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Apartment Contracts in Israel Must Include Heter Iska

The Housing Ministry has announced, in reply to a request by MK Rabbi Yaakov Asher, an amendment to the uniform contracts made between contractors and apartment buyers which fall under the framework of the "Mechir Lamishtaken" purchase contracts, that these include a clause of a halachically proper Heter Iska. This program involves special auctions of land for building in which contractors compete by offering the best Mechir Lamishtaken, meaning the lowest price to the buyer. Typically these attractively-priced apartments are given out by lottery since there is more demand than supply.

Academic Study

This article includes many of the reactions that we received to the series of articles on academic study.

We are proud, they write, to belong to the myriad Torah-true adherents, who are strong and fortified, themselves and in their homes, where a superior atmosphere prevails. We are proud to be a part of the thousands for whom the halachic ruling of the Torah leaders of the generation is the [first and] last word and whose homes reflect total submission to Torah and its sages. Their praise is that they do not veer from or change anything. The Sefer Hachinuch says: "And you shall do according to what they tell you." This mitzvah includes obeying at all times the directives of the Torah sage and leader in our midst. Yiftach in his generation is like Shmuel in his.

HaRav Mordechai Goldstein zt"l