Making Sense of Shemittat Kesafim: A Large Problem
Shemitat Kesafim seems utterly irrational.
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Shemitat Kesafim seems utterly irrational.
From the blog of Kenny Schiowitz at The Times of Israel
Ashkenazic Approach Many Ashkenazic yeshiva students wear their tzitzit out, in line with the Mishna Berura’s (8:26) powerful exhortation to do so.
In Tribute to Rav Moshe Kupetz ztz”l I once heard the venerated rosh yeshivah of Gateshead, Rav Avrohom Gurwicz, recount at a hesped that in ancient times it was tradition to lay the niftar’s book and key on the coffin. For Rav Moshe Kupetz, who passed away this past Sunday, 8 Adar, that book would have been the Torah he taught to a wide assortment of Jews in Manchester and beyond, and the key would have been the one to unlock hearts of all ages. He was a pivotal resource for so many Jewish schools — the full range of mosdos chinuch, where he knew his sacred mission was to teach all st...