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Bruriah, I am surprised at how disrespectfully you speak about chazal
Men are mashpia and women are mekabel one isn’t greater than the other, they are just different.
Obviously, but you still have to do everything you can בטבע to try to stop it
The story is that breuriah mocked what chachomim said that noshim daatan kallos, her husband told one of his students to try to convince her to do an avira with him, eventually he succeeded, and then he told her that it was just a trick and what chachomim said was true, then she committed suicide
There is no proof that the gemara was wrong about the sun going around the earth
The lubavitcher rebbe spoke at length after president Reagan got shot (by someone from a rich family etc) about the need to improve education by putting g-d into the education system thereby giving the kids a moral education as well
Sort of, just with more details, I wanted to start a discussion about mesivta gemara
I don’t believe learning a sugya leiyun can be done properly with a mesivta, asides for the same issues as artscroll being that you don’t toil to understand the signon of the meforshim additionally u have to use the orginal text being that you need to make diyukim etc
There are a number of things In halacha that we find that a chilul hashem does mean (at least In certain instances) not looking good in the eyes of the hidden, take for example not killing givon (rambam hilchos melachim perek vov)
When you learn girsah (bekious) you’ll remember it a lot better if learnt without an artscroll
Satmar, you have a point, it’s still torah,but you still have to make sure that the learning you do is in the best possible way, which for many ppl is without artscroll.
Nevillechaimberlin, the point of artscroll is to have the whole gemara in a way that you can learn it without having to use the original text, but they still put the regular daf so that people who want to can use the regular daf and the english only for specific times when they need itI don’t think the point of artscroll is to teach you how to learn, the point is to be able to properly learn gemara without having to use the orgignal text
DWKL1 I agree with you that it’s not good for the majority of yeshiva bochurim, but that is not a reason why not to print it being that it is good for some types of ppl
when you work on understanding the gemara etc you remember better, if you just read it from artscroll you won’t remember it and also u won’t learn how to learn, but for beginners which cant learn gemara at all alone should start with artscroll to start them off
A man and woman together alone in a car at night on an empty street could be a prob of yichud, if the street is not empty or its day it’s not a problem
That post was a mistake I misread something
I already addressed that previously, for a select few there could be techiyas hamiasim, not for all the yidden because that will happen after moshiach comes,
I know, but they where wrong, here is a quote from a sicha 12 tammuz 5727 “Yokum Ish – a person, with 248 limbs and 365 sinews and he will be seen with physical eyes
and it will be possible to ‘ontapen mit di hent’ (felt with hands) and he will be seen in all aspects
as a person is seen.”
b) Melech literally means a king; “men darf a kuk ton tzi halt er fun democratye.”
c) Yokuf kol Yisroel – “yederun fun yiden” (each and every Jew) ‘kefiah dosis’ (religious
coercion). (The Rebbe explains that because bechira will still exist there may be a Jew who will
not want to be mkayem Torah and Mitzvos Moshiach will force him.)
d) Yilchem milchemes Hashem – means literally a war “a (real) war but in a way of peace.”,After thinking about it, it seems that from the rambam that he will never be moshiach, but it does sound like from the rambam the he means someone who according to halacha is bechezkas moshiach and fails he will nvr be moshiach and was just placed there for a test, which is why the rambam writes killed, because the emphasis here is that he failed, but for a reg person which dies if he has techiya maybe he can be moshiach, because he never was a failed moshiach,
Either way it doesn’t really matter, there is no chiyuv of speculating who moshiach will be etc mo matter how you read the rambam, The main thing is to do Torah and mitzvos etc to bring moshiach
And lekkutei sichos is the rebbes torah work compiled according to the parsha, but on all parts of torah
I actually did not know that about the footnote, thx for telling me, but i still think that the rambam doesn’t negate the possibility of someone to have techiya and be moshiach. The rambam says that if he died we know for sure that he is not the promised one, but rambam dosen’t say that he can’t become the promised one later if he has techiya, rather rambam is saying that he is for sure not the one the Torah promised as of now
Let me quote from lekkutei sichos chelek beis pg 518 (translation from yiddish) “ppl ask how do I say that soon the dead will come back including the (previous) rebbe and he will lead us out of exile, the order is first moshiach will come and then there will be techiya, the answer is although the general techiya will accur after the coming of moshiach and the building of the beis hamikdash etc, but there will be a select few which will have techiya before moshiach comes, as is known from a few stories in shas and medrash of tzaddikin that did techiyas hamiasim, and like chazal say even the smallest of you can do techiya (avodah Zara 10b)” meaning that techiya can happen in gauls also, that’s the sicha, as of the rambam, the rambam says that someone who is halachaikly assumed to be moshiach (bechezkas moshiach) of he dies he is no longer moshiach, meaning that according to halacha he is for sure not moshiach as of now, also the rebbe is for sure not moshiach now as moshiach did not come yet, but if there is techiya before than the rebbe is like any other live person, the rambam is saying that once a assumed moshiach according to halacha dies he is now not moshiach according to halacha, the reason why we don’t believe it possible for j to be moshiach is because he was a kofer
וְאִם יַעֲמֹד מֶלֶךְ מִבֵּית דָּוִד הוֹגֶה בַּתּוֹרָה וְעוֹסֵק בְּמִצְוֹת כְּדָוִד אָבִיו. כְּפִי תּוֹרָה שֶׁבִּכְתָב וְשֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה. וְיָכֹף כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל לֵילֵךְ בָּהּ וּלְחַזֵּק בִּדְקָהּ. וְיִלָּחֵם מִלְחֲמוֹת ה’. הֲרֵי זֶה בְּחֶזְקַת שֶׁהוּא מָשִׁיחַ. (אִם עָשָׂה וְהִצְלִיחַ וּבָנָה מִקְדָּשׁ בִּמְקוֹמוֹ וְקִבֵּץ נִדְחֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל הֲרֵי זֶה מָשִׁיחַ בְּוַדַּאי. וִיתַקֵּן אֶת הָעוֹלָם כֻּלּוֹ לַעֲבֹד אֶת ה’ בְּיַחַד שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר כִּי אָז אֶהְפֹּךְ אֶל עַמִּים שָׂפָה בְרוּרָה לִקְרֹא כֻלָּם בְּשֵׁם ה’ וּלְעָבְדוֹ שְׁכֶם אֶחָד):
Now, if a king should arise from the House of David who is versed in Torah and engages in Commandments, as did David his forefather, in accordance with both the Written and the Oral Torahs, and he enjoins all of Israel to follow in its ways and encourages them to repair its breaches, and he fights the Wars of G-d128I.e. he defends Israel., then he may be presumed to be the Messiah. If he succeeds in his efforts and defeats the enemies around and builds the Sanctuary in its proper place and gathers the dispersed of Israel, he is definitely the Messiah.
וְאִם לֹא הִצְלִיחַ עַד כֹּה, אוֹ נֶהֱרָג, בְּיָדוּעַ שֶׁאֵינוֹ זֶה שֶׁהִבְטִיחָה עָלָיו תּוֹרָה, וַהֲרֵי הוּא כְּכָל מַלְכֵי בֵּית דָּוִד הַשְּׁלֵמִים הַכְּשֵׁרִים שֶׁמֵּתוּ. וְלֹא הֶעֱמִידוֹ הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא אֶלָּא לְנַסּוֹת בּוֹ רַבִּים, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר “וּמִן הַמַּשְׂכִּילִים יִכָּשְׁלוּ לִצְרוֹף בָּהֶן וּלְבָרֵר וְלַלְבֵּן עַד עֵת קֵץ כִּי עוֹד לַמּוֹעֵד”.
But, if he does not succeed in these matters or is killed, we will know that he was not the one Torah has promised. He is (merely to be considered) like all the (other) exemplary and qualified kings of the House of David who have died. G-d set him up only to try the masses, as it says, “And some of the wise will stumble, to refine among them and to purify and to make white, even to the time of the end, for it is yet for the time appointed” (Daniel 11:35). Rambam malachim perek 11.
This means that if someone is bechezkas moshiach and then fails u should know that he is not anymore moshiach, but how does that mean that if someone has techiya and then fulfilled the requirements can’t be moshiachIn response to chain Berlin, From a tzetel of the rebbe Adar I 5752:
“There is no obligation to search for who is Moshiach etc. but there is a positive mitzvah of the
Torah to love each and every Jew, and to avoid fights etc. absolutely – and certainly not to
intentionally do the opposite.”Some singers still have depth to they’re music, take avraham fried for example, most of his music has depth,
Why would English words make something goyish? As long as the tune is fine i don’t see a problem, and if anything the opposite is true, when the words are in english more ppl will understand which will make the song actually meaningful
Also the rambam says that if someone is bechezkas moshiach and he fails or dies, we know he is not moshiach, the rebbe was never bechezkas moshiach or on his way to being moshiach, therefore if there is techiya and then the rebbe fulfilled the requirements he can be moshiach then
I actually have looked In the sources, secondly from where in my posts do u see that I believe it is incumbent on every chassid to believe so, I never said that as I don’t believe that, all I said is that since its technically possible and therefore its possible to hope so, not in any way do you have to, thirdly it’s not saying that he is greater than David hamelech, every generation has its leader and maybe hashem will chose the leader of the rebbes generation,
I also want to point out that it is not a chiyuv to search for who is moshiach as it does not matter until he comes, I am just pointing out that it is possible, you don’t have to think that it will happen, all I am saying is that it is technically possible
Meaning that untill techiyas hamiasim happens he cannot be moshiach according to halacha, but if techiyas hamiasim happens than he is just like any other live person, just like any halacha that applies to a dead person only applies while he is dead, halacha doesn’t take into account a miracle, but halacha doesn’t say a miracle isn’t possible
it says they knew he wasn’t moshiach, we also know the rebbe is not moshiach, but is not moshiach means during the current situation where he is not alive, halacha doesn’t speak about miracles, but if there will be a miracle (which the medrash says there will) than he is not anymore dead and can be moshiach once again, the rambam is saying that if someone is thought to be moshiach currently and then he dies it means that he is currently not moshiach, the rebbe is also currently not moshiach, and you can’t say he for sure will, all I am saying is that it is possible,
I actually once heard from a litveshe guy that the gr”a held that shlomo hamelech is moshiach
Actually in 5752 the rebbe told leibel groner upon hearing that people are saying that he is moshiach that hashem will reveal to moshiach that he is moshiach and I have not gotten such a revelation
It was possible for bar kochba to be moshiach because of the techiya also, but the rambam is saying that according to halacha even though he was bechezkas moshiach, now he isn’t
Shlomo hamelech could technically be. As for the rambam all the rambam proves is that once someone dies he is no longer considered moshiach even if he was once considered moshiach during his life, the rebbe is not considered moshiach, bar kochba was not moshiach after he died just like the rebbe is not moshiach, but that doesn’t mean it is not possible for there to be a miracle (techiya) and for things to change, halacha doesn’t speak about miracles, what I am saying is that a miracle is possible and then he will be like any other live person,
Let me reiterate one more time something which everyone here clearly didn’t understand, the rambam writes that someone who was thought to be moshiach (bar kochba, meaning ppl thought that he WAS MOSHIACH THEN) since he died, ppl knew he wasn’t moshiach, because a dead person can’t be moshiach, the rebbe was never even bechezkas moshiach according to halacha, so just like he wasn’t moshiach in his lifetime so to he isn’t moshiach now, but if there is techiya than when he is alive then he is like any other live person who is possible to be moshiach, the rambam never negates that possibility, all the rambam says is if there is someone who is assumed to be moshiach when be dies you should know that he is not moshiach, the rebbe was never bechezkas moshiach to not be moshiach later rather the rebbe was like anyone else who wasn’t moshiach during his life and isn’t moshiach afterwards, but if there is techiya then when that happens the rebbe is like any other live person who can be chosen as moshiach then
I said will, he can be chosen after he died if he comes back in the techiyas hamiasim that will happen before moshiach comes, when he dies applies to someone who was thought to be moshiach so when he dies that is a proof that he isn’t, the rebbe was never .moshiach to die to not be moshiach, and if he is in the techiyas hamiasim hashem can choose him then
Dead ppl can’t be moshiach means when they are dead, if they come back in techiya they can since then they aren’t dead, halacha follows nature so dead ppl can’t be .oshiach since if they are dead they are dead, but if they later are alive because of techiya then they aren’t anymore included in that halacha
We don’t think that the rebbe was greater than Moshe rabbeinu ch”v (for example) but who said that hashem is going to chose for moshiach the greatest person that ever lived, especially that the rebbe cared for each jew to a crazy extent in the recent galus, so as chassidim we hope that hashem will chose him
If someone was thought to be moshiach and then he died it means he isn’t, he isn’t moshiach anymore, could he technically be later on if things change, maybe, but now he isn’t, some lubavitchers hope that that one day there will be techiyas hamiasim and the rebbe will become moshiach not because they believe that he was greater than everyone that ever lived, but because they hope that they’re rebbe will become moshiach, they are not saying for sure, they are not asking anyone else to believe that, that is just what they hope, why is it a problem for a chassid to hope that his rebbe will become moshiach eventually, and many ppl in Judaism hoped that they’re rebbe or teacher will become moshiach, it isn’t a new thing, what’s new is some crazy ppl who think the rebbe is for sure moshiach and they have to convince that to everyone else etc, that’s new and not in line with Judaism
Do you think rabbi akiva thought that bar kochba was greater than all the other tanaim of his dor?
The rebbe is definitely not moshiach as of now, but I think it is possible (I didn’t say for sure, I said possible) for him to be .moshiach later on, the medrash says that there will be a resurrection before moshiach comes, if the rebbe is resurrected then, he can be moshiach then. As of now though there is no halachik proof for that, although some ppl hope that the rebbe will be resurrected then and then become moshiach which is not a problematic hope according to halacha
The dating system of chabad is definitely more similar to the litvish way, the couple dates until they feel that they will be able to have a successful relationship however long that may be, as of husband learning and wife working, chabad does not believe in that, chabad believes that a man should work, as did many tanaim and amoraim that specifically worked for a living.
I can guarantee you that no one in Chabad supports him, like you even brought from heavy meschichistim, the fact that he was praised is a problem, but that dosent mean that lubavitchers support such a person, ask any lubavitcher he will tell you he dosent,
I personally think small peyos look better in front of the ears
Yes, although they would also have a hard time, but definitely not as much
But either way not regarding the age alot of times it was hard for elder chassidim to totally give themselves over to the new rebbe since they where so deeply connected to the previous rebbe
I think that elder chassidim will definitely not feel comfortable having such a young rebbe, like they did throughout history, but if the rebbe is capable it isint a problem within itself, there is a famous story regarding this with a rebbe (I forgot which one) and the point of what he told his chassidim was that I was born into it and therfore Even though I am younger but I have something impossible to gain through age etc
I think it’s good and healthy for children to share bedrooms, it helps they’re relationship between each other