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I am writing a dvar torah for my minyan’s weekly rag. This is my draft; I’d appreciate some criticism, both on the writing and the content:
The medrash ??? ??? ?????, Teachings of the House of Elijah (ascribed to Elijah the prophet) wonders why Devorah was chosen to be the leader of Israel. (10 ????? ???). Specifically, it notes that Pinchas the high priest, grandson of Aaron, who had distinguished himself before Moses in the desert, was still living and would have been a natural choice as leader.
If you’re using Aaron, Moses and Elijah, use Phinehas.
Why capitalize “Judge”?
Medrash should be capitalized (and consider Midrash).
Why the Sefardi Shabbat?
Interesting, BTW, that Eliyahu is saying that Devorah was greater than him.
now we are gonna find out who u are
Popa –
Beautiful vort.
Along the same lines as DY – If your writing Shabbat than you should write mitzvot, and Beit. And it’s usually spelled Midrash.
Would you say the plural of ignoramus is ignorami? Hehe, that’s a real nerd joke.
It is really a nice vort and well-written.
DaasYochid – That’s a amazing chap, that Pinchas was the author (assuming he is Eliyahu).
Great vort I got bored after the first paragraph,
You’ll have them asleep in no time! 😛
hehe
Retarded. So what if you reach the “highest spiritual level” by fulfilling your “jobs”? If your jobs are stupid and you do them well, it just shows that Hashem didn’t make you capable of handling real jobs. It doesn’t make you worthy of leading am yisrael. I’d rather have a leader who is struggling with important jobs than one who successfully fulfilled a few menial ones.
Did you think of this yourself? You should stick to the easier jobs, like cleaning streets and leave giving divrei torah to clever people like the rest of the CR.
This is me, doing my job of picking up the slack in the CR :p
is this sad or what..-
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/coffee-addict-popa
and there’s more ‘posters’ here that are him, more than half the coffee room I’d say.
this popa guy talks to himself all the time. sth has to be done about it! prehaps he can join facebook, since the guy that created facebook was friendless 2.
Popa,
If “Judge” was being used as a title (e.g Judge Dear), I would have agreed with you.
“Barak, her husband was an ignoramus, and Devorah wanted to help him grow spiritually.”
Why did Devorah, who was the olden day equivalent of the best girl in BJJ, marry an ignoramus, was the best guy in Lakewood taken? Perhaps we can hijack Popa’s thread and turn it into a picky girls thread 🙂
Why would anyone hijack a thread dedicated to criticizing popa and use it to criticize girls? That was 2 questions by the way.
YW Moderator-42 Look at the Medrash. It seems that Devorah became raised up by her mitzvos. Perhaps she also was an am ho’aretz prior to the mitzvos.
Why did Devorah, who was the olden day equivalent of the best girl in BJJ, marry an ignoramus, was the best guy in Lakewood taken? Perhaps we can hijack Popa’s thread and turn it into a picky girls thread 🙂
Maybe her father was too cheap to get the best guy in Lakewood.
drek.
DY, in Tana D’bei Eliyahu he describes himself as being from Shevet Gad. So according to himself he wasn’t saying that.
Also, as a side note, when he mentions Eliyahu in a Pasuk he never says, “that’s me”, or any first person reference.
I liked the content and message.
I was ok with the transliteration of the hebrew text on the seforim (even though I think its not necessary) but translating the titles into english was really too much.
(Still not sure what an Ad Loc is though. Radak or otherwise)
bpt: ad loc is oifgeklerte maskil for “sham v’chu'”. To be really pedantic, every time you want to write ayen sham, write “cf loc cite” in hebrew characters.
Lol more,
Sorry but no (yossi and a bunch of other posters can attest to that) it was a running gag that you missed
I don’t believe this, in the entire thread I am the only one on topic and I got no credit for it. The best anyone else could do was criticize the vort, I criticized popa. Even the OP was off topic.
Now I can be off topic in every other thread for a week.
The only thing for which i want to criticize you, is the second word of your subtitle under your name. Otherwise, the D”T was engaging, and I think it head a wonderful lesson to impart. The essence of Midrash (or Medrash, who cares HOW it’s spelled?) is to teach us a valuable bit of universal insight. In this case, that there are no small jobs (only small people, perhaps?), and we all have tafkidim to fulfill that are unique to ourselves. if we do them well, then we are fulfilling Ratzon Hashem.
DY, in Tana D’bei Eliyahu he describes himself as being from Shevet Gad. So according to himself he wasn’t saying that.
Also, as a side note, when he mentions Eliyahu in a Pasuk he never says, “that’s me”, or any first person reference.
Reminds of the famous question asked by a brilliant talmid chochom who nebach snapped.
Why, according to the shittah that “vaHashem berach es Avraham bakol” means a daughter, didn’t Yitchak marry her?
Answer: He was choshesh for the other shittah.
The only thing for which i want to criticize you, is the second word of your subtitle under your name.
That’s not (directly) his doing.
That’s not (directly) his doing.
Thank you, DY, for enlightening me. Then I would say PBA’s post was perfect. No criticism at all, needed.
I suppose self criticism is better than non.
lol
Since you seem to want to hear criticism I’ll say this: It doesn’t seem proper to use the name of an amora as a username in the cr(especially with that subtitle):) Anyway, great dvar tora. Sorry, I couldn’t find any criticism there.
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