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left to write – if “ba’al nefesh” means someone with a soul, a person who is not a “ba’al nefesh” is a soul less creature. That is simple tagrum.
That soul less creature may be a ba’al guf, or a ba’al ta’aveh or a MO but certainly not a “ba’al nefesh”.
I would not wish on them the expression “may G-d have mercy on their souls” since it would be a bracha l’vatalah.
WIY, a woman’s chiyuv of learning Torah differs greatly than a man’s. Her chiyuv is to know the halochas of the mitzvos in which she is obligated. Therefore her learning is part and parcel of doing her “mitzvos”, and not Torah for the sake of learning itself.
However, she still does have a part of real Torah learning by encouraging her husband and sons to study Torah. That is her true chelek b’Torah!
Therefore, you cannot draw a parallel that since you learn (only) a few hours a day, that your wife should also learn at least weekly. That is comparing apples to oranges.
Finally, after 120 years you will be asked if YOU were koveh itim b’Torah. You will NOT be asked if you made sure that your wife is koveh itim!
My Rebbitzen learns every day and it is geshmak to speak in learning with her, but sometimes I think she would get more s’char if she spent the time encouraging my learning with a special sandwich for lunch or a freshly made supper. I personally do not need these “encouragements” but I think she would get more of a Gan Eden. I wish I could set up my wife with you wife for a chavrusa-shaft. My wife does daf yomi.
Each one of us has an eizer k’negdo. It is our brocha and our nisoyon.
New Year’s is a Christian holiday.
The Rama in Darchei Moshe Y.D. s. 148 in name of Terumat Hadeshen holds that even in our times, if a Jew wishes to give a present on the eighth day after Christmas which is called New Years, he should send the present during the day prior and not on the day of the holiday itself. And if the day before the holiday falls out on Shabbat, one may send on the day of the holiday, itself as there is a matter of eiva if one sends later than that or more before then.
Reb Moshe in Iggerot Moshe Even Haezer 2:13 holds that although it is mutar m’ikar hadin, baalei nefesh should be machmir about celebrating this day.
We, the citizens of the world of Torah and kedusha certainly must take the initiative of being baalei nefesh. After all, those who are not baalei nefesh are nebech soulless creatures, literally and figuratively.
More so, to steal our time honored greeting of Rosh Hashana, and use that expression of “Shana Tova” – is insulting, since you are placing a tumahday on equal footing as a holiday.
Boruch mamvil is said even bain kodesh l’chol, kal v’chomer, bein kedusha l’tumah.
rebdoniel, HKB”H created the internet for harbotzas haTorah.
Some of us commemorate nitel and others commemorate Yom Ha’Atzomos. To each his own!
Is it ma’aser if you “gain” something from it?! Even the potential of a “gain” has some monetary value and cannot be considered ma’aser. I am against all such prizes which contaminate and depreciate the tzeddakah given
There are frum groups of Shopaholics Anonymous.
WIY – of course I plagiarized a Tosfos in Taanis (cited by the OP) and a Mechaber and Ramo (in Orach Chaim).
I am announcing that if ever in the future I mention a possuk from chumesh of chazal, it is mamash copied and not my own original works.
I am embarrassed that you chapped me and I am modeh!
If the money to provide ones son with a Talmudic Education is derived from Heaven and is not part of the ordinary allotment, why do the Yeshivas base tuition on a person’s income?
A person’s income which is allotted from Heaven has nothing to do with the SEPARATE amount he is granted for tuition. By basing tuition rates on income, it is going against this Gemarah!
Reminds me of the one liner:
Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won’t be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did.
We are so quick to put down our own. If the waitress was talking about YOUR mother or father, would you not be offended!!
Reminds me of the classic self-loathing Jew:
A woman is riding a bus in the Midwest, when a man gets on the bus and sits down next to her. He’s wearing a black hat, long black coat, black slacks and shoes, and he has a long curly dark beard.
The woman looks at him disgustedly. “Jews like you,” she hisses at him.
He looks up at her, puzzled, and says, “I beg your pardon, madam?”
She says, “Look at you. All in black, an unkempt beard, never take off your hat! It’s Jews like you that give the rest of us a bad name.”
He says calmly, “I beg your pardon, madam, but I am not Jewish.
I’m Amish.”
The woman looks back and smiles, “How nice. You’ve kept your customs.”
Tosafos in Taanis asks how Yocheved could have been born while Jacob and his clan were moving from Israel to Egypt if it was a time of famine (assuming that she was conceived during the famine) as per the Midrash that states Yocheved was born at that time? Tosafos answer that this rule was only a stringency kept by super righteous people like Joseph.
Shulchan Aruch (O.C 240 & 574) paskens that one should refrain from engaging in marital relations during a famine, as such it is not merely a midas chassidus. The Rema adds that “this applies to OTHER TROUBLES which are comparable to a famine” (240, 12).
A famine need not be “globally” as was suggested, however, a recession is not comparable to a famine.
I always thought Kabbalah is a limud, that someone can be well learned and versed in it. I never knew that it is like karate and one must be trained in it. Are you a black belted kabbalist?
Milhouse, do you happen to know why some people wear their talis in a manner that the black lines are covered (by folding the talis under and tucking in the talis)?
And I thought Hillel Hazoken invented the sandwich by establishing Korach at the seder?!
Milhouse – Post mattan torah examples of kisuy harosh for men and married women as malbush (or da’as) yehudi.
Names given to children are traditional rather than “made up” as in those days in Mitzrayim.
But your premise is wrong, the yidden in mitzrayim HAD specific zchusim such as bris milah, eating meat and shchita, not intermarrying or serving Avoda Zara, belief in Hashem, keeping some form of shabbos, studying Torah (-v’es Yehudah shoach lefanav – to set up a yeshiva) etc.
polisha chosid – Respectfully, a Rebbe is not a posek and a posek is not a Rebbe. I mean no disrespect, but that is the fact.
Besides, you yourself write that he was under doctors orders, as such a choleh, which allows for kulahs and to be somech on the mattirim.
As far as not eating sandwiches, what is the basis for that chumrah? I am always interested in learning of new chumrahs to take on and would take this on if explained! Did he not eat korech at the seder?
R.T. – “If that were true, then they would wear a white on white Tallis for Shabbos, and a regular black on white Tallis for weekdays.”
There is an inyan to have a talis with black stripes. Therefore on shabbos they wear such a talis but hide the black stripes. Some do so even during weekday davening to not be me’orer gvuros. Therefore they wear the tallis by folding the talis under. I have seen gedolim makpid on this (as mentioned, R.Y. of Chaim Berlin, Lubavitcher Rebbe etc.).
I admit that I have no essek in nistoros (hanistoros l’Hashem Elokeinu, v’haniglos lonu), and I suggest you refrain for it too. Kabbolistic concepts are more complex than merely color coded charts and connecting the dots while passing around names of sefirot, shaymos and tirufim.
rebdoniel – the malbush of shabbos should not be the same as the weekday malbush, hence “shabbos clothes” and a shabbos talis. (There is a shaylah if one needs “shabbos shoes” – if shoes are considered a malbush for this inyan, (underwear, socks etc are not part of this cheshbon), v’ain kan mekomo).
DaMoshe – “My wife and I recently went on a small vacation to a resort. The resort offers kosher food, which is double-wrapped so it can be rewarmed.”
Did you ask a shaylah if this is muttar and not ma’ras ayin? People ca assume you are eating regular food of the resort and think it is okay to eat there!
Please don’t tell me you assumed there is no issur because you saw
“Jews there with white shirts and velvet yarmulkas, chassidim, and MO wearing srugis”!
“A talmid of such a rav would have no right to be “machmir” and say hamotzi.” Even such so-called “Rabbonim” also agree that a person “can” say hamotzei if he is koveah seudah and eats a shiur. Saying only mezonos is a HUGE kulah.
David Bar-Magen, when a person is deep in mud, (idna d’ris’cha), it isn’t a time to battle with others.
Asking for rachmonus with ka’as does not invoke rachmonus, adarrabah. (As the velt says: B’rogez – rachem tizkor, that is a wishful tefilah!)
If you are full of bitterness, self pity, hate and loathing – come learn Torah. Divrei Torah misamchin ess halev.
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