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Wolf, the Ramban said that to the king by his debate. He said that it is actually better for him in Galus for this reason.
It sounds very bazaar that he should see the future plan, definitions of people, Moshiach’s identity et al. None of Yiddish near death experiences I’ve heard of had anything like this. It is always about their own experience.
Another point to keep in mind that he/they are not Neviim. There was no, ‘Go tell My people.’ The Medrash relates that when R. Yishmael Cohen Gadol ascended to heaven to find out about the Gezeira then, an angel showed him a storage room full of very harsh decrees on the Jews. He said, when you gather together and answer ???, ??? ???? ??? these Gezeiros don’t see the light of day.
Just because something is seen above our domain it doesn’t mean that it will happen that way.
Even the predictions of Chazal of what times will be like before Moshiach comes, are open to interpretation. They can play out in a relatively mild way.
I can’t promise this boy didn’t see what he says, or partially. But it is strange. As for the autistic communications, they seem authentic even though their drastic warnings did not play out the way it sounded, BH. Perhaps this was a case of ?? ???? ????? ???????.
It’s actually hard to take it at face value. After working on the Teiva for 120 years while facing criticism and being the target of many jokes, it’s really hard to think that he too doubted it.
My way of understanding it is that he thought it will work out in the end. He figured Hashem won’t pull through with the threat and He’ll scare them or work something out. This is similar to the way children often think of their parents’ wild threats. It’s not that they question their parents’ ability to turn around mid-trip. They just don’t envision it actually happening.
I think it might be due to us having bright lights well into the night.
Thanks for posting the blog. I recall coming across that once.
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Here’s a tip for next time. As long as it is one long polygon you should always be face-to-face or back-to-back with any segment you are passing. So if you lost your way don’t take a turn that will have you being parallel with others, and if you see two parallel rows go right between them. But, no, I am not Aaron.
Sam, did you not see the Tur? Rashi brings the Minhag with a plant from the times of Gaonim. So, the Minhag of doing ?? ??? ?? is thousands of years old. And that’s exactly what I meant by “one form or another”. I was responding to someone not understanding the concept of ?? ????? ??. The Tur, though, mentions using chickens from the times of Geonim.
The Mechaber is coming off the Rashba, who acknowledged that it is widespread but didn’t like the looks of it. You mention a Lashon that is not there and doesn’t come from the Rashba he is coming off. It is silly to disregard the Maharil and Ashkenazic Mesora stemming from Geonim (which the Rashba might not have been aware of) because of an archeological Lashon of the Shulchan Aruch.
If I’m not mistaken, this is one area where the Sefardim don’t accept the Mechaber.
And, there is no mention in the Siddur/Machzor of transferring sins to the animal or money. Is says ?? ??? ??, ?? ????? ??. And this Minhag, in one form or another is thousands of years old.
Tashlich is about invoking Hashem’s Middah of ?????? ??????? ?? ?? ??????. To ask why we Daven after doing that is like wondering why we fast in Yom Kippur after saying Slichos.
By the way, I mentioned that I bring them home and give them food. This year, however, I mentioned something about feeding them to my brother while the worker was near us. He said, oh you want to feed them? He brought over a nearly empty bag of chicken feed and poured generously into the boxes.
The Tzedaka part is mentioned as an extra Zchus. It is not part of the original idea.
While the theory of the chicken being used simply because everyone had it is mentioned by the Gaon quoted in the Tur as a viable reason, he goes on to explain that it is purposely used. This is further held up by the Maharal and Arizal. We have been using it long after Bavel. In France, Spain and Germany and in most places, Jews lived in cities and did not have the option of moving to suburbs.
Historical theories are nice but to use them as a Taana on others is pushing it.
You can make an experiment. I do this every year. I bring them home and keep them over night and give them food and water. They are hardly interested. They definitely do not run to the food like hungry chickens. Most often they don’t take.
A great way to look at it is that a person has control over the present but not the future. While you are justified in being upset about the act you shouldn’t be thinking about how if not for this person everything would have been better.
We find this in Rav Saadia Gaon’s Emunos Vedei’os. The Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh separates the two (????? ?? ??? ????).
Just don’t tell the current Meshudeches that she reminds you of the first, it that you went for anger management.
It might just mean that he couldn’t forgive her for a minor issue and divorced her irrationally. That’s quite an anger issue. Perhaps he yelled to much, perhaps he was a Baal Mussar and held himself in but he turned beet red three times a day.
Forgiveness is when the person is ????? (appeases) you. Chazal don’t speak of ‘asking Mechila’, but rather of appeasement. That means when the person recognizes the wrong that was done, takes the blame, and explains how he is not of the earlier mindset and that it won’t be repeated.
When this happens, and it is not ??? ???? anymore, you are supposed to forgive. Forgiveness in this case means the acceptance of the fact that this person changed.
In our selfish generation, forgiveness had to be rebranded as self serving. Like all good things, you obviously gain from it, but that’s not quite what we are after here.
Who said you have to forgive those who don’t want you to?
For what Syag is describing it would be best to do something therapeutic and get everything into a context in which you are able to be at ease even in that person’s company.
For example, if your camel swallowed your jeep keys, which gave you a lot of trouble, you might be mad at the moment. However, when the situation is over and you are back in bed, you realize that it is just a camel. No, you won’t trust it anymore, it is dumb, it is moody. But that’s that.
There are people whom I don’t trust, there are people who have poor judgment, are over-zealous, selfish, shallow or bad conversationalists. Now that you suffered from that aspect you are able to classify the person and you understand how to relate to that individual. In the old, undefined, context they are a mess and they ruin you. In the new context, he might be a camel. So smile nicely but stand back, for he might eat your jacket.
We aren’t about to throw the whole Mussar section in the garbage, are we. We are born to work on ourselves. We all do get angry at times. I would like to think that I did work on my own anger.
It is indeed a challenge, since the opportunity to work on it usually comes up while you are mad. But it’s possible. And if there is such a thing as anger management I imagine it addresses that.
I mentioned here once before, IIRC, how working on Middos can take the form of self critique after the fact, until eventually you gain control.
Perhaps part of his anger management is to mention his ex nonchalantly. He had to report to his therapist that he did that and the day was almost over.
Oh, and this is indeed a joke. I hope in better taste.
Daas Yochid, lucky thing it was edited and not just deleted!
Rashi in Chuqas. But that’s about a Kappara on the generation to avoid punishments. It is not Teshuva. Although, many learn that the reason it is Mechaper is because it causes Teshuva.
Can someone be crucified on behalf of someone else?
How would you know?
So I guess I shouldn’t go for anger management. I see that it is assumed that there is no such thing.
That would mean all manufacturers are crooks.
It’s pretty clear that many have used the term modern orthodox to mean something other than what we mean here.
How did they figure this out? Nobody called me. Did they call you?
By not actually jumping but by bouncing your heals.
Litter are adorable.
In many places there are signs explaining that it is not acceptable. But hey, is Lashon Hara acceptable? But yet, it exists.
Perhaps nobody really leaves it out. They only do it when they are in an extreme rush, it is only an exception. Somehow, though, this exception is the rule.
Great idea. We’ll start with the basics, then work our way up until we can define the point on which we disagree.
Right is right, up is up, down is down. Agreed?
In my camp we even competed in Achdus.
It is supposed to mean not to ask why the fellow did one thing and not another. Being that it’s a story and not a prediction it comes with ???????? which makes such Kushyos moot.
It’ll be a seven day Yom Tov like most Yamim Tovim. Starts on the 9th and ends on Tu b’Av.
No source, whatsoever. But it’s obviously obvious.
It seems to be the dynasty of Ardshur who took on Zoroastrianism. The terms referring to them are confusing because it sounds like they came in from somewhere, and that is how Rashi describes it.
Too late
Torah, that’s a very dangerous story. Now everyone who goes through a holocaust and has mental issues will want to sit in the men’s section.
I think RebYidd answered it earlier. He mentioned, besides pain, “that every living creature deserves some respect.” I agree to this.
Some Sefarim put quotations in each word, as in Rashei Teivos to stress those words.
It’s on your nearest street lamp.
It’s terrible. We must spread the message of Torah and make sure that everyone becomes a Talmid Chacham.
Therefore I think that the Gedolim should setup a system where everyone sends their children and we hire someone to teach them. And we should hire someone to be in charge of these teachers and arrange the curriculum. They should also get busses to bring the children to this learning place so that they can start at an arranged time.
We might have to hire some other people to make this run smoothly, like say an administrator, a building manger, secretary, and some helpers.
That’s what the Gedolim should do.
I don’t have the question, and it is a weird one to my ears.
The “avoda” of Tisha b’Av is to be Mis’abel on Yerushalayim and the Beis Hamikdash, and depending on who you are, the Shechina. Is that so terrible?
Now, being nice to people doesn’t have a date. That is supposed to be ask the time. In fact, real Ahavas Chinam would be Davka not to attach it to a certain date. It means without trying to gain off it.
Just a note, although we obviously must learn the lesson of the Churban and avoid Sinas Chinam, that is not the pillar on which the third Bayis is built. Just like the second Bayis wasn’t based on Shalosh Chamuros, although they obviously had to do Teshuva on them.
Angie, there is a time for everything. Is it really that bad that we have one day a year to internalize and focus on the loss and to set our goals to what we are yearning?
While it might be a very nice thing to setup safety standards after an accident ?”?, is that meant to replace Shiva?
By driving there!?
The reason we don’t Pasken on Hashkafa is because the mind has room for more than one idea, even at one time. Eilu VaEilu is always true, but in action we can only do one. Therefore we need to ‘Pasken’ one way or the other. But in ideas, we do need to incorporate even conflicting ideas and judge and balance between them.
I find a Remez to this in the fact that Shel Rosh has four compartments whereas Shel Yad has only one.
Yes. This is bumpworthy.
I wonder how significant his coming was to the Jews in the dessert. Did they even know he was there before they found it in the Torah? Did they hear about it from the Moabite girls? Did they know he was coming and tremble? Or did they laugh it off?
All the time, but there’s no such thing.
Shtreimel in the winter and white socks in the summer.
Ideally, don’t be so busy about the future. There’s a reason we don’t know the future, it’s nice of our business. Relying on Hashem that He takes care of and runs the world, does not mean that it will be the way we design it in our imagination.
The past and the future are in Hashem’s hand. The present is in our hands. Be pragmatic and realistic now and do for the future in the framework of the present. Past that, the future is in Hashem’s hands.
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You mean you don’t yet have the Gramma Sink™!?
Yeah, Karlin-Stolin is an astronomical Chassidus.