Reb Eliezer

There is a mitzva to listen to CDC ונשמרתם מאד את נפשותיכם but there is no mitzva to eat romaine lettuce except maybe for Pesach.

It says חמורי סכנה מאיסורי we have to protect ourselves more from danger of illness than from issur.

Maybe because of mesackek bekuvya. The Rambam says as a profession because he spends his time frivilously and not does not care about social needs.

The Rambam says that as a profession is assur because because he is waisting his time and not being involved in the need of society.

You know the excuse why they do it, high yeshiva tution, kosher extra expenses.

I don’t consider honesty an option, but we must know for sure that he was dishonest which requires hearing both sides and not from hearsay. If you don’t trust someone, get it in writing. Someone lends money witout witnesses is ovar on lifnei iveir.

As an interesting point when one says he sees a rainbow it is loshan horah. Why, he wants us to do teshuva. Maybe, the Klei Yokor explains it says בימות רבי שמעון בר יוחאי לא נראתה הקשת at the time of Rabbi Shimon bar Yachai the rainbow was not seen, should have said there was no rainbow?
He says that that they relied on the gadol to protect them and did not look to see if there was a rainbow. According to this it is lashon horah because we don’t trust the gadol that he protects us or we don’t recognize the gedolim.

Yom Kippur Katan should be said at least twice a year, Rosh Chodash Elul and Rosh Chodash Nissan.

Avi K, I am familiar with all considerations. We followed Reb Moshe’s psak in Igros Moshe. They were told at a young age before anyone else would tell them. Besides, it is necessary to accept yiddishkeit at Bar and Bas Mitzva. The Tzitz Eliezer ztz’l says there is no yichud problem as they grew up as brother and sister, not biologically, so there is no problem. Also we were seen as father and mother so there was no problem.

I adopted a boy and a girl with proper geirus as babies and b”H they follow yiddishkeit by being shomer shabbos properly.

Could be 4 places צבי is mentioned.

Avi K, 770 is gematria בית משיח on Eastern Parkway. According to the Rambam, Moshiah will be a Jew who observes the Torah.

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.