Reb Eliezer

We find tzimtzum in Torah when Moshe Rabbenu was able to see Hashem’s back, the kesher of tefilin.

The problem is with chasidus that the chassidim end up doing less alone and rely on the coat tails of the Rebbe.

samthenylic – I went to Chasan Sofer from 1963-1968. I heard from Rav Shmuel ztz’l that an apple does not fall far from a tree, but in case of a storm wind it does, אמר אל הכהנים בני אהרן ואמרת אליו לנפש לא יטמא בעמיו don’t let a bad apple destroy the whole basket.

samthenylic – igen 2 1/2 evig, Julius 9, 1959 jontem Amerikaba – please post this as above.

CS, I wrote this another thread. There is a practical way to improve oneself. It says והנה סןלם מצב ארצה וראשה מגיע השמימה this is compared to a human being who starts up from earth but by elevating himself has the potential to reach the heavens:

The Chasam Sofer gives us a strategy to improve oneself. There is always a conflict between the body and soul. We want to make peace between them as it says בקש שלום through ורדפהו meaning to create a small conflict. Let the soul do something small that the body does not like and allow the body to get used to it and then continue the cycle.

samthenylic – please explain yourself, what is the difference, according to the dictionary they both mean hope? Tesek kerem hogy magyaraza meg amit mondott.

Some one asked once why we need a ת, ס, ש when they all sound the same? He was answered then how would you write כסילים מתי תשכילו using all the letters and retorting to him with the meaning that he is a fool.

coffee addict, I appologize for קב which is correct.

Look at the sefer habris that a Jew has a higher level of neshama. Tosfas Kidushin 39 on machshovo says that by the bnei yisroel a good machshovo is accepted as action but not bad whereas by the umas haolom it is the reverse. They explain that a bnei yisroel wants to do good so wanting to do it and unable to do it is like doing it, whereas by the uMas haalom it is the opposite.

I think it is worthwhile to translate what Uncle Ben is saying in the name of the Sfas Emes of Gur or Ahavas Yisroel of Vitzhnitz: At the end of the days, truth will be lost, every tzadik gets a revelation from heaven telling him that his way is the right way, but the clever tzadik understands that every tzadik has the same revelation.

CS, There is question left in the gemora if Moshiach is from the living or from the dead. Hashem does not create a miracle to revive someone from the dead for no reason. It says that Moshiach was born on Tishoh Beov. As long that this is true, when the Rebbe was alive, even though he never publicized it, it was believable. Now that he died, it is not belivable. True, there is a view from Hilel that techiyas hamesim will occur together with the coming of Moshiach according to the Abarbanel, he is a daas yachid which is mostly not accepted. The accepted view is that there will be forty years between the two.

Zion Gate, What did the Republicans do to help the middle class or seniors as myself? It was the Democrats who created Social Security and Medicare.

I was unclear in saying an open syllable can be extended forever, so I will give an example the difference between רבי and רבים. The first is open and the second is closed. There is no closure in the length of pronounciation whereas in the second is closed by the ם. Also, since it is closed it violates the rule that a tenuah gedolah should be an open syllabe, so the stress is on it.

I forgot to define a degash chazak. It is like having duplicate letters in which the degash resides one with a shvo noch and the other with vowel on the letter.

As I was educated in this, I will give a little lesson for those who were not.
There are open and closed syllables. An over syllable can be extented forever, whereas a closed syllable can not. A closed syllable is either closed by shvo noch silent or a degash chazak which comes at the end of the syllable. There is also a dagesh kal in the beginning of a syllable in letters בגד כפת which after letters אהוי is omitted. There two kind of vowels, nekudos tenuah gedolos which have open syllables according the Magen Avraham O’CH 61 the siman is פתוחי חותם, a chirik followed by a yud, malipum a vov with a dot in the middle, tzere, cholem a vov with a dot on top and kometz. The rest are tenuah ketanos which have closed syllables. A shvo no follows a tenuah gedolah and a shvo noch a tenuah ketano. A letter having a degash chazak with a shvo, will be a shvo no. If above rules are violated the stress will be on it.

Zion Gate, The Republicans believe in sink or swim. People don’t like a hand-out nehama deksufa but they when they lose their job and they need a helpful push like job training which is economically profitable like the CETA program eliminated by President Reagon. True, I will give him credit for creating the reverse mortgage program which I have. I worked very hard all my life. In my time in public colleges, you paid for the first 18 credits after which you became matriculated and there was no more tuition now there are stuck with college tuition debt when starting their young life.

It says המדקדק ק”ש באותיותה מצננין לו את הגהנם whoever watches out to pronounce krias shema properly, the gehanim will be cooled off for him.
Explains the Beis Yosef that he does things out of the ordinary, so Hashem also does things out of the ordinary as the gehinam is usually hot.

Rav Moshe zt’l says that raising children is half perspiration and half inspiration. You put your effort into it and then pray that it should bear fruits.

The shem above א-לוה should be pronounced as ah and not ha at the end as the word גבוה.

A chatof is a shvo that is hard to pronounce under letters ה, ח, א, ע. Therefore the stress is never under a chatof. The shem Hashem should be pronounced as most words and as required by dikduk at the end as indicated in the Nodah Beyehudah.

We are indebted to Hashem for all the good that He does to us and instead of doing good we repay Him with bad.

CS, To understand the Baal Hatanya in 27 mentioned above, look at the Sefer Habris by Rabbi Pinchas Eliyahu written in around 1800 who explains that the once yetzer horah’s power is exhausted. in order for tzadikim to advance a new level of neshomo is given to them. There is a total of 25 levels which can be acquired 5 levels within 5 levels.
נפש, רוח, נשמה, חיה and יחידה such as נפש שבנפש to יחידה שביחידה.

CS, It says איזהו גבור הכובש את יצרו you don’t kill the yetzer horah because you lose your purpose to live. You live to improve yourself which requires resistance.

I would not vote for Trump if he was the only person running. I can’t stand
his selfishness, his narcisistic personal disorder.

The Dubner Magid says that sins are like a debt that can be paid up as you incur it, daily every night or weely at the end of the week or erev Rosh Chodesh being meharher btshuva or once a year on Yom Kippur which makes it harder to pay it up.