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It also makes sense to feed your kids, yet Rabbeinu Bachye lists feeding your children as one of the greater types of Tzeddaka. There is also a Mitzva of Mibsarcha Al Tis’alem, to take care of those who are close to you.

These Mitzvos are Din, and are about doing what is right and appropriate. When we return a lost item, it is not being extra kind. It is doing what must be done. All Jews are connected and we are commanded to love each other. But in application we see it playing out in different degrees.

Just as in Tzeddaka, we give some more and some less. If a person is a Meyuchas and is accustomed to honor it is a Mitzva to give that to him. Otherwise it will be missing from him. If you don’t supply a Gabbai for a regular person he is not missing anything.

The Torah uses the term Ahavta Larei’acha. The more Rei’ah, the more Ahava. Not because you want it but because it will be missing without it. This applies to more than immediate family. Every situation has to be addressed with its appropriate approach. For the complete stranger we have the Mishna, Hevei Mekabel Kol Adam Besever Panim Yafos, and Ma Disani Lach Lechavrecha Lo Saavid. Whereas for a Shidduch you have to make sure you will be able to love the person.

A person has an ability to create an attitude within himself. You condition yourself. You prepare for Shabbos saying inwardly that a great and holy day is coming. This day is a queen. This, coupled with the above advice as per how to spend the day, elevates the Shabbos. It is a day to look forward to.

The closer the person is to you the more it applies.

Regards to Chuck.

If they can stick in two ads in that place, why waste it?

I think that topic was henpecked by roosters.

When Yisro had an idea he went to Moshe Rabbeinu. When Korach had an idea he rallied the masses.

In societies where boys and girls interact constantly, the girls tent to form into a certain mold. When around boys, or men,a they try to act ‘cute’, or perhaps babyish. You can witness this wherever you turn, on the street or in a business. A good reason for girls to hang out among themselves is to retain their personal identities.

Chatzi Eved Chatzi Ben Choren.

Register is what you call the playing a new set of notes on top of the old. A flute, clarinet, recorder and saxiphone can play more notes than the amount of keys they sport. Playing the higher octave, or register, can either simply be with the release of a key (or half a key) or might include different blowing methods, which makes it harder. I don’t think it is called register on a trumpet, but I’m not sure.

WIY, it might be very hard to say that every time. Perhaps you should make an easy to remember acronym.

What is .nf, North Africa?

By saying that, you threw out quite a few of the 39 Melachos. That can’t be the case.

Kabbala predates the Zohar Hakadosh, as we are all aware, and it is Rashi who told us how to find the Shem Ayin Beis. We see that many Rishonim express Kabbalistic ideas here and there. The Raavad even figured that the Rambam knew Kabbala. There is no reason why he shouldn’t have, if he learned from a Rebbi.

I say we don’t give it a second thought, because we know how to take it, whether we actually learn it or not. Every elementary kid, at least in my upbringing, knew that there is no Guf and we still translate those Pesukim and Mamarei Chazal exactly as Rashi did.

Yes, there is a form that is being discussed. This form belongs to Hashem. Hashem cannot be defined, and He therefore is not in a certain form. Sounds confusing? Fine. We don’t understand everything. Or, we can delve into the topic and learn the ins and outs.

The Rambam was fighting a crusade and had to turn Hagshama into a taboo. In doing so he discarded Medrashim as Daas Yachid and the such. Those Mamarim are nicely explained by others, but for the Rambam’s purpose he chose to discard them.

We are, Baruch Hashem, way past that point. My second graders never thought of Hashem as physical, and yet they still had no problem understanding that certain terms are used that sound physical.

Actually, most of the first Chelek of the Moreh Nevuchim sounds extra and not particularly enlightening. Yes, I’m aware that Pi Haaretz doesn’t mean that the earth can talk, and Ein Haaretz doesn’t mean that it can see. I’m equally aware that Ha’aniya Chashva Lehishaver doesn’t mean that the boat had a meeting with its captain.

Rashi, on the Gemara of Ein Ben David Baa Ad Sheyichlu Kol Neshamos Shebaguf, says that there’s a place called Guf where the Neshamos are from. In Shabbos, when the Gemara says that the Ruach stays in the body until the Stimas Hagolel, Rashi explains that Yesh Bo Tzad Chayos. Does that sound physical? I think you should look out for these types of Rashi’s as well.

Just realize, all the Mefarshey Rashi deal with these Rashi’s without batting an eyelash. Whatever it means it means. It’s not the first funny sounding Medrash. The fact is that Yecheskiel Hanavi saw KiDmus Mar’eh (which is three stages of comparison). There is a form to speak of, and it doesn’t mean that you are defining Hashem with that.

I mentioned researchers because I’ve heard of this before, together with some other very shallow proofs.

I quoted the Zohar Hakadosh not to say that Rashi won’t say that in the face of the Zohar Hakadosh, but to show how far it is and therefore Chas Veshalom to pin something like that on Rashi Hakadosh.

If Rashi and Rabbanei Tzarfas would actually hold a certain way Hashkafically, we would probably hold the same.

Is it really Parush? You don’t know which one you are taking but they are all there.

Sam, I am really surprised that you would slander the greatest Rishonim based on nothing. Such heinous accusations just because Rashi and Rashbam explained the Pshat of the words!? If the idea of Tzelem bothers you, take course #1 in Kabbala, Chassidus, or even certain types of Chakira and Mussar.

Just like we can draw a diagram of meta-physical concepts, of how they interrelate, something (or in this case, someone) can be formed in that shape. We know, and you expressed an awareness of the fact, that there is a Shiur Koma, of the Hanhaga, Hashgacha, Hashpaa, Haora, or whatever else you call it. Most of us take this for granted.

It didn’t cross the mind of any Meforash on Rashi to say what you are saying about him. The Pasuk referes to Malachim as Ruchos; do you seriously think Rashi held more Hagshama about Hakadosh Baruch Hu, Rachmana Litzlan?

It is mind boggling that people would not be afraid of the Achrayos of tampering with such things.

Besides for the above, even had you found such a thing, do you really think it is a ???? ??????

You’re right. Here’s the point:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/a-nekumeh-oif-hitler#post-467332

Wolf, you are the king of footnotes.

There was discussion beforehand about getting more Chareidim into the army. Did we all forget about that? They were discussing opening positions that are more inline with our values. In fact, the number of Chareidi soldiers rose and was on the rise.

This Rasha decided to use an easy target to sit on and rise politically using his target as a cherry picker. Hayu Tzareha Larosh — not anything new.

He started with the army then went to economics and moved on to private buses. Oh, it has nothing at all to do with waging a war, although it was actually explicitly stated that the intention here is to ‘normalize’ the Chareidim. I guess, something like how Russia ‘normalized’ us.

Sam, the Medrash says that until the Cheit of Adam Harishon, the planets went much faster. That would suggest that time advanced at a different speed. Long day.

You also mentioned the concept of Bitzivyonam Nivra’u, that everything was created mature. I’ve heard people mocking this approach as intellectually dishonest, since why would Hashem deliberately create a circumstance just for the sake of tricking people. However, they are missing one point. The world is one big interdependent cycle. The plants need the healthy topsoil, which is created by microorganisms, which feed on other decaying matter, which come from dead plants and animals. Rivers are formed by the slow process of erosion. Large animals eat smaller animals who eat bugs that feed on bacteria. Hashem created decaying matter and everything else in all stages of the cycle.

Maybe when it says Akum Sheshavas it literally means an Oved Avoda Zara. In that case he is not being Shoves to show that Hashem created the world and it might even be an extension to his own Avoda Zara.

Another possibility is the opposite of what you quoted earlier. He is Mechuyav to rest enough to show a Shvisa, that Lechvod Shamayim he is not working. But this has nothing to do with the 39 Melachos necessarily.

This can actually answer Tosafos’ Kasha in that it is an Assay and not like the rest of the 7 Mitzvos Bnei Noach.

I guess trying to play Chopin’s piano music on a flute could be quite complicated, but the Jewish piano that I’ve seen didn’t really have much piano going on. Usually it just has the simple chords written out for the left hand.

But it wasn’t nice.

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