Deiah veDibur - Information & Insight
  

A Window into the Chareidi World

11 Elul 5765 - September 15, 2005 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
NEWS
OPINION & COMMENT
OBSERVATIONS
HOME & FAMILY
IN-DEPTH FEATURES
VAAD HORABBONIM HAOLAMI LEINYONEI GIYUR
TOPICS IN THE NEWS
POPULAR EDITORIALS
PREVIOUS ISSUES

CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Ki Sovo, 5765

Sunday, 14 Elul - Shabbos, 20 Elul (Sept. 18-24, 2005)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Shabbos, 139-145
Yerushalmi:
Horiyos 18 - Niddah 5

MISHNA YOMIS
Shabbos 6:8-8:7

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim 422:3-428:3

Pirkei Ovos: 3-4

Ashkenazim begin saying Selichos from Motzei Shabbos, parshas Ki Sovo, the eve of 21 Elul (Sep. 24).

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Ki Seitzei
Yerushalayim:
6:09 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
6:23 P.M.

London:
6:57 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:44 P.M.
Melbourne:
5:52 P.M.

Parshas Ki Sovo
Yerushalayim:
5:59 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
6:14 P.M.

London:
6:41 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:47 P.M.
Melbourne:
5:58 P.M.

 

 

Subscribe to Yated Ne'eman-Bnei Brak!


 

Produced and housed by
Shema Yisrael Torah Network
Shema Yisrael Torah Network

subscribe.gif (2332 bytes)








At The Center of the Universe
At The Center of the Universe
by Mordechai Plaut

TOPICS IN THE NEWS

REFORM & CONSERVATIVES

GRAVES

LIVING JUDAISM

WOMEN IN
JUDAISM

GIYUR
LEGAL ISSUES
YESHIVA DRAFT
CULTURE WARS
-MISCELLANEOUS
CULTURE WARS
-MONEY
CULTURE WARS
-SHABBOS
LIVING JUDAISM
COMMUNITY PROFILE
-(DEMOGRAPHY)
USEFUL NEWS (SHMITTA)
OBITUARIES
FEATURES

NEWS

Israel Leaves Gaza; Palestinian Mob Burns Shuls, Loots
by M Plaut and Yated Ne'eman Staff

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.


1,757,967 Students Start School in Israel
by Betzalel Kahn and A. Cohen

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.


Legislative Proposal to Cancel Surplus Votes Agreements in Knesset Elections
By Eliezer Rauchberger

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 Gather in Bnei Brak for Prayer Rally
By A. Cohen

Thousands of bnei Torah gathered for a prayer rally held at Wagshall Halls in Bnei Brak on Motzei Shabbos parshas Shofetim.


New Orleans Struggles to Recover and Rebuild
by Mordecai Plaut

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.


Calls for Investigation of Cemetery Transfer at Northern Moshav
By Y. Ariel

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.


Religious Zionist Heads: "We've Lost Our Faith in the High Court"
By G. Lazer

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
By Eliezer Rauchberger

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.


Mishmeres Hashalom: An Empire of Shemiras Haloshon — Growing, Growing . . . and Growing Some More!
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

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.

More News ...


OPINION & COMMENT

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
by HaRav Aharon Yeshaya Roter

"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 Opinion & Comment . . .


OBSERVATIONS

More Observations . . .


HOME & FAMILY

ASK THE SHADCHAN
Getting Along With the Shadchan

By Rebbetzin Nomi Travis

Question: ". . . my own experiences with shadchonim were mostly bitter..." Piah*

More Home & Family . . .


IN-DEPTH FEATURES

The Yeshiva World of Eretz Yisroel in the Nineteen Twenties As Recorded in the Diary of a Bochur from Slobodka- Chevron
by Rabbi Aryeh Gefen

In the Proximity of Maran R' Yitzchok Zeev of Brisk, Ztvk'l
Memoirs of Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz


POPULAR EDITORIALS

May-July, 2005


The Message of an Earthquake

A Mission to Spread Daas Torah

Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit

Can I - Should I?

The Immorality of Palestinian Combatants and Noncombatants

More Editorials . . .


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.


Click here for conditions of use.