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  • in reply to: ‏תשובה #2129806
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    It says אל תרגזו בדרך, don’t get distracted when traveling even with learning.

    in reply to: Yom Kippur like Purim #2129805
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    The Rabbenu Bachaya explains on ולא יהי’ בהם נגף בפקוד אותם, the Jews as a whole are all tzadikim. When we are counting them, we separate the group and the bad will be revealed therefore Hashem reviews us on Rosh Hashanah together. כל ישראל יש להם חלק, together. When Bilam wanted to curse l’a, Bolok told him, to go to a place where he only sees part of them. When seeing all, he will not be able to accomplish anything. The holy Zohar in Parashas Terumah says, not to talk mundane things in shul as it creates a separation and drives Hashem out, who wants to reside in a unity with us by showing that one does not care if He dwells with us. אנכי עומד בין ה’ ובין עמכם The Baal Shem Tov says that the ego of one stands between Hashem and us,

    in reply to: ‏תשובה #2129783
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    There is no baal tosif in learning as there is no fixed amount of learning. Chazal wanted us to set time to learning in order not to forget to learn something. If a person scrutinized his actions and did not find anything wrong should base it on ביטול תורה, not learning enough Torah as if one learned enough, would have found something wrong. אין צדיק בארץ אשר יעשה טוב ולא יחטא, there is no pious person in this world who does all good without any faults.

    in reply to: ‏תשובה #2129782
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    The Rabbenu Tam explains that we make one Birchas Hatorah a day as we should not be masiach daas, keep our learning in mind the whole day.

    in reply to: Sukkah – Olam Haboh, Working Towards the Next World to Come #2129781
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    There is an argument in the gemora if the sukkah should be a keva, permanent structure or arai, temporary. We pasken like Rava to be temporary. This might be dependent on the reason for sukkah. If it reminds us that the world is temporary, should be arai however, if to keep olam haba in mind, keva.
    Even if we pasken to be temporary, it must have some permanence to be a able to stand in a ruach metzuyah, in a normal wind.

    in reply to: Short & Sweet #2129715
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    Moshe Rabbenu was like the above by having a special ability to lower himself to everyone’s level when teaching the Torah. He lost this strength now שנסתמו ממנו מעינות החכמה, the water flow of his wisdom became closed him.

    in reply to: Rosh Hashanah Contradictory #2129722
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    We actually say this Yom Kippur in our bracha by praising Hashem that He forgives us and removes our sins every year on Yom Kippur.

    in reply to: Sukkah – Olam Haboh, Working Towards the Next World to Come #2129709
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    The Midrash says that because Avraham Avinu rested the three malachim under the three we were rewarded with the mitzva of Sukkah. The Ksav Sofer explains that the sukkah reflects the hashgacha and protection of Hashem, tzelah dehamnisa, shadow from above. When being in a temporary dwelling we are protected from the rain, sun as the tree needs sun and water to grow from above and people are protec6ed by the tree.

    in reply to: Sukkah – Olam Haboh, Working Towards the Next World to Come #2129679
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    The five days between Yom Kippur and Sukkos creates a preparation for our elevation from love towards Hashem. As the holy Berdichever explains that the esrug is taken on the first day of our accounting of our sins, since our teshuva now is done from love, thereby our sins turn to good deeds.

    in reply to: Respecting Differences #2129463
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    The Kli Yakar explains that when we live in fancy houses in galus, Eisav becomes jealous of us as it happened in Mitzraim.

    in reply to: Yom Kippur like Purim #2129449
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    I wish everyone 5783 – הי’ ‘ש’ נ ‘ת’ פדוית גליותינו

    in reply to: Haazinu – Ask Your Father He Wil Tell You #2129433
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    I never knew my grandparents. My father’s parents passed away in the 1920’s within six months apart even having one matzeva. My mother’s mother passed away from breast cancer at 54 and mother’s father was murdered in Aushwitz.

    in reply to: Haazinu – Ask Your Father He Wil Tell You #2129417
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    I explained the controversy who determines the gender? The Torah says the woman whereas science says the man depending on whether he gives an x or a y chromosome. Maybe the woman generates an environment which determines what the man gives.

    in reply to: Haazinu – Ask Your Father He Wil Tell You #2129416
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    AAQ, this question reminds me of a Costello routine. A man found a girl who was ten years old and he was forty. He said, I cannot marry her because I am four times as old as she is. If I wait another five years, is still no good because she will be fifteen and I am forty five being now three time as old. I will wait another fifteen years when I will be sixty and she will be thirty being now twice as old. So how long will I have to wait such that we are both the same age? Also, when one visits the sick takes away 1/60 of their pain or illness. How many people must come to take away all the illness (forgetting the fact that in between falls back in illness)? This question is of limits and convergence.

    in reply to: Yom Kippur like Purim #2129413
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    As we said before that we make up the simcha of eating with erev yom kippur. There was a story with the holy Berdichever zy’a who on Kol Nidrei night was looking underneath all tables in his shul. The chassidim did not know what he was doing. When he finished, he went to the bimah and said, RBSA if the goyim were given a day when it is a mitzva to eat, they would have drunk themselves under the table however, I can’t find one Jew being under the table.

    in reply to: King Charles and Queen Camilla #2129263
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    We should always keep in mind that we are strangers in a strange place. Moshe Rabbenu called his first son Gershom and the second Eliezer. Hashem helps if the above is kept constantly in mind.

    in reply to: Haazinu – Ask Your Father He Wil Tell You #2129255
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    There are arguments as things were forgotten but הלכה משה מסיני was passed on intact.

    in reply to: King Charles and Queen Camilla #2129251
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    Assimilation was their choice. They did not have to assimilate as the chassidim in Europe dressed differently to avoid it.

    in reply to: King Charles and Queen Camilla #2129027
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    Hashem provided a place to escape from the inquisition of Ferdinand and Isabella, who themselves hired Columbus to discover America.

    in reply to: Respecting Differences #2128970
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    Chabad shows currently for the last shabbos 40 minutes from shkia as the ending of shabbat in NYC.

    in reply to: ‏תשובה #2128936
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    The CR is what we call an outlet of feelings and opinions being bottled up which can create anxieties, so people will avoid alcohol and drugs.

    in reply to: ‏תשובה #2128925
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    I am ka’h more than 74 years old hitting the 3/4 mark in 4 months, who left Hungary more than 65 years ago when being 9 years old at the Hungarian Revolution. As I stated before, I call myself Reb to teach to give respect to the elderly as it was the custom in Europe. I did not learn in BMG but respect their learning. My purpose mainly is to pass on Torah as the Binah Leitim explains the passage אם למדת תורה הרבה אל תחזיק טובה לעצמך כי לכך נוצרת when you learned much Torah, don’t keep the ‘best’ for yourself as you were created to disseminate it. With this I explained הלומד תורה שלא לשמה מוטב לו שלא נברא, one who learns Torah not for its on sake but the to make himself look good, it would have been better for him not to be born. As he does not abide by the purpose he was created for, there is no reason to have been born.

    in reply to: ‏תשובה #2128933
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    Moish, תשובה also means an answer. If people learn Torah, it is no bitul zman. The editors avoid non tziniusdig pictures. Feelings are not developed for the invisible and unheard. Shiva helps the mourner psychologically by being able to express their feelings. Similarly, world affairs cause anxieties that people can express here on the CR helping them to learn with more calmness, so it is not bitul zman.

    in reply to: Respecting Differences #2128902
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    When it comes to motzei shabbos, Chabad is interesting. In the SA Harav the Baal Hatanyeh paskens like the Rabbenu Tam, 4 mil from shkia, 72 minutes but in the siddur he paskens like the geonim, 3/4 of a mil after shkia, according to the location. They say that the Baal Hatanyeh changed his view in the siddur which was written later.

    in reply to: ‏תשובה #2128890
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    ujm, what is your excuse being on CR over 14 years?

    in reply to: Yomim Noraim – How Awesome: #2128692
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    The Ksav Sofer compares Yaakov’s dream of a ladder סולם (136) to a human being where he has the potential to climb from the earth to the heavens. The means are קול, tefila, צום, teshuva and ממון, tzedaka where each adds up to 136. Together it is 408 as ‘ב’זאת with this of the Jews יבא אהרן Aaron comes to the Beis Hamikdash.

    in reply to: Short & Sweet #2128691
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    It does not say kovato torah leitim, to set the Torah to the times but kovato itim latorah, set the times to the Torah. A man bought a small hat, so he went to the goldsmith to squeeze his head to make it fit to the hat rather than expand the hat to make it fit to his head. We don’t change the Torah to make it fit to the times.

    in reply to: Yomim Noraim – How Awesome: #2128684
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    Maybe that is the meaning of our Botei Kenesiyos and Medroshus that we prepare currently for the holiness of the last Beis Hamikdash will move to Jerusalem as it will be greater than the first.

    in reply to: Vayelech – Beis Hamedrash Part of EY #2128651
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    akuperma, thanks, I like it.

    in reply to: Vayelech – Beis Hamedrash Part of EY #2128653
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    in reply to: Nitzavim – Emphasize the Positive #2128647
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    We say משוך חסדך אל יודעך א-ל קנא ונוקם, the Chasan Sofer explains we ask Hashem to punish us through His chesed, favor. Let Hashem shower us with extra good and let us recognize that we don’t deserve it and turn us to teshuva and not require any punishments.

    in reply to: King Charles and Queen Camilla #2128641
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    MBS was just appointed Prime Minister, the de facto leader by King Salman.

    in reply to: Non Jewish Funerals #2128182
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    When it comes to influence, a bad apple destroys the good and not the good apple makes the bad good.

    in reply to: Non Jewish Funerals #2127983
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    Who has the influence on whom? Will she have the influence on him or will he have the influence on her? Yaakov Avinu over here learned from his mother Rivkah and did not want to risk this marriage.

    in reply to: Non Jewish Funerals #2127954
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    Maybe he had holey (full of holes) thoughts.

    in reply to: Non Jewish Funerals #2127951
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    Avira, I don’t think he had holy thoughts in his mind when according to the Targum Yonasan on הנה אנכי הולך למות, I will die and who cares what happens after that, he denied after life. He said what people wanted to hear but his heart was not in it.

    in reply to: Yomim Noraim – How Awesome: #2127921
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    See what we wrote at https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/rosh-hashanah-contradictory. Yom Kippur we have a mitzva of eating Erev Yom Kippur to make up for the simcha of Kabolas Hatorah. When Yom Kippur falls on Shabbos, our fasting is an oneg shabbos as it provides a simcha of forgiveness.

    in reply to: Non Jewish Funerals #2127919
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    The reason that only Esav’s head ended up in Meoras Hapachpela as his heart was not in line with what he said.

    in reply to: Trump Declassified by Thinking #2127912
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    moish, good point, we daven for it by enunciating through the mouth. The Teshuva Meahava, Rav Eliezer Flekels a talmid of the Nodah Beyehudah, asks why would Eli think that Chanah was drunk if they davened like that by just moving the mouth and not being heard? He explains that that we don’t completely follow her as when we pray we should hear it but not others.

    in reply to: Pruzbul Time #2127808
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    The pruzbul was instituted by Hillel to avoid not wanting to lend when one cannot collect. To understand that the Beis Din can collect now but makes the lender their sheliach to collect.

    in reply to: Pruzbul Time #2127712
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    On my question above, Artscroll distributes a Pruzbul form where it looks like that any three people can be judges.

    in reply to: Yomim Noraim – How Awesome: #2127698
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    The Sefer Vaydaber Moshe uses this pasuk in a joking manner, how frightening (too small) is this place it must be a shul. It says אתם נצבים היום (Rosh Hashanah) כולכם in unity ‘לםני ה the gemora in Rosh Hashanah says that it indicates in Beis Hamikdash.

    in reply to: Pruzbul Time #2127696
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    Can any three people like hatoras nedarim sign it or rabonim?

    in reply to: Anxious parents before Yontef #2127643
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    We have two eyes. With one, we should look down to see our faults and with other look up to see the greatness of others. Korach, as Rashi says, his eyes fooled him. He did not use his eyes properly, he saw his own greatness and the lowness of others.

    in reply to: Where is Moshe Kleinerman? Take on something!! #2127617
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    If something or someone is lost, give tzadakah to Rebbi Meir Baal Hanes and say א-להי דמאיר עננו, the
    G-d of Meir answer me.

    in reply to: Trump Declassified by Thinking #2127616
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    If it is truly declassified like nuclear secrets, then anyone can handle it and our national security is endangered.

    in reply to: Short & Sweet #2127605
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    Maybe both are true as it says with the mouth indicating learning where by the heart only one forgets and actions indicating teshuva where the mouth alone is not enough and the heart is also required.

    in reply to: Short & Sweet #2127598
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    The Rabbenu Bachaya sasys that the center rules. The mouth should follow the heart and the actions should also follow it especially for teshuva.

    in reply to: Anxious parents before Yontef #2127599
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    We should have concern for others.

    in reply to: Folding Bed Gmach #2127600
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    An other option, maybe you can lease them for Yom Tov.

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