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Eniayim Layout Key Points in Parshat Ki Tetze Ephriam Meth • Battles: One may capture a gentile woman in battle, convert her, and marry her. Soldiers should distance themselves from the camp when performing excretory functions. Einayim L’Torah • : Workers should receive their wages within 12 hours of rendered services. Economics 500 W. 185th Street Courts should not favor anyone based on their social status. New York, NY 10033 • : We must remember that Amalek attacked us when we left Egypt. We must Memories www.einayim.org September 16, 2005 Volume 20, Number 2 remember that Miriam was punished for speaking Lashon Hara and thereby refrain from [email protected] 12 Elul 5765 Parshat Ki Tetze speaking it. • Miscellaneous: Send away the mother bird before capturing its young. Build a fence on your Editors In Chief Beauty and a Beast? ContemporaryHashkafic roof. Wear Tsitsit, not mixtures of wool and linen. You are liable to pay a monetary compen- Pinchas Friedman Rabbi Joshua Cheifetz ThoughtHalacha sation to a person whom you embarrass. n the opening portion of Yerushalmi) maintain that the halacha is the Rambam’s strik- Yehuda Brand The Jewish People Parshat Ki Tetze, the Torah soldier must wait until after the ing definition of a soldier’s role • : Converts from Amon and Moav may not marry Jews. Adulterers are put to death. I Pedigree Executive Editors appears to surrender its values woman has converted and the (ibid. 7:15): “And as [the sol- and Time A remarried divorcee may never return to her first husband. A man has a responsibility to Zev Koller in a striking concession to two have been properly wed. dier] engages in battle, he Rabbi Yonah Levant either perform levirate marriage (Yibbum) on his brother’s childless widow or release her human nature. Soldiers fighting should know that he is waging Right after Moshe warns Dovid Skversky The Rambam, however, explic- (Chalitsa) so that she may remarry. in the ranks of Bnei Yisrael are war for the sake of yichud Pharaoh that Hashem will bring Literary Editors permitted to marry, with certain Hashem…and he should not Makkas Bechoros, the Torah “And as [the relays the rules and regulations Eitan Bitter stipulations, non-Jewish prison- think of his wife and chil- of the Korban Pesach - the ers of war. According to the soldier] dren…and he should turn his Sruli Ginsberg paschal lamb sacrifice. Its Gemara (Bavli Kiddushin 21b), engages in attention from everything to instructions are preceded by Yigal Gross the Torah grants such latitude [concentrate on] the war…and the verse Hachodesh hazeh Yosef Lindell only as the better of two evils. battle, he [he should feel] that the blood lochem rosh chodoshim, rishon In other words, the Torah of the entire Jewish people is on hu lochem lichodshay should know 1 Business Affairs prefers the option of marriage his throat. Following this Hashanah - This month shall ROYAL DRAGON that he is be for you the beginning of the 4832 Boiling Brook Parkway Benjamin Fakheri to the possibility that warriors, charge to the soldier, the Rockville, MD 20852 months, it shall be for you the (301) 468-1922 Yoni Noble overcome by the trauma of bat- waging war for Rambam states that troops, first of the months of the year. 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The next sion on the battlefield (Hilchot notes, this mitzvah of Kiddush Graphic Content the Ramban (based on a Melachim 8:2). Preceding this halacha in the Rambam is that ATTENTION YU STUDENTS: Hachodesh is the first mitzvah 646.387.8573 continued on page 3 of the Torah. Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch notes that by Want Einayim in your shul? virtue of being the first mitzvah Shul Rabbis or Administrators Fences Table please email us at Avi Strauss Torah continued on page 2 [email protected] n perek 22, passuk 8, the Torah man- Artscroll translation renders it, “to encum- any other mitzvoth for that matter, as Looking for a dates the construction of a ma’akeh I ber or oppress”) seems downright misrep- incompatible in any way. Even if mitzvoth If you are interested in around the roof of one’s home. Given that resentative of the ma’akeh’s true purpose. sometimes seem to restrict our own pas- the ma’akeh protects against possibly fatal sponsoring or advertising in How can we understand Rashbam’s trans- sions and desires, we must realize that all accidents, Onkelos understandably trans- an issue of Einayim L’Torah lation of ma’akeh? Chavrusa? please email us at mitzvoth ultimately serve to enrich our lates the word as a type of receptacle that [email protected] secures its contents. However, Rashbam’s Most simply, we can understand that lives and protect us against whatever claim that the word is derived from a verb Rashbam doesn’t consider the restrictive obstacles might stand in the way of our that means to cause pain (or as the and protective features of the ma’akeh, or avodas Hashem. N EW YORK C ITY S HABBAT T IMES Candles Dawn Sunrise Shema (Gra) Shema (MA) Tefilla (Gra) Tefila (MA) Chatzot Mincha Ged. Shkia Havdala WWW.YUCHAVRUSAS.ORG 6:45 P.M. 5:26 A.M. 6:38 AM. 9:44 A.M. 9:08 A.M. 10:46 A.M. 10:22 A.M. 12:50 P.M. 1:21 PM. 7:01 P.M. 7:42 P.M. EINAYIM L’TORAH • 4 PARSHAT KI TETZE This issue is sponsored by Dovid Skversky in honor of the recent marriage of Benji and Jen Jacobs. Mazal Tov! vhv, ohn, The Jewish People and Time continued from page 1 An “Assembly of G-d” An “Assembly of G-d” continued from page 2 we were commanded, Kiddush Days, and consequently they Kiddushin is derived from the word tution of Heqdesh elevates an object as 1 However, they are all able to marry converts. David Moster Hachodesh is also the founda- decide when Hashem will sit in 3 Heqdesh - “consecrated to the Temple.” belonging to G-d, the institution of mar- 2 This is only if his disability was haphazard and The institution of marriage is is it about marriage, and specif- tion for all other mitzvos . Rav judgment of His people. In the not natural. This excludes a person who is disabled described in a mere five words ically not marrying these Hirsch cites Tiku bachodesh dramatic description of the Just as the act of consecrating forbids an riage has the ability to elevate us to as the result of an illness or birth defect. (Rambam, shofar…ki chok liyisroel hu, medrash, Hashem waits until object’s use, the act of marriage forbids become an “Assembly of G-d”. May it be in the Torah: ki yikach ish isha groups of people, that gives Hilchos Issurei Biah 15). uvealah - “when a man takes Israel the stature of K’hal mishpat laylokay Yakov - Blow the Beis Din on earth declares one’s spouse to others. However, there Hashem’s will that by combining both the the shofar at the moon’s renew- Rosh Hashanah, and only then 3 They may be accepted into the Khal Hashem wife and lives with her” Hashem? may be yet another reason why marriage is spiritual and physical, we achieve the al…Because it is a decree for He instructs His heavenly court upon the passing of three generations after their (Deuteronomy 24:1). The Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Israel, a judgment [day] for the to begin - or postpone - the correlated with Heqdesh. Just as the insti- revered status of a K’hal Hashem. conversion. 9 Torah does not provide any believes that the first two cate- G-d of Jacob (Tehillim 81), judgment of all living beings . further detail about how the which Chazal understand as The nation commanded to be gories are banned because 4 referring to Rosh Hashanah , holy is enlisted by Hashem to Beauty and a Beast? continued from page 1 act of marriage is performed “they are a contradiction to the and all Roshei Chodashim in become a fountain-source of or what its purpose is. To find 5 mentioned above, which permits a soldier’s course, the parallelism between the war- hora? The Mesillat Yeshorim (Ch. 5) pro- physical and moral elements general . Rosh Chodesh holiness. Israel brings the holi- its purpose, one must look to which constitute the very reminds us of our responsibili- ness of the Yomim Tovim into liaison with a captive woman “if his desire rior’s waiting period and the month of Elul vides an explanation: “The evil inclination an earlier portion in Parshat nature of marriage.” Marriage ties. Hashem is our Judge; our reality. Sfas Emes explains that overpowers him.” is obvious-both are times during which is in truth very strong within man, and Ki Tetze where the Torah tells is neither a completely physical glorious status implied by the via Kiddush Hachodesh, time As emerges from the Rambam’s charge to there is an intensified struggle with the without man’s awareness, it overpowers and name Yisroel6 will only be true itself - mundane, aloof and yeitzer hora.
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