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  • #2027030
    por
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    A few years ago in a shiur from R’ Fishel Schachter, shlita, he had a chazan sing a nigun that Yaakov Avinu sang to his sheep. This is not as crazy as it sounds, this nigun had been sung by Apter Rav, ztl, who said he remembered hearing it in a previous gilgul when he was one of the sheep. It was also sung by R’ Yisroel Rizhiner, ztl. The Eshel Avraham of Buchach was so impressed with it that he had it written down in musical notation and included it in one of the volumes of his teshuvos. Does anyone remember in what shiur this was sung (or can anyone ask R’ Fishel Schachter), and can anyone find out just where this appears in the Eshel Avraham. It’s a beautiful nigun and very relevant to these parashas, and to all of Klal Yisroel.

    #2027122
    Reb Eliezer
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    Go to the collive web site and see Nemuoel sings Veato Amarto a Chabad song.

    –– from “Kfar Chabad” Magazine:

    Throughout his life, the Baal Shem Tov had a yearning to remember Yaakov Avinu’s melody. He once told his close circle of followers: “During my first incarnation, when I was a sheep in Yaakov Avinu’s flock, I used to listen to a beautiful melody, which is very pleasant for the ears and the soul. Yaakov Avinu always sang this melody when pasturing his sheep – when he could pour out his soul to his Creator – until he would hear Hashem’s voice blessing his (Yaakov Avinu’s) sheep.

    “I know for a fact that Yaakov Avinu also sent this melody with his sons when they went down to Egypt, to Yosef – as it is written in the Scriptures (Breishis 43:11): ‘And Yisrael their father said to them, “If it has to be, then do this: take from the song (zimras) of the land.”’ ”

    The Baal Shem Tov continued: “I merited to hear this melody only once more, which was when I happened to pass by a shepherd pasturing his sheep and singing this melody. When I heard it, I almost turned back into a sheep…”

    And when the Baal Shem Tov wanted to go to the Holy Land, he said: “Perhaps I will merit one more time to hear that melody ‘from the song of the land.’ When I do, I shall learn it thoroughly until I know it so well that I will never forget it again. And when this melody will be spread out so far and wide that everybody knows it, Redemption will come to the world…

    #2027150
    AviraDeArah
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    Rabbi shechter mentions that story multiple times; if you call kol halashon you should go to “previous shiurim” snd go to vayetzei, there are 5 shiurim…2 or 3 of them have this story on it

    #2027158
    Reb Eliezer
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    At the collive web site above search for Yaakov Avinu.

    #2027186
    anonymous Jew
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    I’ve only one comment to make on this gilgul sheep story: BAAAH

    #2027281
    Jude
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    I wonder whether those rabbis who claimed to be reincarnations of sheep of Ya’akov, would have been able to describe the spots, speckles, or stripes they were decorated with.

    #2027348
    AviraDeArah
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    Jude, the apter rov was among the greatest rebbehs – your comment is not respectful. If you’re not into chasidish stories and torah, then don’t participate in discussions pertaining to it

    #2027427
    Shimon Nodel
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    I heard he had a birthmark on his back where Yaakov avinu marked him

    #2027465
    Reb Eliezer
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    This is the first instance of cloning.

    #2027663
    Jude
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    Avira: Rebbisch mayses are not Torah. The Satmar Rov ztl explained once the reason for the custom of relating Chasidish stories on Motzoei Shabbos. The Gemoro says that an Am Ho’oretz won’t lie on Shabbos, so these stories can only come out when Shabbos is over.

    #2027724
    AviraDeArah
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    I’m not referring to stories passed through the grapevine; I’m referring to claims made directly by tzadikim themselves. There’s a huge difference.

    #2027731
    AviraDeArah
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    My main consternation was the use of the term “these rabbis” – the gemara says that only a certain type of person uses the phrase “הני רבנן”, and looking up what that title is will be preferable to me saying it outright.

    #2027733
    AviraDeArah
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    Also, the satmar rov didn’t refrain from saying over maysohs. His chinuch platform stresses chasidish maysos as bread and butter – they are definitely part of his Torah rubric. That being said, the satmar roc had a sharp point of view about a lot of things; he would say that a gadol batorah can still be naive. He also said that one who believes all maysos is a fool, but one who doesn’t believe in them at all is an apikores.

    #2028095
    Jude
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    Avira: Please give the exact place where the גמרא uses the term הני רבנן to mean “These rabbis”

    #2028110
    AviraDeArah
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    Sanhedrin 100a. רב פפא אמר כגון דאמר הני רבנן

    Rashi: כגון דאמר הנהו רבנן. כאדם שאומר אותו ת”ח דלשון בזוי הוא זה שהיה לו לומר רבותינו שבמקום פלוני ל”א כגון דאמר הני רבנן דכשהוא מספר שום דבר מרבנן אומר הני ולשון גנאי הוא הני אבל הנהו רבנן אינו גנא

    #2028583
    ☕️coffee addict
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    Aren’t these the same sheep he gave עשו in this week’s Parsha

    I would not want to be a gilgul of those sheep

    #2028829
    Jude
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    Don’t worry Coffee addict. The Rebbe said that the birthmark was the result of Ya’akov marking him for מעשר בהמה, so not being a בעל מום חס ושלום, he must have been a קרבן.

    #2028894
    Jude
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    I do not see why only Ya’akov’s sheep are zoche to be reincarnated into Rebbes. All the Ovos were shepherds. Dovid too, and he was a master musician.
    If Bil’om’s donkey could be reincarnated into human form, she could tell us some interesting things about her master.

    #2028956
    Yserbius123
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    This is the most Chassidishe thing ever and I’m loving it.

    #2030566
    Participant
    Participant

    “If you’re not into chasidish stories and torah, then don’t participate in discussions pertaining to it”
    Sort of like someone not into Modern orthodoxy not participating in those discussions…?

    #2030567
    Participant
    Participant

    what aveira did the sheep do that he had to be misgalgeil?

    #2030584
    ☕️coffee addict
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    I was wondering the same thing

    #2030618
    AviraDeArah
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    Just to clarify, rabbi shechter in the same shiur quotes a zohar (a source for which i don’t have) that says that all the sheep had the neshomos of klal yisroel, and the ones who were lost to lavan were the yidden who would go off the derech – it wasn’t just rebbes

    #2030708
    Shimon Nodel
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    That has to be misquoted or else misunderstood. That kind of sounds like predetermination. A core belief of many sects of protestant Christianity, and is kfirah

    #2030953
    AviraDeArah
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    Could be it works through ברירא

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