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Shabbat Parashat Lech Lecha 5775

Lech Lecha | 8 Cheshvan 5775 | 01/11/2014

Parashat Hashavua: From Destructive to Mitzva

Hashem commanded Avraham: “Walk before Me and be complete, and I will place My covenant between Me and you … Avram fell on his face and Hashem spoke to him” (Bereishit 17:1-3). Rashi explains that before Avraham had a brit mila, he did not have the power to accept the Divine Presence without falling down, as was the case for Bilam (see Bamidbar 24:4).

Ask the Rabbi: Diapers With Disappearing Ink

Is it permitted to use on Shabbat a diaper with forms on the outside that disintegrate when the diaper is soaked, alerting parents to change the diaper?

Ein Ayah: Focused Intent Vs. Spread Out Intent

One must touch his tefillin on a regular basis, as can be learned from a kal vachomer from the tzitz (head plate of the kohen gadol). If concerning the tzitz, which contains only one Name of Hashem, the Torah says, “It shall be on his forehead constantly” (Shemot 28:38), from which we learn that he should not take his mind off of it, regarding tefillin, which have many Names of Hashem in them, one should all the more certainly not take his mind off of them.

P'ninat Mishpat: Return of the Profits of a Joint Investment to Recover Losses

There are two concepts regarding gains and losses of partners to investments which the gemara (Bava Metzia 105a) discusses. One is that if one partner wants to divide the preliminary profits while the other wants to reinvest them in the continuing investment, we side with the latter because the profits are slated to support the principal. Another is that if the one who is handling an investment lost money and continued to invest and eventually made up the losses, he cannot demand to split the initial losses but has to use the gains to fill the losses, as we say that he did so to protect his reputation as an investment partner. The Maharsha (ad loc.) says that we cannot apply the rule of being required to use the profits for the basic investment in the latter case because the rule is designed to cover his own losses with his gains, not to increase further profits.

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Lech Lech 5775

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated

to the memory of:

All those who

fell in the war for our homeland.

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

17 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

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.

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).