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Since it was mentioned once or twice in this thread, if anyone is interested in hearing a nice proof for the divine origin of the Torah there’s a great speech by Rabbi Kelemen called “A Rational Approach to the Divine Origin of the Torah”. It’s about an hour long but really great and I think its based on a book of his. It can be found at simpletoremember.com along with some other nice speeches.
I might be a lone voice here, but I don’t think it really matters from a strictly SUBJECTIVE point of view whether there is discrimination between BTs, FFBs, Ashkenazim, Sephardim and any other form of dichotomy. The fact is that even perceived discrimination comes straight from Hashem and a person should have Emunah and Bitachon that whatever Hashem will do will be for the best.
On the other hand from an objective viewpoint its important for klal Yisrael to be ish echad b’lev echad. But that’s not something to worry about, just something to work on on a personal level and on helping the klal overcome on a general level.
I think it’s true that the Torah has everything in it already.
Parshas Ha’Man is a segulah that if you say it everyday you will never be missing food from your table
Parshas Ha’Yirah is a suglah for yiras shamayim
Parshas Ha’Teshuvah is a segulah for teshuvah
Learning Chumash Rashi is supposed to be a segulah for Emunah
I heard a story of a ba’al eitzah who would always say all taryag mitzvos before he would eat. Someone once askedim for a segulah for something and he said that he doesn’t know much about segulos but saying all taryag mitzvos before you eat soup is a segulah to cool off a hot soup
But still the Rishonim and Achronim didn’t put out sifrei mussar and machshavah for nothing. We are supposed to learn these things in addition to learning Torah. So that being the case if someone is looking to work on a particular area such as yiras shamayim or is especially worried of his din WellInformedYid provided us with options that one can learn during ‘mussar seder’
I’m thinking along the lines of Moderator 80. The Tanchuma (Balak 4 the yesh omrim) says that all the kings would go to him for advice. So essentially Bilaam was somewhat of a leader for the nations. Its possible that they looked up to Bilaam because he was a reflection of them.
Had the nations wanted to know what Hashem wanted from them Bilaam could have told them (as we see in perek 22).
it could be that since there are so many more girls then boys the girls have to mevater more often on these things while the boys are more picky
in general though i think girls are more readily mevater then boys
In my opinion (as with anything I say) with regard to the Jewish people it is both.
For instance in the first siman in chelek gimmel of the Mishnah Berurah in the last sif (I forgot which it is) the Hagah (may have been the mechaber- I have a bad memory)writes that there is a minhag to eat a “pashtidah” as a zecher for the man. I don’t remember if the Shulchan Aruch says it or the Mishnah Berurah, but it is explained that it has a top and bottom layer of dough with meat in the middle. The Mishnah Berurah writes that in his days it is still the minhag.
So I would argue that at first there was probably no minhag to eat this “pashtidah” at all. In Europe these types of foods were common and soon people were eating them on Shabbos. But ve’amech kulam tzaddikim, nothing we do is just stam so we found a way to add a mitzvah to this ordinary food and it became a minhag. Similar to how some people have a minhag to eat kishke potato kugel apple kugel and lukshen kugel since in Yiddish it spells Amalek. Or making yihi ratzon on Rosh HaShanah for foods based on their yiddish names.
In my opinion nothing the klal takes on can be just stam. We are under Hashgacha Klalis and we are too holy as a unit. Just like a tzaddik doesn’t raise his finger without kavana lishem shamayim the klal as a whole does not move with out kavana lishem shamayim.
That is my personal opinion on this, but I definitely see a lot of room to disagree with me.
Oh I didn’t know that. Still, I could understand why it would be undesirable to make such a shidduch. We’re not preventing these two people from getting married altogether – just to each other.
On a side note, I’ve seen some of your posts Moderator. How do you know so much about such a wide variety of topics?!?!?
I think there’s a difference between testing one person or both people. For something like TS where maybe there is a 100% chance of passing it on BECAUSE both parents are carriers then I can understand why we would want to prevent such a shidduch. It doesn’t prevent each party though from marrying other people who don’t have it.
But having one person checked to see if he has something that can possible be passed on to a child would remove him completely from the possibility of getting married. To be mevatel a mitzvos asei completely for a possibility seems wrong to me.
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I think many Sephardim eat cholent- they just call it Chamin and its made slightly different.
I think the issue here is that some people might be coming from slightly more modern background while others do not. A rebbe I had R’ Carlebach (brother of the Rosh Yeshivah of Mir Yerushalayim) used to say that the minhag to eat chulent goes back to the time of the tzedukim who wouldn’t eat hot food on Shabbos. So we bedavka made a food that is hot. In those days the only way to do that was by every one putting there pots of whatever by the baker’s fire over Shabbos until the seudah. The easiest food to cook for such an extended time was chulent. Hence the minhag.
It’s true that there is no halacha requiring someone to eat chulent especially if he doesn’t like it. BUt its not far from the truth to say that there is a strong inyan to keep even the smallest minhagim of the klal.
Really I would have said the other way around. Checking for lice is more of a medical thing. You wouldn’t be upset if a male doctor checked your wife’s hair if he was the only one available to do it. I think though a person would be upset though if the male doctor was holding his wife’s hand as he walked her out the door of his office.
I don’t know if it was done purposely, but a lot of times when a new report comes in it will not become the first news item but will take the place of a previous report on the same topic. This means that for instance every time I wanted to find out an update on R’ Rubashkin I had to scroll up and down to see if anything was there about him. It seems to me that it would be much easier if every new piece would become the first story.
I don’t want to take away from the chizuk in Emunah from this Gemarah but alibah d’emes you should know that the exact same type of oil spill happened in 1979 in the gulf too. Aderabah it could be that we were close to deserving Moshiach to come then too.