Reb Eliezer

Forum Replies Created

Viewing 50 posts - 1,901 through 1,950 (of 8,854 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • in reply to: Do you think you would be a good politician? #2068483
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Yosef being a leader was niftar before any of the other shevatim having to worry about the needs of all.

    in reply to: Hand Matzos vs Machine Matzos #2068481
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Joynny, I appreciate your outright comment indicating your ignorance by making all who eat machine matzos considered eating chametz on Pesach.

    in reply to: Do you think you would be a good politician? #2068448
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    A politician has to stretch the truth which I am reluctant to do.

    in reply to: Vayikra 3 – Worth Its Salt: #2068438
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    abukspan, why do you repeat the same dvar Torah twice under a different title?

    in reply to: Classics and Beyond Vayikra – Worth Its Salt: #2068439
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Salt indicates also not to be stingy as Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt because of not providing salt to the poor. We don’t appreciate salt as we should but when take it away, we come to realize what we are missing.

    in reply to: recent read #2068311
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    He might have had another illness and COVID was just the finishing touch.

    in reply to: Short & Sweet #2068296
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    It says זבחי אלקים רוח נשברה the purpose of a sacrifice is to break our spirit to realize the sin and whatever is being done to it should be done to us.

    in reply to: Classics and Beyond Vayikra – Worth Its Salt: #2068295
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    We should remember that salt water is like tears and salt softens the meat as pain softens the sins but too much salt destroys the meat.

    in reply to: JOKES #2068290
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    The translation of the above is, to rely and put your trust on tzadikim.

    in reply to: JOKES #2068279
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    I heard from Rav Sheinberg the interpretation of the bracha משען ומבטח לצדיקים, as he was holding on to me and considering me a tzadik.

    in reply to: Looking for Chavrusa #2068126
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    I can become a chavrusa on the telephone.

    in reply to: Zechiras Amolek #2068055
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Killing civilians who are not part of the war is achzoriyos and I don’t think the Netziv will approve of it as we find by ihr hanidachas. Being an achzor, killing out the whole city, had to come with a blessing of mercy in order not to learn from it.

    in reply to: Zechiras Amolek #2068044
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    You did not translate the above Netziv correctly who says if being a time of hatred and a time to kill, does not get punished, However if there is no reason for hatred, it is not a time to kill and therefore, should be punishment.

    in reply to: Ukraine Fundraisers #2068041
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    The above is a recent update of the Ukrainian refugees distribution.

    in reply to: Zechiras Amolek #2068034
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Even according to the Netziv does it apply to an unprovoked invasion?

    in reply to: Zechiras Amolek #2068031
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    The Chasam Sofer explains the passage תלמידי חכמים מרבים שלום בעולם, our sages spread peace to the world, such that there is a fixed number of battles set aside in this world. If it is used in the battle of Torah arguments, then there will be less actual battles in the world.

    in reply to: Ukraine Fundraisers #2068018
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Poland 1,204,403
    Hungary 191,348
    Romania 143,000
    Slovakia 140,745
    Czech more than
    100,000
    Moldova 82,762
    Germany 30,000
    France 2,500
    UK 300 and 17,700 visas exanined

    in reply to: JOKES #2068015
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant
    in reply to: Clarity: Ukraine, bloody Nazi past and the current innocent #2067938
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    The year for the Nazis ym’s is 1938-45 or maybe 1933-45.

    in reply to: Zechiras Amolek #2067925
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    We have to destroy amolek to annihilate the bad midos they had.

    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Rashi says when Hashem listened to Yitzchak over Rivkah as Yitzchak is a tzadik ben tzadik whereas Rivkah is a tzadekes bas rasha. Maybe as Yitzchak coming from a tzadik would have the value of 2 whereas Rivka from a rasha, 1 1/2. So 2>1 1/2.

    in reply to: Commemorating Mosheh Rabbenu for Zayin Ador #2067912
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    We commemorate the Yahr Zeit of Moshe Rabbenu on the second Adar because it is related to Purim. Haman ym’s did not know that he was niftar on zayin adar as he was also born that day.

    in reply to: Yom Kippur like Purim #2067911
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    We find the comparison in תיקוני זוהר (נז,ב) – Tekunei Zohar (57,2).

    in reply to: Zechiras Amolek #2067871
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Avira, I said that because of my personal experiences remembering the Hungarian Revolution.
    We escaped Sopron, Hungary as refugees in the beginning of 1957 being 9 years old. There was no yiddishkeit left when all other Jews escaped and there was no minyan anymore, so even though they did not target the Jews directly, the effect was the same.

    in reply to: Yom Kippur like Purim #2067861
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    The Berdichever ztz’l explains that when we are happy doing teshuva, mitzvas and maasim tovim, we make Hashem also happy and כל הפושט יד נותנים לו, so one who stretches his hand towards the Heaven will be answered as Yom Kippur where teshuva is done from fear.

    in reply to: Megillas Esther Interpretation #2067698
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    We read the megilla both at night and daytime which teaches us that there is always a silver lining and bad will turn to good when trusting Hashem but it is the darkest before the dawn.

    in reply to: Zechiras Amolek #2067692
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Russia has turned itself into Amolek.

    in reply to: Yom Kippur like Purim #2067691
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    We need to do teshuva on Purim from joy.

    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Rabbi Akiva was not selected as the nasi as he had no zechus avos, attributing one’s greatness to the father which leads to gaiva.

    in reply to: Vayikro the Small Aleph #2067687
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Moshe Rabbenu wanted to show by the small aleph that he is not better than Aharon who could not constantly enter the Kodshei Kodoshim.

    in reply to: So you voted for Biden #2067674
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    The Republicans don’t help the poor by saying let them sink and swim. The democrats don’t force abortions or go after taiva.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2067535
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Look at the GRA on Yonah. The jugs refer to Chanukah recognizing the importance of the light of Torah in galus. When we are sent to earth we are mixed with the goyim and must fight them as Yaakov Avinu fought Eisov and his malach.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2067509
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Sam Klein, the sitra achra makes this coincidences to turn Jews away from yiddishkeit by showing that the goyim have some strength as Hashem does imply anything under the influence of tuma. The Satmar Rav ztz’l says that the eigel came out from the koach of the sitra achra.

    in reply to: Davening on purim #2067445
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Purim demonstrates that Hashem has us in mind even when we are sinning as Vashti was judged for execution in the middle of us taking part of Ahashveroshes meal.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2067441
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    לולב is 68 gematria חיים and אתרוג with the כולל is 611 gematria תורה as two mitzvas were directly heard from Hashem.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2067432
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    We don’t use incorrect secular dates to make gematrios to learn any mussar. Use Jewish dates. אל תפנו אל האלילים ושם אלהים אחרים לא ישמע על פיך

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2066926
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    For the Jews there is a difference between the first month of the year is Tishri and the first month is Nissan as lehavedil there is difference between the first month of the fiscal year and the first month of the year.

    in reply to: Hashgachos #2066845
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    See Yechaveh Daas (3,56) from Rav Ovadya Yosef ztz’l explaining in great detail the requirement for chalak, glatt shechita when it comes to the lungs, so it does not apply to fowl.

    in reply to: Ashkenazim eating Beit Yosef hashgacha #2066839
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    See Yechaveh Daas (3,56) from Rav Ovadya Yosef ztz’l who explains in great detail the requirement for chalak, glatt shechita.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2066837
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    A new year by the Jews starts by the 7th month and not after the 12th month. It is like lehavdil by the goyim a fiscal year starts from July and not January. So, even though the months are counted from Nissan, the years are counted from Tishri, no contradiction.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2066830
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Sam Klein, whether you like it or not, 9-11 does not reflect Tisha B’av as Av is not the 11th month, period. Saying that you are violating that months are counted from Nissan. Look at Jermiah (52, 12) describing Tisha B’av referring to it as the fifth month the tenth day. Rabbi Yochanan says that if he would have been there, he would have dsignated the tenth day but by us the beginning of punishment is more painful. The Chasam Sofer explains that even though most of the Beis Hamikdash burned on the tenth but when they started on the ninth to apply fire to it, was a kodeshdige bayis but once fire caught on, a chukindige bayis burned.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2066730
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    So, Av is the 5th month and not the 11th month. We start counting months from Nissan and not from Tishri whereas Jewish years are counted from Tishri and not from Nissan.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2066725
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Sam Klein, the world was created the 25th of Elul and Adam Harishon was created the sixth day of creation, Rosh Hashanah and the Torah calls it the seventh month the first day, Bamidmar 29,1 in Parashas Pinchas we designate the new year from then. The Torah does not call it the first month.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2066610
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Sam Klein, show me one place in Tenach where the months are counted from Tishri.

    in reply to: Easy Money #2066257
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Sam Klein what you are saying is a halacha in Shulchan Aruch O’CH 231 to do our mundane things for Hashem’s sake.

    in reply to: Is zelensky jewish? #2066122
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    goldpen, no one said that Trump is a nazi but by not speaking up he ends up giving them strength and supporting them.

    in reply to: Short & Sweet #2066118
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    It says to make a mikdash and Hashem will rest among them where it does not say among it. The holy Shlah says that every individual should make himself a mikdash, so it makes sense to have to account what we do with our mikdash.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2066060
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Sam Klein, generations change, they pass their baton to the next generation as it says in Koheles
    דור הולך ודור בא as pointed out eloquently by GH all gedolim above were around a hundred in age. No one should pass on any younger. It says שוב יום אחד לפני מותך repent a day before your last day. I once heard an explanation what would a person do if one knew that this is one’s last day that was returned by getting a reprieve? So one should see every day as such.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2066019
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    When tzadikim pass on it is a wake up call as we are not worthy to be in their company and by comparison get hurt by them as we see by Chanoch who was taken away early.

    in reply to: Is It A Coincidence? #2066012
    Reb Eliezer
    Participant

    Everyone agrees that the physical creation of Adam Harishon was done Rosh Hashana so we start to account for our sins then but the months are counted from Nissan.

Viewing 50 posts - 1,901 through 1,950 (of 8,854 total)