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על שלשה דברים העןלם עומד explains the Yalkut Hagershuni when it comes to three things people get up and leave, not having patience, a shiur, a long davenen and an appeal.
ברוך שבחר בהם ובמשהצם people are willing to listen to Torah and not marry into them as they are concerned with their parnasa,
Rabbi Yehuda’s view is מין בשאינו מינו בטל בששים אבל מין במינו אפילו באלף לא בטל if someone does things from desire, when one is sixty, will give it up but when doing it from minus, lack of belief even when one is a thousand, will not give it up.
The Chasam Sofer says Nedarim 81,1 on why the charban came שלא ברכו בתורה תחלה, when praising, they did not praise one first with one’s Torah knowledge but with one’s secular knowledge
שלך אי אתה רואה your own faults you do not see אבל אתה רואה של אחרים but see the sins of others ושל גבוה and specially the sins of the holy.
אין אדם רואה את נגעי עצמו a person does not see one’s own faults
כל הפוסל במומו פוסל one who faults, faults with one’s own faultsAccording 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.
Tosfas says that they don’t do it as an a’z but following the custom of their fathers.
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.
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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.
Mods, the above should be עני רוכב על החמור. The Aim Habanim Semacha says that Meshiach will come slowly in stages like a poor person comes on a donkey. First go to EY then build the Beis Hamikdash. Whereas the Minchas Elozor, the rebbi of the above Rav Teichtal, Hy’d, says that Meshiach comes spontaneously as ישועת ה’ כהרף עין, the help of Hashem is like the blink of an eye, speedily, so we don’t do anything besides eliminating שנאת חנם.
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.
When the Non-Jews are too religious, it is dangerous to the Jews. Live and let live.
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 Baal Habayis kept his hatred inside his heart and acted on it and the chachomim did not say anything that is שנאת חנם. Kamtzeh did not know why he is being ostracized. The Meharsha says that the son was invited.
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.
What is שנאת חנם? The Yad Yosef on the Ein Yaakov Yamo (9,2) explains what it says that the second Beis Hamikdash’ destruction came about because of it. It is a שנאה הכבושה בלב, it is hatred bottled up in the heart. The Torah forbids hatred in the heart and wants us to admonish each other when one was wronged. Sometimes hatred like jealousy, which is not an excusable hatred, is not revealed but hidden by acting towards the other like one loves them. We cannot protect ourselves from the other as this hatred is not known. This hatred will last forever and will not be undone. As this hatred lasts forever so does the galus. So we should love each other just for the fact that we are all children of one father, Hashem and then bring the geula speedily in our time, Amen.
Assault weapons should be outlawed.
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.
The gemora in Shabbos tells a story about a man who needed to nurse a baby and a miracle happened by growing him breasts. There is a argument if this was a great thing through making him a miracle or an ugly thing that the normal running of the world, olam keminhogo nohag, was changed which costs him in zechusism.
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.
My father a’h had a joke as Shlomo Hamelech says, it is better to go to a funeral than a wedding. So someone said that for him it is better to go to a wedding as they burry two people there.
My wife a’h enjoyed crystals, limoge porcelain and silver but she also enjoyed honoring guests by serving them with it.
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.
Daven by saying Tehilim 121
Without any question seeing the rebbi even a teacher.
Look at the Meshech Chachma in Parashas Bechukosai on Veaf Gam Zos to understand the galus.
The above demonstrates the hashgacha pratis, an individual being controlled through Hashem, influenced from outside sources out of one’s control.
CTLAWYER, as you don’t call yourself a nouveau riche, did you inherit your wealth?
When I went to Brooklyn College 4 years after graduating high school, I kept Haran in mind. When we go into fire because someone else was saved, one can get burned, so I did not go anywhere like the Student Center there which was not necessary.
It will be on July 9th 63 years I am here in America after emigrating from Hungary. We davened in Crown Heights in the Beis Hamidrash Ksav Sofer of Rav Strasser ztz’l who was the menahel, principal of the Wiener Yeshiva in Williamsburg who encouraged my father to send me there. Going to the Wiener Camp was required. The Hadhauser ztz’l, Wiener Rav said that if one who does not come back to camp, should not come back to the mesivta. Not being happy with the camp, I left and switched to Yeshiva Chasan Sofer. When I went to NYU in Mathematics, I saw an ad looking for a Senior Research Aid in computer programming at Brooklyn College from where I received a BS degree, so I got a job there. A plumber working by us and by my wife’s a’h house, brought us together. My wife’s cousin decided to buy a house in S.I. so she asked us to buy the companion house there which got us to move there. Having a problem having children, we converted and adopted, through intermediaries, a son from Columbia and a daughter born in Maimonides to a Non-Jew. They are 38 and almost 36 respectively married with children 3, two girls and a boy and 2, a boy and a girl respectively.
והיו עיניך רואות את מוריך you should see your teacher or rebbi.
I asked the above question from Rav Shafran, as Korach argued that everyone is holy, so what makes him better than anyone else? He told me that when one has self interest they will not argue logically.
It fell into my hand and I remembered the above Binah Leitim on במקום שאין איש.
The Binah Leitim explains the pasukim where Moshe Rabbenu goes outside and sees where an Egyptian is beating a Jew from his brethren meaning that he was not alone there. He looks around whether they will stand up to protect him and sees there is no one answering his need for help, so Moshe Rabbenu used his mouth and killed him.
The Beis Elokim, Shar Hatefila 17 says that tefila is cumulative. Less tefila is required when we reach the expected time of the coming of Meshiach. Most people must want his coming. The Ksav Sofer quoted by the Mayanei Shel Torah explains the pasuk הנסתרות לה’ אלקינו, והנגלות לנו ולבנינו. There are two times when Meshiach can come בעתה אחשנה, the fixed time and the early time. The fixed time is hidden to us and we have no control over but the early time is in our hands to accelerate it depends on us לעשות את דברי התורה הזאת by keeping the mitzvos of the Torah and praying for his coming. When the fixed time comes, if we are not worthy, a melech kashe kehaman has to come to force us to teshuva which is from fear, so we still need teshuva before hand that is the greatness that it brings the geulah but before the time teshuva from love will accelerate his coming. So in either case we should do teshuva from love and Meshiach will come because his time to come is here or we are accelerating his coming.
AAQ, your logic by me does not follow because my father married after liberation the sister of his first wife whom he lost in Aushwitz with two children, so he was only able to marry her because of his loss. The basherte came later. Are you saying that they had to die anyway to be able to marry her?
coffee addict, he made a mistake in his spelling and you are making fun of it. The answer is yes.
yaakovdoe, is it chalav akum or chalav stam?
coffee addict, I think it is funny but not on the other’s plaitzes, shoulders.
What are you saying, isn’t the opposite true, most of the Jews not alive today would have ended up existing?
Maybe one of your personalities wants to follow the Torah and the other does not. One wants to satisfy the body the other the soul. The Chasam Sofer advises us how to resolve this. It says bakesh shalom, look for peace veradfehu, and follow, go after it. The body and soul are constantly in conflict. One desires what the other does not. So let the neshama, soul do something small that the body might not like and continue until the body gets used to it, thereby creating peace between the two and then repeat this in small increments. Do not do this in big increments as you will get frustrated and fail.
WWI contributed to WWII, Germany and Hungary wanting to get back the territory lost and reparations to pay. They attributed it to the Communists and Jews. See Treaty of Versailles and Treaty of Trianon.
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