Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 31, Behaalosecha

June 14, 2025; 18 Sivan, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

QUESTION: We are Ba’alei Teshuvah (Jews who have returned to observance) and are very close to our parents and siblings who are not observant. We just had a baby last Shabbos, Boruch Hashem. The Bris is scheduled for this coming Shabbos, but we know that our parents and siblings will drive on Shabbos (Heaven forbid) to attend the Bris. We foresee three courses of action:

A) Have the Bris on Shabbos as planned, even though they will drive on Shabbos to attend.

B) Delay the Bris to Sunday so there is no Chillul Shabbos (desecration of Shabbos)...

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Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 30, Naso

June 7, 2025; 11 Sivan, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

Rabbi Akiva Eiger ZT”L (1761- 1837), who served as Chief Rabbi of Posen, was one of the most respected Talmudic scholars of his generation. His commentaries on the Talmud were studied throughout Europe and continue to be studied today.

Once, after his annotations had been printed and distributed in a new edition of the Talmud, Rabbi Eiger discovered that he had made an error in one of his Talmudic comments. Even though the new editions of the Talmud had already been bound and sold, making corrections extremely difficult and costly, Rabbi Eiger insisted on fixing his mistake...

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Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 28, Behar-Bechukosai,

May 24, 2025; 26 Sivan, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

"When you sell property to your neighbor, or buy from the hand of your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another." (Vayikra 25:14)

The Ramban (Nachmanides) explains that when the Torah says not to “wrong one another,” it is referring to the prohibition of "Ona'ah" – overcharging one another – which is typically overcharging someone for a sixth or greater than the going market price. However, this prohibition applies specifically to the buying and selling of movable objects (Metaltilin). It does not apply to the purchase and sale of real estate such as fields or houses (Karkahos)...

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