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The Jew was shaken by the Rav’s reaction. "It’s absolutely obvious that I have mezuzot at home – I sell mezuzot and I myself put up the mezuzot in my home!"
When they left, the scribe tried to explain that the Rav intended him to check if his mezuzot were kosher. When he got home, he went to check the mezuzot, and discovered to his astonishment that the mezuzot cases were empty – no parchment inside them!
Rabbi Tweezer relates, "I asked the Rav, ‘How did the honored Rav know that the mezuzot cases were empty?’
"He replied, ‘From out of my mouth and the Heavens answered amen…’
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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
