Parshas Emor 2019

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Newsletter Parshas ‫אמור‬

Parshas Emor Issue #93 16/05/2019

Announcements:

Around Yeshiva:

❖ A big Mazel Tov to Yechiel Stepsky on his engagement. ❖ Mazel Tov to R’ Dovi Shlit’’a on his daughters engagement to Shloime Wyler ❖ Mazel Tov to Eli Schauder on his 18th Birthday. ❖ A big welcome to Levi Katz & Zvi Schvarcz. ❖ Mazel Tov to Shulem on the birth of his nephew. ❖ Mazel Tov to Yehoshua Chaim Hill on his recent wedding.

❖ The Rosh Yeshiva took the boys on a very memorable trip to Poland before breaking up for Pesach. ❖ The Bochurim started learning ‫ פרק אלו מציאות‬in the morning and evening seder. ❖ The Bochurim have started ski lessons at Rosendale Ski Slopes.

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Dvar Torah

From the Rosh Yeshiva Shlit”a

)'‫ פרק כא' פסוק ז‬:‫ (ויקרא‬......‫מאישה ֣לא ֑יקחו‬ ֖ ‫גרושה‬ ֥ ‫ואשה‬ ֛ And they shall not marry a woman who has been divorced by her husband.

The Gemara in Gittin (90.) discusses a dispute between Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel regarding when one may divorce their wife. Beis Shammai holds that only if she is immoral and Beis Hillel hold that even if she burns the food it would be grounds for a divorce! Of course, everyone asks how can we understand Beis Hillel who seemingly hold that bad culinary skills are a good reason for divorce?!

Rav Sholom Shwadron ztz'l explains that there is a deeper meaning behind these words. And indeed, there most likely isn't a woman who has never burnt the food. However, her behaviour when she burns the food is what concerns Beis Hillel. When the food is burnt there are three choices facing the lady. If she is truly a special wife, she can remove the top part of the food that isn't burnt and give that to her husband while keeping the burnt

part for herself. (Obviously a good husband will insist that his wife enjoys the good part!) If the lady is "so so" she will give some of the burnt and some of the good to each of them. And if she isn't a good person she will give the burnt part to her husband and retain the good part for herself. That is when, says Beis Hillel, that one has reason to divorce his wife.

During the financial meltdown in 2007 when people were battening down the hatches, a yeshiva in America had a fundraising dinner planned which the Rosh Hayeshiva thought would be inappropriate and decided to cancel it. One former successful donor heard about this and prevailed upon the Rosh Hayeshiva to go ahead and he undertook to cover the costs on condition he could speak at the dinner. During the dinner he mentioned the above Gemara and explanation and then applied it to the current situation. He

said, we have a burnt pot of food! We can choose to give the "burnt" section to Hashem, keep our lifestyle as it is and stop giving our usual amount to charity. We can be "so so" and reduce both our lifestyle and our charity giving. Or we can be a perfect "spouse" to Hashem and take all the "burnt section" for ourselves, tighten the belt on our lifestyle and give all the good to Hashem by continuing our regular charity giving!

Indeed, in our life we often have a "burnt pot of food" and it's our choice what will lose out as a result. Will it be our relationship with Hashem or our lifestyle?

However, what we can be sure is that if we are a loyal "wife" to Hashem we will surely be rewarded by our Partner who has the ability to repay those who turn to Him in all times of need.

Good Shabbos!

Avrumi & Yossi speaking on Thursday night.

Guest speakers in the evening: R’ Michoel Goldman, R’Yechiel Cohen & R’ Zecharia Dzialowski.

The Rosh Hayeshiva in America with R’ Avi Fishoff at the recent Kesher Nafshi Shabbaton

The Rosh Hayeshiva speaking at Yechiel Stepsky’s engagement.