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PAA – I wasn’t coming to explain, I was simply making the connection! You are right, it doesn’t work in “real life”, or in practical nonhalachic concepts.

Is it so difficult? Time Travel will mean that as long as in some point in the future one would do go back in time and do x, then already the first time round x must have happened. So as long as x has happened, you will be able to go back in time to facilitate that. However if x hasn’t happened, it is not a ???? in itself, but would be a ???? that time travel didn’t happen. Why not? Dunno. But like Dumbledore explains in prophecies, you don’t HAVE to fulfill them, you just WILL fulfill them.

Enter ?????/????? debate now.

There doesn’t seem much of a fight here – general consensus is that as far as Hilchos Bein Odom Lmokom (Hilchos Gittin) are concerned, there is no obligation for a husband for divorce his wife just because she wants out. However, Bein Odom Lechaveiro would dictate that he does divorce her.

Yes, he does have Ruach Hakodesh.

No, there is no best time to call. He’ll call you.

R’ Chaim Oizer Gurvitz Shlit”a spoke in Gateshead Yeshiva last Friday night for 50 minutes about the Ma’alah of Limud BeIyun and how that is the Ikar Limud of Torah, and he had some very choshuve mareh mekomos!! (Gemoros, Rishonim, Chasasam Soifer, Gr”a, R’ Yerucham)

He said over that when he was in Brisk, he was one of 10 Bochurim selected to join a special va’ad from R’ Yoshe Ber zt”l, and the first four days he gave them over a Derech HaLimud he learnt from the Brisker Rav. The first thing he said was that “Learn Iyun all day – Morning, Afternoon, Night seder” – but “Learn a daf Gemara, Rashi, Tosfos every day Bein Hasdorim”!

I am yekke and I wash before Kiddush and wait three hours, as all Jews should

Wrong attitude, sorry. You are a yekke, and therefore wash before Kiddush and wait three hours as YOU should, because that is YOUR mesorah. All Jews should is incorrect; all Jews should do as their Mesorah requires.

Any self respecting Yekke undestands that Mesorah is the most important thing in Yiddishkeit.

Yeah, it goes like this. <Humming softly>

“L’David Baruch” – supposedly from the Beis Hamikdash. I am afraid I don’t believe THAT particular myth.

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Squeak – You are definitely right that HKB”H definitely gives different people different challenges, and each person has a personal tachlis to fulfil during ones lifetime. The people who are born into nonreligious environments are probably stronger than those born into religious families, because Hashem decided that they HAVE the strength to overcome that particular nisayon, whereas a FFB may not have that strength, and therefore HKBH does not put him into the matzav on nisayon which he cannot overcome.

By Moshe and Ahron, the Torah sometimes precedes Moshe and other times precedes Ahron, to show that they were both equal in greatness. Everybody points out that of course, Moshe was the greatest Prophet ever? The answer is that both of them fulfilled THEIR OWN POTENTIAL, although Moshe’s madreigo was higher than Ahrons. So to answer the OP, if both fulfil their tachlis, they are equal in stature.

It also says Lfum Tzarah Agra – that reward is calculated in proportion to effort. Somebody who was handed everything on a silver platter and becomes a Gadol Hador may NOT get as much schar as somebody who works on himself to become frum.

However, I was once told a Mashol of a Dinner where the children were given Hotdogs and Chips, and the adults were served a four course gourmet meal. Each one enjoyed their meal immensely. Giving an adult hotdogs or giving a child a gourmet meal would not have satisfied either of them. Each person received exactly what he needed. And although the lamb chops were BETTER than the Hot Dogs, since a child cannot appreciate it, for him it is pointless, and worth less than the hotdog. It would not be a reward for a child to receive a gourmet dinner, because he cannot comprehend it.

The same thing is with us in Oilom Habo – if one person fulfilled his tachlis to the full, he will get the reward he deserves – but you cannot say that a “pushite yid” will get the SAME reward as a Rosh Yeshiva, but rather in proportion he will. Giving a simple person the same reward as a Rosh Yeshiva – even if he did put in more effort and time and thought to become what he became – is stupidity. (Dunno if it is true, but it is definitely something to think about!)

This works even without any filter installed (I think!) Go to Chrome App Store and download free “Ad Block”. It simply makes all the adds vanish.

Dunno about Internet Explorer or Firefox.

The problem is that if I don’t have a TV and you do, I may feel superior to you. And if you are a learner and I’m not, you may feel superior to me. This list could go on and on. The point is not to feel superior to any other Jew even if we keep more mitzvot than others and yes, that includes the IDF, MOs, secular, etc. We are all at different levels. You are not better than me and I am not better than you. We are all equals at different stages. Hope that is clearer.

Ridiculous. There is definitely room for debate about what is right and wrong, there is room for debate about what path HKBH wants one to choose. But there is no argument about the fact that the Mitzvos you do and the more Torah you learn (in proportion with Aveiros of course) – The more ???? ? one is ?????, the more schar one will get, and the better person one is. On the other hand, the more aveiros one does, the worse person he is, and the more ???? one gets.

So a person who has a pretty clean slate and loads of Mitzvos is going to be a much better person than the person who has is a Choiteh and has not done any Mitzvos.

This may not justify speaking or thinking bad about sinners, because one doesn’t know the special circumstances behind every situation and nor does one know the private life of any person. But that is neither here nor there!

Do you mean to say that somebody who is an Oved HaShem is NOT a better person/superior to a nonreligious person?

Sam2 – There is no such thing as Bittul on Chometz which is Bottel Beshishim from before Pesach?

Moshe Rabeinu, because hearing exactly what is Toras Emes and what is just rubbish mixed in by people trying their best to sound lomdish would be a real eye opener.

GG — Kollel is totally different, of course. Kollel is enabling people who would otherwise HAVE to work to learn without – or with less – financial burden. That is supporting Torah. This is not people spending some time learning in order to earn money, it is people who want to spend their lives in Torah given the opportunity to do so. Yeshivas Bein Hazmanim is generally dedicated towards Bochurim who, on the whole, have no financial worries and are simply looking to earn a few dollars on the side. Not saying it is wrong (see my post above) but you cannot compare it to Kollel.

the-art-of-moi: I am sure you had the purest of intentions, and you don’t sound at all like a troll. And the thread is heading in the right direction. It was just a little warning to make sure things didn’t head the wrong way.

I respect you for trying to be a better person, and work on yourself even in things people in your environment scorn. It is a very difficult thing, and kol hakavod!

Sorry if any offense was taken.

Even those who are choishesh for Gebroks, it should only be on Pesach itself. However, if you make Kneidlach before Yom Tov, any chashash chometz should be botel, and everybody should eat them? So why are you worried about Gebroktz premade?

As a very wise man once said: We are only as strong as we are united, and as weak as we are divided. A. B. P. W. D.

I believe the Gaon has a piece discussing this. (And perhaps the Dubna Magid as well, not sure).

And I think one can ask more than that. You were asking “al pi chesbon, he was right”. But even if every step of the line was wrong, and the chesbon didn’t work out, and the Malach Hamoves was found to be WRONG — What is the concept of a Malach being wrong? A Malach has no strengths of his own; he is a conduit of HKB”Hs power. The Malach is simply a messenger to carry out HKB”Hs Will. The Malach has no agenda of his own. The Malach HaMoves was created by HKB”H to fulfil a tachlis, and is no less than Malach Gavriel or Michoel. The same is with the Yetzer Hora – they/he are/is just doing what HKBH commanded them. So how can that be wrong??

Hey yekke2, if using the internet is bad then why are you posting online?

Oh, so you think there is nothing wrong with the Internet? What’s the accusatory tone “If using…” — I hope you don’t disagree with that point.

There is a very clever video of a frum working guy walks in to his boss.

MOSHE: Hi boss, I know it’s a busy time at the moment, but do you think I could go home two hours earlier for the next week because my wife needs help with all the cleaning?

BOSS: Sorry, Moish, but I really don’t think I can let you go at this point in the month; we are really overloaded with work.

MOSHE [smiling broadly]: Thanks Boss, I knew I could count on you!

I do, and I make a Brocho.

I imagine – just pointing out – that the ‘not for women’ was just so that the poll doesn’t get overbalanced with a load of ‘no’s’. But I suppose the OP wouldn’t mind if you replied whether your husbands or fathers wear tefillin! Or if you are a WOW, then you can tell us whether or not YOU wear tefillin!

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