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  • in reply to: Using Air Conditioners Is Assur #1512427
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    Technology has discovered a new cure. We are happy that the doctor can heal him. We don’t say, we can’t use it because it is new.

    in reply to: Who will be Moshiach? #1512124
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    The reason we need Moshiach ben Yosef because Easov can only fall into Yosef’s hands.

    in reply to: Who will be Moshiach? #1512076
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    The Midrash says he was born of Tisha Beov.

    in reply to: Using Air Conditioners Is Assur #1511976
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    The Torah is matir to go to a doctor, even though Hashem wanted you to be sick. It is a mitzva for a doctor to cure you. You can have cosmetic surgery because it makes you feel good. The Torah wants you to improve yourself spiritually and physically as we do circumcision. It is true that the Ramban in Parshas Bechuchasai on the pasuk ואולך אתכם קוממיות says that there will be a time when our great trust in Hashem will forbade us to go to the doctor not the disturb the יסורים של אהבה.

    in reply to: Using Air Conditioners Is Assur #1511982
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    A joke comes to mind from the Levushai Mordechai where someone asked him if she can have anesthesia to give birth because the Torah says that a woman will have pain when giving birth. He said, according to you what it says והיית משוגע means that there is a mitzvah to be a meshigener.

    in reply to: Upon discovering that your shul uses Carlebach niggunim #1511994
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    We have the concept to be mekadesh the nigunim as the kalever did, so it doesn’t matter who writes it but its substance. We use Yom Kippur a hungarian melody from the Gypsy Queen written by Kalman Imre a hungarian composer.

    in reply to: Photography #1511777
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    Some courses are offered through DVD’s on the thegreatcourses.

    in reply to: BT vs FFB #1510970
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    EY, Sorry I think you are making a mistake Rabbi Avihu was very great in his own right no indication that he was a BT.

    in reply to: BT vs FFB #1510961
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    I referred to the Rambam above whose view is the BT is greater because he tasted the taste of sin which makes it very hard to refrain from. If someone is sinking into quicksand it is very hard to get pulled out. Many times he has to hit rock bottom to realize that what he is doing is wrong.

    in reply to: BT vs FFB #1510920
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    See the Rambam Hilchas Teshuva 7:4

    in reply to: BT vs FFB #1510615
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    Why are we relitigating the gemora, Berochos 34,2, who is greater?

    in reply to: Alarm clock shabbos #1509329
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    The problem is hashmoas kol and how will you turn it off?

    in reply to: Getting a ride with someone from the opposite gender #1509295
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    A woman stranded and who does not pick her up and let her sit in the back is a חסיד שוטה.

    in reply to: Getting a ride with someone from the opposite gender #1509281
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    The story of Bruriah who reprimanded Rabbi Yosei for saying some extra words to her when he asked the way to Lud. Eruvin 53b

    in reply to: Parsheh of the Week Interpretation #1509267
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    There is an interesting sacrifice for a Metzarah. We take two birds to a Kahen with an ceder tree and a ezov and red thread. We dunk the live bird into the blood of the slaughtered bird together with those additions. Then, we send away the live bird to the open field. The bird chirps representing speech. The Kohen is suppose to regulate speech. Either the person held himself haughty or humble for his excessive speech. He says that I am greater than others therefore I have the right to speak badly about them or he feels that it makes no difference what he does. Either way they are both extremes and they are like a red thread. So we have to go to the other extreme. The live bird resembles his excessive speech which must be limited by killing some of it, so we dunk it into the blood of the dead bird. Then we can send it away to the open field being ensured that he will limit his speech.

    in reply to: Parsheh of the Week Interpretation #1509201
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    We find in the parsha כולו הפך לבן טהור הוא if a negah turned completely white is tahor. Why? Because it is not fake, it shows it deficiencies. When the they are shown you can avoid them.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1509189
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    There is no contradiction that at the time creation certain conditions were set. If it is necessary, things can change as needed, but as long as they change, things stay steady so chazaka, inertia applies.

    in reply to: Parsheh of the Week Interpretation #1509185
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    Rashi quotes Rabbi Simloeh that the commandments in Parshas Tazriah are in the same order as the creation. The world was created in ten statements, as the the Midrash Samuel brings in the name of Chosid that אחרון אחרון חביב the later something was created the more beloved it is to the final purpose. The world was created for the benefit of the Bnei Yisrael בראשית בשביל ישראל שנקרא ראשית. Everything that was created earlier is a preparation for what is created later. Plants require sun and water. The animals require plants for their sustenance. Finally, human beings require animals. סוף מעשה במחשבה תחלה what was created later was planned for earlier. Showing that final purpose was the Torah for the spiritual sustenance of the Bnei Yisroel. The חובת הלבבות explains that what is more needed for survival in the world, the more it exists in abundance. Air is most abundant, then water. Finally Torah is free because it must exist in abundance.

    in reply to: Shadchanus #1508991
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    Look also at the Aruch Hashulchan there 185:11-13.

    in reply to: Shadchanus #1508982
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    Look at the RMA Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 185:10.

    in reply to: Shadchanus #1508900
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    Look at Kidushin 12,1 רב מנגיד על דמקדש בלא שידוכי and SH/A HaEven Ezer 26,4 , where they give makas mardus דמקדש בלא שידוך.

    in reply to: Shadchanus #1508710
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    The first shadchan was Hashem as we say in sheva brochos שמח תשמח. A husband and wife are good shadchonim. My wife and I made a good shiduch. I knew the Choson and she knew the Kallah.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1508689
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    The the pasuk הכל עשה יפה בעתו rabbi avihu says השי”ת בנה עולמות ומחריבן.

    in reply to: Encouraging Girls More to Go TO Shul #1507397
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    For Rosh Chodesh bentshin they go to shul because Rosh Chodesh was given to the women.

    in reply to: "The Rav" #1507317
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    It is interesting that “The Rav” refers for everyone to his own Rebbi. We find in Perek Chelek where each of the talmidim thought that Moshach is his own Rebbi. As the Abarbinal says that משיח stands for an acronym for each one’s Rebbies מנחם, שילה, ינון and חנינה.

    in reply to: Sefer aishey yisroel #1507147
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    This sefer is a thick red sefer published 1998 in EY. It has many references under the halochos similar to the 5 Chalokim of Piskei Teshuvas by Ben Zion Rabonowitz following the MB and current applicable teshuvas. In the back are teshuvas from Rabbi Chaim Kanevsky Shlita.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1506998
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    Gaon, Why are we mentioning in davening המחדש בכל יום תמיד מעשה בראשית the proof from the creation of the light that is renewed every day according the Torah and Mitzvos that people do and what they deserve which changes daily?

    in reply to: Trump Fires Comey 🎺🔥🔥 #1506926
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    No, in retrospect it is much worse for Trump with Mueller.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1506805
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    Thanks HaLeivi for quoting the Maharal.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1505716
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    I believe that this is part of the Hashgacha. Hashem set a condition at the time of creation that he will modify anything that is needed to satisfy creation. Since the world stands on Torah and Mitzvos the condition and benefit in order to continue to perform them constantly changes, so things have to be adjusted constantly as it says המחדש בכל יום תמיד מעשה בראשית.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1505715
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    Don’t forget this gematria הטבע is the same as א-ל-הים.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1505384
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    Could be if you say it in the regular Psukei Dezimro the publicizing is not so obvious.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1505379
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    HaLeivi, Did you see my post 1505216?

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1505378
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    Where is the Maharal?

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1505322
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    The question about Psukei D’zimra applies to the Maharsha’s explanation also.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1505276
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    HaLeivi, this interpretation if from the Ksav Sofer. I think the logic is, if you mention the open miracles on the appropriate day through The Great Halel, you are not excluding the daily miracles but emphasizing the historical miracles, happening that day but if you say The Great Halel every day than you are praising Hashem for the mentioned miracles for no reason but not for any other miracles.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1505216
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    We are only entitled to the benefits of the world because of the mitzvos we do. These changes constantly, therefore, Hashem has to constantly renew the world as it says המחדש בטובו בכל יום תמיד מעשה בראשית.

    in reply to: How does one get the title “Chaver”? #1505075
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    The Chasam Sofer did not call his talmid the Maharam Ash (Imrei Aish) talmidi because he considered him to be a Talmid Chover. The Imrei Aish called the Chasam Sofer a רב ששכח תלמידו.

    in reply to: How does one get the title “Chaver”? #1505064
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    In the gemora’s time Rabbi Eloazor was a Talmid Chover to Rabbi Yochanan.

    in reply to: Parsheh of the Week Interpretation #1505040
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    It says in Parshas Shemini, don’t eat a chazir because it has cut hoofs. Asks the Klei Yokor that the reason for the prohibition should be because it does not re-chew its cud? He answers that because his good part also contributes to his prohibition because he is fake and shows his cut hoofs like Aisov being fake. In the future Aisov will repent and a new creation will be done where the pig will re-chew its cud and will become mutar.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1505037
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    “הקורא הלל בכל יום וכו the reason is that he only recognizes the great miracles and doesn’t realize that כל הנשמה תהלל י-ה, as the Midrash says, על כל נשימה ונשימה תהלל י-ה, we are suppose to praise Hashem for every breath take.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1505029
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    A doctor must get a diploma to proof himself. Once he received it, we accept him at face value. Hashem proved Himself with miracles. We accept Him at face value without the need to prove Himself anymore.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1504914
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    עולם כמנהגו נוהג Hashem created the world that things only change when they need to change. We have inertia and we are not allowed to be matriach מטריח Hashem needlessly.

    in reply to: Middos alert for Dr. Middos! #1504543
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    It says בצדק תשפט עמיתך followed by ולא תלך רכיל בעמך. If you judge people for the good, you will not go and spread gossip.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1504314
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    There is another joke where a Jew did not have any wine and matzah for Pesach. He went to a Rebbe who assured him that he will have. When it was Pesach was a week away, he still did not have. So he decided to sell some pillows an covers and bought them for the money. He meets the Rebbe on Pesach who asked him did you have your matzah and wine? Yes, he answers. Says the Rebbe, I told you, you will have.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1504294
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    If someone understands calculus the slope of a curve (derivative) is based on the fact that in an infinitesimal interval the vertical and horizontal distances don’t change. Also, finding the velocity for a particular time is based on an average velocity for an infinitesimal time, figuring it will not change in that small time. The whole mathematical theory is based on chazaka meiikara.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1504235
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    Tosfas in Sukkah 8:1 proofs that 1 2/5 is an approximation of the square root of 2. If you take a square of 5, its diagonal is 7 but the area of that diagonal square is 49 but it should be 50 which is half of the outer square of 10 by 10.

    in reply to: chazaka meiikara #1504266
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    We have Chanukah and Purim. Chanukah is a neis nigleh but Purim is a neis nistar.

    in reply to: climate change #1504006
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    B. Since our actions cause the ozone layer to diminish, we are being matriach מטריח Hashem to create miracles to restore what we are destroying.

    in reply to: Chabad Minhag #1503183
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    This was in the old time when there was no floor in shul just ground. They said the inclusion שהם משתחוים להבל וריק ואל אל לא יושיע. Be careful not to be ovar on lo tshaktzu, if people see you.

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