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Beit Midrash
- Torah Portion and Tanach
- Bamidbar
- Pinchas
Hashem directs Moshe & Elazar, the Kohen Gadol, to conduct a census, the first held in 39 years.
The Sedra details the claim of Z’lafchad’s daughters, who petitioned for a share in Eretz Yisrael, as they had no brothers & their father had died in the desert (he was said to be the "collector of wood" who violated Shabbat & was executed). Hashem responds positively to their request, & the laws of inheritance are postulated so ancestral land stays within the tribe, & may go to surviving daughters in the absence of other heirs.
Moshe passes the mantle of national leadership to Yehoshua, symbolized by the laying of hands upon his head. The Parsha concludes with a detailing of the korbanot/offerings brought on the Festivals of the year. This section is familiar, as we read from it on Rosh Chodesh & on all Chagim as the Maftir.
The Haftora, the first of the "Haftarot of Punishment" read during the 3 Weeks, is from Yirmiyahu I.
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
