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Shabbat Parashat Noach | 5769

Noach | 3 Cheshvan 5769 | 01/11/2008

What is a Rainbow?

The point of the lead question of the title is not to introduce a scientific analysis of the phenomenon of a rainbow. It is not even to deal with the Ramban’s discussion of whether a rainbow is a natural phenomenon that existed since creation or a later change in nature. The question is what the rainbow is supposed to communicate to whom. Most people would say that the rainbow is Hashem’s way of telling us that He will not destroy the world again (even if we may deserve it).

Sheva Berachot at se’uda shlishit

We made Sheva Berachot at se’uda shlishit. The question arose: should one drink the cup(s) before Havdala in this case?

Excerpts from the Introduction to Ein Ayah – part VI

We discussed last time the importance of having the “closed statements” of the Torah (especially the instructions on practical mitzvot) and the “open statements” (the involvement in creatively expanding the texts beyond their simple meanings) complement each other.

Place of Adjudication When the Location of the Defendant Changes

A man (pl) is a neighbor and shares a roof with an apartment that had been owned by a woman and her children (def) but since had been transferred to the ownership of the children (the woman still lives there). Pl wants to divide the ownership of the roof in order to build on part of it. Def do not want to allow the construction and want to adjudicate the matter in B’er Sheva, where they live. Pl wants the case to be heard in the area of the apartments, where he lives, and points out that his physical frailty makes it difficult to travel to B’er Sheva.

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.

As well as

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.

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).