שמות פרשת יתרו פרק כ

וַיֹּאמֶר יְקֹוָק אֶל מֹשֶׁה כֹּה תֹאמַר אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אַתֶּם רְאִיתֶם כִּי מִן הַשָּׁמַיִם דִּבַּרְתִּי עִמָּכֶם:

 לֹא תַעֲשׂוּן אִתִּי אֱלֹהֵי כֶסֶף וֵאלֹהֵי זָהָב לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ לָכֶם

As Klal Yisroel  reads the Parsha of Maamad Har Sinai

And stands with the Krias Aseres Ha Dibros

The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh

Tshuvos and Poskim Shiur

Of the Yeshiva of Newark@IDT

 Presents an investigation of a Negative Commandment given right after the Decalogue

That has many real-life applications…..

……Before you purchase that “work of Art” or buy that doll or action figure

Have

 Graven Image Consciousness!

 The Prohibition of “Lo Saasun Iti “    

a lecture from one of the Midwest’s most important Talmidei Chachamim

Dayan in the Chicago Rabbinical Council’s Beth Din Tzedek

Rav Of Kehilas Bais Yitzchok

Chaver in the Midwest Bais Horaah

Under the auspices of Rav Shmuel Fuerst Shlita

recognized expert in Kashrus  

Rav Yisroel Langer

 Rabbinic Coordinator for all issues of produce at

 cRc Kosher 

Rabbi Michael J. Broyde is professor of law at Emory University School of Law and senior fellow and projects director at the Center for the Study of Law andReligion at Emory University. Broyde's Semicha (yoreh yoreh ve-yadin yadin) was obtained in 1991 from Yeshiva University ,he was a Dayan of the Beth Din of America, where he also served as Menahel . He was the Founding Rabbi of the Young Israel of Atlanta.

In addition to his many books, Broyde has written more than 250 articles and book chapters on various aspects of law and religion, Jewish law, and religious ethics, as well as an often-cited article on impeachment in theHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.He has written on military ethics from a Jewish law view, marriage and divorce in the Jewish tradition, bioethical dilemmas from a religious view, women’s rights in the Jewish tradition, the general relationship between secular and Jewish law in its many different facets. A list of his works may be found on hiswebsite.Broydehas been a visiting professor at Stanford,Hebrew University,and most recently theUniversity of Warsaw Law School in Polandand in theInterdisciplinaryCollege of Lawin Herzliya,Israel.He received a juris doctorfrom New York University and published a note on its law review. He also clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit  

The Program is in great part a response to this video

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=859285778665293

It is customary to eat fruit which is grown in Eretz Yisrael  on the 15th of Shevat and to eat fruit which one has not yet eaten that season so that the Shehecheyanu blessing can be recited……

 The Book of Our Heritage

By Eliyahu Kitov

כל מיני פירות שדרכם להתליע בעודם מחוברים לקרקע,

 לא יאכל עד שיבדוק הפרי מתוכו שמא יש בו תולעת,

שאותה תולעת אסורה משום שרץ השורץ על הארץ,

וכל שהאיסור מצוי חוששים לו וצריך בדיקה,

אף על פי שאינו מצוי ברוב אלא במיעוט,

 כשם שבודקים את הריאה מפני הסירכות המצויות בה......

.............ולפיכך צריך לבדוק כל פרי ופרי בפני עצמו.

אנציקלופדיה תלמודית כרך ב, בדיקת תולעים

With the arrival of Tu Be Shevat

anticipating the accompanying fruit arrangements

 and Halachic Questions that will arise

The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh

Tshuvos and Poskim Shiur

Of the Yeshiva of Newark@IDT

was honored to present a lecture from a leading educator in

Kashrus  

Rabbi Dovid Cohen Shlita

Administrative Rabbinic Coordinator

 cRc Kosher

Mechaber of  Imrei Dovid 8 volumes

Seforim on Kashrus topics

Who presented a lecture on the common yet serious problem

Of

Insect Infestation

and Nothing but the Fruit!

The Shiur is dedicated

לעילוי נשמת

האי גברא רבה

מצוין בחסדיו ואהבת ישראל

מוקיר רבנן

קיבל ייסוריו מופלגים באהבה ובשמחה

ראש לשלשׁלת מעונד בצדקות ובהברקת אור תורתנו

החבר יהודה אברהם בן ר׳ יהושׁע קוטנר

זצ'ל

Alan Kutner