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Recently, the city of Bnei Brak has been cracking down on shop owners who display their merchandise on the streets. This caused many stores to keep all their merchandise inside to avoid fines, crowding the store. This is especially true of fruit and vegetable stores.
One such fruits and vegetable shop made an offer to a neighboring store to buy his space so he could expand. Since he could no longer put his merchandise outside, his store was not big enough. Buying the neighboring store would allow him enough space to operate.
Despite various pressures applied by the fruit guy, and by known crime families on his behalf, the store owner refused all offers.
Eventually he could not take the threats any longer, so he went to Rav Wosner and laid it all out before him, describing the threats. Rav Wosner told him to open a case with the beis din and send a summons to the fruit guy.
The fruit guy refused to appear before the beis din, despite having been summoned a few times. All the while, he continued trying to put pressure and threats on the neighboring store to sell.
Rav Wosner’s response to the refusal of the fruits guy to appear before beis din while continuing his harassment was to say “don’t worry. If he refuses to be judged on this below, there is also a judgement up above.”
A few days later the fruits and vegetables guy died of a heart attack.
I’m sure you’ll get all kinds of creative answers, but one should note that bedeken has no source. It is a waste of time. Since there’s nothing halachically wrong with it, though, I know of no one who has made a m’choh against it.
Because babies taste better with garlic and sugar.
But seriously, from what I have heard, it is only a minhag. I believe there are those who say the garlic is a segula for fertility and the sugar shows that the mitzvos are sweet, but I don’t have a source for that.
Hat when I feel like it. Not during davening, hats inside a building is rude.
Source?
There are many who consider wearing a hat for davening a chiuv.
So the question begs to be asked, how does he go from there to being a mass murderer so quickly?
Many of the Nazis who were responsible for designing and implementing the Final Solution were reputable doctors.
Why risk ruining it by wearing it more than we are capable of doing properly?
Source? When one temporarily does not have guf or daas naki, he is not fulfilling the mitzvah, but how is he “ruining it”? I’m not arguing on your statements about what most people do; I’m only questioning your last statement.
our faith does NOT accept infallibility and does not even accept a sign from heavens ! (R’Eliezer did not win his debate with the chachomim….in spite of shomayim being on his side !)It is up to us- as human beings- to evaluate our chachomim.
This is incorrect. To see this, note that the reason R’ Eliezer did not win his debate was because the halacha goes with the rabim over the yachid, i.e. the rabim being other gadolim on the Sanhedrin. Thus, this ma’aseh does not constitute proof that it is “us” that evaluate our chachomim. This ma’aseh suggests it is other gadolim who do so.
Chazal say that someone who forgets something he learned is ‘Keilu mischayev benafsho’
Chazal say that about someone who forgot stam or someone who forgot because he was negligent? I’ll leave that as an exercise for you.
Hashem does not ‘need’ anyone’s Mitzvos!
But we need His mitzvos.
the Mesilas Yesharim, or as you would call it, the Really-scary-you-are-going-to-Gehinom-Mussar Sefer’ says, Veha’adam Lo Nivrah Elah Lehisanag El Hashem, man was only created to take pleasure in Hashem, and to benefit from His presence for that is the greatest pleasure and truest pleasure greater than any other pleasure in the world!…
…We were created to have pleasure, to enjoy this world to the max!
This is incorrect. To see this, read the next sentence in Mesilas Yesharim: u’makom ha’edun ha’gadol hu ha’olam haba (and the place of the great pleasure is the next world). Then the sefer quotes Pirkei Avos saying that this world is a means to get there, and what are those means? The sefer says (drumroll)… hem hamizvos (they are the mitzvos)!
just ‘doing’ Mitzvos, doesn’t mean very much to Him at all.
Source?
(Mods: Why don’t some of my posts get posted? Based on the rules and what has been posted in the various threads, I know it can’t be that my posts are getting rejected. Also, I’ve noticed that in a particular thread the OP and the first few replies, including mine, were deleted. Thanks.)
repharim – Who are you to say who will “burn in hell” and who won’t? You have no clue the size of any individual’s cheilik in olam haba. There are many sources in chazal, but the one that comes to mind immediately is the Iggeres HaRamban regarding how a person will be judged.
As for your proof, there are several errors, only two of which I will bother to mention. First off, the answer to your question “Do you really think Hashem covered parts of the Torah from am yisroel when he gave us the Torah…” is yes. I’ll leave it to you as an exercise to figure out.
A logical error in your argument is the tautology you use regarding two types of people. To see this, consider a person who cares about his soul. If “scaring” him does not bring him closer to Torah, then according to your reasoning, it must be that he didn’t care about his soul. But if he doesn’t care about his soul, then “scaring” him will not bring him closer to Torah. This is a tautology and does not constitute proof.
Kozov – tchiyas hameisim requires one to first be dead. And your post is certainly irrelevant with respect to being alive for the coming of Moshiach.
It’s not a limud z’chus; it’s narishkeit.
repharim – only 1/5 of the Jews made it out.
far east – don’t assume that all religious Jews will necessarily make it. We don’t know Hashem’s cheshbonos.