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Wolf – isn’t it your turn now to give us a rendition of your merits that earn you eternal damnation for letting your wife choose the date?

Q. Did Yaackov actually split them into two groups? It was supposed to be part of the plan but we don’t see it ever carried out?

Did he ever post anywhere besides for the funny shidduchim stories thread?

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????? ?????? ????

The Brisker Rav says that before ??? ???? even the ???? had no ???????, but just had ??????? (As seen in ???”? ??? ?’ ????? ??’ ?) — and ???”? in ?????? ?”? says that it isn’t ???? to have a ?????? ????, so the question doesn’t start.

(Although ???’ ?????? ? brings that Eliezer was ???? Rifka, and ??”? ?? ????? brings a few times ??????? by the ????).

???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ?”? ??? ?’ ???? ???

Q: The ???? says that Leah could daven for her embryo to be changed from male into female only because it was within the first 40 days of pregnancy.

The question is – what happens to ?????? ???? ???? ????? ????? ?? ??? ???? ?? ????? ?????? — what happens when they get switched around now?

Officialy, they are not civilians anymore, they are traitors accused of treason and spying.

At risk of sounding cliched, we must daven and do teshuva — And remember the words of the Meshech Chochma — before the war, he announced that the pattern of history is always whenever Klal Yisroel get to familiar with the goyim and feel too comfortable in Golus — He says ‘when Yidden think that Berlin is Yerushalayim…’ – Then the goyim suddenly get up and massacre us.

Here is a problem of people thinking that Jerusalem is Yerushalayim — when people believe that we are good with a Jewish state, and don’t need the geula, then Hashem sends us a message.

We must remember that we are in Golus and daven and hope for the Geula – ????? ?????? ???.

I asked a friend where my chavrusa was. He told me: “He’s in the place where the king himself goes!”

What is the Halacha about one’s sister? I never heard of any issur but somebody very choshuv told me that it is a big chiddush that one can LISTEN TO HIS SISTER SINGING and it is not poshut at all.

I know that Hilchos Yichud with a sister is an in-between stage (temporary, not permanently), but is Negia muttar?

A) Rashi says once that Avrohom first got rid of the Avoda Zoro and then invited the guests in, whereas Lot wasn’t makpid and therefore let them in.

But later it says that Lot did that in order to save them from Sedom???

B) Did the story with the ?????? take place on ????? or ???? The ???? in ??? ???? ?”? says that it was on Succos, but Rashi says ???. Is this a ??????

It may have something to do with the tide — last night they said at least a foot of the water was added only cos of the tide nothing even to do with the storm.

Yehuda zvi cannot be a kohein if he is from aminodov! (See subtitle)

And don’t you think that this thread should be closed because it has potential to insult people here?

The final verdict was for stealing but were also guilty of A”Z and G”A. No stira at all.

So without stealing the Flood would have come or wouldn’t have come?

?? ??? ???????? ?? ???? ?? ???? ???????? ?? ???

2) There is an apparent ????? in ??”? – First ??”? says that “Any place where idolatry or adultery is found, ?????????? ?? ?????…”

THE NEXT ??”?: The final verdict was given only after stealing.

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And when were the vibrations in the air (SOUND) created?

Firstly, why is this Artscroll more than any other publisher?

Secondly, the point of a biography of a ????? ??? or ???? is for a reader to take out the lessons, not for an interesting read. If there is nothing to learn, don’t put it in!

A) What is philosophical about the question?

B) Can somebody explain the ????? here? I fail to understand why it shouldn’t be a noise?

C)

Da mah Lehashiv L’apikores means that (even though you shouldn’t say k’fira) you should be able to disprove it. That means you may listen to it to legitimately disprove it. Therefore, censoring statements isn’t the solution. Truth is. Saying “No Kfira” isn’t productive.

I used to argue with missionaries a lot, and one of my Rebbes said: “Da mah lehashiv lapikores” is FOR YOU that you should know what to answer – it never says ‘ANSWER THE APIKORES’. If an Apikores comes to YOU and asks you something, you should have the answer in your heart so that you are not influenced.

D) ???? we can bring a ???? from ??? ???? ?”? – the Gemara is differentiating between when half a ????? is before the ??? ????, and when half the ????? took place in a cave [where those outside are not ????] – the ???? says ??? ??? ???? ????? ????? ??????? ???? — It is a place of ???? for those inside the cave .

Why does the ???? have to say ‘for those inside the cave’? That isn’t the point we are coming to answer; the point is that it is a ????? ?? ????, whereas before the Time of the ???? it isn’t a ????? ?? ????? (I think one of the ??????? asks the question)

According to this question, maybe we can answer: It is only a ???? ???? if somebody is there; if nobody is there, then it isn’t ‘HEARING THE SHOFAR’!!!

And another quote from ???? quite relevant:

??? ?? ?? — ???? ?:?

If your ?? tells you not to go, then don’t go.

If your ?? tells you not to make your wedding mixed, then don’t make your wedding mixed.

Whether your ??? ??? leads you to disagree or not.

See: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/mixed-seating

See also: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/weekly_torah.php?id=454

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The Mechitza – Why How and When Part 7

Mixed Seating at Weddings

When men and women are seated together at a wedding the poskim say that the beracha of simcha b’miono is not recited at the sheva berochos because there is no simcha if men and women are sitting mixed.(38) The Levush (39) says if men and women see each other then no simcha b’miono is recited, but today since women are out on the streets more than in previous years we are not concerned that one will have thoughts about women. Many poskim say that the heter of the Levush does not apply in our day and age, since many women do not dress according to the way they are supposed to making people more susceptible to think about them. (40) Although years ago mixed seating may have been something which many people (even chareidim) did, this may not be done today and a mechitza should be made at every wedding.(41) Today, since the kallah is the only one brought into the men’s section at a wedding during sheva berochos, the beracha of simcha b’miono is recited. (42)

At a Chupah

Some poskim say that one should have a mechitza between men and women by a chupah.(43) Other poskim say the path separating the men and women (red carpet) is enough of a separation in this regard. The minhag seems to be like this second opinion.(44) Many Chassidim make the chupah outside; when the chupah is outside no mechitza is required. (45) (At a badeken and during the Smorgasbord a mechitza should be made, but it is not the custom). (46)

Footnotes

(38) Sefer Hapardes (Rashi) page 72:29, Sefer Chassidim 393:page 103, Yam Shel Shlomo Gittin 1:18, Kesubos 1:20, Bach E.H. 62, Be’er Heitiv E.H. 62:11, Bach Hachadoshes Y.D. 55:page 114, Bais Shmuel E.H. 62:11, Chasam Sofer C.M. 190:page 71, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 149:1, Orchos Tzaddikim simcha page 67, Pela Yoetz Chosson:page 249, Yeuhda Yaaleh 2:45:5, Ahavas Chesed 3:6:in footnote :page 286, Yabea Omer E.H 3:10:9, Natei Gavriel Nesuin 43:1, 94:3, Minhag Yisroel Torah Nesuin pages 210-212, Birchos Chasanim page 223:45:footnote 101, refer to Shulchan Aruch 529:4, Mishnah Berurah 22, Shar Ha’tzyion 21. (39) O.C. minhagim 36. (40) Lev Avraham 1:135, Vayivorech Dovid E.H. 1:121:page 12, Oz Nedberu 12:47. (41) Refer to Igros Moshe O.C. 1:39, 1:41, Be’er Moshe ibid, Teshuvos V’hanhugos 2:651, Natei Gavriel Nesuin 39:2, Journal Of Halacha and Contemporary Society 35:pages 34-35, Shearim Metzuyanim B’halacha 149:1. Some Chassidim have a wall between men and women (Yisroel Kedoshim pages 72-74). One should not let the women come to the men’s side of the hall (Ibid). It goes without saying that it is absolutely forbidden to have mixed dancing at a wedding (Refer to Ben Ish Chai Shoftim 1:18, Shiurei Beracha E.H. 21:1, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 152:13, Biur Halacha 339 “l’hukel,” Aruch Ha’shulchan 529:7, E.H. 65:3, Igros Moshe E.H. 1:97, 2:13, O.C. 2:30, 4:35, Minchas Yitzchok 3:109:1, 3:111, Be’er Moshe 4:147:31:page 236, Soveh Simchas 1:14:page 194, Nesuin K’hilchosom 13:26, Halichos Bas Yisroel 7:16, Yugel Yaakov pages 237-241:footnote 325, Yabea Omer 1:30:15). One is allowed to stay at a mixed wedding as long as he or she does not dance (Halichos Bas Yisroel 7:footnote 35). If a Yid wants to dance by a mixed wedding he should not take off his yarmulka (Igros Moshe Y.D. 2:33, see Yugel Yaakov page 232). One should not rent a hall to people if there will be mixed dancing (Igros Moshe Y.D. 1:72, O.C. 4:35). (42) Horav Yisroel Belsky Shlita, see Minhag Yisroel Torah Nisuin pages 210-212, Divrei Shalom 6:130. (43) Yabea Omer E.H. 3:10:9, Vayivorech Dovid E.H. 1:121, Be’er Moshe 4:147:31. (44) Refer to Srdei Eish 1:page 216:5, Asei Lecha Rav 3:40, 8:22, see Natei Gavriel Nesuin 18:1. (45) Vayivorech Dovid ibid:page 12. (46) Refer to Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 35:page 61. One should not go to the women’s section to call his wife, rather a young child should be sent (V’ein Lumo Michshal 5:page 272).

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A bochur once went to R’ Elya Lopian zt”l, asking him if for permission to miss Yeshiva and go to a wedding. It turned out that the wedding was mixed. The bochur said to R’ Elya: “I’ll sit on the side with a Sefer, and I won’t be ????”.

R’ Elya turned to him and shouted: “I am eighty years old, and blind in one eye, yet i walk in the street with my head lowered towards the ground so that I shouldn’t ?”? be ????. You are a healthy teenager – how can you possibly assure yourself that you will not be ?????”

I think there is an earlier source for this story: “?? ????? ????? ?? ??? ????”.

Even the ??? ?’ ????? was once walking with thousands of Talmidim, and the Satan appeared on a tree disguised as a beautiful woman. R’ Akiva actually began climbing the tree to do an ?????, before controlling himself. And this is in public, the ??? ?’ ????? and UP A TREE.

I personally don’t understand anybody who would put themselves into a situation of nisayon.

Being a Yekke, unlike most other sects of Judaism, entails being born a Yekke. Other sects include transforming, changing ????? and deciding to do what you want. Not Yekkes.

Actually, that is true with all sectors of Judaism. Nothing unique to Yekkes.

Not Chassidim – I’m afraid if that would be true, Chassidus wouldn’t exist – isn’t it a modern invention – like within the last 300 years?

Maybe – FINALLY – the Moderators have learned that if there is nothing to write, write nothing!!

It really is beautiful. In Munks (The biggest Yekishe kehilla in the UK), they sing it on ??? ??? after Davening, and the children all run around the shul together. It is a bit of a ????? for Davening and my father never let me go when i was a child.

The Minhag started in Frankfurt where the children would make a train by putting their arms on each other’s shoulder and march around the shul singing Adon Olam, which is very beautiful.