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Lost1970

We are supposed to believe that he can come at any moment if we are worthy. Our Rabbis have said for many years now that Mashiach is close. Hopefully this is the year.

Sam2

If he had zero extra time and if nobody else can give the shiur.

Steven

There are certain things that are flat out assur others are dependent on your intentions. This would be one that is dependent on intentions. However I will tell you from personal experience when I used to lift it’s very hard for a young guy or even not so young for his new muscles not to get to his head. Theres a strong tendency to get all into the whole weight lifting thing as a hobby and you start worshipping your body. Your whole day revolves around your diet and what lifts you do that day or if it’s a cardiovascular day or an off day. You are busy with protein and allu that. Weight lifting or should I say bodybuilding is a way of life for many. Its very time consuming. If you need exercise run or jog and take up calisthenics. Weightlifting takes up a lot of time and has a lot of risks involved both spiritual and physical. I once hurt myself in the gym and had a hard time breathing for 2 months. Its a dangerous sport.

Lakewood01

Theres just one problem. The scientific method for dating things is very flawed. I’mno science buff but if you gGoogle this stuff you will find science forums that discuss how the dating system is flawed. I’m amazed how people will grasp at straws to discard their religion has has a proven mesorah for thousands of years. A religion that nobody denies is true. Like someone said above all religions spawned from Judaism and based their religion on Judaism. They all believe that the old testament which is our Torah is true. Listen if you don’t want to believe because you would rather eat pork and live with shiksas I understand where you are coming from but to say that Judaism is not logical and not historically true is basically silly if you have really done your research. This goes for the OP as well. If you want to believe in our religion the info is out there. There are entry of rabbanim who wrote books and gave shiurim on these topics. If you are too lazy to do the research and are ready to throw it away because of some sort silly thing you once heard in science class then think about what that says about you.

Mobico

Sorry this may sound harsh but the ends don’t justify the means. I’m not on the level to give a shiur and I respect you for that but at the end of the day you can’t take on responsibilities that you can’t keep. If giving the Daf means that you can’t keep halacha 100% then stop giving the Daf or Reorder your schedule. Its a chillul Hashem for a Maggid shiur not to be listening to chazaras hashatz concentrating and answering properly. If you can get your hands on the sefer Oilas Tomid on tefillah take a look at the section on chazaras hashatz.

I don’t believe that many of the kids who go off even know why they are off and how they ended up there. Usually the kid has to come back on to a certain degree before he gains the self awareness and honesty to really understand what happened and how he got there.

What I mean is usually the kid is unhappy he will then start making lifestyle changes and meet bad friends and one thing leads to the next. If you asked him why you are off the derech he wouldn’t say “because I met bad friends who introduced me to drugs and who knows what…” In most cases the kids will say that it was my Rebbe or parents or whatever. The Rebbe may have been what made him upset but without the Internet or without the bad friends he would never be off the derech. So with Internet what happens is that the person is usually unhappy with their life for whatever reason and become curious and start “looking for things” either out of boredom, unhappiness, or pain or whatever. Then unfortunately they learn about negative things online and they change their lifestyle and start going to the places they learned about online…

Just my hapence

Did you ever read the guardyoureyes advertisement? “15,000 active registered members, 400,000 unique visits!”

This is for the people who looked themselves in the mirror and faced up to the fact that the shmutz is killing them. Do the math it’s a very unacceptable number. The fact that 15000 frum Jews felt the need to sign up to that website should tell you just how scary and dangerous the shmutz is to a frum yid.

Just my happence

I don’t know if Internet is an addiction per se. Its a machlokes. Either way most psychologists agree that using the Internet to look at shmutz (I’m sure you know the English word) is a serious addiction with terrible consequences.

Eclipse

Glad it worked out.

Leyzer

Not sure everyone knows this but it’s also assur to say Tehillim and let’s say you skipped parts of pesukei dzimra and now want to go back and say them you can’t do so during chazaras hashatz(which you don’t have to halachos ally and according to some seforim is actually quite a bad thing to do al pi kabalah because you are reversing the shefa by going backwards).

Sam

There are inyanim to the ones brought down by the Rema and are all linked to pesukim as far as I recall. You can’t just do the opposite of the ones in the Rema because you found some cute remez.

Sam

How is it different than going to kivrei Tzaddikim to ask them to intercede on your behalf?

It does say that we knock on Hashem door like paupers. There is certainly truth to the idea that a paupers who have nothing ask from the depths of their heart because they are truly pitiful and are truly desperate.

I wanted to add to Lev Aryeh that Davening is realizing how great Hashem is and how much you lack from not being truly close and intimate with Him and expressing your longing for being locked in a close knit and intimate relationship with him that you always feel His love and kindness regardless of what happens in your day to day life.

Rational frummie

The Rema is our shulchon aruch if you are of ashkenazic descent! You make it sound like “it’s just the Rema.”

Syag

In truth, we do find reference to the sending of “Manos” in connection with Rosh Hashanah (see Nechemiah, Perek 8).

The following is excerpted from short vort dot com.

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Elik

Does it help if you have a handicapped parking plaque? Or will they still tow us?

He doesn’t have to get us in mysterious ways. I was truly shocked to see people talk during chazaras hashatz shacharis and I even saw one guy talk at the end of mussaf. He just couldn’t hold out ten minutes. Is it so exciting to talk by davening?

Bym

Even if the Chazon Ish read some medical books as a child he definitely didn’t read about advanced neuro surgery and from the way I heard the story he learned the procedure from a Tosafos or something.

Either way what value does science as a whole have? For a forum person who knows that today we are here tomorrow we are in olam haba who cares about scienc?! I wwon’t say it’s not interesting but it’s so not a big deal in life. Most people don’t know more than rudimentary science and it has no impact on their lives. You happen to be into science but it seems that you have allowed hobby or interest of yours to take over. I totally don’t see why you should care one way or another about chazal scientific knowledge. They weren’t scientists they were Torah sages. If I were to know for a fact that there are people today that know more science than they did it would mean nothing to me. It wouldn’t affect my respect for them. Like I mentioned earlier the greatness of chazal has nothing to do with science but rather with who they were as people and what they accomplished in Torah and avodas Hashem. And I’ll say something else. For someone on the level of chazal why would they even care about science? They were above science. They were able to do miracles and be mechayeh meisim. So why should they even care about science?

Bym

I’m not afraid but you do have a point that most people will give up if they see that you just have this idea in your head and anything they say isn’t going to help. I just don’t understand your reluctance in speaking to a Rabbi or Rebbetzin (in our camp) unless of course it’s because they will give you an answer you don’t want to hear. So you are strong minded girl an with an independent streak who can’t take a no? Do I have it right?

She wants to learn Gemara for inspiration and to see how great the chazal were. There were and she seems like she is very strong minded and opinionated and thinks she knows it all. (read all her comments) That’s nnot the way you approach a Gemara. You come to a Gemara with all that you won’t get anywhere. The approach is that you want to know Raton Hashem and chachmas Hashem. If your desire is strong enough you will end up being inspired.

Jewishfem

My point is don’t look at the material with ideas and expectations of who you expect that page to say. First learn it through throughly and see what the page ACTUALY says. Then once you see why the page says you start asking questions. Do you know that the way the chasm sofer and others (even when they knew it all) learned is that they pretended they were looking at it for the first time. A lot of mistakes and misconceptions occur because we think we know something and therefore we expect the page to say something and then when the page doesn’t say what we expect we get confused. The Daf Gemara is correct now you have to figure out why it says things that don’t fit according to what you expected.

Sam2

What do you mean how do I know they transferred the mesorah? Its all written down! It says in the Gemara about the Has made and all that so that’s how I know that.

I’m not sure what you are asking me.

Beis yakov

Does the Chazon Ish need your approval? What about the chofetz Chaim? I’m not even sure what this approval is that you talk about. Does Rav Steinman need your approval? A person becomes a recognized gadol and the people accept him. TThat’s always how it went. Chazal were the greatest people of their time. They knew the most Torah and we’re great in middos at the same time. I’m really not sure what your issue is. Rav Moshe Feinstein doesn’tt need my approval he knows more than I will ever know and he was accepted as the Gadol Hador. If you think he needs your approval then maybe you need a shrink not a Gemara!

To me it sounds like your attitude is “I’m quite brilliant so if this stuff makes sense to me then it’s right and true if not, then it’s not for me.” You are coming from the wrong place. Before you start learning any Torah you must recognize this is Toras Hashem and it is totally Emes. Anything that doesn’t make sense to you is a flaw in you based on how you think or due to your prejudices. Torah is not a subject that you tackle with your brains and decide what’s right and what’s wrong. Its all Toras Emes. You have to park your pride. Its not about you its about what Hashem is trying to teach you and you will never understand it if you are always trying to make it fit your brain and preconceived notions attitudes and what you decide is rational and logical. When you come to learn Torah you should say I know nothing. Hashem teach me. Rebbe teach me. Otherwise it’s like you are trying to fit a square block into a round hole.

You don’t have to say bli neder when discussing something you aren’t allowed to do anyways.