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Iyar 7 5781 | Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
based on ruling 80117 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts Promotion that Didn’t Fully Happen
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Igrot Hare’aya #20, p. 19-21 – part II The Limits of Free Thought
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Accidentally Paying Back Early
the Citigroup “bank” mistakenly paid some $900 mil. to Revlon’s creditors before the loans were due. A few big creditors refused to return the money. A court ruled that since the creditors took the money (they were owed) in good faith, they need not return it. Would the halachic ruling be the same?
Bemare Habazak - Rabbis Questions Charity and Lending Money
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To be a Free Nation in Our Land – Part II
Becoming holy means putting up fences, which ostensibly makes someone less free. While the Torah writes that “Hashem descended onto Har Sinai,” that was only 10 handbreadths above the mountain
Kdoshim Parashat Hashavua
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The Post-Immersion Glow
An insightful conversation about holiness and yearning between two great friends Reb Mendel of Vitebsk and Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, whilst they were sitting in the holy court of the Maggid of Mezritch in Mezeritch.
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