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Shabbat Parashat Chayei Sarah 5785

Chayei Sarah | 22 Cheshvan 5785 | 23/11/2024

Parashat Hashavua: Tanach is One Book Made of Pieces that Must Be Connected

Every Jewish child knows that Avraham sent Eliezer to find a wife for his son Yitzchak. However, the Torah text (in Bereishit ch. 24) speaks (thirteen times) just of Avraham’s unnamed “servant,” so how do we know that his name was Eliezer?

Ask the Rabbi: Should Kiddush Levana Be Done with a Minyan?

We usually do Kiddush Levana outside shul on Motzaei Shabbat. Is it supposed to be done with a minyan or some other minimum number of people?

Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: Involving Baron Rothschild in Religious Efforts – #278

I feel an obligation to express my thanks and blessing to your honor, who showed me favor by fulfilling my request about the dear Rabbi Zev Bernstein, who lives in the moshava Petach Tikva. I would be so pleased if it will be possible to continue helping him in the days to come, as he is a very honorable man. Similarly, I would be grateful to your honor if you would say a good word about the book Shabbat Ha’aretz (Rav Kook’s work on the Laws of Shemitta). I will be very happy if it finds favor in the eyes of a Torah scholar such as you. May you be blessed if you carry out my request to give the copy I sent to the honorable “Generous Baron” (Rothschild

P'ninat Mishpat: Proof Needed to Remove a Squatter – part III

The plaintiff (=pl), an educational organization that has a kollel, have been operating for many years out of a property (=prp) owned by a municipality (=mun). In 2021, they rented out part of prp to the defendant (=def), a yeshiva, for a year, for 20,000 NIS a month. Toward the end of the year, pl informed def that the rental would not be renewed and that they must vacate prp. When def refused to leave, pl placed locks on the doors to keep def’s students out. Def asked beit din for a restraining order to remove the locks and allow def in. Beit din rejected this request, yet def ignored the ruling and got in. Pl asked beit din to have def removed and make them pay the unpaid portions of their rental and, looking forward, 1,000 NIS for every day they do not vacate. Def claim that pl have no right to remove them or demand money because pl are neither the owners nor the organization that was given control of the property, which was org2. Pl say that since org2 were unable to finance building on prp and operating there, they gave pl, who paid substantially, all such rights.

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We daven for a complete and speedy refuah for:

Itamar Chaim ben Tzipporah

Nir Rephael ben Rachel Bracha
Tal Shaul ben Yaffa

Ori Leah bat Chaya Temima

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

Prof. Yisrael Aharoni z"l

Kislev 14, 5783

Rav Shlomo Merzel z”l
Iyar 10, 5771

Rav Reuven & Chaya Leah Aberman z"l
Tishrei 9 ,5776 / Tishrei 20, 5782

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' Abraham & Gita Klein z"l

Iyar 18, /5779Av 4

Rav Moshe Zvi (Milton) Polin z"l
Tammuz 19, 5778

R' Yitzchak Zev & Naomi Tarshansky z"l

Adar 28, 5781/ Adar II 14 5784

Nina Moinester z"l

Nechama Osna bat

Yitzhak Aharon & Doba

Av 30, 5781

Rabbi Dr. Jerry Hochbaum z"l

Adar II 17, 5782

Mrs. Julia Koschitzky z"l

Adar II 18, 5782

Mrs. Leah Meyer z"l

Nisan 27, 5782

Mr. Shmuel & Rivka Brandman z"l

Tevet 16 5783/ Iyar 8, 5781

R’ Eliezer ben R’ Yitzchak Steinberg z”l
16 Cheshvan

Tamar Lichtenstadt z”l.

27 Cheshvan

George Weinstein,

Gershon ben Yehudah Mayer

lover of the Jewish Nation Torah and Land.

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).