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  • January 23, 2014 12:41 am at 12:41 am in reply to: How Did He Get My Number #999408
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    shouldn’t these callers be reported to some authority? they are attempting theft

    November 11, 2013 6:17 am at 6:17 am in reply to: Free Firefox Add-on (Search Shas, Tanach, Rambam…) #986228
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    Is there any way to use this add-on, or a similar one, with Google chrome? If I switch to firefox, will I lose all my bookmarks from Chrome? (I have a very large library of bookmarks in about 20 different categories, built up over several years of researching.)

    thank you for your help.

    December 22, 2011 3:44 am at 3:44 am in reply to: Hebrew typing tutor #971424
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    Thank you, real Israeli, for the response and the suggestion. As you can see, I’m not looking for the program for myself, as I obviously have internet access (from a kosher supplier; I need it for work).

    There are hundreds of families here in Eretz Yisrael whose daughters need to learn to touch type in order to take vocational courses; if I could save each one $25.-, I would be pleased. My granddaughter is one of them.

    When I asked around, I was told that there are free programs, but so far, I have not been able to find any that don’t require internet access, which my granddaughter and her classmates don’t have and don’t want. The school offered to sell them a program for NIS 100. each, but it seemed a shame to me for each family to have to lay that sum out for a program the girls need for only a few days, over Hanukah vacation. They need to master the basics of typing right away. I thought I might be able to help, and posted this question.

    Since then, the school has offered to lend out the program on disk, rather than selling it, against a NIS 20.- deposit. Much more sensible. It just goes to show that when we stick together, and try to help each other, Hashem helps us.

    May it always be so.

    September 25, 2011 9:21 am at 9:21 am in reply to: hashkofa help! #812449
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    As I was taught, the Torah speaks to man in the idiom he best understands. We are unaware of the motion of the globe as it spins on its axis, even though it is moving at a tremendous speed, and taking us with it.

    Consequently, when we see the sun disappearing in the west, we don’t think of ourselves as turning away from the sun; rather, we interpret what we see to mean that the sun is moving away from us, and “sinking below the horizon.”

    Similarly, we call sunset “shekiyah” — sinking — even though the sun is by no means sinking into anywhere. It stays right where is, and WE gradually rotate away from it.

    Nonetheless, we use the term shekiyah, which means, from the word “to sink.” This doesn’t imply that everyone who uses the term “shekiyah” is claiming that the sun rotates around the earth, and therefore sinks below the horizon each day; it simply means that this is how we, with our limited five senses, interpret what we see each day.

    Chazal have their “information” straight from the Manufacturer, Who certainly knows His product inside out, not from their five senses.

    Hashem knows our limitations, and speaks to us, through the Torah, in terms which everyone can grasp easily.

    There are endless examples of such; I’m sure other readers can add to the list, but right now, what comes to mind are the expressions “Hashamayim mesaprim ke’vod Keil.”

    No one thinks that the shamayim are actually “speaking.”

    Another instance: when we read the possuk in Shemos 19:4 about how Hashem transported Am Yisroel “al kanfei neshorim” — does anyone take this literally, to mean there were wings with feathers, etc?

    Of course not; it is just a way of bringing it down to a level that we can understand within the limitations of being flesh and blood.

    There are probably better examples, but I’m not so good at pessukim. Maybe some of you can add better ones.

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