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Yekkes don’t do the whole Ushpizin thingy. But I do know that we hang up in the Sukkah (THAT far we can do) Ushpizin decorations, we have a fight every year on the order.
Mine never go brown and I’ll tell you why. You see my father has inherited this way of doing things from my great great grandfather in law, and this is how I do it. First thing when I buy them, I hang them in my dining room upside down from the chandelier, then I leave them ther for 2.6 hours and then bake them at 350 for ten minutes. Then when I put them in the lilav sleeve, I wrap it in a yellow towel, that I saturate with exactly 2 cups of water mixed with 1 tbs of vinigar and 1 shot of triple sec. And put it in a moldy lulav case that has my lulav from the year before (I keep it there year to year). Use green rubber bands to keep the towel on.
We must be related!!! DO NOT under any circumstances drop any hints as to who you are on the Coffee Room, but i have the same ????? from my Shvigger, may she rest in pieces. Just instead of put it in a moldy lulav case that has my lulav from the year before , we add a step to the previous level:
Saturate with exactly 2 cups of water mixed with 1 tbs of vinegar and 1 shot of triple sec.— Mix this in a pattern of seven times, followed by one anti-clockwise, until the mixture is thick enough. Then, as you pour it on, pledge 180 X [Gematria of your name] X [Gematria of Mothers Name] X 277 (Gematria of ????) IN DOLLARS ONLY to Kupat Ha’ir.It is nice to meet you, o relative of mine!
I think they all come with cloth buttons, and when they fall off, the wearers replace them with regular buttons, because where do you buy cloth buttons??
I once asked my Rebbe the point of the button at the back of a frock, and he said ‘The same reason a truck has a sign on the back saying ‘LONG VEHICLE”. We came up with about five ways of explaining the response.
There is a famous question – Why is Succos now and not Pesach time, if the whole purpose of the Succah is to remind us of ???? ????? (the Heavenly Protection in the desert)?
The Midrash explains that the reason is so that if Hashem decreed Golus (Exile) for us on Yom Kippur, we will fulfill our punishment and be exempt.
The obvious question is: What sort of exile is it to sit in a Succah with your family over Yom Tov, singing and having delicious meals?
The answer is with a fundamental point which is the philosophy of the whole ???? ??????: The point of a Succah is to teach us that there is no ?? (power) in the world other than Hashem – ??? ??? ?????. By going out of your secure area into a temporary structure which has to be roofed by ????? – the rubbish of your growth – rather than proper material, you show that you are placing your trust in G-d, that only He can protect you, whatever the situation is.
We read the ?????? of ????? ??? ????? on Succos. The War of Gog and Magog, the Seforim explain, will not be a physical war but a spiritual war. R’ Shimshon Refoel Hirsh explains that ‘Gog’ uses the terminology of ?? – roof – which underlies their philosophy of protection and strength – believing in ??? ????? ??? – in one’s own strength rather than in G-d’s. “Magog” is the ideology of protecting somebody else, being somebody else’s security.
On Succos, we ‘take the roof off’ – we do the ultimate opposite to that ideology by placing our trust purely Hashem.
Of course we haven’t gone into Exile. But the point of exile is so that one understands that he is away from one’s comforts and security, and G-d is in charge. By sitting in the Succoh, one can achieve the same lessons without actually Needing to go into Exile. You have accomplished the same effect as the Exile should have.
That is the point of Rosh Hashono, Yom Kippur and Succos – the ?????? and Coronation and acceptance of HKB”H on us as King. The recognition that He is our King is the ????? of the whole year.
THat is also the point of reading ???? – where ???? tells us ??? ??? ?????… that everything on this world is all rubbish, except for the Lord, ??? ??? ?????.
Simchas Torah is the climax of the entire ???? ??????, and after ????, ??? ????, ??? ????? and Succos, you can open the Aron Hakodesh and say truly – ??? ????? ???? ?? ? ??? ?????…
The ???? ????? in ???? (The commentary under the ??”?, found at the back of the ????) clearly states that it is ASSUR TO SMOKE ON YOM TOV.
(See also http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/smoking-why-should-it-be-muttar#post-386078, I have heard this many times but never seen it. It sounds like the ??? ????? has a ????? about this in ??? ?”?.)
There’s no kiyum to typing on a computer screen. It isn’t “really” there. On the disk it’s just a pattern of magnetism, and on the monitor it’s just a pattern of chemical dots which have been momentarily activated by an electron beam.
For the same reason, there is no problem of ????? if you write ???? online, because it is nothing and does not count as writing. So if you write the ?? ???, you would be allowed to delete it.
[Somebody once told me that even if you argue and hold that it is called ?????, one would be permitted to delete it, because everything deleted leaves a trace than can be undeleted with the right software.
I said that if there would be a problem, the problem would be minimizing it, not deleting it [because every time it comes onto the screen it is recreated; i don’t think it is ‘stored invisibly’ on the taskbar. But I am not sure]
BUT printing out is another matter. Then it has a kiyum, like anything written or typed on a machine. I don’t print anything out unless it’s a davar ha-eved or a need for the chag (e.g. grocery list).
Then it has a kiyum, like anything written or typed on a machine – Er – didn’t you just say that something typed on a machine has no kiyum?
And I am not sure if that will be a problem – printing is only a ???? – you push a button and it sends an image to the printer and sets the ink running… is it not like asking a goy to write for you ? You aren’t writing it yourself!
Doctor MDMD: The Chasam Sofer says that if you come across something from the parsha in your gemara, it is a siman you are learning Torah Lishma.
So i’ll just sit here and twiddle my thumbs while the rest of you have a tearful reunion…
By Chassidishe Rebbes it is extremely common — but even in the Litvishe circles – R’ Avrohom Gurvitz Shlit”a, Rosh Yeshiva in Gateshead, married his first cousin. (R’ Leib Lopian and R’ Leib Gurvitz were brothers in law)
My mother and father married after my mother’s sister married my father’s brother. We live in the same city.
As far as I have seen, the only damage it causes is the headaches of those working out our genology (you’d be surprise nhow confusing it is.
And i’ve got bright yellow – the only colour in size 12 left in the shop!!!
I remember thinking that if you assume like the Brisker Rav and that it is actually a Kiyum of an Asei D’Oraisa that you should be allowed to eat even before Davening on Erev Yom Kippur because the Asei could be Docheh the Lo Sa’asei of Lo Soch’lu Al Hadam. I never actually do it though.
Somebody asked me during the ????? in Yeshiva yesterday a similar Shaila – If the only food you can get hold of is a ????? or ?????, would you be allowed to eat it using the principle of ??? ???? ?? ???????
Yatay: Rashi there is clearly pointing out that the Din is to ahve a special Seduah (although I think he appears to be slightly Soseir himself somewhere else). And Achilas Matzah (Rosh Hashana 28b at the very top, I believe) would seem to disprove you, but see the Rishonim and Poskim on that Gemara and Sugya and I would assume the Din is similar here.
The ??”? is not ????, and i tayned the same as you to my ?????? when he said this, but the Gaon is ????? the ??”?. As far as i know, it is a ??????.
Can you please explain your ???? from ????? ????
Nuts – because ???? has the numerical value of 17, which is the same as ??. [Even though ??? is really with an ?, making it 18. And ???? has the REAL numerical value of 17 which is also the REAL value of ???, but apparently the one away is bad enough]
I think it depends on why you aren’t eating meat: If you aren’t eating because of health reasons, then of course you are correct. If you aren’t eating meat because you want to attain a level of ??????… Good luck to you.
But if you are not eating because of ‘Cruelty to animals’, I believe it is wrong — A person must believe that the entire creation was made to serve Klal Yisroel and to help us fulfill our ????? on this world. A large proportion of animals were made to eat. There is a special to eat ??? on ??? ???. Believing in a principle that it is ‘wrong’ morally eat meat is against the haskofoh one should really have.
Enjoy the BBQ!!
I had a teacher who was a vegan, and I know his wife was also.
Also we had a woman eat at our house one Shabbos who was vegetarian.
I know a handful of others… maybe 7?
All the ones i know happen to be Balei Teshuva. Does that have any signifigance??
Look, people who get married and divorced with a few kids at least jave a normal life. They have kids, they have grandkids,they can wear a talis, they are normal. They tried.
I know this has absolutely no connection, but I can’t resist. Most of us good Yekkes wear a Tallis without trying!!!
[BTW – I would give tons of advice, but i am still only 16, so what do i know anyway?]
dont compare an eved knani especially Rabban Gamliels eved to a stam non Jew
I don’t understand – what does ‘especially Rabban Gamliels’ mean? If a normal Eved Knani is assur, he is also, and if a normal eved is muttar, so is RGs?
I don’t think anybody argues here on the topic of discussion: “IS IT PERMISSIBLE TO HAVE A GOY IN A SUKKAH” — The answer according to everybody is Yes.
Those Makpid on Kabbalah or Chassidus should better be Machmir – the rest of us who learn Halachah will be fine.
Accurate summary?
the air was much more pure and not polluted with tumah
Nowadays we have WiFi. The very air is permeated with tumah!!
We told my cousin who is just starting Shidduchim that DATES are very good to have on ??? ????, and she found some sort of siman for a honey moon.
I wanted to do cashews, but my dad said i’d go nuts!!!
I don’t understand – why do the ????? ???? need to make a ??? of ????? ????? ????? if God did already?
No romance, no violence, no foul language, but written on an 11th grade level of interest and not tragic
“11th Grade” and “No romance/violence” is an automatic ?????. I wish you the best of luck.
I am 16, and English books are extremely hard to find. Most of the ones i read contain violence [which any 11th grader should be able to take – define violence, please]. It is extremely difficult to find books to interest teenagers that are Kosher.
I ????? don’t use a spoon – what with forks and lovud, I’m sorted!
My *
*filter** does not allow me onto YouTube. Is it the Unesane Tokef video??a) The power of Tefilla. There is so much to say, and so many unbelievable stories, any Drosho can be a winner. Especially to those who don’t hear the same thing every year. And if they are the sort of people who only come once a year, you can emphasize how HKB”H loves every person and all their tefillos…
b) Malchiyus – the focal point of Rosh Hashono is to remember that G-D is our King, and we must be Machniah [humble] ourselves to Him. Of course mention Yiras Shamayim, and why we don’t say Viduy on Rosh Hashana… and so on.
“Latte(n):Italian for you paid too much for that coffee”
Actually, it is not such a joke — I heard a story with R’ Yisroel Salanter who was once for whatever reason in a hotel, and saw the price they charged for a coffee. He thought it was far to much to pay for one coffee, which usually costed him only a few kopeks. Then he decided that he wasn’t just paying for the coffee, but for the fact that it was presented to him in a nice glass, with a nice view on the windows, and surrounded by the aristocratic people. He then calculated that they were right to charge him.
So to, Said R’ Yisroel – We must remember every time we drink that it is not just the pure water we are having, but we must be grateful for the surroundings – the blue sky and the birds chirping and the whole brilliant world we live in.
My uncle has mayonaise for – “????? ??? ????? ?????? ??????”
If you involve them in the conversations and make sure they participate, it isn’t so difficult. Singing helps alot, but it must START with songs they know and like.
I know in my house, my younger siblings fight a lot. But if at the start of the meal everybody is still in a good mood, and we start singing, it gets everybody calm — I have some very musical brothers, and as long as they start singing, they don’t stop, and we have beautiful meals. Then, when my father says a Dvar Torah, they start bickering — and the trick is to begin the Torah by asking them a question, and listen to their answer or wait until they are stumped before starting YOUR torah. That get’s them interested. It always works — and they aren’t calm to start with!!!
(My younger siblings are aged 13, 9, 7)
R’ Chaim Friedlander zt”l — Sifsei Chaim [with the aforementioned ‘Rinas Chaim’ on the Tefillos at the back.]
R’ Shimshon Pincus – Nefesh Shimshon on Yomim Noraim
Kol Dodi Dofek — From R’ Shalom Shwadron – i have heard it is excellent and full of easy to understand meshalim and chizuk.
See ???? ??”? ?????? ?”? ???? ?.
R’ Chaim Freedlander ??”? (Mashgiach of Ponevezh) asks a ????:
We say ??? ?? ???? – that Hashem should endow us with His fear. Don’t we say “??? ???? ???? ??? ????? ????” – Everything is Heavenly ordained except for fear of Heaven?
He answers that the question is a fundemental mistake in Avodas Hashem: “??? ???? ???? ??? ????? ????” means that one must work youself for ???? ???? — THE BIGGEST ??????? A PERSON CAN DO IS TO DAVEN!!!!
????? is called ???????. As the ???”? says – ????? is a ?????? that it gets answered. There isn’t any doubt when you pray – every single prayer by NATURE must get answered. Sometimes the prayer is put away, sometimes it is used to divert a calamity you will never know that it was supposed to come.
Your best method of aiming high is by Davening for it.
What’s the difference between a Shlemiel and a Shlimazel?
The Shlemiel spills his coffee on the Shlimazel’s lap…
I heard a better version:
What’s the difference between a Shloch and a Shlumiel?
A Shloch forgets to close his zip, a Shlumiel forgets to open it!!
🙂
The ???? in ?????? ??”? makes a ?? ????? from wheat: Wheat, which you plant the seed naked, comes out ‘clothed’ – how much more so a person, who is buried with clothes will come out clothed!!!!
I remember asking the question then that the clothing deteriorates! But is clear they will come up clothed!
Sorry to ruin all the fun – but if you simulatenously press keys:
"CTRL"+"ALT"+DOWN_ARROW, your screen will turn over. Just typeCTRL+ALT+UP_ARROWto turn it the right way again.1) Every other religion begins with a man. Mohammed, Yoshke, Budda… the list goes on. One man had visions and revelations from ‘God’ and from there persuaded others. Never has there been a religion where 3.5 million people at once received the religion. You can date back every religion to the beginning. Jews have tradition up to Sinai [as a nation]. One cannot deny that there is a Torah, because if it was man-made, there would be no way of hoodwinking 3,000,000 people about it. They were all there.
2) Open up a Chumash. Learn through the Ramban and other rishonim and see the depth of their scientific knowledge – it was incredibly accurate. Books have been written about Science and the Gemoro — absolutely loads of proofs.
But have a look then at the Ba’al Haturim. There are some UNBELIEVEABLE surprises there. He goes through and finds the numerical values of words and matches them with others. The words of the verses and the numerical values of the interpretation is totally fantastic. How often does ??”?’s simple explanation fit word for word with the Ba’al Haturim? It is really fantastic.
No human could have done this. Every single letter and word in the Torah is calculated. There is absolutely NO WAY that it could have been conceived by mortal brain.
3) Read the Parsha about Shmitta, and the promises that were made to those who keep it. Then have a look at the videos about Kommemiyus — a huge locust plague ravaged the entire country, SKIPPING OVER the fields of those who kept SHMITA. Tens of irreligious who witnessed the miracles first hand returned to the religious path. That was no coincidence.
4) Torah Codes have been mentioned above.
Torah codes. Stuff like aids, wars, dates, names, events all near each other in appropriate places in the torah that are relevant to those events. For example you can find the name of every fruit or vegetable in breishis via torah codes. Or stuff like the first person who discovered aids, name, year etc, in the torah. Many people say that “yea sure anyone can take a giant book and find torah codes but the fact is that the chances of finding a “code” in other books without messing up the whole story in it is as likely as 1000 monkeys bashing a typewriter and eventually coming up with shakespear. Or a tornado coming over a house and restructuring it into an airplane. If the torah had only a handful of torah codes then you could say yes ok it was just chance. But to find thousands and thousands of them with the story still intact is impossible in any other book no matter how large it is.
Google ‘Torah Codes’, and have a look at a few of the examples.
5) Speak to anybody who has been learning in a Yeshiva – ‘Iyun’ seder – where yeshiva bochurim learn into the depth of the Gemara. There is no better proof than finishing ten blatt (pages) of Gemara properly, with the Rishonim and Achronim.
It is your responsibility not to accept threads and comments that need to be addressed to a Rav on an individual basis and in private. People pasken halocha from these posts, and people think that they have a window on Jewish attitudes based upon what is posted here. They don’t have a clue which posters are knowlegeable people, and which posters are bored kids.
Just for the record, I am a bored kid. I hope nobody will pasken anything from what i write, and apparently ICOT also hopes the same.
I am just putting forward arguments.
And there is definitely no ????? for me to go to somebody with a candle and ask him to light it for me – no matter where he got it from.
So there is clearly no issur to copy a sefer, book, CD, program or anything else that someone else has purchased.
Well summarized!
There is also no issur to make multiple copies and sell them for your own profit. Patents can likewise be ignored, and the patented item copied and sold with halachic impunity.
Hasogas Gevul is different. Copying it and selling it on or even copying for any commercial use may be ????.
It is not a ???? ????? that they are selling it to me on that conditon only. If it is a real ?????, I can buy any software, copy it and then go back to the company, telling them i violated the ???? ????? and i’ll give them the CD they sold me and they owe me my money back. And NO self respecting company will return my money. So the entire ???? is nothing.
And I once heard from a ????? ??? {but i haven’t verified it anywhere} that if the seller knows that the ???? has a very good chance of being broken, then there is an ?????? that he didn’t want the ????. And every company knows how many people copy their software.
And, by the way, you’re right — it isn’t ???? ???? ?? ???? ?????, although i didn’t think of that!
And clicking on a button is not a ???? — Not ???, ???, ????? or ????. That is not enough for a ???? to be ???? in anything.
And, like a said already: Anything to do with ???? is not the copier’s problem; it is the purchasers.
Just how did you manage to use the Ra”n to make that quantum leap from violating a Dina D’Malchusa to being oiver on one of the Aseres Hadibros??
Right – I don’t want this thread to turn into a ‘can you copy cds in halacha’ thread, which always gets nowhere. I just want to put down a few ??????:
a) If I buy a program, I have now the rights to do what i like with it – think of a guy who buys a light for the top of his candle, and the seller doesn’t let him light any other candles. He smiles and lights twenty five candles. No problem in halacha. Once i have bought something, it become mine.
In Jewish, we call it a ????.
— And there is definitely no ????? for me to go to somebody with a candle and ask him to light it for me – no matter where he got it from.
b) Even if the Jewish music manufacturers have started using ????? and not-whats, the Adobe Corporation haven’t. And as far as i know, clicking ‘Terms and conditions apply’ is not halachically binding. And even if it is, i don’t think this will affect anything.
c) It isn’t ????? or ????? to copy, because there is nothing. Like there is no problem of ????? of the ?? ???? – or ???? if we are digital – because it is a ??? ???? ?? ???, so to there is nothing to steal. I clicked a button; that is not a ???? ?????.
d) After ????, let’s take on that the ???? is halachically binding [even though it is not – not for now – that will be for whoever bought the program and uploaded it online. I don’t need to keep to YOUR ?????.
Why exactly, is the ?”? helping me violate one of the ???? ???????? Unless using the Internet is a problem?
I am a good Yekke and I never knew Yiddish when i was at home. Even in a high school were most of the rebbes were chassidish [although we weren’t], i only picked up very little yiddish. I knew less than the basics when i came to yeshivah, where all the shiurim are given in yiddish.
Because the shiurim are on the gemoro, and magid shiur uses the loshon gemoro in most sentences, there is very little that i need to actually know. Then an important ???? he will say in English anyway because it is easier to be ????? in English.
By now i can understand almost any Gemoro Shiur in Yiddish. But i still can’t speak a word of it!
Argument 2 against Zionsim- Most of the government is not religious and some of the government is even anti religious.
Can we change that to Most of the government is anti-religious and some of the government is not religious?
The government of Israel has an agenda to create a secular state in Israel and is prejudiced against Charedim and Frum Jews.
Well summarized. But another point – the world looks towards ISRAEL as an example of worldwide JEWRY. Even though the two things have NO CONNECTION. When the Israeli prime ministers are all charged for corruption, and the Israeli government are self hating, it causes a huge ????? ?? ????.
We should not support such a government.
First statement i fully agree with.
Argument 2 for Zionism- Since the founding of the medinah, there is been more Jews and Torah in Eretz Yisroel since around the destruction of the 2nd Beis Mikdash
— Do you mind explaining why it is such a fabulous thing that there have been more Jews in Eretz Yisroel? Why is that better than in USA?
and we owe the medinah our hakaras hatov and support.
— Again – i fail to understand: Why do we owe Hakaras hatov because there are lots of Jews in Israel? And what is our support got to do with anything? I won’t support anything i feel is immoral!?
I replied, but the Moderators obviously didn’t let it through. There are only too many sites where you can download almost anything for free, if you are not worried about coppers breaking your door down.
[And DON’T start with ???? ??????? ???? — the ?”? ????? explains that this ???? is simply that the government have the right to set the rules AND EXPEL YOU IF YOU DO NOT LISTEN, not that you have to listen to them. For this reason he says that ??”? doesn’t apply in Israel, where nobody has the rights to kick a Jew out.]
Rabbi of Berlin – yenne2- how is israel-only getting more terrible ?please elucidate….
— You’re right. I forgot that the country that is supposed to personalize Torah is forcing it’s lomdim to join the army.
— You’re right. I forgot that the country that is supposed to represent Jews worldwide is beginning to become one of the most anti-religious places Jews live…
— You’re right. I forgot that the country symbolizing everything every Yid stands for is now forcing it’s soldiers — hence [as stated] it’s kollel yungerlaat and yeshiva bochurim — to listen to women’s singing…
And then people wonder why ‘Israel is only getting more terrible…’
9. A hole has been found in the Capital wall. The police are looking into it.
Whoever wrote it — nice change. I saw the original!
When i backed into the meat grinder yesterday at my butcher shop, I got a little behind in my work!
Israel is great. And Israel is terrible.
Israel is, fortunately, only getting greater.
Israel is, unfortunately, only getting more terrible…
Apparently yesterday on an Elal Flight to USA at 16:44, a tall swarthy male of Palestinian origin got up on a plane, stopping a stewardess as she went past.
“Allah.. Allah… Allah… Allah…” He stuttered. Everybody feared the worst.
“I’ll have a coffee please!!” He finished…
Depends where you look… 🙂