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OPINION & COMMENT The Core of Yated is Ideology -- Not Business or Politics In his report last week that covered the most recent election campaign, the State Comptroller generally gave United Torah Judaism (UTJ) -- and most of the political parties -- high marks for the campaign that they ran. One issue that he raised, however, was the that in some newspapers that are identified with political parties, in the period leading up to the elections, "there appeared a mixture of political advertising and newspaper stories whose content indicated that they were also election propaganda." The Lapse of a Hairsbreadth: A Shmuess The Heart Knows "And Timna was a concubine to Elifaz, son of Eisov and she bore Amolek to Elifaz . . . " (Bereishis 36:12)
The Ten Tests of Avrohom Ovinu As far as Avrohom's ten tests, all opinions agree about seven trials: 1) "Go you out of your country," 2) famine in Eretz Yisroel, 3) Soroh's being taken by Pharaoh, 4) the War of the Four Kings, 5) Hogor and Yishmoel's being sent away, 6) Bris Milah, and 7) Akeidas Yitzchok. Opinions differ whether the following five are included: 1) Ur Kasdim (not enumerated by the Rambam), 2) Bris Bein HaBesorim (both the Rambam and Rabbenu Yonah do not reckon it), 3) running away from Nimrod (listed among the ten only according to Rashi), 4) Soroh's being taken by Avimelech (according to the Rambam and Rabbenu Yonah), and 5) Hogor's marrying Avrohom (a trial only according to the Rambam).
Yiras Shomayim -- Outside of Eretz Yisroel Yeshivas Shem ve'Eiver The wording in the verse before us seems superfluous; the Torah could have sufficed with one of the two verbs -- leaving or going. It could have said, "And Yaakov left Beer Sheva for Choron." Or, "And Yaakov went from Beer Sheva to Choron."
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