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Israel Leaves Gaza; Palestinian Mob Burns Shuls, Loots After 38 years, since the Six Day War in June, 1967 (5727), Israel withdrew from Gaza on Monday. All Israel was relieved when the final stages of the withdrawal, the pullout of the last 3,000 soldiers of the IDF, proceeded in an orderly fashion with no casualties.
According to Education Ministry figures, the total nationwide
enrollment for the 5766 school year increased by 36,079, to
1,757,967 students in 4,413 schools and some 13,000
kindergarten classes. Of these 1,312,536 attend Jewish
schools, 318,862 attend Arab schools and 126,560 attend
Bedouin and Druse schools.
The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Subcommittee
approved a bill by MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni to cancel the
possibility of signing surplus votes agreements between
parties. The Constitution Committee is scheduled to meet to
pass the subcommittee decision and to advance the bill to a
first reading.
Thousands of bnei Torah gathered for a prayer rally held at Wagshall Halls in Bnei Brak on Motzei Shabbos parshas Shofetim.
Progress in New Orleans these days means that the authorities
have evacuated just about everyone. Good news means that the
final death toll will be way below the 10,000 once feared,
and may not even reach 1,000.
MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni said he will demand a full investigation of the transfer of graves from the gravesite in Netiv HaShayarah, located near Nahariya, to an alternative site on the moshav, saying the incident was liable to set a precedent for further acts of disinterment.
The Right is reacting harshly to the High Court decision to back the government's decision to destroy botei knesses in the evacuated settlements of Gush Katif. Religious Zionist leaders announced they have lost their faith in the High Court as an institution.
IDF Demands Resignation of Two Hesder Yeshiva Heads The IDF recorded a total of 53 incidents of refusing orders during the period leading up to the Disengagement and another 10 incidents during the Disengagement itself.
A king once offered his faithful servant the prize of his
choice. The clever servant made a modest request: He "just"
asked for two grains of wheat to correspond to the first
square on the chessboard, two times two — four —
to correspond to the second square, four times four —
sixteen - - for the next one, and so on.
The Fallacy of Limited Horizons
One day someone told HaRav Moshe Feinstein zt"l about a certain avreich — in fact his son-in-law — who had made a medical discovery that might prove to be a cure for cancer. R' Moshe responded that even if it was a sure cure for cancer, "is ess nisht vert di bittul Torah" (it would not be worth the bittul Torah that it caused). The Man With the Gun in Hand "If my spirit was stormy within me, I said: I shall tell it and I will be eased." On my way to shul in Bnei Brak one morning, I noticed an ad on a billboard. I am quoting it verbatim:
More Observations . . .
ASK THE SHADCHAN Question: ". . . my own experiences with shadchonim were mostly bitter..." Piah* More Home & Family . . .
The Yeshiva World of Eretz Yisroel in the Nineteen
Twenties As Recorded in the Diary of a Bochur from Slobodka-
Chevron In the Proximity of Maran R' Yitzchok Zeev of Brisk,
Ztvk'l
May-July, 2005
The Message of an Earthquake A Mission to Spread Daas Torah Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit The Immorality of Palestinian Combatants and Noncombatants
Additional Luach Information The Shabbos after Tishah B'Av is called Shabbos Nachamu because of the haftorah in Yeshaya 40 "Console, console My people" that is said on that Shabbos. This haftoroh starts a series of shivah denechemosah (seven haftoros of consolation). The fifteenth of Menachem Av (Tu B'Av) is considered a Yom Tov because of several reasons: First, it is the day that bnei Yisroel stopped dying in the Sinai Desert. Second, bnei Yisroel were then allowed to marry from one shevet to the other, and those from shevet Binyomin were allowed to marry within bnei Yisroel. Third, on this day Hoshei'a ben Aloh removed the barricades originally put up by Yerovam ben Navot preventing bnei Yisroel to be oleh regel. Fourth, bnei Yisroel then stopped chopping down wood for the mizbei'ach and therefore they had more time to study Torah. Sixth, on this day those killed in Beitar were buried.
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