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Shabbat Parashat Nitzavim Vayeilech 5774

Nitzavim Vayeilech | 25 Elul 5774 | 20/09/2014

Parashat Hashavua: “All of You Before Hashem”

Our parasha opens with a declaration: “You are all standing (nitzavim) before Hashem, your G-d, today – your heads of tribes, your elders, your officers, every man in Israel. Your children, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the midst of your encampment, from your woodchoppers to your water drawers” (Devarim 29:9-10).

Ask the Rabbi: Tallit and Tefillin During Selichot

I say selichot before my normal Shacharit minyan. Should I put on my tallit and tefillin before Selichot?

Ein Ayah: When the Sacred Should Be Supreme and When Not

Rava bar Mechasia said, in the name of Rav Chama bar Guria, in the name of Rav: Any city in which there are roofs higher than the shul will eventually be in ruins, as the pasuk says: “… to exalt the house of our G-d and to restore its ruins” (Ezra 9:9). The above is true regarding houses, but regarding kishkushei and avrurei (Rashi – various towers that have only an aesthetic value) this is not an issue.

P'ninat Mishpat: Backing Out of the Sale of Wine Due to Non-Payment

Even when a valid kinyan is performed, if the payment is not made right away despite the seller’s repeated request, the sale is not complete (Bava Metzia 78a). On the other hand, the gemara says that if the seller sold something that he has an interest to get off his hands quickly, the sale is not voided even if the seller was aggressive about receiving payment. The Shvut Yaakov (II:148) says that wine is a commodity which we assume a seller feels pressure to sell quickly because of the possibility that it will begin turning into vinegar.

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated

to the memory of:

All those who

fell in the war for our homeland.

Mr. Isaac Moinester

whose Yahrtzeit is 5^th of Elul

The beloved friend

of Eretz Hemdah

Doris (Doba) Moinester

whose Yahrtzeit is 23^rd of Elul

Mr. Max Prager

who passed away

21 Av, 5774

R' Yitzchak Eliezer

ben

Avraham Mordechai

Jacobson

R' Meir
ben

Yechezkel Shraga Brachfeld

o.b.m

Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Simcha

ben Bina Stern o.b.m

who passed away

21 Adar I, 5774

R' Yaakov ben Abraham & Aisha

and

Chana bat Yaish & Simcha

Sebbag, z"l

R' Shmuel Shemesh z"l

Eretz Hemdah's

Board Member

who passed away

18 Sivan, 5774

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

In memory of our beloved

mother and grandmother

Rivka bat Yissachar Dov Schonfeld a”h

on her 4th Yahrzeit on Elul 29^th

Judith Munk and family

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).