[chicago-aneinu] Please Daven

Please daven for a refuah shleima bimheira for Golda bas Chana, bsoch sh'or cholei Yisroel. Life threatening situation. May we share only bsoros tovos. Thanks.

Nachum Segal Presents JM in the AM Live From the United Hatzalah of Israel Offices

Find out about this crucial organization that plays a major role in saving lives throughout Israel. With many special guests.
Nachum Segal continues his great week in Israel with a visit to United Hatzalah of Israel. United Hatzalah of Israel is an independent non-profit fully volunteer Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Organization that assists in responding to medical emergencies throughout Israel. The primary role of United Hatzalah volunteers - trained and certified as EMTs, Paramedics and MD's - is to provide an immediate response within 2-4 minutes from the onset of an incident: establishing a life-saving bridge of medical care; transmitting vital information to control centers and once the local ambulance service arrives, working alongside its crew to enable a swift transfer to hospital. United Hatzalah's education department is an innovative leader in the fields of public health, safety and accident prevention training. Nachum's distinguished list of guests to the show this morning included: Daniel Katzenstein, Administrative Director of UHI, Eli Beer, President of UHI, Jerusalem Council member Elisha Peleg,Yonatan Razel, Mr Harvey Schwartz Alex Goldberg and Aaron Watson, Rabbi Zev Leff, Yosi Landau, Zvi Sand, Rabbi Dan Chanan, Assaf, and the renowned Professor Alan Dershowitz. Click the link to listen to the great interviews, find out about United Hatzalah of Israel's crucial work, stories of their impact, and much more.

OU TARYAG MITZVOS MITZVA 136 AND 137

136. Daily Bread: The obligation for the Kohein Gadol to bring a daily flour offering

137. Just Burn It: The prohibition against eating the flour offerings of a kohein

OU Melacha #4 – M’ameir (Gathering)

In the constructing the Mishkan, m’ameir (gathering) involved binding sheaves together; it is the fourth of the 11 agricultural melachos. For practical purposes, m’ameir involves any collecting of scattered produce. It doesn’t have to be fruit, though–anything that grows from the ground is subject to m’ameir. For example, the m’kosheish eitzim (gatherer of sticks) who desecrated Shabbos in parshas Shlach (Number 15:32) might have been guilty of m’ameir (although he might have been guilty of kotzeir for breaking the sticks off of trees – see Talmud Shabbos 96b).

According to most authorities, m’ameir only applies (a) to things that have not been previously gathered and (b) only in the place where the things grow and their gathering normally occurs. Therefore, if you knock the bowl of fruit off your host’s Shabbos table, it’s okay to pick up the fruit and put it back in the bowl. However, if produce scatters outside, one is rabbinically prohibited from gathering it as a weekday activity that is dangerously close to m’ameir (see Talmud Shabbos 143b).

Additionally, once produce has been processed, such as weaving wool into a garment or carving a stick into a wooden spoon, m’ameir no longer applies.

This is just an introduction to the concepts of the melacha of m'ameir; it is not a substitute for a full study of the halachos.

OU Melacha #2 – Zorei’ah (Sowing) AND Melacha #3 – Kotzeir (Reaping)

Melacha #2 – Zorei’ah (Sowing)

Melacha #3 – Kotzeir (Reaping)

OU TARYAG MITZVOS MITZVA 128-135

128. “Oh, No. I Don’t Know. How Should I Know?”: The obligation of doubtful guilt offerings

129. “I Know, I Know, I Know…”: The obligation to bring “definite” guilt offerings

130. Give It Back: The obligation to return a stolen object

131. Dust Buster: The obligation to remove the ashes from the altar each day

132. Flame On!: The obligation to keep the fire on the altar going

133. Turn Out That Light – Not!: The prohibition against extinguishing the altar fire

134. Clean Your Plate: The obligation for kohanim to eat the remains of flour offerings

135. Just Like Pesach: The prohibition against baking a flour offering leavened

Nachum Segal Presents JM in the AM Live From the Nefesh B'Nefesh Headquarters in Israel

Nachum hosts lots of great guests as Nefesh B'Nefesh and Aliyah are the major focus of this morning's show.
Nachum continued his great week in Israel with a visit to the Nefesh B'Nefesh headquarters in Jerusalem. His list of distinguished guests included Rabbi Josh Fass and Mark Rosenberg of Nefesh B'Nefesh, representatives of Yad Eliezer: Dov Wizel and Yosi Kaufman, Yona Berzon of Talkn'save and Aaron Katsman of Lighthouse Capital. Founded in 2002, and responsible for thousands of Jewish people making Aliyah, Nefesh B'Nefesh continues to innovate and facilitate the Aliyah process making it easier than ever to return to our Holy Homeland, Israel. Nachum and his guests discussed the latest Nefesh B'Nefesh and Aliyah news, as well as Yad Eliezer, and some of the great sponsors of Nachum's week in Israel. Click the link to listen.