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CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Shoftim, 5765

Sunday, 30 Menachem Av - Shabbos, 6 Elul (Sept. 4-10, 2005)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Shabbos, 125-131
Yerushalmi:
Horiyos 4-10

MISHNA YOMIS
Shabbos 1:10-3:5

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim 409:414:2

Pirkei Ovos: 6

Rosh Chodesh Elul falls on Sunday, Sep. 4 and Monday, Sep. 5.

From the second day of Rosh Chodesh Elul the shofar is blown after Shacharis, and LeDovid Hashem Ori Veyishi is said twice a day.

Selichos are said the entire Elul by the Sephardim.

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Re'ei
Yerushalayim:
6:27 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
6:41 P.M.

London:
7:29 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:38 P.M.
Melbourne:
5:41 P.M.

Parshas Shoftim
Yerushalayim:
6:18 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
6:32 P.M.

London:
7:13 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:41 P.M.
Melbourne:
5:47 P.M.

 

 

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

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NEWS

DISENGAGEMENT ROUNDUP
Government Wants to "Dismantle" Shuls of Gush Katif
By Betzalel Kahn, Eliezer Rauchberger, and M Plaut

The High Court issued a restraining order to prevent the demolition of botei knesses in the evacuated Gush Katif communities pending the government's reaction to an additional petition filed yesterday to preserve the shuls of Jewish Gaza as they are. However on Sunday the government decided to demolish the majority of botei knesses after clearing out all of their contents, despite a plea by both Chief Rabbis to leave them intact.


City of Beit Shemesh Discriminates Against Bais Yaakov Kindergartens
By Tzvi Sofer

In an instance of overt discrimination just days before the 5766 school year opens, Beit Shemesh officials have not allocated any facilities for the nearly 400 children enrolled in Bais Yaakov kindergartens in the Ramat Beit Shemesh Alef neighborhood warned Rabbi Yitzchok Goldknopf, the director of the kindergarten chain, in an urgent letter to Mayor Daniel Vaknin. If the chain does not receive facilities for the hundreds he will turn to the courts for legal assistance, he adds in the letter.


Attorney General to Decide How Many Hours Avreichim Must Study
By Betzalel Kahn

Attorney General Mani Mazuz is slated to decide whether avreichim will be required to maintain the existing requirement of 40 study hours per week to be eligible for Education Ministry support as MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni is demanding, or whether they will be required to study 45 hours per week, which Attorney Amnon de Hartoch of the Justice Ministry claims has been determined by law.


British Yeshiva Student Stabbed to Death in Old City
By Betzalel Kahn

Shmuel Mett Hy"d a 21-year-old bochur from England studying at Yeshivas Mir, was murdered in a stabbing attack in the Old City and his friend, Sam Weissbart, was wounded. Police say this was the first terror murder in the Old City in six years.


Chareidi Activists Prevented Autopsy or Postmortem
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Chareidi public figures had to make concerted efforts to prevent a full autopsy on the kodosh Shmuel Mett Hy"d. After ZAKA volunteers completed their holy work at the scene of the attack other volunteers from the legal department began a battle to keep officials from transporting the body to the Forensics Institute at Abu Kabir.



Levaya for Two Killed in Car Accident in Scotland
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Hundreds attended the levaya of Avrohom Dov Potashnik in Stamford Hill,London, led by HaRav Yosef Tzvi Halevi Dunner, the elder rov of the United Kingdom. Speaking were Dayan HaRav Aharon Dovid Halevi Dunner, rav of Beis Hamedrash Adas Yisroel in London, the uncle of the niftar HaRav Avrohom Katz, menahel of a seminary in Gateshead, and a brother of the niftar.


Buying Real Estate Abroad — Closer to Loss than to Gain
by M. Plaut

For a few years there was intensive marketing to Israelis of real estate located all around the world. Both religious and nonreligious Israelis were invited to invest in buildings that were "guaranteed" to return a lot of money every year. Many people advised caution. Now it seems that the advice was well-taken.

Minister Olmert Thanks Modi'in Head Rabbi Guterman for Employment Efforts
By A. Cohen

The Modi'in Illit Business Center, where over 300 women are now employed, received a boost with the addition of Imagestore. The company, considered a world leader in the fields of scanning and miniaturization, joins the five companies already operating in the city. Ehud Olmert, the new finance minister who was on hand for the inauguration of the work center and the expansion of the business complex, spoke of Council Head Rabbi Yaakov Guterman's extensive efforts to promote employment and the many plans he has for advancing future projects.


Meeting of Mifal HaShas Presidential Council
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

In a holy call to increase Torah study, particularly during this difficult period as the blade of harsh decrees cuts into both ruchniyus and gashmiyus in Eretz Yisroel, at the annual meeting of the World Mifal HaShas nesius, gedolei Torah said, "Increasing the light of Torah more and more is the only guaranteed defense against the trials of our times and this is our task in practice in order to defend all of the residents of this land."


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OPINION & COMMENT

Being Realistic in the Middle East

The murder last Thursday of Mir Yeshiva student Shmuel Mett Hy"d, and the suicide bombing in Be'er Sheva on Sunday, are horrible reminders that the antisemitism that animates Palestinian terrorists was not abated by the painful sacrifice made by Israel as a whole and by those who were evacuated from Gaza and the northern Shomron in particular.

Reflections on Chodesh Elul
by HaRav Dovid Povarsky zt'l

Precisely those who toiled — they are the ones who can see the situation in its proper perspective and to see that there really is reason to be fearsome and alarmed. We are dealing with the cleansing of the intellect and the soul! A decontamination from all the pollution of the body. Once a person has purified himself during the days of Elul, his mind is more lucid and his thought processes are more coherent; subsequently, his vision is also more spiritual. This is why we are afraid of the Day of Judgment.

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OBSERVATIONS

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HOME & FAMILY

Windows on the World
by Bassi Gruen

"Windows, my dear, that's what it's all about." she said. "It's a crime to raise children like this. What a narrow picture you are giving them. It's a beautiful universe we are living in, with so much to learn, so much to enjoy. And these poor dears . . . " her sweeping hand gesture took in all seven children at once, " . . . are in the dark, they know nothing of the arts, literature, even science. You are stifling them. Throw open the windows on the world; let them see the scenery each affords."

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IN-DEPTH FEATURES

To the Graves of our Forefathers in the Galil
by Rabbi Aryeh Gefen

Can Anything Be Done to Save The Remnants of Vilna's Old Jewish Cemetery?
By Binyomin Rabinowitz


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Additional Luach Information

The Shabbos after Tishah B'Av is called Shabbos Nachamu because of the haftorah in Yeshaya 40 "Console, console My people" that is said on that Shabbos. This haftoroh starts a series of shivah denechemosah (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 Navot preventing bnei Yisroel to be oleh regel. Fourth, bnei Yisroel then stopped chopping down wood for the mizbei'ach and therefore they had more time to study Torah. Sixth, on this day those killed in Beitar were buried.


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