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Shabbat Shalom From Cyberspace: Ki Tesse
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the effect, not the cause. The talmidei chachamim, but they are would, however, take issue with
cause of the problem is the “hidden tzadikim.” When a friend such a description, claiming that it
spiritual defect in this heart, which of his took this position, Rav Hillel misses the point entirely. The
is then externalized as the defect advised him to pull his children legitimate master of Kabbalah has
in the mezuzah. out of their yeshivot and Bet no other option but to be a
Yaakovs. Why bother with the serious talmid chacham, the
The charlatans, he said, can’t be learning? Let them stew in their result of decades of study of
real, because they never spent mediocrity, and Hashem will Gemara and Rishonim. There is
quality time learning Torah. How reward them special powers He no other way. Separating the two
could they? At eighteen, they gives to the otherwise orbits is artificial.
became Baba this or Baba that. unaccomplished “hidden tzadik,”
(He knows of one who ran a brisk who remains hidden by carrying He didn’t enjoy pointing out all
business stealing tefillin in his himself like a pathetic failure. This that has gone wrong. There was
yeshiva days.) The real is a terrible error. Hashem does pain in his voice. Having seen
mekubalim were different. Baba not give such hidden powers to a Torah and Torah greats in their
Sali was the head of a beis din till person whose external full glory, both in nigleh and nistar
he was seventy. He wrote appearance and conduct is (the revealed and hidden parts of
important works on Choshen substandard. The hidden tzadik Torah), he is driven to rescue
Mishpat. After a full life of Torah carries himself with dignity, but them from those who would
excellence, he moved on to giving whose full worth is not infantilize or trivialize them.
berachos at the age of ninety. appreciated by others.
The best way to deal with those It must be lonely at the top, but –
who come into town and ask to Where can we find legitimate to make use of the cliché – boy,
set up shop is to ask them to stop Kabbalah personalities? The first what a view! We were enriched
at the local kollel first and give a rule is to avoid those who get any and uplifted to hear him share it.
shiur. It almost always scares kind of personal gain from their
them away, because they are knowledge. He spoke of someone We must realize who Rav Yaakov
incapable. he knew who would never accept Hillel is to understand the power
a dime, never a favor for his of his statements. I heard from
Fooling people has become a learning or his beracha. Someone brilliant and refined scholars that
brisk business, through the whom this giant had touched the Zohar came to explain the
manipulation of PR machinery. positively tried to repay him by secrets of the Torah. About 500
People pay to have their photos performing a favor without his years ago, the Ari came to explain
printed alongside recognized knowledge. When he learned of the Zohar and without the Ari we
greats, in order to increase their it, he was so disturbed that he did are lost. Then 250 years ago, the
prestige among the populace. not speak to his benefactor for Rashash - Ribbi Shalom Sharabi
One unworthy candidate paid decades. came to explain the Ari and it was
$250,000 to be the keynote through him that the Kabalah
speaker at the dinner of a major When pushed for the identities of could be understood. Today it is
Torah institution, just to bolster such people, he would not offer a through Rav Hillel that the Sod
his image. single name. If you want a can be understood.
beracha, go to the most
Rav Hillel recounted how his own accomplished in Torah – Rav There were others who wrote
children proved the gullibility of Chaim Kanievsky, Rav Elyashiv. telling of miracles they heard
their neighbors. They persuaded People of their caliber are about. I found it interesting that
the janitor of their school to capable of miracles, but no one of most who wrote about miracles
accompany them through the lesser stature. rarely wrote in first person. And
street, walking slowly and how does one explain the first
hunched over, with a white sheet He struck me as having the best person miracles, Rav Hillel gives
wrapped around him. People – of two worlds: the embrace of a number of possibilities, there is
including many who should have serious study of Kabbalah that also coincidence and then there
known better – rushed over to was part of the Baghdad from are possibly the times that there
kiss the hand of the obvious “holy which came his great-grandfather, is something there.
man.” and the focus on the “meat and
potatoes” of traditional Ashkenazi I know of a person who was
Some would counter that the learning that he picked up in indicted along with dozens of
Kabbalah merchants may not be Gateshead and Ponovezh. He others for import fraud some
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years back. Almost all of them For years as a child I recall the Israelis Don't Need the
pleaded out and were sent to jail Rabbi in shul on Rosh Hashanah Lectures
for anywhere from one to five reminding the people not to leave George F. Will
years. This man also pleaded out early as the final prayer was a
and sentencing guidelines prayer of parnasah or financial JERUSALEM -- In the intifada
required that he do go to jail for at success. In our synagogue we that began in 2000, Palestinian
least 2 years. The man visited a sell the honor of opening the ark terrorism killed more than 1,000
certain rabbi and was asked for a for this prayer of financial success Israelis. As a portion of U.S.
pidyon – an amount of money – and many people have sworn by population, that would be 42,000,
and was guaranteed he would not it. Are we paying off Hashem one approaching the toll of America's
go to jail. The mans lawyer told person asked the Rabbi.. Chas eight years in Vietnam. During the
him that this was ridiculous, but VeShalom – Heaven forbid – he onslaught, which began 10
the man tripled his efforts in replied. But what we might be Septembers ago, Israeli parents
Torah, misvot, and acts of doing is unclogging the pipe by sending two children to a school
chesed. At the sentencing opening our hands. would put them on separate
everyone was shocked that he buses to decrease the chance
unlike any of the others was given So to all those in Cyberspace who that neither would return for
home detention. want a blessing of Parnasah – of dinner. Surely most Americans
financial success – be willing to can imagine, even if their tone-
So I asked another talmid open your hand and help open deaf leaders can not, how grating
chacham who knows this rabbi the pipe. One writer this week it is when those leaders lecture
how it could be. He explained that suggested I sell the opening of Israel on the need to take "risks
at times our blessings are blocked the ark on the night of Rosh for peace."
almost like an artery that is Hashana to the highest bidder in
clogged. Hashem might be Cyberspace, and have it opend in During Prime Minister Binyamin
sending down blessing just as the their honor and for their blessing. Netanyahu's July visit to
heart is pumping blood but the Washington, Barack Obama
blockage stops it from going But what if we make it a group praised him as "willing to take
anywhere. Sometimes one can effort? Lets see if a few of us can risks for peace." There was a time
feel this spiritual blockage. It can share opening the ark collectively. when that meant swapping "land
come from unfulfilled vows ( why Lets say we donate $501 or more for peace" -- Israel sacrificing
we do hatarat nedarim this time of each into the partnership and something tangible and
year) or from a person who did when we open the ark we will say irrecoverable, strategic depth, in
not give the proscribed amount of a special tefilah for parnasah in exchange for something
sedakah or charity. Perhaps and the merit of all the partners who intangible and perishable,
only perhaps, the pidyon being joined in. If you would like to promises of diplomatic normality.
given to sedakah opened the share in this misvah, email me
artery and allowed the blessing to back at Strategic depth matters in a
flow. sephardiccongregation@gmail.co nation where almost everyone is
m and we’ll include you. Look you a soldier, so society cannot
I discussed this with rabbi Abittan need to give your charity for the function for long with the nation
at the time. He agreed that many year anyway. We’ll guarantee it fully mobilized. Also, before the
of us do things to block the pipe goes to a good cause and it might 1967 Six-Day War, Israel within
and that sedakah or charity is just be what the heavenly doctor the borders established by the
certainly one way of opening the ordered. Join me. And may you 1949 armistice was in one place
pipe. We say sedakah saves from be blessed with a year of health, just nine miles wide, a fact that
death perhaps as the happiness, peace and prosperity. moved George W. Bush to say: In
interventional cardiologist uses a Texas we have driveways that
balloon on a wire to open the Shabbat Shalom, long. Israel exchanged a lot of
artery and save the heart patient land to achieve a chilly peace
from death, giving what we must David Bibi with Egypt, yielding the Sinai,
can do the same. which is almost three times larger
than Israel and was 89 percent of
This time of year especially, it is the land captured in the process
incumbent upon us to give. of repelling the 1967 aggression.
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The intifada was launched by the cruel imprisoner. Gaza's actual The Weekly Torah Reading:
late Yasser Arafat -- terrorist and misfortune is to be under the iron By Rabbi Aron Tendler
Nobel Peace Prize winner -- after fist of Hamas, a terrorist
the July 2000 Camp David organization. In the course of history mankind's
meeting, during which then-Prime most ignoble times have been
Minister Ehud Barak offered to In May, a flotilla launched from during war and conflict. It is
cede control of all of Gaza and Turkey approached Gaza in order almost as if we suspend our
more than 90 percent of the West to provoke a confrontation with humanity and regress to our
Bank, with small swaps of land to Israel, which, like Egypt, lowest common denominator; that
accommodate the growth of administers a blockade to prevent of the wild beast. Murder, rape,
Jerusalem suburbs just across arms from reaching Hamas. The and plunder accompany the
the 1949 armistice line. flotilla's pretense was soldier as he is given license to
humanitarian relief for Gaza -- destroy that which should be most
Israelis are famously fractious, where the infant mortality rate is precious. It confirms, as the Torah
but the intifada produced among lower and life expectancy is teaches, that all morals and
them a consensus that the most higher than in Turkey. values rest upon the sanctity of
any government of theirs could human life. Devalue the
offer without forfeiting domestic Israelis less than 50 years old pricelessness of life, and you
support is less than any have no memory of their nation undermine the foundation upon
Palestinian interlocutor would within the 1967 borders set by the which all values and morals rest.
demand. Furthermore, the intifada 1949 armistice that ended the The private domain of person and
was part of a pattern. As in 1936 War of Independence. The rest of property then becomes subject to
and 1947, talk about partition the world seems to have no the unleashed amorality of the
prompted Arab violence. memory at all concerning the human animal.
intersecting histories of Palestine
In 1936, when the British and the Jewish people. Following the instructions at the
administered Palestine, the Peel end of last weeks Parsha as to
Commission concluded that there The creation of Israel did not how the Jew is to wage war,
was "an irrepressible conflict" -- a involve the destruction of a Moshe, in Parshas Ki Seitsei,
phrase coined by an American Palestinian state, there having presented 74 Mitzvos which
historian to describe the U.S. Civil been no such state since the highlight the value that the Torah
War -- "between two national Romans arrived. And if the places on the private domain of
communities within the narrow Jewish percentage of the world's person and property.
bounds of one small country." population were today what it was
And: "Neither of the two national when the Romans ruled 1st Aliya: In an illuminating
ideals permits" a combination "in Palestine, there would be 200 sequence of emotional and legal
the service of a single state." The million Jews. After a uniquely circumstances,Moshe forewarned
commission recommended "a hazardous passage through two us of the moral and familial
surgical operation" -- partition. millennia without a homeland, dangers of warfare. A
What followed was the Arab there are 13 million Jews. soldierbrings home a non-Jewish
Revolt of 1936 to 1939. female captive. Disregarding
In the 62 years since this rational and obvious differences,
On Nov. 29, 1947, the U.N. homeland was founded on one- he marries her, has his 1st son
recommended a partition plan. sixth of 1 percent of the land of with her, and eventually resents
Israel accepted the what is carelessly and the discord he has fostered upon
recommendation. On Nov. 30, inaccurately called "the Arab himself, his "captive wife", and his
Israel was attacked. world," Israelis have never known extended family. Attempting to
an hour of real peace. Patronizing deny his responsibility in the
Palestine has a seemingly American lectures on the reality of "resentment turned to hatred"
limitless capacity for eliciting risks and the desirableness of breaking apart his family, he
nonsense from afar, as it did peace, which once were merely attempts to deny his 1st born
recently when Britain's Prime fatuous, are now obscene. son's rights. This is illegal.
Minister David Cameron referred
to Gaza as a "prison camp." In a This can Produce the "Rebellious
sense it is, but not in the sense Son"; a child who does not value
Cameron intended. His the private rights of person or
implication was that Israel is the property and will eventually be
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executed for his crimes against Isaiah 54:1-10 : The Haftorah for milk was kosher milk, so he told
society. It's a tragedy that begs us this week's Parsha, Ki Sietzei, the Rabbi he wanted kosher milk
to consider the long range was taken from chapter 54 in also. The Rabbi laughed and
consequences of our actions Yishayuhu. It describes Israel as replied, “Richie, your coffee is just
before giving legal license to the afflicted barren, and inconsolable as kosher as mine. You see, the
wild beast within each of us. in the aftermath of the Temple's milk we have in school is provided
destruction. The Navi assured the by the government. It’s for
2nd Aliya: The laws regarding: People that Hashem's kindness students, teachers, and bus
hanging and burial; returning lost and love for them is ever present, drivers like you. But it’s not for
articles; the fallen animal; protecting and sustaining them at administration people like me.
transvestitism; and the birds nest all times. That’s why I bring milk from home
are detailed. for my coffee.”
EXCERPTS FROM THE JERSEY “Yes, Rabbi Mandel is a holy
3rd Aliya: The laws regarding: SHORE TORAH BULLETIN Rabbi.”
guard rails; mixed agriculture;
forbidden combinations; Tzitzit; Rabbi Reuven Semah Rabbi Shmuel Choueka
the defamed wife; if the “A perfect and honest weight "Hashem shouldn't see your
accusations against the wife are shall you have…For an nakedness so that He should turn
true; the penalty for adultery; the abomination of Hashem, your G- away from you." (Debarim 23:15)
rape of a betrothed or unmarried d, are all who do this, all who act
girl; the prohibition against corruptly.” (Debarim 25:15-16) If we wonder why the Divine
marrying a father's wife; the Presence is so hidden in our
Mamzer; and the prohibition Our perashah speaks about times, this verse provides the
against marrying an Ammonite or the importance of honesty and answer. When G-d sees that the
Moabite are detailed. integrity. Rabbi S.R. Hirsch Jewish People are not conducting
writes: A Jew becomes “an themselves in a modest way, He
4th Aliya: The laws regarding: abomination of G-d, his G-d,” if he turns away from us, leaving us in
marriage to Edomites or calls himself a Jew and does not the dark. Although it says in
Egyptians; the sanctity of the keep what is right and fair in his another place in the Torah that G-
army camp; sheltering run away dealings with his fellow man. If d dwells amongst us even if we
slaves; prostitution; deducted Hashem despises those who act are impure, this refers to other
interest; and keeping vows are corruptly it follows that Hashem kinds of improper behavior.
commanded. loves those who act honestly. When it comes to dressing
immodestly, Hashem chooses not
5th and 6th Aliyot:The laws A true story is told by an to be revealed amongst us. In
regarding: workers eating while administrator in a Brooklyn these days, when the whole
they harvest;divorce and yeshivah. The city provided society is overwhelmingly
remarriage; military exemptions busing for the students. One year encouraging this kind of dress
for a new husband; taking a the city sent a bus driver named code, everyone who makes an
millstone as security for a loan; Richie. Richie was tall and strong attempt to dress properly will be
the punishment for kidnapping; and quickly became the leader of truly bringing blessings on
leprosy; general laws regarding all the drivers. The administrator themselves and on their families.
security for loans, are detailed. relates that he kept Richie happy Indeed, we have seen some
by giving him a cup of coffee people accept upon themselves
7th Aliya: The laws regarding every afternoon before he drove to be more modestly attired, with
paying wages on time; the the children home. One day the merit going to bring a speedy
testimony of close relatives; Richie tells the Rabbi that he isn’t recovery for those who are
concern for the widowed and a holy Rabbi. The Rabbi was stricken with difficult illnesses.
orphaned; forgotten sheaves of surprised, so he asked Richie This is a remarkable zechut. It is
grain; leftover fruit from the how he defined a holy Rabbi. He written that if a person has a
harvest; Malkos - flogging; the explained that he used to drive for temptation to see someone
childless sister-in- law; the Rabbi Mandel of Yeshivah of immodestly dressed and
assailant and the wife who comes Brooklyn on Ocean Parkway and overcomes it, he should, at that
to the rescue; honest weights and Avenue O. Rabbi Mandel used to very moment, pray to Hashem for
measures; and remembering give him coffee, but the Rabbi whatever he wishes, because he
Amalek are commanded. used to drink from a different milk. has created such a magnificent
Richie thought that the Rabbi’s zechut by overcoming his
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that seeks to dissuade us from appear to us in writing here for defending Jewish sovereignty in
attending Shaharit in the morning the first time in the Torah text, the Land of Israel.
is not at 5:30am when the alarm they were essentially already
rings. This fight must be fought taught to the Jewish people in the Moshe in effect says to them:
the night before, by resisting the desert long before by Moshe. “Here are some more mitzvoth
temptation to stay up late. We that will help you succeed in
should not be putting ourselves in There are other explanations to building the land and your
inherently “permissible” situations the placement of these mitzvoth sovereignty over it.” Moshe’s
if they bring us to the “curb,” too here in our parsha advanced by message is as germane to our
close to danger. We must instead many of the great commentators time as it was to the first Jews
steer clear of spiritual risks, and to the Torah. All possible who arrived en masse to settle in
fight the Yeser Hara before he explanations are valid and they the Land of Israel thirty-three
gets too close. are not mutually exclusive. centuries ago.
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phrase: "your brother will be acquired by robbery has been clear away any obstacles in the
degraded in your eyes". built into a building, restitution for path of his return to law-
it may be made in money so as abidingness. The sages fully
The sages derived from this a not to put obstacles in the way of understood that this was not part
fundamental principle, namely the penitents." of Torah law. It required a positive
rehabilitation of an offender once enactment, takkanat ha-shavim,
he has served his punishment. In The rule is that in the case of on their part. But the sages would
the earlier part of the passage the robbery, the guilty party must not have made this enactment if
offender is called ha-rasha, return what he has taken to its they did not feel that it was in the
translated here as "the guilty" but rightful owner ("He shall restore spirit of Torah law.
which literally means "the that which he took by robbery",
wicked". At the end, however, he Lev. 5: 23). This makes obvious They went further still. We find in
is called "your brother". From this, sense. If a robber were allowed the Talmud (Baba Kamma 94b)
the sages (Sifre ad loc.) drew the merely to make monetary this remarkable principle: "If
conclusion that "once he has compensation rather than return robbers or usurers [repent, and of
been beaten, he becomes [again] the stolen object, the law would, their own accord] are prepared to
your brother". in effect, allow someone to restore what they have wrongly
acquire an object - albeit at a taken, it is not right to accept it
This has both a specific and more price - by violence. That must be from them, and one who does so
general application. The specific wrong. is not acting with the approval of
rule applies to offences that the sages." The Talmud explains
carried with them the severe Yet this rule was suspended in a how this teaching emerged from
punishment of karet, literally case where returning the object an actual case.
"being cut off" from one's people. would involve massive loss on the
In many cases this was part of the robber. The situation In the time of Rabbi Judah ha-
interpreted as a divine rather than envisaged by the Mishnah is one Nasi, head of the Jewish
human punishment; the human where, having stolen a beam, the community in the early third
punishment was to receive robber has used it to build a century, a robber decided to end
lashes. The principle that "once house. Restoring the beam would his life of crime and restore
he has been beaten, he becomes involve tearing down the house. A everything he had wrongly taken
[again] your brother" was taken to sense of guilt at the original crime to its owners. His wife said to him:
mean that the human punishment might induce remorse in the "Fool. If you give back everything
cancels the divine punishment. robber and an effort on his part to you have taken, you will not be
Once the offender has been return objects he has wrongly left with even the belt you are
beaten, there is no residual guilt taken. If, however, this would wearing." The rule was then
(Mishnah, Makkot 3: 15). involve disproportionate loss on instituted those who had been
his part - not just returning the robbed should not insist on the
In addition, however, the sages stolen object, but also having to return of their property.
inferred the far wider principle that dismantle what he has built using
when the guilty has received the it - he might decide that restitution Needless to say, this does not
punishment his offence deserved, was just too costly, and decide apply to a robber who has been
he is restored to his earlier status. against giving the object back. brought to court - only to one who
For example, he is permitted to has, without any prompting other
be a witness, and his testimony is So what, one might say. The man than his own conscience, decided
not invalidated by the fact that is a robber. What matters is the to confess his guilt and make
previously he had been found right of the innocent - the original amends. Nor does it apply if the
guilty of an offence. The stain on owner of the beam - not the right robber still has the stolen objects
his character is temporary, not of the guilty. Surely the robber, by in his possession. Nor is it a legal
permanent. breaking the law, has forfeited requirement. The rightful owner
Offenders are to be rehabilitated. any claim on the court's may still take the robber to court if
clemency. Yet Jewish law ruled he so chooses. Some go so far as
This led to a specific enactment otherwise. To be sure, the owner to say that this was never
by the sages, known as takkanat must be compensated for his intended as a permanent
ha-shavim, a rule designed to loss. Without this, he will have enactment, for it is all too easily
remove obstacles to penitence. suffered an injustice. But we must exploitable: robbers could steal
The Mishnah (Gittin 5:5) teaches have concern for the offender and then pretend to be penitent
that "If a beam which was also, in the sense that we must (see Maggid Mishneh to
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Rambam, Hilkhot Gezelah 1: 13). from their ways and live. Turn wrong your brother in money
Yet despite all this, Maimonides back, turn back from your evil matters is thus extremely
writes: "Even though robbing ways, that you may not die, O displeasing to Hashem. But, to
someone is like taking their life . . house of Israel." (Ezekiel 33: 10- wrong him with hurtful words is
. we must help [a robber who 12) even worse (Baba Metzia 58B).
repents of his own accord] and
pardon him in order to bring him Not only were these teachings We see how very important is
back to the right path of many centuries ahead of their Repentance. Teshuba is not
penitents" (Hilkhot Gezelah 1: time. They also have much to possible for a sin against a fellow
13). teach us today. Retributive justice man (whether deceit in money or
is not incompatible with a sense hurtful words), unless he forgives
Another principle the sages of human dignity and freedom. To you.
articulated - this time on the basis the contrary, it is based on them.
of a biblical command - was that Jewish law is concerned not only However, an extremely heinous
one should not make reference to to protect the rights of those who crime of Ervah/immorality
a penitent's past. One should not have been wronged, but also to requires only that Hashem should
say to someone who committed a help wrongdoers rebuild their forgive. Therefore it is less
crime, but has now served his future. Guilt, in Judaism, is about fearsome than sins against our
sentence and expressed remorse, acts, not persons. It is the act, not fellow man whose forgiveness is
"Remember the crime you the person, that is condemned. not always available. Quoted
committed". To do so is to be Once the criminal has served his from “Fortunate Nation” by R’
guilty to "verbal oppression", punishment and repented of his Miller
which is forbidden by the verse, crime, he becomes, once more,
"You shall not oppress one "your brother".
another, but you shall fear your
God; I am the Lord your G-d" AS HEARD FROM RABBI
(Lev. 25: 17; Rambam, Hilkhot AVIGDOR MILLER Z'TL
Teshuvah 7: 8). In the tenth
century, Rabbenu Gershom “For it is an abomination to Parts of this newsletter are courtesy of
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How can we survive?' Say to Address
them, 'As surely as I live, declares Aside from the impossibility of full
the Sovereign Lord, I take no restitution, this verse states that
pleasure in the death of the “anyone that does injustice” to a
wicked, but rather that they turn fellow man is an abomination. To
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