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Tehillat Hashem and Other Verses Before Birkat Ha-Mazon
301 Tehillat Hashem and Other Verses Before Birkat Ha-Mazon By: ZVI RON In this article we investigate the origin and development of saying vari- ous Psalms and selected verses from Psalms before Birkat Ha-Mazon. In particular, we will attempt to explain the practice of some Ashkenazic Jews to add Psalms 145:21, 115:18, 118:1 and 106:2 after Ps. 126 (Shir Ha-Ma‘alot) and before Birkat Ha-Mazon. Psalms 137 and 126 Before Birkat Ha-Mazon The earliest source for reciting Ps. 137 (Al Naharot Bavel) before Birkat Ha-Mazon is found in the list of practices of the Tzfat kabbalist R. Moshe Cordovero (1522–1570). There are different versions of this list, but all versions include the practice of saying Al Naharot Bavel.1 Some versions specifically note that this is to recall the destruction of the Temple,2 some versions state that the Psalm is supposed to be said at the meal, though not specifically right before Birkat Ha-Mazon,3 and some versions state that the Psalm is only said on weekdays, though no alternative Psalm is offered for Shabbat and holidays.4 Although the ex- act provenance of this list is not clear, the parts of it referring to the recitation of Ps. 137 were already popularized by 1577.5 The mystical work Seder Ha-Yom by the 16th century Tzfat kabbalist R. Moshe ben Machir was first published in 1599. He also mentions say- ing Al Naharot Bavel at a meal in order to recall the destruction of the 1 Moshe Hallamish, Kabbalah in Liturgy, Halakhah and Customs (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2000), pp. -
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 2019-20 – HISTORICAL, MEDICAL and HALAKHIC PERSPECTIVES Second Edition Rabbi Prof
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC RABBI PROF. AVRAHAM STEINBERG, MD THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 2019-20 – HISTORICAL, MEDICAL AND HALAKHIC PERSPECTIVES Second Edition Rabbi Prof. Avraham Steinberg, MD Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Historical Background 3 a. Pandemics in the past b. The Coronavirus pandemic 3. Medical Background 5 4. Specific rulings and Halakhot 7 a. General behavior and the obligation to listen to the government and experts during a plague b. Defining plague c. Prayers, fasts and charity d. Self-endangerment of the healthcare providers – doctors, nurses, lab personnel, technicians e. Self-endangerment for experimental treatment and discovering a vaccine f. Prayer with a minyan, nesiyat kapayim, Torah reading, yeshivot g. Ha'gomel Blessing h. Shabbat and festivals i. Passover j. Sefirat Ha'omer k. Rosh Hashanah l. Yom Kippur m. Purim n. Immersion in the mikvah o. Immersion of utensils p. Visiting the sick q. Circumcision r. Marriage s. Burial t. Mourning 5. Triage in treating coronavirus patients during severe shortage 32 a. Introduction b. Determining triage priority in various situations when there are insufficient resources I am greatly indebted to Rabbi Dr. Jason Weiner for the English translation & to Dr. Lazar Friedman for his editorial work. 1 THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC RABBI PROF. AVRAHAM STEINBERG, MD c. Halakhic sources on determining lifesaving triage d. Halakhic guidelines on determining priority 6. Miscellaneous 40 7. Conclusion 41 1. Introduction In the modern era, the coronavirus1 pandemic2 has been the most shocking pandemic to the entire world, including experts and scientists, since the Spanish influenza pandemic 100 years ago.3 In recent decades many scientists have arrogantly claimed that in the modern and technologically advanced world there will be no more global pandemics of this sort. -
Prepared David Skorton for the Challenge of Covid-19
MAY/JUNE 2021 IYAR/SIVAN/TAMMUZ 5781 FROM RABBI ZEMEL Nothing – and Everything — FINDING OUR OWN Prepared David Skorton for the PATH TO KNOWING WHAT BEING JEWISH Challenge of Covid-19 MEANS IN OUR By Fran Dauth DAILY LIVES You may recognize David Skorton, president and CEO of the Association DEAR FRIENDS, of American Medical Colleges, from I have been using these col- the Temple Micah YouTube videos on umns to try to work out my Covid-19 in the past year. Jewish theology. The isolation You may also know he was the of the pandemic has for rea- 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian, is a sons that I cannot fully under- board-certified cardiologist, a president stand pushed me to dig more emeritus of Cornell University, a past deeply into my innermost president of the University of Iowa and thoughts. But my ruminations never feel fully adequate. a member of the National Academy of The more I engage in this quest, Medicine. the more I realize, as I suggested in my What may surprise you is that noth- last column, that we really do lack the ing in his impressive career fully pre- language to say what we believe. Our pared him for the pandemic. inherited way of thinking about Judaism, “Nothing in my experience prepared that is, our inherited language, does us me completely for the enormous dis- little good. Let us begin by abandon- ruptions wrought by Covid-19: not only ing the phrase “good Jew,” as in, “Who the terror of the virus and its lethal- is a good Jew?” What can it possibly ity, but the economic dislocation, the response to questions from The Vine. -
מכירה מס' 28 יום רביעי י'ז שבט התש"פ 12/02/2020
מכירה מס' 28 יום רביעי י'ז שבט התש"פ 12/02/2020 1 2 בס"ד מכירה מס' 28 יודאיקה. כתבי יד. ספרי קודש. מכתבים. מכתבי רבנים חפצי יודאיקה. אמנות. פרטי ארץ ישראל. כרזות וניירת תתקיים אי"ה ביום רביעי י"ז בשבט התש"פ 12.02.2020, בשעה 19:00 המכירה והתצוגה המקדימה תתקיים במשרדנו החדשים ברחוב הרב אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק 10 בני ברק בימים: א-ג 09-11/12/2020 בין השעות 14:00-20:00 נשמח לראותכם ניתן לראות תמונות נוספות באתר מורשת www.moreshet-auctions.com טל: 03-9050090 פקס: 03-9050093 [email protected] אסף: 054-3053055 ניסים: 052-8861994 ניתן להשתתף בזמן המכירה אונליין דרך אתר בידספיריט )ההרשמה מראש חובה( https://moreshet.bidspirit.com 3 בס"ד שבט התש״פ אל החברים היקרים והאהובים בשבח והודיה לה' יתברך על כל הטוב אשר גמלנו, הננו מתכבדים להציג בפניכם את קטלוג מכירה מס' 28. בקטלוג שלפניכם ספרי חסידות מהדורת ראשונות. מכתבים נדירים מגדולי ישראל ופריטים חשובים מאוספים פרטיים: חתימת ידו של רבי אליעזר פאפו בעל הפלא יועץ זי"ע: ספר דרכי נועם עם קונטרס מלחמת מצווה מהדורה ראשונה - ונציה תנ"ז | 1697 עם חתימות נוספות והגהות חשובות )פריט מס' 160(. פריט היסטורי מיוחד: כתב שליחות )שד"רות( בחתימת המהרי"ט אלגאזי ורבני בית דינו )פריט מס' 216(. ש"ס שלם העותק של בעל ה'מקור ברוך' מסערט ויז'ניץ זצ"ל עם הערות בכתב ידו )פריט מס' 166(. תגלית: כאלף דפים של כתב היד החלק האבוד מתוך חיבורו על הרמב"ם של הגאון רבי יהודה היילברון זצ"ל )פריט מס' 194(. נדיר! כתב יד סידור גדול במיוחד עם נוסחאות והלכות נדירות - תימן תחילת המאה ה17- לערך )פריט מס' 198(. -
Jewish Counterculture Oral History Project MICHAEL STRASSFELD
Jewish Counterculture Oral History Project MICHAEL STRASSFELD Interviewed by Jayne K. Guberman June 27 & September 20, 2016 A Project of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania Michael Strassfeld, 6/27/16 + 9/20/16 Jayne Guberman (JG): My name is Jayne Guberman, and today is Monday, June 27, 2016. I’m here with Michael Strassfeld at his home in New York City and we’re going to record an interview for the Jewish Counterculture Oral History Project. Michael, do I have your permission to record this interview? Michael Strassfeld (MS): Yes, you do. JG: Great. So, as you know, today we’re going to explore your experiences during the early years of the havurah movement when you became involved with Havurat Shalom. And we’re going to focus particularly on the first five years or so of the havurah and your involvement in it — and frame that with your experiences earlier, and then what happens afterwards in your life as well. I’d like to start by talking about your personal and family background a little bit to set the stage for your involvement in Havurat Shalom. So let’s begin with your family when you were growing up. Can you tell me very briefly (00:01:00) about your family background — who they were and how your family actually first came to the United States? MS: So my father was born in the Ukraine in a town called Stanislav, and actually, his immediate family moved to Germany, so he really grew up mostly in Germany, from the time he was seven or eight until he was fifteen. -
Epic Tales by Rebbe Nachman of Breslev
Book of E p i c T a l e s (Sipurei Ma`asiyot) b y Rebbe Nachman of Breslev - Unabridged and With Appendices - hich we have been privileged to hear from the mouth of Rabbeinu W Hakadosh, the Hidden and Concealed Light, Nachal Nove`a Mekor Chokhmah/The Flowing Stream, The Wellspring of Wisdom [1] , HaRav Rabbi NACHMAN ztzuk"l of Breslev, grandson of the Ba`al Shem Tov Hakadosh and compiler of the books Likutei Moharan and several other compendiums. o out and see the might of your Master [2] Who has illuminated heavenly G Torah for us to enliven us as [sure as] it is this day[3 ] , for the everlasting world[4] ; and our God has not forsaken us in our servitude but has extended kindness to us[5] in each and every generation and has sent us deliverers and rabbis and tzadikei yesodei `olam/ righteous ones, foundation of the world [6] to teach us the way. His first [mercies] have come to pass[7] and yet His mercies have not ceased[8] at any period or any time. And He has performed kindness for us, drawing water from the wellsprings of salvation [9] , ancient things, words which are the secret of the world [10] , under wonderful and awesome clothings. See and understand and look at His wonderful and awesome way, which is an inheritance to us from our holy forefathers who were during ancient times in Yisrael. or such is the way of the upper holy ones [11] , harvesters of the field [12] , Fwho raised their hands and hearts to God, to clothe and conceal the King's treasure houses in story tales according to the generation and according to the times, -
Curriculum Vitae Dr. Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky Contact: Kefar Tabor P.O.B 256 Israel 15241 Home Tel: 972- 4- 6765634. Mobile: 972
1 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky Contact: Personal details: Kefar Tabor P.O.B 256 Israel 15241 Citizenship: Israeli Home Tel: 972- 4- 6765634. Languages: Hebrew and English Mobile: 972-52-3553384 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Academic rank Senior Lecturer, Zefat Academic College, Israel (2017- present) Associate researcher Herzl Institute University of Haifa, Israel (2009-present) Associate researcher at the HBI Brandeis University, USA (2015-present) Adjunct lecturer, MA and BA programs in Israel Studies, University of Haifa, Israel (2010–present). Lecturer, Zefat Academic College, Israel (2014-2017) Education 2009-2010: Post Doc. Department of Geography and Environment, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, "The History of Jerusalem as Israel Capital City". 2009: PhD, Summa cum Laude. 'Land of Israel Studies' Dept., University of Haifa. "The Vindicated and the Persecuted": Myth, Ritual, and Propaganda in the Herut Movement 1948-1965. 2006: MA, Magna cum Laude. 'Jewish History' Dept., University of Haifa. 'The Myth of the Altalena Affair and the Herut Movement'. 1980: BA, Jewish History Dept. and Land of Israel History Dept., Tel Aviv University. Israel. Certificates Mediator, Emek Yizrael Academic College, Israel (1999). Archive manager, Tel Hai Academic College and the Israel National Archives (1994). 2 Scholarly Positions: Head of the general studies division, Multidisciplinary Department, Zefat Academic College, Israel (2018-present) Senior Lecturer, Multidisciplinary Department, Zefat Academic College, Israel (2017-present) Lecturer, Multidisciplinary Department, Zefat Academic College, Israel (2014 -2017) Adjunct lecturer, Land of Israel Studies Dept., Jewish History Dept., University of Haifa. MA and BA programs (2010–present). Assistant editor, Ze’ev Jabotinsky's Ideological Writings. -
Regulations and the Rule of Law: a Look at the First Decade of Israel
Keele Law Review, Volume 2 (2021), 45-62 45 ISSN 2732-5679 ‘Hidden’ Regulations and the Rule of Law: A Look at the First decade of Israel Gal Amir* Abstract This article reviews the history of issuing regulations without due promulgation in the first decade of Israel. ‘Covert’ secondary legislation was widely used in two contexts – the ‘austerity policy’ and ‘security’ issues, both contexts intersecting in the state's attitude toward the Palestinian minority, at the time living under military rule. This article will demonstrate that, although analytically the state’s branches were committed to upholding the ‘Rule of Law’, the state used methods of covert legislation, that were in contrast to this principle. I. Introduction Regimes and states like to be associated with the term ‘Rule of Law’, as it is often associated with such terms as ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’.1 Israel’s Declaration of Independence speaks of a state that will be democratic, egalitarian, and aspiring to the rule of law. Although the term ‘Rule of Law’ in itself is not mentioned in Israel’s Declaration of Independence, the declaration speaks of ‘… the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948.’2 Even when it became clear, in the early 1950s, that a constitution would not be drafted in the foreseeable future, courts and legislators still spoke of ‘Rule of Law’ as an ideal. Following Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper, one must examine the existence of the rule of law in young Israel as a ‘category of practice’ requiring reference to a citizen's daily experience, detached from the ‘analytical’ definitions of social scientists, or the high rhetoric of legislators and judges.3 Viewing ‘Rule of Law’ as a category of practice finds Israel in the first decades of its existence in a very different place than its legislators and judges aspired to be. -
JCT Develops Solutions to Environmental Problems P.O.BOX 16031, JERUSALEM 91160 ISRAEL 91160 JERUSALEM 16031, P.O.BOX
NISSAN 5768 / APRIL 2008, VOL. 13 Green and Clean JCT Develops Solutions to Environmental Problems P.O.BOX 16031, JERUSALEM 91160 ISRAEL 91160 JERUSALEM 16031, P.O.BOX NISSAN 5768 / APRIL 2008, VOL. 13 Green and Clean JCT Develops Solutions to Environmental Problems P.O.BOX 16031, JERUSALEM 91160 ISRAEL 91160 JERUSALEM 16031, P.O.BOX COMMENTARY JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY PRESIDENT Shalom! opportunity to receive an excellent education Prof. Joseph S. Bodenheimer allowing them to become highly-skilled, ROSH HAYESHIVA Rabbi Z. N. Goldberg Of the many things sought after professionals. More important ROSH BEIT HAMIDRASH we are proud at JCT, for our students is the opportunity available Rabbi Natan Bar Chaim nothing is more RECTOR at the College to receive an education Prof. Joseph M. Steiner prized than our focusing on Jewish values. It is this DIRECTOR-GENERAL students. In every education towards values that has always Dr. Shimon Weiss VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT issue of “Perspective” been the hallmark of JCT and it is this AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS we profile one of our students as a way of commitment to Jewish ethical values that Reuven Surkis showing who they are and of sharing their forms the foundation from which Israeli accomplishments with you. society will grow and flourish - and our EDITORS Our student body of 2,500 is a students and graduates take pride in being Rosalind Elbaum, Debbie Ross, Penina Pfeuffer microcosm of Israeli society: 21% are Olim committed to this process. DESIGN & PRODUCTION (immigrants) from the former Soviet Union, As we approach the Pesach holiday, the Studio Fisher Ethiopia, South America, North America, 60th anniversary of the State of Israel and JCT Perspective invites the submission of arti- Europe, Australia and South Africa, whilst the 40th anniversary of JCT, let us reaffirm cles and press releases from the public. -
This Week at Nitzavim-Vayeilech
.4 September 12, 2020 23rd of Elul 5780 This Week At Nitzavim-Vayeilech SHABBAT MINYANIM IN SHUL @ YICC HALAKHIC CORNER You MUST be pre-registered and on our security list Q: Is one permitted to recite the prayer of Machnisei Rachamim at the end of the Selichot service in which we to be allowed entry into our Minyanim. beseech the angels to help present our prayers to G-d? ALL Minyanim meet in our Shul’s Backyard A: The 5th of the Rambam’s 13 Principles of Faith states that Friday Night: we believe that one must only pray to Hashem and to no other being. Precisely because of this belief, the Maharal Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat ................. 6:55 pm (Netiv Olam) writes that the paragraph of Machnisei Rachami, one of the concluding prayers of the Selichot Shabbat Day: service this Motzei Shabbat, should be omitted since it is Shacharit .................................. 7:00 & 8:30 am a prayer to angels. Similarly, the Chatam Sofer (Sh”T Shabbat Afternoon: O”C 166) expresses his reservations about this prayer. Mincha .................................................. 6:40 pm He adds that he would regularly elongate his Tachanun at Shiur by Rabbi Proops the conclusion of Selichot so that by the time he was Maariv................................................... 7:38 pm ready to recite Machnisei Rachamim the Chazan had already concluded the service thereby circumventing the Shabbat ends & Havdalah .................... 7:48 pm issue altogether. Interestingly, Rabbi Asher Weiss (Minchas Asher - Moadim) opines that reciting Machnisei SHABBAT AT HOME Rachamim is completely permitted. He reasons that when the Rambam prohibited praying to other beings, the Shabbat Candle Lighting .................. -
Electricity and Shabbat
5778 - bpipn mdxa` [email protected] 1 c‡qa HALACHIC AND HASHKAFIC ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY 87 - ELECTRICITY & SHABBAT: PART 1 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES OU ISRAEL CENTER - SPRING 2018 A] HALACHIC ISSUES CONCERNING ELECTRICITY1 (i) Melachot on Shabbat (a) Connecting/breaking an electrical circuit (b) Time switches (c) Use of filament/fluorescent /LED lights; other light generation (e.g. chemical) (d) Electrical heating/cooking - microwaves, solar heaters, central heating (e) Cellphones and computers (f) Hearing aids/microphones (g) Electronic keys - hotels, student accommodation (h) Electronic security equipment - metal detectors, cameras, motion sensors (i) Automatic doors, bells and chimes (j) Shabbat elevators (k) Dishwashers (l) Medical monitoring (m) Radio/screens (n) Watches (ii) Light for Mitzvot (a) Ner Shabbat (b) Ner Havdala (c) Ner Chanukah (d) Bedikat Chametz (iii) Electrical Power (a) Baking matzot (b) Making tzitzit (c) Shaving (d) Filling a mikva (iv) Electronic Media (a) Use of microphones for mitzvot of speech/hearing - berachot, megilla, shofar, kiddushin, kinyanim (b) Erasing Shem Hashem stored or displayed electronically (c) Kol isha through a microphone (d) Accepting witness testimony through telephone/video (e) Bikur cholim/ nichum aveilim on the telephone (f) Issurim via TV/video - e.g. pritzut (v) Kashrut (a) Kashering meat/liver using an electric element (b) Kashering electric appliances (c) Cooking meat and milk using electrically generated heat (d) Tevilat kelim for electrical appliances 1. For further reading see: The Use of Electricity on Shabbat and Yom Tov - R. Michael Broyde and R. Howard Jachter - Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society - Vol. XXI p.4; Encyclopedia Talmudit Vol. 8 155-190 and 641-772; The Blessing of Eliyahu (pub. -
THE TRUE TZADDIK Selected Thoughts from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
HH cover: THE TRUE TZADDIK title page: THE TRUE TZADDIK Selected Thoughts from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Published by Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser Jerusalem the Holy City 18 Tammuz 5752 TABLE OF CONTENTS Prologue....5 Introduction...7 1. The Concept of the Tzaddik...9 2. Who is the Tzaddik?.....23 3. Rosh Hashana with the Tzaddik....29 4. The Letter from the Tzaddik...35 5. The Gift from the Tzaddik -THE HOLY COVENANT...47 -THE TIKKUN HAKLALI...53 -PRAYER OF RABBI NATHAN...87 -PRAYERS TO GO TO UMAN....103 -THE TIKKUN CHATZOT....111 5 Prologue This book has been published through the collective effort of any individuals, in order to help the reader become acquainted with the concept of the Tzaddik. The price of this book is considered Tzeddakah (charity). In the merit of purchasing this book, may the owner be considered to have give a Pidyon (redemption money) to the True Tzaddik on behalf of the entire Jewish People. May it be Your will, O L-rd our G-d and G-d of our Fathers, to sweeten all the harsh and strict judgements against the entire Jewish People, through the supreme wonder, who acts with great loving- kindness and complete and simple mercy, without any trace of harsh judgment at all, Amen. 7 “And they [the children of Israel] believed in the L-rd and in Moses, His servant.” (Shemot 14:31) Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov, Rebbe Nachman's closest disciple, explains: “It's impossible to believe in G-d without the help of the Tzaddik of on one's generation.” [Four-fifth of the Hebrew people died in Egypt because they didn't believe in Moses' words.