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25 Teves 5768 - January 3, 2008 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
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CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Candle Lighting for Parshas Vo'eiro

Yerushalayim:
4:14 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
4:27 P.M.

London:
3:49 P.M.
Johannesburg:
6:49 P.M.
Melbourne:
8:30 P.M.

CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Bo, 5768

Sunday, 28 Teves - Shabbos, 5 Shevat, 5768 (Jan. 6-12, 2008)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Nedorim, 16-22
Yerushalmi:
Megillah, 29 - Chagigah 1

MISHNA YOMIS
Ediyos, 3:2-4:3

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim, 61:17-63:6

Rosh Chodesh Shevat falls on Tuesday, Jan. 8.

During Shevat one should exert himself to love and pursue peace, to restore domestic harmony and good relations between people, more than the whole year—Rebbe Chaim Falagi.

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Bo

Yerushalayim:
4:19 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
4:33 P.M.

London:
3:58 P.M.
Johannesburg:
6:50 P.M.
Melbourne:
8:30 P.M.

 


 

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

NEWS

Education Ministry Fined for Deliberately Covering Up the Success of a Chareidi Educational Project
By G. Lazer

A district court fined the Education Ministry NIS 13,500 ($3,500) for violating the Freedom of Information Law by hiding an NIS 1 million study on the results of math achievement tests for first- and second-graders that showed the superiority of a method developed by two chareidi teachers from Bnei Brak.


Jerusalem Municipality Launches Plan to Build Communal Facilities in Ramot
By Yechiel Sever

Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood is set to become a center of activity for the chareidi sector of Jerusalem in the coming months based on a comprehensive plan led by Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky to build halls, community centers and leisure facilities.


Government Minister Says Conversion System Coordinated with Chief Rabbi
By Eliezer Rauchberger

"All of the moves related to the conversion system are totally coordinated with Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar," Minister Ruhama Avraham (Balila) (Kadima) told the Knesset plenum this week, while responding to a no-confidence motion filed by UTJ and HaIchud HaLeumi-NRP on "the Prime Minister's intervention in halachic issues and distortion of conversion procedures."


Education Conference at Nir Etzion Set to Begin
By Yechiel Sever

Organizers are busy making final arrangements for the Education Conference scheduled to take place at Nir Etzion starting on Tuesday Rosh Chodesh Shevat. Registration is at a peak for the three-day event, which is expect to draw rabbonim, public figures, principals, education directors, inspectors and top educators.


OPINION & COMMENT

Torah is Only an Antidote when One's Torah Meets the Required Level

A shmuess by HaRav Gershon Edelstein shlita

Part II

The first part began by saying that one's deeds must correspond to his wisdom, each one according to his wisdom. If one's wisdom is greater, so must his deeds be, or else he will not succeed in Torah. By "deeds" Chazal include everything that a person does or does not do. Only if everything he does is up to the level of his wisdom will his Torah be an antidote to the yetzer hora.


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Additional Luach Information

"Some are accustomed to pray Yom Kippur Koton (on erev Rosh Chodesh)...The Maharom of Korduviro would call it Kippur Koton since on it would be atoned the sins of the whole month...The seforim write that even if someone doesn't fast he should do teshuvah on this day and remedy the sins of the whole month since this is the last day of each month just like erev Rosh HaShannah is of the whole year" (Mishnah Berurah 417:4).


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