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putting aside procedural issues, do you really see a difference in the names Simcha (for women and also for men) and Menucha which are mentioned in SA, and the name Shira or Gila
Nope, I don’t see a difference at all. But maybe this is where Charda”l and Chareidi diverge. If it is a fact that Rav Chaim did say this then he obviously understands things that I don’t. That’s not so difficult for me to believe. I am planning to buy this sefer to determine if the quote from Rav Chaim is second-hand or if the mechaber actually asked Rav Chaim himself. But if he did, there is no way to convince me that Rav Chaim is wrong.
In addition don’t we have a klal of pok chazi mai ama dvar and zillions of Jews have used the names on your list. Can they all be bad people?
I don’t think we (me and you) get to determine when we say pok chazi. Also that case was when the gedolim weren’t sure what the halacha was for carrying a knife on an animal. Here the gedolim say they know.
First. Would you please offer another Rishon besides the Rambam? Not that I disagree with you per se, but even the Rambam was cholek on a lot of his shitos regarding these inyonim. Regardless, I think you meant to say “hold like” not “believe” since even the divrei chol of the Rishonim are Torah.
Second. “Artscroll must have quoted from a sefer” So it is easy to believe that Artscroll got it from somewhere but not easy to believe that this sefer got it from Rav Chaim?
Third. “but he is MECHUYAV to do so, <stong>if he learns a sugya differently.” Did you do that?
Lastly. While I strongly suspect that Rav Chaim has opened a SA a few times over his life this is not my problem. My problem is for those that want to bring a proof from their own svoros like “that can’t be true” or the like.
Hey oomis, have you ever heard the No True Scotsman fallacy? Well if you were a real Jewess you would eat ptcha.
Just out of curiosity. Is there such a thing as Kosher phones in America yet?
I heard it about a year or so ago. It was really incredible. If you go to simpletoremember they have a bunch of his speeches that are really great.
Which kind do you like?
My grandmother makes it with chunks of meat in it but I like it ground up really well heavy on the garlic. I’ll be honest though, I tend to scrape off the white stuff on top.
Ah yes. Rav Chaim can’t argue on b’feirush an Artscroll.
Also what does “If you believe in the gilgulistic explanation of Hu Pinchas, Hu Eliyahu, Hu Charvona, or that Hasach is Daniel, etc.” mean?
“if one wants to believe in some obscure, possibly kabbalisticly based novel sevara which … [Rav Chaim Kanievsky] holds from,” Are you sure “believe” is the word you meant here?
Now I don’t have a problem with someone explaining that they prefer to hold like Rav Elyashiv but I notice a lot of people appearing to argue on Rav Chaim with their own svoros. If you want to say he never said it and that this sefer is lying, that’s fine. If you know as a fact that Rav Chaim clearly held that Shira was a fine beautiful name for a Jewish girl, that’s fine too. But please, we aren’t talking about little people here. Just because you don’t understand WHY he said it, doesn’t make it not true. In all likelihood, he is probably intimately familiar with a number of sources that the rest of us aren’t.
What do you mean yukk? If English people can eat bread pudding why can’t we eat cow jello?
matjes!
mmm gala. The best thing to do with it is just eat it out of the tray and hope the 25 heads of garlic per square inch will overcome what is probably a lot of cholesterol.
I don’t actually know if gala is high in cholesterol, but it tastes good enough to be.
eclipse:
as far as I can tell from your posts you are a yiddeneh
I wasn’t able to find your description of olam habah in the Derech Hashem. However, the Sifsei Chaim has a really interesting piece on that where he explains the ‘chad charuv’ in the elef hashishi and then he explains the purpose of the elef hashvi’i through asiri. He explains like you say (probably based on the Ramcha’l) that there will be some bechinah of gashmiyus but it becomes smaller and smaller.
The body that you are referring to is called a chalukah d’rabbanan. That is for getting around int he olam haruchni as your paper example explains as necessary.
The whole point of the Ramchal though is that in olam habah and before the cheit the guf itself would become dak like the neshama is now and the neshama becomes even more dak. To me it seems that this is what happened to Eliyahu. Since he never died he must have reached a situation of before the cheit in which case the properties of his guf would follow the laws of how the neshama was supposed to affect the guf.
The most I was able to find in the Derech Hashem was in Perek gimel sif zayin, ches and maybe tes. But that seemed to suggests more like what I was saying.
Are you adding that “it doesn’t mean it was less physical…” or is that what he says? The Sifsei Chaim doesn’t speak about the whole world, just Adam HaRishon and it was me that was drawing the parallels to the briah. This is what the SifSei Chaim quotes from the Ramcha”l:
…and you’ll see that the gufniyus of Adam before the cheit was at the level of ruchniyus that he has now (after the cheit). Go and think how his ruchniyus was…because just like we see that his gufniyus of then (before the cheit) was like the ruchniyus of now…
This is what the Sifsei Chaim adds:
…At every level a man is made up of a guf and neshama. The essence of both of them is according to [each person’s] madreiga. When a person goes up to a higher world then the body of the new [higher] world goes up the level of the neshama that was previous.
He brings a number of times throughout the perek Chanoch, Moshe and Eliyahu who were mezakech their gufim so much that they were able to go up to shamayim in them. It is easier for me to understand that their gufim became dakusdik like ruchniyos through their aliyos than that their gufim remained actual gashmiusdik gufim like mine that then went into the purely ruchniyusdik place we call shamayim.
He quotes the daas tvunos on page 113 (Sifsei Chaim Emunah uB’chira p . 218)
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From there I thought that if his guf was what we would call ruchniyusdik now then its not so far from logic to say that the rest of the briah was the same.
Well we all know that HKB”H is busy being mezaveg zivugim and that it is kosheh k’krias yam suf. If we look in az yashir we see that “???? ????????? ????? ??????”. The relationship between a horse and rider is also compared to the relationship between the neshama and guf. This relationship is one of nosein and mekabel. It is also mirrored in another relationship- the husband and wife. Now during the shidduch crisis when our singles are suffering- as though HKB”H has cast them away- out to the sea, it is only appropriate that the Mitzrim should reflect our suffering in this area.
Come on honestly. How many people thought they’d be able to find a connection??
ItcheSrulik:
What’s the stirah?
Is the owner of the store Jewish? While ignoring the whole story might be the easy way out, the fact is that your neighbor might be stealing in which case you would be doing his neshama a big favor by helping him rectify the situation.
Your’re…you’re not joking!!! Why…? I…
Maybe its better not to understand some things in life.
I think my whole life would be on an entirely different plane. I spent a good [bad] portion of my early young adult life engaged in the follies of youth. It was only through maturing and through that overcoming the mountains from both nature and nurture that blocked my view of the path of Life that I was able to begin my trek.
Had I been able to begin able to start earlier my entire self would be many multiples of times deeper.
I’m in the middle of a sefer by Rav Chaim Freidlander zt”l. He brings – I think it was from the Ramcha”l- that before the cheit Adam HaRishon’s guf was like our ruchniyos and his ruchniyos was ever more ruchniyos.
From this I understand that until halfway through the third perek the entire description of the brias ha’olam and the the cheit was all on -what we call- a ruchniyosdik level and it wasn’t until after the cheit that the briyah was nisgashem.
This means that all the trees, fish birds earth etc. were all spiritual entities and only became the physical things we see today after the cheit.
What do you say?
I will iy”h look for this sefer tomorrow. Both because the topic interests me and because it can be nogeyah l’maisah.
I think yunger mann made an important point. The fact is that if he is indeed quoting from a sefer of someone who researched these inyonim and spoke at length with Rav Chaim about, there is little anyone can argue about. Who here has spent time learning these inyonim? How can anyone here argue without having spent time learning about these things? Just because it doesn’t sit well with you doesn’t make it wrong. First learn, ask shailos and then come back and comment with proof.
I understand that there is some chochma to sheimos. When I need a name I call up a rav who is known to be aboki in these things and go over them with him. Although he doesn’t discuss it with me I hear him under his breath making some type of cheshbonos before he answers me. So even though a person is given some form of ruach hakodesh when choosing a name it is likely that this ruach hoakodesh is no way comparable to the nevuah that our avos and imahos had when making up names for their own children.
rabbiofberlin:
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Also I have heard that there is a difference in the nevuah that people had in those times in naming their children and the ruach hakodesh that we have now.
I am also wondering about yiddish names too though since its nogeiah for me.
I once heard, I don’t even remember where anymore that the story about the shepherd that became a nazir in Nedarim 9b shows that the man was makir that his tayvos are not because he himself is pogum somehow and that he should get depressed over himself. Rather he understands right away that his tayvos are all from the yetzer habo’er bikirbeinu tamid, lo yishkot v’lo yanuach.
This is a very important part of aliyos, that a person should never get depressed over his tayvos or if he fails to adequately curb them. Rather he should pick himself up wherever he is and send himself to the ‘Beis HaMikdash’ and for this even Shimon HaTazadik will get up and kiss him.
yunger mann that sounds like it might be an interesting sefer, what’s it about and who is the mechaber?
Shticky: I’m a guy. But I’m just saying…
oh haha thanks!
Just wanted to point out that the most recent story says Hasgocha Protis instead of Hashgocha Protis
guess I don’t know how to bold yet
write strong where you put the b
I pronounce it G?d?l
I have curly hair and I got married. Well its more wavy-ish to be honest but still.
Eclipse you’re a genius! This is a great idea! We have to think up a name for this type of activity. Hmm…OH I know! Let’s call it a va’ad!!!
I think the nose and ears never stop growing or something like that.
You just need to get better at sewing.
Not knowing that there was something specific called ‘the sandwich generation’ I thought this thread was going to be about something else entirely.
Well you can go to Chevron, Beis Lechem and Yericho. Other than that I’m not really sure what else there is to do there. You should rent a security guard or four though.
eight track
(am I doing it right?)
Ah yes, nothing like good old ‘toilet water (eau de toilette)’ to bring back that scent of heaven.
I think a good idea would be that when a post gets deleted that there is automatically an e-mail sent to the poster explaining why the post was deleted. For instance there can be a list of rules and the moderator can just enter a number from that list that automatically sends the appropriate explanation of offense.
For me at least this would be very helpful because I’ve been noticing lately that my posts seem to be getting deleted and I can’t always determine the reason.
First of all you should ask your parents to explain to your brother that although he does not follow halacha, the atmosphere that they want to retain in the house especially for the rest of their children is one that does follow halacha. Therefore its only right that if he needs to watch movies he should use headphones so that everyone else not be disturbed.
Secondly, going off the derech is not always controllable. Sometimes parents do everything under the sun to teach their children the right way, but the child’s nisayon is between him and Hashem. Your parents shouldn’t feel guilty, they should only do their utmost to express to your brother how much they love him no matter what he’s doing as often as possible. Don’t try now to be mekarev him to yiddishkeit, be mekarev him to your heart.
If you are scared that you’ll go off, reinforce a love of yiddishkeit in yourself. Read and learn books that speak about Emunah and Bitachon. Learn Chumash with Rashi every day. Find a Rebbetzin (I’m assuming you’re a girl since your name is riki77) that you look up to and make a strong kesher with her.
You too should only show your brother love and devotion whenever you can. Be strong and firm if he tries to convince you to do things you wouldn’t do but never through arguing. Everything should be with love.
I have a chavrusa who told me of a boy on his block who went off the derech but his father worked hard to maintain a strong loving relationship. The son tried to keep everything hidden from his father and one day someone caught him watching TV on Shabbos. The boy was so scared that it would get back to his father because he didn’t want to upset him. Within a year he was back in the Beis Midrash. This shows you the power that love has.
Be strong, daven for him from the depths of your heart and show him how much you care for him and have faith that Hashem will help him.
m’inyan l’inyan b’oso inyan
Does anyone know why they specifically took over Yitzchok Avinu’s kever instead of Avraham Avinu?
I don’t know how he did it bpt but in theory you could do the same thing now by just copying the link and switching the name for whoever you want.
watermelon:
I’m FROM out-of-town (where trees really grow) but I’m here now!
Just like geirim and baalei teshuvah are not supposed to talk about their pre-frum Jewishness, you should not talk about having been an out of towner. Now B”H you live in NY and that is all that Hashem really cares about.
But eclipses are like rainbows, they may be nice but the signify something bad ie. floods and the blocking of light.
Watermelon though only means something good: desert!
it will wipe the drive cleaner than a yekki’s house on the first night of pesach
Now THAT’S what I call CLEAN.
Also the speeches by Rav Keleman on SimpleToRemember.com on these types of topics are really great.
rollerskates:
Maybe you are referring to E”Y where in some chareidi communities it is considered unacceptable for woman to drive. I don’t think people in America feel that way.
I agree with hudi. We might not be able to point to every single ethic and say with certainty that this was derived from that posuk or was passed down through this chain, but we know that the Rishonim were completely immersed in Torah. If we hear stories of later achronim who wouldn’t lift a pinky without some kavanh l’shem shamayim how much more so the earlier generations.
Also, I guess unsurprisingly, I disagree with charliehall and ItcheSrulik. Just because different meforshim disagree with each other and perhaps sometimes their opinions are mutually exclusive- doesn’t mean that one is wrong and one is right. Eilu v’Eilu divrei Elokim Chaim- ie. the machlokes on chanuka lighting with Beis Hillel and Beis Shammai. We know that both are right and generally it is only because we can’t understand Beis Shammai because his understanding was on too high a level that we don’t abide by his opinion now.
Similarly, I once showed my Rosh Kollel in the Shomrei Emunim HaKadmon where he brings that at the end of the Rambam’s life he finally learned kabbalah and said that if he would have learned this before he wrote his seforim he would have changed certain things. My Rosh Kollel told me that this means we are left with a machlokes on the Rambam against the Rambam- and not that his first opinion on the subjects were void.
Sender Av:
Are you sure he is putting it behind his ears and not behind his head? I remember seeing in the sefer Minhag Yisroel Torah that there is such a minhag to put it where the kesher of the shel rosh is.