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Despite the difficult financial crisis at the universities,
the majority of employees and administrators still receive
enormous salaries according to recent reports in the
mainstream press. MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni told a Yated
Ne'eman reporter early this week that he intends to table
a motion in the Knesset to place the issue on the agenda.
Tulkarm was handed over to Palestinian Authority security
control on Monday night, after Jericho was given to them less
than a week earlier. The Knesset plenum approved the Terminally-Ill Patient Law in
a first reading vote of 77 to 7. The opponents were the two
Degel HaTorah MKs who voted as instructed by maranan
verabonon, two MKs from Agudas Yisroel and three MKs from
Arab parties. Shas supported the proposal.
A draft bill for distributing Bank Leumi shares to the public
was sent to the ministerial legislative committee earlier
this week. The total value of all shares proposed to be given
out is NIS 4.3 billion ($1 billion).
For the past seven years, Avos U'Banim has organized the
opening of Yeshivas Mordechai HaTzaddik on Purim in Israel
and around the Jewish world. This year, they launched a
campaign to promote the idea of learning on Purim day in
schools and communities throughout the US.
The sharp rise in crime and violence stem from a warped
education system that totally overlooks yiras Shomayim
said MK Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz during a speech before the
Knesset plenum addressing the issue of the increase in crime.
Courts are allotted far more than rabbinate botei din
in terms of funding and manpower, charged MK Rabbi Moshe
Gafni at a meeting of the Knesset State Control Committee to
discuss the State Comptroller's report on rabbinate botei
din, calling the discrepancy an unconscionable form of
budget discrimination. Renewal Work Complete on North Wall of Western Wall Plaza Renewal work on the wall of the Machkemoh Building, located
to the left of the men's section at the Kosel Maarovi, is now
complete. After rocks began to fall from the wall and paint
chips fell on visitors last year building engineers found the
wall unsound.
The Vaad Harabbonim Le'inyonei Tzedokoh hotline has been open
around the clock to handle the donations pouring in from
around the country and around the world for the Purim
campaign. The positive response follows the support shown by
gedolei Yisroel at an event held in Jerusalem to mark
the opening of the tzedokoh drive.
One of the main themes of Purim is commitment. Kiyemu
vekiblu, the Jews of those days ratified a commitment made
many years previously. They accepted of their own free will
what their forefathers had accepted out of a less-than-free
will: to keep the Torah. Accepting Torah Willingly
Part II
In the first part, HaRav Povarsky explained the important
principle that one's ma'asim have fruits that benefit
the doer himself, namely that the feedback from his good
deeds, in turn, causes him to become a better person. His
deeds are his fruits, and then these fruits have further
fruits from which he himself benefits. In this way, HaRav
Povarsky explained how the Jews in the generation of Purim
accepted the Torah willingly when the great Dor Hamidbar did
not. In the time of Mordechai and Esther, the acceptance was
the fruit of deeds: "fasting, crying, and lamenting." The
feedback of these acts made the doers great and led them to
fully and willingly accept the Torah.
Free for All
At first, when R' Noach Schwartzbergendrowitz picked up the
receiver and heard the friendly voice of R' Gershon
Tziperstein on the other end, he innocently thought that he
was again going to ask him to sign as guarantor for a short-
term dollar loan. But the request did not materialize.
The Glittering Diamond Industry The Nesi'im — Princes of the Golus
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