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Shabbat Parashat Vayeira 5774

Vayeira | 15 Cheshvan 5774 | 19/10/2013

Parashat Hashavua: Mercy and Forgivingness

Before the Torah’s account that Hashem informed Avraham of His plans to destroy S’dom and its neighboring cities, the Torah gives some introductory comments: “Hashem said: Am I to hide from Avraham that which I am doing? And Avraham will be a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the land will be blessed through him. For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they will follow the path of Hashem to do charity and justice, so that Hashem will bring unto Avraham that which He spoke to him” (Bereishit 18: 17-19).

Ask the Rabbi: Giving Tzedaka During Aveilut

I was told that an aveil should not give monetary gifts. Is it permitted to give tzedaka freely during this time, or are there limitations?

Ein Ayah: An Ageless Truth Keeps a Nation Young

Rabbi Yehuda also opened with the honor of the Torah and expounded: “Listen and hear, Israel: this day you have become a nation” (Devarim 27:9). Is it so that this was the day that the Torah was given to Israel? Wasn’t this written some forty years later? Rather it is to teach you that the Torah is dear to those who learn it every day as the day it was given at Mt. Sinai.

P'ninat Mishpat: The Law of Bar Metzra

Reuven owned a home, which was rented out to Shimon for two years, and during this time Reuven gave it to his daughter Sarah as a dowry. A year later, Sarah appointed Levi to sell the home. Levi told Shimon that he was going to sell it, and Shimon did not act immediately, but his wife said soon after its sale that they were interested in buying the home they were renting for themselves. The question is whether the law of bar metzra, whereby one who has a natural connection, usually as a neighbor, to property that was just sold can compel the property’s buyer to transfer it to the bar metzra at the same sale price.

Refuah Sheleimah

amongst the sick

of Klal Yisrael

for

Rabanit Itah bat Chana

Ehrenreich

Mr. Eliyahu ben Sara Carmel

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

This edition of

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated to

the memory of

George Weinstein,

Gershon

ben Yehudah Mayer,

a lover of the Jewish Nation

Torah and Land.

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated

in memory of

R’ Eliezer ben R’ Yitzchak z”l

Hemdat Yamim
is dedicated
in memory of
Shmuel Rozenhak
o.b.m
who passed away
Iyar 6, 5773

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).