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There was a question of the Satmar Rebbe above ztz’l, who should get maftir, the bar mitzva boy or the chasan? He said whoever is older.
We said in slichos today Asoroh Beteves (fast of the 10th if teves) that on the 8th of teves the Torah was translated to greek which was a sad day. We should not require to translate as something is always lost in translation.
It reminds me of the story with the holy Berdichever zy’a who on the Kol Nidrei night looked under all tables in his shul. The chasidim did not know what he was doing. When he finished, he went to the bima and said, RBSO, if You would have given the goyim a day when it is a mitzva to eat, they would have drunk themselves under the table but I cannot find even one drunk. This is the difference between our new year and theirs. We look back with fear and thereby we do teshuva but they want to forget old acquaintances and not look back and become drunk. Maybe they don’t look back because they are so disgusted with their actions that they believe it cannot be corrected any more. We are not meyaesh, give up from doing teshuva even on the death bed.
The Haflaah says ובחרת בחיים, pick life and be positive.
Some keep it on Jan 7. This is depending if Dec 25 is inclusive in the 13 days or not.
We keep nitel not the night to Dec 25 but the night to Jan 6 as pope Gregory removed 13 days in 1582 which was discussed on Tal Umotor Reminder.
See Yabia Omer YD (7,20) who describes the custom in detail. People, who learn at night, should sleep before chatzos and get up to learn afterwards.
Sinas Chinam is interpreted by the Yad Yosef on the Ein Yaakov Yoma 9, as futile hatred which cannot be excused and thereby kept bottled up in the heart for example being jealous on someone. It says, don’t keep the hatred bottled up in your heart but admonish your friend. So if you have a good reason to hate someone for doing you something wrong, says the Rashbam to tell him about it which will generate peace.
I think this year Motzei Shabbos over takes Nitel Nacht.
מנהג ישראל תןרה הוא – ר’ת מית-ה, We know from the Chasam Sofer that מנהג in reverse is גהנם and החדש אסור מן התורה בכל מקום ובכל זמן.
We find the same idea by the meraglim, Hashem promises them EY and they look for faults rather than realize that Hashem will not promise to give them something bad.
Currently, we would never get to the Talmud. I would say we should learn the Mishnah, Talmud and the halachas on it as Rav Jonasan Steif ztz’l in his sefer Chadashim Gam Yeshanim teaches us.
AAQ, there is Hungarian saying, you cannot make from a dog bacon. Eisav spoke according to the Beis Halevi with the voice of Yaakov but he could not change his language.
Avira, this is an argument between the RMA an the Taz in YD 334 where the RMA says that one gets put in cherem without regard to the consequences whereas, if I remember correctly, the Taz argues.
I will give my own svoro. The women don’t create a minyan as they are busy with their families. Similarly the rebbe is busy with his flock, the chasidim and does not daven for himself.
The explanation is given that the chasidim are like children who can come to their father, Hashem anytime.
Why don’t they say tachanun?
The Olelos Ephraim from the Kli Yakar Darush 46 says the above to elevate the spiritual, ruchnios or deprecate the physical, gashmius? The argument in Purim is similar whether it is baruch Mordechai or arur haman?
We need unity. The rebbe in chasidus by passing on Torah unites but for others learning Torah unites. The GRA and the Noda Beyehuda had Torah which took the place of the Rebbe. The mashel of the Dubner Maggid indicates this of saying tikun leil shevuos. When the GRA was saying the tikun, the Dubner Maggid was learning. So he was asked, why don’t you say it as the GRA? He explained that if one shows samples, it is only useful when there is merchandise in the storeroom. The GRA has the sechora, the Torah but I have to learn to acquire it first. This koach comes either from learning Torah or a Rebbe who passes on the Torah.
Tzedaka can be use for physical reason and not spiritual. There is the argument between Beis Shamai and Beis Hilel how to light Chanukah candles. The Beis Shamai says to diminish it every day as the parei hachag by reducing the influence of physical, material of Helinistic doctrine and the Beis Hilel says to elevate the spiritual. One will automatically reduce the physical as we cannot have עשה טוב, to do good if we don’t have סור מרע, turn away from bad first.
The Maaneh Simcha, the father of the Rav Shmuel ztz’l, the Matersdorfer Rav, said pshat of a Chanukah light that was placed above 20 amos is pasul indicating that he places learning Torah as valuable only for the next world, no use for this world. Is being told that he will not only be a bor reik, an emptiness lacking water of Torah but ends up a person being full of snakes and scorpions in his behavior.
mentsch1, לא עם הארץ חסיד, am haaretz is used for people who have not learned hence they can not be a chassid, doing more than required, without learning. One will do more when less should be done and vice versa.
ubi, I can explain your pashut pshat as the malach gets its name by the current function it performs.
When I went to college I did not need student loans. After the first 18 credits taken at CUNY with a passing grade, one became matriculated and was able to attend for free.
The Chasam Sofer explains that we have this struggle with the yetzer hara and we strive to resolve the conflict between body and soul. The goal is to make peace בקש שלום. The Satan (yetzer hara) wants to do good by eliminating conflict סור מרע, ועשה טוב and have the soul go after the desires of the body. This is not peace. We want to reverse it, ורדפהו. We will create a small conflict by having the neshama, soul do something small that the body does not like and then go after peace by having the body get used to it. So the peace will come when the body does what the soul desires through incremental improvements.
I just saw an interesting interpretation that the word הודאה, hoduah has two related meanings. It means praise and also acknowledgement by recognizing the truth. When we praise Hashem for His miracles we must recognize it and appreciate it first. This is/was done for Chanukah and by the Rebbe when saved.
When Yaakov Avinu asked the malach, what is your name? The Chasam Sofer explains that he was told, don’t befriend me as I am not good for you. When I tell him some Torah and he does not understand it, will he not be ashamed?
The right supports maybe everything mentioned above except for caring for the financial needs of people.
Live and let live.
I heard a joke where a visitor to the US in order not to get lost, wrote down the name of the street
‘ONE WAY’.The Rabbenu Bachaya in Parashas Vaychi explains that Yaakov is physical being and Yisrael is the spiritual. When adding Satan (359) to Yaakov (182) we get Yisrael (541). When Yaakov defeated the malach of Eisav, he became Yisrael by encompassing the strength of the Satan.
The Pischei Teshuva questions, what is the prohibition of chalav akum? He says that if is not rabbinical then it is worse as it becomes biblical as a neder taken on.
I respect those Republican not because they cave to Democrats but because they are honorable.
They stay with their conservative doctrines and stand up to Trump when he puts democracy in danger.Some say that Trump is such great oheiv yisrael but he does not show it as he does not speak up against anti-semitism. Our enemies think that he is part of them and approves their behavior.
Why can’t I respect the daughter because of the father’s actions or vice versa?
When it comes to anti-semitism, see the Meshech Hachmah in Parashas Bechukosai on V’af Gam Zos.
When it comes to Cholov Stam, Rav Moshe justifies his heter based on mirtas, being afraid to mix in non kosher milk. If the government forbids it, then that creates mirtas.
See the sefer from the Tzitz Eliezer in three volumes called הלכות מדינה at hebrewbooks.org
The Chasan Sofer explains in the Hagadah why the Chacham is using a similar expression of excluding himself as the rasha. He is called a chacham and not a tzadik as his behavior is smart. The rasha hides the fact that he is a rasha in order that the others should not knock his teeth out. The chacham does an action to get the rasha to reveal himself. By using a similar expression, the rasha thinks that he is also a rasha and thereby uses an unequivocal expression to exclude himself. Similarly, Trump by not condemning the white supremacists, makes them think that Trump approves their behavior since he is one of them.
I am a democrat and respect some Republicans as John Kasich, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney and Adam Kitzinger.
The Chidah explains that everyone eats gebrochs on the last day of Pesach to show that it is a chumra and not an issur whereas issur of kitniyos for the ashkanazim applies also the last day.
Shem Hagdolim says that we don’t pasken mostly like Rashi as Rashi is mefaresh and not a posek and therefore, Rashi’s mind was at explanation and not pesak.
I heard from my Rebbi the reason to the referring to the 613 mitzvos to Eisav as one can only perdorm all mitvos through machshava, thought as some don’t apply. Similarly, Yaakov said, that when my father blessed me, he had you in mind, so in reality you were the one who was blessed and not me.