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I saw a question asked to Rav Chaim Kanievsky.Q:If one makes a trefia animal from using Sefer Yetzira can one eat it.A: Tumah does not come from shamyim,so basically it is impossible.(Shailos Rav)
Does anyone else have interesting questions they saw or heard?
Sheilo Utshuvo – Jews Go Jousting.
It’s from Sefer Mevo Hara’avyah, written in the 12th/13th Century by R’ Eliezer ben Yoel Halevi. It talks about Reuven who borrowed a suit of armour to go jousting and lost it and had to pay it back.
Reuven sued Shimon and claimed: I came to you to borrow your suit of armor (shiryonekha) in order to return it to you after two weeks or to pay you (26) [27] [14] [in exchange] I will pay you the 27 [old] Cologne denarii.
The rest carries on:
Shimon replied: From the time of the exchange more than half a year has passed and you were required to repay the debt to me immediately. But you pushed me off day after day, until I could forebear no longer and I sold 12 new coins for 13 old ones, and everyone in our city knows that this was the exchange rate. But now the old ones have gone down in value and I traded 14 [old ones] for 12 simple new ones. And that is why you come to sue me and besmirch (le-ha`alil) me. Moreover, I told you then explicitly that I did not want to accept them except at an exchange rate of 12 for 13, and you agreed. Also I was responsible for looking after your collateral and preserving your profit if the value increased. But if the value had decreased I would have left it, and not [acted] in this way (?). Reuven said: I deposited them as collateral and you have no right to receive interest from me. Answer: Based on their statements, it seems to me that if [Reuven] deposited collateral that required an appraisal, Shimon should not have sold it, except by order of a court or three others who [would arrange that] an appraisal be performed by experts. And if it increased in value in the hands of the lender or in the hands of the depositor, then so it did and that is his good fortune.
Cool !!!!
Sefer Yetzira is not Min Shamayim. Rashi says that Sefer Yetzira is using the Sheimos that Hashem used to create the world. If Hashem created Treifa animals then, then you can do it now, too, with Sefer Yetzira.
i have one. from derech sichah, R’ Chaim Kanievsky.
Q: Can a child wear tzitzis that are less then the shiur and be considered wearing tzitzis?
A: Can you be yotzei tzitzis wearing a potato?
I heard this shaila a while ago:
[When naming a child R’Chaim Kanievski Shlita does not like using names that are not proper names.There are various minhagim and many are not like R’Chaims shitta. Sephardim use Hodaya, Rachamim. Chassidish minhag is also not like R’Chaims shitta.]
A young man once came to R’Chaim and told him that he would like to name his daughter Shira.R’Chaim didnt like it and asked him why Shira? The young man answered that she was born on Shabbos shira and that he thoght that it would be fitting. R’Chaim asked him had she have born on Shabbos Parshas Poroh would you have named her Poroh Adumoh???
Sam4, I’m aware of that Gemara. That was Min Shamayim, but creating with the Sheymos of Yetzira is not, or shouldn’t be.
The Yaavetz has a teshuva where a guy killed someone and wanted to know if he can swear falsely to save himself from the authorities.
A: That would be adding another Cheit.
The Chacham Tzvi is Mesupak if a person created through Sefer Yetzirah counts for a Minyan. THe Chavos Ya’ir answers no.
“a person created through Sefer Yetzirah”
In a weird way this reminds me of the story told over by Rav Shalom Shwadron Z’l about the Shagas Aryes biheima (no he didnt create an animal using sefer yetzira).
I don’t think so. I think the CH”TZ leaves it B’safek and that is what the M”B quotes.
If a drop of milk falls into a pot of meat and there is 60 times more meat than the drop then the food is mutar.
Not so fast. Where did it fall?
Sam, the key words in the last paragraph of your post are “legitimately” and “proper”.
Speaking of a drop of milk falling in to a pot of meat. As per sam4321; There was once a person who had a Shabbos guest. While they were eating cholent, the host was holding an infant with a bottle of milk. A drop of milk spilled into the plate of cholent. The host, wanting to show what a big talmid Chochom he is, told his older son to bring a Shulchan Aruch Hilchos Shabbos. When someone asked, why, specifically Hilchos Shabbos. The host answered; “Because we eat Cholent on Shabbos”!
sam4321-
The Gemara in Chullin (44b) says ??? ?? ????? ????? ??? ???? ?? ?? ????? ????? ????? ???? ????? ????? ?????? ????? ???? ????? ???? (????? ???, ?) ???? ???? ?? ???? ????? ???? ?? ?? ???? ??? ???? ????? ??? ?????? ????? ??? ?????? ??? ????? ????? ??? ???? ?? ????? ??? and the Meiri and the Maharsha respectively both explain the Gemara in Chullin in the manner you quoted from the Darchei Teshuva.
sam4321 – Baruch tihye, you’re welcome.
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