Igros Moshe (OH III# 3) Question: It is customary to fast when witnessing a sefer Torah or Tefillin falling what is the basis? Answer: You mention that this is stated in Moed Koton (26) If one see a Torah being burnt he needs to do tear his clothing and similarly if he sees tefillin being burnt. However that is referring to tefiilin bezarua as is stated in the gemora. However it is not clear what bezarua means. The Beis Yosef (YD #340) states that there is no tearing of clothing for a Sefer Torah except if it were burnt by a Jewish king bezarua. The Beis Yosef writes that this indicates that there is no tearing of the clothing unless it was burnt by a Jew and not specifically a king. Bezarua seems to mean that there is deliberate intent for chillul HaShem by destroying something holy and this is stated explicitly by the Meiri and the Eshkol and even if a goy does it. Nevertheless the poskim are discussing burning with the intention of profaning and not a Torah that falls from a person’s hand by accident. Howewver in a case of a Torah falling from a man’s hand even accidentally it is a disgrace to the holy Torah and similarly for all holy writings and tefillin and therefore one should be very upset about this. Therefore there is the custom to be upset and to fast since this might result in repentance. In conclusion as far as the practical halacha everyone who saw it should fast even if it fell by accident Even though the person who dropped intentionally is more obligated. Some say that all the members of the synagogue that own the sefer Torah need to fast, however in practice one can be lenient for those that did not see the fall. The custom is that all that witnessed it even if they don’t belong to the synagogue should fast. Even if it slipped from one hand but not completely it is apropriate to fast . However one who wants to be lenient should not be criticized.
Friday, July 18, 2025
Psak: Choosing vs avoiding error - consequences
Rosh(43:6): Question: A woman has been married for many year and has children. Now she is saying that he disgusts her (ma’us alei). Do we force the husband to give a get? Answer: Even though the Rambam writes, When the wife says ma’us alei we force the husband to give her a get – but Rabbeinu Tam and the Ri disagree. Since this is a dispute amongst rabbinic authorities why should we stick our heads amongst the great mountains and to make a forced get which is not required by the halacha and to permit a married woman to remarry? Furthermore due to our sins, Jewish women today have loose morality. Therefore there is concern that the wife might be interested in another man. Whoever forces a husband to give a get when the wife says ma’us alei is simply multiplying mamzerim. All of this is in regard to what to do if asked. However if the get has been forced already – if they relied on the view of the Rambam – what has been done has been done.
In addition there are contemporary poskim who view the Rambam has rejected totally and they problably would require that the wife not only not remarry after a forced get but that if she did then she could not stay in the marriage and that children from the second marriage would be mamzerim.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
It was Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion. She turned to Epstein’s family and friends. One of them was Donald Trump.
Maxwell collected letters from Trump and dozens of Epstein’s other associates for a 2003 birthday album, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Coca-Cola dodges after Trump says soda will switch back to cane sugar
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Coca-Cola in the United States will begin to be made with cane sugar, but the company did not explicitly say that was the case when it was asked later about Trump’s claim.
'Not going away': Ex-GOP rep hurls Trump Jr.'s old tweets back at president
Kinzinger said there are two things that Americans should keep in mind regarding the Epstein files story. First, Epstein was arrested in 2019 under the first Trump administration. Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, is also in jail. The combination of these two points suggests that there is a client list despite Trump's repeated assertions that it is a hoax.
Second, Trump "built a political movement" on the back of the Epstein case, Kinzinger said. He used the case to create a story about Democratic elites operating a child sex trafficking ring, and then positioned himself as someone fighting back against that cabal.
"Either they lied about this conspiracy over and over to win an election, or they're covering something up," Kinzinger said on CNN's "The Arena with Kasie Hunt."
Danon blasts Guterres: UN silent on Syria massacre, targets Israel
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411791
In response, Danon said, “UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres continues to expose his moral bankruptcy. While members of the Druze community are being brutally slaughtered in Syria, he once again chooses silence.”
“Instead of calling for swift action in Syria, he chooses to vilify Israel—the only country actively fighting the forces of evil in the region,” added the Israeli envoy.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Branding Matters: What's In a Name?
20 Tammuz, 5785/ Parshas Pinchos
We beg indulgence of the esteemed tzibbur to encapsulate a clarification BE"H of a very relevant but poorly grasped sugya - pertaining to Minnim and Minnus - found in two of those very selections of Daf Yomi of this week - Avoda Zorah 27b and 28a. (See our kuntrus Mishmeres HaKodesh and/or our online posts on Da'at Torah blogspot for more details.)
The Gemara on 27b addresses the very commonly applicable prohibition of Avoda-Zorah-by-Attribution, "Ain Misrapin min HaMinnim." That is a Rabbinic edict prohibiting merely benefiting (even in absence of any worship) from mystical therapies/ techniques whose effectiveness (real or imagined) is attributed to idolatrous or heretical notions. [Numerous additional prohibitions may apply to such mystical therapies when performed isolated from any idolatrous or heretical attributions. However, that's beyond our scope here, and is addressed extensively elsewhere, including online (e.g. Da'at Torah blogspot. Furthermore, there are those Rishonim who extend this prohibition to non-mystical therapies. However that more stringent view is not quoted in Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Daiyah 155:1; therefore we won't address it here.]
The rationale behind this prohibition is as follows: In case the mystical techniques would work, then the absence of an evident natural mechanism - combined with the fact that the practitioner attributed it to Avoda Zorah - may lead someone to succumb to the heretical myth that Avoda Zorah has some inherent power. That error would constitute high heresy, inasmuch as it is a foundational Jewish conviction (often translated as "belief") that no entity other than G-d has the ability to harm or help us based on its own independent "will" (see Chazon Ish, Yoreh Daiyoh 62:19, for example).
Therefore, to safeguard Jews against the hazard of succumbing to such a heretical misconception, Our Sages require us to sacrifice our lives rather than benefit from such "healing" - precisely because of how it's identified/ labelled, or "branded." They required one to sacrifice his or her life out of a concern for a possible (spiritual) threat to Emunah - in the face of a certain danger to their physical life (see Teshuvas Maharam Shik, O.C. 304). Thus, the "mere" idolatrous "branding" of a mystical therapy, such as a lachash, an incantation, transforms that lachash to be prohibited to the extent of sacrificing one's life to avoid it, a status termed "Yaihoraig ve'al Ya'avor."
Unfortunately, that sugya in A.Z. 27b (continued on 28a) is widely misunderstood. Additionally, one popular English language aide does not at all well serve the public in that regard. The unaware or misinformed reader could easily come away with the misimpression that the prohibition is applicable only in cases when the therapy is performed by an overt pagan missionary, a Min (in other words, that it's only an "issur gavrah"). However, if the practitioner doesn't fall under that Min/ devotee profile, this prohibition, they imagine, doesn't apply.
This misunderstanding is perhaps even more dangerous than it is wrong.
In fact, that issur (prohibition) is more fundamentally an issur "cheftzah" - prohibited by virtue of the actual attribution to idolatrous/ heretical notions - regardless of who attributes it to Avoda Zorah. That means that the issur would similarly apply to a frum Yid unaware of the nature of the terms he's using (e.g. Qi, Ch-i, K-i, Vital-Force, Y-in/ Y-ang, universal-energy, subtle-energy, etc.*) to describe the mechanism or nature of the technique.
[* See the end of the Psak published in the Sefer Rav Belsky on Alternative Medicine et.al., Judaica Press, page 130. The concept of "universal energy"/ Ki, Q-i/Ch-i, et.al. is a heretical concept; its' worldview is a heretical worldview; and all associated notions must be totally avoided.]
Now, on top of that basic prohibition, there is an additional stringency introduced by the gavrah - in the case of a Minn practitioner - a devotee of A.Z./ heresy.
This Halachic nuance is clarified by the Ran on Avoda Zorah (s.v. "Ve'ikka," quoted by the Maharsha), and the Rosh (2:9), and cited leHalacha in Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Daiyoh 155:1, end. Any attribution to idolatry/ heresy prohibits a mystical therapy/ practice/ technique -- even if the attributor is not a devotee, a Min. A devotee, however, does introduce an additional stringency - inasmuch as his involvement in performing such therapies prohibits them even in the absence of any overt attribution to idolatry/ heresy - because we assume that he is indeed attributing his mystical therapy to idolatrous/ heretical notions.
••• More information on a range of related concerns is found in the Sefer Rav Belsky on Alternative Medicine et.al., Judaica Press; in particular see the Psak on page 128-130.
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May we start off these Three Weeks by expediting the Final Redemption in the merit of helping save all who wish to be saved from falling into the types of iniquities that perpetuate this bitter Galus. Furthermore, may the efforts to blunt the influence of Minnim and eliminate brazen detractors of authentic Emunah provide much needed merits in reducing our communal susceptibility to Middas HaDin, as Chazal exhort us:
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Trump Turns on MAGA: Only ‘Bad People’ Buy ‘Epstein Hoax’
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-maga-only-bad-people-buy-epstein-files-hoax.html
Donald Trump is in quite the predicament. Whenever there’s a story he doesn’t like, he just dismisses it as a “hoax” and attacks anyone who keeps talking about it as “bad people,” “scum,” “the enemy of the people,” or perhaps some combination of these insults.
But right now, the story the president would like to go away is his administration’s failure to release the Jeffrey Epstein “client list” or any truly revelatory information about the late sex offender. And the people most incensed about this story aren’t Democrats or the mainstream media but MAGA influencers and other elements of the GOP base, who believed Team Trump when they promoted the Epstein story as a “deep state” conspiracy that would be exposed as soon as he returned to the White House.
Later on Wednesday morning, Trump chided “stupid” Republicans for playing into Democrats’ hands by demanding the answers they were promised on Epstein.
“It’s all been a big hoax; it’s perpetrated by the Democrats,” he said. “And some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net and so they do the Democrats’ work.”
So from one perspective, Trump is escalating the conflict with his own supporters like never before. But from another perspective, you’re not truly MAGA if you believe what Trump told you to think a few months ago, rather than what he’s telling you to believe today. So he’s actually only lashing out at Democrats and their “stupid” ex-MAGA allies. Problem solved!
Havdala - Standing or Sitting
Tucker Carlson suggests Jeffrey Epstein was working for Mossad
Addressing the conservative conference, Carlson said that the real question that needed to be asked about Epstein was not “was Jeffrey Epstein a weirdo who was abusing girls?” but rather, “why was he doing this, on whose behalf, and where was the money coming from?”
“And I think the real answer is Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of intel services, probably not American,” he said. “And we have every right to ask, ‘On whose behalf was he working?'”
He answered his own question a moment later, declaring it “extremely obvious to anyone who watches” that Epstein “had direct connections to a foreign government.”
“Now, no one’s allowed to say that foreign government is Israel, because we’ve been somehow cowed into thinking that that’s naughty,” he said, raising his voice as the crowd erupted into applause and cheers of support.
“There is nothing wrong with saying that, there’s nothing hateful about saying that, there’s nothing antisemitic about saying that — there’s nothing even anti-Israel about saying that!”
Havdala Over a Telephone for a woman in Hospital
Shulchan Aruch (OC #296.8) Women are obligated to say Havdalah just as they are obligated to say Kiddush. And there are those who argue. RAMA: Therefore, they should not recite Havdalah for themselves, rather they should hear Havdalah from men.
Igros Moshe (OC IV #100) There is a view that women are exempt from havdala (OC #296.8)
Don't expect Tel Aviv-New York return fares under $1,600
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-dont-expect-tel-aviv-new-york-return-fares-under-1600-1001516040
In contrast, the tickets for the flights that will now be added following the early return are brand new - and therefore are sold at introductory pricing, and not at "last minute" prices that characterize limited availability. As a result, it is still possible to find individual tickets for a limited time window for the end of July at prices of about $1,200-1,300. In August, prices are already returning to higher levels (according to the pricing method in the industry).
The bottom line: The presence of American companies is critical to lowering ticket prices. The high prices of Israeli companies reflect the enormous demand, which outweighs supply.
‘This is why people don’t trust government’: Nikki Haley pushes for Epstein files
Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is the latest Republican to pile onto the MAGA rebellion over the Trump administration’s handling of the files related to the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
“Release the Epstein files and let the chips fall where they may,” Haley wrote in a social media post Tuesday. “This is why people don’t trust government. You can never go wrong with being transparent. Redact victims’ names but release the rest.”
Arab bus driver injured in assault by group of young men in Jerusalem; 1 arrested
https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-bus-driver-injured-in-assault-by-group-of-teens-in-jerusalem/
Three young men assaulted and robbed an Arab bus driver overnight in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood.
Ahmad Shehadeh, who works for the Extra bus company, was hospitalized with a broken nose after he was attacked at around 1 a.m. Tuesday morning. The assailants choked, punched and kicked the driver, then stole his phone after disembarking, the Bus Drivers Association said in a statement.
“I don’t get how we’ve reached this point where we [bus drivers] have to be everyone’s punching bag,” said the attacked driver in an official statement from the Bus Drivers Association. “When will they wake up? Only when one of us dies?”
Trump Tariffs Hit Consumer Prices
President Trump insists there is “no inflation” as he bludgeons the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. But denying inflation reality won’t make it go away. His tariffs are making it harder for the central bank to do what he wants, as last month’s rise in the consumer-price index shows.
The Labor Department’s consumer-price report Tuesday showed inflation ticked up in June to 0.3% or 2.7% in the last year. Real average hourly earnings fell 0.1% as inflation eroded wage gains. Real average weekly earnings fell 0.4% and 0.6% for production-level workers as hours of work declined, perhaps because of a slowing economy and labor market.
Trump Effect Starts to Show Up in Economy
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-effect-starts-to-show-up-in-economy-45c83c7a?mod=hp_lead_pos1
New data reflect that president’s tariff and immigration policies are boosting inflation and weighing on jobs
Syrian regime forces celebrate capture of Druze stronghold
Syrian regime troops have taken control of most of Suwayda, the capital of the Druze Mountain region, in a brutal assault marked by mass executions, humiliations, and house-to-house killings targeting the Druze minority.
Who are the Druze and why is Israel bombing Syria to protect them?
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/15/middleeast/israel-strikes-syria-sectarian-clashes-druze-intl
Syria’s military entered a stronghold for the Druze community in the country’s south on Tuesday, the government said, reigniting fears of attacks against minorities and triggering renewed Israeli strikes on the forces dispatched by Damascus.
Clashes broke out over the weekend between Druze forces and Bedouin tribes in the southern city of Suwayda, leaving 30 people dead and injuring dozens more. The violence prompted an intervention by the Syrian government, which lost eighteen of its soldiers in the clashes.
Islamist forces allied with the Syrian government joined the fight this week, heightening concern among the Druze and prompting a key community figure to call for international protection.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Trump offers MAGA a third option on Epstein
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5400620-trump-epstein-files-release-scandal/
That was the world as we knew it on Friday: Either the Trump Justice Department was caught in a politically motivated lie or it was involved in an ongoing cover-up on behalf of Trump, or the “deep state” or to keep a blackmail scheme going or … anything, really. That’s the thing about cover-ups: If their existence is revealed, but allowed to stay in place, the imagination is the only limit to conjecture about what might be underneath.
Then on Saturday, Trump introduced a third possibility: That there was a cover-up, but it was a virtuous cover-up, because what was being concealed was itself fake.
He announced: “Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, [Former FBI Director James] Comey, [former CIA Director John] Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration. … They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called ‘friends’ are playing right into their hands.
Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans break with Trump on Epstein
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/15/mike-johnson-epstein-files-democrats-house-vote/
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that he supported the release of the Epstein files days after Trump’s Justice Department said the matter was effectively closed. Johnson is a close Trump ally and has never broken so publicly with the president on an issue.
Earlier Tuesday, President Donald Trump said Bondi gave him “a very quick briefing” on the Epstein documents before baselessly blaming previous Democratic administrations for creating the files.
Talis Koton
Bereishis (9:23) And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness
Rashi (Bereishis 9:23) And he took”, in order to teach regarding Shem that he devoted himself to this duty with more eagerness than Japheth. Therefore have Shem’s sons received the privilege of wearing the cloak that has fringes,
Igros Moshe (OC I #2) Question: Tzitzis of wool for a garment that is a different material than its wool corners? Answer It is clear that one needs to make the tzitzis of the same material as the garment. For example if the garment is silk and the corners are cotton. The derasha that tzitzis should be like the corners means like the garment. Thus for those who want to follow the stringency of the Maharam MeRoutenberg that wool tzitsis do not exempt other species it is not relevant that the corners are wool if the garment is silk and cotton. Thus a silk garment needs silk tzitzis
Igros Moshe (OC I #2) Question:People who can’t wear a wool talis koton in the summer and they wear a talis koton of other material yet the tzitzis are still made of wool since the halacha is not like the view of the Maharam MeRoutenberg. Answer However it is definitely appropriate for a baal nefesh to be strict to only wear a wool talis Koton if at all possible in order to fulfill all views.
Igros Moshe (OC II #1) Question: Do garments of synthetic material such as nylon and rayon that are worn in the hot summer require tzitzis? Answer It seems reasonable to me that garments made from synthetic material should be exempt from tzisis. This is obvious from the fact that a leather garment does not require tzitzis because only garments made from from threads like that of wool and linen need tzitzis. .Even if leather was made into strings and woven it would still be exempt from tzitzis since it is not typically a woven materia and thus such a garment is not considered a woven garment and is thus exempt from tzitzis. Consequently garments of these synthetic materials which don’t inherently require weaving from threads should be exempt from tzitzis. But perhaps there is a rabbinic decree that all garments need tzitzis which seems to be the view of the Rambam that tzitzis are reminders to do mitzvos. However the Rambam explicitly exempts leather garments from tzitzis and thus would likely also exempt these synthetic materials. So it could be that there is a decree for all garments that are woven like wool and linen. However to wear these garments in hot weather – even cotton is exempt - from the Torah obligation of tzitzis according to the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch and thus do not fulfill the Torah obligation. This is a problem during a time of G-d’s anger that one is not protected from harm. However according to the Rema and the majority of poskim that all garments require tzitzis according to the Torah and thus they can clearly be relied upon even not to be strict to wear only a woolen garment even if only because of the heat. Nevertheless a baal nefesh should be strict to only wear a woolen talis Koton.
Igros Moshe (OC IV #4) Question Is there an obligation to wear a garment that requires tzitzis? Answer Clearly there is no obligation except to have tzitzis if you are wearing a garment that requires tzitzis. However since it has become customary for Jews to wear a garment that requires tzitzis it is forbidden to ignore this custom which is learned from the verse in Mishlei “Do not desert the teachings of your mother.” . In fact since this custom results in doing a mitzva it is surely obligatory. There are many important reasons given for weaing tzitzis (Menachos 43b). We learn also that it protects at the time of G-d’s anger and thus even if he doesn’t own a proper garment he should buy one for protection.
Igros Moshe (OC V #20.25) Question Is there an obligation to wear a four corned garment and to say a beracha on tzitzis? Answer You say it is apparently a widespread practice in yeshivos that the young men do not say a beracha on tzitzis in the morning when they put on a talis Koton. This obviously against the halacha if the garment is at least three quarters of an amah on each side except for the neck hole. If it is too small than that explains the absence of a beracha. But I don’t understand why a ben Torah would wear a talis Koton that doesn’t require tzitzis. Even if there were no obligation to wear tzitzis but it protects at a time of G-d’s anger. Therefore it it is obvious that the heads of the yeshiva need to warn all the students over the age of 13 to wear a garment that requires tzitzis. Because of this I even wear a wool talis koton even in the hot summer to fulfill the Torah requirement. While for yeshiva students it is not necessary to be so strict because of the difficulty of the heat, nevertheless they need to wear a proper sized talis koton of other materials such as cotton but not from synthetic material such as nylon and rayon which are exempt from tzitzis.
Igros Moshe (YD II #137) Question Someone who takes off a talis Koton at night does he need to put it back on at night? Answer From the Magen Avraham it would seem prohibited. However perhaps only a regular talis is prohibited because it requires a beracha. However it seems obvious that not redressing will not result in punishment even at a time of G-d’s anger. Therefore I don’t see that it is prohibited to not put it back on and it is not even a stringency especially according to the Bach.
Trump’s missile announcement provides vital relief to Ukraine – but lack of stricter sanctions against Russia stings
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/14/europe/ukraine-patriot-missle-announcement-trump-russia-intl
The good news for Kyiv is familiar. Trump has permitted NATO’s other members to buy American arms – a wide range of them, it seems. Included are the urgently needed Patriot interceptor missiles, and the batteries that fire them. Trump even suggested there were 17 hanging around to “spare” in one NATO nation.
Whatever the precise reality of the arms package NATO eventually affords, it is exactly what Trump suggested at the weekend and exactly what Ukraine needs. The nightly barrage of Russian ballistic missiles can only be stopped by US Patriot missiles, and only the White House can authorize their supply. Ukraine was short of these, and other sophisticated American weapons that may not have been referenced by name and may be included in the deal. This is short-term, vital relief.
But the sting for Ukraine comes in what was not announced: Immediate secondary sanctions against customers of Russian energy, which could significantly empty Moscow’s coffers. The scope of sanctions proposed by a bill in the US Senate – potentially 500% on all trade with those who buy Russian hydrocarbons – would have been devastating.
United Torah Judaism quits gov’t to protest new proposal on army enlistment exemptions
The ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party quit both the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition on Monday evening as part of an ongoing struggle over the conscription of yeshiva students.
The party’s Degel Hatorah faction was the first to announce its withdrawal, with a spokesman for the faction’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Dov Lando, declaring in a statement that “in accordance with [the rabbi’s] instructions, Degel Hatorah Knesset members will leave the government and coalition today.”
Accusing the government of seeking “to increase the hardship of the lives of Torah students” and repeatedly “failing to fulfill their obligations to regulate the legal status of the dear yeshiva students,” Lando stated in an accompanying letter that his view was that “participation in the government and the coalition should be immediately terminated,
UTJ leaves coalition: The Draft Law presented deviates from what was agreed upon
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411656
Following the directive of the spiritual leader of the Degel HaTorah faction of United Torah Judaism (UTJ), Rabbi Dov Lando, the party announced on Monday evening that it and its three MKs will leave the government and the coalition.
“Following the directive of our revered leader, Rabbi Lando, and in light of the Draft Law presented tonight to the Haredi Knesset members - which deviates from the agreements and promises made by Likud and the coalition - Degel HaTorah will withdraw from the coalition and the government,” the party stated.
“In his conversation this evening with Degel HaTorah’s Knesset members, Rabbi Lando emphasized the great responsibility resting on their shoulders and the sanctification of God’s name through their unwavering defense of Torah scholars. He instructed them to withdraw immediately,” the statement added.