-- Justice Minister Yariv Levin

Behadrei brings a story from Rav Gershon Edelstein. Rav Edelstein fell ill during the holiday of SHvuos and had to be taken to the hospital Maayanei Hayeshua in Bnei Braq (Refuah Shleima!).

As Friday progressed and it became clear Rav Edelstein would be staying in the hospital through Shabbos, if not longer, he got concerned. He had made an eruv tavshilin on Thursday, erev chag, in his house, and now being stuck in the hospital nobody would be lighting candles in his home for Shabbos or cooking. Without any melacha to do on Friday in preparation for Shabbos, the Eruv Tavshilin bracha would be considered in retrospect to have been in vain. This greatly disturbed Rav Edelstein..

The problem was solved as the hospital administration had a pot of soup brought to Rav Edelstein's room and he stirred it, thus assisting in the cooking for Shabbos on Friday afternoon, turning the eruv tavshilin he had made on Thursday into an actualized bracha. All's well that ends well, as they say.

Now, what I do not understand is that I thought the purpose of the Eruv Tavshilin is to ALLOW one to do a melacha in preparation for Shabbos should it be necessary, and it almost always would be necessary for the lighting of the Shabbos candles at minimum. I do not recall learning that one MUST do a mleacha if having made an Eruv Tavshilin or else it would be a bracha levatala..

Was Rav Edelstein concerned due to a chumra of some sort or is it actually an obligation and if not fulfilled it would be a bracha levatala? Is this an interesting psak that a melacha must be done if one made an Eruv Tavshilin or is it a chumra?

The Legal Counsel of the government is opposed to this, and, more understandably, the Haredi parties oppose it as well.

The proposal was supposed to be approved by the government today in its session, but due to the opposition as stated above, it has been delayed until the meeting of the heads of the coalition where it will be worked out and discussed between the parties.

I am not sure what the ramifications of such a decision (I dont think it is to be passed as a law, but a guideline of sorts for the government) will be for this or any government. Isn't any decision made by any Israeli government by definition "Zionist" or guided by Zionism? And if not, who determines what a Zionist ideal is that the government would have to follow and use as guidance rather than another policy to be determined as not Zionist or not Zionist enough? What would change by such a decision passing, practically speaking?

Roger Waters revealed himself this past weekend as an average antisemite, perhaps with a bigger platform, and not as the anti-Israel activist he has claimed to be. At a concert in Berlin Waters donner a "Nazi style uniform", though with an emblem of crossed hammers rather than a swastika, along with other Nazi imagery.. supporting the Nazis is simply anti Israel behavior?

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interesting discussion

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