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  • in reply to: Arranged Marriages #1710877
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    The Rash uses the pasuk לא המתים יהללו י-ה to allude to the dead dry arba minim being pasul to use. By chametz we find שלך אי אתה רואה אבל אתה רואה של אחרים ושל גבוה people don’t see there own sins but see the sins of others and certainly the sins of the holy. אין אדם רואה את נגעי עצמו a person doesn’t see his own faults.
    ( וכל הפוסל במומו פוסל (קידושין ע, ב whoever degrades the other person does it with his own faults.

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    It is not of course. Planting has to create roots but many hold that it happens right away.

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    There is a difference between planting and cooking. Planting he is chayev when he places the seed in the ground whereas cooking he can remove it before it is cooked and not be chayev. See Tosfas Shabbos (4,1) beginning words Kodem.

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    The more I think about it, the more it looks to me that drinking and telling about yetzias mitzraim are not alike.
    When it comes to drinking, there is no mitzva in drinking only. but to be intoxicated that we fall asleep, whereas by telling about yetzias mitzraim, the falling asleep is a measurement in the extension of the mitzva, so you are mekaim the mitzva with small amount but continue doing it until falling asleep.

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    Look at the reply #1709188 where I said the opposite, read it carefully, He has no control over the outcome, so it cannot be a mitzva, but he has control over drinking. Avraham was mekaim the mitzva of kiddush Hashem, whether he died or not is out of his conrol. The comparison anyway is not good because he is not mechuyav to repeat it until he dies.

    in reply to: How to become a Gadol (not the bar mitzva kind)? #1709393
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    There was a woman revered the Aishes Sma.

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    RG, I gave you a reference. The chazal wanted to continue doing the mitzva until he falls asleep. Even though he theoretically performed the mitzva but the part to fall asleep he was not mikayem, so he still has an oibligation to fulfill this. How does he fulfill it, by repeating the mitzva.

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    RG, You praise yourself how learned you are by finishing shas and SA but maybe you should learn MB first SA O”CH (60,10) from the Chayeh Adam. The mitzva is drinking and not being drunk until you come to the level of ad the dlo yada. Similarly, the mitzva is to sacrifice yourself al kiddush Hashem. On the results you have no control over, so it cannot be a mitzva.

    in reply to: Mishnayos are the key to Shas #1708890
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    אין הגליות מתכנסות אלא בשביל המשניות שנאמר כם כי יתנו בגוים אץה אקבתם, the redemption will come because of learning of mishnayos, according to the midrash rabba. The word יתנו is a form of the word מתניתין.

    in reply to: Using up the chometz #1708882
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    According to the Baal Hamoar you can perform the mitzva of tashbisu by eating it.

    in reply to: Stealing the Afikomon #1708836
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    RG, the snatching of the afikomon is done for fun in order the children should stay awake, so there is no stealing involved. They take it temporarily. If they don’t return it, you can take any shamurah matzoh and make it afikomon.

    in reply to: I finished Shas, Tur and Shulchan Oruch! I am so proud! #1708825
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    There is a story in EY where someone said, I saw Israel today, so he asks him, and what did you do in the afternoon? How much time did it take? In hebrew or in english?

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    RG, why don’t you ask your question on SA O”CH (481,2), since you said you finished it, where it says there is a chiyuv to tell about yetzias mitzraim until falling asleep? The sefer Minchas Chen on the Hagadah explains that you have performed the mitzva with a little but your still have a new chiyuv to tell again until you fall asleep.

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    Even if say that derabonon needs kavono lekatchila, but if the actions refllect the mitzva like drinking excessively. no kavono is required.

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    R. G. Drinking on purim is derabonon which does not need kavono.

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    Sifsei Chachomim, the opposite is said, every drink is a new chiyuv until he falls asleep. Similarly, there is a new chiyuv for sippur yetzias mitzraim until he falls asleep.

    in reply to: Arranged Marriages #1708397
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    רב מנגיד דמקדש בלא שידוכי, קידושין יב

    in reply to: How Shidduchim became a beauty pageant contest. #1707868
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    Doesn’t it say שקר החן והבל היופי אשה יראת ה’ היא תתהלל grace is false and beauty is vain, a G-d fearing woman is praiseworthy.

    in reply to: Bdikas Chometz: Hid 10 pieces of bread but found 11 #1707730
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    Who will take over when you leave since all the Jews are leaving? For whom are you bodek? Aren’t you moving to EY where you will also be bodek?

    in reply to: Bdikas Chometz: Hid 10 pieces of bread but found 11 #1706695
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    Many hold if he sells his house to a non-jew before Pesach, he is not responsible to do bedikah.

    in reply to: Bdikas Chometz: Hid 10 pieces of bread but found 11 #1706646
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    coffee addict, It only happens after Techiyas Hamesim.

    in reply to: Bdikas Chometz: Hid 10 pieces of bread but found 11 #1706644
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    Rebbitzen, you are so sure about yourself, i am not. Over here he will never return, so he gives up ownership of his house and has no responsibility towards it. This is similar to moving thirty days before Pesach where I think he will not have to be bodek the old place at most he can be mevatel. The SA is talking in a case where he will return sometime.

    in reply to: Bdikas Chometz: Hid 10 pieces of bread but found 11 #1706108
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    No, you are leaving before night, so you have no chiyuv of bedikah since you won’t return for Pesach you won’t have to be bodek.

    in reply to: Bdikas Chometz: Hid 10 pieces of bread but found 11 #1705971
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    Rebbitzen, the halacha SA O”CH 436 is that if you want to leave early less than 30 days before and you figure you will return before Pesach, you don’t have to wait but be bodek the night before you leave.. If you don’t want to return, you don’t have a responsibility to be bodek. Others say that if he wants to return for Peasach but not before , then he always has to be bodek before he leaves.

    in reply to: Donald Trump should not be the President of the United States #1705947
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    They have a Hungarian saying, whoever has butter on his head should not go under the sun. If he didn’t want to be investigated, he should have never become president.

    in reply to: Karpas – is any ha’adoma ok? #1705923
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    They say that potatoes were not available at the time of the Geonim, so the gezara was not on it even though we make flour from it.

    in reply to: Going t Kever Rochel – “Mama Rochel helf mir” #1705658
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    Rebbitzen, in SA O”CH (681,4) mentions a custom to go to the grave of tzadikim Erev Rosh Hashanah. The reason is indicated by the MB is that the place has holiness where tzadikim are burried and the tefilos are listened to easier without interference. This might answer your question about asking them to intercede to be a melitz yosher at the their grave site.

    in reply to: Pessach: zman chairuseinu but not zman geulaseinu? #1705483
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    Zmah chairoseinu refers also to the Kabolas haTorah whereas zman geuoiaseinu was temporary since we are still in galus.

    in reply to: Bdikas Chometz: Hid 10 pieces of bread but found 11 #1705471
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    You were mevatel what you did not find, so you can eat it provided it is edible.

    in reply to: Going t Kever Rochel – “Mama Rochel helf mir” #1705462
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    Avi K, it is a common practice to say to be a melitz yosher.

    in reply to: Karpas – is any ha’adoma ok? #1705439
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    There is a story that the Chayeh Adam wanted to asser potatoes for kitniyas so the people said you want to take away the chayeh adam.

    in reply to: Going t Kever Rochel – “Mama Rochel helf mir” #1705396
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    There is nothing wrong to ask the tzadikim to intercede as we find by Kolev Bamidbar (13,22). Similarly, the Rebbe is a conduit as the Kohaniim by Birchas Kohanim.

    in reply to: Kiddush dvar torah #1704861
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    The Chasam Sofer says that having a girl is greater than a boy because by a girl you can choose to marry a talmid chacham but not by a boy to be one.

    in reply to: Karpas – is any ha’adoma ok? #1703392
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    We the Oberlander use red radishes. Don’t make up your own but follow a custom. That is a zechus to follow a custom. They used potatoes because it was most common.

    in reply to: Putting a nickname on a matzeva or footstone. Advice welcomed. #1700800
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    Be very careful what you put there as sometimes a nickname is derogatory.

    in reply to: Joining Litvishe #1699708
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    Yabia Omer, The Sefer Hachinuch says אדם נפעל כפי פעולותיו, a person is influenced through his actions. The outside behavior influences his inner thinking.

    in reply to: How to become a Gadol (not the bar mitzva kind)? #1699057
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    When one follows the the mishna in the beginning of the 4th Perek of Pirkei Avos who is rich, strong, smart, and respected as described there is considered a Gadol.

    in reply to: Joining Litvishe #1697775
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    שו”ת חתם סופר חלק א (אורח חיים) סימן קנט
    אשר מלא פיו תוכחות, קדוש יאמר לו, ובודאי כן הוא בכמה מנהגים שנתקלקלו אצל ההמונים ונעשה להם היתר בעו”ה, אבל אשר שם פניו נגד מגולחי
    הזקן, לא ידעתי מה הרעש הגדול הזה, לכו נא ונוכחה אי משום חוקת הגויים אשאלהו ויודיעני מי התיר לנו נעלים שחורים המבואר בש”ס לאסור מסאני
    אוכמי ולהפליא ענין אמרו במס’ תענית כ”ב9 ע”א דהוה מסיים מסאני אוכמי, ויעיין ב”ק נ”ט10 ע”ב ובתוס’ שם ד”ה דהוה מסיים, ובשיטמ”ק שם מחלק
    בין שחור לאוכם וזה מסכים קצת לפי’ ה”ג דמייתי תוס’ פרק אלו טרפות מ”ו ע”ב ד”ה אוכמי, הנאמר שהוא מקור משחת, כאשר כתב על עם ה’ אלו, לא ניחא למרייהו למימר הכי, והוא דבר דלא נמצא בש”ס ופוסקים וגם לא בשום ספר מספרי חצונים שיהי’ הפרש בין ישראל לאינו ישראל בגילוח הזקן כי אז גם כל האומות היו מגדלים זקניהם, ויעיין בש”ס שבת קנ”ב ע”א תלת אמרת לי תלת שמעת וכו’, וברבה בראשית פ’ י”א סי’ ז’ פילוסוף שאל את ר’ יהושע וכו’ מפני מה אותו האיש מגלח פאת ראשו ומגדל זקנו וכו’ יע”ש, אבל לא נמצא בשום מקום שיהיה בזה משונה מנהג גוים. ומה שרמז לספרי מקובלים שכתבו שלא להושיט ידים בדקני כלל אין לי עסק בנסתרות, אבל מהם ומהמונם הותרה הרצועה לגמרי בכל ארץ אטלי’ שכל חכמיה מגולחי זקן ונתלים באילן גדול ר’ מנחם עזרי’ בעל עשרה מאמרות אבי המקובלים שהוא היה מגולח מבלי השאיר שערה א’, וכן העיד עליו היש”ר מקאנדיא באילים שלו, והיה אומר שעפ”י חכמי המקובלים אין חוץ לארץ ראויה לכך, ומה אאריך במה שאין לי יד ושם בו, אבל אבותינו הנהיגו עצמם כן על צד ההכרח הגדול ולא מקור משחת ח”ו אלא בקדושה יתירה, והוא בימי גזירת תתנ”ו, והרועים וכדומה התירו גדוליהם להמכתתים רגליהם לשנות מלבוש ולגלח זקנם שלא יכירום האויבים כי אז כבר גלחו הגוים זקניהם עפ”י מעשה ממלך פולין א’ שהי’ סריס כמבואר בספרי הימים והתירו חז”ל שהיו בימים ההם לעשות כן, ולהיות גלוח הזקן דבר שאי אפשר להשתנות והיו נכלמים מאוד האנשים ההמה בשובם לביתם, על כן נשתרבב המנהג שלא לגדלו כלל רק סימנא בעלמא שזה יגולח ויגדל בקוצר זמן שבן לילה היה ורק אך מופלגי תורה היושבים בביתם הם מגדלים אותו, ואותן שלפני גזירה ההיא שברחו לארץ פולין לא באו לכלל זה. והנה זה ברור ונכון כי אילו היה תחלת מנהגו באיסור היה משום חוקי הגוים, אבל אחר שכבר נהגו ישראל לגלח, תו אין בו שום נדנוד ופקפוק כלל אפילו ריח איסור אין בו, אבל הך דמסאני אוכמי לא ידעתי איך נתפשט11 ע”כ צריכין אנו ללמוד זכות ולומר שנתפשט ג”כ בתחילה בהיתר וכיון שהותר הותר. והנה יעיין ביורה דעה סימן קנ”ז ס”ב ויעיין ש”ך סי’ קע”ח סק”ד הקשה אמהרי”ק, ובחידושי למסכת חולין12 ישבתי ת”ל יתברך באופן הנאות, ואי משום מספריים כעין תער זהו חשש רחוק ושרשו פתוח מתרומת הדשן13 כשהזוג חדוד מאוד יש לזהר אולי יחתוך בתחתון לחוד וידענא שהוא מידי דלא שכיח, גם מההשחתה תחת הגרון המעיין בש”ס [מכות כ’ ע”א] וראשונים יראה כי ממש לית מאן דחש לדברי ר”ח14 בזה, והמחמיר קדוש יאמר לו והמקיל לא יאמר עליו מקור משחת ח”ו. כללו של דבר, כל מה שאמר מכ”ת באגדת ריב”ח15 הנמשל הוא טוב וקדש קדשים, והמשל שהיסב פני’ על חטא קל וקטן לא יקרא ח”ו בשם חטא ועון חלילה וחס, והאומר כן עתיד ליתן הדין בלי ספק, והייתי יכול להמשיל משל אחר אבל ועמך כולם צדיקים כתיב,
    -ויהי’ ממחוז פלוני או פלוני:

    in reply to: Joining Litvishe #1697864
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    in reply to: why am I a rasha? #1697524
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    Lubavitcher, Don’t refer to the Tanya when you have the Mishna (יהודא ןעוד לקרא) in Pirkei Avos, פרק ב’ משנה י”ג – ואל תהי רשע בפני עצמך Don’t be a rasha before yourself.

    in reply to: Joining Litvishe #1697055
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    The GRA held that there is a mitzva to eat matzos the whole seven days and thereby to sit in the sukkah all seven days which makes it an os, so no teffilin is worn on Chol Hamoed.

    in reply to: Buying Mishloach Manos #1697046
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    Solution: x + x + 1 =1.10, 2x + 1 = 1.10 2x=.10 x = .05 so Meno is correct.

    in reply to: Joining Litvishe #1696724
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    I figure you want to learn about חקירות. get the sefer http://www.hebrewbooks.org/51941 and the sefer
    http:/www.hebrewbooks.org/42885.

    in reply to: Halachically okay to be liberal? #1696521
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    Joseph, about abortion look up ‘אהלות פרק ז’ משנה ו, אשה שהיא מקשה לילד מחתכין את הולד במעיה וכו

    in reply to: why am I a rasha? #1693568
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    A person is not believed when he says he is a rasha. He is not suppose to give up but to strive to improve himself. This is the purpose of life to climb the ladder slowly to reach the heavens as Yakov Avinu envisioned in his dream.

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    According to the RMA SA O’CH 695 just drink more than the usual and fall asleep afterwards so you can’t differentiate when you sleep. This can also be accomplished by women.

    in reply to: Hodaas baal din kmeah edim dami #1687480
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    Gaon, Someone says I owe money for salary I did not pay them on time so he is ovar on lo solin at the same time do we say פלגינן דיבוריה?

    in reply to: What Seforim should I buy #1686032
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    I don’t know your level of understanding but buy the black Minchas Chinuch, 3 volumes.

    in reply to: Hodaas baal din kmeah edim dami #1685378
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    You have against it, other than momonas, אין אדם משים עצמו רשע, so he is not believed.

    in reply to: shokling during davening #1678843
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    I also heard in the name of some Rebbe -that shokling should be positive (forwards and backwards) and not negative (sideways) with the whole body and not just the head.

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