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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.
סיג לחכמה שתיקה
n0messorah, can you explain as I don’t know what you are talking about?
The above should be אלהים אחרים as it refers to an a’z.
The Baal Akedah with his eloquence says on לא יהי’ לך אלקים אחרים not to worship money and ch’v put Hashem aside.
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 Eisick 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.
No contradiction of the Rambam. הבטלה מביא לידי שמום, idleness brings to aveiros. When they did not work in shemita and yovel, time must be spent in learning as the leviim did.
The cat mashel, attributed to the Rambam, comes to mind where a minister teaches a cat of how to eat with a knife and fork. Another minister hides a mouse in his pocket. At the test, he releases the mouse and the cat forget all its teachings and runs after the mouse. When people have an opportunity to riot, they forget all their civility as it was done by the blackout looting.
When I vote in person, my signature is being compared so is it done for mail in voting.
The messenger should not be ridiculed and killed. I just quoted it and gave the place of discussion. I personally believe that before anyone is accepted in Kollel should be tested to evaluate his potential.
It should be in the positive. What did he know, when did he say it and when did he know it? A negative cannot be proven.
Rashi explains in Beah that to be matir we need a basis, a kabola from our rebbies, whereas to asser anyone can.
They were afraid that it can be misused. The pros and cons must be weighed.
The Rambam in Hilchas Talmud Torah says that the support he lives on is theft and he is ashaming the Torah.
See Yabia Omer YD (7,17) discussing the Rambam and Tashbatz about sitting and learning. Maybe it means if one has to work but if one receives parnasa otherwise and the wife is maskim, he is exempt because she is machel.
Should be above, where a king and at the end should be, take it away from me.
They say that there are no pockets in the tachrichim. You can’t take it with you. There is a story where are a king asked his minister what is your wealth, what do you own? The minister specified a very small amount. The king got upsets saying, the house and field you own are worth more than that. Therefore, I am taking everything away from you. The minister answered my master the king, that is what I meant. I admitted to what I gave to tzadaka which you cannot take away from me. The rest does not really belong to me as with one edict you can take away from me.
It is important psychologically to release the bottled up feelings when someone is lost which nichum aveilim accomplishes by recognizing that they are not alone and the others care for them. This brings to achdus as well as a simcha.
The committee hearings gives the impression that Trump was fiddling as Rome was burning the way Nero did.
CS, I don’t agree as when a Supreme Court Justice is assassinated we can replace him by another one but it is very hard to replace our democracy.