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Please Note: The next scheduled issue of Dei'ah Vedibur News is for the week of parshas Shofetim. No issue is planned for parshas Re'ei.
Public Protests Landscaping Work Along Jerusalem-Tel Aviv
Highway
Public protests continue in response to the trampling of
Shmittah laws underfoot through extensive planting at the
Daniel Interchange along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway.
During a meeting held several weeks ago on the issue of
operating public transportation on Shabbos, the Knesset
Finance Committee determined public transportation companies
do not have work permits for Shabbos and where they operate
they do so in violation of the law. Representatives from the
Ministry of Trade and Industry present at the meeting
concurred.
"Sometimes progress can even save lives," Rabbi Elimelech
Firrer, chairman of Ezra Lemarpei, told Bezeq International
CEO Itzik Benbenisti during a meeting between the two last
week at the organization's offices in Bnei Brak after the
company doubled its contribution to the chessed
organization.
Ezer Mitzion held another successful gathering at its Bnei
Brak center as part of a series of meetings on attention
deficit aimed at principals, parents and educators.
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The Shabbos after Tisha B'Av, parshas
Voeschanon, is called Shabbos Nachamu because of
the haftorah in Yeshaya 40 "Console, console My
people" that is read on that Shabbos. This haftorah
starts a series of shivah denechemtoh (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 Nevot preventing bnei
Yisroel to be oleh regel. Fourth, bnei
Yisroel then stopped chopping down wood for the
mizbeiach and therefore they had more time to study
Torah. Sixth, on this day those killed in Beitar were
buried.
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