Shabbat, June 26, 2021 during seudah shlishit RABBI ARI ZUCKER "Weapons and Worship"
HALACHA OF THE WEEK: SHEHECHIYANU DURING THE THREE WEEKS Because these weeks mark a period of intense mourning and tragedy, the custom is to refrain from reciting the bracha of shehechiyanu - after all, how can we honestly say "shehechiyanu... la'zeman hazeh" - that we are thrilled to once again enter this time of year!?
Therefore, from the 17th of Tammuz and until after the 9th of Av we generally refrain from wearing new clothing, eating a new fruit or buying new items that require a bracha of shehecheyanu [Shulchan Aruch 551:17; Mishna Berura ibid., note 99].
However, many poskim opine that one may recite the bracha of shehechiyanu on Shabbat until Rosh Chodosh [Aruch HaShulchan 551:38; Mishna Berura ibid., note 98]. Therefore, if the new fruit can last until Shabbat, one should wait until Shabbat, otherwise it may be recited during the week [Mishna Berura ibid. note 101] The same is true for new clothes, and especially if there is a special occasion such as a bar mitzvah or bris [Yechave Daat 1:37]. However, there are those who are stringent and permit this only about a fruit which is seasonal but not regarding other items such as clothing [Chayei Adam 14].
Clothing that does not require a bracha of shehechiyanu may be purchased until Rosh Chodosh, therefore, one may purchase socks, shirt, shoes, ties, dishes or any other item [Mishna Berura, ibid. note 45]. If there is a big sale than one may purchase the garment although they require that one recite a shehecheyanu, however, it may not be worn until after Tisha B'Av [Mishna Berura ibid., note 11; Shaar Hatziyun note 12; Kaf HaChaim note 12].
One should refrain from buying a house during the three weeks unless one is in desperate need [Rivovot Efraim 2:155 and 3:341; Nitai Gavriel 7;9]. Similarly, one should not move into a new house during the three weeks. If one cannot wait, then one should put up mezuzot and take some of belongings into the apt or house before the seventeenth of Tammuz [Levush Mordechai 1:101].
DVAR TORAH "To these the land shall be divided... to the larger tribe, you shall give a larger inheritance... but by lot the land shall be divided... Through the lot their inheritance shall be divided, whether they are many or few". (26:53-56)
Despite the seeming repetition found within these verses, the Vilna Gaon explained that they describe the true process of dividing the land.
As he explained, it is implausible to suggest that the land was distributed exclusively by a lottery - after all the tribe of Yehudah, for example, due to its size, had to receive the largest portion of land. And if a lottery was the exclusive means of dividing the land, what would have happened, had the portion of land designated for Yehudah fallen to another tribe?
Therefore, explained the Vilna Gaon, what must have occurred is that the portions of land for the tribes were all, initially, equal. At that point, the lottery took place to determine where the tribes would live. Once that was complete, however, portions of land were taken from the smaller tribes and added to the portions of the larger tribes, so that each would receive sufficient land. This, he explained is the reason why the borders of each tribe were not straight but jutted out in some places – those were the areas that were added following the lottery.
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