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Tiflus, Not to concentrate as women are more towards feeling than thinking according to the Myers Briggs Personality Test, and jump to conckusiions and misunderstanding their learning.
Reb EliezerParticipantAvi K, maybe eis laasos laSHEM applies also by the women. See my post above from Alei Tomor a contemporary.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Rabbenu Bechaye in Parashas Korach explains וישמע משה ויפל על פניו and Moshe heard and fell on his face.
Sometimes you tie yourself up to show that Hashem can only help you. He explains that this is the reason we put our feet together by shmoine esrei like malochim. We want to show that without the help of Hashem our feet are tied together and we cannot move. He also explains there that although the goyim do the same with their hands, we do it with our feet representing movement.Reb EliezerParticipantThe mishna says in Pirkei Avos that if a person learns even one letter from someone, he is suppose ro call him rabbi which literally means my teacher. David learned two things alone from Doag and he called him rabbi.
The question is how do we know one letter? Explains the Besht that sometimes one letter is more productive than two things alone. We learn from one letter that addition really diminishes.Reb EliezerParticipantברכות י,ב
The gemora says that a person should daven from a low place ‘מעמקים קראתיך ה Hashem, I call you from the depths.
The Dubna Magid gives a mashel on this.
A young man was taken in my a king, providing him all his necessities. The King had a favorite robe that he enjoyed wearing. At once the young man and robe disappeared. The king dispatched his soldiers to search for him. They found him hiding in a pit wearing the king’s robe. When the soldiers asked him what are you
doing? He said I am hiding because I feel so ashamed that I cannot show my face for stealing the kings robe after all the good he has provided me.
The nimshal is that Hashem provides us all the necessities and we steal it away from Him by using it for the wrong purpose, so when we daven we call to Him from the depths being ashamed to show ourselves because of our actions.Reb EliezerParticipantברכות ט,א
שלא יאמר אותו צדיק ועבדים וענוי אותם קיים בהם ואחרי כן יצאו ברכוש גדול לא קיים בהם Avraham Avinu should not say that the servitude and affliction was done to them but the coming out from Mitzraim with great wealth was not. In the Haggadah it says ברוך שומר הבטחתו לישראל we thank Hashem for keeping His promise. Asks the Dubna Magid, doesn’t Hashem have to keep his promise on His own? He gives two meshalim.
There was a young man who was working for a man. He wanted to pay him in paper money which the young man refused to accept, saying he wants to get paid in coins. He was trying to convince him that paper money is just as good, but the young man did not want to budge. The man decided to ask the young man’s
father for advice. He told him, my son worked for you, so you must pay him a currency that he values.
The nimshal, the great wealth Hashem promised was the Torah. The Jews at that time did not understand the value of it, so Avraham Avinu said, pay them with a great wealth they appreciate.There was a young man being trained as a waiter. He was told serve fish and horseradish together, He did not follow the direction and gave on one table fish and on the other table horseradish. The horseradish people were upset where is our fish?
Avraham Avinu said that the same people must get the great wealth who suffered. The emphasis is done to ‘them’ and not to another generation who did not suffer.
Why was there a bizas mitzraim and a bizas hayom?
The Dubna Magid has on this also amashel:
Tho kings decided to battle by picking their strongest fighters to fight in their behalf and the nation whose fighter loses will serve the other.
One fighter turned things around in the last minute. His king got upset at him, why did you give me the fear and feeling that I lost? If their would not be a bizas mitzraim by borrowing kelim, the Jews would have thought that they will not get it.
This might be another answer to the question above that the promise would be kept through bizas hayom
but Avraham wanted them to know right away that the promise is being kept.Reb EliezerParticipantThe above Mayon Ganim is a gavra rabba whom the Tosfas Yom Tov, being in his time, at the end of Tamid quotes.
Reb EliezerParticipantThese are the words:
עלי תמר סוטה פרק ג הלכה ד
ר”א אומר המלמד את בתו תורה מלמדה תפלות. בתורה תמימה פרשת עקב י”א י”ט מעתיק משו”ת מעין גנים לרבי שמואל הרקוולסי מה שכתב אל אשה
חכמה אחת בנידון היתר תלמוד תורה לנשים וז”ל בהמשך הדברים, ומאמר חכמינו כל המלמד את בתו תורה כאילו מלמדה תפלות אולי נאמר כשהאב מלמדה בקטנותה דוודאי כה”ג איכא למיחש שרוב נשים דעתן קלות ומבלות זמנן בדברי הבאי וכרובן כן חטאו מקוצר רוח, אמנם הנשים אשר נדב ליבן אותנה לקרבה אל המלאכה, מלאכת ה’, מצד בחירתן בטוב במה שהוא טוב הן הנה תעלינה בהר ה’ תשכונה במקום קדשו כי נשי מופת הנה ועל חכמי דורן להדרן לאדרן לחזק ידיהם לאמץ זרועותיהן וכו’ עשי והצליחי ומן השמים יסייעוך עכ”ל. וע”ז מעיר התורה תמימה, ולא נודע לנו מי הוא זה המחבר הנכבד הזה שעמד לחדש דין מחודש זה בסברא בעלמא ע”כ. ולפענ”ד כדברי הרב מעין גנים מבואר ברמב”ם הלכות ת”ת פ”א הי”ג וז”ל, אשה שלמדה תורה יש לה שכר אבל אינו כשכר האיש מפני שלא נצטוית וכל העושה דבר שאינו מצווה עליו לעשותו אין שכרו כשכר מצווה שעשה אלא פחות ממנו, ואעפ”י שיש לה שכר צוו חכמים שלא ילמד אדם את בתו תורה מפני שרוב הנשים אין דעתן מכוונת להתלמד אלא הן מוציאות דברי תורה לדברי הבאי לפי עניות דעתן. אמרו חכמים כל המלמד בתו תורה כאלו מלמדה תפלות. בד”א בתורה שבע”פ אבל תורה שבכתב לא ילמד לכתחילה ואם למדה אינו כמלמדה תפלות עכ”ל. הנה שדעתו היא שדווקא האב לא ילמדה תורה אבל אם היא חכמה שחשקה נפשה בתורה ולמדה מעצמה הר”ז משובחת ויש לה שכר שאינו מצווה ועושה. ואכן יש הוכחות לזה מדורות הראשונים ועד דורות האחרונים. שכבר על בנות צלפחד בן חפר אמר חז”ל בב”ב קי”ט חכמניות הן דרשניות הן, ודבורה הנביאה היתה שופטת את ישראל וא”א למשפט בלי תורה שבע”פ, ובתוס’ גיטין פ”ח שהיתה מלמדת דינים לישראל, וכן אמרו במגילה י”ד ששבע נביאות עמדו להן לישראל, ואמרו בנדרים ל”ח שאין הקדוש ברוך הוא משרה שכינתו אלא על חכם וכו’. וברור שגם נביאה היא בכלל זה ואין חכמה אלא תורה.Reb EliezerParticipantJoseph, Look up the Sefer Alei Tomor on the Yerushalmi Sotah (3,4) who brings from the Sefer Mayon Ganim from Rav Shmuel Harkavolsi 5313 who says that they can learn at an older age.
Reb EliezerParticipantWhere does it say she cannot learn on her own? Some great women, such as Devora and the SMA’s wife who learned on their own. The Chasam Sofer’s daughter Hindel, explained perek shira why the צפורת הכרמים says
אשא עיני אל ההרים ‘מאין יבא עזרי, iit says that this bird’ of the wineyard’s oil put on the forhead helps for zechira but there is an answer protecting the bird from being killed is to learn 101 times, so מאין adds up to 101. From learning 101 times its help will come.Reb EliezerParticipantברכות ח,ב
There is an ihteresring story that I heard from my rebbi the Hadhauser, Wiener Rav ztz’l about the talmid of the Chasam Sofer, the Maharam Ash ztz’l where the Chasam Sofer ztz’l did not want to call him talmidi from respect, so he called the Chasam Sofer, זקן ששכח תלמידו ih place of תלמודו saying the Chasam Sofer forgot his talmid.
Reb EliezerParticipantJoseph, I say that from the Rambam we see if she learns on her own she gets rewarded because there is no tiflus as she is willing to learn and be careful to understand and not jump to conclusions whereas if the father teaches her usually by force, she will jump to conclusions without fully understanding it which brings to tiflus.
Tefilin you get rewarded because there is no tiflus but according to you why does she get rewarded for tiflus?Reb EliezerParticipantThe Ohr Hachaim metions the above:
אור החיים פרשת שמיני
כל מפרסת וגו’ מעלת גרה. יתבאר על דרך אומרם ז”ל (חולין נט א) כל בהמה שמפרסת פרסה היא מעלת גרה, חוץ מן החזיר, והוא אומרו כל מפרסת וגו’ מעלת גרה, פירוש בידוע שהיא מעלת גרה, ומיעט אחר כך החזיר שיצא מהכלל. ואולי ממה שלא הוציא מן הכלל סמוך להודעת הכלל רמז שאפילו החזיר בכלל, על דרך אומרם ז”ל (רבינו בחיי בשם תנחומא) למה נקרא שמו חזיר שעתיד לחזור להיות מותר, ומעתה כלל כל מפרסת וגו’ היא מעלת וגו’ לא יצא
מכללו דבר, ועל זמן מהזמנים אמר החזיר שהוא מפריס וכו’ לא יגר:Reb EliezerParticipantThe Shlah Hakadash emphasizes the parshiyos meaning that we should lein two times a parasha separated by a פ or a ס and then the targum on it. We can do this in middle of leining, if ten people listen. This might be the connection between the two statements after another. SA O’CH 285,2 says that Rashi can be said in place of the targum but a yirei shomayim should say both.
January 12, 2020 3:43 pm at 3:43 pm in reply to: How should one protest against shmoozers during davening? #1822020Reb EliezerParticipantGH, I didn’t say it was used. I said it could be used because it is nor muktzah.
Reb EliezerParticipantIt says in Eicha כי ראתה גויס באו מקדשה she saw that goyim came to her mikdash. Says the Alshich Hakadash the ending letters add up to Hashem which is separated by the goyim. If you look where the second chapter is in the Torah, it separates the name of Hashem in the beginning letters.
Reb EliezerParticipantJoseph, you are missing the point. If it is tiflus, why does she get rewarded? A person who eats garlic and her mouth smells you don’t encourage them to eat more by rewarding them for eating it.
Reb EliezerParticipantIf ten people listen to the leinen, a person should be able to learn by turning away. SA O’CH 146,2. Leinen is a chiyuv on the tzibur and not on him personally. The problem is that if people see him doing that, they will follow him and there won’t be ten people listening.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe gemora that praises to extend our hands to support ourselves for the benefit in this world is a proof to the Rambam Hilchas Talmud Torah (3,10) that a person should have an occupation and not to rely on others to be supported.
Reb EliezerParticipantLearning halacha in Beis hamidrash makes it 4 amos of halacha. We should strive to see whether we can act on our learning to see what halachas we can derive from our learning.
The Midrash says about the mishkan that there was a king who had a daughter. When it came time to marry her off, he did not want to be let her go. He decided to build a house to live close to her. Hashem wanted to stay close to the Torah, so he asked us to build a mishkan. We see from this that Hashem only lives close to us if we follow the Torah. The Beis Hamidrash were we learn halachas becomes greater than the Beis Haknesses.Reb EliezerParticipantThe whole Beis Hamidrash can be considered four amos of halacha. We find that according to the Zohar Hakadash one is not suppose walk in his house four amos without washing his hands in the morning. The Rashba says that the whole room is like four amos.
The Iyun Yaakov on the Ein Yaakov says that Aron was 2 1/2 length by 1 1/2 width and 1 1/2 height.
Either two add up to 4 indicating 2 1/2 in knowledge (bekios) and 1 1/2 in pilpul to arrive to a halacha
I want to say that in every one of the four chalokim in Shulchan Aruch we find something pertaining to four amos. This would tell us to learn the whole Shulchan Aruch.Reb EliezerParticipantWe don’t appreciate some basic amenities because we take them for granted. The gemora says how great it is to have a bathroom close to the house and especially in the house on the same floor. Rashi explains that in Bavel they had to go out into the field far away.
Reb EliezerParticipantMost shuls have two doors to get into, an outside door and an inner door. Why? A person should know that he is entering a holy place, so it gives him between doors time to think it over.
January 12, 2020 1:53 pm at 1:53 pm in reply to: How should one protest against shmoozers during davening? #1821911Reb EliezerParticipantGH, A thing that is used for issur work can be used for its own benefit or place like a hammer to crack nuts. We can use the mallet for a heterdige melocha to stop people talking.
Reb EliezerParticipantSo, there is a difference in teaching a boy or girl. A girl forced will resist the learning and jump to conclusions and misunderstand whereas the boy will come to appreciate the pleasantness of the Torah.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe barrier above we shoot through with our prayer is a מסך המבדיל, an iron curtain we create through our sins.
It says in Yeshayah 59
ישעיהו פרק נט פסוק ב
כִּ֤י אִם־עֲוֹנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ הָי֣וּ מַבְדִּלִ֔ים בֵּינֵכֶ֕ם לְבֵ֖ין אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם וְחַטֹּֽאותֵיכֶ֗ם הִסְתִּ֧ירוּ פָנִ֛ים מִכֶּ֖ם מִשְּׁמֽוֹעַ
Your sins create a separation from you and between your G-d, and your sins turn away the face from listening.
Asks the Binah Leitim two questions:
It should have said between you? it should have also said, Hashem’s face from listening?
Explains the Bina Leitim that besides creating through the sins an iron curtain separation from Hashem, we are also creating a separation among us. The second question is telling us that through our sins, not only Hashem doesn’t listen to us, but we end up not listening to Him.
This can be demonstrated visually by us being around a circle and Hashem is in the middle. Our purpose in life is to through the love for each other, make the circle smaller by uniting the points on the circle, getting closer to the center and eventually becoming one with the center. So, the bigger the circle is, the further we become from the center. The Shlah Hakadash explains the pasuk in Iyav 23
איוב פרק כג
וְה֣וּא בְ֭אֶחָד וּמִ֣י יְשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּIf He is in One who can dispute Him.
It should have said One not in One? So he explains that we become kavayochel one with Hashem meaning together, in one with Hashem.Reb EliezerParticipantAfter the redemptiion the chazir will be kosher because Aisov will change its character of fakeness and so will the chazir be able to rechew its cud.
January 12, 2020 5:09 am at 5:09 am in reply to: An imperfect friend is better than no friend. #1821842Reb EliezerParticipantThe Midrash Yalkut Shimoni says that והנה טוב מאד – זה מלאך המות, perfectiion means there is no necessity to improve oneself and therefore there is no need to live any more.
Reb EliezerParticipantJoseph, tefilin is not tiflus. Why would she be rewarded for something that is not good for her?
Reb EliezerParticipantברכות ח,א
How do we have elders in Bavel when it says that they will become old in Eretz Yisroel ? The gemora says that they stay in Beis Hamedrash early in the morning and late at night makes them live long. Asks the Meharsha it is still not EY?
Answers the Meharsha that the Beis Hamedrash and Beis Haknesses will become part of EY. It is interesting that even though it is not EY but because they will become part of, it is considered EY, so Moshe Rabbenu before he died, went to learn in the Beis Hamedrash to feel the taste of EY.
The rest of the pasuk quoted needs some explanation כימי השמים על הארץ what does this mean? The Chasam Sofer explains that it refers to Kabolas Hatorah when Hashem lowered the heaven on top of Har Sinai.Reb EliezerParticipantJoseph did you look on my comments on the above Rambam?
Reb EliezerParticipantWhy we need a fixed place to daven from? We just learned from Yaakov Avinu in Parshas Vayechi that tefila is compared to an arrow. It says by Hagar that she stood by Yishmoel as far as the shooting of an arrow. The Chasan Sofer explains that the Torah is telling us that she stood away from love and not from hate. When it comes to an arrow, the closer you pull it to yourself, the further it goes. It could be that davenen is similar. The closer you are to Hashem the further it will reach. I heard in the name of the Arizal that when you shooting an arrow, if you shoot from different locations, you cannot penetrate through the barrier. So by davenen, being similar to an arrow, we must shoot from the same location.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe above should be she learns on her ‘own’.
January 11, 2020 8:43 pm at 8:43 pm in reply to: Are there (intelligent) yidden on other plants? #1821797Reb EliezerParticipantI asked a question above why we make kiddush levona according Ptolemy? The answer is simple, it doesn’t matter whose moon it is as long we get light from it.
Reb EliezerParticipantברכות ז,ב
The Sefer Beis Elokim from the Rav Mabit in Tefila, 2 explains the meaning of:
לעולם יסדר אדם שבחו של מקום ואחר כך יתפלל, does Hashem ch’v need flattery? Avraham Avinu came to realize that when we daven we must keep in mind that Hashem is the Master of the Universe and only he can fulfill our needs. Therefore the reading and writing of Hashem is integrated into one. If we want a matnas chinom we must be aware of this. It says in Shulchan Aruch O’CH 98,5 that a person should not daven because of his good deeds that he has because then they will examine his behavior and actions.-Reb EliezerParticipantMaybe, if she learns on her, shows willingness to learn, she will be more careful not to jump to conclusions and misunderstand, whreas if the father forces her to learn, she will not exert herself to understand.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Rambam above is very strange. First he says, women get a reward for learning. It does not say but women should not be learning on their own, which would logically follow, but he says that the father should not teach the daughter. Why do you get a reward for something you should not be doing? This indicates that they are not obligated but can learn on their own.
January 10, 2020 3:44 pm at 3:44 pm in reply to: Are there (intelligent) yidden on other plants? #1821695Reb EliezerParticipantLook up the Tiferes Yonasan on the dor hafloga where he writes בידוע שיש מקום ישוב על הלבנה it is known that the moon is a place that can be inhabitat.
Reb EliezerParticipantוראית את אחרי explains the Chasam Sofer that we only see things from hindsight. We don’t appreciate things only after the fact. The Kol Aryeh says that Moshe Rabbenu was able to see the knot of the tefilin in the back reflects this. There is a right band, the good and the left, bad and they come together in one knot. They all turn out to be good. We don’t see the full picture only after the fact.
January 10, 2020 3:43 pm at 3:43 pm in reply to: Are there (intelligent) yidden on other plants? #1821699Reb EliezerParticipantAccording to Copernicus it makes sense to make kiddush levonah on our moon as the moon orbits the earth. Ptolemy holds that the moon has a separate orbit the questiion applies, why we make kiddush levonah?
Reb EliezerParticipantברכות ז,א
It says Hashem prays, to whom? What is the benefit? Maybe the meaning is to hope.Tosfas says that Bilom could have said כלם. The Chasam Sofer says it should be מלך – מוח, לב, , כליות thinking, emotions, desire but Bilom wanted to reverse it which is no good as desire (taava) like an animal, would rule over everything.
ויהפוך ה’ את הקללה לברכה Hashem turned it back.
The Ben Ish Chai says that Biom was told, you are suppose to read it like a goy, from left to right.Hashem pays a tzadik for his good deeds in the next world and his bad deeds in this world, whereas a rasha in reverse that is why a tzadik suffers this world whereas a rasha enjoys himself.
Reb EliezerParticipantIn the miskan curtains where made with red thread which was used for heauty sake among other colors, but by the metzorah it designates his sin of the mouth. So he has to go towards one extreme or towards the other either towards humility or towards haughtiness. Sometimes a person sins because of humility, depression and he doesn’t care what he does.
Reb EliezerParticipantcatch yourself, why tie a red string which has a connotation of sin?
January 9, 2020 7:16 pm at 7:16 pm in reply to: How should one protest against shmoozers during davening? #1821433Reb EliezerParticipantThere is a Smak who says to make a kal vechomer from the goyim who sit like a statue in church. Some excuse us that we feel comfortable as being at home in shul.
Reb EliezerParticipantברכות ו,ב
מי שיש בו יראת שמים דבריו נשמעים asks the Bina Leitim, it should have said ישמעו דבריו as he didn’t speak yet?
He answers that he doesn’t need to speak. His Yiras Shomayim are his words.Reb EliezerParticipantברכות ו,א
The gemora says that the tefila is only listened to in a shul. The Baal Haturim on Yaakov Avinu’s dream it says ויקץ יעקב משנתו ויאמר the final letters are צבור indicating we should daven betzibur.Reb EliezerParticipantmentsch1, maybe that is what the pasuk is telling us. הקל קול יעקב if it wil be prayer first, then והידים ידי עשו
we can use the weapons of Aisov.January 9, 2020 4:10 pm at 4:10 pm in reply to: Plant=based chazerfleish in your shabbos chulent?? #1821386Reb EliezerParticipantCan you go into a McDonalds to get a soda?
Reb EliezerParticipantIt says there אכן יש ה’ במקום הזה ואנכי לא ידעתי the Baal Shem Tov interprets the pasuk אנכי עומד בין ה’ וביניכם the אנכי the ego, self stands between us and Hashem. To unite a tzibur, bringing Hashem into the group, we must forget about the self.
Reb EliezerParticipantLearning the daf yomi, Brochos 6,2, whoever relies on others for support, his face changes to different colors. I heard in the name of the Chasam Sofer that this refers to a Rav who relies on others, he acts differently towards them.
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