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12 Adar II 5765 - March 23, 2005 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
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CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Shemini (Poroh), 5765

Sunday, 16 Adar II - Shabbos, 22 Adar II (Mar. 27-Apr. 2, 2005)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Berochos 27-33
Yerushalmi:
Bova Basra 25-31

MISHNA YOMIS
Shevi'is 10:7-Terumos 2:1

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim 328:29-328:49

On Shabbos Parshas Poroh is read in the beis knesses. There are many Poskim who rule that also the reading of this parshah is medOraisah (Rav Yechiel Michel Tuketzinsky).

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Tzav
Yerushalayim:
5:19 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
5:34 P.M.

London:
6:07 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:56 P.M.
Melbourne:
7:08 P.M.

The summer clock in Eretz Yisroel starts at Mar. 31, 2005 at 2:00 A.M. and will end on Oct. 8, 2005 at 2:00 A.M.

Parshas Shemini
Yerushalayim:
6:23 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
6:38 P.M.

London:
7:18 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:49 P.M.
Melbourne:
5:57 P.M.

 

 

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

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Fat Salaries at Universities and Other Public Service Organizations
By G. Kleiman

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 handed over to PA; Kalkilya Next
by M Plaut and Yated Ne'eman Staff

Tulkarm was handed over to Palestinian Authority security control on Monday night, after Jericho was given to them less than a week earlier.


Knesset Approves Euthanasia Legislation
By Eliezer Rauchberger

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.


Free Money: A Billion Dollars Worth of Bank Leumi Shares to be Handed Out
by M Plaut and Yated Ne'eman Staff

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).


Yeshivas Mordechai HaTzaddik to Open 50 New Branches in the United States
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

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.


MK Rabbi Ravitz: Increase in Youth Crime is the Result of Failed Education
By Eliezer Rauchberger

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.


MK Gafni Says Budget Discriminates Against Rabbinate Botei Din
By Eliezer Rauchberger

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
By Betzalel Kahn

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.


Donations to Vaad Harabbonim Le'inyonei Tzedokoh Pour in from Around the Country and Abroad
By Betzalel Kahn

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.

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OPINION & COMMENT

Let Us Rededicate Our Lives

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
by HaRav Dovid Povarsky zt"l

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.

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OBSERVATIONS


HOME & FAMILY

Free for All
by P. Chovav

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.

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