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Akuperma, I agree with everything you wrote here. I’ve been saying the same thing for a while. Furthermore, for a realistic view of how a slave was treated look in the Gemara and Medrashim. The Gemara says that not necessarily would a slave desire to be freed, since his life is more care-free as is. If we look at the relationship between master and servant we see a level of respect and trust.
While there was a Klala of Yehi Kennaan Eved Lammo, that is not a liscense to kidnap anyone. It is merely a Klala that he will be kidnapped. Ve’inu Osam wasn’t a Hetter for the Mitzriim to torture us and being a son of a Yefas To’ar is not a Hetter to become a Ben Sorer Umoreh.
The same idea can be applied to cotton, wood and water. But it has to be true in order to apply it.
Lebidik, the Torah does not recognize captured Jews as rightful property of the captors. It does recognize the Jew selling himself to the non-Jew.
Halevia here.
Anyone interested in the Zimmerman case is invited to check Wikipedia’s page on Angela Corey. Read her history.
It may seem from the Pesukim that the actual height of the water above the ground was 15 Amos while the powerful waves (as would be expected in such a high flood) raised the water up to the high mountains. This would explain a lot of questions, including how part of the world can be unaffected while the mountains are submerged in another part of the world.
If animals came from a certain part of the world it only makes sense that they went right back. Noach was a man of the earth (who observed and took note of animal traits and behaviors) and would not be so sloppy as to pour everyone out in one area. We would not do that today.
Since Chazal say that he took along Sheidim, this sounds like it did in fact affect the whole world, although the fact that they mention Shekker and Chazav makes it sound as if something else was happening. If some continents were untouched Og could have gone there. I don’t think that the fish surviving was such a Nes since they could have been far away from the top waters.
(The unspoken message in the mind of many is that Torah Min Shamayim is an allegory. Isn’t that the most bizarre of all the Nissim?)
But if you learn that it means that it is as terrible as though it were Charuv in your day — not as if you caused it — then surely you would be surprised that the day came again.
Gaw, aw.
Will all members be added to your signature?
Falling behind? (Me too)
Gavra and WIY, BH I don’t know any victim or perpetrators of this type of horrible crime. I don’t either understand what exactly the trauma is and how it is treated. I wonder though, do you know this for a fact that the main part of the child’s healing has to do with seeing the guy locked up? To me it seems like that might have more to do with the parents’ and community’s healing. I’m figuring that disassociating the child from the act, or coming to terms with the past and putting it in a certain perspective, is more important to him.
I think his issue is deeper than the fact that he was wronged. Being wronged is something you can get over with. For the sake of society he should definitely be apprehended. I just wonder about the importance this has for the child’s well being and recovery.
apushuta, amazing. Thanks for sharing. Seems like they’ve been doing some “Joseph” stuff all their own.
I agree. This bothered me as well. I sure hope this won’t be repeated.
This kind of overt bad mouthing has no Makom among us. It’s the kind of thing I grew out of at 17, and it is actual real live Lashon Hara.
There are many stories that YWN did not print. While others mocked them, most of us are here for precisely that reason. What now?
The Ramban in Shar Hagmul says that the Machlokes between himself and the Rambam is only about terminology.
The Mekubalim say that Olam Haba is after this world. Techiyas Hameisim is in this world. Although in Olam Haba we will have bodies, it will still be a completely different existance. The Ramchal explains that the bodies will barely be noticed.
Moshiach will come before the year 6,000. After that the world will be charuv for a thousand years. Olam Haba follows.
One has nothing to do with the next.
The victor gets to use it. Both sides using mass destruction doesn’t kill less people. WWII didn’t see less deaths than its predecessors.
You went through a tough situation and probably still are. Obviously, there are pent up feelings of guilt, anger, blame, self-blame, responsibility, insecurity, uncertainty, and anxiety. Avoiding them by sitting on the internet is not a good idea and can perpetuate these issues.
It will help greatly to speak to a therapist or life-coach, or perhaps a good friend, that can sort out the feelings and put them in perspective.
Focuss on the times you experienced Hashgacha Pratis, and when it wwaas clear that Hashem answered your Tefillos. This will help bolster your Emuna and Betachon. Repeat to yourself the Pasuk that RebDoniel quoted, Hashlech Al Hashem Yehavcha Vehu Yechalkilecha. Face the future and shape it; don’t throw it away.
The Ben Ish Chai says that Shlomo Hamelech purposely did not publicize and invent technologies because it wwould land in the wrong hands. Had the Romans had high speed boats, planes, guns, chemicals and mass weaponry, they wouldn’t have shied away from using any of it.
No reason there shouldn’t be plumbing. Heating the Mikva will be done either through microwave or infrared light, or at least not by sticking in a heated iron.
I’m sure there will be a website to pay for Kinim and to donate for the Tamid and other Shekalim. Being that the web will be cleaned up at that point it won’t be a Bezayon that the Beis Hamikdosh will have a site. No ads, though.
A big beautiful clock can stand over the Ulam.
The question is, will the Leviim use amplifiers? If yes, will they use pickups on the violin, or to preserve sound quality they won’t? What about electrical instruments? Perhaps it depends if Ikkar Shira B’Peh (if Bloomberg lets). If not, what about electronic assisted instruments (e.g. electric guitar, elec. violin, ancient elec. organs)? Also, being that there are many Karbanos at the same time we don’t want Shira cross-talk. Maybe we’ll use mutes.
Is cat gut OK for a violin in the Mikdash? Do we say Mimashke Yisroel? Does this also depend on what is Ikkar Shira?
Will the Kohanim have shwarma? Burgers?
Will we set up a Mikdash cam?
As she was about to put down the phone she felt someone grab the receiver out of her hand. She turned around to see who it was and shrieked!
As it turns out, the Ami has been running a series on the new crisis, blaming Reuven’s Rosh Yeshiva. That all changed by the recent Letter To The Editor…
Call them back, tell them about this thread and say that their name is next.
find the points that aren’t burning hot.
Music is a medium which allows for many emotions to modulated upon it. All or most of the ways that a mood changes us, have a corresponding nuance affecting a melody. We can feel loose and free, or tight and apprehensive. We can feel inventive and explorative or hampered and inhibited. There is closeness, loneliness, upbeat, new and fresh, interested, excited, bored, stuck, aloof, above, far away, completely enveloped, under, above, lost, at home, energetic, and generally happy. Music has a parallel for each of these.
It can be so subtle that the composer usually doesn’t plan the theme this way. He tries to engulf himself in a mood and the theme flows forth. The general style is usually planned.
Being that subtle is precisely why it is so powerful. If it were explicit it would not carry emotions; your heart would not read it, and it would be academic. Now that it is not understood it bypasses the brain and is interpreted by the heart who resonates with the nuances.
Well my ancestor did answer to the call and yet that didn’t help him become a Kohen.
What did you drink for Havdalah and what did you sniff for Besamim?
A Sheid.
Moral: Never go to a professional graphologist.
jealous and feeling deprived, undercut or alone are not the same thing. You might not be jealous. But to avoid jealousy, don’t follow up on their friendship, and don’t watch them go off together.
Great advice for jealosy: Don’t look. There is a terrible, irrational Taava to make yourself jealous, but you know that it doesn’t make you any happier. When the person passes with the item tou are jealous of, look down or around. Jealousy is more in the eyes than it is in the brain. You can see that jealous look on a jealous person. Avoid that look. It is very much in your hands.
Popa, that’s when you are first Over Lo Sachmod.
The Gemara says it is because of two things. It is about the Chiyuv Mitzvos, which comes from the Torah, not Chazal who were simply thankful about the Chiyuv Mitzvos. It is also because women have more trouble and are more often Nirdafos. The latter shows us that they saw women as an oppressed minority, much like the feminist groups do today.
Sam, I don’t think the Ohr Hachayim Hakadosh was being Mechadesh that everything is a Mesora. His point was that the Halachos preceded the Drashos, and that we are allowed to suggest alternative Drashos to the same Halachos.
The Rambam seems to be saying that Machlokes can only happen in Shikul Hadaas instances where something new came up. Otherwise, we say that they surely didn’t forget what the practiced Halacha was. My Kasha earlier from Smicha on Yom Tov is not Shver, since it is a Derabanan and is therefore dependent on Shikul Hadaas.
May I ask what Shelo Assani Isha has to do with femenism? Actually, it shows that they understood the challenges of being a woman.
Why do you say that the Ohr Hachayim Hakadosh doesn’t work with the Rambam? The Halachos are a Mesora and that’s what they were Mekabel. They could even have been Mekabel many or most Drashos, but the Halachos were not actually gleaned from the Drashos. Do you mean a Different Rambam?
Welcome back. Is this a ghost or the real thing? You’ll have to get to know all the new faces and reincarnates.
Tha Rambam actually holds that Nismaatu Halevavos and Lo Shimshu Kol Tzarkan doesn’t mean that they forgot Halachos. It means that they didn’t receive the entire mindset and judgement. When new issues came up they didn’t necessarily see things the way their Rebbe would have. This caused Machlokes.
This is hard to square with many basic Machloksim, including the first one. There are Gemaros that speak openly about a Talmid not hearing correctly. Perhaps the Shomer Yisroel made sure those instances were rooted out. Also, the Rambam might only be addressing that Memra about the main cause of Machlokes. Or, perhaps each case will need its own Pshat to explain what was before the Machlokes and what they were taught.
The Ohr Hachayim Hakadosh writes that the Halachos were a Mesora and Chazal were doing backwards engineering to find where it is Merumaz. This approach is Mefurashh in the first Amud of Megilla, when we are dealing with a Derabanan and we even knew the reason yet the Gemara says there must be a Remez in the Megilla, and the Sugya goes hunting that Remez.
This is pretty much the normative approach in the Drashos Chazal. There are times when Tana’im argue and bring proof from Pesukim, but that might just be as proofs and not their source.
However, the Gemara says that when two Dayanim agree to a Din, yet they learn that Din from a Different Pasuk, they don’t get added together for the majority counting. This shows that the Pasuk is actually the Mekor of the Din. The Maharal also is adamant that the Drashos actually show us the Halacha and that even Asmachta Be’alma is an actual reason for the Derabanan.
Therefore, it is reasonable to say that it is both. The Halacha was a tradition and the Drashos weren’t always passed down together with the Halacha, but they are the actual source, no doubt. Each one helps the other one where the tradition got flaky.
The Chumra song can have doing Bikur Cholim without your shoes.
Is that also based on the gemara megilla?
HaLeivi- There is no comparison
between Yetzer Hora and emergency
I’m sure there are many differences between a Yetzer hara and an emergency. There are, however, situations in which they both meet. If one’s actions will cause a Chilul Hashem then he should disguise himself (according to the popular P’shat).
Slichos, that is not such perfect logic. If it was an emergency how would everyone else know that? Why would they think that this one car must be in an emergency?
It does say that when people can’t control their Yetzer Hara they should disguise themselves.
It can get dangerous at times. Pick your entry point carefully.
Sure it’s rude, but many otherwise very pleasant people become rude drivers when they learn the rule of the New York City jungle. If I would be as couteous as I am used to being I would never park, nor ever pull out of a parking place. I would unload my boxes and luggage five blocks away from my destination and carry them one by one, Pachos Pachos.
I wonder why the road and parking crisis is never dealt with by politicians and campaigns.
For static electricity one wire is enough. If the contacts are close enough you don’t need to be grounded.
Ben Franklyn generated static electricity with wool and glass.
As i explained earlier, Tosafos did not discontinue any Gezeira. He did explain why we don’t have to revert back to it when it is not Nahug. Tosafos followed the Mesora Conservative Jews change messora. Which one are you?
We view Mayim achronim leniently because of Tosafos. This is true of those of us who are Makpid on Mayim Achronim. We follow Tosafos’ Psakim anywhere that the concensus of Rishonim don’t disagree. If you found a place where we don’t actually Pasken Lemaase like Tosafos, that has absolutely no bearing on the point you are making.
You are doing to Rabboseinu Mitzarfas what the tziddukim did to the Tanna’im. Similar complaints; similar conclusions.
Tosafos’ “methodology” is actually straight from the Gemara. We don’t have the courage, usualy, to apply such answers that are used in the Gemara (Okimtos, Tarti Ninhu, Hava Matzi, Kechad Amora etc.) because we know our limits and figure it is our Lamdus that it limited, and that there is a simpler answer that skipped our brains.
This is the reason we find that it often takes a great Amora to give a simple answer when the Gemara was actually cornered into applying that answer in the first place. But since for all we know there might be a simple logic that will make everything fall into place we refrain from giving a cornered answer until someone with vast understanding and knowledge says that this is indeed the appropriate answer.
Someone I know once said that it is not necessarily a good thing to be Mechaven to Tosafos’ Terutz.
Applying terminology to Tosafos’ learning does not show depth of understanding Sof Daatam of Tosafos. It shows an intelligent narrow-mindedness which is very common in these shallow, sweeping, observations that are published in order to gain a suffix.
And considering that I explained alll those references in Tosafos, with a pretty obvious explanation that was overlooked by the zealous professor. When you actually care about understanding Tosafos you learn a lot. The Braysa says that Torah is Niknes with Emunas Chachamim (among other virtues).
The Sugya in Nida 23 where Reb Yirmiya tried getting Reb Zeira to laugh (and it didn’t work).
Benign, what you write does not negate Cherrybim’s important point.
Thanks for this. Very interesting. Do you speak the native language? If this is in Jordan then it is probably from the same Maamad that the Torah is talking about.
On The Ball, where? They had cuffling then?