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Education Minister Urges Reform Figures to "Take
Advantage" of Her Term in Office
Education Minister Yuli Tamir urged the Reform Movement to
"take advantage" of her tenure as head of the Education
Ministry by establishing facts on the ground in the education
system.
The public is showing widespread support in Eretz Yisroel and
abroad following last week's notice from gedolei
Yisroel, including Maran HaRav Eliashiv shlita, in
support of the ruling by the Beis Din Hagodol that conversion
without fully accepting mitzvas is invalid.
"You said you're a government of compassion. You said you're
a government that wants to help and that you're not anti-
religious. You go to the Reform — but what about our
children? Perhaps you'll allow our children to live, too?"
The Tel Aviv Municipality is trying to compel businessman Lev
Leviev to open the parking lot of the Africa Israel building
on Rechov Achad Ha'am on Shabbos and decided to require him
to allocate 50 percent of parking spaces for public use
during evening hours and on Shabbos. Africa Israel says it
opposes opening the lot on Shabbos.
Agudas Yisroel of Europe's annual conference ended early this
week at the Normandie Hotel in Bournemouth, England with
calls for increased public activity in all spheres of Jewish
life in Europe.
Thousands of bereaved Jerusalem residents took part in the
levaya for Rav Chaim Moshe Flam z"l, one of the roshei
yeshiva of Yeshivas Ohr Dovid and a prominent avreich
in Jerusalem's Sanhedria Murchevet neighborhood, who passed
away at the age of 56. From "Telolei Oros, the Prayer Anthology" by Rabbi
Yissochor Dov Rubin, who was niftar on Shabbos parshas
Kedoshim at the age of 45.
Asher bochar bonu mikol ho'amim venosan lonu es
Toroso
This brochoh is perplexing. Chazal said (Avoda Zora
2b) that Hashem offered the Torah to all the nations, and
only after they refused to accept it, He gave it to Yisroel.
If so, how can we make the brochoh, "Who chose us from
all the nations and gave us His Torah?" What kind of choice
did He make choosing Yisroel if He had previously offered it
to all the nations?
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According to the Ramo (494:3) we do not recite
tachanun from Rosh Chodesh Sivan until after Isru
Chag (according to other minhagim we do not recite
tachanun until after the seven days of
hashlomoh that follow Shavuos).
On Rosh Chodesh Sivan we do not recite tachanun as on
every Rosh Chodesh. The second of Sivan is called Yom
HaMeyuchas since after yetzias Mitzrayim Hashem
commanded Moshe to say to bnei Yisroel: "Now therefore
if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then
you shall be My own treasure from among all peoples"
(Shemos 19:5) to prepare them for Torah. Afterwards,
the third, forth, and fifth of Sivan are the Sheloshes
Yemei Hagboloh when bnei Yisroel waited for
kabolas HaTorah (Mishnah Berurah 494:8, and see
Shabbos 86-88).
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