DOCSLIB.ORG

Behar-Bechukotai 5780 B”H Covenant and Conversation Chance

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Behar-Bechukotai 5780 B”H Covenant and Conversation Chance BS”D May 15, 2020 Friday is the 36th Day of the Omer Potomac Torah Study Center Vol. 7 #29, May 15, 2020; Behar - Bechukotai 5780 NOTE: Devrei Torah presented weekly in Loving Memory of Rabbi Leonard S. Cahan z”l, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Har Shalom, who started me on my road to learning almost 50 years ago and was our family Rebbe and close friend until his recent untimely death. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Devrei Torah are now Available for Download (normally by noon on Fridays) from www.PotomacTorah.org. Thanks to Bill Landau for hosting the Devrei Torah. __________________________________________________________________________________ Lisa Rosen and Sherri Alpert lovingly dedicate the Devrei Torah this Shabbas in honor of the 42nd Yahrzeit of their father, Nathan Alpert, z”l, 22 Iyar. _____________________________________________________________________________________ All of Sefer Vayikra takes place at the base of Har Sinai, where B’Nai Yisrael remained from before receiving the Aseret Dibrot until 20 Iyar of the second year, when they finally began their journey (Bamidbar 10:11). (Thursday of this week – yesterday as I start writing – was 20 Iyar and thus the anniversary of this departure.) A key theme of Sefer Vayikra is learning how to live in proximity to God, because the people were living next to the Mishkan. God’s message to Moshe had been to have the people build a Mishkan, and God would reside among them (among the people). Proximity to God required special attention to kedusha, in speech, food, body, time (Shabbat, Moedim, shmittah, and yovel), and space (Mishkan and land of Israel). The Torah includes a concept of building fences around the mitzvot. For example, we light candles 18 minutes before Shabbat begins to avoid coming so close to the deadline that we might light the candles too late. Similarly, God set fences around His special places – the people were to stay away from any part of Har Sinai during the Revelation, and to stay away from the central parts of the Mishkan. Once B’Nai Yisrael learned to live in close proximity to God’s presence, the next step was learning to extend these lessons to life away from the Mishkan and during times other than Shabbat and the other holy days. Once entering Israel, the people were to spread out and inhabit the land, only coming back to a central location on designated days (primarily the Sukkot, Pesach, and Shavuot). Of all the mitzvot, Behar - Bechukotai especially emphasizes shmittah and yovel, the requirements to permit the land to observe Shabbat every seven years and an extra rest after every seven times seven years (yovel on the 50th year). During a shmittah year, the land was to lie fallow, and any crops that grew on their own were to be hefker, or ownerless (available to anyone who wished to harvest them), and debts from Jews to other Jews were to be canceled. On yovel, ownership of all land in Israel was to revert back to the original owners (from the division when the tribes entered the land, under the leadership of Yehoshua), and all slaves were to go free. The most vivid section of Bechukotai is the Tochachah (warnings, curses, or admonitions) (26:14 ff.) , thirty verses warning of doom and destruction if the people did not follow God’s mitzvot in the land. The specific warning of doom leading to the land vomiting the people off the land of Israel was for disobeying the mitzvot of shmittah and yovel. If we Jews did not observe these mitzvot, the land would kick us out until the land had rested for all the shmittah and yovel years that we had failed to observe. The counting we do leading each week leading to Shabbat parallels the seven year Shabbat of the land (Shmittah). The Omer counting we do for seven Shabbatot between Pesach and Shavuot parallels the seven times seven years we count to reach yovel. We complete Sefer Vayikra each year heading into Shavuot – except that we wait a week between the Tochachah and Shavuot to avoid going into Yom Tov with a curse. Shavuot completes the freedom we started when 1 leaving Egypt on Pesach. We count seven weeks, and the next day coincides with our complete freedom, the day we received the Torah at Har Sinai. The parallel in terms of living in God’s land (Israel) is yovel, when we grant freedom to all slaves and return all land to those designated to reside there. (Since only God owns the land in Israel, I wrote in terms of those designated to reside on specific land – not owners, because God is the real owner.) So often in our weekly Torah readings, concern for our brothers (fellow Jews) is a major theme. We must share the rewards of the land with our fellows, because doing so is part of the requirement for using God’s land. All the gifts of our success come from God, and God wants the gifts to go to all of us. We must remember how God has blessed us, so we should walk with God and include Him in our lives (and speak to Him daily, through our davening). Much of the language of Bechukotai repeats words and themes from Gan Eden. As Rashi reminds us, we have an opportunity to come close to the Gan Eden experience if we observe God’s mitzvot and walk with Him. The focus on the land of Israel in Behar - Bechukotai always makes me feel close to my beloved Rebbe, Rabbi Leonard Cahan, z”l. Rabbi Cahan would travel to Israel a few times a year and bring back Judaica to make available to congregants. Rabbi Cahan’s parents and sister Naomi made alliyah many years ago. As early as 1978, when we first visited Israel together, Hannah and I visited with Rabbi Cahan’s family. This February, we had a delightful visit with Naomi Katz, Rabbi Cahan’s sister, still living in Jerusalem – in the same building with my cousins. The Cahan family lived their love of Israel and shared this love with all their friends. The love of Israel is central to being a Jew – and that is one reason why the Tochachah is so frightening. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Please daven for a Refuah Shlemah for Gedalya ben Sarah, Mordechai ben Chaya, Baruch Yitzhak ben Perl, David Leib HaKohen ben Sheina Reizel, Zev ben Sara Chaya, Uzi Yehuda ben Mirda Behla, HaRav Dovid Meir ben Chaya Tzippa; Eliav Yerachmiel ben Sara Dina, Amoz ben Tziviah, Reuven ben Masha, Moshe David ben Hannah, Meir ben Sara, Yitzhok Tzvi ben Yehudit Miriam, Yaakov Naphtali ben Michal Leah, Rivka Chaya bat Leah, Chaya Tova bat Narges, Zissel Bat Mazal, Chana Bracha bas Rochel Leah, Leah Fruma bat Musa Devorah, Hinda Behla bat Chaya Leah, Nechama bas Tikva Rachel, Miriam Chava bat Yachid, and Ruth bat Sarah, all of whom greatly need our prayers. Note: Beth Sholom has additional names, including coronavirus victims, on a Tehillim list. _____________________________________________________________________________ Hannah & Alan _____________________________________________________________________________ Drasha: Behar: Blind Faith by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky © 1997 [Please remember Mordechai ben Chaya for a Mishebarach!] The commandment of Shemitah is a test of our faith and an examination in our true belief in the Almighty’s ability to sustain us. The Torah commands us that every seven years we must let the land of Israel lie fallow, with no harvesting or planting of crops. But Hashem promises us that if “you shall perform My decrees, and observe My ordinances and perform them, then you shall dwell securely on the land. The land will give its fruit and you will eat your fill; you will dwell securely upon it” (Leviticus 25:18-19). Rashi explains the blessing “even if you eat only a little, it will be blessed in your stomach,” The little you eat will grow into a bounty of satiation. But after assuring us that our little will feel plentiful the Torah talks to the naysayers. The Torah talks about that group of people. “If you will say – What will we eat in the seventh year? — behold! We will not sow and not gather in our crops!” Hashem assures them as well. “I will ordain My blessing for you in the sixth year and it will yield a crop sufficient for the three-year period.” (Ibid v.20-21) The Kli Yakar and a host of other commentaries ask. Why should a Jew ask that troubling question? Didn’t Hashem command his abundant blessing in the sixth year? Didn’t the little bit of food leave them satisfied? Why do they have concern about the ensuing years? My dear friend Rabbi Benyamin Brenig of Golders Green, London recently related this wonderful story to me: Reuvain and Shimon were two men, who lived on opposite ends of town. They each inherited a fortune of gold. Each of them decided to bury their fortunes in their backyards. They wanted to make sure that they would have something to sustain them in their old age. On their respective properties, they each picked a landmark, paced twenty steps due north and dug a large hole. 2 Reuvain, the more nervous of the two, was careful to make sure that no one was watching. Every other second he glanced furtively over his shoulder to make sure that no one saw him bury the treasure. No one did. Shimon, by nature, was trusting and carefree and he was not so careful. He was not worried that anyone would steal his fortune. But he was wrong. He was spotted by a nosy neighbor, who was also a thief. In the middle of the night, the thief dug up the fortune.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Israeli Violations' Activities in the Opt 9 October 2017
    Israeli Violations' Activities in the oPt 9 October 2017 The daily report highlights the violations behind Israeli home demolitions and demolition threats The Violations are based on in the occupied Palestinian territory, the reports provided by field workers confiscation and razing of lands, the uprooting and\or news sources. and destruction of fruit trees, the expansion of The text is not quoted directly settlements and erection of outposts, the brutality from the sources but is edited for of the Israeli Occupation Army, the Israeli settlers clarity. violence against Palestinian civilians and properties, the erection of checkpoints, the The daily report does not construction of the Israeli segregation wall and necessarily reflect ARIJ’s opinion. the issuance of military orders for the various Israeli purposes. Brutality of the Israeli Occupation Army • Israeli occupation Army (IOA) deployed at the Qalandiya military crossing between Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank opened fire at two Palestinian women who attempted to cross through the checkpoint on foot using the vehicle lane. The IOA detained the two women and took them in for interrogation. (Maannews 9 October 2017) • Palestinian families from the besieged Gaza Strip were prevented by Israeli authorities from visiting their imprisoned relatives inside Israel. Families stated that they were denied entry to Israel due to border 1 closures for ongoing Jewish holidays in Israel. (Maannews 9 October 2017) • The Israeli occupation army (IOA) targeted and destroyed an outpost in the besieged Gaza Strip, said to be used by the Hamas movement as an observation post. The site targeted by the Israeli shelling was located in the Abu Safiya area east of al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
    [Show full text]
  • Israel's National Religious and the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict
    Leap of Faith: Israel’s National Religious and the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict Middle East Report N°147 | 21 November 2013 International Crisis Group Headquarters Avenue Louise 149 1050 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 502 90 38 Fax: +32 2 502 50 38 [email protected] Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... i Recommendations..................................................................................................................... iv I. Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 1 II. Religious Zionism: From Ascendance to Fragmentation ................................................ 5 A. 1973: A Turning Point ................................................................................................ 5 B. 1980s and 1990s: Polarisation ................................................................................... 7 C. The Gaza Disengagement and its Aftermath ............................................................. 11 III. Settling the Land .............................................................................................................. 14 A. Bargaining with the State: The Kookists ................................................................... 15 B. Defying the State: The Hilltop Youth ........................................................................ 17 IV. From the Hills to the State ..............................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Absentee Property Law of 1950 Was Meant to Serve As the Legal Basis to Transfer the Property of Palestinian Refugees Into the Possession of the State of Israel
    Absentees against Their Will – Property Expropriation in East Jerusalem under the Absentee Property Law July 2010 Introduction The Absentee Property Law of 1950 was meant to serve as the legal basis to transfer the property of Palestinian refugees into the possession of the State of Israel. The law says that the land and property of Palestinian residents and nationals of Arab countries who, from November 29, 1947 until a declaration that the state of emergency declared in 1948 ended [which has not yet happened] were in one of the Arab countries, or "in any part of the Land of Israel that is outside of the area of Israel," would revert to the possession of the Custodian of Absentee Property, meaning, to the possession of the State.1 Following the annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, and as a result the application of all of the laws of Israel -- including the Absentee Property Law -- to the annexed area, a problematic situation arose in which the property of almost all the Palestinian residents of the city became, in fact, absentee property, because those residents were at the time to which the law refers citizens of Jordan, then an enemy country, who resided in "a part of the Land of Israel that [was] outside of the area of Israel." To contend with this problematic situation, section 3 of the Law and Administration Ordinance 5730-1970 provides that the law does not apply to residents of East Jerusalem who "on the day of the incidence of the order of application of the law was in the area of its application and was a resident thereof."2 Therefore, only residents who were physically present in East Jerusalem on the day of annexation are not considered absentees.
    [Show full text]
  • The Mysterious Wait Rfr Reporting
    w ww VOL. f / NO. 1 CHESHVAN 5772 / NOVEMBER 2011 s xc THEDaf a K ashrus A MONTHLYH NEWSLETTER FOR TH E O U RABBINIC FIELD REPRESENTATIVE DAF NOTES to wine in comparison to his father because “my father waited 24 hours and I (merely) The first part of the article below originally appeared in the Kashrus Kaleidoscope section of Hamodia wait between one meal and the next” (eating Magazine’s 27 Teves, 5767 – January 17, 2007 issue and was entitled “The Three Hour Wait”. It is reprinted with permission at this time because of its connection to the recently learned Daf Yomi in Chulin 105 and meat in the first meal and dairy in the next). because of the newly added Part 2. The article has been renamed The Mysterious Wait with the original The question is, how long is the interval first section discussing the source for waiting three hours between meat and dairy. The newly added second between one meal and another? section discusses the sources for waiting six hours or part of the sixth hour. Some have suggested that those who wait three hours may understand Mar Ukva to be THE MYSTERIOUS WAIT referring to the interval between breakfast and lunch (a short, three-hour period) rather An Analysis of Various Minhagim Concerning Waiting than between lunch and dinner (a longer period). This explanation, however, presents Between Meat and Dairy a difficulty. Tosfos in Chulin 105A tells us that in Mar Ukva’s time only two meals RABBI YOSEF GROSSMAN were eaten daily. Presumably, when Mar Senior Educational Rabbinic Coordinator; Editor - The Daf HaKashrus Ukva stated that he waited between eating meat and eating dairy just the normal inter- val between meals, he was referring to the PART 1: THE THREE-HOUR WAIT The source for this minhag is shrouded in two daily meals that people ate in his time.
    [Show full text]
  • Accepting Shabbos Through Candle Lighting
    Parshas Nitzavim 5779/September 27, 2019 Volume 1, Issue 32 Iyun Halacha is sponsored by the Dr. Philip & Mrs. Leah Mehler Family Foundation In memory of their parents Dr. Irving & Mrs. Bernice Mehler & Mr. Gedalja & Mrs. Miriam Zupnik לעילוי נשמת ר’ יצחק מאיר בן אליהו ובריינא בת אברהם ע“ה ור‘ גדליה בן אברהם מנחם הכהן ומרים בת ישראל ע“ה Accepting Shabbos through Candle Lighting Rabbi Yosef Melamed May a woman who lit candles on the Erev Yom Kippur drive to shul for Kol Nidrei? May one daven mincha after lighting Shabbos candles? In a previous article, it was explained that there is a dispute between the It emerges from this explanation that the acceptance of Shabbos is not through Rishonim (medieval authorities) as to how one accepts tosafos Shabbos the action of lighting the candles, but rather through the bracha which is (accepting Shabbos earlier than its actual advent). The opinion of the Bahag recited upon that lighting. This seems to also be the opinion of the Maharash, (Hilchos Chanuka; pg. 84 Berlin ed.) is that one accepts Shabbos through cited by the Magen Avraham (ibid.:11) and the Mishna Berura (ibid.:21) lighting Shabbos candles. The Ran (Shabbos dapei Harif 10a s.v. umidiamrinan) as practical halacha. They seem to understand that by saying “lighting the explains that Shabbos candle lighting is the bridge to the arrival of Shabbos. Shabbos candles” in the bracha, the woman lighting is in effect acknowledging On the one hand, candle lighting must be completed before Shabbos begins, that she has accepted Shabbos.
    [Show full text]
  • Shavuos2 (Read-Only)
    Kosher Connections Dairy Bread During the me of the Beis HaMikdash, there was a unique korban offered on Shavuos which contained two loaves of bread and was known as the shtei halechem (two breads), and to commemorate this a custom developed to eat dairy and meat at the same meal (Rema OC 494:2). How does that custom remind us of the shtei halechem? The answer is that a loaf of bread which was used at a dairy meal should not be used at a meat meal (or vice versa) because of a concern that there might be some residue of dairy on the bread (see Rema YD 88:2). Therefore, by serving dairy and then meat at one meal, the parcipants will be required to have two sepa- rate loaves of bread, and those two loaves are a reminder of the two loaves of bread offered in the Beis HaMikdash. Our discussion will focus on the following related halacha which applies year round. Because bread is a staple food which is made of simple, pareve ingredients and was commonly eaten with every meal. Chazal were similarly concerned that if bread was made with animal fat or with milk people would mistakenly eat it with the “other” type; there- fore, they forbade one from making bread which is fleishig or milchig, and also said that such bread may not be eaten at all.1 A few years ago, the cRc was asked to cerfy a large commercial bakery and found that just about every product they made contained milk powder which meant that none of the products could be cerfied.
    [Show full text]
  • Korach 5781; 1 Tammuz 5781 Rosh Hodesh
    BS”D June 11, 2021 1 Tammuz 5781 Potomac Torah Study Center Vol. 8 #34, June 11, 2021; Korach 5781; 1 Tammuz 5781 Rosh Hodesh NOTE: Devrei Torah presented weekly in Loving Memory of Rabbi Leonard S. Cahan z”l, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Har Shalom, who started me on my road to learning 50 years ago and was our family Rebbe and close friend until his recent untimely death. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Family and friends sponsor the Devrei Torah this Shabbat in loving memory of Iran Kohan-Sedgh, Iran Tova Bat David HaKohen z”l. Iran was the loving wife of Mehrdad Kohen, devoted mother of Joseph and Shirine, cherished teacher of many children in our community, and close friend to all who knew and loved her. Iran’s family and friends will honor her at Magen David on the first anniversary of her burial, 7 Tammuz. May Iran’s name and memory always be for a blessing in our community. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Devrei Torah are now Available for Download (normally by noon on Fridays) from www.PotomacTorah.org. Thanks to Bill Landau for hosting the Devrei Torah. ______________________________________________________________________________ The final story that the Torah records about the generation of the Exodus is Korach’s rebellion against Aharon’s leadership of the Kohanim. The Torah combines this story with a second rebellion, B’nai Reuven protesting Levi taking over religious and political leadership that would traditionally have been a perk of the first born. Rabbi Menachem Leibtag’s shiur, which I attach by E-mail, sorts out these two rebellions. Rabbi David Fohrman and some of his colleagues explain that Korach received exactly what he had requested from his role in the rebellion.
    [Show full text]
  • These Classic Halacha Seforim Just Got a Lot Better
    TITLE: PUBLISHER: Ketzos Hashulchan R. Avraham Chaim 4 volumes Naeh and R. Shiurei Torah— Menachem Naeh Shiur Mikvah 2 volumes EDITORS: LANGUAGE: Rabbi Menachem Hebrew Mendel Nachshon, Rabbi Levi Holtzman AUTHOR: Harav Avraham Chaim Naeh ISSUE #07 appearing in 5686, and the final volume was published posthumously in 5714. These Classic The set starts from the beginning of Orach Chaim with the morning halachos; goes Halacha Seforim through the halachos of tzitizis, tefillin, and davening; continues with hilchos berachos; and then all of the halachos of Shabbos. Just Got A Lot Better Subsequent additions combined the nine parts into three volumes, and the new edition BY SHMUEL SUPER keeps this structure. The sefer is best defined by the renowned elder Chabad Rov, Harav Dovid Tzvi Introduction in the court of the Rebbe Rashab, before (Radatz) Chein in his haskamah to the first returning to Eretz Yisrael where he married. volume, written just a few months before his etzos Hashulchan and Shiurei During World War I, he was expelled from passing: a Kitzur Shulchan Aruch based on Torah by Harav Avraham Eretz Yisrael by the Turks and fled to Egypt, the Alter Rebbe. Chaim Naeh have been where he promptly set up a Yeshivah for the The Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch follows Kclassic halachah seforim since they were exiles and locals. Here too, he identified a the order of the mechaber’s Shulchan Aruch first published over the years 5686-5714. lack of clarity in the basic daily halachos, and its commentaries, summarizing the These seforim were reprinted many times and wrote Shenos Chaim, a work on hilchos main opinions and their reasoning, and since—in the original old typeset—but have tefillah and the yamim tovim according to then rendering a ruling.
    [Show full text]
  • Ask the Rabbi Volume I
    ASK THE RABBI VOLUME I ASK THE RABBI VOLUME I A Sampling of Real World Halachic Questions that Were Sent to the Eretz Hemdah Beit Midrash Headed by Harav Moshe Ehrenreich and Harav Yosef Carmel By The Eretz Hemdah Students and Faculty Ask the Rabbi ,Volume 1 Eretz Hemdah Institute © Eretz Hemdah Institute 2015 Additional copies of this book are available at Eretz Hemdah: 2 Brurya St. P.O.B. 8178 Jerusalem 9108101 Israel (972-2) 537-1485 fax (972-2) 537-9626 [email protected] Also available at the Eretz Hemdah website www.eretzhemdah.org Editor: Rabbi Daniel Rosenfeld Cover design: Renana Pinis הוצא לאור בהשתתפות המשרד לענייני דתות All rights reserved. However, since the purpose of this publication is educational, the copyright holder permits the limited reproduction of sections of this book for non-commercial educational purposes. ISBN , 978-965-436-028-9 hardcover Printed in Israel It is our privilege to present the first volume of Ask the Rabbi. Each year, Eretz Hemdah, through its partnership with the Orthodox Union’s “Ask the Rabbi” program, receives thousands of questions. The questions are sent from rabbis and laity in Israel, America, and across the world. In Eretz Hemdah, a small group of extraordinary graduates from the finest National-Religious yeshivot learn to prepare for the Israeli Rabbinate’s rigorous Yadin Yadin examinations. We believe that true greatness in Torah can never be disconnected from involvement with the needs and concerns of the broader Jewish community. Therefore, we require our young rabbis to devote some of their time to teaching and answering questions.
    [Show full text]
  • Hilchos Aveilus, Not Aveilus.”
    הלכות אבילות נלקטו משעורי תשס"ט תוכן הענינים סימן א בענין אנינות מדאורייתא ................................................................... 1 סימן ב בענין מי שמתו מוטל לפניו ............................................................... 9 סימן ג לקוטי דינים בענין מי שמתו מוטל לפניו ............................................... 11 סימן ד בענין אסורי אבילות בזמן שמתו מוטל לפניו ......................................... 62 סימן ה בענין המח' אם אבלות מדאורייתא או מדרבנן ....................................... 33 סימן ו בענין אבילות ביום טוב ..................................................................... 04 סימן ז בענין הכין צרכי חופה ומת לו מת ואיסור נישואין בזמן אבילות .................02 סימן ח בענין התחלת האבילות ..................................................................... 33 סימן ט בענין גדול הבית .............................................................................. 35 סימן י בענין מאבד עצמו לדעת ................................................................... 23 סימן יא בענין אבילות במשומד ובמנודה ......................................................... 14 סימן יב בענין סעודת הבראה ........................................................................ 15 סימן יג בענין איסור שאילת שלום ותלמוד תורה לאבל ..................................... 53 סימן יד בענין איסור רחיצה ותספורת באבילות ................................................ 93 סימן טו בענין איסור כניסה לבית המשתה ואיסור שמחת מריעות לאבל ................ 143 סימן טז בעניני עטיפת הראש וכפיית המטה ....................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Edition #24 May 2012
    ISSUE 24 אייר תשע"ב / MAY 2012 that the food cooked in that device is bishul Yisroel.2 INDIAN RESTAURANTS Accordingly, the typical method of creating bishul Yisroel is via a Jew lighting the pilot lights for the Introduction stoves, ovens, woks, fryers and other cooking utensils. In recent years restaurants serving Indian-style foods This raises a number of halachic and practical have become more popular in the general considerations: population. The menus of these restaurants are filled with foods made of fruits, vegetables, and dairy Rema 113:7 says that if a non-Jew lights a fire from then any ,(אש מאש) items, but are free of all meat and fish. This presents a fire which was lit by a Jew an opportunity to eat out for smaller Jewish food cooked on the non-Jew’s fire is considered communities which do not have enough members to bishul Yisroel. There is some discussion in the support a traditional kosher restaurant. The lack of Poskim3 as to whether Rema’s ruling may be relied fish or meat in the restaurant presents a possibility of upon l’chatchilah or merely b’dieved. providing hashgachah without (the expense of) a Some larger hashgochos are machmir on this Mashgiach Temidi and without (the hassle and question as relates to food but maikel as relates to expense of) severe restrictions regarding suppliers of their industrial certifications; their logic is that since raw materials. These factors, coupled with the they insist on a Mashgiach Temidi for food service restaurants’ appeal to consumers who are not hashgachah there is no reason to have to rely on Jewish, have combined to make certification of something which might only be permitted Indian restaurants a viable option of which many b’dieved.
    [Show full text]
  • Committee, “Has Replace Engineering Library
    1, .... I. .. THETUFTS DAILY ~~~ - [Where You Read It First Wednesday, January 24,1996 Volume XXXII, Numbe A Bryan Krause, for its involvement mothers and Families Gtke they Lufkin Library, located in the College of Engineering, mav become a state-of-the-art study space - - I, ” .- with the extension of the library’s get back on their feet due to guidehours, to the Tufts, creation the development of the pocketof MacPhersonvariety of said.circumstances,” High-tech study facility may the City Line Bus Service, and its Verdier said that the Cultural effortsThe for Services financial Committee,aid. chairedand Ethnic by AlexisAffairs Acerdo, Committee, “has replace Engineering Library chaired by Brooke Jamison, was done a tremendous iob.”The com- by EPSTEIN the fact that all of the plans are still to a different level,” he said. mittee has begun KAREN Daily Editorial Board in an initial thought phase. He said the three important work on a forum to The College of Engineering is Hesaid he wants a facility where abilitiesEngineeringstudents must address issues con- considering building a state-of- students can have access to the develop are “teamwork, commu- cerning prospec- the-art study center in Anderson World Wide Web, reference books, nication skills, [and a] global per- tiveculture groups, Hall in the space currently occu- and information which can be spective.” in addition to sev- pied by Lufkin Engineering Li- found in journals electronically. Miaoulis said there is no set eral other projects. brary, Engineering Dean Ioannis He also envisions study areas sepa- timeline for this project, adding Verdier also sug- Miaoulis said Monday.
    [Show full text]