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Shabbat Parashat Vayeitzei 5774

Vayeitzei | 6 Kislev 5774 | 09/11/2013

Parashat Hashavua: Brothers in this World and the Next

Our parasha tells of the building of Yaakov’s family, one child at a time. We will concentrate on a look at the history of the tribes that emanated from the two last of Leah’s six children, Yissachar and Zevulun. These two, born significantly later than their older four full brothers, went down through history as a pair.

Ask the Rabbi: Encouraging a Child to Criticize His Parent (Part I)

Psychologists sometimes believe that a patient’s symptoms – depression, anger, poor functioning etc. – are a result of his parent’s destructive behavior toward him. Can we encourage a patient to express his resentment to the offending parent in a controlled, appropriate manner? The goals of these interventions are to help the patient reduce his symptoms and the suppressed hatred toward the parent. This can help improve the relationship, even though, on an immediate basis, the negative feelings are legitimized and brought to the fore.

Ein Ayah: Absorb and Then Critique

“Hassket (literally, listen) and hear, Israel” (Devarim 27:9). [Read it as:] Hass (be silent) and afterward katet (break it down with critical analysis), as Rava said: A person should always study Torah first and then contemplate.

P'ninat Mishpat: Is a Downpayment Given to a Lawyer Binding?

The defendant (=def) is the representative of a group of inheritors who, through a lawyer, entered negotiations to sell a property to the plaintiff (=pl). They agreed on a price, and pl paid app. 12% as a down payment. A contract was drafted, and requested emendations by def caused a delay in the signing of the contract. Eventually, def decided to return the down payment and not go through with the sale, which caused a loss to pl, who had already hired an architect to make building plans. Therefore, pl demands that the sale be upheld. Def says that the lawyer was instructed not to finalize a sale without def’s final agreement, which in turn required agreement from all the joint inheritors. (One of the inheritors decided to buy out the others and keep the property.) Def points out that the contract was never signed, and the property was not transferred in the Tabu (Land Registry).

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

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated

in memory of

Shirley,

Sara Rivka bat

Yaakov Tzvi HaCohen 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).