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As the four species are against four body parts, spine, heart, eyes and mouth, so we shake them similar to shaking by davening where the spine represents the whole body and the others which cause our sins, so we dedicate them to the service of Hashem.
RebE > Rav Moshe ztz’l stopped shaking by davening based on a story I heard. A nazi german soldier pointed a gun on him
RebE, who is Rav Moshe in this story? If this is Rav Feinstein, I do not believe he encountered Nazi soldiers. He probably encountered some Anarchists or Red or White Army in Ukraine.
You are right, I made a mistake.
Here is an Ohr Sameach version of this interesting story, thanks RebE
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, zatzal, one of the foremost halachic authorities of our generation, was known to stand stock still during the silent prayer. He explained that, while living in Russia, he was once arrested for teaching Torah. One form of torture he experienced during his imprisonment was being forced to stand completely still facing a wall. The threat was that if he were to move he would be shot. It was on one of these occasions that Rabbi Feinstein was struck with the realization that if he could stand with such intense concentration for the sake of his captors, then he should afford at least the same respect when standing in front of Hashem.
I recall an opposite story of, I think, Netziv who was able to point out a Russian government spy in the Volozhin yeshiva – he saw that the guy did not move when davening, while neshomah is like a ner and got to move … so, there is something about Russian secret police and staying still …
Very nice but why lashan hara to point it out?
It says that at the time of Rebbi Shimon bar Yochai the rainbow was not seen and it does not say that there wasn’t any? Explains the Kli Yakar that they did not look at it figuring that the tzadikim will protect them. According to this we can understand why is it lashan hara to say, I saw a rainbow even though one might want to bring people to do teshuva because he is saying that there are no tzadikim to protect us, so we must rely on Hashem to protect us through his love for us as above.noach: there is a time where we need to go into the teivah, torah and tefilah but also comes the time to tzei min hatievah, go into the ooutside world and make a differecve
It says ulai yesh chamishim tzadikim besoch hair, maybe fifty tzadikim exist in the city? The Satmar Rav ztz’l said, I want people who stay and fight in the city and not escape. Hashem helps more one who is part of the group and is not praying on his own.
Sarah Imeunu felt, as she did not even have a womb, she was not worthy of a miracle to change nature. It was a fear of the greatness of Hashem, as the gemora in Shabbos argues by the man nursing if he was great or not for changing nature.
A tzadik ben tzadik has two zechusim whereas a tzadik ben rasha only one and half. We find what you say from the Alter of Kelm by Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov when they are mentioned in reverse order vezocharti es brisi Yaakov etc., indicating according to the Ksav Sofer, that each one was great not because of his father but by his own accomplishment.
Zugger and R Dessler > He may have good role models, but he must make sure not just to become a copycat.
This ties into our other debate on FFBs and BTs. If you agree that times are pretty turbulent right now and things change quickly, FFBs sometimes are resistant to change as they are content following what was before. This works when this inertia is the right response to external change, but creates a problem over multiple generations of tzadik ben tzadik ben tzadik ben tzadik not being aware of what is going around him ….
The Chasam Sofer explains that Gid Hanashah is forbidden to remember not to mix with the goyim, to avoid their influence and not to ask for their first name to befriend them.
At the Aseres Hadibros where when Moshe Rabbenu speaks, it says ויאמר, according to the Targum Yonasan telling the Jews to accept the Torah, and following וידבר by Hashem commanding the Aseres Hadibros.
We sacrifice the Karbon Pesach to show that Hashem controls the world and we are above the mazel of the lamb. According to the Sefer Hachinuch, Milah, circumcision reflects this. A person has a free choice and can change.
The miracle of blood where a mitzri and a Jew drank from the same pale, the Jews drank water and the mitzri blood, which occurred at the same place and same time.
It says בשמים ממעל ועל הארץ מתחת, the heaven above and earth below. Isn’t this obvious? Says the Kli Yakar that when it comes to heavenly, spritual things look at people above you, who are greater than you to learn from them, whereas by material, physical things, look at people below you, so you will be satisfied with what you have.
Like the ארון, spiritual not be satisfied when looking at someone greater than you, whereas like the שולחן, physical be satisfied as there are people who have less than you.
It is an argument where the Rambam’s view (Hilchas Kli Hamikdash 8,12) is that only at the time of avodah is shatnez allowed as the belt had shatnez in it whereas the Raavad’s view is that anytime in the day in the mikdash it is allowed.
The human being has 248 eivarim, body parts and 365 gidim, sinews against the 248 aseis, positive commandments and 365 lo aseis, negative commandments as it says כי זה כל האדם, so the mitzvas make up the human being all together 613.
It says to make a mikdash and Hashem will rest among them where it does not say among it. The holy Shlah says that every individual should make himself a mikdash, so it makes sense to have to account what we do with our mikdash.
It says זבחי אלקים רוח נשברה the purpose of a sacrifice is to break our spirit to realize the sin and whatever is being done to it should be done to us.
The Ksav Sofer explains that they said when will these leaders pass on and we will take over.
It does not sound too good to wait for them to die. So he says they did not want to get married and have children as we see from Moshe Rabbenu that leaders don’t have any time to bring up their children properly, so they did not want to have any children because they will eventually be the leaders. This type of thinking is an אש זרה, an outside fire where a person does not rely on Hashem’s help as King Chezkiyah thought when having Menasheh.In mathematics a minus times a minus is a plus.
The Rabbenu Bachya explains that if we take the first letters of the shevatim excluding Levi, using Yosef, multiplying it by a thousand, e.g. Reuven 200, 200,000 and Shimon 300, 300,000 and so
on, accumulating it, will add up to 597,000 which is 3,000 less than 600,000 that were killed by the Eigel.The Meiri explains that the first day of Chanukah is commemorating the finding of the oil. This is similar to finding new insights through revealing hidden secrets by questioning the תורה שבכתב and arriving to the תורה שבעל פה.
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