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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.
Why does the neshama who has everything come down to this world? Because it doesn’t want nehame dekesufa, bread of shame. People don’t like to take a handout.
It says in one place that there won’t be any evyon, needy and in another place when there will be a needy? So Rashi resolves the contradiction in depends whether they do the will of Hashem. However, we know that tazadikim who follow the will of Hashem sometimes have to rely on others. Maybe the one who does the will of Hashem refers to the rich who are suppose to support the poor.
Syag, I would like you to live up to your screen name as silence is golden.
Smerel and Pepper you seem to agree with Trump so vote for him. I don’t. I am happy to be retired and get Social Security which was instituted by the Democrats who are there to protect it.
When we talk about toeiva isn’t it a toeiva to hear the views above about helping the less fortunate through your taxes?
When I took unemployment, I was required to show that I am looking for a job.
We need a springboard to jump from to be able to swim on our own. I was educated through the CETA training program which was eliminated by President Reagan because he was shortsighted by not seeing an immediate payback. It was instituted by President Nixon. It was the best investment in government training to be able to acquire the skills to gain those jobs which was paid back through taxes.
According to the Torah the father has to teach his son how to swim but if he can’t afford to pay for it, the rich were responsible. Currently the rich don’t do it themselves but pay through taxes that the government should do it. If the government does not do it, the money is not well spent.
He can’t make his own effort if one has no skills and requires a springboard to gain those skills. A person will drown if not taught how to swim before thrown into the water.
The sink and swim mentality of the Republicans is not Torah view. Similarly, the social liberal view of the Democrats is also not Torah view but that can be avoided.
Read also Fascist by Madeline Albright.
There is a book Hitler’s (ym’s) American Friends.
As mentioned above when you add wine to the kos drunk from, from the bottle before pouring it back, there is no reason before kiddush to add water to the bottle because the bottle never becomes pogum.
See MB O’CH 182,27 that if you pour back the wine in the kos that was drunk from bedeaved it will not pasel the wine in the bottle as it becomes batel but lekatchila we should add from the bottle to it before pouring it back.
It says by Achashverus in Meseches Megilla that they switched rulers periodically, Poras and Modai, Persia and Media, and now was not his turn but he paid them off.
Look at the Kli Yakar in Parashas Devarim on פנו לכם צפונה be hidden in galus and not show off in order not to make Eisov jealous.
When we examine Rashi we see that maybe Rashi meant something else. Rashi says that Sarah Imeinu died when she heard that כמעט ‘שלא’ נשחט he was not sacrificed. It should have said that she heard that he was almost sacrificed. When Sarah Imeinu heard that Yitzchak was not sacrificed, she taught that she was at fault by her upbringing him improperly thereby making him not worthy to be sacrificed, so she died. The Sifsei Chachamim explains that the meaning might be, before they had the the time to tell her that he was not sacrificed she died. The midrash asks where did Avraham come from? The Midrash answers from Har Hamoria. The meforshim explain that the question is what was his eulogy’s inspiration? To demonstrate that Sarah Imeinu raised a son who was great and worthy to be sacrificed on Har Hamoria.
The Democrats are at 50.
Decided Democrats take the Senate and Republicans the House.
We should give thanks to Sugihara who helped Mir to go to Shanghai.
mdd1, what happened to the chasiddishe yeshivas?
Sam Klein, the holier than thou, if you believe that Biden, who will be 80 in 7 days, is not by his mind then daven for him in אתה חונן.
What about Iraq and Afghanistan? Wasn’t the US in war?
Sam Klein, your logic is the Aruch Hashulchan’s view O’CH 75 about davening in front a woman’s uncovered hair. he says that since the women leider go like that, there is no hirhur anymore. However, the MB’s view is that two wrongs don’t make a right. We can look away when davening. Similarly we should find the messages through the Jewish dates.
Sam Klein, I think you should do teshuva. By creating gematrios on goyishe dates you are elevating the a’z and גדול עונו מנשוא, the sin to do that is greater than one can carry. To encourage people to do teshuva must be done through proper means otherwise that teshuva has no value.
Any gematrios on goyish dates is a coincidence and Sam Klein if I were you, I would stop this. I think what you are doing is worse than what Moish is complaining about. You are ovar on שם אלהים אחרים לא ישמע על פיך by elevating the a’z. Our months are counted by Jewish dates. The Torah does not recognize any goyish months. I would not make any gematrios on Kapitals (chapters) which is used as reference only as it was created by the goyim.
I am an equal opportunity employer. I will give credit when credit is due and vice versa.
Trump has had a bad attitude from the outset. I am a stable genius, know better than anyone else and have know need to listen to my advisors.