Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 12:00pm DAYTIME DIALOGUES with DR. BEN KATZ, Professor, Infectious Diseases, Northwestern University -- click here for the webinar link
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 – 12:00pm STEMM – DNA identification and Halakha with RABBI YONA REISS
The KINS Sukkah will be open and available for anyone to use. One wall will be open to allow for great airflow and safety. Please feel free to use the sukkah, however, please maintain social distance while in the Sukkah and respect others who may also want to use the sukkah.
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HALACHA OF THE WEEK: Trapping Bees on Sukkot The Talmud discusses the prohibition of trapping an animal, one of the 39 melachot of Shabbat. If the purpose of trapping was not to use the animal (i.e. it’s meat or hide) the prohibition is not Biblical in nature, but only Rabbinic because it is a “melacha she’ayna tzricha l’gufo” – an act that is not intrinsically needed.
As a result, the Talmud [Shabbat 106b] teaches that is someone traps a flea on Shabbat, it is only prohibited Rabbinically. However, Tosafot adds that if the flea was biting the person, it is permitted to trap it, because of the pain it would cause. At the same time, the Talmud rules that a non-poisonous snake is allowed to be captured to avoid its bite. Explained the Beur Halacha [Orech Chaim 316] that the difference in law between a snake and a flea is the amount of pain that it inflicts. Since a snake’s bite inflicts a great deal of pain, it can be captured, while a flea’s bite causes minimal pain and therefore, only when it is actually on a person’s skin (or clothing according to Mishna Berura) can it be captured.
What is the status of a bee? Is its sting more like the bite of a snake, or the bite of a flea?
On this there is a debate. However, there are authorities who rule that it a bee sting is much more painful and therefore, a bee can be captured [The 39 Melachos, R’ Ribiat pp. 872-874]. This is especially true if young children are in the sukkah or if a person is allergic to bee stings.
Interestingly, there is a position that maintains that on Yom Tov, since slaughtering of animals is permitted, bees should be killed (“mi’toch sh’hutra l’tzorech hutra nami sh’lo l’tzorech”), while on Shabbat bees should be trapped [Minchat Shlomo 2, 60:28, b’Mareh Bazak 7:54].
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DVAR TORAH The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the “booths” that the Jews dwelled in following the Exodus from Egypt. The only problem is that our Rabbis disagree as to what the "booths" this refers to. According to Rabbi Eliezer these “booths” are a reference to the miraculous "Clouds of Glory," with which G-d protected the Jews throughout their forty year journey in the desert. However, Rabbi Akiva disagrees and maintains that these "booths" refer to the actual booths or huts that the Jews built to live in while in the desert.
Regarding this disagreement, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein in his Aruch HaShulchan [Orech Chayim 625] asked the following question: Whereas Rabbi Eliezer's explanation of the “booths” as referring to the miraculous clouds which protected the Jews certainly deserves to be commemorated, what was so special about Rabbi Akiva’s “booths”? After all, what else were the Jews to do - if not build shelters to live in?
The answer he suggested was that according to Rabbi Akiva, the mitzvah of a Sukkah commemorates the greatness of the Jewish people. Because their faith in G-d was so complete that they traveled into the desert without even a place to live, trusting in G-d that He would care for their every need, which of course, He did.
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MAZAL TOV *to Mrs. Naomi Samber on the birth of a great grandson. The proud parents are Shalva & Leib Lehrfield.
*to Cynthia Levin in honor of her granddaughter Lily Allerhand’s Bat Mitzvah (daughter of Justine and Paul Allerhand.)
REFUAH SHLAIMA * to Etai Rimel who is recovering from surgery * to Shifra Yehudis Orlian who is recuperating at home * to Shulmais Ashkenazy who is recuperating from surgery. * to Jack Maryles who is recuperating at Evanston Hospital * to Gishie Siegel who is recuperating at Buckingham Pavilion
CLASSES @ KINS During the COVID-19 crisis, all of our shiurim will be online and can be accessed live at https://zoom.us/j/8618119980 or at https://www.congkins.org/video-shiurim.html A Donation to the Virtual Learning Fund was made by: Cynthia Levin in honor of her granddaughter Lily Allerhand’s Bat Mitzvah, daughter of Justine and Paul Allerhand. TO SPONSOR A SHIUR - CLICK HERE DAILY & WEEKLY SHIURIM DAF YOMI – LIVE Mon.-Friday @ 7:30am; Sunday - TBA
BIRTHDAYS Elimelech Abramowitz (10/9) Avigayil Rosenwasser (10/9) Alexander Gelerinter (10/10) Mr. Ira Silverstein (10/10) Mr. David Levitt (10/11)
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