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Shabbat Parashat Yitro 5784

Yitro | 24 Shevat 5784 | 03/02/2024

Parashat Hashavua: On Justice and the Right of Appeal – part I

Soon after Bnei Yisrael experienced the great miracles at the splitting of the sea and appropriately sang their praises to The situation of the judicial system, as described in our parasha, has parallels in our days. [This d’var Torah was written last year, during the tensions over judicial reform.] Moshe’s court had an extreme backlog, and a positive judicial revolution was needed. After deliberations between Moshe and Yitro, agreement was reached, and Hashem gave His approval. Those primary principles form the basis of judicial Halacha to this day.

Ask the Rabbi: Reciting Holy Things Near Garbage Containers

I recite Birchot Hashachar on the way to shul, and recently Tehillim as I walk the streets. May I continue doing so while passing trash cans or dumpsters?

Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: Deeper Literature – #188 – part I

I have received the Yagdil Torah journal, including your open letter. During these days of great preoccupation with the holy work that is placed on my weak shoulders, which is so tiring, I have not secured the strength to pay my debt of respect and love for you, my respected colleague and thank you for the desirable flowers (the journal) with which you have honored me with the first edition. I hope that the publication will spread and that it will be adorned with many and great desired fruit, people who support your hand and those who stand behind your flag, helping in practical and spiritual ways. Then the matter will grow, and there will be offshoots to increase Torah and widen its goals.

P'ninat Mishpat: Should the Will be Updated? – part I

Reuven and the defendant (=def) were married in a second marriage for each. Reuven wrote a will, leaving his main possession, a large, commercially used building, exclusively to def, and not to his children (=pl). Pl claim that in the year before his death, Reuven expressed several times to his children (sometimes in def’s presence) that he wanted them to receive significant portions of the inheritance. After his death, def also expressed her plan to give pl significant proceeds from the sale of the building, if she sold it. After operating the business for a few years, as Reuven wanted (claiming she did so as long as she was capable), def sold it for 1.6 mil. NIS. [Part I deals with the claim that Reuven meant to give pl an inheritance, despite the written will]. Pl say that once, when Reuven was in a quite good state of mind (which declined over time after writing the will), he told a son and his lawyer that he wanted pl to receive 60% of the property with def and her children receiving 40%. One of pl claims that Reuven gave him a note detailing who would receive each part of the property. Pl presume that the will was written under def’s pressure, and that his main reason for giving the whole property to def was that he wanted her to operate his beloved business. Def admits some of Reuven’s sentiment that his children share the inheritance, but she denies that there were specifics. She also points out that often, Reuven was not mentally fit.

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We daven for a complete and speedy refuah for:

Nir Rephael ben Rachel Bracha
Ori Leah bat Chaya Temima

Arye Yitzchak ben Geula Miriam

Neta bat Malka

Meira bat Esther
Yerachmiel ben Zlotta Rivka

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 Tarshansky z"l

Adar 28, 5781

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

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).