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The above mashel might explain a Midrash that by Kabolas Hatorah, Hashem first wanted to give the Torah to the goyim, so they asked, what was written in it. Each nation was told exactly what they did not like, why? Hashem knew that they are asking for an excuse why not to accept it, so Hashem said, you want an excuse, I will give it to you.
‘השתא ‘הכא is 26 indicating that Shechina was also there. The mashul on this is where a father, the king was upset on the deeds of his son and exiled him. The son was concerned that the father will forget about him, so the father ensured him that he also sends the mother whom he will not forget, so he will not forget the son. This is implied in והיא שעמדה referring to the Shechina, being with us in galus.
The above is incorrect, it should be the difference between Yitzchak (Tehilim) 208 and Yischak (Divrei Hayamim) 418 is 210 as the gematria of לחמא עניא, bread of affliction, the number of years being in Mitzraim. וארא is gematria Yitzchak 208 indicating to count from the birth of Yitzchak. The geirus, living in a strange land, will be 400 years but not the affliction. For Avraham Avinu, his pain was 430 years when he was told at Bris bein Habesarim and 86 years was hard labor.
The first two commandments of the Aseres Hadibros (Emunah) were directly given by Hashem and not through a messenger, Moshe Rabbenu so it should be scratched into our hearts as Torah has the gematria 611. We place our hands on our eyes at krias shema to show that we accept our emunah in darkness as the commandments were given even if we don’t understand it. This is the difference between the chacham, who asks things later (machar) and the rasha in the Haggadah. The Dubner Magid depicts this with a mashel. A person, who only had enough money for his Yom Tov needs, goes out on the street and sees a beautiful suit which he gets so enamored with that he forgets that he has no money and buys it. His wife starts screaming, take it back we have no money. When he takes it back, he says, give me back my money as there is a fault in it. He is given back the money. The bystanders question, we don’t understand you. If there is a fault in it, exchange it and why give the money back. So the storekeeper explains, I happen to realize that he regrets the sale as he has no money and the fault is an excuse to regret the whole sale. The rasha’s question is just a means to find a fault, an excuse to regret the acceptance of mitzvos, the sale, so we nock his teeth out, not be able to eat the Korban Pesach and don’t do the mitzvos.
The difference between Yitzchak and Yischak is 190 which is the חישב את הקץ, by removing 190 from 400 leaves 210 years. They were actually in Mitzraim 210 years from the time they went down to Mitzraim.
There are three reasons that made up for the time, alluded to by the Haggadah, one the Schechina was also in galus, two the kushei hashibud, extra work and three the number of children born, so three times 86 was deducted.
The Bnei Ephraim miscalculated that the enslavement was from bris bein habsorim and left 30 years earlier as indicated in the Targum Yonasan in the beginning of Parashas Beshalach. Hashem did not want the Bnei Yisrael to see 200,000 Bnei Ephraim’s dead corpses which were murdered by the Philistines because of leaving thirty years before the time and their dry bones were seen by Yechezkiel being revived in Bikas Dura. When seeing that, they would have returned back to Mitzraim. The GRA explains the naming of the 5th cup כוס של אליהו as there is a doubt that maybe we should take five cups as the promise, והבאתי, to be brought to EY, no more in effect, should also be counted, so Eliyahu Hanavi will answer that.
Ukraine destroys its own economy by 45% to look good.
The men don’t include women for tzenius reasons for mezuman but three woman can make mezuman on their own. There is an argument if they bentch gomal, was there a chiyuv placed on them in the first place? The Chasam Sofer explains that they used to light Chanukah candles outside and it was improper for women mixing outside with the men, so therefore girls do not light Chanukah candles now even inside.
The Digul Mervava asked how a man could be motzei kiddush a woman when she is responsible biblically whereas he is rabbinically after davening, They answer because of arevus. So the woman might have a different chiyuv and therefore not motzei a man. Whereas validation of her bracha by answering Amen should not be a problem. Maybe, kol beisha erva.
Tosfas in Betza about burying the dead by the Jews on the second day Yom Tov where you have people who force the Jews to work differentiates a gezeira and a chashosha. A gezeira like second day Yom Tov even though the reason doesn’t apply, is still forbidden. Whereas a chashasha like leaving water uncovered over night and worrying whether a snake might have drunk from it, if they are no snakes it does not apply. Kitniyos is a gezeira and not a chashasha.
The Yaavetz brings from his father, the Chacham Tzvi, who said if I had a quorum, I would be matir kitniyos as the more matzos must be baked it becomes harder to watch out against chametz.
Should be above, that my whole life, I have been perplexed with this pasuk what it refers to.
There is the peddler who sells by taking out a Tehilim from his sack and showing the words and covering up the words written before, who is the person who wants life loves his life and sees good? \Guard your tongue from uttering bad and your lips from speaking fakeness. So Rebbe Yanai said that his long life he has been working on to understand the pasuk. The Ben Ish Chai asks, how can we learn otherwise? He explains that the above maybe refers to what was said before and long life can be gained by being satisfied with one’s possessions, so the peddler told him that the above refers to what is coming of not speaking about others badly.
Yserbius123, a very good differentiation.
When it comes to a metzorah, the live bird is dunk in the blood of the dead bird and sent away over the field. Maybe, the chirping of a bird reflects speech. There is good, allowed speech and bad, forbidden speech. The Kohen, being responsible for teaching proper behavior, is limiting the good speech not to come to bad speech by the dunking to show that we are killing some of it off and then the bird can fly freely over the field, one is free to speak.
So zacha, if he is worthy, than she will be an ezer, she will help by being kenegda, pointing out his faults in order not to have tunnel vision. Rashi says that a nega in the house was really good for him as valuables were hidden by the kenanim which he found when the house was taken apart, so it just looked like a nega, an affliction but really it was a find, a benefit to him.
On the Pri Chadash above, the Chasam Sofer explains the prayer that I should not falter in my psak making my friends happy. How can they be happy when one stumbles? They are happy that their friend did not make a mistake because they were there to correct them, similarly with the Shach above regarding the Taz where he was willing to argue to correct him. They both happened to have the same rebbi, Rebbe Reb Heshel.
You know the story with the Chayei Adam who wanted to asser potatoes and was told, you are taking away the chayei adam, person’s sustenance. The Geonim had no potatoes, so it was not assered even though we can make flower and bake with it. Maybe, a gezeira sh’ein rov hatzibur yecholim laamod bo, a prohibition that the majority cannot stand.
Jim Jones in Guiana, 1978 where 900 people killed themselves for his name is an example of a cult.
The Rambam explains that hands and other bodily comparisons of Hashem is lesaber es haozen, for our understanding. The behavior for above is similar to the behavior of comparison.
Maybe Shlomo Hamelech who says אל תצדק הרבה, don’t be too religious is warning about making Judaism a cult.
In mathematics a minus times a minus is a plus.
At Keitzad Merakdim it does say to dance with her or even in front of her but to say not to her but in front of her.
My rebbi, the Matersdorfer Rav ztz’l at my wedding, which would have been 50 years on lag baomer, did not allow the kallah to come to the men rather I was going back and forth between the men and women. There were two tables. The main table by the women and the smaller table by the men.
Speaking of tzurah the Chasam Sofer in O’CH 159 is lenient about shaving the beard.
The sefardim make a bracha on matzah the whole year mezonos and hamotzi on Pesach.
Animals have no bechira, so Yosef was happy that he was placed in the pit where scorpions were and controlled by Hashem than human beings who have a bechira as we say at tachnun Vayomer David el Gad.
Say פותח את ידך with kavonoh. The Haflaah says that ratzon means satisfaction. Being satisfied and happy with what one is given.
I have seen when davening shemonei esrei they remove it from behind the ears.
The rabbonim usually use a long gartel far from touching the kalla, so what is the question about tznius?
The Aseres Hadibros has 620 words, which encompasses all mitzvos according to the Rabbenu Bachaya in Kad Hakemach, does start with an aleph as the mitzvos protect us and unify us.
Look at the above reference to see.
Maybe, this explains why Chavah was not created first. The Torah starts with a Beis and not an Aleph. When it came to Kabolas Hatorah, the women had to accept it first.
The Baal Haikarim combines the 13 ikarim to 3. One, believing in Hashem, two, reward and punishment and three, Torah was given from Hashem. Some convert it to, belief in Hashem, Hashgacha and Uniqueness, Hashem being One, which encompass the first three brachas of shmonei esrei.
From the above posters we see that Lipa is not Lubavich.
The Abarbanel explains that ch’v to say Hilel denies the coming of Meshiach but the argument is if 40 years will be between his coming and techiyas hamesim or they will happen one after another. If the Lubatvicher still believe that their rebbi is Meshiach who is not alive any more, they must follow the view of Hilel that first will be techiyas hamesim and then the coming of Meshiach.
Lipa Shmeltzer sang Aishes Chayil at my son’s wedding as a mitzva tantz which is available on youtube when googling lipa macarena.
The order of parshiyus are like by creation where the animals where created first for the benefit of the human beings. Water and sun for the plants, plants for the animals and animals for the humans. The Klei Yakar explains that only when learning Torah, which makes us better than them, can we eat animals. That is why an am haaretz is not allowed to eat meat as Adam Harishon, who did not learn Torah, whereas Noach who learned Torah was permitted.
There is story that when a clock was brought in to the Chasam Sofer’s shul, it was broken into pieces.
If the whole nega turns white, is tahor. Why? Isn’t white a sign of tomai? The Torah does not like fakeness. When seeing one’s faults we can avoid their friendship and one can repent. When the animals are enumerated in Parashas Shemini, the pig is prohibited by mentioning first its cut hoofs. The Kli Yakar asks that is not what causes its prohibition but its lack of rechewing? He answers that by showing its cut hoofs it reveals its fakeness and adds to its issur.
When one is hungry, it is greater to teach a person how to fish than to give one a fish.
There is a differing view between the Torah and science whether the woman or the man determines gender. The Torah says that it is the woman whereas science says it is the man. Science says that the woman has two x chromosomes and the man has an x and y chromosomes. The man can either give an x or a y but the woman can only give an x. If the man gives an x, it is female or a y a male. Maybe, the woman creates the environment determining what the man gives. So it is still the woman who determines gender.