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Coffee your follow-up was not mentioned in your original post but you did ask this previously. And I believe I responded then as well.

The time of the calamity is the time for us to pay attention enough to care about and internalize the loss. Are you truly suggesting that instead of Chazal making a day of mourning they should have made another purim to give mishloach manos?

Besides, it is a mistaken notion to think that the whole Galus is all about sinas chinam. It does say that that is why the Bais Hamikdash was destroyed, just like the first one was because of the three sins. However, that is not too say that it’s all that is necessary.

It’s obviously an important lesson of how serious Sinas Chinam is, and it’s a pretty good time to avoid it, but it’s not a day of friendship. You got all year for that.

It’s a little bit of both, and would often depend on the prevalent Minhag.

I believe you can do it online, unless you need to have the new one already.

“As for Zionists being a mythical creature, you’re just being absurd. Would you also say that to someone who self-identifies as a religious zionist?

We can all picture the archetypal zionist…”

That’s a group, not really a movement. There’s no goal, no capturing the imagination, definitely not contagious, and they’re religious anyhow. I do not agree with how they put the state as a central Jewish piece, which puts them out there as one amongst many groups that I/we feel are somewhat misguided to varying degrees.

There really is no threat today, and Zionism per se is gone ever since the actual Zionist movement accomplished their goal. Fighting them, warning about them, is as important as being wary of corporeal theology.

Wow. Someone was just Motzi Shem Ra on an undisputed Gadol BiYisroel right here? I would expect this on Twitter. But are we really going to stoop to Gedolim bashing here?

Besides for the obvious false connection being drawn, to accuse a Gadol of hypocrisy and then to mess with the Torah as a cover-up, is the most hideous post in this site.

Who’s next? The Ramban Paskenned things to make his mother-in-law happy? Do we stop at Amoraim, Tannaim, Neviim?

Avira, I can’t go and look it up now. It was a while back. But it was a response to a fanatical anti-Zionist.

Midwesterner, the Genata in Brachos says that a Tzaddik can’t become a Rasha. Then, the Gemara asks your question from Yochanan Cohen Gadol and ends up saying that it is a Machlokes whether it is the same person.

In Yoma 38 the Gemara says that once most of a person’s life went by without an Aveira he won’t go bad. There, the Gemara doesn’t ask anything. I found the Yismach Moshe, referenced in Yoma on Sefaria. The Yismach Moshe is in Re’eh.

רבי אליעזר בנו של ר’ יוסי הגלילי אומר מי לחשוך כו’. נ”ל דהנה במקום אחר אמרו חז”ל (ברכות כ”ט.) אל תאמין בעצמך עד יום מותך, שהרי יוחנן כהן גדול שימש בכהונה גדולה שמונים שנה ולבסוף נעשה צדוקי, אלמא דהשי”ת אין מוחה ואין מונע להבחירה בשום פעם. ובמקום אחר דרשו על פסוק (שמואל א’ ב ט) רגלי חסידיו ישמור, כיון שעברו רוב שנותיו של אדם ולא חטא, שוב לא יחטא (יומא דף ל”ח:). והדברים נראין כסותרין את עצמן. וי”ל דממכשול שוגג, השי”ת שומרו דחטא היינו שוגג, אבל אם רוצה להרשיע במזיד, השי”ת אינו מבטל הבחירה.

He also answers that Hashem would protect him from a regular Aveira, but if he deviates in Hashkafa then he can still go sour. Similar to a תוהה על הראשונות who loses his earlier merit.

One minute. Is that “they” or “we”?

Those good times… We had Srulik, Sam4, oh, and myself.

I am grateful for each additional year that I learnt in Kollel. Each year makes a tremendous difference that will have a lasting impact, long after you must leave.

Eventually I did have to leave, when rent and other things piled up, small side jobs were sparse and and opportunity came up. But it was really כפורש מן החיים. However those ten years gave me the ability to remain at the Gemara first and my job second.

Nothing compares to Kollel learning utilized well: not being a שואל ומשיב, מגיד שיעור, רב, or even a ראש ישיבה.

It’s from a publicized AI response, and Joseph decided to share it with us.

N0mesora, although we are sure we can steer clear of the Makom Hamikdosh, I do think Akuperman is right that you can’t go into Har Habayis for a walk. They would be like קפנדריא.

Also, being that no one looks out טומאות יוצאות מן הגוף, you would need ז’ נקיים.

Avira, many Chasidishe Sefarim are indeed a form of Mussar or Avoda. Chabbad Sefarim are not. They are Toras Hanistar as explained by their Rebbes. That settles two issues. It gives clear explanations to the point being discussed and it is Limud.

Even other Chasidishe Sefarim are obviously Divrei Torah, as is Pirkei Avos. The only kind of Sefer I would question is something that focuses on Eitzos of how to work on a Midda. This is usually the author’s life-advice, and could just as well have come from Benjamin Franklin. (Include all disclaimers)

Always_Ask_Questions, are you trying to trick people now? Is that what we’re down to? Do you want to conflate every other reference to Rebbi Shimon as well?

but, a Rebbe also? that’s a chidush – only R Shimon was like that.

Not only R Shimon. Anyone like him. And not someone “like him”, but someone like him in this regard. Not so hard.

amiricanyeshivish, you say, “[I]n the non chasidish world… someone who is modern or just plain not acting frum knows that he (or she) isn’t up to par in their Yiddishkeit. I don’t think that is as much the case by the chasidishe society. It is just one big club.”

This is a very outsider’s perspective which boggles the insiders’ minds. I guess it’s like how all members of a foreign race look alike. But I recall how the Chasidim in my Yeshiva couldn’t get over how the non-Chasidish would conflate the Eidel, soft-spoken Chunyoks in Beis Medrash with the guys who don’t know the color of its walls.

עירובין נד.
אמר ליה שמואל לרב יהודה שיננא חטוף ואכול חטוף ואישתי דעלמא דאזלינן מיניה כהלולא דמי

רש”י
חטוף אכול – אם יש לך ממון להנות עצמך אל תמתין עד למחר שמא תמות ושוב אין לך הנאה:
כהלולא דמי – היום ישנו ולמחר איננו דומה לחופה שהולכת מהר:

This is brand new Hashkafa, that your money is not yours. Yes, there are Mitzvos to do with your money. I’m sure that a Yid with a חזקת כשרות did those Mitzvos. Telling someone he should have given money away, just because he spent it on himself, shows an attitude akin to the Wallstreet protesters. No, this person got ברכת השם and he isn’t stingy but is able to spend it to his benefit.

If you want someone to give Tzedaka and feel that he can afford it, speak Divrei Chizuk, convince him of the cause, and realize that he doesn’t owe you anything.

And now traveling to an interesting vacation became the mark of gluttony? No, bantering on how others could have spent their own money is the mark of jealousy. Calm down. It’s only עולם הזה.

Please stop telling people what they could have done with their money. It’s their money to spend, as the Gemara tells us, האי עלמא לבי הילולא דמיא. No, they aren’t looking for a money receptacle. They are looking for vacation and they Baruch Hashem have the money to spend on it. Again: theirs, not yours.

This is few steps away from the communist mindset, of deciding if people deserve their own money.

Rabbi Reisman, on the other hand, was advising people on where and how to do what they set out to do.

Agreeing with Shimon Nodel. There are way too many variables to address, even in a general way.

It’s a very clichéd response, often spouted as a knee-jerk reaction to something you aren’t personally in the mood of discussing at the moment.

Any disagreement can evoke emotions, whether or not it’s the biggest issue.

Also, this is often used to degrade the importance of what is “merely” a Mitzva but doesn’t make anyone rich. Whether or not you use it in such instances, just realize whom your audience is associating your position with.

I don’t know that we can control this. We never did control our destiny. There’s a down side to both, ignoring and complaining.

Sholom D, less frightening, but still disturbing is that you address my position without reading it.

Logician, I can understand the uneasiness. However, that can warrant a fiery speech to those within your sphere of influence. This is much further than that.

What you say about Rabbonim getting other Rabbonim to sib, is unfortunately true. But it shouldn’t be that way. To the reader, a signature on a notice means that the signatory was motivated enough to write this notice, not that that he mely agrees with the message

Not straw man but grasping at straws. Who is supplanting Rashi? It’s a wild claim. Why does their basic explanation require an earlier source if it just basic?

One widely touted example is the cooking of the lentils. Rashi quotes the Medrash that the lentils were to mourn the passing of Avraham Avinu. Obviously that is not the actual technical translation of the words of the Pasuk. And so, although obviously we’re aware of the back story given by the Medrash, there is room to express that the most basic reading is simply as someone cooking food.

Personally, I think they should have skipped that, since there is nothing to explain, but so be it.

This is perfectly in line with the Rashbam, who writes that the Drash is the main thing but the words do have a meaning without it, and it is worth devoting some time to understand that too. In fact, he writes that Rashi agreed surg him, and said that had he had more time he would have done the same.

Ba’avod Reshaim Rina only applies to נתמלא סאתם, when they are full-fledged, through and through evil. Even then, if you have the choice you should obviously choose to daven that they repent.

Even someone deserving מיתה deserves compassion. ברור לו מיתה יפה. They do everything to minimize the suffering. They also fast. Torture is never an option.

The way prisoners are abused in this country is despicable. It is hard to rally for this cause, since people have this notion that once someone earned his way into jail he deserves absolutely anything that comes his way, and only hard bread every day.