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Does anyone have notes for the aeolian harp?
By the way, you only play the lower register?
A flute can only play one note at a time, but flutes can play many notes together.
Don’t you play flute with both hands? So, what’s wrong with piano notes?
Is that Tanta 42, by any chance?
Maybe therein lies the issue. Seven tires are hard to keep focused.
That would be mighty rediculous
A task like that’s quite meticulous
The Kanoim outlawed blue.
The big question is, when accepting Geirus, would you willingly become a Yekke?
WolfishMusings’ reply is actually what the Tosafos in Nida answers. Holding the key means that he decides when and where.
You ask, “Everything in the world is controlled by Hashem and angels are shluchim for His will.” That’s a great question. The picture is a bit more complex. Rav Shrira Gaon says that Malachim do have a say in certain matters and it is permissible to request of them some favors.
For a better understanding, recall the Mishna in Avos that Hashem could have created the world in one Maamar but He chose to do it in ten, so as to give S’char to those who hold up this large complex world. It might sound almost trivial to us, one word, ten words. But we understand that each Maamar was introducing a new system by which the world would be run.
If everything would be run directly from the highest order, there would not be any confusing events. Reward and punishment would be instant, Parnasa would be directly linked to the person’s Zechusim, and everything would be very clear. Now, there is a system on top of system. This causes the desired amount of ambiguity, that allows for what we know of as Teva.
This is all Ratzon Hashem, and everything catches up, but things take time and are rarely clear. Mikra Echad Latzadik Vilarasha, Kivan Shenitan Reshus… It’s like creating a detailed painting with a wide brush. If you plan it out well enough it can be done, but each stroke effects more than the desired area.
I also got the Microsoft call. We had some fun with guy before laughing him onto the hook. “I’m not online, so how did you get the error?” “Which computer?” “What version of Windows do I have?”
Wow. This is a fascinating topic. In fact, it’s the same topic that fascinates the rest of the media and multimedia.
I got a call, “about your Con Edison bill”. If I want to lower my rates, I just have to let him know.
They try that it should sound like they are Con Edison calling, while it is carefully enough worded that they are saying the truth: they are merely an anonymouss company calling about my Con Ed bill.
Some hang up when I insist that they tell me their company’s name. The other one asked me for my account number. I said, “You called me. Tell me my account number.”
Musser, you’re saying that now, but don’t forget we are talking about if you wouldn’t have a Yiddishe Kop. You would never think of this.
I agree with The Wolf, about talking during Chazaras Hashatz. Also, why would you stop the Daf? You should try to know as much Torah as possible when you become a Yid.
Popa, is bacon that good? I didn’t find Shibuta so amazing.
I would immediately stop saying Shelo Asani Goy (along with the other two, Lo Kol Shekein).
And I heard in the name of the Chazon Ish, the exact opposite. He said, these days, even someone growing up in a Frum neighborhood can be a Tinok Shenishba, since there is so much animosity and misunderstanding all around. He might have seen but didn’t know what he was seeing.
There is a misconception here, and I’m not sure at what level. I hope the following will address the issue.
We know that after Moshe Rabbeinu even Neviim weren’t able to add to the Mitzvos. When the Yidden forgot 3,700 Halachos after Moshe Rabbeinu was Niftar, Hashem told Yehoshua that He can’t fill him in.
However, the Halacha of Lo Sassur still applied. The Neviim were the ones who passed down the Torah and when they interpreted a Halacha we listed to them as a Talmid to a Rebbe; when they made a Gezeira we listened because of Lo Sassur; and when they said other things it was a Mitzva to listen to a Navi.
After the Neviim, when we had the Anshei Knesses Hagedola and the Tannaim that followed, they still didn’t have permission to add new Mitzvos. But, they continued to have the right to make Gezeiros and Takkanos.
The Gemara tells us that Shlomo Hamelech made other Gezeiros as well. He added another generation to the list of Arayos. These are Derabanan. They aren’t from Nevua. Ezra created Muktza. According to some, certain aspects of Muktza is a Derabanan from Moshe Rabbeinu. Ezra is also probably the one who Assured Kinyanim on Shabbos.
We use the term Chazal (Chachamim Zichronam Livracha) to refer to the Chachamim that show up in the Mishna, Gemara and Midrashim. However, the Torah, Halacha, Gezeiros, Takkanos, and Talmud, didn’t start after the Anshei Kneses Hagedola. Shlomo Hamelech taught Torah and gave 3,000 reasons for every Mitzva De’oraysa and 1,005 reasons for every Derabanan (Eiruvin 21b). This shows us that he was a teacher, that there were Derabanans, and that Derabanans are very deep and have many Taamim.
Yes.
Daf, the Issur was not created seperately from the Takkana. Popa is correct, that the Gezeira was to prohibit carrying into the Chatzer without an Eiruv. The reason for this Gezeira is, as you said, so that we don’t extend the habit of carrying, into Reshus Harabim.
Writer makes an excellent point. I had the sentiments, and came to realize that any stuffing used as anger words which have no meaning, are taking the place of words we would never utter. Your sentence is not any richer when you say, “I can’t get this stupid can open”, then have you said, “I can’t get this can open.”
Not morally incorrect to use it. It might be morally incorrect on the part of the Yeshiva, though.
Rav Wosner from Monsey said in a Shiur that it is fine, since it is not you that put that in place as much as the host.
At least you can’t be in the army band.
He calls his sections mesechtos and gave them names like the Masechtos in Shas. His ‘Meseches Shavuos’ is about the Yom Tov Shavuos. His Meseches Tamid is about Teffila.
73, thanks.
BTguy and Real Brisker, it feels like a time warp seeing you here.
The Gemara there discusses Hezek Re’iya between neighbors. That refers to the harm, in the form of discomfort, caused to you by the fact that you know that someone is looking. I don’t recall any discussion about any kind of reparation in retrospect, but the discussion there is that the one who has his nose in the other’s property has the responsibility to build a wall high enough that his neighbor can be comfortable.
Probably there is a payment of Boshes, but that is not enforced by our Batei Dinim.
Sam, which Gemara, the one about Vichikisem Bashem or Lista Bilistayusei Yada?
(I hope this is not Onoas Devarim, but I found Daas Yochid’s Chukas Hagoyim good and funny.)
Rebbe Elazar, who still had Eidei Chodesh in his day, was careful to be Mekayem Lachem on Atzeres. Was this only when it worked out, or did he Pravve Isru Chag on those years? Why didn’t he say Vav Sivan instead of Atzeres?
As many Sefarim say, the Mattan Torah had more to do with Shaar Chamishim than it did with Vav Sivan. This is why it depends on the counting rather than the day. The Rivash didn’t come to throw everything we know overboard, as seems to be the style these days. He is discussing the fact that we celebrate Atzeres not by the date but by the count.
You can look in Tiferes Yisroel of the Maharal in Perek 25.
He is called the “Shela” Hakadosh because of his Sefer Shela. It’s in Meseches Tamid, which is about Tefilla.
They are usually as clean as their outside bricks.
Oh great. So then Atzeres doesn’t need Lachem!
In one day, Rebbe Eliezer Hagadol showed Rebbe Akiva 300 Halachos in Koshir Kishuin. That means 300 details about this phenomenon. This was his Kabala. We don’t know how many details he was Mekabel on Shatnez, Bechoros, or Arla because, as he said, his Talmidim weren’t Meshamesh enough to get all that he knew from him.
Rav Papa constantly makes Diyukim from Braysos and Mishnayos about facts of science. He didn’t know these facts, but he accepted and didn’t say that perhaps they only said what they heard from some doctor. Either the Tanaim had this Mikabala or they learned it from a Pasuk or they derived it from another Memra of earlier Tanaim. Either way, it is true. A Drasha from a Pasuk was not off the top of the head, like it reads to us. Darshening a Pasuk for a Tanna was as clear as being Medayek (a real Diyuk) from a Rishon.
The remedies mentioned in certain Sugyos are often quoted from a Taya, a traveling Arab. Therefore, Rav Shrira Gaon says that we don’t follow them. We see in the Gemara itself that an Amora tried the remedies and it didn’t work, until another Arab advised him differently.
The Rishonim, upon their own admission, listened to the scientists of their day. Therefore we don’t have to accept their science, although we try very hard to do so. And we learn the Torah thoroughly and try to adapt it to updated science.
Although we know that they didn’t know the science that we know today, their Sefarim were written with Ruach Hakodesh, which doesn’t mean they were ‘told’ what to write. But it does mean that their words are Emes and have great Kedusha.
The Amoraim, on the other hand, always quote earlier Amoraim or Braysos for facts of the world. They never quote a doctor, philosopher or scientist. They did consult doctors for Halachos at that time, but Halacha was never based on a doctor (besides Shmuel).
The Gemara in Pesachim that says that the non-Jewish Chachamim seem correct (in a topic with little relevance today) shows us that the Chachamim did not get their Chachma from them. When the Gemara suggests that our Chachamim seem correct on the second issue, the Gemara rebuffs the proof to explain how the Chachmei Umos Ha’olam can be correct (also based on a premise disregarded today).
The first issue was if the sun goes over the Rakia or under the earth. This would mean that they never bothered to watch Shkia! It therefore seems most likely that it wasn’t quite a scientific argument in the first place, and as the Maharal explains it.
Anyhow, the Gemara never implies that they knew everything there is to know, but it is pretty clear that the Braysos are true and the Tanaaim didn’t just pass on their speculations. Rebbe Yochanan, who compared his understanding to a pinhole relative to a few generations before him whose undertanding was as wide as the Ulam, insisted that nothing be said until it is extremely clear.
The signs said it will be intriguing, but I wasn’t intrigued enough to listen.
Rebbe Mechabed Es Ha’ashirim. The fact is they are doing more Mitzvos. As mentioned, the fact that they were given the opportunity for this Mitzva is Hashem’s Cheshbon.
The Maharal actually writes elsewhere that Tzedaka goes by the dollar amount, and it all adds up to one lump sum. With this he argues on the notion to split it up. He says there is no greater Mitzva by giving $50 twice than giving $100 once. Truth is, even those that say to split it up don’t necessarily mean that it is another Mitzva, rather it breaks your Teva another time.
Giving more is like doing another Mitzva. Giving when it is hard gets you more S’char within this Mitzva but it is not another Mitzva. In fact, the S’char of doing another Mitzva is more than the S’char of Tzar. This is seen from Shaluach Haken. It is considered an easy Mitzva while used as an example of where the S’char can be the greatest. This is how the Maharal explains that Mishna.
Oomis, we don’t know Hashem’s Cheshbonos in His detailed dealings with specific people. However, He gave us a Torah in which He describes His attitude and yardstick. Anna Nafshi K’savis Yehavis, I wrote myself down and gave it over — Rashei Teivos of Anochi as explained in Maseches Shabbos.
yytz, the Gemara says this, too. That is the reason for the Bracha.
Zdad, do you know this boogy-monster, Pruzbul, personaly? Why didn’t you mention, say, Bittul Chametz or Get Mekushar?
It was not pants. It was a long, wide ribbon that was wrapped around the waste.
There are two extremes: to eat all my waking hours or to fast. I can go with the Derech Hamemutze and eat only eight hours.
The middle of the road is quite dangerous. That is where the yellow lines are. To use the Rambam’s example, one extreme is complete laziness and the other is hurried and harried and being a nervous wreck. The middle way is tempered. The middle way is actually called a ‘way’, it is measured and decision based.
Mas, Please don’t. Today’s Modern Orthodox is not a movement; it is a community. While Rav Shwabb was trying to change their focus when they were still developing, they are now completely developed. There is nothing to be gained by picking fights.
Nothing fruitful became of any such conversations here, and it is not Lito’eles unless you feel cornered by their arguments. It is fine to read these things to reassure yourself that the Taanos aren’t correct, but it’s no use and of no purpose to Darshen Barabim.
Moreover, in a time when people are running away and changing ideas, it is indeed scary and dangerous, and should be dealt with. Once the dust settled, and people are brought up in a certain Derech, it’s just the way it is. It’s a different community with some different ideas, and it’s time to accept that.
He is probably to the right of his teacher.
Do you stand exactly midway between Lakewood and YU?
one door full!
I guess you would consider the GRA, MO since he held that maddah has intrinsic value.
Horribly untrue. I know that this misinformation is part of the battle cry of those who put Torah and Madda on the same banner, but it is far from the case.
The Gra pursued knowledge, and so did many Gedolei Yisroel, the Chazon Ish included. That has absolutely nothing to do with making it a partner of Avodas Hashem.
Some attribute it to the Gemara in Yevamos 62b, Whoever is without a wife is without Simcha, Bracha, and Tova. In Maarav they said, he is without Choma (wall) and without Torah.
But I don’t know when it started.
But regarding the difference between some Jews that have sidelocks and black hats and those that don’t have beards, the best short answer is that those like it and the others don’t. Any comparison to outside religious divisions is wrong.
What is even funnier, is that before 100 years ago, some also had the Minhag that the fathers also went around. Perhaps the mothers’ gowns were too long as well. But anyhow, when you saw that the mother held the train that was a second bird, not the reason.
Vogue, obviously. I mean, it goes without saying, or happening.
I think He left that option open to Himself.
Anyhow, a Frum Yid won a big lottery in England last year.