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The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah and of Agudas
Yisroel have instructed the UTJ MKs to leave the coalition,
following the transfer of the third superheater turbine
component built by the Israel Military Industries in Ramat
Hasharon to the Ashkelon power station on last Friday night
parshas Nitzovim and Shabbos. On motzei Shabbos parshas Nitzovim, at an impressive
ceremony held at Sham e-Sheikh, Israel and the Palestinian
Authority signed a new agreement government certain aspects
of implementing an earlier agreement reached by the previous
Netanyahu government at the Wye Conference Center in the
United States. American Moetzes Calls for Increased Tefillos for 13
Iranian Jews as Trial Pends In response to the recent development in Iran, where it was
announced that the case of the thirteen imprisoned Jews has
been handed over to the judiciary for trial, the Moetzes
Gedolei haTorah of America has issued a call to Klal
Yisroel to increase its tefillos as the urgency of
the situation has just escalated. Conversion Industry in Or Etzion Defies the Guidelines of
Chief Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau The wholesale conversion industry in the special conversion
court in Or Etzion functions in total defiance of the
guidelines issued by the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Yisroel Meir
Lau who is currently responsible for the Chief Rabbinate's
Rabbinical Courts. Minister of Education Yossi Sarid has announced in the
Knesset that he intends to execute a "reform" in the general
school system Jewish studies programs.
Rosh Hashana-Yom Kippur: Wednesday September 8/27 Elul
Right up front in the second chapter, the Mesilas
Yeshorim gives us an important clue to one of the chief
stratagems of the yetzer hora. " . . . his cunning is
to make everyone work constantly, very hard and to weigh on
people's hearts so that there will be no opportunity to
contemplate and to see the path they are following... Last Chance He fixed a pair of astonished eyes upon that face. It was
him, no doubt about it. It must be Uri, but could it be?
R' Shimon the Mashgiach took another good look and could not
help feeling an overwhelming sense of surprise and emotion
well up inside him. What, actually, had happened to
him, he could not help asking himself. HaRav Yechezkel Sarna -- His 30th
Yahrtzeit A Symposium on Teshuvah
The earliest time of Kiddush Levonoh -- Tishrei
The time of Kiddush Levonoh everywhere in the world
begins exactly seventy-two hours after the molad when
it is Monday, 3:24 P.M., 3 Tishrei (Sept. 13) in Eretz
Yisroel. The actual time in most of the world is therefore
from the beginning of the night, the eve of 4 Tishrei. In the
eastern countries one can make Kiddush Levonoh on the
eve of 4 Tishrei only according to the difference in time
zones in comparison to Eretz Yisroel. However, in the extreme
eastern countries it is impossible to make a brocho on
Kiddush Levonoh at all that night because the moon
sets before the earliest time, and their actual time is from
the beginning of the next night, the eve of 5 Tishrei.
The astronomical new moon precedes the molad this
month by approximately fifteen hours and twenty-one and a
half minutes, and is at 12:027 A.M., the eve of 29 Elul, 5759
(Sep. 10). Since during the three days after the molad
the moon approaches its apogee (its highest point) and
advances slowly part of the influence of the astronomical new
moon's early appearance is canceled. This information is
significant for those who act according to the Chazon Ish and
do not make a brocho on the moon until it is big and
high in the sky.
Kiddush Levonoh should not be made until Motzei Yom
Kippur (Ramo, Shulchan Oruch Orach Chaim 426:2 and
602:1). The reason for waiting is our being frightened from
the din and not being in simcha. The opinion of
some acharonim is that, on the contrary, we should
fulfill the mitzvah before Yom Kippur so that the
zechus of that mitzvah can tilt the din
in our favor. Both the Kitzur Shulchan Oruch and the
Mishnah Berurah did not determine the psak in
this case. The Chazon Ish and the Steipler Rav zy'a
were accustomed to do as the Vilna Gaon recommended and to
make Kiddush Levonoh before Yom Kippur.
(Birur Halocho, V, Orach Chaim 426 and 601)
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