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Last week MKs Rabbi Ravitz and Rabbi Moshe Gafni sharply
criticized the unbalanced use of State fiscal resources in
next year's proposed Budget in the realm of education, and
now inequities in other areas important to the Torah-
observant community were exposed in a Knesset Interior
Affairs Committee meeting. Beersheba Court Rejects Pork Shop Owners' Appeal
A majority of the justices of the Beersheba Regional Court
have rejected the appeal of 22 shop owners in Ashkelon who
sell pork. "Make Sholom and Avoid Machlokes and
Fighting" At the rally in Bnei Brak last week, Rabbi Yitzchok
Koledetzky read
a message from HaRav Aharon Leib Steinman, that HaRav
Steinman requested
be publicized as widely as possible, since he believes that
it is
the key to all the troubles that are afflicting us. 40,000 Jews at Torah Day in France 40,000 Jews from Paris and from France's small towns, flocked
to the Torah Day convention held at the airport in La Bourge.
The originator and life spirit behind this convention is the
Chief Rabbi of France, Rabbi Yosef Sitrok. Former Chief Rabbi of the U.K. Lord Immanuel Jakobovits passed away at the age of 78. He was buried on Har
HaZeisim
HaRav Chaim Grozovsky, zt"l A huge throng in both Boro Park and Jerusalem accompanied
HaRav Chaim Grozovsky, zt"l on his last earthly
journey. HaRav Grozovsky was the rosh yeshiva of Beis
Reuven in Brooklyn, the grandson of HaRav Boruch Ber
Leibowitz zt"l and the son of HaRav Reuven Grozovsky
zt"l, roshei yeshiva of Kaminetz. Magen Lecholeh Flies a Patient to the United States The intervention of the chairman of Magen Lecholeh, Rabbi
Binyamin Fisher, helped saved the life of a postpartum woman
whose life was in danger and had to be flown abroad for an
urgent operation. Unwise Tactics in the Service of Just
Demands
The demand that is made these days to return Jewish property
left in Europe from before the Holocaust is just. However it is
being pressed in ways that indicate that those who are doing the demanding have forgotten that the causes of that tragedy were not
erased by the defeat of Nazi Germany. Three Tears By the Well... In the Jerusalem of yore there was not much room for children
to play. No playgrounds. And no toys to speak of, either.
Youngsters
used to give vent to their exuberant, youthful energies by
running
around the well.
The Pshevorsker Rebbe, Reb Yaakov
Leizer zt"l --
A Year Since his Petirah
The earliest time of Kiddush Levonoh -- Kislev
The time of Kiddush Levonoh everywhere in the world
begins
on Wednesday, 4:52 P.M., 2 Kislev (Nov. 11) in Eretz Yisroel.
The
actual time in most of the world is therefore from the
beginning of
Thursday night, the eve of 3 Kislev. In the eastern countries
one
can make Kiddush Levonoh on the eve of 3 Kislev only
according
to the difference in time zones in comparison to Eretz
Yisroel. However,
in the extreme eastern countries it is impossible to make a
brocho
on Kiddush Levonoh at all that night because the moon
sets
before the earliest time, and their actual time is from the
beginning
of the next night, Motzei Shabbos, the eve of 5 Kislev
(Nov.
13).
The astronomical new moon precedes the molad this
month by
approximately eleven hours, and is at 5:53 A.M., the morning
of Monday,
29 Cheshvan, 5759 (Nov. 8). Since during the three days after
the
molad the moon approaches its apogee (its highest
point) and
advances slowly part of the influence of the astronomical new
moon's
early appearance is canceled. This information is significant
for
those who act according to the Chazon Ish and do not make a
brocho
on the moon until it is big and high in the sky.
(Birur Halocho, V, Orach Chaim 426 and 601)
Y.A.Z.
The Thirtieth of Cheshvan
The Bar Mitzvah of someone born on 30 Cheshvan 5760 will be
in 5773
but in that year Cheshvan has only twenty-nine days. The
question
is, of course, when will be his Bar Mitzvah. Answer: On 1
Kislev,
5773 (Mishna Berurah, 55:45).
Explanation: A Bar Mitzvah is not a "birthday" but
when
a boy reaches "thirteen years and one day" -- the beginning
of his fourteenth year. This boy's fourteenth year cannot
begin from
29 Cheshvan since that date was before he was born, and
therefore
he becomes Bar Mitzvah only on 1 Kislev (Birur Halocho
Kama,
ibid.).
If someone became an oveil, Rachmono litzlan,
on 30
Cheshvan, when will be the yahrtzeit ("the day of
death,"
"the day of bad mazel") in a year when there are only
twenty-nine days to Cheshvan. Answer: Since the same
day of
death is not existent that year, a "replacement" must be
found.
Some opinions rule that the replacement is 29 Cheshvan, while
others
rule that it is 1 Kislev. The minhag is that it is
dependent
upon the first yahrtzeit after the death -- if it is
in
a year when there are only 29 days in the month then the
yahrtzeit
will always be on the twenty-ninth when there are only 29
days in
the month. However, if it falls in a year when there are 30
days in
the month then the yahrtzeit which was on the first
day of
Rosh Chodesh will always be on Rosh Chodesh.
(Mishnah Berurah veBirur Halocho Teliso'oh 548).
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