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Almost three weeks after Degel HaTorah chairman Moshe Gafni was hospitalized in Maanyei HayYeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak, he has been released to his home. Gafni underwent two health catheterizations while in the hospital. In the course of his hospitalization, rumors began to spread that his condition had deteriorated, forcing his office to release a statement denying the rumors. “MK Gafni underwent two catheterizations in the hospital,” his office stated. “He is fully conscious, is not ventilated and his life is not in danger.” Gafni is expected to return to the Knesset in the coming days, where he chairs the Finance Committee. During his absence, the committee was headed by UTJ MK Yitzchak Pindrus. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Yeshivah bochurim in Yeshivas Nehora, which is located in Mevo Choron, were surprised by a visit of Education Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday morning. Gallant and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu were in Mevo Choron on Tuesday to attend a local school’s opening day ceremony. Gallant addressed the bochurim, speaking about the chashivus of tefillah and Torah which has provided Yisrael the zechus to survive during its long galus. He encouraged the bochurim to continue guarding the mesoras Yisrael, especially during the difficult times Israel is enduring during the coronavirus crisis.

Mental health therapists’ caseloads are bulging. Waiting lists for appointments are growing. And anxiety and depression are rising among Americans amid the coronavirus crisis, research suggests. In the latest study to suggest an uptick, half of U.S. adults surveyed reported at least some signs of depression, such as hopelessness, feeling like a failure or getting little pleasure from doing things. That’s double the rate from a different survey two years ago, Boston University researchers said Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open. The study did not ask about any diagnosis they might have received, and for many people, the problem is mostly angst rather than full-blown psychiatric illness. But experts say the feeling is genuine and deserving of professional help.

For the first time in 35 years, a Bris Milah was held in the city of Cluj-Napoca, otherwise known as Klausenberg Romania. The Bris was held in the Chabad House that is run by Rabbi Bov Bear Urgand. The Mohel was flown in specially from France for the occasion, as currently, those flying from France to Romania, do not require a period of isolation upon landing. This allowed the Bris to be performed on time. The Bris was performed on a member of a family that lives in a small town next to Cluj-Napoca, which is in close contact with the Chabad Shluchim in the city. The event was held on Tuesday in compliance with Covid-19 restrictions, in the presence of the family and community members.

Israel’s national carrier El Al announces a first cargo flight to Dubai, days after its groundbreaking passenger trip to the United Arab Emirates. Following on the heels of a deal to normalize Israel-UAE ties, the cargo flight is scheduled to take off from Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv on September 16, the airline says in a statement. Unlike the direct passenger flight, the cargo service will fly via Liege in Belgium before continuing to Dubai, El Al says, without explaining the roundabout route. The Boeing 747 aircraft will be carrying “agricultural and high-tech equipment” from Israel to the Emirates, El Al says, with the route set to become a regular Wednesday fixture in the future.

The Contemporary Eruv contains a comprehensive and lucid review of the laws of constructing and using an eruv, especially applicable to today’s neighborhoods.  It contains extensive, in-depth footnotes and source material; diagrams & illustrations; and an easy reference table to pertinent sugyos in Maseches Shabbos and Eruvin.  Compiled from many Talmudic and Rabbinic sources and presented in a clear, annotated and illustrated format, this important work will benefit every Jew Don’t go through Eruvin without this indispensable guide!   Since the first edition of this sefer came out as a kuntres in 1993 called “Eruvin in Modern Metropolitan Areas,” each new, expanded edition has sold out completely.  Why has it been so popular?   It provides a clear and conceptual understanding of th

Israel’s Health Ministry recorded a new record of 3,074 daily coronavirus cases on Thursday, the first time that over 3,000 daily cases have been diagnosed. There are currently 23,938 active cases, with 426 in serious condition, of whom 124 are ventilated. Israel’s coronavirus cabinet is convening on Thursday and coronavirus czar Prof. Ronni Gamzu is reportedly requesting a general lockdown on eight “red cities” and a nighttime curfew in all red cities. A list of 23 red areas, mostly Arab, was published by the Health Ministry on Tuesday, and new areas will reportedly be added to the list during the meeting, including Elad and the Arab city of Nazareth. The other areas on the list are Arab areas, including twelve neighborhoods in Jerusalem.

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is a question that comes up quite often: When are we allowed to remove our Mezuzos? Can we do so when we move? What about during the summer time? In the following article this issue will be explored. Prohibition IF A PERSON is moving out of his house or apartment and the next tenant is Jewish it is forbidden to remove the Mezuzos (SA YD 291:2). The Talmud (Bava Metziah 102b) states as follows: One who rents a house to his friend, it is upon the tenant to affix the Mezuzah. And when he leaves he may not take the Mezuzah in hand and depart. The same passage in the Talmud also relates a very tragic story regarding a person who removed his Mezuzos. The Mezuzah has 713 letters in it.

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com If seforim had a Pulitzer Prize – this Sefer would have clinched one.  But the best kept secret of the newly penned “Junior Chofetz Chaim” (Israel Bookshop 2020, 277 pp) for children is that it is not exclusively for children at all.  Wrapped in the guise of a children’s book is a scholarly work that captures the depth and breadth of the Chofetz Chaim’s original work on Shmiras HaLashon but in plain and simple English. This is not just a work that will sell in the next year or two, or three.  This will withstand the test of time and will be the “go-to sefer” on the topic because of a unique combination of four factors: Its strict adherence to the integrity of the Choftez Chaim’s text Its combination of conceptual depth and simplicity of language.