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  • in reply to: Yeshiva Learning Styles #1775326
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    There are two kinds of learning styles. bekios and pilpul. It is not a good idea to “kvetch on a blat’, but ‘fuhren’ or traveling is not good either. Look at the Sefer תנו כבוד לתורה from RAV Shimon Furst z’l and Rav Noach Isaac Oelbaum Shlita on his hakdomas complaining that halacha considerations in learning are being side stepped. Look at the Sefer חדשים גם ישנים from Rav Yonasan Steif ztz’l where he balances both. The Rif, Rosh and Rambam should be emphasized in learning because they are the עמודי הוראה. The Mechaber follows their majority in psak.

    in reply to: In honor of Tisha B'av. What you respect about… #1774678
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    I respect Hatzala and Misaskim for their devotion to help.

    in reply to: Should Wedding gowns for the extended family be discontinued? #1773527
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    We have a place where you can borrow gowns for the wedding. The Dubner Magid compares the borrowing of the neshomo to this. We have to make sure that we return it without any smudges.

    in reply to: Nashim Da'atan Kalos and Women Today #1773393
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    Women don’t say שעשני אשה because men have more mitzvos than women. They say in the positive because by women it was beneficial for them to be created, whereas by men נח לו לאדם שנברא משלא נברא would have been easier to be born than not to be born. Explains the Meharsha that we would have accomplished more by not being created than being created since there are 365 negative commandments and only 248 positive commandments. Once we were created יפשפש במעשיו, he should scrutinize his actions, through teshuva meahavah where averos turn into mitzvos gaining another 365 positive commandments to 613 or ימשמש במעשיו accentuate his actions, ,through kavono in mitzvos doubling the amount of positive commandments to 496.

    in reply to: Nashim Da'atan Kalos and Women Today #1773182
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    The women make a brocho שעשני כרצונו blessing for their existence being the will Hashem to serve their mate.
    If he is worthy she is an eizer, otherwise she is kenegdo.

    in reply to: In honor of Tisha B'av. What you respect about… #1773081
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    I respect Torah education in Yeshivas, so eveyone should write a letter of his yeshiva experiences at voice.pearlsny.org.

    in reply to: Vegas Massacre: 59 Good Reasons to Outlaw Automatic Weapons #1773061
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    I just heard that the 2nd amendment was instituted to protect human lifes not vice versa.

    in reply to: Vegas Massacre: 59 Good Reasons to Outlaw Automatic Weapons #1773056
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    It doesn’t mean all guns should be outlawed, but these guns that are used in combat causing great harm must be forbiddeh for the individual to use.

    in reply to: Elon Musk’s Shabbos Car #1772999
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    The Chasam Sofer paskens that the issur of riding on a steamboat is not because of melacha but shaboson, not resting.

    in reply to: Fighting antisemitism won’t stop another Holocaust R”L #1771890
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    Look at the Klei Yokor this week on פנו לכם צפומה to be hidden ih galus and not to make the goyim jealous by building fancy houses and also not to forget that we are strangers in a strange land like it happened in mitzraim.

    in reply to: Nashim Da'atan Kalos and Women Today #1771745
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    interjection – it could be related. Because of eitz hadaas women were punished to suffer at birth, so in order to
    forget it and have more children, there daas was diminished.

    in reply to: Nashim Da'atan Kalos and Women Today #1771731
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    The Chasam Sofer’s words:

    חתם סופר מסכת נדה דף מה עמוד ב
    בינה יתירא באשה יותר מבאיש אם הדבר כפשוטו הוא תמוה קצת ומוכחש בחוש והנ”ל בזה ע”ד שאמרו אם אין בינה אין דעת ואם אין דעת אין בינה והמובן מפשוטו הוא כי הבינה הוא העיון החריף ההולך לעיין למרחוק והוא טועה ברוב ע”ד אגב חורפא שבשתא. וע”כ צריך לזה מדה אחרת והוא הדעת ליישב הדברים בלבו ולעיין באחריתם הטובה היא אם רעה

    in reply to: Nashim Da'atan Kalos and Women Today #1771706
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    These are the words of the Shulchan Aruch:

    שולחן ערוך יורה דעה הלכות תלמוד תורה סימן רמו סעיף ו
    צוו חז”ל שלא ילמד אדם את בתו תורה, מפני שרוב הנשים אין דעתן מכוונת להתלמד, ומוציאות דברי תורה לדברי הבאי לפי עניות דעתן. אמרו חכמים: כל המלמד את בתו תורה, כאילו מלמדה תיפלות (פי’ דבר עבירה). כה] בד”א בתורה שבע”פ; <ד> אבל תורה שבכתב לא ילמד אותה לכתחלה, ואם מלמדה אינו כמלמדה תיפלות (רמב”ם וסמ”ג ולא כמקצת ספרי הטור).

    in reply to: 8 days: Be 🙂 or 😫? #1771652
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    Isn’t Tikun Chatzos depressing?

    in reply to: Why Is “Tu B’Av” such a Yom Tov???? #1771452
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    Look at the mishna in taanis לא הי’ יו’ט לישראל it was a day of forgiveness, as the gezera of the meraglim was over in the fortieth year, like yom kippur where the girls would dress up in white.

    in reply to: Nashim Da'atan Kalos and Women Today #1771451
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    The way we see it is that the sun is moving. The Magen Avraham says by lighting candles for yom tov אין הכמה לאשה no differentiation between shabbos and yom tov.

    in reply to: Why Is “Tu B’Av” such a Yom Tov???? #1771381
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    See in the Sefer Hatodah all the reasons in great detail.

    in reply to: Nashim Da'atan Kalos and Women Today #1771161
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    The above is part of a personality test (mbti – Myers Briggs Type Indicator)

    Where you focus your attention – Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)
    The way you take in information – Sensing (S) or INtuition (N)
    How you make decisions – Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
    How you deal with the world – Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)

    in reply to: Nashim Da'atan Kalos and Women Today #1771139
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    They say that there are two kinds of people, thinking and feeling. The women are more feeling people.

    in reply to: 8 days: Be 🙂 or 😫? #1771029
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    CS, It say:

    תלמוד בבלי מסכת תענית דף ל עמוד ב
    מכאן אמרו: כל המתאבל על ירושלים זוכה ורואה בשמחתה, ושאינו מתאבל על ירושלים – אינו רואה בשמחתה.

    It does not say whoever rejoices for the redemption will be joyful, but ‘mourns’ on the chorban.

    in reply to: Eating Fish #1770831
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    The swordfish in the Jewish Press article above is kosher but not practical because the whole fish is too expensive and a piece is not recognizable and would not fit in the fridge.

    in reply to: 8 days: Be 🙂 or 😫? #1770741
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    sam, maybe that is why this month is called Av. We recognize that Hashem is our father and whatever He does is for our benefit.

    in reply to: Looking for a Sefer about Jewish Names #1770729
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    Maybe it is called Otzar Hashemos see http://www.hebrewbooks..org

    in reply to: 8 days: Be 🙂 or 😫? #1770727
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    CS, attending a siyum every night is circumventing the intention of recognizing that the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed and we are unable to make our daily sacrifice. For the ashkenazim it is a time mourning.. This mourning is greater than avelos because it involves all of us. We will have seven weeks of simcha after tisha beov.

    in reply to: 8 days: Be 🙂 or 😫? #1770669
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    It says כל שמתאבל על ירושלים זוכה ורואה בשמחתה whoever mourns the chorban of Jerusalem wilk see its happiness. Explains the Chasam Sofer that the deceased becomes forgotten, but not the chorban because we trust that the Beis Hamikdash will be rebuilt soon in our time so its not dead

    in reply to: learning from an artscroll #1770391
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    dafbiyun, Look ar the Sefer Kesef Nivchar with a haskoma of the Chasam Sofer containing 160 sugyos with all the gemora references folkowed by the psak halacha.

    in reply to: Why do some Americans not eat the OU hechsher in E”Y? #1769964
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    Maybe in the palace of King they adhere to a higher standard.

    in reply to: learning from an artscroll #1769945
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    When Meshiah will become, we will pasken like the Beis Shamai because currently we don’t understand their stringencies so we pasken like the Beis Hilel, but when he will come, we will acquire a new understanding ומלאה הארץ דעה and the majority will follow the Beis Shamai.

    in reply to: learning from an artscroll #1769822
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    The Rabbenu Bechaye above translates the missing above on our mind and understanding meaning that there is lack in our understanding. Our mind is not as good as it used to be. The further we become from kabolas hatorah, our understanding of the Torah diminishes.

    in reply to: learning from an artscroll #1769666
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    The Rabbenu Bechayu at the end of Parshes Ki Siso explains the expression in the gemora חסורי מחסרא והכי קתני something is missing, so we must learn it differently, not that there is something wrong with it ch’v, but it was left out on purpose. Rebbi realized that it can be understood without it, so it was unnecessary to include it. As the generations became weaker in understanding, elaboration in greater detail was necessary and the gemora and commentaries came about. This has evolved to the artscroll. Rav Noson Adler ztz’l had a photographic memory, so he only placed dots in the margin to remember by, believing that for him it was unnecessary to write things down,

    in reply to: Why is Yad Soledes Bo so Cold? #1768884
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    Nev, the highest temperature where the baby’s belly is scalded but not the hands, so you pull it away before it.

    in reply to: learning from an artscroll #1768777
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    The effort in artscroll is to find a page.

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    DY, 6-15 = -9

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    DY, yours ia -9 and ari-free’s problem is 9.

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    8/(2(2+2)) = 8 / 2(4) = 8/8 =1

    in reply to: learning from an artscroll #1767986
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    To learn on your own, get a program gemara tutor, a multiple choice on the idioms of the gemora or a sefer onumber it. Once you learn them, it will help you set the words by recognizing these common expressions.

    in reply to: Why is Yad Soledes Bo so Cold? #1767887
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    I think you pull away your hand from the heat when the baby’s stomach would actually be scalded.

    in reply to: Why is Yad Soledes Bo so Cold? #1767883
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    I think it is more sensitive,

    in reply to: Why is Yad Soledes Bo so Cold? #1767799
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    The source is:

    תלמוד בבלי מסכת שבת דף מ עמוד ב
    והיכי דמי יד סולדת בו? אמר רחבא: כל שכריסו של תינוק נכוית

    רבינו יהונתן מלוניל על הרי”ף מסכת שבת (לפי דפי הרי”ף) גמרא דף יט עמוד א
    יד סולדת בו, נכוית מלשון ואסלדה בחילה, כלומר מתחממת הרבה יותר מדאי עד שמושך ידו לאחור מדאגה שלא תכוה

    Too pull away the hand is before it actually burns.

    in reply to: Why is Yad Soledes Bo so Cold? #1767788
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    The baby’s stomach burns at a cooler temperature than the hand.

    in reply to: Why is Yad Soledes Bo so Cold? #1767774
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    Should be:

    טור אורח חיים הלכות שבת סימן שיח
    היד סולדת בו דהיינו כל שכריסו של תינוק נכוית בו

    in reply to: Why is Yad Soledes Bo so Cold? #1767776
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    I used above the wrong word רופס is where you put tefilin on the head.

    in reply to: Why is Yad Soledes Bo so Cold? #1767734
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    It is not the hand but the belly of a baby כריסו של תינוק רופס.

    in reply to: DO WE REALLY HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE TO LIVE IN CHUTZ LA'ARETZ? #1767372
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    The Aim Habonim Samecho brings a proof that Avraham Avinu went to Mitzraim because of hunger seeing that you can leave Eretz Yisroel for the necessity of a livelihood.

    in reply to: What’ is a “Person of Color”? #1767373
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    I think it is the same as nifrar, passed away is a nice expression.

    in reply to: New York State is Denying Access to Education to Anti-Vaxer Students #1764954
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    חתיחה above is misspelled should be חתיכה.

    in reply to: New York State is Denying Access to Education to Anti-Vaxer Students #1764938
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    DY, I think I have a proof to your saying. It is called שויא אנפשיה חתיחה דאיסורא it does not say שויא אנפשיה איסורא which would mean any issur, but it says a slice which is nor known where it comes from, kosher or non-kosher.

    in reply to: What’ is a “Person of Color”? #1764566
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    Nev, the Ibn Ezra says that Tzipora was black.

    in reply to: What’ is a “Person of Color”? #1763463
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    According to the Midrash above, Tzipora was beautiful physically, because black is beautiful, and beautiful spritually, so Miriam held that there was no reason for Moshe Rabbenu to separate himself from her.

    in reply to: What’ is a “Person of Color”? #1763289
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    BneiBarak Obama, we find by Miriam Behaloscho כי אשה כושית לקח. This is the Midrash:

    ספרי במדבר פרשת בהעלותך פיסקא צט
    כי אשה כושית לקח עוד למה נאמר [והלא כבר נאמר] על אודות האשה הכושית אלא מה ת”ל כי אשה כושית לקח יש לך אשה נאה ביופיה ולא במעשיה במעשיה ולא ביופיה כמה שנאמר נזם זהב באף חזיר אשה יפה וסרת טעם (משלי יא כב) זאת נאה בנויה ונאה במעשיה לכך נאמר כי אשה כושית לקח (סליק פיסקא).

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