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The Targum Yanoson says that Shemini Atzeres we are happy to go back to the house from the sukkah. How can we be happy? I heard from Rav Moshe Meir Weiss Shlita that if sukkah commemorates being in the desert then the house represents EY, so we are happy for getting into EY. Maybe, the sukkah, in the beginning of the year, is a lesson how to behave the whole year as the ishpizun reflect, so Shemini Atzeres will be graduation day where we have learned to realize that Hashem provides everything and we can live in less comfort and be satisfied with what He is giving us.
As people don’t read other topics, I will repeat what I wrote on Parashas Pinchos:
Rashi says that he deserves his just rewards. The Dubner Magid gives a mashel to a wholesaler who hires a young man agreeing that he gets no salary but only room and board. In the middle of a Purim seuda a retail person arrives asking to be served. As the wholesaler refuses to serve him for being in the middle of the seuda, the young man volunteers to serve him. Later. the boss asks him what do I owe you? So he says, I don’t understand, didn’t we agree that I don’t get a salary? He says to the young man, until now I thought that the food I pay you means something to you but you are willing to sacrifice it for me showing that my business is more important to you, so you deserve a payment which is more valuable to you.
Similarly, one cannot be greatful enough with appreciation to Hashem for having a happy healthy life without any worries, but Pinchos sacrificed his life for His will, so he deserves to be paid something valuable to him.Thank you
coffee addict your quote is very important, so I will translate it.
Whoever is merciful when should be cruel, the end will be, that one will be cruel when should be merciful.אין לבית דין אלא מה שעיניו רואות, the Beis Din follows what it sees. We cannot show any mercy.
It says by ihr hanidachas ונתן לך רחמים, Hashem will give you mercy, and the GRA explains that we might get used to cruelty (which here is required), so we get blessed to be merciful. So don’t worry to apply cruelty like your case where necessary. It says ובערת הרע מקרבך, we have a responsibility to eliminate the bad in order others should not learn from it and he should not repeat his bad deeds.
אדם מועד לעולם he should know right from wrong.
I agree with Kuvult.
Now there is the computer field training to pursue through PCS of the Agudah for bright people as I did.
Yes, gemora is aramaic.
A period at an end of sentence is breather. In the gemora we can brake it down to phrases by recognizing expressions through the idioms of the gemora.
The above computer programs can help. To learn on your own, one has to recognize the common expressions of the gemora which I call idioms and recognize the introductory words to see the logic of the gemora as a question, answer or a proof of a statement and Rashi requires the knowledge of Hebrew.
Moish26, criticizing is easy. I happen to want to know about gedolim passing on which might wake us up to do teshuva. They are quoting verbatim the AP news which a person here can decide to read or not to read.
We are protected from the suns radiation by the ozone layer which we destroy through fossil fuel emissions.
Menachem, thank you for your nice words. According to the Binah Leitim, who translates איזהו גבור השמח בחלקו, who is a real hero who enjoys his lot, by sharing his wealth and knowledge as our purpose in life to share. it says אם למדת תורה הרבה, if you learned much Torah אל תחזיק טובה לעצמך don’t feel good about it כי לכך נוצרך as you well created for the purpose to pass it on to others. Maybe this is the meaning in what it says הלומד תורה שלא לשמה one who learns Torah for his own purpose מוטב לו שלא נברא it would have been better not being created as he is not fulfilling the purpose of his creation.
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It says מרבה נכסים מרבה דאגה, increased wealth creates increased worry, how to invest it and not to lose it. They don’t see that money is the root of all evil.
balabous, we did very well before you were on the World Wide Web.
It says לעושה גדולות נפלאות לבדו כי לעולם חסדו, Hashem does great wonders on His own, which is His eternal favor. Why on His own? I heard pshat with a mashel, where someone dug a hole at night outside on the street which obviously is dangerous being a bor bereshus harabim. The workers came at night and fixed it. When one woke up, did not know about the danger. Similarly, sometimes we don’t even know the miracles Hashem does to us. The YWN publicizes it to be able to thank Hashem Yisbarach. This might be the purpose of YWN.
Balabus, as we mentioned to serve Hashem with joy, so humor is part of learning Torah.
They say that David Hamelech, who knew he will pass on shabbos, made a melava demalka to thank Hashem that he is still alive.
Torah is feminine to teach us learning in a light and pleasant way whereas chinuch is masculine being somewhat harsh. The Darashes HaRan explains that Moshe Rabbenu was first commanded to hit the rock but the second time only required to talk to it. Chinuch is the derech halimud taken with honey and medicine, and can also be humorous, comes the learning of Torah. Learning of Torah needs no medicine.
We do the best we can as the alternative is worst and there is a need for it. I sprinkle it with words of Torah.
The Torah is compared to milk. If a baby does not want to nurse, it is sick and we must do everything possible to drink it. However once one tastes it, will enjoy it and drink it without being forced.
The brothers told the people of Shechem to circumcise themselves. Why? I heard from Rebbi Yonasan Eubshutz, once they are gemalelt no one cares.
Why didn’t Dinah bow down infront of Yosef? The mother in law does not bow down infront of her son in law.If one has money to buy a tesla, money for gas does not matter.
The Torah is not forced on us as we accepted it again with willingness at the time of Achashverus. We make a bracha in Birchas Hatorah to feel the sweetness of Torah. So if we find some humor as we understand that Rashba nothing is wrong in it. The Torah is like honey which provides sweetness. I gave examples above of statements of the gemora that can be also interpreted as words of mussar.
One of the great words of mussar is what it says in the Torah as interpreted by the Kli Yakar for being superfluous, בשמים ממעל ועל הארץ מתחת, when it comes to heavenly, spiritual things, we should look to learn from people above us being in a greater madrega, level than we are, whereas by material, physical things let’s look at people below us who have less than we do.Name, במחילת כבוד תורתו all the gedolim who found humor in the Torah were all wrong but only you are right and name is necessary. I have rachmonus on you for missing a nice part of the Torah interpreting things in a double entendre provided it is not kefira.
Rashi says גם נח מקטני אמונה היה, מאמין ואינו מאמין שיבא המבול Noach was also from the low believers as he believed and not believed that the flood will come. What about interpreting it for praise. It matters where the comma is placed. גם נח מקטני אמונה היה מאמין, ואינו מאמין שיבא המבול. In this case Noach had trust in the low believers that they will do teshuva and therefore did not believe that the flood will come. This idea we find on ויגברו המים that the rain came originally lightly and then it increased.It is ok if he learns in his spare time.
The Rambam left to his son אשרי מי שכלו שנותיו מהרה, it is wonderful for whom his years end early. One does not suffer living through this temporary world.
The Republicans caused that we need two salaries to make a living, so the woman’s place cannot be at home anymore.
לא יאמר עוד אלהינו למעשה ידינו, we should not worship the fruits of our labor.
שפת לא ידעתי אשמע interprets the Bnei Yisoschor, Paraoh when he dreamt says that he stands על היאור, on the river but when he tells over the dream to test Yosef on the dream, he changes and says he stands על שפת היאור, on the edge of river, so Yosef says to Paraoh, I don’t know what this שפת is?
Maybe, it says עבדו את ה’ בשמחה, serve Hashem with joy. It does not say how much.
Tisha B’av itself we don’t say tachnun as it is called a moad which reminds us of the redemption. Maybe it reflects the words of Rabbi Akiva at the end of Meseches Makus where he was happy when he saw a fox at the sight of the ruins of the Beis Hamukdash interpreting it that if this prophesy became true the other prophesy of the redemption will also become true and as I pointed out above that our mourning will bring the redemption.
The Chasam Sofer interprets כל המתאבל על ירושלים זוכה ורואה בשמחתה, one who mourns the destruction of Jerusalem will see its rejoicing. A dead person l’a is forgotten from one’s heart. When we mourn, we show that we have not forgotten it and we will not be forgotten either and we will be able to see the redemption to rejoice by it. It says, אין לך יום שאין קללתו מרובה מחבירו, you have no days where its curse is not worse than the previous day. Every day that we have to wait for Meshiach is harder to live through. Maybe, we can look at this in a bright light. Meshiach will come when we are on lowest level such that we have no one else to rely on only on our Father in Heaven. So the worse it gets, the better it gets. So maybe some humor is appropriate.
Getting off the humor by mentioning the Chasan Sofer who interprets what we say in the Hagadah of Pesach, be able to eat there from the Korban Pesach and other sacrifices where the blood arrives on the walls of your mizbeach ‘laratzon’, with acceptance. He said that we have given many sacrifices but they were not laratzon. Hashem is not so happy with it.
We got the greatest brachas from Bilam which we would have never gotten. Hashem showed His great love to us by reversing Bilom’s curses to blessings. Hashem wanted to show that Bilom accomplished with his curses the opposite. The speaking of the donkey reflects this. Even a donkey can speak when Hashem wants it to. Bilom was only able to speak what Hashem wanted him to say. Hashem can give water from the rock, blessings from the wicked.
A rebbe said that בלק has the letters of ואהבת לרעך כמוך, so he was told that they don’t match. He said that when it comes to loving each other, we don’t have to be so exact. Even though the other person is not as close to you as you are to them, we should still love them.
Menachem, the Nodah Beyehuda says that the above does not currently apply. The shechina has not departed from the place of the mikdash, so as he does not visit it, his rebbe cannot be held higher than Hashem.
Someone said once, I found a steady job but it does not pay well. I am out watching on a tower when Meshiach will come.
Rebbe (Rebbi Yehuda Hanosi) had Bar Kappara a badchan around who kept him happy.
We say at a siyum לא יחצו ימיהם ואני אבטח בך, they will not divide their days but I trust You. The Ben Ish Chai explains the Yitzchak Avinu argued that half of the time we are not sinning as we are sleeping. One who takes ribus, has a lack of trust in Hashem and sins also at night as his money makes money , so he cannot divide his life time days. However, I trust You and don’t take ribus, can divide my days.
There was a story where a rebbe gave Shalom Aleichem to someone who just finished shmonei esrei as he just arrived back from his trip.
There is a story where Meshiach arrives with a turned up hat in a shul, so he is told over here we wear our hats bend down. When he goes to an other shul, he is told over here we wear our hats bent up. Then he is told in Young Israel, what do you need a hat for in the first place? So he says, I am going back and only come again when you can at least agree on a hat.
The Republicans don’t care about working people. If it would be up to them, there would be no Social
Security, Medicare and Medicaid. There attitude is sink or swim. The economy is driven by demand and not by supply. Reagan eliminated the CETA, job training program which was one of the best investments which was payed back from the tax payers of those jobs.I hear from the badchan, Rav Yaakov Miller, Shlita on פיה פתחה בחכמה ותורת חסד על לשונה, she starts her words with cleverness as the Torah of favor is on her lips. The man has a mitzva to learn, so has a yetzer hara, against it and he needs when learning with other men, to start with humor. However, women don’t have a mitzva, so she when learning with other women, does not need to start with humor.
Shlomo Hamelech says יהללך זר ולא פיך others should praise you but not yourself. Some translate it as, others should praise you, ולא and if not, פיך, yourself.
I heard from Rebbi in Wiener, Rav Holtzer, ztz’l שאל אביך ויגדך זקינך ויאמרו לך, when you ask your father and he does not know something, he will tell you, go to the zaida, the grandfather, who will tell you.
Hashem said to Moshe Rabbenu, מה תצעק אלי דבר אל בני ישראל ויסעו what are you are a chazan then the Jews come to me in shul but when you want to give the Jews mussar, they will leave.