Reb Eliezer

It says like the rose among the thorns is my bekoved among the natiions. I heard once, the thorns on either side of the rose resist it from bending, so it grows straight. Similarly, the pain in life we experience drives us to teshuva and close to Hashem. By the other nations, pain drives them away from their beliefs whereas us it brings closer.

The Klei Yokor in Sefer Olelos Ephraim explains the saying of Hashem to Moshe Rabbenu to answer the malochim but he was not told to give them an answer but the word return חחזיר להם תשובה answer them back with their question. The malochim asked מה לילוד אשה בינינו what is a being born through a woman doing among us? Give them back there question as the answer. As we are a human being we need the Torah because of bechira, free choice and yetzer hara. The Ben Ish Chai compares Moshe Rabenu’s argument to a father who gave a suit to one his children which had precious stones sewn in the pockets. The argument was who gets it. Each one had his argument why he should get it. The youngest child gets up and says, let’s try it on and see who it fits. The makochim wanted the sodos, secrets hidden in the Torah. So Moshe Rabenu said that if the simple meaning does not apply to you, does not fit, then you get the Torah.

Shavuos, we need lachem because if not for the yetzer hara we would have never received the Torah and the world would never have been created. The yetzer hara helps us to improve ourselves. If there were no resistance, the light bulb would not burn. Erickson’s child development theory says that one matures by overcoming problems. The yetzer hara might be this problem.
The Chasam Sofer gives us another aitza to fight the yetzer hara. It says סור מרע ועשה טוב turn away from the bad and do good בקש שלום ורדפהו look for peace and run after it. Run after peace, how? Do something small for the soul, disturbing the peace between body and soul and let the body get used to it, reconstituting the peace, and continue this cycle.

There is a story about the Chasam Sofer who asked to test the bochurim’s reaction, how do you sweep out your room? Viazo kertmen aus die shtieb? The bochurim, figuring the Chasam Sofer is asking, looked all over Shulchan Aruch for the halacha. A young boy got up and said, with a broom, mit a besem. Sometimes we ask the obvious. Why do you wash the tzitzis? Because it is dirty. The problem is not the garment but tbe tzitzis that gets entangled.

The W.H.O. does not recommend this medication anymore.

Joseph, if I ran for president, I would do it.

Biden at least says something that is true, whereas Trump never says anything that is true.

Joeeph, he did not do it for the Jews but for the Evangelists. He is not doing us any favor by encouraging the elderly Jews to get sick. The Agudah knows better when it is time to open shuls up.

You are right, ALEHO HASHOLAM would be not to disturb her peace by talking about her. תנצב’ה means to rest in Gan Eden.

Our custom is to mention only the father’s name and mention on the bottom the mother’s name as the name of her mother so and so. WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIFE AND WERE MURDERED BY THE NAZIS, THEIR BURIAL PLACES ARE UNKNOWN. You can mention their names and relationships individually both hebrew and english.
On the bottom you can write in hebrew תנצב’ה standing for תהי נפשם צרורה בצרור החיים the equivalent of rest in peace.

yitzymotcha, another way of virtual chavrusa is by seeing https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/split-split-chidushim-on-daf-yomi

The story brought down by the Tiferes Yisroel at the end of Maseches Kiddushin, where it says that the best of the doctors belong in the gehinom. A king commissioned a painter to paint a picture of Moshe Rabbenu. When his servants, who know how to interpret a picture, saw it, they said that this is a picture of a wicked person with bad character. Each blamed the other. They blamed the painter and the painter blamed them. The King decided to see Moshe Rabbenu by himself. When he met him, he looked exactly as his painting, so the king asked him, how come you look like a wicked person? He said its true that is how I look like but my job is to overcome my tendencies. Similarly the doctor has a tendency to think that he is the one who can heal someone, but he must fight it and realize that Hashem gives him the ability to heal. The Tzetil Katan says that our job in this world is to overcome our nature. Yosef was able to overcome his nature so the yam split overcoming its nature. If someone enunciates the words in krias shema correctly, they cool of the gehinom for him because he is fighting his nature, so they change the nature of the gehinom for him.