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I, who was educated in a chasidishe yeshivas in yiddish, happen to like his shpiel which puts some yiddishkeit into english. Yiddish has become a dead forgotten language for our current and future generations.
According to the Rav Abarbanel and Maasei Hashem they should have not publicized their findings as they were responsible to Moshe Rabbenu sending them as it says shelach ‘lecha’. They also emphasized the negative by saying good but bad rather than saying bad but good. The Rav Malbim explains the difference between ויתורו and וירגלו. The original intention of Moshe Rabbenu was that each shevat should look at the positive qualities, what they like. This was the reason why each shevat was sent. However, they switched their mission looking for bad qualities, what they didn’t like. Moshe Rabbenu wanted them to realize that they need the help of Hashem and they cannot conquer EY by themselves because they are strong.
be malveh me your oznayim, lend me your ears. Are you quoting Marc Anthony? I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The climbing of the ladder as Yaakov Avinu saw the ladder stretching from earth to the heavens. The Ksav Sofer explains that it reflects the potential of a Jew. He can climb from the ground to the heavens and malachim originally are above him but later they end up below him. He should always keep in mind the question to Adam Harishon ayeko, where is he on the ladder? Sulom molei is gematria 136 kol, tzom and momon together 408, bezos yavo Aharon. These are the means to climb the ladder which are teshuva, tefila and tzadakah by which Yaakov Avinu prepared himself to fight Eisov. Tefila, milchama of the yetzer hara, and the present, tzadakah.
My Rebbe, the Mattersdorfer Rav, Rav Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld ztz’l interpreted the expression נשיח בחקיך to speak, as you did, using expressions of Torah.
If one has a chiyuv, responsibility to pay anyhow, it cannot be redeemed through maaser money. Maybe contribute to publish a sefer where you will have a reward whenever it is used.
We had a situation some years ago where someone got lost in the winter without cell phone connection and froze to death.
It says יהללוך זר ולא פיך others should praise you and not yourself. They should realize from the behavior of the individual that he is gadol. One’s behavior should teach us halachas. שמעון הצדיק ‘הוא’ הי’ אומר Shimon the Pious said it with his being. Some interpret this pasuk that others should praise you and if not, yourself, praise yourself.
The one that matches for 14 years is yaakovdoe and would be trolling with himself.
There is two kinds of inflation, demand pull and cost push. Demand pull happens when supply does not catch up with the demand. Possibly, there is too much money in the hand of the people and the demand is greater than the supply, whereas cost push is where the expenses go up and they must be recovered by raising the price.
bob, can you please elaborate what you find wrong with my posts as I would like to correct them. If I offended you, I am sorry but your post is unclear. We all try to the best of our abilities honor each other. I believe that my purpose on this world is to pass on Torah.
The Chasam Sofer advises us how to do teshuva. 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.
It also says אין אדם רואה את נגעי עצמו, a person does not see their own faults as אדם קרוב אצל עצמו, a person is close to oneself.
It is true that the unknown is very bad but still let us pray to find him alive b’H.
I thought from the title to evaluate the difference between Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Reagan, although I did not agree with all his policies, he was an honorable person whereas the latter is something to be desired.
It says כל הפוסל במומו פוסל, one who faults, faults with his own faults.
The above Haflaah in Panim Yafos says כי ראוי לשמוע אל השופט לפי הזמן ולפי הדור we should listen to the judge according to the times and generation כן מזמינים לו מן השמים like that it is assigned to him from the heavens.
There is indication on your screen name, bob hample1 that you are nearly a 20 year member. Your name shows being 7 months a member.
The Volozhin example above reminding us of the separation of church and state should be kept in mind.
The Haflaah explains הכהן אשר יהי’ בימים ההם – שמואל בדורו כיפתח בדורו, go to the leader for the current generation. Shmuel was the leader for his generation as Yiftach for his generation. We cannot compare generations. Every generation is provided a leader according to its requirements. When Chanoch separated himself from the people, he was taken away. He would only hurt them through comparison.
It says, if the our predecessors are considered like malachim, angels, then we are considered like human beings but it they are considered like human beings then we are considered like donkeys and not like the one of Pinchas ben Yair. The explanation is that we cannot compare ourselves to previous generations. The closer they were to Kabolas Hatorah, the greater they were. Whereas by the goyim, who believe that we came from monkeys, the closer they are to the creation the lesser they are.
Google Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah for a list in wikipedia.
Look at the Ramban that each day if creation is a thousand years, so moshiach will come when Adam Harishon was created in the 5th millennium. The Chasam Sofer says that the time was ripe but we were not worthy.
There is forty years between the coming of moshiach and techiyas hamesim but what comes after techiyas hamesim?
The Malbim describes that Shlomo Hamelech had an inkling from their argument.
It is important to learn how to learn and to be able to research and resolve a shaila.
There is a sefer available on hebrewbooks dot org called קובץ יסודות וחקירות which is recommended for research.We always had chavrusas in our yeshivas. There are two kinds, either one teaches the other or they are both equally knowledgeable. I like the second one better. It says עשה לך רב וקנה לך חבר sometimes a rav and sometimes a chaver whom you appreciate as a valuable thing bought overlooking his faults.
The Meiri explains that the first day of Chanukah is commemorating the finding of the oil. This is similar to finding new insights through revealing hidden secrets by questioning the תורה שבכתב and arriving to the תורה שבעל פה.
Why did he not discern from their argument who the real mother is? One said the live one is mine (indicating that she wants it), the dead is yours and the other did not say the same thing but the opposite, the dead is yours (indicating that if I cannot have it, you should not have it either) and the live one is mine. Obviously the first one is the real mother.
There is an interesting story from the German author, Bertolt Brecht called The Chalk Circle. Two women claimed that an older girl belonged to them. The judge ruled to draw a circle and then place the girl in it. The two women will hold the girls hand on either side of the circle. The idea was that the real mother will pull stronger to pull her out of the circle. What really happened is that one of the women let go in order not to harm her by pulling her apart. The judge ruled that this was the real mother.Why do we pasken like Beis Shamai in the future? Currently we don’t understand their stringencies but leosid lavo we will gain a new understanding such that the majority will follow them.
See how he reacts to a mouse.
To learn with a chavrusa is a gateway to all learning and not an overstatement חרב על הבדים, the sword comes when learning individually as mistakes can be made. The Taz 47 says that we make a brocho לעסוק בדברי תורה to indicate that the Torah should be a give and take which can be only actualized in a chavrusa.
I will repeat what I wrote on an other similar topic:
I want to see Gedolei Haroah, which we are lacking, come out and not quetching on a few pages as pointed out by Rav Shimon Fuerst available at hebrewbooks dot org entitled תנו כבוד לתורה. Look at the hakdama of the ספר מנחת חן חלק ב, from Rav Noach Eisic Oelbaum Shlita, who I learned together with at Yeshiva Chasan Sofer, where he complains about this. When learning a gemora, learn the poskim and halochos on it right away and learn a mesachta from beginning to end as we did in Wiener, Mesifta Nachlas Yaakov in Williamsburg. I once had to know in camp 10 blatt with the lashon by heart together with the shakla vetarye, the give and take.
amom, I like your answer the best.
They say the opposite. Guess and don’t leave it blank. If you can’t decide on a final answer, take an educated guess or try a new strategy. Whatever you do: do NOT leave any question blank on your Regents exam. You do not lose credits for a wrong answer, so it’s much better to just guess instead of leaving something blank.
Obviously, them is the Russians.
I escaped Hungary under Russian rule in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, so for me it does not give a good taste when Orban is so close to them.
I think what I said before resolves the contradiction. If he has the kishronos, he can sanctify himself and rely on support otherwise it is theft.
it says איזהו חכם הלומד מכל אדם like Rebbi Meir who was able to learn even from Acher.
n0mesorah, I thought what I said is the connection to shemita and yovel but the Rambam creates another connection to the leviim by which is creating a contradiction. So how do we resolve it, maybe he is sitting in Kollel to sanctify himself and getting support?
I still don’t see the contradiction. The Leviim sanctified themselves to learn Torah so they did not work but others learned not to be idle on shemitah and yovel otherwise they were required to work.
Learn what?
Economy, inflation, gun control, covid and war in Ukraine.
Learning in a Kollel is a haicha timtzo to become a gadol not learning.
It happens to be a machlokes between Rashbi and Acherim. When everyone learns who will do the work? People have to learn לשם שמים so מלאכתן נעשית ע’י אחרים. Who are the acherim if everyone learns?See Rambam Hilchas Talmud Torah (3,10) and the referenced Yabia Omer. I would have liked to sit and learn but I did not have chance. It does not say to learn in the Kollel. You work and learn when you have time. The halacha is that if a mitzva must be done and there is no one else to do it, we are mevatel talmud torah to do it and then go back to learning, otherwise no mitzvos would be done. We currently, with the Kollel, don’t have תורתן אומנתן.
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