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Ruling: Introduction to land acquisition in Yehuda V’Shomron – Due to various factors, one cannot buy land in these areas, but families can apply to the Jewish Agency Department for Settlement for one bar reshut (long-term permission to build and/or live on a certain plot). The Jewish Agency’s longstanding policy is to accept the recommendation of a yishuv’s administration as to who should receive a bar reshut.
Introduction to dina d’bar metzra (=ddbm) – Ddbm is an extra-judicial Rabbinical institution that gives an adjacent neighbor of land that was sold to an outsider the ability to force the buyer to sell it to him at his purchase price unless the neighbor had waived the right. The logic to give the neighbor that right is that he has a unique opportunity to maximize the land, whereas others lack such an advantage from this land (see sugya starting with Bava Metzia 108a).
One question is whether ddbm is incumbent upon the seller or just the buyer, upon whom the gemara focuses. Rashi (ad loc.) implies that it is only on the buyer, which would explain why if a non-Jew bought it, ddbm does not apply (see Perisha, Choshen Mishpat 175:36). The seller has only a moral obligation to prefer the neighbor. The Rama (CM 175:34) writes that if the neighbor is not around, it is best that he ask beit din to contact someone to represent the neighbor’s needs. The implication is that if he did not, nothing can be done to the seller.
Does def, as a public institution, have an obligation to pl based on the general moral obligation? There are two reasons that they should: 1. They are representatives of the buyers, who are obligated. 2. A community should be held to higher standards than individuals are. On the other hand, public officials have a responsibility to do what is best for the community as a whole, and that includes the family that has a chance of winning in the raffle instead of pl. We cannot ignore the situation that Israeli law does not follow ddbm, and it is not something that is in the mindset of even religious people. Other people with connections to officials can "walk in the door left open" by ddbm. Therefore, it is acceptable for def to not go beyond the letter of the law in applying a halacha that is itself beyond the letter of the law, so def can follow set procedures (i.e., raffling off the lots).
P'ninat Mishpat (829)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
687 - Demand of Top-Quality Merchandise from Supplier
688 - Granting a House to a Neighbor’s Son – part I
689 - Granting a House to a Neighbor’s Son
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Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
Igrot Hare’aya Trying to Arrange Purchase of Land in Eretz Yisrael
#222 Date and Place: 2 Elul 5669 (1909), Rechovot
P'ninat Mishpat Payments after a Gradual End of Employment
(Based on ruling 82024 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
P'ninat Mishpat Who Breached the Contract? – part IV
Based on ruling 81087 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
P'ninat Mishpat P'ninat Mishpat: Smoking Rights in a Rental? – part I
based on ruling 85076 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
P'ninat Mishpat P'ninat Mishpat: Undoing a Problematic Partnership – part III
based on ruling 84061 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
P'ninat Mishpat P'ninat Mishpat: Sharing in Plumbing Expenses – part I
based on ruling 85013 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
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Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 9 - "Seeing is Believing" (parag. 21-30)
These paragraphs elaborate on the theme that seeing and knowing is better than any attempt to prove logically, and begins explaining the difference between Israel and gentiles.
Ein Aya Various Universal Stages of the Geula Process
Rav Kook examines the various stages of redemption, explaining how (in addition to the obvious oft-mentioned stages of ingathering the exiles, reviving the Hebrew language, army, state etc.) the messianic dream of world prosperity, the State of Israel and world unity can and are realistically and logically gradually coming true.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 8- "Answering Questions on the Kuzari's Proof from Mass Revelation
How do we know that the "claim" of mass revelation to 2,000,000 witnesses at Mt. Sinai is really true? This important class answers all of the questions skeptics ask about this claim of the Kuzari.
Ein Aya Armies Still Necessary for Balance & the War Against Wars
Rav Kook explains why the world was originally divided into the various seemingly contradicting ideologies and cultures, in order to develop each one respectively. Swords or armies symbolize how each respective ideology defends themselves, as well as deters their opposing ideologies and cultures. On the other hand, the messianic era will be one of peace, and Rav Kook explains the transition to that stage, which mankind is already undergoing.
The Land of Israel LGBT'S IN ISRAEL
The question was asked, how can one make Aliyah with the LGBT parades?
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 7 - Five Accumulative Proofs of G-d
As a preparation for the Kuzari's classic proof of G-d from the mass-revelation at Sinai, we start here with 5 other directions to strengthen our belief which also contribute to what the Kuzari will present as well.
Ein Aya Muscle & Meaning: The Dual Nature of Gevurah (Physical Strength)
Is physical strength and fitness a necessity or an ideal? Although it if often totally overlooked among topics of Judaism, Rav Kook writes that it clearly is also a necessity to deter the many enemies of Israel, but even in Y'mot HaMashiach, in the Messianic era, to a certain extent, it's ideal continues even after our enemies will have been finished off.
