BaalHabooze

If there was something wrong with it, why does EVERY chumash have it??? E-V-E-R-Y S-I-N-G-L-E CHUMASH!

Yes, I will find a remez, as the above poster yungermanS posted so eloquently, it is a message from Hashem! But take it as you wish, and I will take it as I wish, NOBODY is forcing ANYBODY to find remozim in Perakim.

“RRRing”

alarm clock

annoying

sister

mother

goose

fairy tales

…and again

and again

and again

another time

repetitive

redundant

superfluous

supercalafragalisticexpialadocious

rope

hangman

game

play

fun

amusement park

haunted house

boo

booze

zzzz…

cold

Canada

hockey

sports

intense

tired

lazyboy chair

booze

zzzz…..

…like 3 penguins dancing down a sidewalk in downtown Houston, Texas on a sunny July morning.

Extremely complicated

Parshas Beshalach

My rav said this week in the name of the Kli Yakor an explanation why Mon was called Mon. One explanation is that it was a heavenly-sent food that was really only sensed by one’s nose by the fragrance that came forth. The letters of Mon is spelled with a ‘mem’ and a ‘nun’. These are the only letters in the alef-beis that cannot be pronounced when you hold your nose. You need THE NOSE to properly say the name of this food because that was the only physical body part that was needed to sense it. (I know, I know, I tried it and it doesn’t work….oh, well!)

Secondly, mem and nun are the only letters that are spelled with its letter. mem is spelled mem mem, and nun is nun nun. This was to highlight the nes of receiving the double portion every erev shabbos.

Finally, the Sfas Emes says that the Mon brought a tremendous amount of emunah, and sense of trust in Hashem, the One and Only Provider of the world and for Klal Yisroel in the wilderness. The words “Mon Hu” are the same letters as the word “Emunah”.

A good shabbos all!

“It’s a fresh and exciting routine, though.”

lol, well in that case, that’s really great!

Wow, thanks oomis! Never heard of corn kugel before, sounds interestingly delicious. Maybe I can convince my wife to try this out. I’ll let you know…

nice.

Agree -and love- the first 3 points.

Don’t agree with the last though, Hallel shouldn’t be routine at all and should be fresh and exciting like the first time

writersoul:

I empathize with your struggle! I had a hard time looking anything less than a drunken slob trying to eat a simple jelly donut this morning. I bit into my donut, and out popped the jelly from the side of my mouth all over my clean white shirt (worn l’kovod Rosh Chodesh).

🙁

I think I’ll stick to my latkes ‘n beer.

Bump*

*l’kvoid little froggie

1) Get my future costume out (you know, the one with the V-neck. what? we all get to wear those in the future, don’t we ?)

2) Get out 2 glasses to make my L’chaim with Moshiach.

3) text my chavrusa that I might be a wee bit late for night seder tonight.

😉

l’chaim yidden, l’chaim!

“The true definition of Kiddush Hashem is to be Mekadesh Shem Shamayim – the purist manifestation would be to die Al Kiddush Hashem.”

I’m not so sure about that, my friend. Dying al kiddush Hashem is very great indeed, but what about LIVING al kiddush Hashem??! I believe that this is an even higher form of the mitzvah.

You can sing any “mimkomcha”,

many fast niggunim out there (chassidish march songs, Lubavitcher niggunim, or even classic Simchas Torah niggunim)

and of course Hallel songs

kadesheinu

V’Taher Libeinu

I would be sitting on the moon drinking my booze, looking down at what-was-once-earth-and-popa and laugh my head off!

L’chaim!

There’s a nice story I heard recently about an inspirational man, an incredible father, and an inspirational yid.

His children were asked how their father was able to raise such a beautiful family of healthy happy and frum children, each one a gem, one better than the next. He cited the following:

in the early 1900’s it was, k’yodu’a, extremely difficult for a jew to hold on to a job with Shabbos et all. His father would lose his job every Monday morning, just like hundreds of other jews, because they didn’t show up on Saturday. He would walk in on Monday morning, and the boss would “give it to him” for his backwards way of life and for having his priorities unbalanced. then he would hand him his pink slip, and was shown the door, never to come back. His father would come home with a huge smile, and show his children his pink slip, and thank the RBS”O for allowing him to keep Shabbos again, enjoy the pleasures of ruchniyous, instead of giving in to work. He would then be mispallel to find a new job and head outdoors for job-hunting.

When sukkos came their father would build a sukkah and proudly decorate it with all his pink slips all around the walls.

It was with such optimism, such pride, and attitude, that all the children grew up to appreciate and love yiddishkeit.

ok, read this vort which was issued right here on YWN by R’ Oizer Alport from his weekly divrei torah.

Parshas Bereishis (Vol. 4, Issue 1)

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Throughout the generations, philosophers have debated the age-old question of which came first: the chicken or the egg? What does the Torah, which is the blueprint for the Creation and contains the answer to every question, have to say about this hotly-contested issue?

On the fifth day of Creation, Hashem said, “Let the waters abound with swarming living creatures, and fowl that fly about over the earth across the expanse of the Heavens.” On the phrase meaning “living,” Rashi comments, “that it will be alive” ? in the future tense. In the following verse (1:21), which relates the actual creation of the marine and bird life, the same expression which means “living” appears, but this time, Rashi comments, “that it is alive” ? in the present tense.

On the sixth day of Creation, Hashem declared, “Let the Earth bring forth living creatures, each according to its kind: animals, creeping things, and beasts of the land.” Once again, this verse contains the identical phrase which means “living,” and Rashi comments, “that it is alive” ? in the present tense. It is very uncharacteristic for Rashi to comment on the same phrase three times in a span of five verses. Further, it is not coincidental that Rashi switched the verb tenses between the verses. Why did he feel the need for these multiple comments, and what does this teach us?

Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin explains that regarding Hashem’s command on the fifth day to create marine and bird life, His intention was for the waters to produce fish eggs that would yield fish, and bird eggs which would hatch and create birds. For this reason, Rashi stresses that they will be alive after they hatch. In the following verse, the Torah records that marine and bird life were actually created. In other words, the eggs hatched and produced the desired fish and bird species; for this reason, Rashi writes that they were alive, since this verse discusses their post-hatching state. On the sixth day, the Torah records the creation of land animals which aren’t hatched from eggs. They were initially created in their living states, and for this reason, Rashi refers to them as already being alive.

The mystics teach that there is nothing which is not alluded to in the Torah. Although the Maharil Diskin was coming to address a textual difficulty in Rashi’s commentary, his answer enables us to decisively resolve the philosophical dilemma by concluding that the egg was created before the chicken!

Sounds like a great title for a CR movie thread, lol! hey, guys! hic…did I miss anything?

Many seforim speak about this. Off the top of my head you can take a look at the Bais Haleivi on parshas Yisro where he explains beautifully what zman Matan toroseinu means.