"I have seen in several upstanding communities, organizations formed called Mazhirei Shabbos where members are sent out to circulate in the streets and markets to encourage Jewish residents to light Shabbos candles on time. How great is their merit in reminding people of the sanctity of this mitzvah. Surely, the merit of Shabbos will stand them in good stead to protect them from all evil and enable them to embrace the pleasantness of Hashem. These people should be congratulated and appreciated for occupying themselves in this holy endeavor." These words were written by the Chofetz Chaim himself.

The late Mashgiach of Mir, HaRav Yeruchom, discussed this in a Shiur Chumash in the yeshiva noting that when a person sets out on a journey, he should make sure that Hashem is accompanying him.

He gave a personal example: "When I was living in Atonet, a city near Kelm, 25 kilometers away, ensconced throughout in the beis medrash, I never set out for my home on Erev Shabbos, knowing full well how many delays can come up when traveling on Erev Shabbos. One time, however, I had an urgent reason to travel to my home. Nonetheless. I set out early enough, much before candlelighting time. Nevertheless, I found myself almost stranded on the road, shortly before Shabbos, arriving home almost just in time for candlelighting. All kinds of possible delays and mishaps confronted me, be it the rudder of my bicycle, later, a wheel itself, and many other deterrents imaginable, hour by hour. However, I saw, time after time, that Hashem was by my side all along. From then on, I resolved never to set out on a journey on a Friday."

In a public address, the Posek Hador, HaRav Nissim Karelitz zt"l, said the following: ...

Channel 14, the right-leaning media channel, is driving the Leftist camp crazy because of its rising popularity, despite its unending efforts to attack and disparage it in every way possible, beginning with a comprehensive inquiry of the judicial system of the IDF, the patzarit (chief advocate), as it is referred to in the analysis. It presents chilling exposes on the methods of the system of dictating to the soldiers and their commanders of how to comport themselves and in general, to dictate to the army in general how they must act.

There are some revelations which easily demonstrate corruption like that found in scandals among the top brass of the Histadrut, except that in the IDF it is not a question of money but actually of human lives. The rapport between the discharged patzarit and the government judicial advisor who is glued to her post transform the concept of 'a conflict of interests' into irrelevance in the law-book of the State.

In an inquiry of which so far only the first part was publicized, it emerges that the patzarit intentionally overlooked a complaint against the former Chief of Staff Hertzy Halevi which could have arrested his progress, while the judicial advisor approved of the appointment towards the end of the transitional government headed by Yair Lapid, against the accepted directive that a transitional government should not make appointments to major positions, even against the express opposition of IDF intelligence which refused to lend a hand to this irregularity.

It also notes to the deliberate overlooking by the patzarit of an offense of the son of the legal advisor,

Part III

The second part discussed the development of shatnez testing, and especially the difficult problem that they faced with the rise of clothing manufacturing in the Far East that used ramie material that looked like linen but is permissible. The story of ramie continues.

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Together with Asher Aaron Kuperman, who had become a shatnez tester and had joined the research department in 1986, Shockett decided to see Walter McCrone, the head of the institute, himself. On the phone, McCrone said that he had never heard of Shatnez Laboratories, but he granted the two an appointment.

So, during the next bein hazmanim in 1990, the two found themselves in a sprawling ivy covered building, telling Walter McCrone of their dilemma with ramie. How could they explain the mitzvah of shatnez — one of the most esoteric, mysterious mitzvos of the Torah — to a gentile?