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Look at the Alshich Hakodash on the Dor Haflaga, The outside impure chizonim wanted to be come holy by creating unity through building the tower, so Hashem broke up the unity,
The Ben Ish Chai explains that it says ויחן שם ישראל נגד ההר the bnei yisroel rested in unity around the mountain. When you take the letters around הר before and after. Before is ד, ק and after is ו, ש putting it all together we get קדוש holy, indicating that unity brings to sanctity.
The Szombathelyi Rov , Rav Katz, z”l on Tehillim 12;2 כי גמר חסיד, כי פסו אמונים מבני אדם people stop believing because they see themselves that they have arrived and complete when people see them as
chasidim.When it comes to tzedakah the mitzva is not the giving but making sure that the recipient should have. The Melaoh Horaim says that in this case, when the purpose is the mitzva and not the action, his intentions don’t matter as long as the person needing it has.
The Chasam Sofer says in the middle of the above teshuva that the shiluach tzibbur would daven ashkenaz with everyone else including the son of the Hafloh the Machnei Levi and the Chasam Sofer himself except his Rebbies the Hafloh and Rabbi Nason Adler who knew the proper kavonos in the sefard davenen as revealed by the Ari z”l.
The Chasam Sofer O”CH 15, explains that the ashkenaz davenen has the same hidden kavonos as the sefard, but since the Ari z”l was a sefardi, he revealed them for sefard davenen. Since we don’t understand them anyway, it does not make a difference. Does who do, should daven sefard as his rebbies did. The ashkenaz davenen goes back to the destruction of the second Beis Hamikdash.
Tzedaka is a mitzva. To give to Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes in case you lost something is a segula.
Originally they did not forget anything they learned but after the breaking of the luchos they forgot.
The Jerushalmi says that the letters of the luchos flew away at the Aigel and the luchos became heavy so Moshe Rabenu could not carry them and he dropped them.
There are different nuschaos when the yom is said. The sefardim say it before alenu and the ashkenazim after. On shabbos, the safardim say it by shacharis. The ashkenazim some say it before anim zemiros and some say it after,
Am haaretz asur lechol bosor explains the Klei Yokor that what allows us eating meat makes us better than animals is the Torah. One who does not learn Torah is not better than animals and has no right to eat meat.
We can learn things related to proper behavior because derech eretz kodmo latorah.
The lyrics should uplift you not so much the music.
It is a contradiction where his actions overtake his intentions. He wants to keep it, but he is happy to burn it.
An example might be trumah that become impure which is assur behanoah and must be burned, but we can have hanoah when burning it.
Let me explain myself. The isur hanoah is if רוצה בקיומו at the time when he wants the item to exist not at the time when he does not want the item to exist.
I think the isur hannoah is from the having an item not from not having item.
There is a concept to be mekadesh the nigunim. The Kalever took a peasant song and converted it to one of the most famous hungarian jewish songs call szol a kakas mar referring to the geulah.
In Tehilim 3:5 according to the Malbim it is a sign of a finishing touch of a topic. The Rid says that this indicated to hit a musical instrument. The Targum and Even Ezra says that it means forever.
Get him to put on Tefilin even once.
Undercover Bochur, The Rambam פרק ב איסורי ביאה הלכה יד says it is an oral mitzva to marry a niece based on the pasuk ומבשרך לא תתעלם.
A rabbi should be smart enough to know what he does not know, see the RMA Yorei Deah 242 13-14 about the need for semicha.
Something more interesting, you have a father and a son and a mother and a daughter. The father marries the daughter and the son marries the mother. What are the relationships after marriage?
The previous Matersdorfer Rov, Rav Shmuel ztzl married his first cousin.
I recommend to say Psalm 83 שיר מזמור לאסף every day.
The comparison is not the same. The bread was not edible, but the Iran deal is good but it could be better. Now we have nothing. They can do whatever they want without oversight.
There is a Hungarian proverb, Don’t throw out the dirty water until you have clean. First you should renegotiate the Iran deal before you decide to leave it.
What does shteiging mean? Does he increase his knowledge or his understanding? The Chasam Sofer in Meseches Chulin 7 explains that the Rebbi is required to differentiate cases where the talmid thinks they are similar.
It says לעולם ילמוד אדם מה שלבו חפץ a person should learn what his heart desires. In the Yeshiva you are forced to learn whatever they are learning, but outside of the Yeshiva you can learn what you want.
There are two ways to bring the redemption, בעתה אחישנה one , if we are worthy and the other when we are not. If we are worthy the redemption will come spontaneously before the fixed time as the Munkatcher believed, but if we are not, there is a fixed time when Moshiach will come.
Moshiach comes with teshuva either from love or fear. Love can bring him before the time, but fear we will be forced to do teshuva with a harsh king like Haman. See the Ksav Sofer.The Jews willingly forced themselves under the mountain as Rashi explains on והם תכו לרגלך. The mountain was lifted from the kedusha. If the Jews would not have accepted the Torah, the kedusha would have left and they would have been crushed underneath it. This is similar as the Yerushalmi says that Moshe Rabbenu was able to carry the luchas because the letters on it made it light, but by the golden calf the letters flew off and the luchas became heavy and he could not carry it anymore and had to drop it.
Eli Y, Don’t put words in my mouth. It says לפום צערא אגרא the more effort the person exerts the more reward he gains. It is great to live in EY because you are living in the King’s palace but it comes with responsibilities. It is harder to live up to it. He needs heavenly help. If a person strives for it, he will be helped. He gets his reward for this strive. It says Pirkei Avos 4:15 that it is better to be a tail to lions than head of the foxes. זנב לאריות compared to ראש לשועלים. Better to be smaller to the great than greater to the small. A person learns more if he is among the great, so if we are in a holy place like EY, our effort to stay holy is rewarded.
Gadolhadorah, did you see the Malbim beginning Bereishis 7:23
וימחו מן הארץ? It seems to me that he is saying we can not rely on calculations.Eli Y, the test to stay religious in EY is very great. I stated before that because we live in the palace of the King, the yetzer hora recognizes the greatness we can accomplish, stands strongly against it and makes it very hard to overcome that.
If we live in the palace of the King in EY, our behavior has to be exceptionary.
Gadolhadorah, The Malbim in the beginning of Parshas Noach explains that the flood created a chemical change so all carbon tests are inaccurate.
The question is if the forming of the government in Israel was religiously justified or we can only create a government after of the coming of Moshiach. If we we form a government does it have to follow the teaching of the Torah.
Eli Y, here are two kinds of Zionists. One, is who fought for the land believing that they only without the help of Hashem can acquire the land.
There is another form of Zionism called religious Zionism. They believe in Hashem and gained the land of Israel to be close to Hashem and be able to perform the commandments that apply to the land.In EY since the kadusha is so great the yetzer hora is also great so there is no middle way. Either he can overcome him or not. The Sapurni says on ראה אנכי נותן לפניכם היום ברכה וקללה there is no middle way either a blessing or vice versa.
We don’t practice avelos in Nisan, so we start sefira from Rosh Chodesh Iyyar excluding lag beamor until sloshas yemai hakboloh.
The Taz’s view is that there is kedusha in printed seforim but the Torah Temimoh holds that the order of kedusha for seforim (torah on top of neviim on top of kesuvim) only applies to parchment.
Health maybe your name does not reflect your through being, if everything points to collusion with the Russians in our elections
why doesn’t the House committee investigate it properly in order to stop it in the future?Gaon, see my post 1511982.
The reason that Aesov will fall into Yosef’s hand because that when Aesov complains that Yaakov did not deal with him properly, Yosef answers that my brothers also didn’t deal with me properly but I did not repay them.
Aesov comes with his zachus of honoring his father but Yosef sacrificed himself even at the sight of danger, knowing that his brothers might kill him, when his father commanded him to go to Doson.