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CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Bamidbar, 5766

Sunday, 23 Iyar - Shabbos, 29 Iyar 5766 (May 21-27, 2006)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
hekolim 4-10
Yerushalmi:
Terumos 16-22

MISHNA YOMIS
Beitzah 5:3 - Rosh Hashanah 1:9

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim 554:9-557:1

Ovos: 6

Molad: Shabbos 4:41 P.M.

Many are accustomed to say the tefilah of the Shloh on erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan.

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Behar-Bechukosai

Yerushalayim:
6:57 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
7:12 P.M.

London:
8:36 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:10 P.M.
Melbourne:
5:01 P.M.

Parshas Bamidbar

Yerushalayim:
7:01 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
7:16 P.M.

London:
8:46 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:07 P.M.
Melbourne:
4:57 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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NEWS

The Vaad HaRabbonim Supports Chief Rabbi Amar's New Directive on Foreign Converts
By Betzalel Kahn

Israel Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar made a surprise move by starting to implement new regulations on registering individuals who underwent conversions outside of Israel. The Vaad HaRabbonim Haolami LeInyonei Giyur founded by HaRav Chaim Kreiswirth expressed its strong support for the new directive.


US to Olmert: Don't Schnorr
by M. Plaut and Yated Ne'eman Staff

As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert prepared to go to America to meet with senior US officials and to address the US Congress, the US sent him a clear message: Do not ask for any money at this time.


High Court Upholds Law Allowing Deferments for Yeshiva Students
By Betzalel Kahn

The High Court rejected a petition to annul the military deferment law for yeshiva students but determined that the law infringes on the dignity of the majority group that is obligated to serve. The decision was reached by a majority of eight judges against semiretired Deputy Chief Judge Mishael Cheshin.


Conference of European Rabbis Holds Jubilee Convention in London
HaRav Sitruk: Rabbonim Who Deviate from Halachic Conversion to be Ousted from CER

by Yated Ne'eman Staff

At the biannual convention of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) in London last week Chief Rabbi of France and CER President HaRav Yosef Sitruk told a Yated Ne'eman reporter that the Standing Committee had decided any rov kehiloh who does not adhere to performing conversion only according to halochoh would be dismissed from the organization.


UTJ and Shas Deprived of Committee Posts
by Eliezer Rauchberger

None of the Knesset committees will be headed by chareidi MKs the Knesset Arranging Committee decided, leaving both United Torah Judaism and Shas very disgruntled.



Capital Gains Tax Appeal
By G. Lazer

According to a newly passed law, taxpayers charged with capital gains taxes may appeal the amount of the tax.


Complaints Now on the Company's Tab
By N. Katzin

Everyone finds it annoying to wait on hold for Customer Service, listening to an irritating jingle over and over again — and to get charged for these "pleasures" too!



Artscroll Advertising Heavily in Eretz Yisroel
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Artscroll is launching a sales campaign in Israel for all of its books through heavy advertising in the press, in botei knesses and via direct mail. The company has already distributed over 120,000 brochures in the form of newspaper inserts in the Hebrew editions of Yated Ne'eman and Hamodia as well as samples in botei knesses.

More News ...


OPINION & COMMENT

Universal Conversion Standards — Good for Everyone Concerned

Everyone knows the story about a boat that illustrates how the actions of an individual can affect everyone. Even though one is drilling a hole that is entirely under his own seat, the water that he lets in will eventually sink the entire ship. If the structural integrity of a boat is compromised, it will sink everyone riding in it.

The Level of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
by HaRav Yitzchok Hutner zt'l
Delivered at the Mesibas Chasal Siddur Pesach, 5729

The Remains of Mon, the Taste of Mon

"And bnei Yisroel ate the mon for forty years until they came to a habitable land; they ate the mon until they came to the edge of the land of Canaan" (Shemos 16:35). This posuk seems to contain a contradiction, for it mentions two different places that bnei Yisroel stopped eating mon.

More Opinion & Comment . . .


OBSERVATIONS


Return
by Gita Gordon

Serializing a new novel.

Chapter 21: Belem—New York City, November 2001 — Part 2

Fay and Eli are back in New York City, after months and months in the Amazon jungle.


HOME & FAMILY

Journey With Dyslexia
by L. Raffles

When I was young, I used to write a list of things I would like for my birthday. Of course I never expected to get everything on the list (still, one can hope, can't one?), but my mother would try to choose something on the list, or something similar that was more reasonably priced, to give me for my birthday.

More Home & Family . . .


IN-DEPTH FEATURES

Faith in Medicine
A Roundtable Discussion with Four Doctors on Various Vital Issues of Emunah and Medicine

Suffering and the Sanctity of Life — HaRav Yitzchok Silberstein Discusses a Range of Medical Issues
by B. Re'eim


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More Editorials . . .


Additional Luach Information

On Tuesday night, the eve of 14 Nissan (Apr. 11) is the search for chometz - bedikas chometz, and the chometz is burnt the next morning, Erev Pesach, Wednesday, 14 Nissan (Apr. 12) until the end of the zman sreifas chometz. On erev Pesach the firstborn fast— Ta'anis Bechoros.

Yov Tov Pesach falls on Thursday, 15 Nissan (Apr. 14), in Eretz Yisroel, and on Thursday and Friday (Apr. 14-15) in Chutz Le'aretz. The days until Shevi'i Shel Pesach are Chol HaMo'ed.

From Mussaf of Yom Tov Pesach in Eretz Yisroel we say morid hatal in Shemoneh Esreih instead of vesen tal u-motor livrocho.

From Thursday night, Motzei Yom Tov Rishon Shel Pesach, we count sefiras ha'omer until Shavuos.

The seforim hakedoshim write to make a meal on the sixteenth of Nissan to remember the se'udas Esther that she made when Homon was hanged (Mishnah Berurah, 490:2 from the Mogen Avrohom).

Shevi'i Shel Pesach falls on Wednesday, 21 Nissan (April 19) and in Chutz Le'aretz also on Thursday, 22 Nissan (April 20) which is Yom Tov Sheini Shel Goliyos - Shmini Shel Pesach.

Many are accustomed to read Pirkei Ovos after Minchah of Shabbos, from Pesach until Rosh HaShanah.

Our minhag is not to pray Yom Kippur Koton and surely not to fast during the month of Nissan.


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