Reb Eliezer

It is ok if he learns in his spare time.

The Republicans caused that we need two salaries to make a living, so the woman’s place cannot be at home anymore.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

According to the Midrash Otzar Midrashimj (Eisenstein) Shimon Kaifa (Peter) was a double agent. He gave the impression that he was (yeshu’s standing for yms’v) messenger and then when the Jews accepted Shimon, he would tell them that yeshu is against them. Shimon Kaifa spent the whole year in a tower and only showing himself once a year.

There is fixed time and and a earlier time to bring Meshiach. Is the argument if we merit it before the fixed time what will happen? Obviously if we merit it, we bring Meshiach spontaneously. Maybe we generate the merit by working for his coming, צפית לישועה?, so he will come earlier. The Minchas Elozor’s view will be that we cannot generate the merit by our actions because we would violate the three shavuos, so only elimination of futile hatred can accelerate his coming. When the fixed time arrives, if we don’t merited, a melech kasha kehaman, a harsh king like Haman will bring us back to teshuva and Meshiach will come spontaneously, in either case whether we merited or not.

The Meharal says that when we put water next to fire, water puts out the fire but when we put the water in a pot, the fire heats the water. So sometimes we have to be careful when mixing. More religious can be influenced from less religious. We should not hate them but we should avoid mixing also.

They say עני’ רוגב על חנוור’ are the hardest meseches, ערובין, נדה and יבמות. It will bring people together as they need each other to understand it and each mesechta has to do with unity. The highest נדה, the closest between husband and wife, מחבבות על בעלה. Separation brings them closer together. The second is יבמות, unifying the family and the last is ערובין which brings Jews together by allowing them to carry things to each other. Learning these meseches helps to bring Meshiach. Learning together eliminates שנאת חנם, futile hatred.

The goal is avodas Hashem, serving Hashem. How one does that is up to the person, so there is no reason to hate each other.

The Rif and the Rosh are used as two poskim from three (Rambam) by the Mechaber to determine halacha. They don’t bring what is called הלכתא למשיחה halachas which currently don’t apply but will apply at the time of Meshiach. So the Kollelim have to concentrate on producing poskim and emphasizing the halachas derived from the learning. Even though there is a mitzva to learn, it is not the responsibility of individuals to support learning where halacha is secondary. The emphases should be מבין דבר מתוך דבר understanding one thing from another.

See https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/chukas-moshe-rabbenu-provides-water-to-the-jews

The Chasam Sofer Shut O’CH 80 questions why don’t we light late like the Rabbenu Tam. Could be that by a bris as in SA YD 266 Shach s’k 11, if the child is born within the 72 minutes we don’t make the bris on shabbos but push it away to the next day. In order to satisfy everyone, the Rabonon got together to light early erev shabbos and wait 72 minutes motzei shabbos or some 50 minures like Rav Moshe. The Geonim pasken that 13 1/2 minutes after shkia (3/4 of a mil, 18) starts bein hashmoshas after which is night. The Rabbenu Tam’s view is that there is another shkia and 72 minutes after is night so 58 1/2 minutes after the first shkia is ben hashmoshas. The Yereim, Rebbi Eliezer Mimetz’s view is that 13 1/2 minutes before shkiah is ben hashmoshas which we follow erev shabbos taking a mil 24 min and 3/4 is 18.

There is a story with Rav Yonason Eibshutz zt’l where a king asked him the above, you say a chacham is greater than a navi, so tell me how will I enter my palace? So he wrote something on a piece of paper and gave it to a king. The king thinking that a door and window is obvious, so he made a new opening in the middle of the castle. They checked the paper afterwards, surprisingly it said מלך פורץ גדר a king breaks the normal protective border, rules.

Reform was called neolog in Hungary. Do you mean an extreme fanatic orthodoxy where everyone wants to outdo the other. On this King Solomon says אל תצדק הרבה don’t be too religious and look down on others who are not as religious as you are. Maybe we can say on this כל המוסיף גורע one who adds, diminishes. They tell them, isn’t it enough what the Torah forbids but you need to add to it? By that you are diminishing the Torah by showing it is not complete and good enough.

The Ksav Sofer in the beginning on Parashas Korach might explain the significance of a picture. The 250 people put on a talis completely of techeles and asked if it requires tzitzis. Tzitzis is a reminder whereas techeles is a picture. When one is close to someone, their great love to each other does not require a reminder but a picture. A talis of techeles is a picture something similar like him but not a reminder as in normal wearing. The tzitzis’ purpose is to be a reminder. They wanted to inquire Moshe Rabbenu to ascertain how he sees them being close to Hashem. If they need tzitzis that they are not that close to Hashem. The techeles in the tzitzis satisfies the close ones. So we should be close to gedolim requiring a picture of them as Yosef saw a picture of his father.

The Chasam Sofer interprets the pasuk וראית את אחרי וםני לא יראו we only see the big picture from hindsight.