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zahavasad – Was that policy enforced?
There have been various tzadikim who’ve davened Shachris well after the normative zman, some even after chatzos. (They practiced the same principle with Mincha and Maariv.) They even did so with a minyan (i.e. they weren’t doing it alone.) What shitta(s) are they based on?
They think that if you start “preparing” for prayer at the correct time, it’s considered like you started davening on time, and once you start davening at the right time, you can continue for as long as you want without a problem.
The Machatzis HaShekel (OC 27:4) says that excessively long hair is a Chatzitza.
MB 27:15
From Revach Web site:
The halacha requires us to close our eyes when davening Shmoneh Esrei. It is brought in the Seforim that if one closes their eyes during Shmoneh Esrei, when they die they will be Zocheh to see the Shechina. However if one keeps their eyes open (not looking in a siddur) when they die they will see the truly gruesome site of the Malach HaMaves. Why is this crucial moment dependent on Shmoneh Esrei?
The purpose of this world is to mask Hashem’s presence and tempts us with false pleasures. Our job is to see past all this and discover Hashem’s presence within the world. Only this can give a person real pleasure. Those who indulge themselves in this world never learn to recognize true pleasure. Their lives are an endless pursuit of Olam Hazeh. Yet there are those who see past the fallacy of this world and its false pleasures and instead turn their attention to discovering Hashem in this world, fostering a relationship with Him despite all the distractions. They get a taste of Olam Haba while still here.
The moment of death is a transition from a world of illusion to the world of truth where nothing exists other than the presence of Hashem. For some people death means the end. They are cruelly ripped away from the only world they know how to exist in, the world of illusion. The moment of death is their scary end. They don’t see anything they recognize in their new environment and only see what they left behind and can no longer be a part of. They see the Malach HaMaves, the most horrid end of all ends, as they become prisoners in their dark grave trying to figure out how to get out.
For those who have spent their lives trying to catch a glimpse of Olam Haba, death is not death at all. It is the moment when the curtain is removed and all that they’ve strived to achieve their entire lives becomes a reality in their new found paradise. They find themselves in the pure presence of a Hashem.
A telltale sign of what is to come can be seen by the way a person davens Shmoneh Esrei. Shmoneh Esrei is an audience with Hashem that we are granted three times a day. Those who recognize the true pleasure of connecting with Hashem close their eyes and block out the distractions of this world and focus on the opportunity to connect to a world beyond. Those whose whole lives revolve around material pursuits cannot shut their eyes on the world they know and love. How can they when their vision sees nothing beyond their lowly earthly surroundings?
The yeshiva administration specifically told the bachurim that they could not taste the cholent on erev Shabbos (even a little bit, and even though the cholent was prepared for them anyway), even though halacha requires (or at least recommends) tasting the Shabbos dishes on erev Shabbos. (?)
Every hair of a Jew’s beard has extreme holiness.
Bar Shattya – According to kabbala, the hair on a Jewish males’s head should be as short as possible. This is in addition to the fact that we are concerned about having a chatzitza that hinders the proper fulfillment of the biblical commandment of donning the tefillin shel rosh.
Generally speaking, I eat meat only on the Sabbath and holidays.
“He was objecting to the fact that bachurim would go into the yeshiva kitchen on erev shabbos and help themselves to cholent.
And these bachurim were fulfilling the mitzvah of tasting the Shabbos dishes on erev Shabbos, as per the Arizal and others.
Kav HaYoshar.
“Rav Moshe addressed the Lubavitcher Rebbe in a very respectable manner.”
What does this prove? Rav Moshe addressed everyone in a very respectable manner.
This story is true.
Do a Google search or, better yet, ask Rav Belsky shlit”a.
KFB – True, but Brooklyn College has been in the news recently, in terms of the anti-Israel events that have been going on there.
I am at Brooklyn College now.
You definitely don’t need to worry about yomim tovim/ Shabbos, but you will have to make up the work that you miss.
There is a lot of anti-Israel sentiment on campus, however.
Why do you assume that everyone has a seuda waiting for them at home?
Plus, the Vilna Gaon held that to have kiddush b’makom seuda, you must wash and eat a real seuda (with bread) after Kiddush (munching on mezonos is not good enough).
You don’t WANT to bench? Are you aware that benching is a mitzvah from the Torah (if you ate to satiation)?
Remember that tosefes shabbos is an obligation from the Torah according to many Rishonim.
For the first two meals (Friday night and Shabbos morning), one should definitely eat bread. This can be challah, bagels, matzah, etc.
However, the purpose of this mitzvah is to enhance one’s oneg shabbos, not to cause pain or discomfort. Therefore, if one doesn’t feel like eating, he doesn’t have to force the bread down his throat.
In that case, to have kiddush b’makom seuda, he should eat a kezayis of mezonos (cake, etc.) or at the very least, drink an additional revi’is of wine after making/ hearing Kiddush.
From Rabbi Eli Mansour’s Web site:
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi shlita is amazing!!!
I could listen to him all day long.
Taken from revach:
Shmoneh Esrei must be said silently. When Yaaleh V’Yavo, Al HaNissim, Mashiv HaRuach, need to be added, people often say the first few words very loud in order to remind the others not to forget. Is this proper?
The Tshuvas HaRashba holds the by Maariv the Gabbai may announce Yaaleh V’Yavo after Kaddish before Shmoneh Esrei. The Maharshal argues and holds it is assur to be mafsik. Therefore he advises that the Gabbai should start Shmoneh Esrei earlier than the Tzibbur and when he gets to Yaaleh V’Yavo he should say the words Yaaleh V’Yavo very loud. From here we learn, says the Be’er Moshe (4:10) that it is permissible for anyone, not only the Gabbai, to say the words very loud in middle of Shmoneh Esrei to remind everyone to say Yaaleh V’Yavo.
He does caution that after the first person does it, no one else should do it since the purpose has already been served. The continuous screams of “Yaaleh V’Yavo” will only disturb people’s tefila and turn davening into a big joke
Where is Moshiach ben Dovid?
potato kugel
You should ideally NOT play scrabble on Shabbos. (Just google “playing scrabble on Shabbos.”)
Chazal made a decree prohibiting the playing of games where writing is part of its regular activity [Chayei Adam 38:11; see, however, Bris Olom Kosev 13 page 45 who does not know where the Chayei Adam got this from). Therefore, one may not play Scrabble or any other game where people usually keep score. [Refer to Tiltulei Shabbos page 25 footnote 24, Igros Moshe O.C. 5:22:14.] Poskim permit playing chess on Shabbos even though some people write down their moves. This is permitted because most people do not write down their moves.
If the game involves placing the pieces in a frame to hold them together then it would be forbidden to play with
one does not place the pieces in a frame to hold them in place.
Tiltulei Shabbos page 25, Nishmas Shabbos 6:419.][Shalmei Yehuda 5:footnote 5.]
Rabbi Pinchas Scheinberg zatzal permitted playing Scrabble on Shabbos as long as you are EXTREMELEY careful not to c”v write down the score.
In truth, however, you should spend the Shabbos LEARNING TORAH!
hey, you can always look forward to the holiest and most coveted of days – Shaboos.
be mekabel shabbos 5 minutes early (if possible)
learn more Torah
be more careful with lashon hara
scream “Omein. Yehay shamy rabba.”
the minhag is chutz la’aretz is to light indoors.
I think about Torah in the bathroom all the time. i know it’s wrong, but i can’t stop myself from doing it.
I learned this on the aish hatorah web site. however, words of Torah are not included in the count. Words of Torah do NOT shorten your life c”v. They actually prolong it.
Opening a Shabbosdik book with letters is not a problem, but the M”B brings that there is a minhag to be stringent – unless there are no other seforim available (in which case we are more concerned with the aveira of bittul torah than a minhag).
Carrying a burning candle is not only muktzah but also a melacha, but the candle burns better if you lift it up.
Rav Moshe muttars shaving with an electrical razor.
1) lashon hara
2) pedophilia and cover-ups r”l