According to one answer in the Ramban it comes out that Noach’s daughter’s-in-law were children of the giants. This is another explanation how the giant race survived the Mabul.

According to the other answer that Og himself survived, the Navi in Yehoshua explains that all the giants in Eretz Yisrael were defeated by Yehoshua and his army. The only four remaining giants lived in the land of the Plishtim. They were Goliass and his three brothers. Dovid and his army killed them in later years. This is why there are no giants today. I can look again for the sources for all this if anyone is interested.

The pasuk says that Yosef told his father the bad things that his brothers were doing. One of the examples that Rashi gives is that he claimed that the brothers were eating ??? ?? ??? (a limb torn off from a live animal) which is one of the seven mitzvos bnei noach. The question is why were the brothers doing this?

The Sifsei Chachamim brings an answer that they would remove a piece of meat from the animal after it was shechted, but still moving. This Yosef misunderstood as ??? ?? ??? because he didn’t see the shechitah.

My problem with this is that how could Yosef accuse his brothers of this aveirah without truly investigating the situation?

I heard an explanation that this machlokes was based on a fundamental question whether the Avos and the Sh’vatim were jews or bnei noach. The brothers held that they were jews and for a jew once an animal is shechted it is considered dead but Yosef was of the belief that they were all bnei noach for which the gemara and poskim say that shechitah plays no roll and death of an animal is when it has stopped moving. We see Yosef’s shitah at the incident with Aishes Potifar where Yosef says “?????? ???????.” Rashi notes that this is because even bnei Noach are assur in ?????. We see that acc. to Rashi, Yosef’f shitah was that he was a ben noach.

With this idea I would like to explain more about the debate between Yosef and his brothers.

As explained before, one of the Mitzvos Bnei Noach is Arayos. However, it is muttar for a non-jew to marry two sisters. This particular Ervah isn’t included in the mitzvah for bnei noach. According to Yosef, the talmid muvhak of Yakov, it was permitted for his father to marry both Rachel and Leah. However, acc. to his brothers the marriage to Rachel, the second sister, was Assur and invalid thereby making Yosef a mamzer.

Also, according to the other Sh’vatim the children of Bilha and Zilpa were ?????. This is because when a jew(Yakov) marries a non-jew or shifchah the status of the child follows its mother. Yosef however held that since they were all Bnei Noach and there was no such thing as Kiddushin the child therefore follows the father (according to the rules of lineage explained in Kiddushin daf :??). Therefore, Yosef befriended them since they were children of Yakov, but the other brothers considered them avadim and Yosef to be a mamzer.

People who live in glass houses….are plants.

Mishna Berurah- acc. to Beis Yosef not derech eretz to bite into something bigger than a k’beitza

Piskei T’shuvos- some say that if a food is eaten that way it is muttar. Some say still it is proper to be machmir.

Maharsha- it is proper to always eat with utensils

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The announcing itself I find quite goyish and disgusting but the “Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Cohen” seems like a tznius way to avoid calling a married woman by her first name.

If weather causes a negative mood then time outdoors should be decreased.

Mood =Simchas Hachayim minus dreary weather multiplied by time spent outdoors squared.

Using the Order of Operations this can be proven considering the downward spiral a low mood causes.

I tried I failed. I tried again I failed better

Rabbi Friedler- one who reaches for the stars may not reach them but forsure he wont end up with a handful of mud.

What’s the free yeshiva called Toras Pupa?

I’m a Canadian

Maurice85 ,very smart

I saw a piece of advice on another thread that seems very true. “Akward silent moments are more common in places where you aren’t doing anything like sitting in a hotel lobby as apposed to visiting the zoo.”

I think that pictures shouldn’t be asked for but from the girl’s perspective she would probably recieve more possibilties if she gave a picture or maybe even two. Probably the same goes for bachurim and I don’t see what the difficulty is in getting yourself photographed.

What does everyone think about talking first on the phone to a potential spouse so that the first impression isn’t based on looks

would it be possible for u to bring a book along and close it as soon as your boss comes along, or something like that?

Hey Ashreinu do you think anyone not yet in the parsha would gain from any of those links?