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Shabbat Parashat Beha'alotcha| 5764

Beha'alotcha | | 08/01/2004

The Light of the Oral Law

Ohel Moed (The Tent of Meeting) was the place where Moshe received critical messages from Hashem on behalf of His nation, Israel. One is curious what the first such message was. According to the Midrash (Bamidbar Rabba 15:8) it was the commandment to Aharon to kindle the lights of the menorah.

P’ninat Mishpat

Case: A request was made to certify a will which transferred money to inheritors both by means of an admission that certain property belongs to them and by means of the will’s benefactor obligating himself in the elements of the will. The issue is that both the admission and the obligation were done on condition that the benefactor could back out until soon before his death. Is such a will valid?

Moreshet Shaul

Tosafot (Bava Batra 114b) brings two explanations for why a deceased husband does not “inherit his wife in the grave,” which would have allowed his inheritors to receive the wife’s estate through him even when he died before her. The Rivan says that it is because their relationship, which the Torah calls “sh’er” (implying great closeness), is severed by death.

Ask the Rabbi

Question: Can a minor (katan) do mitzvot and make berachot to be motzi (on behalf of) an adult (gadol)?

This edition of Hemdat Yamim is dedicated to
Sarah Chavah Noble on the occasion of her Bat Mitzva.
We wish her continued success in all of her endeavors.

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).

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