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Shoftim Pirkei Avot 6 ב"ה ו' אלול תשפ"א ISSUE 1432 AUG 14TH '21 פרשת שפטים PARSHAT SHOFTIM PIRKEI AVOT 6 Walking ושפטו את־העם Wholehearted Rebbetzin Shira Smiles משפט־צדק Faculty, OU Israel Center דברים ט"ז, פסוק י"ח page 26 For But One Morsel of Bread Menachem Persoff Special Projects Consultant, OU Israel Center page 44 THIS WEEKS TORAH TIDBITS IS DEDICATED IN HONOR OF THE MARRIAGE OF BONNIE WEINSTEIN AND NATE WILLIAMS YERUSHALAYIM IN/OUT TIMES FOR SHABBAT PARSHAT SHOFTIM Candles 6:49PM • Earliest 6:01PM • Havdala 8:03PM • Rabbeinu Tam 8:41PM OU ISRAEL 02-560-9100 | TorahTidbits.com | ADVERTISING 02- 560-9125 INSPIRATION FOR THE MONTH OF ELUL התשובה באה משאיפת המציאות כלה להיות יותר טובה ומזככת, יותר חסינה ומעלה ממה שהיא “Teshuva is inspired by the yearning of all existence to be better, purer, more vigorous and on a higher plane than it is.” Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook zt"l (Orot HaTeshuva 6:1) TABLE OF CONTENTS Dear Torah Tidbits Family Shoftim: A Jewish Army 04Rabbi Avi Berman 40Rabbi Moshe Taragin Aliya By Aliya Sedra Summary Simchat Shmuel 06Rabbi Reuven Tradburks 42Rabbi Sam Shor Darwin and the Mussar Movement For But One Morsel of Bread 12Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb 44Menachem Persoff Learning and Leadership The Y- Files 16Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l 46Weekly Comic for Kids Probing The Prophets The Sun and the Moon 22Rabbi Nachman Winkler 48Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider Sustainability in the Torah Moving a Tzedaka Box on Shabbat 24Rabbi Shalom Rosner 52Rabbi Daniel Mann Walking Wholehearted Who is the Father? 26Rebbetzin Shira Smiles 54Rabbi Gideon Weitzman What Is Our Question? Deadlines For Planting Trees And 28Rabbi Judah Mischel 56Plants Rabbi Moshe Bloom OU Israel Torah 4 Teens By Teens 32Schedule 60Asher Manning // Talia Rapps KIDDUSH LEVANA: 7 Days After Molad 8 Elul/ Sun. night Aug. 15 Last Opportunity To Say Kiddush Levana Until.. 15 Elul, Sun. Aug. 22, All night 2 TORAH TIDBITS 1432 / SHOFTIM CANDLE LIGHTING OTHER AND HAVDALA TIMES Z'MANIM JERUSALEM CANDLES EARLIEST SHOFTIM HAVDALA KI TEITZE Ranges 11 days Wed.- Shabbat Candles Earliest Havdala 6:01 Yerushalayim / Maale Adumim August 11 -21 / 3 - 13 Elul 6:49 8:03 6:41 5:55 7:54 7:06 6:03 Aza area (Netivot, S’derot, Et al) 8:05 6:59 5:57 7:56 Earliest Tallit and Tefillin 5:07 - 5:14 7:08 6:02 Beit Shemesh / RBS 8:03 7:00 5:56 7:55 Sunrise 6:02 - 6:08 Sof Zman Kriat Shema 9:22 - 9:25 7:04 6:01 Gush Etzion 8:03 6:57 5:55 7:55 Magen Avraham 8:43 - 8:46 7:06 6:03 Raanana/ Tel Mond/ Herzliya/ K. Saba 8:05 6:59 5:57 7:56 Sof Zman Tefila 10:30 6:02 Modi’in / Chashmona’im 6:58 5:56 7:55 (According to the Gra and Baal HaTanya) 7:05 8:04 Chatzot (Halachic Noon) 12:44 - 12:42 6:03 Netanya 6:59 5:57 7:57 7:07 8:05 Mincha Gedola (Earliest Mincha) 1:18 - 1:15 7:05 6:02 Be’er Sheva 8:03 6:58 5:56 7:55 Plag Mincha 6:03 - 5:54 7:06 6:03 Rehovot 8:04 6:59 5:57 7:56 Sunset (Including Elevation) 7:31 - 7:20 6:49 6:03 Petach Tikva 8:05 6:41 5:57 7:56 Seymour J. Abrams • Orthodox 7:05 6:02 Ginot Shomron 8:04 6:58 5:56 7:56 Union Jerusalem World Cen- ter • Avrom Silver Jerusalem 6:57 6:03 Haifa / Zichron 8:06 6:49 5:57 7:57 College for Adults • Wolinetz 6:01 Gush Shiloh 6:57 5:55 7:55 Family Shul • Makom BaLev • 7:04 8:03 Birthright • Yachad • NCSY 6:03 Tel Aviv / Giv’at Shmuel 6:59 5:57 7:57 in Israel • JLIC in Israel • Pearl 7:06 8:05 & Harold M. Jacobs ZULA Out- 6:01 Giv’at Ze’ev 6:57 5:55 7:55 reach Center • The Jack Gindi Oraita Program • OU 7:05 8:03 Israel Kashrut 7:04 6:01 Chevron / Kiryat Arba 8:03 6:57 5:55 7:54 ZVI SAND, PRESIDENT, OU ISRAEL 7:07 6:04 Ashkelon 8:05 6:59 5:57 7:57 Yitzchak Fund, Former President, OU Israel Rabbi Emanuel Quint z”l, Senior Vice President | Prof. 7:06 6:03 Yad Binyamin 8:04 6:58 5:57 7:56 Meni Koslowsky, Vice President 7:00 6:01 Tzfat / Bik’at HaYarden 8:04 6:52 5:55 7:55 VAAD MEMBERS: Dr. Michael Elman | Stuart Hershkowitz | Moshe 7:04 6:01 Golan 8:03 6:56 5:54 7:54 Kempinski | Sandy Kestenbaum | Harvey Wolinetz Rabbeinu Tam (J'lem) - 8:41 PM • next week - 8:33pm RABBI AVI BERMAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OU ISRAEL David Katz, CFO, OU Israel | Chaim Pelzner, Director TImes According to MyZmanim (20 min. before sundown in most cities, of Programs, OU Israel | Rabbi Sam Shor, Director 40 min. in Yerushalyim and Petach Tikva, 30 min. in Tzfat/Haifa) of Programs, OU Israel Center Rabbi Sholom Gold, Dean, Avrom Silver Jerusalem College for Adults 22 Keren HaYesod <> POB 37015 <> Jerusalem 91370 OU Kashrut NCSY Jewish Action JLIC NJCD / Yachad / Our Way OU West Coast phone: (02) 560 9100 | fax: (02) 566-0156 OU Press Synagogue/Community Services OU Advocacy OU Israel email: [email protected] MOISHE BANE, PRESIDENT OF THE ORTHODOX UNION Mitchel Aeder, Chairman of website: www.ouisrael.org the Board, Orthodox Union | Esther Williams, OU Israel Chair | Gary Torgow, Chair, OU Founders and initial benefactors of the OU Israel Kashrus Commission Center: George and Ilse Falk a"h RABBI MOSHE HAUER, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Rabbi Joshua M. 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Nor Website: www.ou.org/torah/tt | www.torahtidbits.com do we endorse the kashrut of hotels, restaurants, caterers or Cover photo: By israeltourism - https://www.flickr.com/photos/visitisrael/6180275423, CC BY 2.0, food products that are advertised in TT (except, of course, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26626207 those under OU-Israel hashgacha). Any "promises" made in Not getting enough TTs? Too many? None at all? ads are the sole responsibility of the advertisers and not that Contact our distribution 050-577-2111 • [email protected] of OU Israel, the OU Israel Center , Torah Tidbits. OU ISRAEL CENTER 3 DEAR TORAH TIDBITS FAMILY RABBI AVI BERMAN Executive Director, OU Israel One of the many aspects a 30 minute drive. The older girl/young I enjoy and appreciate about woman is 18 and preparing to start Sheurt my role as Executive Direc- Leumi (National Service), and she was tor of OU Israel is going to with her 5 year old sister. The older sister meet with people all over the was taking her younger sister along to run country (and globally) to see our programs errands in Beit Shaan, where the fami- and companies in action. Whether it be lies living in their Yishuv go for errands, taking Deputy Mayor, Foreign Relations of including the bank, post office, and larger Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum to visit grocery store. the Pearl & Harold Jacobs Zula Outreach Their family, along with most of the Center last Thursday or last Tuesday’s visit 45 families on their Yishuv, were expelled to Of Tov, the range of OU impact on Israeli from Gush Katif 16 years ago. She was society never ceases to inspire me. two years old at the time of the disengage- Last week, I received an added dose of ment, and she is one of the most passionate inspiration on my way to the Of Tov factory. speakers I have ever heard on the topic Along with two of my sons, I drove past of settling the Land of Israel. She spent Kochav Hashachar and other Yishuvim almost the entire half an hour drive try- through the Bikah. This was a breathtak- ing to convince me to move my family to ing drive which always makes me think Maskiot. She kept on pointing out the win- about the beauty of Eretz Yisrael. As we dow and saying “we need more Jews to were passing by a Yishuv called Maskiot, move here”.... “and here.” my boys and I saw two girls standing at the I asked her about schooling, and she entrance waiting for a tremp. They were told me that they have a bus take them to on a road not many people drive by, and school in Yerushalayim. This is a 1.5 hour we wanted to help them. bus ride each way. When I asked her if that They were waiting for someone to stop was hard, she replied simply and to the and give them a ride to Beit Shaan, the point, “It’s a small price to pay for Yishuv nearest city to their Yishuv, and we were Eretz Yisrael.” Wow.
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