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CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Massei, 5765

Sunday, 24 Tammuz - Shabbos, 1 Menachem Av (July 31-Aug. 6, 2005)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Shabbos, 90-96
Yerushalmi:
Avodoh Zoroh 7-13

MISHNA YOMIS
Orloh 2:5-3:1

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim 382:18-388:1

Pirkei Ovos: 2

Rosh Chodesh Av falls on Shabbos, Aug. 6.

From Rosh Chodesh Av until midday of 10 Av, Ashkenazim are accustomed not to eat meat, and observe other halochos of mourning (except for Shabbos). From Rosh Chodesh Av we decrease our simchah.

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Mattos
Yerushalayim:
7:03 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
7:18 P.M.

London:
8:38 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:22 P.M.
Melbourne:
5:11 P.M.

Parshas Massei
Yerushalayim:
6:57 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
7:12 P.M.

London:
8:26 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:26 P.M.
Melbourne:
5:17 P.M.

 

 

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At The Center of the Universe
At The Center of the Universe
by Mordechai Plaut

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Report: Palestinian Security Forces are A Mess
by M Plaut and Yated Ne'eman Staff

According to a story in the New York Times, the PA security forces are divided, weak, overstaffed, badly motivated and underarmed. This assessment was the conclusion of a report prepared by a group called Strategic Assessments Initiative and was funded the Dutch and Canadian governments.


International Efforts to Prevent Destruction of Large Jewish Cemetery in Vilna
By Betzalel Kahn

What remains of the large Jewish cemetery in Vilna is being threatened with total destruction at the hands of private entrepreneurs planning to build one of Eastern Europe's largest commercial centers at the site. Gedolei olom and tens of thousands of Vilna Jews lie buried at the 500- year-old cemetery.


Bottles Containing Chlorine Solution Thrown at French Jewish Students During Tefilloh
By Arnon Yaffeh, Paris

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy visited Sinai, a Jewish day school located in Paris' 18th arrondissement, after three Arab teenagers were arrested on suspicions of throwing bottles filled with a chlorine solution into the school yard and the beis knesses. "He who attacks Jews attacks the French Republic," Sarkozy declared.


Jerusalem Religious Council Withdraws High Court Petition
By Betzalel Kahn

The Jerusalem Religious Council withdrew its High Court petition against the Chief Rabbinate and against HaRav Adler and HaRav Efrati, the two rabbonim now authorized to issue kashrus certificates to Jerusalem's business establishments.


Israel Tax Reform Will Cut the Marginal Rate and VAT
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The Knesset Finance Committee approved the government's multi- year proposals for tax reform for their second and third Knesset readings. The vote was 12:4: Likud, Shinui, the religious, chareidi, and right-wing parties voted in favor; Labor and Yahad voted against.


Police and Soldiers Train at "Chicago" in the Desert
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Thousands of soldiers and policemen began intensive training on Monday at the Tze'elim army base for the pullout from the Gaza Strip. The army constructed a mock settlement there, known as "Chicago," that was adapted from what was once a mock Palestinian village used to train anti-terror forces.


BUG UPDATE, Tammuz 5765
Prepared by Devorah Plaut and Ruth Levy

Rav Vaye recently published a second edition of Volume I of his sefer, with updates to several of the entries. (For those who already own the first edition, a booklet is available containing just the updates). He also came out with an update to his Hebrew pamphlet summarizing the checking of various foods. Below we present some of the highlights, rendered into English.

Degel HaTorah Withdraws No Confidence Motion
By G. Lazer

Degel HaTorah announced Sunday night the postponement of its no-confidence motion that had been scheduled for Monday based on directions from gedolei Yisroel shlita.


Intel to Build in Kiryat Gat
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Intel, the company which makes the computer brains for most of the personal computers in the world, will build a second factory in Kiryat Gat for $4 billion, Intel CEO Dr. Craig Barrett told Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday.

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OPINION & COMMENT

What are the Values Behind the Objections to the Disengagement?

This is a question to which we do not know the answer. However we do know that whatever they are, really, they are not values with which we can identify.

Introduction
A Happy Home, Past and Present

A Selection of Rulings, Comments and Pieces of Advice Heard From the Steipler, zt'l, on Raising and Educating Children

Rav Avrohom Yeshayohu Kanievsky, a grandson of the Steipler's, writes in his biographical work about his grandfather, "I asked our teacher for his opinion of all the modern gadgetry that is to be found today in every Jewish home, and about the current way of life where the wife earns a living while the husband is occupied in the tent of Torah.

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OBSERVATIONS

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HOME & FAMILY

MODERN DAY MESHOLIM AND MUSSAR
Touches of Beauty

by Bayla Gimmel

Two well-stocked vans came into my neighborhood last week to deliver craft supplies to the nursery schools. After all of the local nursery teachers had filled their orders, the drivers allowed some of the neighborhood women to make purchases as well.

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IN-DEPTH FEATURES

The Discovery of the Resting Places of Rashi and the Baalei Hatosfos
by Rabbi Y. Friedman

The Tzaddik Who Ruled Through His Fear of Heaven: Sixty- One Years Since The Martyrdom of HaRav Avrohom Grodzensky Zt'l, Hy'd, 5704-5765
by M. Musman


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