebanon. This is hinted in the pasuk [dealing with that time and using the metaphor of vegetation for Israel’s success]: “Its shoots will go, and its grandeur will be like the olive tree, and it will have a have a fragrance like Lebanon” (Hoshea 14:7).

P'ninat Mishpat: Accepting Open Checks Signed by Someone Now Deceased

The plaintiff (=pl) possesses checks worth a few hundred thousand dollars signed by a man who is now deceased, dated for certain dates after his death, with amounts that were filled in with a different handwriting. Pl explains that he had lent a large sum of money to the deceased and the checks were left open to adjust for interest. Pl demands that the deceased’s minor son (=def), who inherited his property, sell the property in order to pay.

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated
in memory of

Nachum Eliezer Ra'anan
ben Yosef HaCohen
(Larry Roth) o.b.m
who passed away on the 21st of Adar

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated
in memory of

Yehudah
ben Naftali Hertz Cohen (Kamofsky)

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated
to the memory of

Gershon (George)

ben Chayim HaCohen

Kaplan

o.b.m.

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).