|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
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:
ASK THE SHADCHAN
Question: ". . . my own experiences with shadchonim
were mostly bitter..." Piah*
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
A Mission to Spread Daas Torah
Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit
The Immorality of Palestinian Combatants and Noncombatants
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.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
