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This is my Pshat in what this Piyut is doing in the Hagadda. It answers the famous question of why the Mitzriim were punished if there was a Gezeira. The answer is what we see here. The cat might have deserved to be punished but the dog was doing what he wanted.
You don’t like jokes about Oorah or you don’t like Oorah? (ouch!)
its gr8
And the same applies to the ceremonious Mitzva Tantz.
Why is the Chosson allowed to put a ring on his Kallah’s finger in public. Besides, isn’t getting married the extreme display of Chibah?
No. I am saying that it doesn’t make a difference if the chosen significance is a count or a degree. The point of the Piyut is the significance, or Chashivus, of each number. Most examples are counts, since that is truly more abundant. So, the fact that only one entry uses the number as a degree rather than a count just reflects on the usage of numbers in general, in which a count is more common than degrees. But the point of all entries is the same, the significance of that number.
There is no reason for a Pshat. The song is about the significance of each number. The fact that this one is the eighth rather than, like the rest, one, two and three, is a reflection of the fact that this how numbers are mostly applied.
In my humble opinion, the danger of certain types of chumros lies in the reality that those who follow the Halacha, but not the Chumrah, are viewed by SOME Chumrah observers as being somehow less frum than they are
– – at least in the eyes of those who don’t keep the Chumra.
Now, this whole discussion of Chumra does not come here, by Gebroktz, since everyone is saying Peh Echad that it is more a Minhag than a Chumra. Those tying in anti-Chumra stuff here, where it really does not belong, give weight to the sentiment that there is actually a resentment to it rather than “my Rav doesn’t hold that way.”
Dizavin Abba Be’echad Mi Yodea.
Downgrading the status is when you clearly are not using it as bread and the question is if it keeps the status of bread once it had it. But the discussion of the function of a particular item should not include the Tzura, rather the function.
I have somewhat of a hard time understanding why they are so much in the dark. They know the speed up until the point where they lost contact. They know how much fuel it had, and they know (I assume) the angle in which it turned around. Shouldn’t they be able to figure out where it ran out of fuel?
In the Gemara, Turisa Denahama is used with regards to losing the status of bread when you cook actual bread. Here, the question is if it is bread in its own right.
Yes. I know of someone who did research years ago to find this ‘Medrash’ and came up with nothing. Somewhere on some site somebody mentioned that his Rebbi asked Reb Chaim Kanievsky about it and he answered, ?????? ??? ???? ????. OnTheMainLine wrote out the whole story and concluded with, this is a Palastinian Medrash. The earliest mention of this story is someone who heard it from an Arab. Although, it is not the greatest Kasha, but in Chazal we find that the Makom Hamikdash was chosen from creation.
I came to realize that many Shlomo Hamelech stories in my Otzar Midrashim that sounded queer probably share the same source.
This has nothing to do with operating within or without time. Yes, Malachim have a concept of before, current, and later. They are created and don’t last forever. This is irrelivant, though. As Rashi says, it doesn’t take them time to get something done, since they are not physical. The instant the Avoda is over they clothing is off. No time goes by in between, since they are Zariz in the extreme, meaning that it comes off that instant.
Can I ask the ibn Ezra’s Kasha?
BTW, does this Segula work if you do it on your own doorstep or do I have to hire someone?
Oh wow. We now narrowed it down to an area smaller than Australia.
It truly doesn’t bother me when others don’t have my Chumros. Why do I get the feeling that it bothers you when others don’t have your Kulos?
ZDad, this is a Chashash that even those who are Choshesh for it say is far-fetched. It is followed because of the Minhag. And those who originated this Hakpada did so only because of the stringency of Pesach in general, like Tosafos tells us regarding the Chiyuv of Bedika. Besides, I did not see or hear the argument that you should want to be like that Gadol who is Machmir. I did hear the argument that if you are a Yerei Shamayim you would keep far away from a chance of an Issur. Hence the term, Yerei Shamayim Yotze Yedei Shneihem and Hamchmir Tavo Alav Bracha.
VM, most of them are before his times.
What if both meet each other outside midway, would you build a Beis Hamikdash there?
Blink! It’s off. It doesn’t have to take time to take it off. They shed it instantly. It’s a matter of simply not wearing it anymore.
ZDad, if your point is to try to prove that the Minhag of not eating Gebroktz is not universal, you don’t have to work that hard.
I just wrap my brain. Whatever you do, don’t sell it to a Goy.
Is that a Hebreized version of Tatensohn?
It’s not about being on and off at the same time. It’s like the famous Reb Chaim about Makas Bechoros, that until Chatzos they were alive and the next second they wwere dead. Charzos itself doesn’t take time; it is the line between two seconds. Same here. Until the end of the Avoda it is on, and the first segment of time to be called after the Avoda is also the first segment of time with the Bigdei Kehuna.
daf, you have a government job?
It makes sense that the big V would do that. I think I had in mind to separate the letters that are used in the Hebrew from those added as vowels for English. But the last ‘I’ just looked too wierd.
Do you know the concept of angel?
I share your sentiments. I can’t picture doing that myself. You can’t Pasken from a story (unless it is said over as Halacha) but you can pick up attitudes from stories which do end up affecting Halacha.
There is a story about Reb Yaakov Kaminesky, that someone handed him a freshly printed Sefer in the street. He didn’t need it and dropped it in the sewer. When the one he was conversing with was surprized, Reb Yaakov told him that it only gets Kedusha when you learn from it. This Sefer was just printed.
Because my father is a Leivi.
The weight doesn’t add to your learning. In fact, making it lighter added more learning. Is a child a burden? He might be heavy. If you have an easier way to take your child you wouldn’t call that making him a burden. Not to take him because it is hard might qualify, but taking him while making it easier is simply innovative. And making it easier by spending more time with him is ideal.
Artscroll is the burden, not the learning. The best part of your story is that the train you missed didn’t even crash.
That is uncommon but very often they do know by the first one.
Wolf, it was a response to the Chachem Einer.
The eighth day was established because of a Safek but it in itself is simply Miderabanan. Gebroktz is more a Chumra than a Safek. You don’t have a Tzad Issur; you are merely Machmir in case of something.
Anyone who at this point will call an Hanhaga of Gedolei Olam a Minhag Shtus has bigger problems, as well.
The best way to show us what we are missing is to hand it to us. The Pasuk in Yecheskel says that the punishment will be in the form of so much abundance that we will be embarrassed of our past behavior.
Many people.
Why don’t you just punch many more holes in your belt and stick keys into them? It would be a sinch to remember that hole number 33 is this while number 72 is that.
In case I didn’t explain myself well enough here goes. Although a person’s choice is in his own hands and we won’t necessarily point to his parents as the reason for his choices, there are still things within his behavior that we can trace back to his upbringing. When people go OTD and reflect back on their life they will describe some positive experiences along with the negative ones, to which they might attribute their general negative outlook on Judaism.
This Miriam Bas Bilga, who kicked the Mizbei’ach when she came there with her husband (a Greek sergeant) during the pillage of the Mikdash, referred to the Mizbei’ach as a wolf swallowing the money of the Jews. Even if she went off this would not have been her outlook. Why would it cross the mind of a former Jew to hate the Mizbei’ach? This is why the Rabbis concluded that there was obviously somewhat of a negative attitude that she picked up in her father’s house. As religious Jews, they obviously didn’t call the Mizbei’ach a wolf, but they might have been theorizing how they can save money from being wasted. Such as, “It’s a Shud to always bring a cow, they could bring a small sheep; there’s no Chiyuv to bring that many; if they work one minute slower they can save 25 Kikkar a year.”
The positive side of being wealthy and of being respected? They are positive things. It just so happens that in pursuit of them we trip all over ourselves. Being very wealthy does come along with its set off Nisyonos that are not fathomed by anyone else. The same goes for Kavod. But they are essentially blessings. Likewise, enjoying good food at the proper time and situation is a blessing, while dashing across the hall to switch flavors of ice-cream is gluttonous.
Real, deserved Kavod is recognition of your status. That is only a positive thing. Being kept in your proper and actual regard allows you to be yourself.
Golfer, the Gemara is talking about a married woman. However, it should be noted that we didn’t blame the family for the fact that Miriam Bas Bilga Shmad and married out. It was her way of describing the function of the Mizbei’ach that told us she must have heard related talk in her father’s house. When people go off the Derech, they often have fond memories of things that they were fond of back in the day.
The Russians had Crimea for many years.
But was is famously true, is that a person asked Reb Shloimke Zeviller if he will see Moshiach. Reb Shloimke told him to wait a minute. He Tovelled and told him, ‘you won’t see Moshiach but your eye will see eyes that will see him.’ The man came to some Chadarim and excitedly let the kids know that they will see Moshiach. I know of those children.
This or similar terms are always used in contrast to those who follow other doctrines.
Davening for it is not running after it.
It is not an observation, nor merely a promise. It is by definition. The Maharal explains that Kavod is the perception about you from others. The more you try to manipulate that the more you are taking away from there being ‘others.’ This does not apply to Davenning for it.
Kavod is important. Why do you assume it isn’t? Sure, running after it is an embarrassment, and delving on it brings Gaava. The same goes for most important and necessary things. It really pays to understand this.
Now he’s merry duck.
This is the right way to desire honor. You pray for it once a month. If you run after it you lose it, but of course you need Kavod. A child needs Kavod and even an animal deserves a certain Kavod. Why shouldn’t you ask for it?