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AAQ, I will add something to it. Davening to understand Torah aliba dehilchasa, to reach halacha will help in learning.
The Rav Nissim Gaon on Brachas says that if something the gemora says cannot be understood literally then it is allegorical, a mashel. The Daroshes Haran says that we say that Torah is not in heavens and don’t follow Rebbi Eliezer, as once the Torah was given down to earth, now we must understand it with human understanding. However, Rebbi Eliezer they were unable to understand and therefore could not follow.
The Rabbenu Bachaya says that the world was created for our benefit but the Rambam does not like it.
DaMoshe, good point.
DaMoshe, correct but the Rav could see that you are fishing for a heter and thereby refuse to answer you by saying why don’t you follow him?
Inflation went down. Hashem should help you to do the right choices.
Avira, Tosfas asks the question on hoil in Pesachim that maybe the melacha, work on Shabbos can be required for pekiach nefes, so how can any melacha be assur? Tosfas answers that cholei sheyesh bo sakana lo shechiach, a dangerous illness is not common. Similarly, cancer research is not required to be done on Shabbos.
Once a Rav assers you cannot ask another Rav for a heter.
What about the Aruch Hashulchan 345, the definition of 600,000 in one road and Rav Menasheh Klein?
I will repeat what I wrote on the Daf Yomi?
See SA O’CH 345 There is an argument a public domain 16 wide 600,000 people walking through does that include cars? Reb Moshe holds they walk with their cars but others hold that a car is a a private domain for itself. See in great detail Yabia Omer O’CH (9,33) about making a airuv of tzuras hapesach. A public domain where houses are on each side might limt the movement Traffic lights also limit movement. Intersecting roads also are questionable.
The Aruch Hashulchan in O’CH 345 explains that in the olden time there was a main road where all other roads would meet. The houses were in an alley closed on one side and meeting this main road on the other side (movo). The main road had doors on each side but closed at night 16 amos wide. This is derived from the mishkan were all the tents would converge to the Moshe Rabbenu’s tent where all 600,000 people gather and the wagons to the mishkan took up 16 amos.
Most agree that 600,000 is required. Rav Moshe in Igros Moshe O’CH (4,87) says that a city having 12 mil by 12 mil where this amount of people gather makes it a public domain considering it a platyeh godaloh. The Aruch Hashulchan says that each street is judged for itself.The RMA O’CH 346,3 says that currently all of our streets are considered karmelis, only rabbinical. This is the the view of most poskim and therefore we can make an airuv with a tzuras hapesach without actual doors. Most poskim’s view is that cars don’t can included in the count. We have houses on each side of the road with street lights which limit the public movement. There are other roads circumventing the main road, so the main road is not as important as it used to be.
The Torah is explained on the level of פרדס – פירוש, רמז, דרוש and סוד as the Rabbenu Bachya does. The only pashut pshat is perush.
Avira, how does this cherem agree with the above words of the holy Ohr Hachaim. Does his pshat affect the halacha?
Avira, I am not saying it is good but they will not get influenced as much.
I will translate the Ohr Hachaim above as it is necessary for our discussion:
We are permitted to explain the meaning of the words and reasons of the Torah after scrutiny according to our understanding even though the previous rishonim explained it in another way as there is 70 ways to understand the Torah. We are not allowed to explain it when that causes the halacha to change. The Amoraim did not argue on the Tenaim on halacha. However, the pesukim they did explain differently than the Tenaim, so similarly we can do the same.
Chazal assered to learn Greek culture because of the similarities to our believes as if they would not be similar like having a soul, there would we no problem.
אור החיים בראשית א, א
דע כי רשות לנו נתונה לפרש משמעות הכתובים בנתיבות העיון ויישוב הדעת הגם שקדמונו ראשונים ויישבו באופן אחר, כי שבעים פנים
לתורה (במד”ר נשא יג טז), ואין אנו מוזהרים שלא לנטות מדברי הראשונים אלא בפירושים שישתנה הדין לפיהן, ולזה תמצא שהאמוראים אין כח בהם לחלוק על התנאים במשפטי ה’, אבל ביישוב הכתובים ובמשמעות מצינו להם בכמה מקומות שיפרשו באופן
אחרRashi on Achos Nevoyus shows how fourteen years is missing from Yaakov Avinu’s life which he spent at Shem and Eiver. The Baal Haturim shows how the ending letters of Vayetzei Yaakov add up to fourteen and together with the beginning letters Shem and Eiver.
It is not the Beis Din that punished people in EY but the shotrim, the police who took them to the Beis Din to force them to follow the Torah.
When was this sefer published? There might me multiple seforim with the same name.
It has no haskamas and the Ramban has a cherem to learn a sefer without them. It can be downloaded from hebrewbooks dot org. The author is Kuperman in two volumes The first volume tries to justify the second volume. I saw something in itself questionable that Hashem leads the world through emtzaim, agents. It is published by a Michlala College for Women. His name Yehuda is designated as a son of his father Avraham and mother Sara Zelate Kuperman which I have never seen before.
It says in Demai 4, that Jews don’t lie on Shabbos, so we can speak lashon hakodesh that we should not lie with.
The Ohr Hachaim Hakodash says in Parashas Beraishis that one is allowed to interpret the Torah according to his own understanding as long as it does not affect the halacha.
If mixed marriage is a question then Thomas has a problem as he has a mixed marriage.
חנוכה is feminine version of חנוך the upbringing of טף, young children in a light fashion.
What do we do אין מקרא יוצא מידי פשוטו which Rashi emphasizes the poshat pshat? Of the seventy interpretations the poshat pshat is the first. Rashi goes out of his way to explain the pasuk ויפן כה וכה וירא כי אין איש where Moshe Rabbenu was looking into future generations before killing him. The Binah Leitim explains it pashut where Moshe Rabbenu wanted to know what is contributing to the Jews being in servitude וירא בסבלותם, he looks into their work, into the reason for their working. So he goes out and sees how a mitzri is hitting a Jew and no one מאחיו, from among his brothers stands up for him. He looks around back and forth among the people and no one does anything. He kills him and says אכן נודע הדבר now I understand why they are being worked as they don’t care for each other.
ימלט – גמטרי’ חנוכה and פח with the kolel -89
The Taz and Levush hold to start from right to the left. See the above sefer. What about lighting at the window?
There is a big discussion in the above in sefer מנהג ישראל תורה סימן קל’ד whether to start from the right as by the pesicha and our Hebrew writing or vice versa as by Chanukah to start from the left going towards the right.
Chanukah, the GRA argues on the SA O’CH 676,5 to light the added new candle first as the ikar mitzva is the one on the right. We light the one added on the left in order to turn towards the right. When we open the aron hakodash, how do we open it from the left towards the right or vice versa? We start from right.
Maybe they are taught to look down, so they don’t see the person to tell one good morning.
Which view of the GRA has no rishon to back him up?
This galus is because of ben adam lechavero, because of personal interrelationships as sinas chinam, hatred towards each other where the redemption can only come when we correct it.
Yosef identified himself to the brothers by כי פי המדבר עליכם – בלשון הקודש where the Chasam Sofer says that the language has a holiness that others don’t. There are pretty much no bad words in it.
When Artscroll is available why should they learn lashon hakodash? Many alternative mussar and sometimes funny interpretations of expressions in Torah and gemora cannot be appreciated. The Kol Aryeh interprets the expression of אל תסתכל בקן קן אלא מה שיש בו, only value what is in the vessel and not its beauty. The Midrash Shmuel explains that in ונקה לא ינקה we find the letters קן קן and the letters Hashem (י-ה-ו-ה) so we should realize that Hashem is the one who revenges our enemies. So we say מנותר קנקנים נעשה נס לשושנים what is left over from removing kan kanim as above, Hashem through Whom the neis for eight days came about.
We say המה כרעו ונפלו they (the Roman Empire) bent and fell but we the Jews בשם ה’ אלקינו נזכיר we trust and believe in Him so we pray to Hashem our G-d and get answered and helped by Him.
There was a story with the Satmar Rov ztz’l where there was an individual who would find kashrus faults in everything, so the Rov told him, you know what was the neis the first day that you were not there because if were there, you would have paseled the oil.
הקל קול יעקב our strength is in our voice, in our belief in Hashem to daven to Him. There is no vov in it to indicate that when our voice becomes weak, והידים ידי עשו Eisav strengthens itself.
Why did Yitzchak Avinu want to bentch Eisov with Yaakov’s brachas? In order to get it even if Yaakov behaves like Eisov as the haftorah says that even if Eisov is a brother to Yaakov, I (Hashem) love Yaakov and hate Eisov as explained by the Chasam Sofer.
I get Medicaid when I pay the surplus.
The handouts should be a temporary springboard.
He was not transparent but said one thing with his mouth and another thing he kept in his heart. The Yad Yosef in Yoma 9 explains sinas chinam as hatred that is kept in the heart. When one has a good excuse for hatred, will reveal the hatred to another in order he could apologize. However, hatred like jealousy is not revealed as it is not accepted as a justifiable reason.
The Chasam Sofer O”CH 159 says that cutting the beard is not goyyish as we happen to wear dark shoes that the galachim used to wear. The Maharik says that the issur of chukas hagoyim is only if a’z is involved.