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י"ג אלול תשפ"א ISSUE 1433 AUG 21ST '21 פרשת כי תצא PARSHAT KI TEITZE PIRKEI AVOT 1 - 2

Aliya By Aliya Sedra Summary Rabbi Reuven Tradburks Director of RCA Israel Region page 6

כי תחבט זיתך לא תפאר A Good Offense אחריך לגר ליתום Rabbi Yosef Ginsberg Co-Regional Director, ולאלמנה יהיה NCSY Israel דברים כ"ד, פסוק כ' page 62

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“On the eve of Shabbat one should engage in teshuva for all that transpired during the previous week…” (Orot HaTeshuva 14:33)

The arrival of Shabbat awakens us to our higher selves and our truest yearnings. As Rav Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook taught, “When a person forgets the nature of his essential soul, when he distracts himself from looking at the core of his inner life, then everything becomes confused…” (Orot HaTeshuva 15:10). Shabbat gives us a new perspective on the week.

This insight is reminiscent of a wonderful Chassidic tale which relates the unique practice, every Friday afternoon, of the Chassidic master, Reb Elimelech of Lizensk zt”l:

As the sun would begin to set the Rebbe would enter the kitchen and ask each member of the kitchen staff for forgiveness if he had erred by not being sufficiently sensitive to them over the past week. The Rebbe would then go and gather his family members; his wife and his children. With tears in his eyes he would ask each of them for forgiveness. With this deed the Rebbe would bring back a wholeness that was lost during the week.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dear Torah Tidbits Family Simchat Shmuel 04Rabbi Avi Berman 42Rabbi Sam Shor Aliya By Aliya Sedra Summary When “Minor” is “Major” 06Rabbi Reuven Tradburks 44Menachem Persoff And the Winner Is... Potted Plants during Shemitah Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb 12 Rabbi Ezra Friedman Against Hate 46 16Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l The Y- Files- Weekly Comic for Kids Netanel Epstein Probing The Prophets 48 22Rabbi Nachman Winkler Two Kohanim Gedolim Left Us In Elul Sole for the Soul 50Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider 24Rabbi Shalom Rosner Air Conditioner Drain Pipe Parshat Ki Teitze 54Rabbi Daniel Mann Rebbetzin Shira Smiles 26 Planting Perennial Flowers Dancing Before a Donkey 56Rabbi Moshe Bloom 28Rabbi Judah Mischel וְלַמַּלְשִׁינִים OU Israel 32Schedule 58Rebbetzin Zemira Ozarowski Are You My Mother? Torah 4 Teens By Teens 40Rabbi Moshe Taragin 62Rabbi Yosef Ginsberg 2 TORAH TIDBITS 1433 / KI TEITZE CANDLE LIGHTING OTHER AND HAVDALA TIMES Z'MANIM JERUSALEM

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A few weeks ago I was HaShachar which we say every morning. - פוקח עיורים or זוקף כפופים blessed and delighted to The blessings of write about the Seudat we often take for granted that we can get Hodaya I was zoche to make up and straighten ourselves in the morn- after Baruch Hashem recov- ing and open our eyes. Having Corona and ering after having my kidney removed being exhausted and unable to smell or the week before Pesach due to a growth. taste really brought me to a greater level I shared the excitement and enthusiasm of appreciation for all the wonderful things which I felt in making a Seudat Hodaya. Hashem provides us with in our lives. So often in life we don’t have the oppor- This past Shabbat brought me to a new tunity or don’t take advantage of thanking level of thanking Hashem. The wonderful Hashem. I felt truly blessed to have the Shabbat food my wife makes suddenly chance to make this Seudat Hodaya and had very little flavor. The Besamim during thank Hakadosh Baruch Hu for my health. Havdalah had no smell. This reminds me of Since my operation, I have had a dra- the example of a papercut - we don’t appre- matic change in my kavanah for the bracha ciate our fingers until we get a papercut of Asher Yatzar. Last week, I tested pos- and need to button our buttons using that itive for Covid-19. Having Covid helped part of the finger. me appreciate the meaning of the Birkot During this period of Corona, it is easy to become bitter and frustrated, and it is true that this past year and a half brought ברוך דיין האמת Condolences to our dear friend with it and continues to bring tremendous Rabbi Dr. Josh Joseph challenges. Yet, if we focus on the posi- (OU EVP & COO) and family tive we will realize that we have so much on the passing of his father to be thankful for. Personally, this week I was very grateful to have been vaccinated. Rabbi Howard Joseph zt"l While I had side effects, my understanding Rabbi Joseph was the longtime is that it could have been a lot worse had I Rabbi of the Spanish Portuguese not been double vaccinated. I am realizing shul in Montreal and a community how much there is to thank Hashem for, leader for many decades. and I try to share this message with others Zvi Sand, Esther Williams, Rabbi Avi Berman having a more challenging time during this & the OU Israel Family pandemic. About a week and a half ago I was המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים

4 TORAH TIDBITS 1433 / KI TEITZE sitting in my office when Refael Saaleb (OU Israel Youth Centers Regional Director, The OU Family Northern District) came in. Let me preface wishes a warm Mazel Tov to that I have very limited information about שליט"א the security situation from my son who is Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon sitting with his tank at the Lebanese border on his appointment as (obviously he can’t share details for secu- Head Rabbi of the rity reasons). Refael lives in Kiryat Shmona Gush Etzion Regional Council and does an incredible job overseeing all Rav Rimon is a longstanding of our Youth Centers in the North. His goal OU guest lecturer and partner, and we is to constantly do more for Klal Yisrael, look forward to Bezrat Hashem continuing and he’s had all of his shirts embroidered to work together for many more years. with the OU Israel Youth Centers logo - a Moishe Bane, President, OU literal walking ad indicating to everyone Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Executive Vice President, OU that he and OU Israel are here to help their Zvi Sand, President, OU Israel communities. Esther Williams, OU Israel Chair Rabbi Avi Berman, Executive Director, OU Israel Refael shared: They’re not talking about this on the news, but I want you to know the following. I live in Kiryat Shmona, and Kiryat Shmona is packed with tourists and visitors on their way to other cities further IDF, the most incredible soldiers in the north. The Hezbollah missile which hit world, and state of the art technology. But, Kiryat Shmona literally hit meters away at the end of the day we have to recognize from three places that were packed with that everything comes from Hashem. people. By the time you read this I will B’ezrat This is an open miracle (just like I Hashem be out of bidud, and I have a tre- realized this past week that smelling and mendous amount of Hakarat HaTov which tasting are also miracles from Hashem). I hope I am able to share with each of you. So often, whether for security or other rea- On that note, I want to utilize this column sons, news like this is not told. Yet, it is an to thank the incredible OU Israel staff for important reminder to give endless thanks working tirelessly throughout Covid (and to Hakadosh Baruch Hu - on the blessings the decades before that) literally saving we know about, things we usually take for Jewish neshamot. I pray that we will be granted, and blessings we don’t even real- zoche to continue to inspire Klal Yisrael ize He does for us every day. together for many more decades. כי תצא למלחמה על“ This Shabbat we read Before we even start .”אויבך ונתנו ה’ אלקיך בידך the battle, we know that Hashem is with Avi, us. G-d allows us to win. This is a constant Executive Director, OU Israel reminder that, yes, we have an incredible [email protected]

OU ISRAEL CENTER 5 to the foundations of our Nation; the judi- KI TEITZEI ciary, the executive and the legislature. And KI TEITZE now in Ki Teitzei, he focuses on personal mitzvot. Nation building requires govern- ment, courts and checks and balances. But ALIYA-BY-ALIYA government does not make a great nation; SEDRA SUMMARY it regulates behavior within certain broad frameworks. Greatness will lie in the day to Rabbi Reuven day life of the people; how they treat each Tradburks other, help each other, what they say and Director of what they give, how they live with kind- RCA Israel Region ness and generosity in day to day life. That is where the greatness of the Jewish nation The Parsha contains 74 mitzvot, the most of will lie. Perhaps said differently: Parshat any parsha in our Torah. It is the third of Shoftim will produce headlines. The court the parshiot of Mitzvot; Ekev, Shoftim and system, the king, the wars. Now those make Ki Teitzei. Moshe began his long address in good headlines. Parshat Ki Teitzei will never Sefer Devarim with narrative, reviewing the make the headlines: returning a lost object, central experiences of the desert and their paying wages promptly, healthy relation- lessons; his intent was to help the entry into ships in marriage. Regard for others doesn’t the Land be successful. He then switched to make headlines, but it makes great nations. speaking not about entering the Land, but on how to live in the Land; the building of the 1st aliya (Devarim 21:10-21) Cap- Jewish nation. In the Parshiot of Ekev and tive Woman: One may not marry Shoftim, he outlined Jewish National society a woman captured in war until 30 beautifully. It is to be an ethical monothe- days have elapsed and the passion subsided. istic society; hence, he outlined the laws of First born: The rights of the first born to a avoiding idol worship, the centrality of what double portion shall not be diverted to the would be Jerusalem and laws of generosity, first born of a more favoured wife. Ben of sharing with others. He then moved on Sorer Umoreh: a boy entering adulthood from the principles of ethical monotheism who is brazen and gluttonous shall be Keren Malki empowers judged on the fear of future more egregious families of children behaviour. with special needs in Israel to choose home The soldier is able to marry the non-Jewish care. Donations are woman captured in war; but only after a tax-approved in Israel, US and UK. month of seeing her daily in an unkempt Honoring the memory of manner. But what is left unsaid is far more important: war is accompanied by rape and הי”ד Malka Chana Roth kerenmalki.org 1985-2001, killed in the pillage of women. Women are viewed as the 02-567-0602 Sbarro bombing. spoils of war. Not in the Jewish army. The

6 TORAH TIDBITS 1433 / KI TEITZE discussing how to continue to operate the permission granted to marry this non-Jew- Zula when the teenagers aren’t always איזהו חכם? הרואה את הנולד ish woman after a month screams out the interested in compiling with corona far more basic war ethic: war should never Who is wise? He who foresees the future. פרקי wearingאבות ב',ט'guidelines, such as not properly ever be seen by the Jewish army as license their masks. Due to Corona, the Zula is for abuse of women. operating outside its usual location on 2nd aliya (21:22-22:7) Burial: Do Yaffo Street since we cannot be inside. not allow the body of one sen- The cold in Yerushalayim was frigid, and tenced to death to be hung. He is my hands remained in my pockets while to be buried immediately. Returning Lost I shuffled my body to try and stay warm. Property: Don’t look away from lost prop- Yet,Ashkelon a few metersProperties’ in frontnew sea-view of me our project Zula erty; return it to its owner. Help up an overly counselors were strumming their guitars Fabulous 4,5 and 6 room sea-view burdened animal who has buckled; don’t andap sittingartmen tcalmlys...20% as d otheywn. .listened.selling f atos t the look away. Do not cross dress. Send a youthBest lunburdenocation op pthemselves.osite the Ma rTheyina, a nwered mother bird away before taking the eggs or seeingclose ttheo s hupotentialls and th e inve rthesey best bkidseac heands. chicks. watering them with acceptance and love Ashke on Properties because they know that they will be the Look at the implied ethic. A person sen- LIVE OPPOSITE THE SEA call David at 054-433-2621 tenced to death has committed the most future blossoming leaders of the Jewish people. [email protected] serious of sins. Nonetheless, human beings www.ashkelonproperties.com 36 DAY never lose the right to dignity. Even one sentenced to death is a human being; their body is not to be left hanging, but to be bur- DECLUTTER CHALLENGE ied immediately. Human beings may sully Avi their dignity by terrible crimes deserving of Executive Director, OU Israel death; but they never forfeit their essential human dignity. Save a Life - Gain yours A further implied ethic is contained in the 1 of 78,424 Finally declutter return of lost property. Legal ethics can only EFRAT AND get organized regulate that I do not damage your property. www.efrat.org.il 02-5454500 But Jewish ethics mandates that we go much JOIN TODAY! further; I need to jump to help your prop- erty. There can be no passive bystanders; we need to jump to save lives of others and property of others. STARTS FEB 14, 2021 3rd aliya (22:8-23:7) Build a fence on a roof to prevent accidents. Do not: plant vines and grain רפואה שלמה together, plow with ox and mules together, יהודה מאיר בן יקירה wear wool and linen together. A man shall

OU ISRAEL CENTER 7 OU ISRAEL CENTER 5 not: slander a new bride claiming her not becomes meaningful, an expression of to be a virgin, nor commit adultery with a loyalty to our Creator and His love of us by married woman, nor with a betrothed bride, commanding us. nor rape a single woman. One may not 4th aliya (23:8-23:24) One may marry a mamzer, nor a male from Amon or marry one from Edom or Egypt. Moav. Military encampments shall be In this aliya we have mitzvot about the most treated with a degree of cleanliness; bath- basic of daily life: our homes, our fields or room facilities shall be outside the camp. livelihood, our clothes and our relationships Since G-d’s presence goes with you, your with our partners. Each one of these regu- camp has holiness. Shelter a runaway slave. lates the basic aspects of our lives. In this Do not engage in prostitution, nor accept its lies the profound meaning of this parsha. gains as offerings. Do not exact loan inter- The Torah infuses our lives with meaning. est. Do that which you vow; do not delay its Our relationships, our homes, our food, our fulfilment. clothes; all these things take on meaning The charging of interest on a loan is not when regulated by mitzvot. Rav Soloveit- permitted. This is a Torah legislated type of chik called this redemption, or geula; man’s welfare. When a person is in trouble and mundane life is redeemed from vulgar- needs a loan, he is vulnerable to loan shark- ity and emptiness by mitzvot. Suddenly, ing. If he needs money and is desperate, the trite and trivial, the banal life we live what better recipe for milking him for all he is worth. The Torah forbids the preying on misfortune. Find another way to profit; not off the misfortune of others.

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8 TORAH TIDBITS 1433 / KI TEITZE not return to remarry the first husband.

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6th aliya (24:5-13) First year mar- riage: Do not go to war in the first year of marriage: bring joy to the new bride. Kidnapping is a capital offense. Remember Miriam’s Tzara’at and keep its laws. Collateral may be taken, but only with the owner’s cooperation. If the owner needs this collateral, return it to him nightly. We will mark the 5th yahrzeit of our dear husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather Rabbi Joel Litke z"l on Sunday evening, Aug. 29 כא' אלול We will meet at the main parking lot in Har Hamenuchot at 6:00pm פרקי תהילים ותפילת מנחה Litke, Sorotzkin and Gruner Families

OU ISRAEL CENTER 9 If I lend you money and am concerned that justice, of kindness, of lashes, of levirate you will not pay me back, I may secure my marriage, of honesty in business and of loan with collateral. That makes sense. But Amalek. What was Moshe thinking when he the granting of collateral, while fair, should put these all together? Rav Moshe Taragin be fair to the borrower as well. Monetary once commented that the lack of cogent laws are all the balancing of conflicting inter- flow to the poetry of Shir haShirim could be ests. Benefitting the lender, disadvantages explained as a flow of consciousness. Writ- the borrower. And benefitting the borrower, ers often think clearly about the order of has a cost to the lender. The Torah alerts us their thoughts. Thinkers do not. Our minds to be sensitive in all monetary dealings; an fly around, thinking of our work, then action that benefits one, hurts the other. Bal- about people, then whether we are staying ancing the needs of both is the message of focused, then to our families, then vacation, the rules of the taking of collateral. then our work again, then meaning of life, then…Our minds do not move from 1 to 2 7th aliya (24:14-25:16) Do not with- then to 3. Our minds move from 1 to 10 to 5 to hold wages: workers are to be 7. Our minds are dynamic, moving quickly, paid before the end of the day. Do one moment happy, one sad, one excited, not pervert justice of the foreigner or the next tired. Perhaps Moshe is reflect- widow. When harvesting grain, olives or ing that here. In relating mitzvot, Moshe’s grapes, leave the dropped produce for the mind is moving in a flow of consciousness. needy. No more than 40 lashes shall ever be He wants to cover mitzvot in all aspects of given. Yibum: a brother shall marry the our life. And so his mind flies through the childless widow of his brother and hence myriad parts of our lives. Our lives include maintain his name. Maintain only accurate homes and relationships and work and war weights and measures. Remember what and honesty and keeping our word and pay- Amalek did to you in attacking the weak ing our workers….and on and on. Moshe is when you left Egypt. Erase any memory of describing our life. And telling us that in all him. aspects of our lives we have mitzvot; ways to In one aliya we have mitzvot of wages, of do things nobly and with holiness. And that

BY RABBI CHANOCH YERES A SHORT VORT Rav, Beit Knesset Beit Yisrael, Yemin Moshe

“Zachor Et Asher Asa Lecha Amalek” (Devarim 25:17) “Remember forever what Amalek did to you when you left Mitzrayim.” The entire final paragraph of the Parsha that refers to Amalek was written as though it was speaking to a single individual. Why in a single fashion and not in the plural to all of us as a nation? Rabbi Simcha Bunim from Pshischa (1765-1827) explains this as a formidable message to all of us that Amalek was only able to overcome those people who were disengaged and who felt separate from the nation. However, the others who were united and identified with the Jewish people were invulnerable. The lesson, well learned, Amalek or any threat cannot penetrate against us if we are all united in our observance and dedication to G-d. Shabbat Shalom

10 TORAH TIDBITS 1433 / KI TEITZE there is nary a part of life void of mitzvot. It is this richness of behavior in our personal life that is truly the necessary ingredient of nation building. e ce is lik a work r fa of u ar HAFTORAH Yo t YESHAYAHU 54:1-10

This week’s haftorah is the fifth of a series of seven “Haftarot of Consolation.” These seven haftarot commence on the Shabbat It deserves a beautiful frame following Tisha b’Av and continue until Rosh Hashanah. Professional Optometrists Eye exams/ Contact lens ttings The navi compares the city of Jerusalem Multifocal specialists -- to a barren woman devoid of children. your satisfaction guaranteed Hashem enjoins her to rejoice, for the time ARNONA/TALPIOT - will arrive when the Jewish nation will Beit Hanatziv, Derech Hevron 101A return and repopulate the Holy City. The RAMAT ESHKOL Shopping Center (Above Waffle Bar) prophet promises the Jewish people that (02) 674-3888 Hashem has not forsaken them. Although at times Hashem hides His countenance He will certainly gather them from the galut with great mercy.

“For like the waters of Noach shall this be for Me: As I have sworn never again to pass the waters of Noach over the earth, so have I sworn not to be wrathful with you or rebuke you.”

STATS

49th of the 54 sedras; 6th of 11 in D’varim Written on 212.8 lines; ranks 21st 44 Parshiyot; 2 open, 42 closed; rank: 1 110 p’sukim; ranks 28th (5th in D’varim) 1582 words; ranks 23rd (5th in D’varim) 5856 letters; ranks 26th (6th in D’varim)

MITZVOT

74 mitzvot - 27 positive, 47 prohibitions; Ki Teitzei has the most mitzvot (both positive and prohibitions) in the Torah

OU ISRAEL CENTER 11 BY RABBI DR. TZVI HERSH WEINREB THE PERSON OU Executive Vice President, Emeritus IN THE PARSHA

Instead of offering my own ideas about this And the issue, I told them that I would challenge the entire congregation to find relevance in Winner Is... some of the passages of that week’s parsha, which happened to have been Ki Tetzei. They t was the first time that I announced felt excited to be in on what they viewed as a contest from the pulpit. It felt like a a conspiracy, the planning of a sermon in Irisky thing to do, and probably was. But which the rabbi would turn the table on the it worked, and I tried it several times over members of the congregation and require a the ensuing years. response from them.

It was on the occasion of this week’s Torah I stood up that Saturday morning and began portion, Parshat Ki Tetzei, but it was many, by quoting the following verse: “If you see many years ago. What prompted me to your fellow’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, launch the contest with confidence was a do not ignore it; you must help him raise discussion I had one Friday morning with it.” (Deuteronomy 22:4) Rashi, following the a group of teenagers. They were frustrated explanation of the Talmud, understands this by the fact that they could find little rele- to mean that if the donkey’s pack falls off his vance in many of the biblical passages that back you must help your friend replace it we were studying. So many of these pas- there. This is the mitzvah known as te’inah, sages seemed to be speaking of events and or uploading. circumstances that were unrelated to those I challenged the audience with the follow- prevalent in the lives of these teens. ing question: “Of what possible relevance is May the Torah learned from this placing a fallen burden back on a donkey to issue of Torah Tidbits be in loving us in our daily lives? When is the last time memory of my beloved mother you met a donkey or an ox on the road, with ”?or without a sack on the ground beside it רייזל בת שלמה צבי ע"ה Raizel Byer nee Batshaw a"h I then asked the audience to take out their beloved wife, mother, grandmother Chumashim, their Bibles, and turned back and great-grandmother to a passage we had studied together during on her 36th yahrzeit the previous winter in the Torah portion of Mishpatim. There we read, “When you see Shulamit Tyberg-Isaacs the donkey of your enemy lying under its

12 TORAH TIDBITS 1433 / KI TEITZE burden and would otherwise refrain from helping him, you must nevertheless help him.” (Exodus 23:5)

Rashi, again following the Talmud, sees this as the mitzvah of perikah, of helping to unload the donkey of its burden, and help- ing even one’s enemy in the process. “Now I understand,” I argued to the audience, “that the lesson of helping one’s enemy may be a relevant, if unpopular, one. But unloading a donkey? When was the last time anyone here did that?”

Then I announced the contest. “I am not going to provide my own suggestions to answer these questions,” I said. “Rather, we The Freedom of Mobility are going to have a contest in which each Even on Shabbat! of you can write your own answers to these Meet the world’s best folding questions.” mobility scooter – approved for Shabbat use by the Zomet institute I had done some preliminary work before Shabbat and enlisted two well-respected members of the synagogue to serve along with me on a panel of judges to evaluate the submissions and to decide upon the top three responses.

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OU ISRAEL CENTER 13 would have to choose between the mitz- lighten the weight that they feel. That’s per- vot of uploading and unloading, between ikah. And then there are those whom one te’inah and perikah. must encourage to ‘upload’ the packs on their backs and to ‘keep on truckin,’ to get The Talmud describes the dilemma of the back on the road, and to get on with their person who encounters not one, but two, lives. That’s te’inah.” donkeys. One donkey has its fallen cargo on the ground next to it; the other is bent under Our panel of judges was in for a surprise its burden. You have time for only one don- when it came to the contestant who won key. Which one do you attend to? the grand prize. Of all the many members of the synagogue, it was the aging cantor who The Talmud answers that your priority is was clearly the winner. We all knew that to unload the overburdened donkey. The his voice was far from what it once was and Jewish value of tza’ar ba’alei chayim, sensi- that he had trouble reaching the high notes tivity to the suffering of animals, trumps the as well as the lowest notes on the musical mitzvah of te’inah. “Surely teaching about scale. But we kept him on, and indeed cher- the need to avoid cruelty to animals is a rel- ished him, for his genuine piety and sincere evant lesson,” argued the budding Talmudic humanity. scholar. “Whenever I stand in front of the congrega- The runner up, number two in the contest, tion,” he said, “and anticipate the difficulty I was our local psychologist. “Every day,” he am about to have in reaching the high notes, asserted, “I help to unload peoples’ bur- I appreciate those of you who sing and chant dens. I try to listen to them and to somehow along with me and help me achieve those high notes. You uplift me. When you do that, On the first yahretzeit of our beloved you fulfill themitzvah of te’inah. And as I fal- husband, father, grandfather ter in trying to descend the musical ladder and great-grandfather to those lower notes, and you, the congrega- Rabbi Marvin B. Pachino z”l tion, come to my aid with your voices, you help lower my burden, and you perform the הרב משה בער בן אברהם אבא ז"ל .mitzvah of perikah י' אלול A short Zoom Shiur will be We are told that there are seventy facets presented by Akiva Rappaport to the Torah. We had about seventy contri- on Sunday, August 22nd at 8:30pm butions to our contest that Shabbat. I have (1:30pm EST) shared only the top three with you, dear Link: https://bit.ly/3AFx1HF reader, and challenge you to come up with others on your own. Meeting ID: 822 7976 4361 Passcode: 431147 Shabbat afternoon Parsha shiur with Rabbi Chanoch Yeres at 5:00pm in the Pachino, Alper, Kurtz and Rappaport Families back garden of the OU Israel Center

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OU ISRAEL CENTER 15 Thoughts on the Weekly Parsha from COVENANT & RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS ZT"L Former Chief Rabbi of the CONVERSATION United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth

לעילוי נשמת May the learning of these Divrei Torah be HaRav Ya'akov Zvi ben David Arieh zt"l

any other nation on earth. Therefore, we לעילוי נשמות should be doubly careful never to be guilty פנחס בן יעקב אשר וגולדה בת ישראל דוד אייז ע״ה -of it ourselves. We believe that God cre עזריאל בן אריה לייב ומעניה בת יצחק שרטר ע״ה ated each of us, regardless of colour, class, Dedicated by culture or creed, in His image. If we look Dr. Robert Sreter DDS., M.S. down on other people because of their race, then we are demeaning God’s image and failing to respect kavod ha-briyot, Against Hate human dignity. If we think less of a person because of i Teitse contains more laws the colour of their skin, we are repeating than any other parsha in the the sin of Aaron and Miriam – “Miriam and Torah, and it is possible to be K Aaron spoke against Moses because of the overwhelmed by this embarrass de rich- Cushite woman whom he had married, for esse of detail. One verse, however, stands he had married a Cushite woman” (Num. out by its sheer counter-intuitiveness: 12:1). There are midrashic interpretations Do not despise an Edomite, because he that read this passage differently, but the is your brother. Do not despise the Egyp- plain sense is that they looked down on tian, because you were a stranger in his Moses’ wife because, like Cushite women land. (Deut. 23:8) generally, she had dark skin, making this These are very unexpected commands. one of the first recorded instances of Examining and understanding them will colour prejudice. For this sin Miriam was teach us an important lesson about society struck with leprosy. in general, and leadership in particular. Instead we should remember the lovely First, a broader point. Jews have been line from Song of Songs: “I am black but subjected to racism more and longer than beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like Many thanks to the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Sol- omon. Do not stare at me because I am Ruby & Rabbi Jay Karzen dark, because the sun has looked upon me” for their longtime distribution efforts (Song of Songs 1:5). on behalf of TT Jews cannot complain that others have

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OU ISRAEL CENTER 17 time of famine. They had honoured Joseph have taken the Israelites out of Egypt but when he was elevated as second-in-com- would have failed to take Egypt out of the mand to Pharaoh. The evils they committed Israelites. They would have continued to against the Hebrews under “a new King be slaves, not physically but psycholog- who did not know of Joseph” (Ex. 1:8) were ically. They would be slaves to the past, at the instigation of Pharaoh himself, not held captive by the chains of resentment, the people as a whole. Besides which, it was unable to build the future. To be free, you the daughter of that same Pharaoh who have to let go of hate. That is a difficult truth had rescued Moses and adopted him. but a necessary one. The Torah makes a clear distinction No less surprising is Moses’ insistence: between the Egyptians and the Amalekites. “Do not despise an Edomite, because he The latter were destined to be perennial is your brother.” Edom was, of course, enemies of Israel, but the former were the other name of Esau. There was a time not. In a later age, Isaiah would make a when Esau hated Jacob and vowed to kill remarkable prophecy - that a day would him. Besides which, before the twins were come when the Egyptians would suffer born, Rebecca received an oracle telling their own oppression. They would cry out her, “Two nations are in your womb, and to God, who would rescue them just as He two peoples from within you will be sepa- had rescued the Israelites: rated; one people will be stronger than the When they cry out to the Lord because other, and the elder will serve the younger.” of their oppressors, He will send them a (Gen. 25:23) Whatever these words mean, saviour and defender, and He will res- they seem to imply that there will be eter- cue them. So the Lord will make Himself nal conflict between the two brothers and known to the Egyptians, and in that day their descendants. they will acknowledge the Lord. (Isaiah At a much later age, during the Second 19:20-21) Temple period, the Prophet Malachi said: The wisdom of Moses’ command not “’Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?’ declares to despise Egyptians still shines through the Lord. ‘Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau today. If the people had continued to hate I have hated...” (Malachi 1:2-3). Centuries their erstwhile oppressors, Moses would later still, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said,

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OU ISRAEL CENTER 19 “It is a halachah [rule, law, inescapable especially between family, is not eternal truth] that Esau hates Jacob.”2 Why then and inexorable. Always be ready, Moses does Moses tell us not to despise Esau’s seems to have implied, for reconciliation descendants? between enemies. The answer is simple. Esau may hate Contemporary Games Theory – the Jacob, but it does not follow that Jacob should study of decision making - suggests the hate Esau. To answer hate with hate is to same. Martin Nowak’s programme “Gen- be dragged down to the level of your oppo- erous Tit-for-Tat” is a winning strategy nent. When, in the course of a television in the scenario known as the Iterated programme, I asked Judea Pearl, father of Prisoner’s Dilemma, an example created the murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, why for the study of cooperation of two indi- he was working for reconciliation between viduals. Tit-for-Tat says: start by being Jews and Muslims, he replied with heart- nice to your opponent, then do to them breaking lucidity, “Hate killed my son. what they do to you (in Hebrew, middah Therefore I am determined to fight hate.” keneged middah). Generous Tit-for-Tat As Martin Luther King Jr, wrote, “Darkness says, don’t always do to they what they cannot drive out darkness; only light can do do to you, for you may found yourself that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love locked into a mutually destructive cycle can do that.”3 Or as Kohelet said, there is “a of retaliation. Every so often ignore (i.e. time to love and a time to hate, a time for forgive) your opponent’s last harmful war and a time for peace” (Eccl. 3:8). move. That, roughly speaking, is what It was none other than Rabbi Shimon the Sages meant when they said that bar Yochai who said that when Esau met God originally created the world under Jacob for the last time, he kissed and the attribute of strict justice but saw that embraced him “with a full heart.”4 Hate, it could not survive through this alone. Therefore He built into it the principle of 2 Sifrei, Bamidbar, Beha’alotecha, 69. compassion.5 3 Strength to Love (Minneapolis, Minn.: Moses’ two commands against hate are Fortress Press, 1977), 53. testimony to his greatness as a leader. It is 4 Sifrei ad loc. the easiest thing in the world to become a leader by mobilising the forces of hate. That is what Radovan Karadzic and Religious Slobodan Milosevic did in the former Yugo- Caregiver slavia and it led to mass murder and ethnic cleansing. It is what the state-controlled Car owner media did – describing Tutsis as inyenzi, (“cockroaches”) – before the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It is what dozens of preachers

5 See Rashi to Genesis 1:1, s.v. bara.

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still- what significance does a shoe foster Sole for the in this scenario? The Malbum expresses a fascinating idea Soul in Megillas Ruth. When Ruth appears next to Boaz at night twice we are told that she ne of the most curious mitzvos that ;Ruth 3: 8) .שכבת מרגלותיו ”is next to his “feet appears in this week’s parsha is the 14). This is to highlight that he has a choice mitzva of halitza. This is connected O to either fulfil his yibum requirement, or to the mitzva of yibum. When a deceased is halitza, with his shoes. The Malbim then childless, his brother is obligated to marry explains the significance that shoes portray the widow and bear a child in order to carry in connection with the childless deceased. on the name of the deceased. If the surviv- The body serves a “shoe” or encasement for ing brother is not interested in marrying the soul, as shoes do for one’s foot. The sole the widow (his sister-in-law), then the hal- of the shoe to one’s foot is symbolic of the itza ceremony is conducted. The surviving body to the soul. One’s spiritual soul cannot brother’s shoe is removed and his sister- walk this earth absent a body in which to in-law spits in the shoe and it is declared be housed, as an individual cannot walk a “ככה יעשה לאיש אשר לא יבנה את בית אחיו. ויקרא שמו rough terrain without shoes. By not marry- בישראל בית חלוץ הנעל” ing the widow and bringing forth a child, “Thus shall be done to the man who will not the brother is essentially ceasing to provide build up his brother’s household! And that an encasement for his deceased brother’s family shall be called in Israel, “The fam- soul to perpetuate. That is why we remove ily of the one whose shoe was removed.” his shoe to underscore the act he is in fact (Devarim 25: 9-10).

What is the connection between not carry- ing on the name of one’s deceased brother and shoes? The family is now known as “the one whose shoe was removed”. Bor- rowing a cilche from a well-known shoe manufacturer – “Just do it”. Perhaps the Torah is seeking to encourage us to fulfil the yibum imperative and avoid the embar- rassment of the halitza ceremony. But

24 TORAH TIDBITS 1433 / KI TEITZE committing by preventing a body for his using the animal kingdom and everything brother’s soul. else to serve HaKadosh Barukh Hu. There- fore, when we enter a holy place, where Perhaps that is why when Hashem speaks to we don’t have dominion, we take off our Moshe he instructs him to remove his shoes shoes. We do not have authority in a holy when one encounters God – של נעלך מעל רגלך place. There, we acknowledge that we are he must remove his shoes, symbolizing not on top. the release of an enclosure of his soul, to enable his spirituality to run freely. Perhaps we can extend this concept to hal- itza as well. We make a choice not to engage We have previously referenced another in yibum. By removing one’s shoe in hal- idea with respect to shoes that perhaps itza, it is symbolizing that although one can is relevant here as well. See Shalom Rav make the choice not to continue his broth- Vol page 290. The Kuzari explains that er’s name, ultimately, it is Hashem who there are four levels of being in this world: makes such decisions, and so we remove domem (inanimate), tzome’ah (plants), hai our shoes to symbolize God’s power to fulfil (animals), and medaber (people, humans). the deceased memory absent the coopera- Humans are at the top of this pyramid, tion of his brother. which signifies that everything under us was created for our use, to help us serve As the Yamim Noraim are approaching, we HaKadosh Barukh Hu. We are the chosen can connect these ideas to Yom Kippur. On ones of the creations. Yom Kippur we do not wear shoes, because it is a day when we are in the presence of What action symbolizes our rulership HaKadosh Barukh Hu. It is a day on which over animals, the item below humans in we are to remove all obstructions and the pyramid? Wearing leather shoes, and enable our spirituality to escalate. May trampling on animal hide with each step we be able to prepare properly so that we we take. That act is a symbol of our domin- experience the sanctity of this special day ion and authority over everything in the and remove all barriers so our neshama world. When we take leather to make our and ruchniyus can indeed achieve great shoes, we are showing clearly that we are heights.

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orever seems like a very long time, because we sojourned in their land. Imag- yet a Moavite or Amonite is forever ine! The same Egyptians who tortured Fforbidden from marrying into the us, who threw our babies into the Nile! Jewish people. The Torah cites the follow- Nevertheless, our interactions with them ing reasons: Moav and Amon hired Bilam must appropriately reflect our apprecia- to curse the Jews and did not offer us bread tion for their hospitality. Although they and water when we passed through their themselves forgot the kindness of Yosef land. Does this sanction not sound a bit Hatzadik, we can never forget that they harsh; is there no way for these people to gave us a place to stay. Notes Rav Ezrachi, right their wrong? the contrast imparts a powerful lesson in Torah middot. Ramban explains that Amon and Moav, the children of Lot, should have felt gratitude One underpinning of a thankless attitude for all that Avraham Avinu had done for is the desire to live without being bothered, their father. Avraham rescued Lot from the observes Rav Goldstein in Sha’are Chayim. four kings and it was in Avraham’s zechut When one ignores his surroundings and that Lot and his daughters escaped the is complacent within his own sphere, he destruction of Sedom. A nation that lacks loses opportunities to express thanks. We this basic human attribute may not join are all guilty of this as we are continually with our people. Rav Yerucham Levovitz, surrounded by the endless beneficence of in Da’at Torah points out that every nation Hashem’s bounty, yet at times we neglect has intrinsic characteristics that are passed to convey our recognition of this infinite down from one generation to the next. blessing. Chodesh Elul is a fitting time to Jews for example, are known for being notice and appreciate the goodness and bayshanim, rachmanim, and gomlei chasa- grace that Hashem showers upon us as well dim. Therefore these two nations cannot as the generosity that others share with mix with ours as their nature is antithetical us. Elul is a wonderful time to pick up the to our essence. phone or send a quick message to someone thanking them for a kindness done. Thus, The middah of hakarat hatov, explains Rav we can approach the Yamim Noraim with Ezrachi in Birkat Mordechai, is a funda- feelings of appreciativeness and grateful- mental middah of the universe. Kindness ness for HaShem’s boundless mercy and is not something to be ignored. Indeed a commit ourselves to use our blessings for little further in the parashah we find the the good of others. prohibition against oppressing an Egyptian

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and one of the two horses pulling their Dedicated L'Iluy Nishmas HaChaver wagon died suddenly. As the load was too Shlomo Michael ben Meir z'l heavy for the second horse to pull alone, the wagon driver walked ahead to the nearest village in search of another horse. Dancing After a long while, the driver returned with... a donkey. Seeing the animal, Rav Before a Nosson’s face lit up with excitement and he quickly alighted from the wagon. Land- Donkey ing in the deep snow, the gadol ha-dor began dancing around the donkey, clap- he great gaon and Kabbalist, Rav ping with intent and full of joy. Nosson haKohen Adler, zy’a, known The Chasam Sofer was baffled. “Rebbe, as the Nesher HaGadol, ‘the Great T what has gotten into you? What is so excit- Eagle’), was a legendary tzadik. Among his ing about a donkey?” closest talmidim was the Chasam Sofer, Rebbe Moshe Sofer. The Chasam Sofer Rav Nosson, zt’l, smiled ear to ear. Our was so deeply connected to his illustrious baal agalah unwittingly has provided us Rebbe that when Rav Nosson was niftar, he with an opportunity that I never dreamed appeared to his talmid in a dream vision I’d merit while sitting in my study in as a sefer Torah draped in black. Frankfurt! Torah instructs us against the issur of k’layim, the commandment to not One winter, while the two tzadikim were crossbreed, bind two species of animals travelling together, they hit an icy patch,

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OU ISRAEL CENTER 29 ox — a stronger animal by nature — would and awareness of the needs of others. bear the primary burden of schlepping the Among the topics and directives in our load. Being harnessed and yoked together sedra this week are the obligations of an would potentially cause discomfort or owner toward his slaves and property, as harm to the less powerful donkey. well as the obligations of a soldier toward a woman captured in battle. We are Rav Yaakov ben Asher, the Baal haTurim, instructed to ensure the wellbeing of the draws an additional meaningful lesson poor and displaced, and to provide access from the law forbidding the pairing of a to food to those who lack. donkey, a non-kosher animal, with an ox, a kosher animal. This is because the ox We are commanded to not withhold the chews its cud, giving the appearance that wages of a day laborer, and to treat debtors it is constantly eating, while the donkey respectfully, collecting what is owed with- does not have access to food while yoked. out pressure or intimidation. Our sedra The Baal haTurim suggests that the Torah reminds us to always remain focused on is exhibiting concern for the donkey, who those who are struggling or may be in need might look over at the ox he is paired with of support, including widows and orphans. and experience some measure of pain or And once again, we are reminded to love jealousy, so to speak. our brothers and sisters, those holy souls who have joined Am Yisrael as converts. Beyond the literal interpretations of these laws pertaining to agriculture, clothing What more appropriate way for us to pre- and animal husbandry, their spirit sensi- pare for the new year, than by reasserting tizes us to the world around us. If we are our commitment to mutual responsibility to be aware and careful of the needs and and drawing close to each other by strength- perceived feelings of our animals, how ening our bonds of community. much more so must we be attuned to our When we live in rhythm with the ratzon neighbors and friends. Thus, when we Hashem, and recognize the elevated life revisit Parshas Ki Teitze each year during we can attain when fulfilling His will, it the days of Chodesh Elul, the Torah pres- is understandable indeed why one would ents a narrative of enhanced sensitivity want to dance before a donkey! A Yeshiva for American post high-school boys - ages 18 - 19 - located in Nachalaot neighborhood next to Shaarei Chesed is looking for a dorm Madrich.

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we were violently separated from our Geulas Yisrael mother- the Land of Israel. Our mother Are You My was anguished by this separation, moaned about her lost children, and continues to Mother? pray to Hashem for their safe return. The process of shilu’ach haken re-enacts the sad ery few mitzvot are as dramatic tragedy of Jewish Exile. Our mother Israel, as shilu’ach haken- dispatching the suffers the Exile of her children. Vmother bird prior to removing its eggs or its little chicks. Few mitzvot seem as Many nations refer to their Homeland as logical as this directive aimed at suppress- the Fatherland. For example, the Germans ing human cruelty. Excessive aggression refer to Germany as the Vaterland (father- toward animals can quickly spiral into vio- Land) – a term which fostered nationalistic lence toward human beings. There is no pride. As the Zohar implies, our Homeland denying the inherent violence of separating of Israel is depicted as our mother and not a mother bird from her children. Though our father. Jews have only one non-bio- taking eggs is absolutely necessary to sup- logical Father and it is Hashem. Our Land port human nutrition, pausing the process can’t possibly be termed father. The Land and removing the mother, tempers the of Israel is our mother, and this influences brutality and preserves a degree of human the tone and texture of our relationship compassion when it is most vulnerable. with our Land.

This iconic, common-sense mitzvah has Mothers provide basic life and basic growth a deeper layer of meaning and symbol- to their children. Once reared, children ism. The Zohar recasts this mitzvah as a advance toward impressive or remarkable metaphor for the Jewish people and their accomplishments, but it is the mother who relationship with “their mother”- the Land establishes the baseline of health and of of Israel. This portrait of baby birds repos- identity. In our religious lives, we all aspire ing peacefully in their joyful nest under toward religious excellence dreaming of the watchful eye of their mother, serves as surpassing religious accomplishments. a metaphor for the Jewish people. During However, the Land of Israel- similar to a the golden era of Jewish prosperity, our mother- provides a platform of “basic” national condition resembled this scene: religious identity. The Midrash writes that we enjoyed sovereignty and serenity in our whoever lives in Israel, speaks Hebrew , Homeland of Israel. Due to our betrayals and recites shema is ticketed toward the

40 TORAH TIDBITS 1433 / KI TEITZE next world. We all dream of religious iden- is overwhelmingly rejected and mitzvot do tity which far exceeds mere residence in possess absolute and objective value inde- Israel and Hebrew facility. However, the pendent of geography. baseline of our religious lifestyle consists of REBBETZIN SHIRA Though mitzvot can be performed out- living in our Land, speaking our language side the Land, life in Israel provides the Faculty, OU Israel Center and accepting our One God. If the founda- SMILES quiet confidence and calm that only home tion is solid, the tower will rise. Israel, as our can provide. The past year taught us how mothers do- provides that solid platform. secure and serene home feels when the on the other hand, was a person who There is a second maternal feature to the world around us is chaotic. stood strong in his values, unbending Land of Israel. Both a father and a mother Tribute to Finally, the Zohar’s story about being and resolute in his beliefs. Chazal educate their children, inculcate values teach that Chur tried to challenge the separatedthe fromTrio our mother, provides a and nurture their child’s future. Addition- people when they wanted to build the comforting tone to the harshness of Exile. ally, a mother provides something more calf and they subsequently killed him. If then Landa deeply of Israel powerful is our mother scene, andMoshe we innate and more inchoate- warmth and Rabbeinu is found with his hands Chur, a descendent of Yehudah, was a are her chicks, our exile was painful for confidence. A nursing baby doesn’t probe held high on top of the mountain person who was inflexible and strong ourI Motherland just as it was for us. We future decisions and isn’t contemplating praying for the people gripped in like a lion. Truly, a combination of both were snatched but our mother was also life and its broader values. It clings to its a raging battle with Amalek below. qualities is necessary. In interpersonal sent away. Not only were the Jews exiled mother for warmth, succor, and tender Ahron and Chur stood on either side of relationships it is wise to follow Ahron’s but the Land was also devastated. Gallut love. A mother’s love provides confidence Moshe Rabbeinu holding his hands aloft path, to compromise and make peace doesn’t only affect the Jews but also wrecks and clarity. The world around them may (Shemot 17;10). Rashi teaches that Chur whenever possible. However, in the the Jewish Homeland. For centuries, the be filled with struggle and uncertainty was the son of Moshe’s sister, Miriam. service of Hashem and reinforcing kevod Land was cursed and its fertility was sti- but, in its mother’s arms, an infant senses What more do we know about Chur? shamayim, one needs to follow Chur’s fled. Great empires which had colonized protection and comfort. The Land of Israel What is the symbolism of his joining example and be resolute in his values. the entire planet were unable to till the These two special people joined Moshe provides similar confidence and seren- with Ahron to support the hands of Land, draw its vitality, nor colonize its hill- Rabbeinu to activate the merits of these ity. Mitzvah observance and Torah study Moshe Rabbeinu? tops. The Land itself remained plagued and approaches as he implored Hashem to can be obtained outside the borders of Rabbi Roberts in Through the Prism of impassable. have mercy on His people and vanquish our Homeland. Famously, the Ramban Torah explains that Ahron and Chur Amalek, physically and spiritually. asserted that mitzvah performance in Wepersonified have finally contrasting returned tocharacter our Homeland traits. Exile is merely practice. Mitzvot don’t andAhron it has was sprung a peacemaker, to life to hewelcome constantly her possess inherent halachic meaning out- childrenlooked forhome. ways The todesert create has harmonybloomed side the Land. And are only practiced as a andamong a dormant his people. Land has Indeed, awoken hefrom was its rehearsal in preparation of our eventual scorchedready to slumbercompromise to signal his herown children values For Sale - Gorgeous apartment in Old Katamon return and the revival of actual obliga- home.to achieve Our motherthis goal, is onceas we again see happy.in the In a unique Old Arab style building - Spacious 110sqm, story of the sin of the golden calf. Chur, 4 room apartment with Sukah balcony, Shabbat tions. This striking position of the Ramban Eim habanim semeichah!! elevator, parking & large separate storage room. lots of character, excellent condition, central A/C Truly one of a kind! 5,280,000nis For Sale – Old Katamon, Negba st., 1st floor, Arab house, 4 rooms, (total about 160m), high standard of renovation, Sukkah porch, 2 full bathrooms + guest bathroom, central a/c, elevator, parking, small machsan, donated by Marion & Michael Silman asking $2,550,000 Ita Rochel 02-560-9125

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ur sedra this week, Parshat Ki ourselves, to prepare for the new year emo- Teitzei includes the instruc- tionally, it begins with safeguarding our Otion to build a fence or railing proverbial personal rooftops-clearing our around the rooftops of our home: ki tivneh minds of any inappropriate thoughts, and bayit chadash, v’asita maakeh legagecha. getting to the proper head space for that The mitzvah to affix a railing on the new beginning. We must build a symbolic roofs of our homes seems like a very fence around our minds which only lets straightforward safety instruction. How- in that which is appropriate, and protect ever, if this mitzvah is indeed solely about against outside influence. safety, why does the verse specify- ki tivneh The Netivot Shalom, the Slonimer bayit chadash- when you build a new Rebbe zy’a, suggests that this interpreta- home-Shouldn’t this mitzvah apply under tion offered by the Toldot Yaakov Yosef, is all circumstances? indeed the level of protection we need to Furthermore, why specifically on the seek as we begin to build for the new year. roof, what about other areas of potential Rabbi Moshe Wolfson, shlita, further danger, for example a steep ravine on our elaborates and suggests that all the spiritual property, or a swimming pool,etc? Might work and growth we seek to accomplish there be more to this instruction than sim- during these days of Elul and subsequent ple safety considerations? days of the Chagei Tishrei, need to be the The Chasidic Masters point out that Par- impetus for sustained spiritual growth shat Ki Teitizei is always read in Chodesh for the entire year. Each year as one year Elul. During these days of Elul, we are pre- draws to a close and we transition into the paring ourselves for Rosh HaShana. Rabbi proverbial bayit chadash- new home of the Yaakov Yosef of Polnoye, the Toldot Yaakov coming year, we need to hold tight, to build Yosef zy’a, explains that if we wish to rebuild a railing or protective fence around the growth we have hopefully achieved during Please Note: these days of Elul and Tishrei, so that we Deadline for ads over the Chagim may sustain this growth throughout the * For the Nitzavim/Rosh Hashana/Vayeileich coming year. issue - ads must be in by Sunday, August 29 Yehi Ratzon, may each of us be * For the Yom Kippur/Haazinu/Sukkot/B’reishit blessed to both ascend and grow spir- issue - ads must be in no later than Sunday, Sep. 5 itually in the days ahead, and to hold please email or call Ita Rochel strong to that growth in the year ahead. [email protected]/ 02-5609125 Shabbat Shalom.

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Of interest, the laws of lost property, When “Minor” is relief of beasts of burden, and mutual “Major” help were previously recorded in Parshat Mishpatim (e.g., Sh’mot 23:5). Notably, We know that there are Mitzvot between they referred to assisting “your enemy” or Man and God and between Man and Man. “the one you hate,” such that, according to In essence, of course, all Mitzvot fall into the Yehudah Muriel, the laws would help peo- first group, for by observing the Mitzvot that ple overcome their egoistic tendencies to bind us together and strengthen society, we desist from helping. are, in effect, fulfilling the word of God. However, in our Parshah, we are urged Moreover, created in the image of God, to assist “Achicha” – ‘your brother’ – no we are to emulate Hashem’s attributes: less than six times within four pesukim For example, as Hashem is merciful, so (Devarim 22:1-4). Following the Ohr we should be merciful. Further, when we Hachayim, “Achicha” is the highest form of consider that within our breast is a beat- connotation accorded to individuals, such ing Neshamah, we begin to appreciate that that those we help should be held in the consideration for the other is more than a highest esteem, regardless of their actual humanitarian gesture. Every act of kind- status. ness is a stepping stone to the perfection of Following the Sefer Hachinuch, the the world. seemingly “minor” Mitzvah of returning Some posit that the basic building lost property is a binding force in society. blocks of Torah observance are the “major” For knowing that our property rights are Mitzvot like Shabbat and Kashrut. But what the concern of every citizen – and that indi- of the “minor” Mitzvot in our Parsha, such viduals make a sincere effort to return lost as returning a lost object, relieving beasts items as if they were their own – raises the of burden, or desisting from using sources collective to the highest ethical and moral of a person’s living as loan collateral? heights. Perhaps our humanistic tendencies No wonder, then, that Rabbi said: “Be might have induced us to arrive at these heedful of a light precept as of a grave one laws. But we should always bear in mind, for you do not know the grant of reward for for instance, what the National Social- each precept (Pirkei Avot 2:1). ist Workers’ (NAZI) Party was capable of Shabbat Shalom! perpetrating in the name of “the common good.”

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2:10; Yerushalmi Orlah 1:2) that produce Potted Plants grown in perforated pots (atzitz nakuv) has the same laws as produce grown in the During Shemitah ground. Thus, terumot and maas’rot (tithes given to kohanim and levi’im) need to be The mitzvah of shemitah is to let the taken from produce grown in perforated land of Eretz Yisrael rest on the seventh pots, and the laws of orlah (refers to the year of every seven-year cycle. More spe- first three years of a plant’s life in which its cifically, the mitzvah extends to produce as fruit is forbidden for consumption) apply well as other areas. to the fruit. Although a non-perforated pot There are three aspects of shemitah or planter (atzitz sh’eino nakuv) is not bibli- that pertain to the land. The first aspect cally obligated in any agricultural mitzvot, prohibits working the land through the per- our Sages decreed that such containers formance of certain types of labor. These should be treated as if they were perforated are prohibited on a biblical level and others (like an atzitz nakuv). on a rabbinical level. The second aspect is Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Minchat the obligation to relinquish ownership Shlomo 41:4) explains that our Sages were of produce that grows during shemitah, concerned that if non-perforated pots have including vegetables, fruits and grains. The no halachic significance, people would third aspect relates to the proper treatment mistakenly come to consume orlah or of shemitah produce in regards to prepar- untithed produce from perforated pots as ing, eating, and discarding remainders. well, which are biblically forbidden. Conse- These three mitzvot are obligatory in the quently, they decreed that non-perforated land of Eretz Yisrael, during the shemitah pots have the same laws as perforated ones. year, on land that is owned by a Jew. While he did not rule this way in practice, The status of potted plants Rav Auerbach suggested that there is room Do these rulings equally apply to pro- to be lenient in the realm of shemitah, as duce grown in containers, or only to those opposed to orla and tithes. He bases this directly planted in the ground? on the assumption that the Sages’ decree In Talmudic literature our Sages distin- would not apply equally to outdoor plants guish between two types of planters: an in non-perforated pots during shemitah, atzitz nakuv (a perforated pot) and an atzitv since people would take more care to keep sh’eino nakuv (a non-perforated pot). They a halachah occurring only once in seven rule (Bavli Shabbat 95a; Mishnah Oktzin years.

46 TORAH TIDBITS 1433 / KI TEITZE The OU Israel Gustave & Carol Jacobs Center for Kashrut Education was created to raise awareness and educate the public in all areas of Kashrut in Israel. Rabbi Ezra Friedman, a Rabbinic Field Representative for the OU is the Center's director.

Shemitah in a closed structure Zalman that non-perforated pots outside The Talmud Yerushalmi (Orlah 1:2) dis- are exempt. However, regarding a plant cusses whether the laws of shemitah apply that is both indoors and in a non-perfo- to plants in an enclosed building. The rated pot, the Chazon Ish was lenient. Thus, doubt regarding this issue is derived from a plant or tree in a non-perforated pot in a the wording of the verses regarding shemi- roofed building is completely exempt from tah. The Torah (Vayikra 25:4) uses the term the laws of shemitah. “sadecha” meaning one’s field. TheTalmud Modern poskim accept the ruling of Yerushalmi then suggests that perhaps a Chazon Ish that indoor non-perforated pots roofed building is not considered a field, as have no shemitah obligation whatsoever. a field is always under the open sky. However, these are very complex halachot Rav Yisrael of Shklov (one of the primary with more aspects to consider. In the com- students of the Gr”a, who moved to Israel as ing weeks, we will expand on the issue of a result of the teachings of his rav) in Pe’at plants in containers and their obligation HaShulchan (20:52) ruled that anything during shemitah. grown under a roof is not subject to the laws In summary: of shemitah. He based this on the fact that, • The three aspects pertaining to the land according to most authorities, shemitah in on shemitah are relinquishing ownership modern times is not a biblical obligation of the produce, not working the land and but rather a rabbinic one. Considering that proper treatment of shemitah produce. our Sages debated over the status of plants • The laws of shemitah apply to Jewish grown indoors, and since in areas of doubt owned land in Eretz Yisrael. the ruling is always to be lenient regarding • Plants and trees in perforated pots are a rabbinic obligation, Rav Yisrael ruled obligated in the laws of shemitah. accordingly. He maintained that all agricul- • Some hold that plants in non-perfo- tural labor within a building is permitted, rated pots are not obligated in the laws of including planting and harvesting large shemitah. quantities. In addition, he ruled that indoor • In practice, plants in non-perforated produce does not have kedushat shevi’it (the pots that are found in an enclosed structure holiness of the seventh year). are not obligated in certain laws of shemitah. The Chazon Ish (Shevi’it 22:1) did not accept the ruling of the Pe’at Hashulchan Kashrut Questions in Israel? Call or Whatsapp Rabbi Friedman at that indoor plants are not included in the 050-200-4432 laws of shemitah, nor that of Rav Shlomo

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The month of Elul is a time we focus closely Rav Kook taught that at certain times in on our personal conduct and seek to improve Jewish history the Holy One Blessed be He in the area of avodat Hashem. Elul is also elects to take a soul that was initially meant singular in that we remember two remark- to arrive or be planted in an earlier era and able souls whose yahrzeits are observed replant it in a later generation. during these days. Especially at this time we The personage of the Chafetz Chaim was strive to emulate their ways. a prime example of this astonishing circum- stance. His sparkling soul was replanted from a bygone era. He was certainly not Two of this era! God saw fit to transplant the Chafetz Chaim’s soul in a generation that Kohanim was in need of his splendor and soaring erudition (Bein Shnei Kohanim Gedolim, Gedolim Menachem Kapinski, p.11). This same proposition can be applied to Left Us In Elul the lofty personage of Palestine’s first Chief ollowing the death of the Chafetz Rabbi, Rav Kook. He was a luminary from Chaim, Rav Avraham Yitzchak another time, from another generation; a FHaKohen Kook eulogized the soul replanted in the 20th century. Prov- holy sage by citing the Talmudic idence saw to it that his voice be passage: “God saw that righteous heard in our day. people are a few in this world and These two remarkable therefore planted them (sh’talan) Kohanim Gedolim, who shared in each and every generation” a close relationship with one (Yoma 38b). another, advanced the distinctive conviction that the Jewish nation רָאָ ה הַקָּ דוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא שֶׁצַּדִּיקִ ים מוּעָטִ ין, today has entered a decisive point עָמַד וּשְׁתָלָן בְּ כׇל דּ וֹר וָדוֹר Rav Kook explained that the in the process toward the final term sh’talan in this context should Redemption. be interpreted not ‘to plant’ but Remarkably, Chafetz Chaim rather ‘to replant’; as in a sapling and Rav Kook were both the or a tree which was uprooted from biological descendants and one patch of earth and replanted true disciples of Aaron the High (shatal) in another field. Priest. Their holy neshamot were

50 TORAH TIDBITS 1433 / KI TEITZE summoned to the upper world during the days of Elul. Yahrzeit of Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook zt”l: 3 Elul (1935)

Yahrzeit of the Chafetz Chaim, Rav Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan zt”l: 24 Elul (1933).

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OU ISRAEL CENTER 51 Real Life Rescues Petah Tikva EMT Performs CPR 1221 On Foreigner And Saves His Life Petach Tikvah - Just after 12:00 p.m., United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Gilad Sharaby was in his home in Petah Tikva when he was suddenly alerted to a nearby medical emergency. A few blocks away, a young man had collapsed in his apartment, and United Hatzalah Dispatch and Command Center located Gilad as one of the nearest volunteers to the location. Gilad quickly rushed to his ambucycle and headed to the given address.

Arriving in under a minute, Gilad had trouble entering the building and was delayed for a few more seconds. After successfully locating the apartment, Gilad found a young woman attempting compressions on an unconscious 20-year-old man. The woman was frantic and confused but relieved as she saw Gilad enter and take over compressions.

As Gilad positioned himself by the pulseless patient, an additional EMT arrived at the sceneand administered assisted ventilations. Together, the two EMTs performed multiple rounds of CPRinan attempt to revive the man.

After a few minutes of CPR, additional EMTs and medical personnel began arriving at the scene, replacing Gilad with compressions and attaching a defibrillator. With one EMT performing compressions, another administering ventilatory support, and another attaching a defibrillator, Gilad took the chance to speak with the woman to understand what had happened.

The woman explained that the young man was from Ukraine, and had arrived in Israel a mere five months ago. The two of them were in her apartment when he suddenly collapsed, she did not know what had caused it. After attempts to shake him awake, the woman called the dispatch center to send an ambulance.

After speaking to the woman, Gilad prepped himself to switch the EMT performing compressions, as he was getting tired. The defibrillator that was attached advised a shock, and a total of four shocks were given. Despite these efforts, the man’s pulse remained unstable and kept fading in and out. As Gilad was performing chest compressions, a mobile intensive care ambulance arrived at the scene.

After Gilad completed a few rounds of chest compressions, the man’s pulse was checked and appeared to be stable. The EMTs took the opportunity and placed him inside a mobile intensive care ambulance, preparing him for transport. Gilad was later told that the 20-year-old received continuous ventilatory support en route to the hospital, and had fully recovered in the hospital.

“After speaking to the woman and understanding the situation I suspected a possible overdose,” commented Gilad. “The woman refused to say what they were doing prior to his collapse, and so I had to just trust my instincts. When I realized that four shocks were given and his pulse was still unstable, I offered to take over in chest compressions. I truly believed that with the right efforts, the man could be saved, and thankfully he was.”

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one has no interest in the result (lo nicha Air Conditioner lei) and the prohibition is only Rabbinic. The Terumat Hadeshen (64) is lenient and Drain Pipe the Magen Avraham (314:5), it is forbid- den. While some poskim rule leniently During (Yabia Omer V, OC 28), the standard ruling is to be stringent (Mishna Berura 314:11). Shemitta However, here there are additional rea- sons to be lenient. One is that the fact that Question: In preparation for the the water comes out of the pipe at a dis- upcoming Shemitta year, should I reroute tance from the place of the main activity. my air conditioner drain pipe so that it does Shemirat Shabbat K’hilchata (12:(51)) pos- not drip in an area around vegetation? its that this is considered the equivalent Answer: While watering is not one of of gerama (indirect causation) and be per- the four melachot that are forbidden by the mitted even in a p’sik reishei. Torah on Shemitta (planting/sewing, prun- There are various reasons to be more ing, reaping, and harvesting), watering is lenient regarding Shemitta. The simplest forbidden Rabbinically (Mo’ed Katan 3a). is that we can throw in an additional rea- Let us first see what thehalacha would son that there is no Torah prohibition be if this watering were happening on involved, and that is because we usually Shabbat. While one is allowed to do action assume that Shemitta in our days is only A to get the permitted result A even if it Rabbinic in any case (Rav Kook, intro- might unintentionally cause forbidden duction to Shabbat Ha’aretz; Chazon Ish, result B, it is forbidden from the Torah if Shvi’it 3:8). This is not infrequently used as action A will certainly cause result B (p’sik the rationale for relatively lenient rulings reishei – Shabbat 75a). On the other hand, on matters of Shemitta. there is an important machloket about The more fundamental question whether p’sik reishei is forbidden even if is whether Shemitta should be forbid- den at all when there is no intention for

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agricultural gain by one’s action. Let us performed, if it was in a way that is unre- start with the gemara in Sanhedrin (26a). lated to treating his agricultural land as his Reish Lakish saw one cutting off a branch own, it is permitted. from a grapevine and criticized him for Rav Chaim Kanievsky (Derech Emu- pruning. Others responded that perhaps nah, Shvi’it 1:2:(18) cites Rav Elyashiv as he just needed a vine branch for tying forbidding having the air-conditioner drip something down. Tosafot (ad loc.) asks on an area with vegetation, which appar- what difference did it make what his inten- ently rejects all of the leniencies above as tions were if he did an act of pruning and well as the confluence of all of them. How- answers that it was talking about a case ever, we agree with Minchat Asher (Shvi’it in which it was not beneficial. The simple p. 25) who says that one need not be con- reading of Tosafot implies that the inten- cerned about the air conditioner drip. tion for something else would not help (He adds that the way the water drips, when the action is agriculturally positive. often from well above on one spot could The Aruch Hashulchan He’atid (Shemitta even be not good for whatever is growing 19:22) assumes this approach. below.) He also reports a discussion with The Chazon Ish (Shvi’it 19:14) pos- Rav Kanievsky, in which he too agreed to its that regarding a case of no intention be lenient when one’s intention is not to whatsoever for improvement, there is no thereby water the garden. fundamental violation of Shemitta, and if done in a manner in which this is clear, Eretz Hemdah has begun a participatory Zoom class - "Behind the Scenes with the Vebbe it is permitted. Therefore, in a case like Rebbe" - an analytical look at the sources, putting on an air-conditioner, where it methodology, and considerations behind is absolutely clear that his action’s intent our rulings, with Rav Daniel Mann. Contact [email protected] to join. is unrelated to watering plants outside, it is permitted. The logic can be as Rav Yis- raeli (Eretz Hemdah I, additional pieces to Shaar II:2) presents to explain the Ram- Having a dispute? bam’s leniency about doing work in a field For a Din Torah in English or that is not his own. The nature of the pro- Hebrew contact ‘Eretz Hemdah hibitions on Shemitta are not innate but - Gazit’ Rabbinical Court: 077- require one to refrain from actions that 215-8-215 • fax: (02) 537-9626 show his dominion over his land. There- [email protected] fore, even if a melacha was technically

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all evil instantaneously disappear. May all of your enemies quickly be destroyed and may וְלַמַּלְשִׁינִים all intentional transgressors be uprooted, We’re all familiar with riddles like: destroyed, crushed, and subdued quickly in our days. Blessed are You Hashem, who Who was the father of Yehoshua bin Nun? destroys enemies and subdues intentional How many days did the Six Day War last? transgressors. What color is the White House? The Rambam (Hilchot Tefilla 2:1) writes Riddles whose answers are completely that during the days of Rabban Gamliel, obvious if one stops to think for more than there were many, many heretics among the one second. One might think we could add Jewish people who were constantly bother- onto the list the following question: ing and attacking other Jews. They tried to How many Brachot are there in the Shem- convince them to turn away from Hashem oneh Esrei? and also slandered them to the non-Jewish rulers of the time. Since Rabban Gamliel But the funny thing is – the answer is actu- saw that this was the greatest problem of ally not 18! the time, he decided to add in another bra- Despite the name Shemoneh Esrei (which cha to request that Hashem rid them of all means 18), there are actually 19 blessings the heretics. found in the Shemoneh Esrei. The reason Why was this request so important that for this is that an additional bracha was it merited to be added to the Shemoneh added into the Shemoneh Esrei during the Esrei? The answer is that it was (and con- time of Rabban Gamliel (after the destruc- tinues to be) a dire issue. When there are tion of the 2nd Beit Hamikdash) many years people who not only do the wrong thing after it was composed by the Anshei Knes- but constantly try to convince others to set Hagedolah (Men of the Great Assembly). go along with them, it is a very dangerous .ולמלשינים That extra bracha is situation. In every generation, starting in the times of the Midbar ערב רב from the וְלַמַּלְשִׁינִים אַ ל תְּהִ י תִקְוָה, וְכָ ל הָרִשְׁעָ ה כְּרֶגַע תֹּאבֵ ד וְכָ ל ,till the evil influences of the street today אוֹיְבֶיךָ מְהֵרָ ה יִכַּרֵתוּ, וְהַזֵּדִ ים מְהֵרָ ה תְעַקֵּ ר וּתְשַׁבֵּ ר וּתְמַגֵּ ר there is always a group reaching out and וְתַכְנִיע בִּמְהֵרָ ה בְיָמֵינוּ. בָּרוּךְ אַתָּ ה ה’, שׁ וֹבֵ ר אוֹיְבִ ים וּמַכְנִיעַ trying to pull our children and ourselves זֵדִ ים. to join them in their lifestyle. As the Ram- Let there be no hope for informers, and may שהצרה הזאת גדולה ורבה מכל הצרות – bam puts it

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The first Pasuk of our Parsha reads as The Pasuk continues with “Unetano follows: Hashem Elokecha Byadecha- and Hashem ”.your G-D will deliver him into your hands כִּֽ י־תֵצֵ ֥א לַמִּלְחָמָ ֖ה עַל־אֽ ֹיְבֶ ֑יךָ וּנְתָ נ֞וֹ יְ-ה אֱלֹקיךָ בְּיָדֶ ֖ ָ ך ְ ו ָ שׁ ִ ֥ב י תָ This comes to teach us a very important ִ שׁ ְ ב ֽ י ו ֹ lesson if read carefully. The enemies and “If you go out to war against your enemies, challenges, INCLUDING our Yetzer Hara,

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