BaalHabooze

Hey YT, thanks for checking in and letting us know how you are! We want to wish you all the very best and a gut kvittel, refuah shelayma to u and your mother. May this year only be uphill from here on now, onto a full recovery and back to the best of health.

Mazel Tov Aunt Gumball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first is ALWAYS exciting, may this year continue to be one of many more simchos in your family!!!!

baby names to consider:

-Rumball

-613

or maybe just- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🙂

Thanks sam4321, those are real gems i can use by the Y”T table.

I heard once from my rov, why is it that the letters for EMES is hinted at only at the END of the words and not at the BEGINNING? So he said beautifully, that sometimes, us humans unfortunately see the EMES and perceive the rightousness of Hashem only at the END. Sometimes we can view a situation or an event and think, Whoa, how can Hashem allow something like THIS to happen?? And perhaps only a day later he can see the TOV and good that results from that very “bad” that we “thought” we saw. Sometimes a week, sometimes even years, and sometimes only after our lifetime. But one thing is certain, Chosomo Shel HKB”H is Emes.

We see it in Parshas beraishis. Kayin kills Hevel. So one might say, poor Hevel, he was a tzaddik, did nothing wrong, why did he deserve such a fate?? And Kayin, he lives on and has desendants??!

The Chasam sofer says that Moshe Rabbeinu was actually a gilgul, and his neshama had sparks of both Hevel and Shem. (Moshe’s name hints to this: Mem=Moshe, Shin=Shem, Hey=Hevel).

So although Hevel was murdered prematurely, his neshama came back in the form of Moshe Rabbeinu, the greatest Navi! His greatness and memory lives on forever! Kayin on the other hand may have had grandchildren in the short run, but all perished in the Mabul years later. They also say Sheyss was a gilgul of Hevel, his brother, and from him came Noach, Avrohom, etc.

So we see our shortsightedness, and Emes of Hashem sometimes can only be seen Acharis Kichlos Hakol, at the END and not right away in the beginning.

I DO beleive, sorry I don’t have the same levels of bitochon and emunah as you both. However I have the feeling you don’t live in israel with thousands of serial killers and murderers in YOUR backyard. Now, you’re a thousand percent CORRECT, that everything is from Hashem here on earth, and Hashem yishmor, nothing bad should happen from these animals. It’s just a vereeeery uncomfortable feeling having trained experienced murderers breathing down our israeli brother’s and sister’s backs! They still have bechira, and have every intention to kill again. May the RBS”O save us!

Unfortunately she died after being in a coma.

How can they release these murders?? not 5, not 50 not 500, but over 1000???!!! These guys didn’t rob a grocery store, they MURDERED or helped murder 1000’s of people!!? Chances they will do it again, are ,well, pretty good! How did such a deal go through? May the RBS”O spare us from any more tzar, and may klal yisroel’s tefillos be answered.

Ovinu Malkeinu, hafer atzass oiveinu! Save us from their evil plans! I heart tells me this was worth it, because we brought home our brother Gilad…….but my brain has reservations about this swap…….the world must be laughing at Israel, the jews, the justice system.

We always tease each other, if I grow a beard my wife will shave her head! (my beard is scraggly and spotty)

My wife of 10 yrs always says the shaitel is the hardest mitzvah for a girl. I always remind her of the schar she will reap for adhearing to it.

And finally, after all these years my wife STILL asks me, when will the chachamim of our generation pipe up and exclaim, whooooops! we made an error on the shaitel thing. our bad. sorry. hair is muttur, afterall!

I could only imagine your pain in your hearts and loneliness you experience. It must be SO hard. I can not imagine spending Y”T by myself,let alone without being happy, as I am B”H surrounded by family. I wish I can invite you to my sukka, but I live OOT. Do you have ANY relatives to spend Y”T with??

Mazel tov whatrutalkingabt!!! May she light up your house with only yiddish nachas, gezunt and happiness.

Happy Birthday, Gefen! is it really your b-day?? How old r u now, how old r u now……

You always wish everyone with mazel tovs, so I want to wish you a big mazel tov too, may you be zoiche to many many brochos, gezunt nachas and a year of gevaldig hatzlochoh b’chol inyanim.

We always start the Torah all over again from Beraishis, immediately after completing it. There is a beautiful vort, bederech Remez I saw once, I think in the sefer Shalol Rov. He quotes the Ramba”n who asks why does the Torah begin with the creation of OUR world, why not begin with the Oilomos HaElyonim, the spiritual worlds above which were created before ours?

He answers that there is a Klal, that we don’t darshan the parshas Hamerkava in public only with a select few (because of the complex concepts/ideas, and out of modesty for the Awesomeness of the issues.)Says the Ramb”n that here too, the creation of the other worlds are not to be learned B’Rabim, therefore it isn’t included in the parshah. So the sefer Sholol Rov brings a Remez. We end off Parshas V’Zos HaBrocho with the words, L’Einei kol Yisroel – Since the torah is something which is learned B’Rabim, in public, therefore Beraishis Boroh Elokim Es Hashomayim V’es Ha’aretz, we only tell of the creation of our physical world and not the oilomos ha’elyonim, because, “Ein Dorshin B’Mayseh Merkava BoRabim”.

AYC such a strong question, yet surely you are not the only one who have asked it. My feelings for you and I hope you are in good spirits. One reason why we say Yizkor on Yom Tov is precisely for that reason- to remember our loved ones who have passed on, and we “celebrate with them” if only for 2 or 3 minutes, not only in memory, but also spiritually(as their neshamos are right there next to us).

Agreed with midwesterner, I would have said

LA

Toronto

Montreal

Chicago

Baltimore

Black iz beautiful, and if any ‘a you racists have anythin’ against ma’ beautiful black aravas, I’ll contact the authorities, ta’ make sure your racial slurs don’t go unpunished! Besides deyz looks great next to ma brown ethrog!

…what?…

Rainbow City (Alabama)

I admit I never heard this term before and is not an issue circling around in my community at least. Care to explain this term “Trophy wife”?

popa, first of all thanks for the “neutral” title. Secondly, i thought you were going to say how u always try to do it and then it stops somewhere at the end of Shemos or some thing like that. I can’t EVER do it past V’Yigash or V’Yechi. I think that was the furthest I ever got. I can never put it into my schedule and need an eitza. I think my problem was I left the chunk of the parsha for Shabbos, and with the short winter shabbos afternoons….

in any case I hear what your saying….

Saskatoon

ooooo, and my ESROG!! I bought this beauty yesterday, I can really say that I feel excited about it, even my Posek and my family ooo’d and aaaaah’d when they saw it!

Heck, I love EVERYTHING about Succos, and have no real favorite!!

St. John’s (Canada)

Eritrea (Africa)

Deal (NJ)

I love Rabbi A. Miller z”l, his legend and wise words will live forever.

Other important things:

1) Yes it’s difficult to fast, to stand and to daven so many hours, and even to do Teshuva. But you STILL gotta greet your fellow yid with A CHEERFUL SMILE!

2) Keep in mind how FORTUNATE we are to have Yom Kippur once EVERY year. can you just imagine if it would come around once a Yovel, how much we would anticipate it and cherish it!

3) Try to put in some learning during the day. Koveaya Eetim B’Torah applies even on YK.

Although we can not predict when the keitz will be, but I think that there ARE times which are AUSPICIOUS times, times MORE mesugal than others, as we DO see Heilige Tzaddikim of yore who did POINT OUT different zemanim which we can try to somehow “take advantage of” and try to usher in Moshiach. The Arizal pointed out certain times, and even R’ Herman (in All for the Boss) pointed out the year 1990 to be a mesugaldig time, just to name a couple.

Edroy (Tx)

Winnipeg