oh i was actually thinking about looking one up for the general klal. i guess not.
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YWN Coffee Room Nightly D'Var Torah (featuring: JayMatt19 )
Please no.
:o) - not to worry. YW Moderator-72
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Bais Yaakov maydel: nice peice!!! i liked it!!!
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i believe i just put in a nice little d'var Torah. i may be the only girl on this thread, but that doesn't mean i cant fill in every now and then :)
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Put me down for Wednesday. Hopefully I can submit one in a few hours
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moish, the more the merrier. i wanna hear what you havta say
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mod72: i was kidding!!! yeah JayMatt19 does an outstanding job filling in!!!
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Hey BYM I posted a few dvar torahs on here and I'm a girl!! and I didn't google them!! (Explains why they weren't good and they were short lol)
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the night is yet young, moishele. (that was so tempting i had to do that)
sorry syriansephardi i didnt yet read through every single dvar Torah that i missed over 3 weeks so i didnt see yours. but before you came along, i was the only girl lol
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Just heard this one in a lecture by Rabbi Rietti, while discussing expectations in relationships.
"Asay licha Rav, kinei licha chaver, VeHevai dan es kol haadom lkaf zchos."
Make yourself a teacher, buy yourself a friend and judge each person favorably.What does the last piece of advice, judging favorably, have to do with the getting yourself a teacher and friend?
Because if we look for an absolutely perfect teacher, someone who will never be anything less than perfectly sensitive to me, and if we search for a friend who will never make a mistake in this friendship, then we will never find ourselves a teacher or friend. People are humans; we are inherently not perfect. Therefore, don't expect perfection in any relationship. Rather, when he/she makes a mistake - judge them favorably, realize they are humans.Posted 6 years ago # -
Lol that's changed :)
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yay the week's devar torah schedule is filled!!! way to go cr!!!
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Curious: great vort!!! i liked it!!!
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מַגִּיד דְּבָרָיו לְיַעֲקב. חֻקָּיו וּמִשְׁפָּטָיו לְיִשרָאֵל:
He declares His word unto Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances unto Israel.
לא עָשה כֵן לְכָל גּוי. וּמִשְׁפָּטִים בַּל יְדָעוּם.
He has not dealt so with any nation; and as for His ordinances, they have not known them.Two Pshatim on the above p'sukim
Maharsha:
The gemarra on Chagiga (13a) says " ואמר רבי אמי אין מוסרין דברי תורה <לעובד
כוכבים> שנאמר (תהילים קמז) לא עשה כן לכל גוי ומשפטים בל ידעום
Rav Ami states, one does not teach Torah to a non-Jew, as it says: לא עָשה כֵן לְכָל גּוי. וּמִשְׁפָּטִים בַּל יְדָעוּם."Tosfos there says "We learn that the non-Jew who is Osek B'Torah is deserving of death. Yet they have 7 mitzvos they are commanded to do. That there is a mitzva to give over to them." This is an apparent contradiction.
There is no contradiction. אין מוסרין דברי תורה לעובד כוכבים. The word מוסרין means giving over with the reason, meaning and secrets (sod) of the mitzvos. This is forbidden even within the teaching of the 7 Bnei Noach Mitzvos.
Rebbi Ami made the דיוק from what we say in davening. מַגִּיד דְּבָרָיו לְיַעֲקב.
and also the חֻקָּיו וּמִשְׁפָּטָיו (reasons behind them) לְיִשרָאֵל (To the Jews). Nevertheless לא עָשה כֵן לְכָל גּוי, even וּמִשְׁפָּטִים (those mitzvos that they have) בַּל יְדָעוּם it is forbidden to teach them the reasons and secrets (sod) behind them.This shows us that there is in fact no contradiction.
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R' Chaim M'Vilozon:
The goyim also have a mitzva also have a mitzva to set up a court system. However, they were not given instruction and mitzvos as to how to do it. They need to set it up using wisdom and common sense. And were they to act in a contrary manner, they would be chayav death. Jews, however, have been given detailed instruction how to set up their courts, and how to judge.
This is what it means מַגִּיד דְּבָרָיו לְיַעֲקב. חֻקָּיו וּמִשְׁפָּטָיו לְיִשרָאֵל, Jews are commanded to judge based upon the laws and statutes provided by the Torah...לא עָשה כֵן לְכָל גּוי. וּמִשְׁפָּטִים בַּל יְדָעוּם, he did not do this to the goyim, as they need to utilize their wisdom and common sense when setting up their courts.
I hope you've enjoyed these two pshatim on these two p'sukim we say every Shachris
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>>It shouldent be to hard just google it...it seems to work for all the other divrie torah. (not to knock those divrie torah just trying to prove a point) <<
What is this point exactly you are trying to prove?
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Curious, very nice.
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Thanks JM, I'm learning that the best way to remember and internalize what you haer is by repeating it to someone else, thus I found my way to this thread.
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mod72: i'm sorry, i couldn't post much this week, i'll try to make it up to you.$
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jaymatt-forget it, the point was that although alot of ppl give its easy while i get it from seforim. But yeh im in yeshiva im supposed to be doing that, and the other divrie torah from google are awesome so really didnt mean anything by it. :)
And yes i have a Dvar torah for tonight ill post it later, and when i do im going back to perm??Posted 6 years ago # -
yashrus, the CR closes eventually? where's your dvar torah? it better be a good one.
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JayMatt19: great vort Rav JayMatt19!!! i finally got to read the devrei torahs, after catching up from being gone all day!!!
yashrus20: i'll lookin foward to it!!!Posted 6 years ago # -
moish01: he's on for thursday!!! so we'll give him a few hours still[the guys in israel ya know]!!!
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Please put me down for Wednesday this coming week, I have a yarzheit
you have it. The Neshoma should have an aliyah. YW-Moderator-72
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A conversation in another thread got me to open a sefer. I wanted to share what I found.
Rav Pam (in the Atara L'Melech) has a whole thing on Shidduchim. In it he has a section in "looks"
R' Bechaye says one should not marry someone for their looks. On this, Rabbanim ask: But we see in Beraishis that the Imahos were praised for their beauty! By Rivka it says "טבת מראה מאד" and by Rochel it says "ורחל, היתה, יפת-תאר, ויפת מראה" Yet, on the other hand, Shlomo HaMelech writes שקר החן, והבל היפי!
R' Pam says answers the apparent contradiction by stating that beauty is the equivalent to the number zero. On its own, it is valueless. However, when preceded by a one or a two, it enlarges the number immensely. שקר החן, והבל היפי: אשה יראת-ה', היא תתהלל. When there is יראת-ה' that is like having a one. and when the והבל היפי is there, then a zero is placed after the one, enlarging the number, giving it greater importance.
By an esrog, everyone knows there is a din of Hiddur. But that is not the main characteristic. The main characteristic should be nikius, cleanliness. So too in shidduchim (R' Pam states specifically by women, could be since the shiur was to bochrim) the main Ma'alah (characteristic) to look for is nikius ha'daas and nikius ha'nefesh (a straight person with straight thoughts, hashkafos) as well as middos straight, and pure. Beauty is just an additional plus.
(written at 2:25am in Yerushalayim, but I could not go to sleep without posting this vort [but I can go to sleep without proofreading, so I apologize in advance]. Yashrus, hope to read your contribution after I daven Shachris)
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thanks, JayMatt. i like it a lot.
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Thursday Night Dvar Torah
Shabbos...shabbos...shabbos...why is it shabbos is me"en olam habba? Why is it considered a gift from hashem? Whats so special about not working, or davening more...? The noam elimelech writes that when betzalel built the mishkan he needed to be a big "kabbalist". Why? He answers with the famous ramban that the mishkan is domeh to the world. And that the way hashem created the world was with all gasgmius, but b/c we needed a hacha timtza to get to ruchnius and be left with gashmius he gave us shabbos. So to by betzalel the mishkan couldent be all gashmius so he needed to be a "kabbalist" to instill (wtvr that means) kedusha in the mishkan. In the sefer hayitzirah it is written that the world was created with 39 peulos of tevah, 39 laws of what hishtadlus we have to do on this world. On shabbos it is assur to do any of these, even the slightest thing for fear of the gashmius infringing. We learn more, daven more, b/c on shabbos we no longer have the sor mera then aseh tov just the aseh tov.
B/c just like in olam habba all we need to do is learn, and not have to worry about the gashmius so to on shabbos hashem gives us a day of dviekus of davening and learning and not have to worry about the peulos of this world. If were not feeling shabbos its b/c were involved with weekday matters. Sports, bussiness, or anything which is nisht shabbos geret. The more we let go of these matters the more we will feel shabbos, b/c it truley is gift. And it would be a shame to ignore a gift that comes aroung everyweek, and the gift which is also domeh to the purpose of life. A guten shabbos!
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great divrei torah rav jay matt, and rav yashrud.$
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JayMatt19: wow that was great R'JayMatt19!!! shkoyach!!! for the record i didn't find any mistakes!!! Have a great shobbos!!!
yashrus20: R' Yashrus, Rav Ha'CR Board, that was outstanding!!! A guten shabbos to you too!!!Posted 6 years ago # -
good shabbos everyone and thanks to all for contributing
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mod72: time to clear the board & make yashrus20 to perm!!!
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lovely divrei torah. have a good shabbos .
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asdfghjkl: >>for the record i didn't find any mistakes!!! Have a great shobbos!!!<<
You did not look hard enough. "R' Pam says answers the apparent contradiction"
The word "says" should not be there. Oh, well.
Good Shabbos everyone
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i'll do sunday again
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good shabbos R' JayMatt, and harav hagaon yashrus.$
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JayMatt19: well i'm no english major-but ha!!!
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Mussar HaTorah
Torah Insights into Human Nature – Dedicated in memory of Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz zt"l
Based on the talks of Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz zt”l, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim – RSA20 Shevat, 5769 Vol. 10, No. 17 Parashas Yisro
“And Hashem said to Moshe, ‘Go down and warn the nation …’ ” (Shmos 19:21)
The Ralbag explains the unusual sequence of events listed in these pasukim: Originally, Hashem charged Moshe with the responsibility to warn the Jews not to ascend or even touch Har Sinai. A few days later, on the morning of matan Torah – the giving of the Torah – Hashem tells Moshe to warn the nation again. Moshe then asks Hashem regarding this additional warning: Why is this second warning needed, Moshe inquires, if they have already been warned and a boundary has been established around the mountain to stop their entrance? Hashem answers that another warning is needed because B’nei Yisrael have a great desire to go up the mountain. In addition, Hashem continues to explain, they will see you and Aharon climbing up the mountain and they may assume it is permissible for them to ascend as well. A second warning is therefore required. Moshe follows Hashem’s command and warns the Jews again.
Moshe did not see the need for a second warning until Hashem enlightened him. We can assume that B’nei Yisrael would likewise view this warning as being unnecessary. If so, wouldn’t this second warning be insulting to B’nei Yisrael? They were great individuals who had seen many astounding miracles. Shouldn’t they react negatively to yet another admonition, feeling that they are being treated like children who need to be constantly reminded? Furthermore, beyond the potential insult, wouldn’t this reiteration damage their self-respect and diminish their sense of gadlus ha’adam – the essential feeling of greatness vested in every human being through the Divine spark of his neshama?
Self-respect does not require one to be blind to his weaknesses. Quite to the contrary, for an individual to truly feel his own self-worth, he needs to correctly understand both his strengths and his weaknesses. Human beings are just that – human. We can forget, we can rationalize, and we can get confused about basic truths and concepts that should be clear to us. Deep down, we are keenly aware of these shortcomings, but they are not a contradiction to our inherent greatness,
despite the apparent paradox. Our greatness stems precisely from the fact that we can overcome our flesh and blood limitations and strive towards perfection, to emulate our Creator. The only way to accomplish this goal, our entire purpose of existence, is if we have a sober and realistic grasp of our faults, so that we can properly attempt to overcome them. A reminder of one’s frailty, properly delivered and accepted, can only bolster one’s appreciation of the lofty task he is engaged in, and enhance his ability to succeed in his spiritual struggle. Hashem, in his infinite wisdom, understood that it would not be insulting to B’nei Yisrael to be reminded of a point that truly needed repetition.The Alter of Slabodka pointed out that Adam HaRishon chose his own name to reflect the reality that he came from the earth (adamah). It was not a blow to his self-esteem, but rather a pep talk, an encouraging boost that empowered and energized him: I, with my physical, material nature, am able to achieve greatness by overcoming these limitations – as long as I am aware of the dangers, and the opportunities, of this challenge. May we realize our true greatness, through an honest appraisal of our flaws, and the appreciation that Hashem has given us the incredible tools to elevate ourselves from the lowly earth and reach angelic heights of spiritual perfection.
© 2009 by Rabbi Aryeh Striks & Rabbi Shimon Zehnwirth. For more information visit http://www.torahstation.com
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THE ALTER on THE PARSHA
Shmuessen of Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Zt”l, the Alter of Slabodka
Adapted from Sefer Ohr HaTzafun by Rabbi Eliezer GrunbergPARSHAS Yisro 5769
Kocha Shel Nikudah Ruchniyus
We tend to measure our spiritual achievements by the number of our positive acts and great
feats we perform. When performing small spiritual acts or when holding back and not doing wrong, we sometimes may question what affect is it having on our spiritual growth. Does it make such a difference? Are we really accomplishing? When we learn a little Mussar, does it really help?In this week’s Parsha, in the Aseres Hadibros, we are given the mitzvah of Shabbos. “For in six days Hashem made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day.” On the day of Shabbos nothing new was created, the whole process of creation came to a halt. It was a day of complete rest – there were no actions being performed. Yet Shabbos and its very state of rest is what completed creation.
“Six days shall you labor and accomplish all your work; but the seventh day is Sabbath to Hashem, your G-d; you shall not do any work…” Just as Hashem rested on the seventh day, we are commanded to rest on the Shabbos and refrain from working as well. Every week it is that very state of rest which brings about the holiness of Shabbos – as the posuk says, “And He rested on the seventh day. Therefore, Hashem blessed the Sabbath day and sanctifies it.”
The Gemara in Pesachim tells us that until the age of 40, Rebbi Akiva was ignorant of Torah
law and truly despised Torah scholars. Rebbi Akiva himself said, “When I was ignorant of the Torah I used to say, ‘who will give me a Torah scholar and I will bite him like a donkey.’” Yet, we know that Rebbi Akiva became one of the greatest Torah scholars. Chazal tell us that Moshe Rabbeinu, when he received the Torah from Hashem, was shown insights of Rebbi Akiva that he was not able to
understand. Rebbi Akiva uprooted his hate for the Torah and its learners and came to love them. The
Gemara in Berachos teaches us that his love for Hashem was such that every day he yearned for the
opportunity to sanctify Hashem’s name with his life. When that time came and the Romans combed
his flesh with combs of iron, Rebbi Akiva did not feel the pain – he accepted the yoke of Heaven with pure love and happiness.What caused this transformation in Rebbi Akiva? Chazal ( Avos D'Rebbi Nosson 87) tell us that one day Rebbi Akiva was standing near a well and saw that the constant drip of water had bore an
indentation in the rock. Rebbi Akiva said, “If something so soft can break something so hard then
surely the words of Torah can make an impression on my heart.” After not learning for 40 years he
immediately went to study Torah.Merely looking at the water and learning a simple lesson had an impact on Rebbi Akiva’s soul
that resulted in him reaching such levels of spirituality.While our actions and even holding back from acting seem small and insignificant, from
Chazal we see that this is not the case. We live in an era when so many are ignorant of the Torah and the influences of society constantly lure more away. The power of a small dose of inspiration can go a long way in returning a Jew to his heritage. Every little step in the right direction and every time we deliberately hold back for the sake of Hashem can be a spiritual achievement beyond our imagination.Lizchus Refuah Shelaima Tinok ben Ilana Yocheved
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chofetzchaim: thanx, and good shabbos.$
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הֲשִׁיבֵנוּ אָבִינוּ לְתורָתֶךָ - Bring us back, our father, to your Torah
The Avudraham asks, why is the word, אָבִינוּ (our father) used here when asking for Torah?
The Midrash in Shmos Rabba says (on the passuk) "תורה צוה-לנו, משה: מורשה, קהלת יעקב" (The Torah that Moshe commanded us is the heritage of the Congregation of Yaakov, passuk in V'zos HaBracha) don't read it מורשה, heritage, rather ירושה, an inheritance.
One inherits from their father. HaKadosh Baruch Hu is considered a father to Klal Yisroel בנים אתם, לה' אלקיכם. Therefore we call Hashem אָבִינוּ, our father. The other nations, however, do not have this level of closeness to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, just slaves to a master. Therefore it says תורה צוה-לנו, משה: מורשה/ירושה, to whom, to קהלת יעקב and to nobody else.
So, back to our original question, why use the word אָבִינוּ, when asking to be returned to Torah?
The answer is given through a Mashal. The son of a king leaves the kingdom of his father. When he hears that his father is dying, he returns to receive his inheritance. He isn't embarrassed to ask for it, after all, he is a son of the king.
Likewise, by saying הֲשִׁיבֵנוּ אָבִינוּ לְתורָתֶךָ, with the addition of the word אָבִינוּ, we ask Hashem that all those who have left the Derech HaYashar return to Torah without any embarrassment in their returning. After all, Hashem is King, we are his children, and the Torah is our ירושה.
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Shabbos Drasha: Parshas Yisro
Our minds are like a basket to absorb certain ideas. If a person does not have the right basket for a certain idea it wizzes right by. The idea your about to read is one that will need a change in thought process. The need to think "outside the box". Why? b/c we have superficial minds that cannot comprehend such extreme ideas, but for once listen and understand and then decide what to do. For if it at least enters the basket then at least you can get a better look at what you may be accepting.
In the previous parshios klal yisroel wittnesed many miracles. They were so great that a shifcha by krias yam suf saw more than yichezkel ben buzzi saw, where talking more revealing than the ma"asa merkava itself. But we notice also a trend in the reaction of klal yisroel to all the gashmiasdik obstacles in their way. Their reaction is one of fear, one of isolation and the need for help. Klal Yisroel just witnessed amazing miracles and hashem promised them he would cont. wonders to ultimately bring them to mamod har sinai. Why then were they alway camplaining, why then did they make and worship the eigel hazahav??
Ill answer through another question: Famous question why did hashem not let klal yisroel go derech plishtim, it would have taken them right to eretz yisroel. Why were they taken in such a round about way? Hashem realized, yes theyd seen all amazing miracles, but hashem still created a teva and you still have bechira and as long as the connection bet. you and hashem insnt in you your doomed to fall no matter what youve seen. Ergo, being that klal yisroel hadnt yet seen the torah and learnt it they would have as soon as they entered israel gon to this vinyard this one to that field and get on with the rest of their lives. Hashem made them go through the desert and learn the torah for forty yrs straight. They woke up heard shiur, in the afternoon again heard shuir and then chazra...They learnt it so much that it was nivlugh b'aivarim! It was seeping through their limbs, their bones! All the time im hearing of an amazing miracle that took place. Emails being passed around, "AMAZING STORY THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR
LIFE". The problem is it does....but for how long? A week if your lucky. The idea is that the torah has to be you, your mitzius has to be torah, otherwise teva is like gravity if you arent constintley pushing up yuor doomed to fall. Klal yiroel who had 49 day of climbing the depths of kedusha and imersion couldent withstand their nisyonos with out constant limud torah all the more so we who are constantley involed with hevel havalim, and havent seen those miracles....how are we going to withstand our nisyonos? Answer is simple, hashem gave us a tool: The Torah. There is no other. You can look at things and through them appreciate the torahs truth and widom but the central tool is the torah. Logicaly hashem wouldnt make it so easy that when we see a miracle that we no longer have the same bechira, rather the miracle is a gift as a BOOST to come to the realization or god and as a result learn his ways and his path of truth.
Remember at everypoint in a persons life a human being has bechirah, it is the only thing that makes us human. At any moment we can choose wtvr our hearts desire. First step is to think about life, and hold nothing back. Rem. you only get one chance to live why not find out the best way to live it. Youl say but my avodas hashem is good enough....some times just good enough in your one time life just isnt good enough.
By: someone who cares. (i really do, and it is something that bothers me not from a critical view but a worrysome view)Posted 6 years ago # -
Nice Dvar Torah Rav Jay!
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mod72: time to clear the board & keep wednesday open!!! maybe we could get some new faces to do one this week???!!!!
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Why keep Wednesday open? I asked fo rit this weeks as i have a yarzheit on the 24th of Shvat?
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yashrus: great vort. The way I heard it is that if you get something that you don't work on, it has no affect on you. The telling thing was that the shifcha saw all that stuff and remained----- a shifcha!
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****Dvar Torah for Sunday****
(by me)
Each of the Ten Commandments is in a separate parsha except for the first two and last one. The first two are in one parsha, and the last one is in two parshas. This creates a new symmetry, as follows:
10b ----- 1
10a ----- 2
9 ------- 3
8 ------- 4
7 ------- 5
6The amazing result is this:
I am HaShem your G-d.—Do not covet another.
Do not have another god.—Do not covet another.
Do not take HaShem's Name in vain.—You are giving false testimony (don't do it).
Keep the Shabbos.—Do not steal by working on it.
Honor your father and your mother (fatherhood and motherhood).—Do not commit adultery.
Before one kills another, two people stand side by side. If you kill the other person, you stand alone.
Quite amazing, if I can say so myself.
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>>Please put me down for Wednesday this coming week, I have a yarzheit
you have it. The Neshoma should have an aliyah. YW-Moderator-72 <<
So why am I not listed on the front page.
I forgot. You're listed now - thanks for the reminder. YW Moderator-72
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mod72: keep yashrus20 for thursday as perm!!! we don't wanna insult him again!!!
i just had time to read thru the latest devrei torahs by chofetzchaim,JayMatt19, & yashrus20!!! thank you all of you!!! they were all outstanding!!!Posted 6 years ago # -
Mishpatim
One of the longest Torah portions, containing 23 positive commandments and 30 negative precepts. Included are laws regarding: the Hebrew manservant and maidservant, manslaughter, murder, injuring a parent, kidnapping, cursing a parent, personal injury, penalty for killing a slave, personal damages, injury to slaves, categories of damages and compensatory restitution, culpability for personal property damage, seduction, occult practices, idolatry, oppression of widows, children and orphans.
The parsha continues with the laws of: lending money, not cursing judges or leaders, tithes, first-born sons, justice, returning strayed animals, assisting the unloading of an animal fallen under its load, Sabbatical year, Shabbos, the Three Festivals (Pesach, Shavuos & Succos).
Mishpatim concludes with the promise from Hashem to lead us into the Land of Israel, safeguard our journey, ensure the demise of our enemies and guarantee our safety in the land -- if we uphold the Torah and do the Mitzvos. Moshe makes preparations for himself and for the people and then ascends Har Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments.
Bava Basra 10a
Turnusrufus, the rasha, asked Rabbi Akiva, "If your God loves the poor, why doesn't he support them?""In order that we should be saved from Gehennom by giving them charity," replied Rabbi Akiva.
"Just the opposite," said Turnusrufus. "This will make you deserve Gehennom. I will give you a parable. A mortal king grew angry at his servant. The king had the servant bound in prison and ordered that no one give him food or drink. A certain man went and gave him food. When the king hears about this how will he react? Won't he be angry? And you are called servants, as it is stated, 'For Me the Children of Israel are servants' (Vayikra 25:55)."
Rabbi Akiva responded, "I will give you a parable. A mortal king grew angry at his son. The king had his son bound in prison and ordered that no one give him food or drink. A certain man went and gave him food. When the king hears about this, how will he react? Won't he send him presents? And we are called children, as it is written, 'You are children of the Lord, your God' (Devorim 14:1)."
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joseph: well done!!! thanx!!!
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It seems no one was nispoel from my vort. I'll just go back to my cave.
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