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Tisha Beov became the commemorative day for the holocaust when we say on it extra kinus.
June 11, 2023 7:19 pm at 7:19 pm in reply to: Grocery that gets rid of all Chometz before Pesach #2198687Reb EliezerParticipantThis is a derabonon so I don’t know if the rule of being half on fixed bitul applies.
Reb EliezerParticipantBTW, the Chesed Fund above allows to pay in small installments.
June 11, 2023 11:01 am at 11:01 am in reply to: Classics and Beyond Shelach — Challah and Terumah: #2198609Reb EliezerParticipantIt also indicates to dedicate our children to the service of Hashem .as katan hamunach bearish({wagon),
Reb EliezerParticipantDownload https://hebrewbooks.org/37858 written by Rav Moshe Hanover from that time ת’ח ות’ט 1648-49.
Reb EliezerParticipantObviously your first responsibility is to your own shul.
Reb EliezerParticipantAlways, the Hungarian rabbonim made an edict that the day should be designated as the niftarim whose yahrzeit is not known.
June 7, 2023 4:07 pm at 4:07 pm in reply to: Classics and Beyond Behaaloscha – True Humility #2197582Reb EliezerParticipantMods, should be above wanted to hear.
June 7, 2023 4:06 pm at 4:06 pm in reply to: Grocery that gets rid of all Chometz before Pesach #2197578Reb EliezerParticipantThe chamets sold before Pesach should be batel in the chametz bought after Pesach.
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June 7, 2023 12:22 pm at 12:22 pm in reply to: Classics and Beyond Behaaloscha – True Humility #2197542Reb EliezerParticipantThe Midrash Shmuel explains כל מחלוקת לשם שמים סופו להתקיים all arguments for a Divine purpose will eventually stand. Who wants an argument to stand? The Beis Hilel because of their humility wanted to her the Beis Shamai’s view first to see an opposite view in order not to stumble by having tunnel vision. Thereby the Beis Shamai also became praise worthy as they helped the Beis Hillel to arrive to the truth. Leosid Lova we will pasken like the Beis Shamai as currently we don’t understand their stringent views but then we will gain a new understanding and the majority will follow them.
Reb EliezerParticipantMy rebbi said to make zahav tahor, pure gold. Everyone judges accoding to what they see.
Reb EliezerParticipantארון נושא את עצמו, as the kohanim where happy to carry the Aron, the Aron made itself light by carrying itself so as not to be a burden.
Reb EliezerParticipantIt says ורדפו מכם חמשה מאה ומאה מכם רבבה ירדופו, five chases a hundred and a hundred chases ten thousand. Asks Rashi it does not add up? Five to a hundred is twenty whereas a hundred to ten thousand is a hundred. Rashi answers that it is not similar when a majority perform. In English it is called synergy. More accomplish more. The whole is greater than the sum of all its parts.
Reb EliezerParticipantYou mean the more united we are as there is no such thing as the more echad either we are echad or not.
Reb EliezerParticipantThis unification explains the statement ישראל ואורייתא וקב’ה חד הוא Hashem and Yisrael through the Torah (which teaches us to love each other) becomes One.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Raavad sometimes uses a harsh language on the Rambam to discourage relying completely on the Rambam.
May 30, 2023 11:35 pm at 11:35 pm in reply to: Classics and Beyond Nasso — Talking to Yourself: Rabbi Avraham Bukspan #2194205Reb EliezerParticipantThere is a story where there was a grandfather, father and son. The father fed his father in a wooden plate figuring that a china plate he might break. When the grandfather passed on, the father want it to throw out. So the son said, father don’t throw it out as we need it for you. The Rav Abarbanel explains on honoring the parent, the children will follow how the father behaves towards his father. If the father honors his father, his children will honor him.
May 30, 2023 10:39 pm at 10:39 pm in reply to: Chabad Inspires all Jews to Yearn for Mashiach #2194203Reb EliezerParticipantThe reason we don’t know how to build it as there is a contradiction between Melachim and Yecheskel and we don’t know which to follow.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe most important to us is the separation of church and state.
May 30, 2023 10:26 am at 10:26 am in reply to: Chabad Inspires all Jews to Yearn for Mashiach #2193945Reb EliezerParticipantThe Aim Habanim Semacha quotes the Yerushalmi Masser Sheni (5,2) mentioned by the Tosfas Yom Tov there that we must build the Beis Hamikdash before the coming of meshiach.
The problem is that Eliyahu Hanavi must come first as we don’t know how to build it.Reb EliezerParticipantשמע ישראל the holy Shlah explains that the word שמע emanates from וישמע שאול את העם Shaul united the nation, so unite Yisrael and that we all believe in Hashem that He is One brings us together.
Reb EliezerParticipantWe can demonstrate this where all the Jews are on a circle and Hashem is in the center. Through loving each other, we bring the points of the circle closer together creating a smaller and smaller circle such that eventually it will unite and be one with the center.
Reb EliezerParticipantChasidishe yeshivas learn in yiddish as I did.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Sefer Chagvei Haselah explains that the Torah starts with a beis as the world was created with differences but the Aseres Hadibros reflecting the mitzvas of Torah unite us, so it starts with an aleph.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Torah cannot be learned or performed without unity. Also one must be united with oneself not be two-faced and then can be united with others.
Reb EliezerParticipantTorah shebaal peh, the oral law was also given at Har Sinai which was heard should be as clear the written law which is seen. The Rabbenu Bachaya gives a parable where a king wanted to be sure that his servants don’t take advantage of the rewards when commanding his son, so his said certain explanations orally. The Chasam Sofer gives another parable where a father has a goldmine which he wanted to give to his smallest child. He teaches him the act of goldmining and divides it equally but since the others did not know what to do with it, it automatically fell for the youngest child. The written law is the goldmine and the oral law the act of goldmining. This is like the Midrash Tanchuma where the Jews where given the written law and had to be forced on the oral law. The goyim never accepted the written law, so there was no reason to force them. Can also be that the Jews originally accepted the Torah with full will and then reneged by being scared from the great fire as explained by Tosfas but the goyim only questioned what the Torah contains and accepted nothing.
Reb EliezerParticipantBishul Akum applies on something raw but this is cooked and it only needs to be reheated.
Reb EliezerParticipantHe needs a mirror not for the haircut which the barber sees but that he should not cut his neck.
Reb EliezerParticipantSee heyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/299250/halachic-analysis-eiruv-tavshilin.html
Reb EliezerParticipantשלחו מתם הזהרו במנהג אבותיכפ look at the second day yom tov when currently we know the calculations and we still keep it as we are afraid that a wicked kingdom might make us forget it. דזימנן דגזרו המלכות גזירה ואתי לקלקלי. The Chasan Sofer says that to follow a minhag, a custom is so important that it can break a heavenly decree.
Reb EliezerParticipantSee the RMA SA O’CH 339,3 and the MB there s’k 8,9,10
May 23, 2023 4:52 pm at 4:52 pm in reply to: Dee threatens to sue CNN over horrific Amanpour’s words #2192677Reb EliezerParticipantMay 23, 2023 11:55 am at 11:55 am in reply to: Remembering My Rebbi, Mattersdorfer Rav, Rav Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld ztz”l #2192570Reb EliezerParticipantMy rebbi was a talmid of his brother in law Rav Paler ztz’l.
May 23, 2023 9:00 am at 9:00 am in reply to: Remembering My Rebbi, Mattersdorfer Rav, Rav Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld ztz”l #2192539Reb EliezerParticipantAs a talmid of Rav Paler ztz’l, a taste of the yeshiva in the understanding of the meaning of שומע כעונה where it cannot mean that hearing is like saying as if one says what they hear at megilla leining as there is a problem of where is the sefer, the megilla? So it must be that one is saying not his own words but the words that the baal koreh is saying who has a megilla. Rav Noach Isaac Shlita, also a talmid, points out that by birchas kohaim where one kohen can be motzei another but he must lift his hand as this is not a requirement of the mitzva but a personal physical requirement.
May 23, 2023 9:00 am at 9:00 am in reply to: Remembering My Rebbi, Mattersdorfer Rav, Rav Shmuel Ehrenfeld, ztz’l #2192524Reb EliezerParticipantThe 43rd yahrzeit will be this Shabbos.
Reb EliezerParticipantDon’t forget to make Eiruv Tavshilin.
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Reb EliezerParticipantThe Rav Haflaah explains why they overslept kabolas Hatorah. It says by Korach that the same way as you were unable to make from the day night so can you cannot change this. When did they want to make from the day night? The Jews held that before the acceptance of Torah they were considered a Benei Noach were the day starts from netz hachama, sunrise whereas by the Hashem says that the days starts at alos hashachar, the rise of the morning star. He waited for them at that time but they did not recognize it as the start of the day thinking that it is still night.
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Reb EliezerParticipantWhat is interesting when the goyim ask what is written in the Torah, Hashem tells them exactly what they don’t like, Esav don’t kill, Yishmoel, don’t commit adultery and so on? Maybe we can explain this with a mashel, parable from the Dubner Maggid on the rasha in the Hagadah. A man only had enough money for yom tov needs. He sees on the street a nice suit being sold. He likes it so much that he spends his money on it. His wife gets upset that he spent his money of yom tov and tells him to take it back. He tells the dealer to give him back the money as there is a fault in it. He gives him back the money without any question. The customers around are surprised why he did not offer him an exchange. He explains that I happen to understand that this customer regrets the purchase and the fault found is just an excuse to get the money returned. Similarly over here, the goyim want an excuse not to accept the Torah by finding a fault, so Hashem provides it to them.
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Reb EliezerParticipantכי ה’ נתן לנו כח לעשות חיל Hashem gives us the abilities, mind and understanding to mechadesh something in the Torah. The Chasam Sofer explains that a person is not allowed to say something new. All chidushim are hidden in the Torah and we are given the abilities to find them. The Rav Haflaah in Parashas Bo says that a kashye, a question comes from a Devine intervention, a siyata dishmaya which is usually required to get the hidden Torah revealed. He gives a parable to a simple person who is given a diamond. What am I going to do with it? As he likes gold, goes to a goldsmith to cover it in gold. The goldsmith being no expert, leaves some holes. The simple person only sees the gold. However the smart person sees the diamond under the gold. The kashye gets us to see the diamond underneath the gold.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Binah Leitim explains איזהו עשיר השמח בחלקו, to be truly happy, we must share our wealth by making others also happy. All qualities in the mishna is a poel yotzei, something done to others. איזהו חכם הלומד מכל אדם. It says מתלמידי יותר מכולם, when one teaches, he learns. איזהו מכובד המכבד את הבריות it does not say המכבדים אותו, who is honored as he has no control over being honored.
May 17, 2023 4:12 pm at 4:12 pm in reply to: Remembering My Rebbi, Mattersdorfer Rav, Rav Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld ztz”l #2191318Reb EliezerParticipantShould be above Shem Mishmuel reflecting Rav Shmuel’s ztz’l grandfather, the Chasan Sofer whose name was also Shmuel ztz’l. His sefer Chasan Sofer was named in respect to his father Rav Dovid Zvi Ehrenfeld ztz’l who was the son in law of the Chasam Sofer ztz’l. It also stands for חידושי תורת נכד סופר.
There heard a story where he was a business man with a grocery store. The customers were impressed as he and his son were arguing on a Meharsha.May 16, 2023 5:44 pm at 5:44 pm in reply to: Remembering My Rebbi, Mattersdorfer Rav, Rav Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld ztz”l #2191064Reb EliezerParticipantRosh Chodash Sivan will be the fifth yahrzeit.
Reb EliezerParticipantRebbi Akiva says ואהבת לרעך כמוך זה כלל גדול בתורה. When it comes to learning or doing mitzvos, loving each other helps in its performance.
Reb EliezerParticipantI just listened to a presentation of AI and came to the conclusion that there is no a’z involved as it cannot do currently what humans cannot do except for speed. Do not worship the technology.
Reb EliezerParticipantCan a computer with AGI solve the halting problem?
Reb EliezerParticipantA human being creates data a computer uses data.
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