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I think that the few days period between Pesach Sheni which is on the 14th of Iyar, and Lag B’omer on the 18th of Iyar , are called the days of matmonim because Hashem’s Glory, Tiferes, is hidden. Our goal is to bring this hidden Aura and Light of Hashem out into this world through our mitzvos and maasim tovim.
if all you eat is processed meats every day, like about a half lb of salami a day or 6 hot dogs, yeah you’ll get sick. but a reasonable amount, not likely.
How can you even think of comparing modern orthodoxy with chabad. chabad is a chasidic movement. solidly so. women cover their heads, men wear black hats constantly. chicldren go to separate schools and are taught Torah in yiddish. most chabad families strive to speak yiddish to the children. please, in almost every custom and tradition, chabad is so different. chabad’s only issue different than other chasidic sects is that they are so very accepting of non-frum jews and don’t push them into becoming frum. rather they allow the non-frum jews to proceed at their own speed towards becoming baalei teshuva. but modern chabad is not.
The Medinas Yisroel is a holy institution sanctioned by many holy respected men. The governments are to blame not the Medina itself. Look into history. The holy King Chizkiyahu was afraid of Shevna because Shevna had a huge yeshiva much larger than the national yeshiva of Chizkiyahu. Yet Shevna, although Rosh Sanhedrin, was badly mistaken in thinking he could have peace with Sancherev. The anti-Zionists think that we can have peace with the Arabs if not for the State of Israel. Bad news stupid Jews. WE already tried that. It does not work. They intrinsically hate us. The bochurim at Chevron were not zionists. They hate Jews period. We must pray for the Medina to go on. We should also pray for the people of Israel to wake up to Torah and Yiddishkeit. May Moshiach Tzidkeinu come very soon and put us all back on the right path.
Tea is a plant. We use the word “tea” to also mean the drink. But the drink “tea” is an infusion made from cured and processed leaves of the tea plant. Using leaves of other plants will give youa n herbal infusion but its not “tea” no matter what you decide to call it. A hot drink made from chickory isn’t “coffee”.
Flour is the epitome of separateness. Dough is the epitome of unity. By taking flour, which is a human staple of living, and adding water, symbolic of Torah, we show that we are unting our gahshmiyus and ruchniyus together through the strength of Torah. By taking one portion off as Challah and making it Holy, we symbolically show the strength of Echod in our lives. The singularity of Holiness, of Shabbos, of Klal Yisroel, of the Torah. One of the things that Korach argued against was the mitzva of Challah. He felt that we didn’t require a separate Holy object, like the techeles tztitzos, eruvin, kohen godol, or challah. We take Challah to show that we do believe in all that because these are all Torah Shel Baal Peh, which Hashem taught Moshe Rabeinu.
The Gerrer Rebbe said that a “frummer” means only for himself. In other words, he is frum in order to be extra special. He doesn’t mean serving Hashem. For example, Hashem says that if you are sick you can take medicine on shabbos, a frummer says I won’t do that. But Hashem says you can. Don’t be more frum than Hashem wants from you.
Fire is a physical manifestation of a human soul. Fire is a heavenly creation that G-d gave humans in order to function well, as in cooking and heating. That’s why the fire is constantly shaking. It’s trying to reach up and return to its proper place in heaven. The baby’s pure holy neshomo feels this and tries to reach out to the fire. The babt’s neshomo has no need for fancy jewelry. Moishe Rabbeinu on the other hand, his neshomo felt the future that he would be the one to topple Pharoah’s crown and kingdom.
If the poskim of centuries ago could institute a special Mi Shebeyrach before mussaf on Shabbos for the well-being of the king and the country, I think we definitely should show hakoras hatov for the Billions of dollars that the US government grants yeshivos. Although there certainly exists anti semitism in this country, its not anywhere like the last 2000 years of European persecutions and killing. This was done with the explicit okays from the governments.
I haven’t noticed that there is any wide spread generalization as to using middle names. In fact most people use their first name only and drop the middle name. Lately the Yeshivish community seems to be using both names for males and females. There is no specific chasidish minhag concerning this. Often a person was named for a relative with two names who was called by his first name and this was continued. Or the next generation just liked the first name.
As an addendum, Jews don’t really have a “second” name. Both names are the persons “name”. Not like Catholics who add a middle name. Their first name is the name they want to use and the “middle” name is usually a “saint” or the maternal family surname.
Chazal in Medrash Rabboh on Bereishis interpret the posuk that Avrohom moved away from Lot because the people were talking about the fact that Lot slept with his daughters. At that point the nations still guarded themselves from illicit marriages. The Ramban says nothing about this. I have no idea where you got this idea that his daughters were muttar to him. They were his daughters from his wife.
JETSKI
You are both basically nuts.
Losing socks are pure negligence, washing machines never lose anything.
My kids are all married, 6. BH for many years. They met their spouses twice. Once for maybe an hour or so. The second time when we made a l’chaim. The 3rd time at the vort. The 4th time after the chupa. That’s a normal chasidish way of getting married. We did our homework and that’s about it. And relied on Hashem.
The answer is in the posuk, Raedy your heart to stand before Hashem. First you get up in the morning the correct way. Wash your hands 3 times correctly and think about what you’re doing. Getdressed and say brochos carefully. Walk out to shul and say Hoidu LaShem Ki TOv, that you are up and about. Put on tefilin with thought. Daven until shemonei esrei with thought. At Mincha and Maariv, wash your hands before davening. I’m telling you. This works.
Whenever I received any food gift from a non-jew I would give it to our cleaning woman.
There’s a big difference between alcohol and smoking. Are you not allowed to give a child wine from kiddush? Or even a little extra. Are you oiver lifnei iver by giving a 17 year a shot of whiskey? Does age here make a difference? Giving anybody a cigarette may qualify as lifnei iver since it’s widely accepted, but ignored by smokers, that smoking is quite unhealthy. Alcohol, on the other hand, is only harmful if its use is abusive.
Chazal say that Kol haposel, bemumoh posel. One who demeans another by using a flaw is actually citing his own flaw. Rather than throwing stones, one is told to always judge another favorably. My feeling is that you don’t judge anybody but yourself. I don’t recall G-d saying to me, you can be a judge over others. And, there’s always another side to what seems to be a story.
I know Lipa personally. Just because he decided noto to be a strict Skvere cusid doesn’t mean he went off the derech. He’s a perfectly frum yiddish person. His critics are full of jealousy at his success and sinaas chinom.
The Torah states clearly to talk about yetzias mitzrayim. But part of that is to teach the children about going out of any situation of conflict with goyim or yetzer hora. as it says, if not for yetzias mitzrayim we would still be helf by pharoah. that means still in golus with the yetzer horah. talking about the holocaust and how today we have so much torah and yiddishkeit, that we survived as a nation. and also allowing the children to be in the discussion so that they learn.
I love it when complete halacha am hoaretzim try to pasken the halacha.
Seems that if you come home from shul tonight after megilah wearing your shabbos clothes, its kind of stupid to have scrambled eggs or a tuna sandwich or a slice of pizza. Shabbos clothes mean challah, soup, meat.
Anybody who thinks that the mitzva of drinking on purim, as mandated by chazal until you can’t tell between boruch mordechai and orur haman, means drinking until you vomit all over your good suit, or drive and hurt yourself or another. You are a complete ahm ho’oretz. Rav Hutner ztzl would become fairly drunk and his best Torah came from that. but he sat in one place.
Esther was a Queen Consort. The Queen ruler in eretz yisroel was a concept of eis lasos and the Rambam would admit that in such a case it was OK. She ruled with the assent of Sanhedrin. Wives of ancient kings were either a Queen if the king wanted her as such, or a princess. The women in the harem were just royals with no title. A queen’s consort is never a king.
Go to sleep. You won’t know the difference. They didn’t have wild yeshiva bochurim driving cars during the days of the amoraim.
absolutely true.
Thats actually not a joke. but truth is that i always left my house at about 11AM and had the same route through Boro pk every year and then in to Flatbush. I was always home by 1 PM. about 15 packages. traffic starts about 1 pm. i wasnt tired, i wasnt angry, i wasnt frustrated.
because they want to mean kosher tuna which is a fish in contrast to the treif tuna which are related to dolphins and arent “fish”.
Actually its an idiosyncracy of the language.
make her pay for her week of pleasure by coming home to a pile of laundry on her bed and your bed not made. also buy tea bags. tea bags are good for black eyes.
purim sans hamentashen
just isnt for living beings
but stuffed cabbage is olam haboh
listen to the rhythm
of mikro megila in shul
no cabbage thinking
haman was a very bad man
for this he paid grievously
no stuffed cabbage for him
sub humanoid craeture. humanity challenged. although meshigener still seems the best.
go to the everglades near ft lauderdale. take the boat ride there. go to parrot jungle. take the boat rides around miami. go shopping on lincoln rd. walk on the beach edge. just sit in the sun.
the freezer idea was made because boys would come to lakewood only for the name and be missing from yeshiva cause they were dating. the idea is good. it allows a boy to immerse himself in learning before dating. giving him a sense of torah life. the girls don’t mind this. this isn’t the reason for the crisis. the problem is that both boys and girls have set their sights on the “perfect” spouse, which doesn’t exist. Truth is that the majority of kids get married early. they have reasonable minds and reasonable parents.
Any medrash or chazal about moshiach and when he will come and what will happen is purely alegorical and can’t be taken at face value. There’s only one thing we do know. That after moshiach comes klal yisroel won’t have shibbud malchus from anybody but will be free and have a malchus in eretz yisroel. Each Jew will not have his own goyishe servant and we will all go on working and living. As an aside, Edom is never considered America. Usually that’s Russia. But keep on dreaming.
Making a leining on gemorah is not just a nice thing to know. It is absolutely basic essential for any yeshiva bochur older than 16. Anybody who thinks differently just has no idea of what a yeshiva learning process is all about.
I have 2 sons who are full clothed chasidim. My family is chasidish on all sides. Both these sons married Litvish family girls. BH the girls took on our chasidish minhagim because that’s the halacha.
Most people die in a bed. Are you afraid to sleep in a bed?
I hit the hoshanos softly. If nothing falls off, so be it. People think they are more frum if they shred them. You’re right, its worse to make the poor shames clean all of that up.
The Gerrer Rebbe Pnei Menachem once had a father come to him asking about a name, a very funny yiddish name. The Rebbe asked him, did you ask her? He answered yes my wife agrees. The Rebbe said, no i mean did you ask the baby girl if she agrees to that name. Do not give that name.
Best challah recipe is to go to yossi’s on 18 and 57 and buy 2 challahs. if that doesn’t work out, try schicks on 16 and 47.
I’m not sure whether Hashem cares or not, I never got an answer from Him. Hashem didn’t send me here to be a judge over others. But the real point is that a person should care. I’m often asked, do you think G-d cares whether you put on tefilin or eat kashrus? My answer is always, I don’t care if G-d cares, I care. I care that when I walk in the street people know I’m Jewish. Yes kavonoh is very important, really important. But it’s like owning beautiful furniture in a shack. And the opposite, someone who has no inner self, that’s like having cots and folding tables in a beautiful mansion. Toicho k’baro means that the inside should be beautiful and the outside should be beautiful.
A shadchan came to me with a shidduch for his own grandson and wanted her picture. I gave it to him. Then we decided not to go with it. He came with the boys picture and after looking at it I gave it back to him. He realized that I’m not interested because I didn’t keep it to show my daughter.
Living yiddishkeit and living it like a lavan is a novohl b’reshus hatorah. the gerrer rebbe chidushei harim said that if the soton was to really get someone, he takes away his inner self. after that he can go on practicing yiddishkeit, its empty anyway.
I’m about to top you all. I and a friend made gunpowder and stuffed it into a cough syrup bottle, went up to the roof of the dorm and lit it. It exploded and made a foot round hole in the roof. Yes we were scared sh–less.
The halacho of lighting candles in general is that if you’re sleeping in a house, there should be candles lighting in that house. This means that if a man is in his own home alone or with his children but his wife is elsewhere, hospital, out of town, he should light the candles. He should light at least 2 although he can light whatever amount his wife usually lights.
Most shiurim of any kind, by men or women, are worth lsitening to. The “must listen” depends on each indivudual. Instead of making a thread that extols one speaker, let’s suggest speakers. If someone wants to listen fine. Every person will connect to the speaker that hits their “nail on the head”.
Seems that nobody read my post about trying to understand the other guy. Demeaning kolel and even merely suggesting any connection to TV shows a complete lack of understanding of a major portion of our nation. If you don’t like kolel, don’t allow your kids to go and don’t give any money. The lack of understanding is appalling.
You can buy a special hand milling tool to do this. It makes it much easier although somewhat messy to the mill. Really, best is the food processor but you have to be careful not to over-process. A fork is really the hardest way and you’ll still not have a good consistency.
We all know what chazal tell us about sinas chinom, that it was the main reason for the destruction of the 2nd beis hamikdosh, even though the level of Torah learning was extremely high. And Chazal also tell us that this sickness of our nation, the yetzer hora of sinas chinom, still “dances” among us.
Many speakers talk about how we should “tolerate” each other. No, tolerate is not the answer. What does tolerate mean? It means that you are wrong, you stink, but I can “tolerate” you. NO!!!
The KEY word is “understand”. I don’t agree with you, you have a different outlook on everything, but I understand why this is, where you’re coming from. Your heritage and culture are different than mine and so we have different ways of serving Hashem. A moshel parable: I’m standing talking to a friend and get a call from Florida, how do I get to NYC? my answer, take I95 north. And then another call from Boston, how do I get to NYC? Take I95 south. And then a call from Chicago. Answer I80 east. Wait says my friend. You’re giving different directions to each on how to get to NYC? Yes I answer, it depends on where they are coming from. Each one of us in klal yisroel, no matter which heritage we come from, has the same goal, avdus Hashem. We all want to get to NYC. But our ways, our paths, depend on our background and heritage.
Hashem specifically made 12 tribes, 12 somewhat independent nations, each with different cultures. Hashem took us through 12 different paths in the Yam Suf, with transparent walls so we could see each other. We should see that although we all have different paths, but our goals are always the same. Getting through the Yam Suf to serve Hashem on Har Sinai.
If we would all just try to understand each other, Moshiach would come.