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There are prints of the Rishonim (Rif, Rashi, Rambam, Rabbenu Tam, Rosh, Tur, etc…) still available.
Worst: Swahili. Favorite: Lashon HaKodesh & Aramaic
“Today felt so much like Monday that I even said long tachanun” Which implies that tomorrow will feel like a Tuesday. Just be careful you don’t make the day after that into a Wednesday!
Now that is hilarious.
Seriously, what was in your coffee this morning? Laughing Gas?
Thank you yichusdik.
I had a chance to check online and found out that hebrewbooks.org has the first 9 volumes for d-load. I used my above mentioned sefer (compiled & written by R’ Avraham Meir Weiss, published Bnei Brak, 5769) as well as Shem HaGedolim by the Chid”a (we have a tradition that I am a descendant of the Chid”a) in my genealogical work. Sefer Yochasin is useful for pre-Geonic lineage. Sometimes little fragments of yichus/history are found in other seforim, not necessarily biographical. Hatzlacha Rabba with your research.
Hi Yichusdik. The sefer that you quoted; is it still available/in print?
Hi yaff80.
I just happened to look through my copy of the Sefer Shemot Chachamim, and the following is a loose translation.
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Rabbenu Yom Tov moved from France to England towards the end of his life (and it is thought that he moved after the petira of Rabbenu Tam).
Tosafot Yoma 48a praises him as HaKadosh Rabbenu Yom Tov. Rav Shimshon MiShanz also brings his Chiddushim and praises him with great honour.
He was niftar Al Kiddush HaShem during the crusades that massacred the residents of York.
“A very machmir rov told me years ago that there was no problem buying a cup of coffee … variety of traif food.”
Did he (the rov) himself buy and drink a cup of coffee at this establishment?
“There is no issue of tevilas keilim unless the keilim are owned by a Jew.”
Sadly, there are McD franchises owned by Jews (obviously not yet frum).
Hi. As for the coffee aspect; probably all the keilim (meat and dairy and then some) are all washed together with some kind of soap (that who knows where that comes from) and then on top of everything, I don’t think Tevilat Keilim was on the radar of the establishment’s directives.
Of course, always ask your L.O.R.
In terms of Maras Ayin, I have walked into a non-kosher establishment with my Tzitzis sticking out, reciting LeShem Yichud … invoking the name HaVaYa, Hineini Muchan U’Mezuman LeKayem … the need to use the little boys room.
Most places sell bottled/canned drinks with an appropriate Hechsher.
As with many situations, always ask your LOR and proceed with caution.
Great Tzaddikim would be very careful not to speak when wearing even one Tefilla. Whether it’s truly assur or not, speak to your L.O.R. It seems from your question that you are taking the Tefillin off at the end of Shachris and having just taken off the Shel Rosh, you need to say something, your Tefilla Shel Yad is still on. If so, my eitza (check with your Rav!) would be to tuck your shirt underneath the Bayit (Shel Yad) so that now there is a Chatzitza between the Bayit and the arm, which technically means you are not wearing it…
“I think that the general daas of husbands davening kabalas Shabbos early is not to be mikabel Shabbos for their wife so the wife can light as late as she wants (up to shkia)”
It is a Machlokes HaPoskim. Rav Moshe Feinstein (& I think the Debreciner Rav) holds that when a husband is mekabel Shabbos early, it doesn’t affect the wife and the wife can do melacha and licht right up to 18 minutes before Shkia (NOT at SHKIA).
Other contemporary poskim hold that when a husband says Barchu, the wife (& other family members) is nigrar and ‘shlepped’ to start shabbos at that time.
I would venture to say it starts with memory (short term) …
sefardi tahor – Thank you for asking. Staying too long in a mikveh prevents others from entering — could constitute geneiva or gezeila. Stealing isn’t simply a matter of money or physical objects, it could entail IMHO stealing time, space, credit or honor due to a person. The mikveh I attend holds 4 adults at any given time.
I have seen it brought down to tovel 4 times to metaken the Shem HaVaYa (one dip in each direction) and that is how I am noheg. Others dip twice, one to release the ‘weekday clothes’ and the 2nd for entering Shabbos/Yom Tov.
It seems to me that dipping far too many times in a (public) mikveh could border on an Issur D’Oraisa if other people are waiting.
From the wording of the question, it is the change of domains, not the change of clothes. Shaatnez would indicate that you would have to remove your garment immediately, not necessarily leave the house. I still maintain my original answer from a pasuk in Nasso, that a Zav/Tzarua has to leave the Machane.
Tzaru’a/Zav/Tamei L’Chol Nefesh? (Sedra Nasso)
I too have seen this at Chasunas where the Chosson is from Hungarian stock. Very curious because no one provided me an answer when I asked around. What is more curious is that when a kever of someone from Moroccan stock is visited (after the week, shloshim, year), a relative of the deceased spreads a raincoat (though not exclusively black) over the grave.
Perhaps, it’s best to see everyday as a Yom for Yerushalayim:
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Thank you ZeesKite. There may actually be room to be stringent when it specifically comes to the Tikkun Leyl Shavu’os (if that is your practice) since it was designed specifically for the night of Shavu’os and if an intentional prayer/declaration (e.g., LeShem Yichud ..) is said beforehand.
Otherwise, may all our learning and prayers for Shabbos & Yom Tov be accepted and be a Zechut to all of Klal Yisrael.
And may we enjoy that Cheescake with all the Chukim and Mishpatim associated with it … and Because Mommy Said So.
All the Best
Hi Sam2: Yes, you are correct. It is a machlokes haPoskim concerning learning by 9th Av. That is why I was machria to say restricted learning, since everyone agrees that you can learn hilchos aveilus, Medrash on Eicha, etc…
Hi ZeesKite: What do you mean by ‘before’? An hour? A day? A lunar cycle?
Seriously — IMHO, Learning is permitted at all times (except erev Tisha Be’Av and Tisha Be’Av and Aveilus R”L — some ‘restricted’ learning is permitted during the aforementioned).
But your question is actually a serious one, because I saw it brought down that there are those who refrain from napping/sleeping on Erev Sukkos (during the day/afternoon), since the ikar mitzvah of LeShev BaSukkah is to sleep in the Sukkah (compared to Matzah before the Seder).
Hell, Michigan — This is a real town, though not the way most people would think of it. I’ve know about this town for about 20 years and I’ve joked about the hospital in Hell, the post office of Hell, etc…
Hi YehudahTzvi: Let us know if everything is Ok. We haven’t heard in a while. I continue to daven for you.
Thank you Sam2. But I give credit to one of my Rabbeim, R’ A.Y. Eisenberger who gave a shiur on this topic (a decade ago) and that’s where I learned this answer.
That is correct tzaddiq. The rainbow did not appear during Rebbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s lifetime, because it did not rain during the day. It only rained during the night (when people were at home, not in the markets, fields). The great Zechut is that the agriculture flourished in his lifetime on account of the nighttime rain.
So a name like Shmuel David Yoseph would have initials like …
Tonight, in honour of 32: ?”? ?????? ?????? ???? – The 32 wondrous/mystical paths of [intuitive] wisdom (Sefer Yetzirah 1:1, Tikkunei Zohar 7b).
May I suggest you purchase a cow? At least the milk will be …
As for the ‘boy’ part; most boys aspire to become men.
Tonight, for 26:
(1) The numerical value of the name HaVaYa.
(2) The atomic number for the element Iron (Fe) which in Hebrew is ????, an acronym for Bilha, Rachel, Zilpa and Leah.
Iron being essential to human life as it is the central element in the Porphyrin ring structure making up Hemoglobin, the essential component of blood.
For 24 — The 24 books of ??”?.
Hi YW fan:
So the answer may be related to the Machlokes Rishonim and Poskim whether there is a single Mitzvah to count the Omer (all 49 days) or whether there are 49 individual (sub-)Mitzvahs; i.e., to count each of the 49 days. Such a discussion will lead to whether we are counting each night as part of the greater whole (then it might be Ba’Omer — in the Omer) which means in the entire Mitzvah of the 49 days. Or perhaps, like the 2nd opinion, each night is independant of itself and therefore, maybe La’Omer — to the Omer, to the Mitzvah count itself. Some of my humble thoughts on the issue.
Tzarich Iyun — Warrants further study.
22 — The Otiot (regular form) of the Hebrew Alphabet.
Tonight for 20 — ?? ????? ???? (Avot 5:24)
42.749 years (approximately) !
Mimouna — Practiced by Moroccan Sephardim; a celebratory meal after Pesach has ended with the intent that everyone be blessed with a prosperous year (Remember that Nissan is the first month, month-wise). Tables are laden with Mufletas (thin pancakes), sweets, pastries, candies, nuts and other rich delicacies. It has now developed into a quasi-holiday in Israel. One theory proposes that it falls on the yahrzeit of Rambam’s father Maimon. Another theory equates Mimouna with Shmona (8 day Pesach festival) and it’s intent to capture the flavor of Pesach into the following day.
Seudat HaMashiach — Instituted by the Ba’al Shem Tov and observed to be practiced by Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidim. A ‘final’ meal with Matzah and wine in which Nigunnim are sung, Chassidic discourses are given over. Seudat HaMashiach usually starts prior to Shkia on the final day and can continue well into the night.
Ne’ilas HaChag — Practiced by most mainstream Ashkenazic Kehillas on all the 3 yomim tovim to delay the departure of the festival. Food served is comparable to Seudas Shlishis on Shabbos.
Depends on metabolism, stress factors, among other things.
My wife will testify that I am the same mass now as when we got married about 8 years ago.
Because you can’t cook on Shabbos, but you can cook on Yom Tov if the Yom Tov falls out on a weekday.
The Gemara (I believe in Be’ah) is of the opinion that theoretically, the 2nd day (biblically) is like *chol* in which case you would be insulting/desecrating the first day by preparing for the 2nd day.
This is why we wait late at night to start 2nd day (neros, etc…) so as not to come to desecrate the first day.
When the 2nd day is Shabbos, we have to finish prep. by a bit before sunset, because Kedushas Shabbos is highest compared to Kedushas Yom Tov.
Tzvi or Tsvi is more accurate to the Hebrew (Tzadi). Zvi is confusing since it could really be Zevi (as in Ze’ev or Zev) which starts with Zayin.
Hi mochoh timcheh:
Having just arrived back from Pesach vacation, I saw this post and to put it mildly, I was severely disappointed that such a thread should exist.
First of all, may I humbly suggest that you pay attention to your own learning (& davening) and not be so intrusive of other’s derachim.
Secondly, reading and chanting ANY sefer is quite legitimate in and of itself. My father, shlit”a (& he should be gezunt bis 120 yahrs mit simcha) memorized a number of sugyas in Shas, so that when a shayla was presented to him, he could quote the mekor in those Gemaras instantly.
True, we have a mesora specifically for Tanach, Mishnayos (Maggid Mishnah) and Zohar/Tikkunei Zohar, but as mentioned earlier, ANY sefer is pleasing to HaShem.
I am quite certain that there were critics and pessimists who offered the same response (as you did) when Daf Yomi was in its infancy back in the 1920’s — see how it has blossomed today and caught on to include Yerushalmi, Tosefta, etc…
Again, at this time of Sefirat HaOmer when the talmidim of Rebbi Akiva perished because they were “lo nohagu kavod zeh lazeh”, it behooves us to be a little bit more respectful of everyone, no matter what madgreiga they are in life, no matter what derachim they choose, no matter what minhaghim they practice.
Respectfully yours, R.T.
Hi LoyalJew: “where Adam and Chava were told what their roles are. Of course we should help our wives, but as chessed, not as a reversal of roles”
So then, what are Bochurim/Bachelors doing by doing their own laundry, cooking their own meals, vacuuming the house? Does the “din” of the laundry machine change when a person gets married?
It’s not a question of gender roles. If something needs to be done, and no one else is around to help out, the young man does it.
8 inch floppy disks with 160k space, vinyl LP’s; 33, 45 and 78 rpm
Writing on fulscap with pencils
SlideRule for calculations (I still have one)
The Earth, contrary to popular belief is an Oblate Spheriod, not a Sphere.
At 2.5 million times atmospheric pressure, Hydrogen becomes metallic.
“Rav Schachter quotes a Chassam Sofer that there’s an Issur of Ba Tosif to make an extra hoiday. How, then could Chazal have made Channukah and Purim?”
We might answer with the following Svara: That Bal Tosif would be applicable if it were to undermine the *quality* of the yom. To clarify, if Purim were made into a full-fledged Yom Tov, melacha (other than food preparations) would be assur, Tefillin could not be put on, Levayas and a Pidyon HaBen would have to be postponed, etc…
Chazal were mesaken hanhagos (for Chanukah & Purim) that did not take away from the normal practices of the day.
I will IY”H commit to saying Yud to Yud-Zayin inclusive.
My wife will testify that the washing machine, dryer, dishwasher have become good reliable ‘friends’ of mine. I also scrub down the pots and pans, cooktop, crockpot, etc…, change diapers …
“Halacha is plain and clear about shabbos + yom tov, we do not say sholom aleichem nor eishes chayil.”
Really ?!? Can you quote me a legitimate source? Shulchan Aruch? Mishna Brura? Aruch HaShulchan? Ben Ish Chai? Kaf HaChaim?
Let’s be very careful about making statements like that in this (and other) forum(s).
I made it clear that very few people have the practice, which should imply that it is a Minhag by most not to say it.
As a matter of fact, I have on my Shtender a wonderful new Haggada Tiferet Tzvi by the Sphinka Rebbe and his Talmidim. It states the Sphinka Rebbe was noheg to say Shalom Aleichem, Eishet Chayil and part of Atkinu Seudata on Leyl Pesach, referencing the Arugat HaBosem in this regard. I think that the Sphinka Rebbe was well versed in Halacha.
Hi 147: Very few people recite Shalom Aleichem on Friday Nights that coincide with Yom Tov, Chol HaMoed or Motzai Yom Tov. That would apply to all the Regalim, Rosh HaShanna and Yom Kippur. I would venture to say that it is a mirror reflection of Friday Night davening — No Lechu Neranna, Reduced Lecha Dodi (Sfard) or No Lecha Dodi (Ashkenaz), etc…
If it were universally said, wouldn’t it have been included in newer Haggadas?