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A couple of months ago, my wife and I spent an idyllic week and a half in Far North Queensland’s Trinity Beach (near Cairns). Shame about the name! Everything else about the place can only be spoken about in superlatives – especially its serenity. The resort where we stayed (not for the first time) boasts vistas of mountain and water scenery riveting in its beauty and blessedly viewable from the balcony of our studio apartment. No prizes for guessing where I fixed my place for davening during our stay! Except that is on Shabbat which we spent at the nearby Chabad House where the rabbi and rebbetsin made us wonderfully welcome with their special brand of hospitality and
Vayikra, 25:35-36: “And when your brother becomes downfallen, and he stretches out his hand with you, you will support him, and even the stranger and dweller, and he will live with you. Do not take from him
neshech and
Rashi, Shemos, 22:24, Dh:
Neshech: “
Ribbis (Interest), (it is called
neshech) because it is like the bite of a snake, that makes a small wound in the foot, and he (the person bitten) doesn’t feel it and suddenly it spreads and swells up to his head, (it is the same with ribbit in that) he doesn’t feel it and it is not noticeable until the
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The Book of Vayikra is also called “
Torat Kohanim” – “The Laws of the Priests”. The first portions of the Book of Vayikra pertain to sacrifices, which fall in the bailiwick of the Priests. The portions of Tazria and Metzora discuss the laws of ritual purity. These laws are particularly relevant to the Priests inasmuch as a person who is ritually impure may not administer in the Holy Temple (