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Due to pressing personal obligations, there was no issue for
parshas Re'ei. The current issue of Shofetim
includes material that was being prepared for
Re'ei.
Degel HaTorah has set up an organization composed of public
figures involved in housing along with top jurists to assist
chareidi buyers of apartments in Modi'in Illit, Beitar Illit
and Beit Shemesh affected by the Heftziba bankruptcy. In each
area the situation is different.
Thousands of gedolei Torah, roshei yeshivos, bnei
Torah and many of his talmidim took part in the
levaya of HaRav Eliezer Sorotzkin zt"l, a
ram at Yeshivas Telz in Cleveland and the founder of
Telz-Stone and its various institutions in the mountains near
Jerusalem, who passed away on 28 Av at the age of 92.
Singer Mordechai (Ben David) Werdiger announced his decision
to comply with daas Torah by not performing in a
concert (billed as an "erev shira") banned by
gedolei Yisroel.
The Finance Ministry rescinded its objection to Arkadi
Gaydamak's offer to acquire Bikur Hospital in Jerusalem after
he improved his original offer. The basic sum for the deal is
still $32 million, but Gaydamak agreed to add $3 million
instead of $2 million if all of the restrictions on the
donated land are removed.
Stunned and shattered, thousands took part in the
levayos for an avreich and three yeshiva
students from Yeshivas Meor HaTorah in Telz-Stone who were
killed late Monday 22 Av in a jeep accident in Nachal Pares
in the Aravah. The victims were Sinai Sharazi and his brother
Amir of Netanya, Gilad Dahari of Elyachin, and avreich
Avrohom Rosenfeld z"l of Telz-Stone.
Antisemites painted swastikas and other Nazi symbols on over
100 gravestones at one of Poland's largest Jewish cemeteries,
located in the town of Czestochowa. On Sunday 21 Av visitors
came upon the damage and summoned the police, who opened an
investigation. No suspects have been arrested.
by HaRav Yerachmiel Kram The verse "Dirshu Hashem behimotze'o kro'uhu behiyoso
korov" (Yeshayohu 55:6) is commonly applied to the
Yemei Rotzon of Chodesh Elul and the Aseres Yemei Teshuvoh
when HaKodosh Boruch Hu is closer to us than the rest
of the year. Indeed according to the Targum on the verse, the
novi is exhorting us to seek Hashem and call out to
Him while we are still alive, for in death one is free of
mitzvas.
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According to the Ramo (494:3) we do not say tachanun
from Rosh Chodesh Sivan until after Isru Chag (there
are other minhogim that do not say tachanun
until after the seven days of hashlomoh that follow
Shavuos).
On Rosh Chodesh Sivan we do not say tachanun like on
every Rosh Chodesh. The second of Sivan is called Yom
HaMeyuchas since after yetzias Mitzrayim Hashem
commanded Moshe to say to bnei Yisroel: "Now therefore
if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then
you shall be My own treasure from among all peoples"
(Shemos 19:5) to prepare them for Torah. Afterwards,
the third, forth, and fifth of Sivan are the Sheloshes
Yemei Hagboloh when bnei Yisroel waited for
kabolas HaTorah (Mishnah Berurah 494:8, and see
Shabbos 86-88).
We do not say vetzidkoscho tzedek on Shabbos since it
is the YOm MaMeyuchas
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