High School Girls Grade 9-12 – This is to introduce you to a new program called the Five Towns Torathon.  And all you have to do is study the Pesach booklet well.   Essentially, it is a game show where high school age girls can win up to a thousand dollars for seminary or spending money in Eretz Yisroel (9th and 10th can use it for camp).. It is endorsed by numerous Rabbonim in the Five Towns including Rav Eytan Feiner shlita, Rav Yaakov Feitman shlita, Rav Yitzchok Frankel Shlita, Rabbi Uri Orlian shlita, Rabbi Daniel Glatstein shlita and more. It will be held bs”d This Thursday, March 23rd from 5PM to 6:45 PM at Beth Shalom on 390 Broadway in Lawrence. There will be door prizes and raffles. Fleishig food will be served including Sushi! Food is under the hashgacha of Rav Avrohom Belsky shlita son of Rav Yisroel Belsky zatzal.  The program will be similar to the “Who Wants to Be an Ashir**” program that has been run previously. To register please  email fivetownstorathon@gmail.com The study guide is found below..  Print it out and study…. FIVE TOWNS TORATHON STUDY GUIDE THIRTY DAYS BEFORE Rav Chaim Kanievsky zatzal writes (Shoneh Halachos 695:12) that before we start the Purim Seudah, we should learn the halachos of both Purim, and believe it or not – Pesach! Rav Menachem Mendel of Vishiva brings an allusion to this from Parshas Nitzavim – The verse states, “m’chotev aitzecha ad sho’ev maimecha – that the laws of drawing water (mayim shelanu for Matzah baking) must be studied from Purim – where the tree that was eventually used hang Haman haRasha was prepared. Moshe Rabbeinu enacted that we must study the halachos of Pesach 30 days before it begins as well as on Pesach itself. A minority view (Ran and Rashba) has understood this to mean that if two students pose questions, one on Pesach laws and the other on another law, we answer the one on Pesach first — but there is no obligation to actually study the halachos 30 days before Pesach. This view has been rejected by the majority of poskim who rule that indeed we must actually study the halachos of Pesach – both 30 days before it begins as well as on Pesach itself (SA 429:1 and MB #2). There is even a view (Pnei Yehoshua Psachim 6a “V’amar Rabbi Yehudah) that the obligation of studying thirty days before the Yom Tov is actually a biblical requirement! The Mishna Brurah also writes (436:32) that within the thirty day period before Pesach one must be careful in anything that one does not to leave Chometz there in a manner that it will not be cleaned easily. When one cleans out Chometz within the thirty day period before Pesach one fulfills the Mitzvah of “Tashbisu” removing Chometz (MB 445:8). It, therefore, makes sense to do the cleaning within this time period as opposed to starting earlier because one gets a Mitzvah.  According to the Pnei Yehoshua one would be fulfilling a Torah Mitzvah.  If, however, it will not be possible to fully clean within the thirty days then one should start earlier. WHY WE OBSERVE MITZVOS The main reason that we observe mitzvos is because it is the Retzon Hashem. Nonetheless, it is important to understand and appreciate some of the reasons that […]

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