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Who said it’s a lifestyle?
Quoting Rabbi Miller about the internet today is as relevant as quoting Reb Moshe on the use of timers.
Daas Yochid, that is in front of the idol. Bowing is an Avoda to it. Besides, as you probably know, Ahava v’Yirah is actually not considered real transgression of Avoda Zara. Only when it is actually accepted. If the person bows in front of the idol but has in mind that he is bowing to Hashem (sort of how Yaakov Avinu bowed in front of Esav — no Issur anyhow) he did not actually transgress Avoda Zara and it isn’t punishable.
RebYidd23, meditation, positive thinking probably helps more than placebo.
So a spiritual dream is Avoda Zara?
There is no Avoda.
The practitioners’ beliefs are okay, but they’re doing an aveirah.
This is upside down. How can someone be Oved Avoda Zara without Avoda Zara!? Please find me an example. Is this really worse than actual Kishuf? Kishuf is based on Avoda Zara ideology but is still not considered Avoda Zara.
Zdad, regarding protests not help the Shabbos cause, absolutely. In fact, I doubt anyone here argues.
Ubiquitin, yes the Rambam says that a king has the right to create laws on top of the Torah, for the sake of society. And he may create his own punishments as well. In fact, even Beis Din can punish more severely than what is prescribed in the Torah if they see that the times call for it.
However, deciding between two people who is the rightful owner is different.
You want to see a protest against some neighborhood youngsters? Protests, by nature, are against a government. Youngsters are admonished.
However, you do give up admonishing after a while. But maybe we can be Yotze armchair Macha’a right now:
Antagonizing soldiers is wrong, counterproductive, despicable, and a Chilul Hashem!
There isn’t an actual Halacha derived. It mentions a Psak in the story. That is not the same thing.
For example, the Gemara discusses distances on earth in relation to the Zmanim. We know they meant it in the full meaning of the word since they are discussing practical ramifications. However, in this case, Chazal hadn’t derived anything practical from the story.
In fact, we don’t ‘Pasken‘ like any of Shlomo Hamelech’s trick Psakim. We can’t use motherly love, as proof of parenthood, in a Beis Din. Shlomo Hamelech saw the whole situation, it might have included Ruach Hakodesh, and being an undecidable case it might have allowed for Shuda deDayne—assumption of the judge.
As to the oddity of the story, first of all, this is not in Gemara or even Medrash Rabbah. So, if you have a hard time with it ignore it. There are other weird stuff about Shlomo Hamelech out there which, given the obsession of other nations about Shlomo Hamelech, I assume there are stories that originate from without.
This is what happened with the famous story of the two brothers trying to lighten the load of the other in the middle of the night, on the spot of the future Bayt al-Maqdis. It appears to be an Arabic story that made its way in a couple of centuries ago.
However, being that Tosafos mentions it, I’ll regard it as legitimate.
Now, a Sheid is not completely a physical being. They drive physical things and are basically related to the material world, but they aren’t actually composed of matter. Perhaps it can be said that just like our soul is manifest in a body, their personality is manifest in motion, changes, and action. Therefore, the whole story about the capture of Ashmedai should be read in this light. Shlomo Hamelech knew how to capture this non-physical being to be able to utilize it’s resources. To the outside observer, there was nothing to see other than amazing success.
In this story too, this strange guy showed up from nowhere, or perhaps he was born to a local family this way (which would explain the marrying and application of Jewish law) and the Medrash is informing us that this was Ashmedai’s doing. He pulled up this form of human from other worlds and applied it here.
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LessChumras, yes that’s true. They are written in Ksav Ivri. This is actually a testament to the fact that the Torah has to predate Ezra, and actually Sancheriv’s conquest as well. The Samaritans didn’t accept Ezra and yet the differences are minor and few.
Thank YOU 😊 and sending the blessings and light right back to You too and your family too!!!
Amen!
This project is a wonderful, and long overdue, idea. It would be even better if people of all communities are made aware of other communities at a young age.
You sound close to that boundary already. When you marry you’ll get to honor the Torah by encouraging and allowing Torah learning.
Don’t invest your time with stranger boys even if appears to be spiritually motivated.
What does the iPhone have to do with space travel? Were they missing Uber?
Why is Chabad ‘out of the picture’? You found that many of them promote or harbor a mistaken, non-important sentiment. They still hope for Moahiach to come and don’t claim that he already arrived. Nor are they making unholy things holy.
This question might be more important. I don’t Chaim to know the answer.
One piece of advice I’d give to proponents of any divisive ideology: keep in mind the outside perspective before you begin. We’ve all seen in the other recent threads how foolish it comes across when you announce to others ideas that are based on insider logic.
Aggada, Remazim, and Svaros are only useful for those who already signed up. If someone asks you what you believe answer dryly. If you are asked for the basis of your belief don’t pile on all the Remazim and pointers. Just lay out the roots, even if it doesn’t reflect your personal excitement.
Take a picture of him lighting the Menorah.
So when is Sof Zman Achila? And which part of the Galus Sof Zman Krias Shma/Tfila?
Hey, is that why there are so many late Minyanim these days — since we are anyhow after the Zman Tfila?
Anyhow, now we know what the Rishonim were doing in the ‘dark age’. It’s obvious. It was the Zman for Bedikas Chametz. So this is why the Yeshivos in Bavel were declining. You aren’t allowed to learn before the Bedika.
Some people have a very hard time with language. This only gets worse as you grow older. There are plenty of Shiurim of all types. Find the right flavor of Halacha Shiurim to follow and within a few months you’ll be able to out-maneuver most of your peers. That’ll do away with the Am Haaretz feelings.
But parallel to this it is still worthwhile to make a steady effort in learning real Sefarim. Start with Chumash. If you are comfortable with Chumash it shouldn’t be a big deal to move to Mishnayos with Rav/Tiferes Yisroel.
However, you should desperate these two distinct efforts. Don’t let the slow progress of one get in the way of the other.
Oh. So it’s Joseph season again? How often? What is it, every, say, two years and three months?
Doing something, as in stopping their entry? Excellent question.
What this means is that the Creator facilitated women’s tears. They were made to cry easier. The same Creator made men. I think He knew what He was doing. My guess.
Some passages in the MN read like apologetic excuses. He writes about certain unpopular ideas, mentioned by a variety of Chachomim, that they are Daas Yachid although you don’t find any Amorah actually arguing the idea.
This shows us in which vein it is written.
So, it is an interesting Sefer. I’ve read parts of it but not all, I think. But it is not supposed to be the basis of our outlook of what the Torah is. Nor do the philosophical proofs help a non-philosophically oriented generation come to the same conclusion.
And yet, the Ramban, Rashba, Ritva, Rosh and many others did not want people, especially young inexperienced people, to learn it.
The complaints aren’t about the direct Greek quotations. They are about his Taamei Hamitzvos (which don’t show up in the Yad), his explanation of the Merkava, and the implied dependence on the Torah being agreeable to philosophy.
Some have said it is a cloaked Sefer (as he writes himself), which masks even Kabalistic ideas. The Kamarna writes that only someone with an open an holy mind can learn it. Some have said to own but not read it.
It was a great composition to keep hold of a generation and culture that cared very much about certain assumptions and couldn’t accept certain other ideas. Some of these issues are outdated. For example, in a time such as ours in which concepts of machines looking, hearing, knowing, and wanting are common everyday language, we don’t need a whole thesis explaining הנוטע אוזן הלא ישמע. And yet, you still hear people feeling very educated for understanding this.
Why should we instate learning apologetics of a thousand years ago? And yes, our Yeshivos learn Mussar. Some learn Chassidishe Sefarim, and some even learn Sifrei Machshavah. Usually it’s up to the individual.
The tenets of our belief were actually not debated at the time, even if you work very hard to dig up a specific outcast opinion and twist it further than intended.
What we accepted was his great work, the Yad, which is Torah-based. We did not accept the Moreh which is philosophy-based. In fact, he was careful to separate the twoand he even contradicts himself at times. There are small exceptions to this and guess what: those areas in the Yad that stem from philosophy are also rejected.
There is something very sickly about this fascinating of Apikursus. There are some places that constantly lecture about the borderline of acceptable belief and beyond, and build towers in the sky of obscure, anomalous shitos — whether or not the Mechaber actually meant to finalize it — dug up from the Sheimos bin and stretched passed capacity. These are of course added onto each other and there you have it: a Mekor for a brand new system.
Because it was never accepted. The Rishonim we able to see past the Sefer and accept the Rambam. The Sefer itself was for the most part rejected. It was that way from his time until today.
Halloween is the only Chagga I keep. It’s so much fun sharing ghost stories.
We kill way too many mice, but not enough terrorists.
The best place to learn Torah is from someone who learns it.
In Shabbos 62 it seems that he may.
So we just deduced that there is no issue of Gittin, bias, bullying, and fights.
With some more great logic we can out-reason Shidduchim, poverty, ignorance, disease, and perhaps aging.
Use a Get Mekushar.
What about the Ohr Hachayim Hakadosh needs ‘answering’? Rav Saadya Gaon’s point was about being robbed, to which the Ohr Hachayim Hakadosh agrees (as he writes on ועשית עמדי חסד ואמת). The Gemara also mentions the idea that a Ganav gives Hashem more work in order to arrange to repay the victim the amount allotted to him on Rosh Hashanah.
As for murder, the Gemara in Chagiga says that even the Malach can at times kill without it being decreed. (Yes, I’m aware of Rabbeinu Chananel there.)
This got far from the original topic. But anyhow we know that מחשבה טובה הקב”ה מצרפה למעשה ומחשבה רעה אין הקב”ה מצרפה למעשה. This seems to suggest that the outcome surely makes a difference.
Sure there is the idea that רחמנא ליבא בעי but that’s not all.
The substance of all of creation is a constant, renewing command from HKBH. This is the underlying energy-matter of the universe.
Now, that is when we discuss יש itself. However, the term בריאה refers to inventing the concept of something, which is why it can refer to חושך even though in practice חושך wasn’t ‘built’ but rather left as the other side of the אור scale.
When we discuss an item we are discussing its form, its identifying qualities or personality. We don’t really pay attention to its makeup. Although my internal molecules change over within a given time it wouldn’t occur to you to consider me a ‘different’ person.
And so, the world was formed once and for all while the underlying substance does depend on a constant renewal.
My reference to electronics is that we are already used to the idea of character on a screen being referred to as an entity, all while we know good and well that its substance existence is constantly given forth by the local machine.
Think ‘form and matter’, and your questions melt away.
This should be self-understood in an age of digital realities.
Also, if this is how you understand his concept of מחדש בכל יום you have a much bigger problem than this Shabbos. We keep Shabbos as a confirmation that Hashem completed the creation in six days, and then it was complete.
but what if you find the bum in your bedroom at 3:00 AM?
Then go to sleep somewhere else.
So a ‘Lazy Bum’ is actually a good thing!
What they have is comics based on Jewish stories, some from the Talmud, others from much later.
Any plan that includes intrusion of others is not on the table.
Seems pretty easy too get all worked up about an issue you don’t have, and be all judgemental about it.
Zahavasdad, why are you implying that learning less than a Yeshiva Bochur is less of a Baal Teshuva?
It’s the other way around, not being married means that the girls use their heat-emitting blow dryers much more often.
I heard in the name of the Chazon Ish that since the truth is hard to behold, even living in a Frum neighborhood one can be a Tinok Shenishba. He was never really exposed to be able to ‘know’ the truth to the degree that you’d consider him one who recognizes his Creator and chose to turn away.
Tevilas Ezra has nothing to do with Bias Shemesh. The Tuma is De’oraysa and lasts until Bias Shemesh. Ezra’s Takanah is besides that.
Although the strict Halachah seems to do away with the Takanah, many Geonim, Rishonim and some Acharonim have not taken it that way. The Shaalos Tshuvos Min Hashamayim even criticised the Yerushalmi on this.
Regardless of the Chiyuv or otherwise, it is widely considered a prerequisite to learning Toras Nistar.
There never was an ‘Issur’ of Mayim She’uvim. There were two Takanos: going into Mayim She’uvim and pouring it. It wasn’t an Issur but rather it was Metamei.
But guess what: we are already Tamei.
The closest I’ve seen to an issue is the mention in Mishmeres Shalom of the Kodenaver, that some people refrain from bathing after the Mikva since it has the title of Tumah.
Also, on Erev Shabbos there is the Arizal’s concept of trying to retain the water and not drying it.
Zahasdad, I hope you aren’t responding to thatcaljew.