Parshat Vayetze - Ein Mearvin Simcha B'simcha and Sheva Brachot

A thought on Parshat Vayetze that I recently printed in a Kuntress names "Katal Imrati (כטל אמרתי) In honor of our daughter Talia Rachel:

Shabbat Shalom

A Fantastic P'shat from R' Nosson Gestetner zt"l

On the bus home from work yesterday, I was going through a teshuva from a sefer called "L'Horot Natan" from R' Nosson Gestetner zt"l (vol. 11 siman 9). The teshuva outlines exactly how bad it is to bring your cell phone to shul and use it to speak in the middle of tefilla (an unfortunately relevant topic these days).

Perhaps we'll get back to cell-phone-related halacha at some point soon (I have more to say on the topic), but for now I wanted to share an absolutely beautiful idea that R' Gestetner adds parenthetically in this piece.

The Shulchan Aruch (O.C. 83:3) rules that one should go to daven after having learned a clearly defined halacha. R' Gestetner uses this ruling to offer a novel explanation to the Gemara in Brachot (31a) that one should take leave of his friend "mitoch" (lit. "from within") a d'var halacha.

I am including the first page of the teshuva (it continues on the next page in the sefer) and highlighted the section to which I am referring.

I didn't have time to translate, but his language is pretty clear. Enjoy it - I certainly did.