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If Iran goes nuclear it would actually get Europe in Israel’s side
Is it genevah of both the shoes and also the money you paid for your child to enjoy camp?
it is possible that there will be a war in the middle east but not necessarily one that will involve Israel directly
or you could wear climbing boots in the shower
Try
– the World of Prayer (English)/ Olam ha’Tefillah (Hebrew)
– Chofetz Chaim al ha’Siddur
– Boruch Sheomar (perush on siddur)
– Siddur Ha’Gra – Ishei Yisrael
that is chashuv
that would be keneged dais torah
According to Rb Mordechai Gifter z”l judaism is not a religion – religious connotes conformity – keeping the Torah is not conformation to a set of rules. It is a logical mode of life. Therefore the Torah is not scared of information which is derived from the vernacular of different times and places.
Reb Moshe z”l was frequently matir mamzerim on the grounds that their parents initial eidei kiddushin were probably not kosher le’edus
Sam2 – according to your logic the Torah is over on chukkas hagoy by saying yegar sahadusoh
nitpicker – “suggest avoiding marriage with him her” – the Steipler says if you see the person is frum this obviously does not apply becuase the inyan of pagum is ubarosi mikem es hamordim uposheim be – elu benei osnas mashgach – the nun being nidah – so if you see the person is not mordim bi then they are perforce not pagum
Reb Leib Gurwicz z”l said if you are on seforim tidy-up roster and you’re going round the beis hamedrash collecting seforim to put them away then you do not need to be makpid on the order the seforim are in. Otherwise you would have to be.
if you get up early enough on Friday morning in the summer you can drive to the Lake District, go for a walk and drive back in time for shabbos!
hashoel es hachacham eino maphsid
But then lemai naphkah minah? Kol hamerachem al achzorim sofo le’achzer al rachmonim. It is assur to empathise with such a person
Sam2 – to Reb Moshe it just could not be – so the rishon could not have said it becuase he could not argue on the rishon, that’s all. i.e. that is Reb Moshe’s deah regardless of the rishon, like it or lump it
no teasing intended – compare to kovetz mamorim from Reb Elchonon – he says every person has the bechirah to be able to not do the things that the Torah says they should not do – he includes goyim for the 7 mitzvos benei noach – which includes retzichah
Sam2 – Reb Chaim Ozer said about Reb Moshe and his brother – I have heard there are 2 brothers deep in Russia who learn torah as it was learned 100 years ago – the Netziv etc were not meshubad to the rishonim
funny we seem to have been surviving for the past 3000 years without pre-marital therapy
Reb Moshe argues on rashi and the meiri by saying it is impossible they wrote this / could have meant this
I only take superman as daas torah
Kozov – refer to Rational Irrational Man (which has a haskmoh from Reb Moshe – if my memory serves me correctly). He says that the American idea of extenuating emotional circumstances and the Torah’s idea of extenuating emotional circumstances is rachok mizrach mimaarav.
If a person can sanguinely sit in court a day after murdering innocent people – this is not the shoteh which the halacha might exonerate from responsibility.
host a rayah?
takke mamash
What is the difference between tzedakah and chesed?
have you tried coffee and vodka?
Are you sure? that means that you are saying that you have a more accurate understanding of reality than the Torah
When Liszt met Tchaikofsky he was impressed by how mournful he was
Sam2 – it’s true in regards to certain interpersonal relationships – that is incredibly unlikely. It is not physically possible to have a true interpersonal relationship if you are arrogant
there seems to be a lot of kefirah in bechirah in this thread
Is this the Internet?
Too complicated for my poor brain, we have an Einstein on the far right hand side of the family tree but not sure if connected to Albert
There was a bird flying around in the beis hamedrash in Gateshead Yeshiva – someone said to Reb Leib Gurwicz – maybe it’s a dibbuk. He said, maybe it’s a bird
“should follow in the footsteps of the Avos” – “it’s dafka the reason why he doesn’t feel good about himself, bc I saw him as ‘better’ than he ‘really was’, and he could never live up to my image of him”
Here I go again.. 🙂
It is impossible for a person to be like the avos. We say in davening every morning, ribbon kol ha’olamim – lo al tzidkaseinu anachnu mapilim tachanunei lephanechah – aval anachnu benei Avraham, Yitzchak ve’Yaakov
The Vilna Gaon and Rash said this. Their deeds were like nothing compared to the deeds of the avos.
The gemara says ‘chayav kol adam lomar masai yagiu maasai lemaasei avosai Avraham Yitzchak ve’Yaakov’ – a person is obligated to say to themselves – when will my actions reach the actions of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov.
Rb Yitzchak Blazer z”l in Kochvei Ohr explains the gemara means that you have to shoot for a star, becuase that will always keep you going, but it does not mean that you will be perfect like the avos.
You cannot tell your child he is the star or is like the star becuase then you have doomed them to failure. They can never be like the avos, that is impossible for them. The avos are a picture of perfection for the Jewish people, we cannot form our self image by judging ourselves against their madregah becuase that would destroy our self-belief.
We have to raise our children to be proud of us, of their grandparents and their personal family heritage. Rb Binyamin Zilber z”l said that the obligation to be samech be’chelko does not only apply to material acquisition – it applies to who we are and to our station in life. If my father is a baal tzedakah, then I am proud that he is a baal tzedakah! I don’t say, oh no, but he wasn’t Reb Chaim Ozer Grodzenski or Reb Yisroel Salanter or the Baba Sali!
Reb Chaim Schmuelevitz said that the obligation of kibbud av ve’em means that you should understand the point in your parents in which your parents are the greatest people in the world, becuase every person in the world is the greatest in one sweet point which is the core of their competency in this world.
Of course he could never live up to the expectation, it is an impossible expectation!
BTW did he ever meet his grandparents?
What has he heard about his family / grandparents whose footsteps he might follow?
Rebbi Akiva Eiger told the man – vekoneh es atzmah bishnei derachim beget uvemisas habaal – the man walked out of the court fell over the step and was killed
the man’s family sued Rebbi Akiva Eiger
a) Are you going to the siyum hashas?
b) No
a) Why not, you went to the Internet asifa?
b) Well I sometimes look at the Internet
I take a shower in my robe
lack of motivation – normally kids become what they have been brought up to be expected to become as part of their heritage – as Dr J Sacks says – they want to be anothert letter in the scroll.
So they may be expected to become a doctor, an athlete, jet-fghter pilot etc. It can happen that parents decide against their own heritage in which case they suppress the subtle messages that express their expectations about their children becoming what their grandparents / great-grandparents are or were.
Even in a teenage rebellion where the child is developing their sense of ‘I’ (which when they grow older will again become part of the ‘we’ (we jews, we robinsons, we french..) they will still be aware of their destiny. But if they have none there is no regulator
the igros moshe says bechi hai gavna if you missed sefirah you can’t count becuase it’s tomorrow for you and I guess you can’t untomorrow it
One of the points of discussion when the Mir was on the trans-Siberia train to Shanghai for 3 weeks was if you could flush the toilet on shabbos, but that is different becuase the waste goes straight on to the track
lol, der Berliner
The passuk says – ki shem Hashem ekra havu godel le’lokeinu – when I call in the name of Hashem, render greatness to our G-d
Alternatively, this passuk can be transalated – give a thumb to our G-d, but then the kashe is – why would you give a thumb to G-d?
The way the decision was made which cohen would get an avodah in the beis hamikdash was that the cohanim would stand in a circle and each raise a finger. The cohen in charge would stand in the centre and count round in a circle looking at the fingers to know which cohen he was up to. The cohen that he finished on got that avodah.
The mishna says in Yoma – ein motziin egodel bamikdash – The cohanim may not present a thumb to be counted becuase then they could also hold up their small finger and be counted twice and therefore have double the chance of getting the avodah.
This applies to a human in charge of allocating the avodah – however Hashem does not make mistakes therefore havu godel lelokeinu – you may present your thumb to Hashem when coming to daven shemone esrei which reminds us of the avodah.
Agree 101% with nossond
Hope the following does not offend anyone’s sensibilities
You are telling me that he grew up in a normal home and now he has gone haywire. That he grew up in a normal home implies that he is normal, if so, why has he gone haywire?
A possible suggestion is that every person in every stage of their lives knows what they are working towards and has an image in their mind of what they want to be, soldier, sailor, tinker, married, single, wealthy, poor, rosh yeshiva etc.
The above is why kids – go to university, hang out with friends with similar lifeplans, etc., birds of a feather flock together.
If it is not possible to comprehend what he is doing it sounds like it may actually be incompregensible, i.e. he has no inner logical plan of where his life is heading
A friend of mine was in Reb Yisochor Meir’s office, he heard him say, yes, yes, yes, and then he banged the phone down.
He asked him what happened, he said, someone called him up about a bochur for a shidduch, they asked him is he a masmid, can he learn, does he have good middos, then they asked him if the bochur was handsome
These things seem to change with time and klal yisroel’s experience. The rambam says it is apikorsus to say Hashem has a body – the Raavad says gedolim ve’tovim mimenu said Hashem does have a body – we would side with the Rambam – probably becuase of our experiences with Christianity
An oldie but a goodie..
When the benei yisrael travelled, the mishkan was not re-assembled in the same place that it was dismantled.
Nevertheless there is an opinion in shabbos 31 that with regards to the melacha of soser (destroying a building), you are only chayav if it is soser al menos livnos bimekomo – you will rebuild the building in the same place.
Seeing as we learn the 39 melachos from the mishkan – and seeing that reagrding the mishkan, the structure was not rebuilt in the same place – how could this be a limitation in the melacha?
The answer is that seeing as the benei yisroel travelled with the shechina – they were always ‘in the same place’ – next to the shechina. Their physical location was inconsequential to them compared to their closeness to Hashem.