Goral Hagra

Yes.

1.4142135623730950488…, you are being irrational. Only big talmidei chachamim can do the Goral haGra and get an answer. By definition they do not participate in the CR.

One really amazing outcome of a Goral ha/Gra was posted here in the CR about 7 years ago:

One dramatic instance of the use of the Gra Goral was in the identification of the bodies of 12 members of the Lamed Heh (the Convoy of 35, with the Hebrew letters lamed and heh being equivalent to the numbers 30 and 5, respectively ). The 35 fighters, members of the Haganah pre-state militia, were killed in January 1948, during the War of Independence, at the foot of the Arab village of Tzurif, during their attempt to reach the Etzion Bloc of Jewish settlements, south of Jerusalem. The bodies of the fighters were mutilated by the Arab attackers who killed them, and only in 1951 were the corpses gathered. By that time, it was possible to identify only 23 of the bodies conclusively.

The chief rabbi of Jerusalem at the time, Tzvi Pesach Frank, ruled that the identification of the remaining bodies would be determined by the Gra lottery, and the task was assigned to the revered Jerusalem sage Rabbi Aryeh Levin.

The identification took place in Levin’s beit midrash, in the presence of representatives of the bereaved parents. Twelve candles were lit, the Bible was opened at random seven times and Rabbi Levin ruled that as they stood in front of the remains of each of the fallen fighters, the last verse on the page had to include the name, or an allusion to the name, of each of those whom they were trying to identify. “How amazed everyone was when one of the verses that first appeared was ‘The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein,’ a verse that [in Hebrew] begins with the word ‘to the Lord,’” which is abbreviated in Hebrew with the initials lamed-heh. “Moreover, to everyone’s amazement, every page spoke unequivocally. In the first verse they reached there was a specific name that clearly identified one of the fallen … One after the other … the identity of the fallen was determined.” (Quoted in “A Tzaddik in Our Time: The Life of Rabbi Aryeh Levin,” by Simcha Raz, who also provides the official minutes of the lottery. ) While a lottery was often used for private matters, here the lottery was conducted for the purpose of a decision of great public significance.”

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/goral-hagra-what-do-you-know-about-it

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Those who know don’t tell; those who tell don’t know.

I don’t think the Goral haGRA is in the category of Kabbalah, Common Sense.

January 11, 2018 9:30 am at 9:30 am#1447497
Some Common SenseParticipant
Yes, I do but I will not make public via this format.

After you have finished Shas a few times, you can approach your Rebbi for this.
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How do u know whether his rebbi finished shas a few times? Should the talmid ask him just to make sure?

I know for a fact that R’ Binyamin Elyashiv knows how to and has performed it.

@ SCS
“as the Re’ma states that you need to be over 40 and full of Shas and Halacha. Look it up.”

You do know that The ARI and the RAMCHAL where both nifter before the age of 40 right?

Also, isn’t the over 40 criteria from the SHACH?

Also, why is the Gorel HaGRA being given the same criteria as the starting age for learning Kabala?

Midwest2- Do you think I would write that I know for a fact if I didn’t know for a fact?

Joseph , and those that hang out on the internet and claim to know a lofty subject as the Goral Hagrah is not to be believed either.

Toi – how do you know? First hand, second-hand, or over the internet. It makes a difference, because a lot of people don’t know the difference between “fact” and “I heard it at the kiddush club,” or “My cousin forwarded it to me.”

Midwest2- If you insist. I very close friend of mine of sterling character, with whom I attended yeshiva for several years and then sat next to in shul for several more was next door neighbors w/ R Binyamin, and he told him he did it.