BaalHabooze

If you look in Rash”i on the pasuk where it says we eat matzos because of the rush (Ki B’Chipazom) when we left Mitzrayim (Parshas Re’eh-I think) he says something incredible. You know why we eat Matza every year? NOT because of US, that WE rushed out, but it was the HASTE OF THE MITZREEYIM RUSHING US OUT that we commemorate. This is simply a Peleh! Why should we have to remember the Mitzreeyim rushing us out, every year Pesach time??

The answer is because it is all part of the Nes. All part of that incredible time of Divine Miracles and Gilui Shechina, where open undeniable acts of G-d were mete out onto the Mitzreeyim, and we witnessed Hashem in ways never seen by Mankind-ever! Mitzrayim was a place of impossible escape. Besides for the cruel powerful Egyptian Masters who watched over us, they set up (through magical incantations) wild beast to protect every gate to the city, making every possible escape route, dangerous and frightening.

Now, imagine if someone tells a yid, “you know, in a few monthes time, you will be walking out of here, whistling a tune happily, together with your family, and nobody will even try to stop you.” Impossible!

“Not only that but you will have donkeyloads worth million$ in gold and silver, from your Egyptian masters”! Laughably impossible!

“Not only that, but the Mitzreeyim will be RUSHING you to get out of their land, begging you to hurry and leave!” Just crossed the utter stupidity line.

Well, that’s what Hashem can do! He can make the impossible POSSIBLE, the sheer stupidity of a situation -REALITY, He can, and still can, do things that we would only dare to dream of. He can take the Iron Curtain, for example, and rip it down, He can wipe out nations that seek to destroy jews, with a mere flick, k’voyochol. That’s something that should be remembered EVERY SINGLE YEAR! WHEN WE EAT MATZAH, WE MUST BELEIVE THAT NO MATTER WHAT TERRIBLE SITUATION WE ARE FACED WITH, HASHEM CAN NEVERTHELESS CREATE THE POSSIBLE FROM THE IMPOSSIBLE, AND TURN DREAMS INTO REALITY. May we be zoiche to see the Final Geula become a reality, k’heref ayin, amen.

Mazel tov Zeeskite to your friend’s daughter. May the simcha spread onto many others…..

Mazel tov Aunt batseven on your nephew!!

Thank you Think first!! That was a great thought, I hope you will continue to contribute more beautiful peices such as that in the future.

Welcome! nu, what do you have to say? Efsher a gut vort? a new thread title? here, have a little shnaps with your coffee…

l’chaim Be lucky, L’chaim!!

very inspiring! thank you gefen for sharing.

AinOhdMilvado, that’s soooo good! reminds me of the comedian who would make fun of all the potholes around the city saying, why don’t they just take all the cement that they use for making all the speed bumps and put them into the potholes!?

here’s other fun ones:

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France.

Quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

“I…I did it! I’m really great! me! Shnooky Shapiro!

MIDDOS ALERT, MIDDOS ALERT!!

“I don’t like the smell of dis”

“duh, I don’t smell anything”

“Why am I buried in popcorn?”

oh my Gosh…you win!!! took a while, but you did it!

check’s in the mail with your prize of $100,000. congradulations!

As a BaalHabos (other then a BaalHabooze)*, having a thick haggada with many meforshim at the pesach seder has been very impractical and a tircha. Between the Ka’arah, matzos, the bechers, and everything else on the table, I have very little room on the table in front of me for any big haggada. For the past several years, I have been using a thin plain Haggada that has only the text with zero pirushim, and one that can stay open by itself. I prepare my divrei torah before pesach and use small cue cards to bring with me to the seder table.

*(My wife, btw, is the BaalHaBOSSta!….don’t mess!)

OY VAY, 1 whole week went by without any divrei torah here!!

RENAISSANCE:

I would like to call on all of you CR’ians to please contribute and share divrei torah on the parsha, inyonei d’Yoma, or on any subject at all. Please let’s resurrect this beautiful thread and raise it be the once-popular-and-fanfavorite thread it once was. Please we can use all the help from anyone. If you have something nice on the Hagadda-Shel-Pesach, that would be fanatastic too.

why do 42000 people have to squish into a stadium these days when you can watch it live via video-hookup on the internet in the comfort of your hom….uh…never mind!

**SSStretches, Wakes up between the couch and the curtains, holding a plunger(?) and an empty Glenfiddich bottle.**

(YAAAAAAAWWWN) is purim over yet, anyone?

Oy, my head’s aching, banging like a drum

I never thought I’d say

my booze is making me pay

…but how did I end up in Belgium??

L’Kovod Purim

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Mordechai runs to Esther and tells her to plead with Achashvairosh to annul the terrible decree. Esther says i can’t go now because I wasn’t invited and anyone showing up to the king unannounced will be killed on the spot. Mordechai, nevertheless, tells her of the desperate matziv, and to put a stop to this gezeira immediately, and even tells her “is this not why you has been given the position as queen, if not to be able to save the jews? Etc.

Question: Why was Mordechai so much in a hurry to annul the king’s decree right away, putting Esther in a mokom sakana by her showing up unannounced before Achashvairosh? The decree anyway would only take effect in 11 months from now. Eleven months! So maybe Esther’s logic of waiting 30 days until she is called in to the king, isn’t such a bad plan. You can’t wait 30 days?? Esther should put her life in danger? why?? What was the rush, and what was Mordechai’s cheshbon?

The answer may be as follows. We find by Moshe Rabbeinu the same concept. When Hashem said to Moshe he would be the leader, he said “Who am I that I should go to Pharoh, and that that I should take the jews out of Mitzrayim (Shemos 3:11)”. The Ramba”n explains this posuk that Moshe was asking Hashem (like Esther) why should I put myself in a mokom sakana, to show up at the palace and ask pharaoh to free the jews is outright rebellion, they’lll kill me on the spot!? Rather let me perhaps tell pharaoh that we should be released from our work but yet to still remain in Mitzrayim, etc.

The solution to this puzzle can be found by Krias yam Suf. We see there that the water didn’t split right away. The yeshua was still missing a MOST important ingredient in order to take effect. The water only split when there was THE one main, vital ingredient triggered by an individual named Nachshon ben Aminodov. He was willing to be moiser nefesh, and jumped in with complete faith that Hashem is right there and will surely save them. And when the waters reached his nostrils, poof, it split! In order for a yeshua to be triggered from Heaven we need mesiras nefesh! Mordechai said yes Esther your cheshbon makes sense LOGICALLY, but PRACTICALLY we need mesiras nefesh! If the yidden were to be saved, you need to be moiser nefesh! Now is the time! In order for a Moshe, or Esther to be zoiche to be a Go’el, they need to demonstrate their Mesiras Nefesh for Hashem and Klal Yisroel.

A Freilichin Purim!

apushutayid: I really enjoyed that pshat. Beautiful peice. yasher koach!

I think it is a big sofek who is the real guily party by the story of kamtza bar kamtza specifically.

1)the servant, who started the feud by giving an invitation to the baal simchas enemy

2)The baal simcha of course

3)the rabbonim at the seuda who did not stop the humiliations

It could be all the above, even kamtza. As far as sinas chinom, that was prevelant among the yidden, and this story of Kamtza was both an example of sinas chinom, and a direct result of the churbon (since kamtza snitched on the jews to the roman emperor etc.)

I would be honored to ‘rehd’ you a shidduch, popa, with this nice mamzeres/shifcha girl that lives right next door to me. She is a very pretty girl, if y’ know ignore all those nasty warts of course, but enough about her physical appearance.

You probably want to know her pnimius. Well, she’s very frum, tzniusdig, LOOOOVES shmaltz-herring with practically ANYTHING, (so she doesn’t need ANY perfumes) ..uh, let’s see what else…oh, yeah, she’s clean shaven, after her accident she doesn’t need to worry about brushin’ the ‘ol teeth-stuff anymore, hehe. Absolutely ADORES your posts and would be honored to marry somebody of your ilk. let me know if you are interested in this one-of-a-kind machsheifa…er…shifcha

They say one of the open nissim in this world is that the goyim continue to have the (our?) original 7-day week structure. It only makes sense to make it an even amount of days. anyway, sorry for hijacking the thread.

I saw this family of Geirim once. They dressed up like goyish holidays’ personalities; the father was Santa, the mother was a witch (Halloween), and their kid was the Easter bunny.

From Revach.org

Purim: Bnei Yisaschar – The Sweet Smell Of Adar

The Arizal says that each month represents a part of a person’s head. The month of Adar represents the “nose”. Sweet smell, says the gemara Brachos (44b), gives pleasure not to the body but rather the Neshama. The Bnei Yisaschar explains that when Adam and Chava ate from the Eitz HaDaas they used all their sense for the aveira except their sense of smell. The pasuk says, she saw, she listened, she touched, and she tasted. But nowhere does it say that anyone smelled. Therefore the sense of smell has a certain purity that is unmatched by the other senses.

It is therefore appropriate that for the great Nes that took place in the month of Adar, the month of smell, that both of the heroes of Purim, Mordechai and Ester had names referring to smell. Mordechai’s name says the gemara Chulin (139b) is hinted in the name of the fragrance used in the Ketores called Mor Dror or Mira-Dachya as translated by Unkelos. Ester’s real name, the Megila tells us (2:7), was Hadasa the sweet smelling myrtle tree. Since a person’s name represents their true inner self Mordechai and Ester with their lofty purity were able to avoid the pitfalls of Achashveirosh and his materialism during his party and even while living in his palace. During the special month of Adar where these qualities reign supreme, these two pure tzaddikim saved Klal Yisroel from destruction

We grew up giving 5 classmates each, that’s all. It is too much to give every person, a nice thought, but not practical, way too expensive. She should have her parents in mind, and specifically her father’s wallet, not her friends’ appetite.

between the boozing and snoozing I try:

1)to say some tehillim and learn some gemorrah,

2)enjoy the Yom Tov, and make sure my wife & all my kids enjoy it too.

3)daven shacharis very early, deliver our friends’ shalach monos early in the morn BEFORE the traffic, and leave it on their doorsteps.

4) P-A-R-T-why? because I Gatta!!!!

How about the Americanishe meshigas that one retires at age 65. Not only is it a crazy blown-up fantasy that is filled with false pretenses, it is perhaps the WORST meshigas one can do to oneself on every level.