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The Torah study is dedicatedin the memory of
Asher Ben Haim
The Rema Orach Chayim 128:44 explains that throughout the year people living outside of Israel are worried about their livelihood and, therefore, not in a true state of simcha which is necessary for birkat kohanim. Only on Yom Tov at Musaf time when they are about to leave shul and rejoice in the day's celebrations are they in the proper frame of mind for the beracha.
The Aruch HaShulchan Orach Chayim 128:64 has difficulty justifying a custom that allows one of the 613 mitzvot to be skipped over most of the year. "But what can we do," he says, "for it is as if a heavenly voice issued forth stopping us from 'lifting the hands' during the year. I have a tradition that two great Torah authorities attempted to institute it on a daily basis and...they were unable and said that so it has been decreed from Heaven."
Denizens of the diaspora, don't dispair. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach quotes the Shelah who wrote from Eretz Yisrael to his family still in Chutz la'Aretz: "...the kohanim raise their hands every day and I keep you in mind and draw the blessing to you."
May we all merit to receive God's threefold blessing of His people.
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Hosha'ana Rabba FLYDUBAI & HOSHANA RABBA- ANI VAHU HOSHIA NA- I & HIM SAVE US
"Ani vaHu Hoshia Na", "I and Him, Save Us". We don't just pray to Him, but we also pray to and for ourselves that we should emulate and educate our children to have that instinctive altruism with which He created the world. President Trump seemed amused about Yaniv Hayon, our PLUMBER who confidently worked with G-d like Superman (he learned from a pilot on a TV show!) to save 174 lives on the Dubai hijacking, but we in Israel are totally accustomed already 78 years to our plumbers, teachers, garbage-men, rabbis, farmers & doctors being Hashem's shlichim! This is what Zionism is about.
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
