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That looks like it was Google translated.
Depending on how new of a mother you are, you should keep in mind that some of the overwhelming feelings might be the result of your body’s chemistry still not completely back in balance from the birth. And another part is probably being overtired from being up with the baby. Both of these things are temporary (well, maybe the dealing with the kids at night, but at least the crying baby part), just wait them out. This is normal, don’t let it bother you more than it has to.
On the other hand, you also shouldn’t feel like you need to keep your house in tip-top shape and serve three course meals. A lot of woman go to kimpeturin homes and its not because they feel strong as an ox…
Take your home-making down a notch or three, learn to take naps with the baby and in another month or so, you’ll be back to your usual self.
Why do we think they are hidden? Neither of my gemaras mention that.
1 A guten erev Shabbos
2. Baruch tihiyeh
Check out Bereishis 10:2 Magog is one of the children of Yefes.
Yechezkel 38:2 ??? ???? ?? ??? ??? ?????
My grandmother saw the Ribnitzer tell a girl who hadn’t been able to walk (either it had been a long time since she had or she hadn’t been able to since birth, I can’t recall) “Come here” and she walked to him.
I was getting sick every month for 2 years. After I got married I went to Rav Chaim Kanievsky and he told me that since I just got married I don’t need to worry about it anymore and it never happened again.
To those who claim that this story shows how important it is that chareidim start a hesder program, look at what is happening.
The first step is that chareidim boys need to leave the koslei haMidrash for X amount of years altogether.
The second step is that once you are machriach them to go into the army, now you scratch off a little more learning from the years before the army in order to train the bochrim on how to go to the army.
The first two steps on the short path to shmad. Only took a few months.
Of course that doesn’t include the dangers of the “mistakes” that happen in the army. Whoops we cut off some peyos. Whoops we forced some bochrim to listen to kol ishah.
Toi: I think the OP’s question is a proof that at least this part of the story was a neis. Also I think there is a difference between HKB”H minimizing a neis and people rationalizing one. The wind by krias yam suf was for them.
writersoul: Yes, that sounds right. If you take into account that everything Hashem does is a neis, and that most nissim are done bederech hateva (while back then a neis galui was more common, a neis nistar is not out of the question), it’s definitely a valid question.
So I guess the next question is, which category do you think the story of the mabul where millions of species were brought by malachim to fit into a rather proportionally small ship while the water level of the entire world rose so high as to cover the tallest mountain- without entering E”Y of course. That water retained its boiling hot quality and turbulence, while remaining cool and calm around the vicinity of said boat and without killing off any aquatic animals.
Does this story seem to you as a derech hatevah type of neis or a lmaalah min hatevah type of neis?
So your question is: Why is it that when Hashem does such a huge neis, it doesn’t make sense B’Derech HaTevah?
…Is that an accurate portrayal of your question?
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Sam2: I don’t understand what you are talking about.
writersoul: I don’t know why you keep talking about the Rambam’s name. It has nothing to do with what his name is and everything to do with what he is: a Rishon. You are right, perfection is only for Hashem. But that doesn’t mean the Rishonim were not malachim. However, that is neither here nor there. Do you agree or disagree that if the Rambam opens a gemarah and learns a topic for 10 hours straight, that whatever conclusions he writes down would be considered Torah? If so, then learning an additional 2 hours and coming to a different conclusion does not negate the existence of the first Torah. You can’t destroy Torah.
SL1: Because the machlokes is between the first Torah he concluded and the second Torah he concluded. If what he wrote at first was Torah (and I hope that it is obvious that it was), then that Torah can’t be negated it exists.
No, it has to do with the idea that the right side which represents chesed should always be on top of the left side that represents din. There are shirts that button the same way as well. I’m pretty sure Litvish frocks do too.
People still carry on zera yisrael, even when the lack of a halakhic Jewish mother precludes kedushat yisrael from being passed on.
Can I get a source for that?
Try l- theanine,it has a subtle relaxing effect that might help take the edge off the mind racing that’s keeping you up.
writersoul: there is a difference between your understanding of whatever the NSA thing is and the Rambam’s understanding of Torah. In the physical world, your theory is either right or wrong. Two opposing opinions can’t be right. That is not true about Torah. When the Rambam wrote the Mishnah Torah, his understanding of Torah was complete, Mishnah Torah is 100% Torah. Then he learned more Torah and he thought up different Torah. The Rambam saying his previous Torah is wrong is the same as the Raavad saying its wrong. It’s a machlokes.
writersoul: no I am calling it a machlokes Rishonim: the Rambam vs the Rambam.
writersoul: I think because Rishonim do not learn Torah wrongly. All of their Torah is truth and the only question is what is more subjectively relevant. If we say ????? ???? ?????? ????? ????? ?????, then how much more so their Torah.
Haleivi, writersoul: I think it’s the same answer to you both and that is what I’ve kept saying I understood from my Rosh Kollel. The Rambam’s recanting his position does not invalidate his original shitah. Meaning the Yad the Moreh etc are all still Torah to be learned and likewise to be cholek on by those who are capable of that. That is why there is no problem that Rishonim and Achronim still discuss and argue on it.
I can also suggest an answer to your question about the Raavad. Shivim panim L’Torah. There are many minhagim on how to do mitzvos al pi sod that we got through the Arizal. For instance I believe the Arizal is the source of the double hole for tzitzis. That doesn’t mean that there is no sod in using only a single hole, just that it wasn’t part of the Arizal’s Torah, so we don’t know it. Likewise I would say that if the Raavad didn’t see something al pi sod in something the Rambam wrote its because it wasn’t part of his Torah. But I’m sure Moshe Rabeinu could have explained it to him.
As far as I’m aware, the rule of thumb is whatever you say quietly you do in your own nusach and anything out loud ie. kedusha etc you say in the Shul’s nusach.
Maybe if you explained to him the reason it might have made him more receptive?
Sam2: I am moche on your suggestion that any Rishon or Achron would stoop to using lies to defend a position. Or for any reason at all.
I will just say that my position is that when it comes to someone acknowledged as a gadol, there are no boundaries to the emunah one should place in him. For me, these three gedolim have more than enough status to warrant emunas chachamim. I don’t need to understand the how or why in order for me to accept their words.
Am I the only one who thought this would be a thread about shepping nachos?
It’s a little complicated but bear with me:
1. Go into your time machine.
2. Set it for right before he turned on the oven.
3. Hit “start” (your model may say “go” or “enter” etc).
4. Jump in front of him and turn on the oven first.
5. Get back into the time machine.
6. Hit “return” (older models may require you to set the time again – do that first).
Your chicken nuggets can now be eaten from.
You are also responsible for destroying the entire population of the previous time stream. But we are talking about chicken nuggets here , so no expense is to great.
Just my hapence: The conspiracy that I am referring to is the one where rumors are spread and a forged letter disseminated in an attempt to invalidate the Rambam’s previous shitos. I think that is what you are implying must have happened.
Your question about Rav Avraham Ben haRambam is a good one. Maybe since his son was so young he chose to send the letter to an older talmid instead. I don’t know there are a thousand possibilities. I am not saying the letter was secret, only that there is only the one that he sent his talmid. The fact that the chazarah is not well known only means that the chazarah was not well known, not proof that it didn’t happen.
I don’t think it’s fair to paint me as a conspiracy theorist as though I want to believe in aliens and now I’m looking for excuses to validate that belief. For one thing, I gain nothing by promoting this idea. I have no agenda nor am i looking for an excuse to stop learning the Rambam c”v. There are sufficiently great enough Rabbis who believed there was enough evidence to declare in their seforim that a chazarah happened. You have questions on how such a thing could have happened being as certain figures didnt seem to know it. I dont know what actually happened, but as far as I understand it, all you are asking is why didn’t Rav X know. Who knows? For me it is simply a matter of some gedolim said something happened so I believe it. Bring me a Sefer that says that they were there and saw the letter forged and the rumors started and I will assume the former were duped. But I can’t just throw out the position of accepted gedolim on your questions. In the meantime I will assume Mahara”m Alashkar wondered the same thing but felt the question wasn’t strong enough to dispute his evidence when he defended him against the Sefer haEmunos.
just my hapence: If you look a little later on, he brings a letter quoted from Mahara”m Alashkar that the Rambam wrote to one of his talmidim and than says he has that ksav yad.
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The truth is, you’re right, I don’t think there is anything empirical, because this could have been a conspiracy stretching back a thousand years. When I approached my Rosh Kollel with this shtickel I asked him if it negates all the Rambam we have today and he told me that it means that there are to valid opposing shitos of the Rambam. He called it a machlokes between the Rambam and the Rambam. So in that case I would say that maybe all the nosei keilim were not making a mistake, they were only asking according to that shittah of the Rambam because it is also Torah. The fact that no one mentions could mean that the Rambam was at the end of his life (as he says) and didn’t have the capability to make this new shittah known throughout the world. So instead he wrote a letter or two that never became widely known.
Sam2: I check Reb Berel Wein and it looks like it wasn’t him, but I’m almost 100% sure I heard it somewhere from someone. Maybe it was Rabbi Tatz. I’ll try to find it.
HaLeivi: I think he means it as in “if you would like to believe what I have been telling you, then consider the following…”
Also, if you look at the second paragraph here:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=39500&st=&pgnum=5&hilite=
you will see that he quotes the Rambam in Moreh that his understanding of maaseh merkavah is based on shikul hada’as and not on any nistar that he was mekabel.
If you tell me that there are parallels between the Rambam and kaballah, then I still won’t say it is because he learned it. I would say it is because the Rambam’s Torah is still Toras Emes so even if it wasn’t written al pi kaballah, its still al pi kaballah.
Sam2: I actually heard Reb Berel Wein say that he saw a manuscript in YU I think, where his wife says he didn’t make it up. I have to find it again.
just my hapence: I found the Abarbanel that the mechaber is quoting here:
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=5306&st=&pgnum=216
Personally I find it more difficult to say that the Shomer Emunim and Abarbanel could be making such a mistake. As you say, his position is so opposing that one would expect they would have done adequate research before making such a pronouncement.
tefillah, talit, and torah
So there primary goal is to strengthen female observance of challah, niddah and hadlakah and a secondary goal is to strengthen tefillah, Tallis and Torah observance. Well, their secondary goals seem ultimately pointless from my point of view, but at least their main agenda is to be mechazek those mitzvos that are essential to women.
Sam2: you’re right. All I’m trying to say is that he has the power to do so as a Rishon. He doesn’t need to worry about the opinion of the majority of Rishonim. We do.
Just my hapence: the fact that we don’t have any letters today doesn’t mean he didn’t write any. I don’t think he’s making this up. I mean a little later in the paragraph he quotes the Abarbanel and Mahara”m Alashkar, the former who heard about this chazarah and the latter who seems to have seen a letter from the Rambam to one of his talmidim. The mechaber also says he has this letter in ksav yad (I assume of the Rambam).
The fact that he was a “super rationalist” is exactly the point. The mechaber on page 5 quotes the Rambam himself and explains all his seforim are based on his own shikul hada’as and sevora because he had never been taught nistar. I understand that he was working with what was available to him: his massive intellect and his eyes. Once he was given tools that extended beyond the intellect and the eyes, he was chozer.
Also I made a mistake. The mechaber is not the Pri Megadim.
WIY: have you ever been to Rav Gamliel Rabinowitz? I used to go there often and I think I’ve met people from all over America there. I never realized he was so famous in America.
Just my hapence: I didn’t make it up myself. It is from the Shomer Emunim haKadmon. The mechaber is the Pri Megadim. It seems I’ve been quoting it in the CR for some time already. It’s the paragraph that starts ???.
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=39500&st=&pgnum=7
What I am trying to say is not that belief in gilgul neshamos should be an ikkur today, but that there needs to be acceptance by the individual of those ideas that were accepted by the greater majority of the previous generations of gedolim.
To illustrate this point. I have seen a ger who does hishtachavaya with pishut yodayim vraglayim in shemonah esreh, in fact his whole shemoneh esreh looks like an Arab prayer. Maybe there is such a shitah. I actually think he may have based it on a shitah that we can do pishut today, but I can’t recall his crazy rationale.
The point being that this is an extreme example of what happens when someone latches on to a mi’ut opinion that wasn’t mekubal by the majority of gedolim. It is a dangerous thing to do, it shows lack of emunah in the chachamim that came before the person and leads a person to be porush min hatzibbur.
On the other hand, the Rishonim, including the Rambam were (in comparison to us, not their predecessors) the mischadshim. They had the ability to write the Mishnah Torah and the Mordechai on their own cognizance. So the Rambam can have such a shitah.
But we, the collective jewish people, are not just talmidim of the Rambam. We are talmidim of the Rosh, the Ritvah, the Ramban, Rashi, etc. We are also talmidim of the Taz, the Vilna Gaon, the Ba’al Shem Tov, Rav Chaim Salanter, the Ben Ish Chai, Rav Dessler and myriads other gedolim who shaped our views and beliefs into what they are today. In essence, their teachings are the bedrock of all our hashkafos. The consensus among these gedolim is that there exists gilgul neshamos.
In my opinion, it is not the Rambam himself who carries Klal Yisroel, but all the gedolim together. And to throw out the majority of these gedolim in favor of one, requires strong shoulders, because you are not just taking the Rambam’s shitah, you are also throwing out the shitah of most gedolim from then and since then. If you want to do such a thing fine. But first reach the level of the Meiri or the Mechaber or the Besht.
To say that there is no gilgul neshamos is to throw out all the gedolim mekubalim and gedolim chassidus as well as many seforim that are based on that principle as being so much air. Who can say such a thing today?
Either I am misunderstanding you or you misunderstood me because I wasn’t clear. I didn’t mean c”v that the Rambam was wrong. Even though he was chozer at the end of his life after he learned nistar, my Rosh Kollel explained to me that it just makes it a machlokes between the first shitah of the Rambam with his later shita, rather than render it invalid.
What I meant was that as The Rambam, it is within his power to maintain such a shita and it be valid. For us though, he is a mi’ut (possibly even against himself) and we have to follow the consensus, not the individual opinion.
What I meant about the Rambam not having Rishonim to hash it out was that, had the Rambam been born now he would be like us, subject to the consensus.
Sam2: I think there is a difference between the Rambam and someone today in that the Rambam didn’t have the benefit of the gedolei Rishonim and Achronim to hash it out for him. For him it didn’t need to be an ikkur, but for us , disbelief in gilgulim represents a lack of belief in the Torah of the previous generations.
I think for this generation, the important three would be emunah, simcha shel mitzvah and kedusha.
Ahava282: with regards to your first question. My very limited understanding is that when a soul is reincarnated, not all aspects of the soul go back down.
I don’t know where or if it says that a loved one looks over a person, but there are plenty of midrashim about tzadikim doing so.
writersoul: That comment is entirely uncalled for. He didn’t attack you, so why are you attacking him for the valid opinion that Jewish souls are more important that Jewish bodies. Do you honestly think that anyone who cares about Jewish souls can’t also deeply care about Jewish lives?
I think akuperma makes a very good point. Growing up in Yad VaShem’s “Never Forget” mentality makes it difficult for me to hear a comparison to the Holocaust. But the truth is that when you compare the Nazis killing Jews to the Israeli government taking Jews out of the Beis Midrash, which one sounds more like “asher karcha baderech”?
Its a hard comparison to hear, but I don’t think it should be disregarded on principle alone.
And why not the plastic bag?
Oh, I thought we were still guessing. Why isn’t the enclosure of the plane enough?
I thought it was because he was worried about shatnez in the seat.
morahmom:I am not sure what cave you live in, but it would seem to me that “kiddush clubs” are everywhere
Really? I can only think of one or two shuls that hava a kiddush club that I know of and they are the type of shuls where they have to announce the page number so that everyone can keep up.
Sam2: I don’t think there are NO alcoholics among chareidim. Alcoholism has always existed. The differences is that according to this article , its now become something beyond the isolated individual.
YWN is anti-Modern Orthodox, not anti-Satmar.
I highly doubt that YWN is anti-MO being as the greater percentage by far of posters here are MO.
Bigger question: WHY?!?!
If you thought about who the topic is about it would make complete sense.
“Right” and “Left” refer to which side of the French National Assembly people sat on during the revolution. Jews couldn’t hold office or vote.
What an odd fact.
So does that mean that all Jews are neither right nor left but a nation taken out of all the other nations with signs and miracles?
g_a_w: In addition, you are getting into dangerous territory by saying that one should not follow the actions of the Amoraim in the Gemorah because they were “singled out”. Who is to say that Shalom Bayis, Kavod Shabbos or a much needed break from yeshiva food should not apply to any specific individual?
No you are 100% right, I just hadn’t thought of it while I was writing the paragraph. Of course for shalom bayis or even kovod Shabbos, the norms don’t apply (in general). But again, the understanding is that these are exceptional cases to the rule- ie., had Shablom Bayis not been an issue, then there is a general rule that would apply.
Sam2: Oh I didn’t recognize that as being one of his appellations.
It was either my R”Y quoting Rav Shach or the book about him that I read, where he is quotes as saying something along the lines that Neturei Karta do what we can’t do. I understood whatever the wording of the quote was to mean that he shares the same ideology as Neturei Karta (at least before they started shaking ahmedinejad’s hand) but for what I assume is political reasons, he felt he could not act on it.
Also my R”Y is vehemently opposed to all forms of Zionism, which leads me to believe that whatever Rav Ahron may have agreed to as a possibility of the state becoming, he would not agree with its current incarnation.
That is all I have to say about this topic in its current CR gilgul.