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Alright, WIY, I’ll accept that ?????.
??? ??
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wouldn’t it be great to revive this thread!
PARSHAS BEREISHIS
Q. Why didn’t Odom or Chava eat from the eitz hachaim?
V’ZOS HABRACHA
Moshe Rabeinu was the greatest prophet to have ever lived and achieved closeness to HaShem that is insurmountable. However, upon Moshe’s death in VeZos HaBracha, he gets what seems to be a mere two-word eulogy; ‘and Moshe died there EVED HASHEM…’ (32;5). This was the question bothering Rav Elchonon Wasserman which he addressed in his eulogy of the Chofetz Chaim. Rav Elchonon said that the words ‘eved HaShem’ are the greatest accolade that a person can be given…
For we have a halacha that ‘that which is owned by a servant is owned by his master’ (eg if my servant picked up a lost object I am the object’s owner). Thus, said Rav Elchonon, the Torah calling Moshe Rabeinu an ‘eved HaShem’ meant that any talent, skill, and all aspects of Moshe’s life were spent using them for his Master, HaShem. That was a greatness of Moshe, and is a high level that we can emulate in our own ways.
Sometimes two words can be more elequent than even 1000.
There is a joke that they say: Shmerel went to borrow a horse from his neighbor, Berel. “Sure, you can borrow my horse,” replies Berel. “But one thing you have to know about this horse. He is trained to start when you say ‘Baruch Hashem’ (thank God) and he stops when you say ‘Shema Yisrael’.” So Shmerel gets on the horse and practices. “Baruch Hashem” he says, and the horse breaks into a trot. “Shema Yisrael” he announces, and sure enough, the horse stops. After practicing a few times, he feels confident and begins his journey. As he is riding along a road, he sees that the road ends up ahead with a steep cliff. Suddenly Shmerel realizes that he has forgotten the word needed to make the horse stop. “Ashrei yoshvei vetecha,” he squeaks desperately. The horse keeps going. “Um – Adon Olam” he intones. The horse keeps going. “Eh – Aleinu L’shabeiach.” But the horse keeps galloping. Now fearful that he is about to die, Shmerel does what any good Jew would do when confronted with certain death. He screams out, “Shema Yisrael.” As trained, the horse stops suddenly — barely two feet from the edge of the cliff. Shaking like a leaf, Shmerel pulls out his handkerchief and wipes the sweat from his forehead. “Whew !!” he exclaims, “Baruch Hashem !!”
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reminds me of an old yid in my shul, who probably doesn’t have 2 coins to rub together, yet he is the happiest man i know always with a quip for every situation. Many years ago someone asked him,
“Shloimeh, you take a bus to work?? Why not go in a car?”
“What?? Why should I go in a $25,000 car, when I can go in a $200,000 bus, with a driver?”
LOL!!
tell us, Rabbi popa bar abba, do you make your ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? with a shofar before or after you lain the megilla? By us, our minhag was to do it right after it is dark, y’know enough to see at least 3 stars through the spaces of my schach, but lately it kept blowing out the chanuka candles, so we now do it early, before we start to drink the 7 kosos yayin l’kovod the 7 Ushpizin.
l’chaim pba, l’chaim!!
p.s. they say this particular ????? ??? is a segula to be ???? all the shaiddim, mazikkim, and shikkurim from entering your sukkah.
1)maybe someone “cut him” a good deal..lol!
2)he was coming to my house. I love having booze with chicken.
3)maybe the lubavitcher across the road, who was mekarev him, invited him over for a shabbos seuda
yekke2- niiiiiiice!!!! +100
we always make something beautiful for Sukkos during the summertime when it’s quiet (like during the 3 weeks). This year my kids made Bruchim HaBo’im signs using their own imaginations
Ken Zayn: LOL!! (that one really had me laughing out loud!)
My 3 yr old made a paper shofar wrapped around with a whistle at the end. When I told him before Rosh Hashana we have to put it away for yom tov (it was muktza), he insisted that he has to bring it to shul. He explained, “And then when all the Tattys take out THEIR shofar I will take MINE out and blow too”
Halacha question:
On Yom Tov, can I cover a bee with a plastic cup when it lands on the sukkah table?
and another one bites the dust…
so long SiDi. we will miss you, thank you for your posts and all, and please pop in once in a while to say hi
l’chaim SiDi, l’chaim!!
tzeischem l’sholom!
crocs are extremely comfortable, but kinda clashes with the suit & tie.
-“say, that’s a gorgeous pair of crocs” noone said to anyone ,ever.
Anonymous
yentingyenta:
I wore my crocs to shul for the first time this Yom Kippur, and although many ppl did, it still is a very odd getup what with my suit et all. I don’t think i will do it again. Although it is more comfortable, I prefer to go with my “traditional” Yom Kippur shoes. I felt like, because it IS a Yom Tov, I should LOOK as “Yom Tovy” as possible. Crocs are so not for shul/yom tov, it’s for our homes/beach or some other relaxing place.
just my own “far-frumpt” feelings 🙂
Yes, you should wear your shabbos clothes (with the crocs!) as it is a Yom Tov.
gmar chasima tova
There was once a person who approached someone who raised turkeys and wished to purchase one. He agreed to sell him, but in 3 months time. After the time was up he purchased the nice large turkey, and the farmer pointed out, “remember the small turkeys 3 months ago? Look how nice and fat they are!”
The person said, “In all honesty they are really nice and big, but I was surprised at the amount of time. I mean 1-2 weeks okay, 3 weeks maybe, but what in the world takes 3 months??”
The farmer chuckled and with a wave of the hand said, “Mine aren’t raised like all the other turkeys you’ll find. Mine are the very best, the juciest, and delicious tasting turkeys. the other farmers out there just stuff the turkey with food for 2-3 weeks straight, and inject them with growth hormones etc. The way I raise them, is much differently! I starve them for 2 weeks, then stuff them for 2 weeks then starve them for 2 weeks and stuff them for 2 weeks. By the third month they have such an appetite, i let them eat themselves, and they eat so much, i don’t have to inject them or overstuff them, they do it themselves, and now are the most fattest and juciest turkeys.
The Nimshal
A person’s heart breaks on Y”K and he does teshuva for all the sins he committed, and promises never to do it again. The Yeitzer Hara says, great! let him starve for 2 weeks. Then about a couple of weeks after Sukkos, he goes back to his bad ways. Next Y”K comes and he starves himself. Eat Starve Eat Starve Eat Starve…..you see where this is going..
After 120 years we will get to the Bais Din shel maalah, they will find you to be the juciest turkey, steeped in cheit, and worse then we can ever imagine!
when one does teshuva you have to realize it is a loooong process and is imperative to erase all delights and pleasurable feelings from cheit from one’s heart so that we NEVER go back to the old ways. Otherwise we become one big fat turkey in the hands of the Yeitzer Hara to feast on.
see:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/yom-kippur-thoughts#post-407763
that is outragous! Did you voice your disdain of their treatment to the owners?
you have to use Apple’s app called iBurn or iSelf-Destruct
Mazel tov coffee addict!!! may you have lots of yiddish nachas from your little tzaddik!
l’chaim coffee addict jr., l’chaim!
Sam2:
“BaalHabooze: And maybe one shouldn’t sit in a Sukkah either because it’s Assur to sit in the Azarah? Come on. A Sukkah isn’t even Tashmishei Kedushah. It’s Tashmishei Mitzvah. Your Retzuos Shel T’fillin have more Kedushah than your Sukkah.”
I NEVER said that sukka takes on the HALACHOS of the Azarah! You have this funny shittah, just because you seem to be knowlegable in actual halacha le’ma’ayseh, there are a whole slew of seforim who teach us of important inyonim, and divrei soyd that are also torah. when the sefer I quoted said that it had a built-in kedusha, I also explicitly quoted that “one should AVOID having a goy come into his sukkah”
No Issurim, NO halachos, just an inyan that it is inappropriate to have a goy come to your sukkah.
There is only ONE place in the entire year where we have choshuva guests, none other than the 7 Ushpizen- not in your house, not in ANYWHERE but to your holy sukkah.
maybe he does….
when someone pulls a trigger, even if you know that there are only blanks in the gun, there is still a natural tendency to cringe. no matter how many times it’s done. pshat is, that when someone’s life is on the line, you cringe/hide/shidder.
It is brought down that one should avoid having a goy come into his sukkah, because the sukkah has Kedushas HaChil, the holiness of the area of the Azarah in the B”H where goyim were not allowed to enter.
Also that’s why we shouldn’t have a goy put up the s’chach. Because since that is the ikkar part of the sukkah (zeicher the Annanei HaKovod).
It is also called the Tzail DimiHeiminusa. The sukkah is infused with tremendous kedusha.
Therefore if one has a goyish neighbour or friend that wishes to see his decorated sukka, either invite them before sukkos or on simchas torah.
I use a tarp to cover my sukkah, and have it on a slant so that the rain will slide off. It didnt work 100%, but I managed, and tried to improve it year by year.
I tie down the tarp on one side of the sukkah, and the other side (of the tarp) I use to open and close my sukkah by pulling ropes attached (to it’s edges), then I firmly tie the ropes to a nail in the sukkah wall to keep the tarp from flying away.
Hey, anyone have a head of a sheep this past Rosh hashana? or any interesting exotic shehechiyonu fruit?
in my family we have a mesora that booze is a good siman for booze.
I would NEVER call MY kid Utz. Yech!
My 6 yr old son told me a cute pshat in shofar during a Rosh Hashana seuda, one that I never heard before.
The Soton knows that when Moshiach comes, the great shofar will sound, and Hashem will ??? the Soton for good. So when it is Rosh Hashana, Hashem in His everlasting rachamim, commanded us to blow the shofar, this way the Soton shudders and runs and hides (thinking that perhaps Moshiach arrived), and now when Hashem sits to judge the soton is not around to prosecute!
send him a nice head of a sheep for the simanim
thanks kapusta, that was very inspiring. short and to the point. great clip!
the point is to make it NOT boring. Prepare a great story about Shabbos/Rosh HaShana for the seuda, and make the simanim interesting,
VERY IMPORTANT – SING SONGS THAT THE KIDS KNOW!! you can sing other songs later, but have them start a song that they learned in school. If they DO want to sit on the couch and read let them but if you ask them questions about school, or shabbos or yom tov, and get them involved then you know youre on the right track. sing fun songs. tell them a funny/cony joke or story with funny faces that they will laugh, and have them enjoy Shabbos/Yom Tov on THEIR level, not YOUR level.
warning: don’t slip booze in their cups. it’s tempting sometimes, but, hey, it’s Rosh Hashanah time…
sorry I don’t get the reference, but welcome welcome welcome! Please help yourself to some coffee, schapps, or some other virtual beverage to your hearts’ delight.
So, tell us, voos hertzach in Atlanta Georgia??
TNIAT – lol, how ’bout some fine schnapps to get the ‘ol brain working?
“Rosh Hashanah is coming!”, warned my wife
I drop my booze as if I’ve been stabbed by a knife
I thank my wife in a daze
begin to introspect my ways
and slowly improve my deeds for a more meaningful life.
My R’H resolution is to stop procrastinating, and to work on my zerizus, and to finally put an end to pushing off so much of my responsibilities, and to use each day to its fullest so that 5772 will be a truly memorable and great year!
l’chaim yidden, l’chaim!
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A Kesiva VaChasima Tovah
There is a great book by Artscroll called “The Other Side of the Story” all about judging people favorably. One of my favorite books by artscroll. It really is like a self-help book to using your wildest imagination in the most improbable of circumstances.
they say a guy named Murray wanted to be famous but kept failing with one obstacle after another hindering his efforts. Finally one day, when he was on a rooftop a strong wind came and pushed him down and he died. Legend has it that he died with a smile on his face thinking that at least he’ll be famous AFTER his death, and that they’ll coin his situation as Murray’s law…
I was in the Oitzar HaSeforim (library) in Yeshivas Mir in Yerusholayim. There must of been 10-20 of us. Everyone was minding their own business, each one absorbed in their sefer, when all of a sudden one bochur jumped up from his seat, staring at his cell phone, and with a look of shock and horror screamed, ” A plane just hit the World Trade Center!” We all looked up, and stared, waited for more news, but he just ran out. 10 seconds later we heard a “bang” in the Bais Medrash downstairs. The gabbai who gave a ‘klap’ by the amud, started to say a kappital tehillim aloud.
I was a bachur back then, from Canada, and did not know that the WTC and the Twin Towers were one and the same.
The most popular and best-selling biography by Artscroll is “Rebbitzen Kanievsky”, now in it’s 4th printing, over 30,000 books sold.
the question therefore is:
Why aren’t there any more biographies, by Artscroll, on great jewish women??
2 more shabbosim left in 5772.
use them well.
a Gut Shabbos to all!
PARSHAS KI SAVO
“Yitein Hashem Es Oivecha HaKamim Alecha Nigafim Lifanecha.” (Ki Savo 28:7)
Hashem promises us that if we do the mitzvos, the enemies that rise up against us will fall before us. Rav Shimon Schwab asks, “If we are doing Hashem’s wishes and are clearly blessed, why would an enemy be foolish enough to wage war with us?”
He answers that it is part of the teva, the nature of the world, that Sheker despises Emes, bad hates good, and Tumah confronts Tahara. Whether they will be victorious or suffering a crushing defeat, the enemy will attack its natural enemy.
“This,” says Rav Schwab, “explains Milchemes Gog U’Magog. Although during that time Hashem’s glory will be revealed openly to the entire world, nevertheless Gog U’Magog will gather their troop to wage war Al Hashem V’Al Moshicho. Although bad will never stop attacking good, we should all be zocheh to see the day that they will no longer be successful.”