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CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Candle Lighting for Parshas Vayechi

Yerushalayim:
4:05 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
4:18 P.M.

London:
3:37 P.M.
Johannesburg:
6:44 P.M.
Melbourne:
8:26 P.M.

CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Shemos, 5768

Sunday, 14 Teves - Shabbos, 20 Teves, 5768 (Dec. 23-29, 2007)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Nedorim, 2-8
Yerushalmi:
Megillah, 15-21

MISHNA YOMIS
Shavuos 8:4 - Ediyos 1:11

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim, 55:21-59:5

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Shemos

Yerushalayim:
4:09 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
4:22 P.M.

London:
3:42 P.M.
Johannesburg:
6:47 P.M.
Melbourne:
8:29 P.M.

 

The Shabbos of Shemos, Voeiro, Bo, Beshalach, Yisro, and Mishpotim (and since this year is a leap year the parshiyos of Terumah and Tetzaveh are added) are called Shovevim. These days have the segulah to repair pegomim in middas hayesod.


 

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

NEWS

Special Arrangement to Allow Approved Email and Internet Access
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

A special arrangement has been made following concerted efforts by Vaadas HaRabbonim LeInyonei Tikshoret to allow the use of approved computer communications (email and Internet) for those in need of them in order to earn their living, without the spiritual harm they would be liable to suffer otherwise.


Internet Solution Offered by Rabbonim Where Necessary

The following notice was issued by the Vaadas HaRabbonim LeInyonei Tikshoret (Telfax: 02 5381858), which was founded and is guided by gedolei Yisroel shlita:


Concerted Efforts to Prevent Planting Along Trans-Israel Highway
By Yechiel Sever

Concerted efforts are now underway to prevent the planting of ground cover along the new section of the Trans-Israel Highway leading to Kiryat Gat, because such planting is prohibited during the Shmittah year.


Mesilla Completes Braille Chumash Project
By Yechiel Sever

Mesilla, an organization that prints sifrei kodesh in Braille, recently received a substantial donation that allowed it to complete a project to make the entire Chumash available to blind readers.


Knesset Education Committee Discusses Funding for Yeshivos Ketanos
By Eliezer Rauchberger

The Knesset Education Committee held a meeting to discuss the budget for yeshivos ketanos whose students do not participate in the Core Curriculum Program and do not study secular subjects.


Rav Yosef Elyashiyov zt"l
By S. Bruchi

Thousands of Bnei Brak residents led by roshei yeshivos, rabbonim and dayonim, as well as thousands of students at Shaarei Tzion institutions in Eretz Hakodesh, were on hand on Motzei Shabbos Parshas Vayigash to lay to rest Rav Yosef Elyashiyov zt"l, founder of Shaarei Tzion institutions in Eretz Yisroel and abroad, who passed away at the age of 89.


OPINION & COMMENT

From Pharaoh's Dungeon to the Gamli Prison

by Yehuda Kedem

A collection of instances in which gedolei Yisroel wrote works in prison.

One of the most powerful descriptions in the lives of our gedolei Yisroel depicts the moment when the Maharam of Rothenberg was informed that the European Jewish communities were about to ransom him and free him from prison for a huge sum.


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