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  • in reply to: Not losing Daas Torah #1033096
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    zdad, do you go to a doctor?

    in reply to: Intelligent Life #1032033
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    Patur, from Rashi it seems like something less glamorous. He says it is referring to Sisra’s Mazal. In that case, the inhabitants are the people under that Mazel.

    in reply to: White bekishe / kaftan #1046042
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    Maybe that’s why some people are Makpid not to wear a hat and jacket.

    in reply to: The in between chevra #1031990
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    Non Yeshivish.

    in reply to: Graphology #1031932
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    Graphology makes more sense than the House-Person-Tree test, or at least as much sense. The problem is that it is erroneously associated with palm ream and star gazing. However, it is not mystical. It is simply an analysis of a reflection of your character. Everything you do is colored by your personality. Why would handwriting be any less?

    In stead of bunching any self professed expert together in order to pass an unfavorable judgement, choose one celebrated expert and follow his results — as we see from the Sugya in Shabbos.

    in reply to: Veibeshe minhagim #1031969
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    Are you implying that in Hilchos Brachos he can be ???? ???????? ?????

    in reply to: Rosh Hashana davening in BP #1099479
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    Are you looking for a Shul that doesn’t say the Eilu Va’Eilu Shtickel? Do you say Kedusha, btw?

    in reply to: Graphology #1031919
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    Syag, what can you see about me?

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    in reply to: Does anyone have information about a good exorcist #1031480
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    If you tend to believe Tzadikim and don’t suspect Baalei Ruach Hakodesh of lying, then I guess so.

    in reply to: Ruach Kodesh #1031395
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    They see what a Ruach sees. It is not Ruach Hakdoesh. Different Tzaddikim have different types of Ruach Hakodesh. Mainly, it seems to be an aspect of ????? ???? ??? ??????. And as the Medrash says, whoever advises ??? ???? his advice works out, as it says, ??? ??? ??? ????.

    Regular people are also Zoche sometimes to ????? ?? ??? ?????. People relate how they don’t even know why something popped out of their mouth, and how well it played out. In the notes of the Tolner Rebbe, the Gerrer Rebbe remarks how he says what “they ” put into his mouth to say. It is almost that he is as much a bystander as his audience, to his own words.

    in reply to: Does anyone have information about a good exorcist #1031478
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    He wasn’t Niftar then.

    in reply to: Mazel Tov! #1224279
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    Ivory, are you my Shvigger? l

    in reply to: Does anyone have a source for this? #1034134
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    Sam, What I meant by physical is physical factors that affect a person’s choice. This is something we all agree to and deal with on a daily basis. Nobody thought to say that worrying about Chinuch violates the free will doctrine.

    Likewise, we have a concept of ????? ??? by eating ?????? ??????. We also find that a person’s ?????? ????? are from Hashem. This we see in Rashi about Pharaoh that Hashem held him back from Teshuvah. This is also the famous Vort of the Baal Shem Tov that the point of the Bas Kol ???? ???? ?????? is that the person’s Neshama hears it and from there he gets a ????? ?????.

    In general, a holy atmosphere causes holy thoughts and an Aveira is from a Ruach Shtus. Still, no one is forcing you to choose but they are affecting the surroundings.

    The Ramchal writes that since a Zivug is the same Neshama, even before they know each other the actions of one affect the other. (I saw this a long time ago so don’t ask me where it is.)

    in reply to: Does anyone have a source for this? #1034133
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    It is pretty clear from different places in Chazal that a person has point to point choices rather than gradual. We find that a person who became a Tzaddik could have been a Rasha of a certain type, not everywhere in between. There is a Medrash that HKBH shows a person certain spots in Gan Eden or Gehenom that could have been his.

    in reply to: Mazel Tov! #1224271
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    ???

    in reply to: Does anyone have information about a good exorcist #1031459
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    Being killed is the beginning of the story, not the end.

    in reply to: Mazel Tov! #1224264
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    All are invited to the Shalom Zachor tonight. If you don’t know where it is ask Midwesterner.

    in reply to: Gog and Magog #1042010
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    According to the Maharal, and as it seems from Midrashim, the Milchemes Gog and Magogo is a war against Moshiach. Before Moshiach is Chevlei Moshiach. Once he comes it will arouse hate and jealousy and they will gang up against Moshiach. This might be against Moshiach Ben Yosef.

    If you go with Rav Kook’s view that the pre-Moshiach idea of Moshiach ben Yosef was actualized with the State of Israel, then perhaps 48, 57, 67, 78 are all part of Milchemes Gog and Magog.

    I hope we were Yotze Chevlei Moshiach already.

    in reply to: Does anyone have a source for this? #1034122
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    You can find this concept in the Noam Elimelech.

    Sam, many things can seemingly violate the biggest Ikker (in some people’s mind). How can Moshe Rabbeinu Bentch Yehoshua not to fall into the trap of the Meraglim? The Ohr Hschayim Hakadosh writes that although Yiras Shamayim is not on hands of heaven, out os in the hands of Tzaddikim.

    Why does physical influence not seem to contradict the free will rule and only a spiritual influence does?

    in reply to: Do people with Ruach HaKodesh exist today? #1031145
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    There’s a famous sport about the Noda Biyehuda that when he first became Rav and had many opponents they kept trying to test him and trip him up. Once, by a Seudas Bris, they made something look like a questionable piece of may and brought it up to him and asked what it’s Din is. He started leaning towards one ruling and they all brought proofs to the contrary. He hard them out and started to agree to them. Then they brought proofs the other way around and he started leaning towards that. That is when he suddenly announced that this case is made up.

    They knew he was right but they wondered how he knew. Jew said, when a Shaila comes to a rav he gets Siatta Dishmaya to answer correctly. If I can’t make up my mind then it must not really be a Shaila.

    in reply to: Rashi on Kibud Av V'aim Regarding the Reward of Long Life #1030781
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    When we know that the Torah speaks that way then it is a valid understanding. In a normal conversation it isn’t necessarily understood automatically. This is why Rashi is telling us that the Torah uses this language, as we find by Aharon, Velo Yamus.

    My point with the opposite of Arichus Yamim is that although not having Arichus doesn’t have to mean a Kitzur, it can be used as a hint to Kitzur. On the other hand, the Klallos of Bechukosai are not related to the Brachos and they are many more Psukim longer.

    in reply to: Mazel Tov! #1224262
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    Thanks, but what about HaLeVia?

    ????? ???, Simchos by all of you.

    in reply to: Rashi on Kibud Av V'aim Regarding the Reward of Long Life #1030779
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    Rashi on Vayedaber Elokim might shed some light.

    Also, the list of Brachos are not related to the list of Klallos, while the obvious opposite of ‘you will live long if you do this’ is that otherwise you won’t. Rashi is saying that the Torah uses this as a means to convey a message.

    Lastly and mainly, I agree with Daas Yochid that not everything in the Torah is a Tnai. Nobody thought to bring up ???? ???? when you don’t transgress a Lav to keep you from getting Malkos. In the Torah Hashem is letting you know what the benefit is, or the punishment. ?? ?????? is actually being expressed as a conditional arrangement .

    in reply to: Rav Reuven Margolis #1030714
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    What exactly fo you mean by “learnt in yeshivos”? They are very nice and useful but it’s not the kind you sit down to learn. I think the idea of solving the Chad Amars is that each piece was taught separately and not necessarily was the Baal Hamaamar aware of the other Gemara which holds the key. Anyhow out is not a definitive statement saying that now the search had ended. It is ?????? ???? ????????.

    in reply to: Do people with Ruach HaKodesh exist today? #1031139
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    zdad, I hope you are kidding.

    in reply to: Milchemes Gog Umugog #1030889
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    How do you know what people know or don’t know?

    in reply to: What are the Signs that Moshiach's arrival is imminent? #1031086
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    Yussel, you only say 12?

    in reply to: What did you hear about HaRav Yaakov Hillel? #1030479
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    Yekke, I know of someone who got such service from a Baal Ruach Hakodesh. He wrote a letter, changed his mind and put it away. Nobody knew of it, but he got a response. In our generation.

    in reply to: Do people with Ruach HaKodesh exist today? #1031132
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    Ruach Hakodesh is the opposite of psychic. A psychic tries not to know anything about the topic he is divining. A Baal Ruach Hakodesh asks many questions. Also, a psychic has a feeling or bias, which is assumed to be accurate when he has no prior bias. Ruach Hakodesh is unmistakable.

    And yes, there is a very big difference between Nevua and Ruach Hakodesh. The main one is that only a Navi carries a message from Hashem to people, and can say, ?? ??? ???. A Baal Ruach Hakodesh, even when he has clear knowledge of something is never saying, I have a message to you from Hashem.

    As for ZD’s Taana, it is unethical to go against Hashem’s wish and divulge that which wasn’t meant to be revealed. I know of Tzaddikim who tried getting others to stop someone from going somewhere, while they couldn’t tell anything to the person himself.

    in reply to: Why Was This Closed? #1030473
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    The mod thought it was funny. ?? ???? ????? ???, so probably ?? ????? ???? ???. The mod wanted to add to the conversation to he took away.

    in reply to: The World To Come and Gilgulim #1117278
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    Why do you say that? It’s possible, albeit not common, to be completely good and not mess up. It’s impossible to be bad the whole day for every day of your life. A guy like that would be institutionalized.

    There’s a story about a Kofer who joked to the Noda Beyehuda that he transgressed every Issur in the Torah besides suicide. The Noda Beyehuda answered him that it’s a good thing, for then he would have been doing a Mitzva of Bi’artah Haraah Mikirbecha.

    in reply to: This Has Nothing to do With Techeiles PBA #1043096
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    The Rav Mibartenura explains the Kal Vachomer that Achisofel was a Rasha. One thing or two doesn’t make a difference Misvara. The point we are learning is that although he is not actually his Rebbe, since he learned a drop from him he called him his Rebbe.

    in reply to: Whom did the shevatim marry? #1040444
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    Sefer Hayashar is not more definitive than Mamarei Chazal. It is a Likut based on Selected Midrashim written in a way that it should read as one consistant narative.

    in reply to: Whom did the shevatim marry? #1040441
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    The Maharal explains that they only kept ????? ??? and not ????? ?? ????. But that was about Yaakov. I don’t recall, as of now, a reference to the Shvatim keeping the Mitzvos.

    in reply to: Austin,Tx has a great frum community #1029036
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    He’s trying to clear out NYC. I hope he succeeds.

    Anyhow, that explains where RebDaniel has been.

    in reply to: Einstein Was Smarter Than You Thought #1027824
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    And Reb Moshe was not thick headed when he was young.

    Moshe Rabbeinu was born with good Middos.

    in reply to: Forgetting to close the fridge light before Shabbos #1039238
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    Tell a Kattan to ask a Goy to tell him what to do.

    in reply to: The World To Come and Gilgulim #1117274
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    I, for one, wouldn’t want to take on the Ramban. I do think he was aware of the Gemara in Brachos, especially since he focused on that topic for quite a while in his Shaar Hagemul, and used that explanation given by the Gemara to mean the usual but wouldn’t apply to Iyov. How does Rabbeinu Yona reconcile his statement with that of the Gemara once the Gemara gives an explanation — and as I pointed out, Rebbi Meir only argues that Rasha Vetov Lo can sometimes be undeserved? How does the Moreh Nevuchim reconcile his Pshat on the topic with the explanation given in the Gemara?

    in reply to: what do you think? #1027704
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    Sounds like he might already have that.

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    If one half gets the joke and the other half complains, is it a half dead frog?

    in reply to: Rabbi Yitzchak Kimmel #1027739
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    So, RebbeDovid, the short answer is no. Nobody here so far heard of him.

    in reply to: In Honor of DaasYochid #1027516
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    I was answering your Kasha but asking another one. You asked on the Maharitz Chayes why he doesn’t apply to Ben Azzay what he applies other places, that Sod Hashem, although it can’t be a revelation of an Halacha it can be a revelation of a physical fact.

    My attempt at answering this is that, although when you know something exists through Ruach Hakodesh you may indeed Pasken based on that, you can’t be Kove’a an Halacha Ledoros through that. This is especially the case over here, being that it is a Machlokes based on how to size up and quantize something.

    If everyone was merely relating their own experience, what was Ben Azzai relating?

    My own understanding in this matter (and Daas Yochid mentioned this idea in another conversation) would answer his Kasha, but it is not a Kasha on him why he doesn’t say what I like.

    in reply to: You have two cows #1106705
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    BORO PARK: You have two cows. You take them to 13th avenue to buy hay, leave them in middle of the avenue and nobody can get through.

    Or,

    BORO PARK: You have two cows. You outsource them to India and changed your company name to the most Goyish sounding name you can think of.

    in reply to: Small Things that Remind you to Appreciate Hashem #1027593
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    Golfer, I don’t know why these days every mention of Tefillah comes with a disclaimer that “no is also an answer.” Obviously, if you ask to become very rich and it is hard-coded against your Mazal it won’t change easily. People all too often refer back to the big requests that they Davened for and reflect how it wasn’t answered.

    But I’m sure I’m not the only one who has had my Tefilos answered. It is important to remember when Hashem answered your Tefilos. You have these in mind when you say Baruch Shomea Tefilla.

    in reply to: Goral Hagra. What do you know about it? #1027390
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    Tosafos’ Pshat on Eliezer and Yonason of the Siman making sense, does not apply here. But the Maharal’s Pshat of Tzorach Mitzva does.

    in reply to: Goral Hagra. What do you know about it? #1027389
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    Before him. The Chidah mentions it as an earlier tradition.

    I’ll preempt Sam here by wondering why this is defferent from the Issur of Shoalin Bagoralos. Perhaps, because we are Mispallel that Hashem answer us through this method, and we only follow when it is a clear sign of Hashgacha, whereas Goralos would be deciding based on which side the oil flows.

    in reply to: Rabbi Yitzchak Kimmel #1027735
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    To be, I don’t why you would, or how you may, call someone names just in case he might be a crook.

    in reply to: Davening from a Siddur #1027506
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    ??? ????? ??? ?????? ????? ?????? ??? ?????

    in reply to: Small Things that Remind you to Appreciate Hashem #1027585
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    He’s referring to your second paragraph.

    If you want proof, pay attention to all the Matnos Chinam that Hashem gives you. Think about how He is Maarich Af. Also, pay attention to all your Tefillos that were answered.

    in reply to: The World To Come and Gilgulim #1117270
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    It doesn’t answer the question if you think it is not fair to be punished for the body that your Neshama inhabited some time ago.

    Mekubalim explain the answer given that it is aluding to Gilgul. It is not explicit in the Gemara just as all Sod isn’t explicit in the Gemara.

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