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  • in reply to: Haaros on the virus #1846457
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    I don’t remember who but it is called chavlei ledah.

    in reply to: Chicken for the seder – I need advice, fast! #1846431
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    GH. You know that if something is assur because of mares ayin even bechadrei chadorim is assur.

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    It should be publicized that ignoring restrictions is a chilul Hashem.

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    The Rambam adds the words בבהילו יצאנו ממצרים before the passage הא לחמא עניא with swiftness did we leave Mitzraim. What does the Rambam accomplish with this addition? Also, why do we include Matzoh in our sandwich of Pesach and Maror? Isn’t it enough that we eat it separately?
    The Dubner Magid explains this with a parable.

    A very wealthy man from a great city had a daughter. He wanted to marry her off to a successful young man who had outstanding traits. He only found a pauper in a small village who had a son praiseworthy with these traits. He traveled to the village together with his daughter to see the young man. When he saw him, he was so impressed with the young man’s wisdom and his G-d fearing that he decided that he does not want to leave, but make an engagement and get the wedding done right away. So the pauper, father of the groom, s aid, don’t you need time to prepare for the wedding to buy the best food and drinks fitting your rich stature? I am a poor person who lives on stale bread, so how can I satisfy your needs? Answers the rich man by convincing him that he does not care now for all the niceties since making the wedding as soon as possible is his first priority. So, in order to make the wedding, the rich man commands his servant to replace the cheap torn clothing of the groom with fancy ones. After the wedding, the rich man asks his servant to collect all the cheap torn clothing and bundle it together because he wants to take it home with him. As the groom saw what was happening, at night, when they were all busy eating the poor man’s stale hard bread, he took a piece and hid it in the bundle, making sure that his father in law was not aware of it. When the rich man came home, he gave the bundle to his servant for safekeeping. After a while, the groom became arrogant towards his father in law, who decided to reprimand him. He took out the bundle and showed him the cheap and torn clothing. Look what you wore before. You were a nothing before your wedding, he hollered. As he opened up the bundle, the stale bread fell out. The young groom retorted, remember how you hurried to perform the wedding without regard to any niceties. You were willing to consume this stale bread as long as I was willing to get married. Obviously, you saw some qualities in me you couldn’t pass over that is why you hurried so fast to make the wedding before I will change my mind.
    This is the meaning of the above passage, the fact that we are currently eating the bread of affliction reminds us that we came out of Mitzraim swiftly because Hashem found us special to be worthy of being his servant. He didn’t want us to sink into abyss the fiftieth level of tumah. This gives us hope for the future. The same way that He felt that we were worthy of redemption once, should make us worthy of redemption again במהרה בימינו , swiftly in our lifetime Amen.

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    The Chasam Sofer says that Pesach contubuted to Tisha Beov. If we would not have been redeemed earlier, no other galus would have come. You can throw one big rock, one galus for a long time, on a person or a lot of smaller rocks, many galuses for less time. We eat the egg to teach us that by the Jews the more you cook them the harder they get in their belief.

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    1he Righteous women gave birth under dire circumstances thereby making up the extra years through multiplication having more people working.

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    The Klei Yokor on Uforatzti Yomo Vokedmo explains why not in order rather than exttemes? Meshiach can only come when we have reached the lowest level, realizing אין לנו להשען אלא על אבינו שבשמים, we can only rely on our Father in the heaven.

    in reply to: Parshas Tzav #1846222
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    It says היא העלה על מוקדה being implied that if someone elevates himself, he ends up on fire but והרים את הדשן if he holds himself low like burned coals, he will be elevated.

    in reply to: Chicken for the seder – I need advice, fast! #1846216
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    lower, I said exactly what the MB said. It should be mutar because it is considered cooked but because of mares ayen it is assur.

    in reply to: Parshas Tzav #1846166
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    An olah comes on a machshova where חסרון כיס means covering,, protection from bad thoughts.

    in reply to: Chicken for the seder – I need advice, fast! #1846159
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    See SA O’CH 475,2 says for those who has a custom not to eat tzli chicken is included because of mares ayin, even though roasting without water in a pot is considered according to Rambam Hilchas Korban Pesach (8,8) like cooked.

    in reply to: Haaros on the virus #1846016
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    They say that the shibud mitzraim and chevlei meshiach are birth pangs at child birth when the jewish nation was born and reborn.

    in reply to: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi #1846009
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    שבת כו,ב

    The hebrew mumbers are different than other words. The male ends with a heh whereas the female does not.
    שלשה על שלשה are tefochim whereas שלש על שלש are etzbaos.

    in reply to: Pesach vort All for the best: Relates to ארמי אבד אבי #1845863
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    The Alshich Hakadash says that by Lavan’s fooling Yaakov Avinu, he ended up almost destroying him by going down to Mitzraim. If he would not have fooled him with Leah, he would have married Rochel first and Yosef would have been the bechor and there would have been no reason to end up in Mitzraim because of jeakousy.

    in reply to: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi #1845793
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    שבת כו,א

    Impure trumah oil you might be able to light with on a Chanukah weekday but not tevel. This needs some explanation. Rav Yosef Engel questions that tevel is assur maybe because truma is mixed in it. So what is the difference. Truma separated you can have enjoyment from whereas tevel is trumah which is not separated so therefore is assur because of trumah mixed in it as stated in the gemara.

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    According the Bino Leitim we will say opposite. The Midrash says ויסב אלקים דרך המדבר ים סוף – מכאן אפילו עני שבישראל לא יאכל עד שיסב Hashem took them around, the question is why does the Midrash change the meaning to interpret it as reclining? We are telling the poor person that we were in the same boat as he is now and Hashem saved us. In the desert we have nothing as he feels but Hashem led us and protected us taking us out Mitzraim.
    The bread of affliction reflects this. Similarly we show emphaty and put ourselves in his shoes. Therefore in the zechus of charity we are showing we become worthy of the redemption.

    in reply to: Haaros on the virus #1845877
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    I don’t see how the geulah, the cure, is a vaccine. Maybe the servitude in Mitzraim is a vaccine to be able to survive in galus.

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    They say that Lot’s wife could not look back as she was saved together with Lot in the zechus of Avraham and not in their own zechus.

    in reply to: Pesach (Seder) Dvar Torah: True Freedom #1845811
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    How is it that Dasan Vaavirom did not get killed in the three dark days? Those who did not want to lieave were killed but they wanted to, so the Jews were different than other slaves as they strived to be saved and go to Eretz Yisroel.

    in reply to: Making sukkos? #1845708
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    Let us hope to be in sukoso shel leviathan.

    in reply to: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi #1845690
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    שבת כה,א

    Tosfas in Bava Metzia (43,2) starting Hachoshav explains that Pigul, thinking of eating not at its time means not realy thinking but talking/ The Rambam Hilchas Pisulei Hamukdoshin (16,1) argues.

    in reply to: Limericks based on Daf Yomi #1845675
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    Thanks you made us a mnemonic on the mnemonic. I person nade a knot on a handkerchief to remember something but he needs another knot to remember the reason for the knot and so on.

    in reply to: Limericks based on Daf Yomi #1845674
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    cute, look at my chidushim on daf yomi.

    in reply to: Seder at home #1845672
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    rational, be rational and see Maseches Shabbos 15,1, Berochos 47,1 שחייב אדם לומר בלשון רבו. and I don’t know who is right. We find others Ritvo or Ritva and Rashba or Rashbo.

    in reply to: Haaros on the virus #1845574
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    zeman, It says כימי צאתנו ממצרים אראנו נפלאות indicates that the final redemtion will be similar to the leaving of Mitzraim.

    in reply to: Limericks based on Daf Yomi #1845554
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    Can you explain the first part for daf 25?

    in reply to: Seder at home #1845398
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    rational, did you learn the gemora חייב אדם ללמוד בלשון רבו my rebbies pronounced it this way.

    in reply to: We need a Pinchas to take action to stop the magefah!! #1845238
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    The Yabia Omer (8,37) at the end brings from many that הפיגם in beginning of the mishna of Shviis 9, when read in reverse מגיפה according to the Tiferes Yisroel a red cabbage is a segula. Some say to carry rue.

    in reply to: Backyard minyanim #1845190
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    This is an aveira lishmo by not davening in a minyan now we accomplish more then by davening. The Chasam Sofer says the we say מצות לאו להנות ניתנו because if we avoid doing a mitzva because of an issur it causes, we gain the same benefit as doing it. חישב לעשות מצוה ונאנס כאלו עשו one wanting to do a mitzva and hindered is considered like he did it.

    in reply to: Seder at home #1845185
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    The Rabbenu Bechaye explains that the blood on the doorpost endangered them, as the Mitzryim seeing it knew that Jews lived there and they were sitting ducks. They could not leave their house strengthening their belief in Hashem to protect them.

    in reply to: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi #1845089
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    Should be when the Rav was not there.

    in reply to: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi #1845038
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    שבת כד,א

    Time to mention my ruling, when the Rav was there, by Rosh Chodash Chanukah where the shliach tzibur forget to say Yaleh Vayovo by mincha and remembered after saying al hanisim. He goes back to say Yaleh Vayovo, does he have to repeat al hanisim? Tosfas emphasis that al hanisim is to publicize the neis. Therefore as the shliach tzibur who did publicize the neis once, does not have to repeat al hanisim again as it is a tircha detziburei, a hardship on the tzibur, but if this happens to the individual he should repeat it. If it happens in the morning, he does not repeat Yaleh Vayovo either because of hardship as he will daven musaf where Rosh Chodesh is mentioned.

    in reply to: Pesach Divrei Torah #1845014
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    That is why we might take 5 cups to remember the 430 years as mentioned above from the GRA.

    in reply to: Pesach Divrei Torah #1845003
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    in reply to: Pesach Divrei Torah #1845000
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    Where did Yosef get the baker will be hung. I heard a parable where a king commissions a painter to paint a man holding a bowl of fruit. The fruit was so lifelike that the birds were eating from it. The king said, yes the fruit is lifelike but not the man. How is it that the birds were not afraid from the man? Must be that they considered him dead. Similarly, how come that the birds ate the baked goods from the basket which the baker was holding? Must be he is considered dead and therefore he will be executed.

    in reply to: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi #1844947
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    שבת כב,ב

    The above should be under this daf.

    The Har Tzvi O’CH (2,114) questions the Jerusalem custom of lighting outside in a container and closing the door after lighting as maybe the wind would put it out? How were you able to light it when it was open? We don’t figure that the wind increased when you closed it.

    שבת כג,א

    We don’t make a brocho על הדלקת הנר but the להדליק indicating that the lighting is the mitzva. We make בימים ההם בזמן הזה and not בזמן ההוא to emphasize what the Derashes Horan says that Nissan will be the time of redemption because it was the time of redemption and we will reawaken now the strength that is hidden in it.
    Similarly, we can reawaken now the miracle that happened at the time of Chanukah.
    The Chasan Sofer explains the custom that women don’t work when the candles are burning. They commemorate the biblical eight days of Yomim Tovim where the women light candles. So the men commemorate the miracle of the oil and the women abstain from work to commemorate the Yomim Tovim.

    שבת כג,ב

    Tosfas explains that if a mitzva is constant and the other is publicized, if it is question of precedence, which is first, the constant comes first. However when it is a question of doing one or another but not both then the one that publicizes the neis is done. On Yom Tov falling on Shabbos we say a Yom Tov shmonei esrei with Shabbos in it and not a Shabbos shmonei esrei with Yom Tov in it.

    in reply to: Pesach Divrei Torah #1844954
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    The GRA explains that there are four expressions of redemption so we have four cups but we also provide a cup for Eliyahu Hanovi. He says that there is a fifth expression to bring us to Eretz Yisroel which is temporary hoping for permanence, whether this is counted in the expressions is dependent on the ruling of Eliyahu Hanovi. Eliyahu will determine whether it is counted or not, therefore it is called the cup of Eliyahu.

    in reply to: Backyard minyanim #1844894
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    in reply to: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi #1844832
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    We mentioned before that according to the Trumas Hadeshen if someone light Chanukah lights shabbos before night is still mekayem the mitzva and if it goes out early, he still does not have to relight it also paskened in SA O’CH 673,2 . The Taz 673,8 argues on it. First the lighting is the mitzva done erev shabbos. Second, the question is asked by the Har Tzvi (2,115) that according to the Nekumai Yosef quoted above that erev shabbos is considered like the melacha of havara is complete even if we say that a fire is like an arrow, so according to this he is not lighting Chanukah lights shabbos but erev shabbos before the mitzva? He explains that he is not chayev on the melacha because the work is completed erev shabbos but his action only comes to fruition on shabbos.

    in reply to: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi #1844778
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    מזוזה בימין נר חנוכה בשמאל Mezuzah placed on the right and Chanukah menorah on the left. Explains the Rav of Beer Shmuel Rav Yonah Horowitz in his Sefer Chagveh Haselah that the purpose of the mezuzah is to teach how to behave in the inside whereas the Chanukah menorah is for the outside. The left from the inside is the right from the outside.

    The neis of Chanukah according to the Taz 670,1 for the first day that oil was left over on which the neis was able to fall for the next days as you need something on which the blessing should materialize. This is what we say in Maoz Tzur ומנותר קנקנים נעשה נס לשושנים from the left over pitcher the neis materialized for eight days.

    The Netziv Maeishiv Davar (2,80) explains that printed pages of seforim that are faulty have no kedusha on them as they are printed to be holy only if usable so they have to be sanctified for permanence when they become part of a sefer. According to this photocopies of seforim can be recycled in a separate bag. The don’t need genizah.

    in reply to: How should i occupy my 13 year old son? #1844723
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    Read stories to him about Gedolim.

    in reply to: Chicken for the seder – I need advice, fast! #1844704
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    We cook the chicken in a sauce grated horse radish, grated celery root, or tomato sauce

    in reply to: Minyan #1844506
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    in reply to: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi #1844465
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    שבת כב,א

    The lighting is the mitzva and not the resting. That is why we make a brocho להדליק and not על הדלקת הנרות. Some say להדליק נר חנוכה. Asks the Har Tzvi how can they light in Jerusalem outside and then close the door? If there is a wind it will blow it out. Maybe we rely on the fact that it did not go out when it was lit, so it wont go out afterwards. We say בימים ההם בזמן הזה we should have said בזמן ההוא? The Ran explains that Nissan is a time of the redemption, so we will be redeemed in Nissan as there is a koach hidden in Nissan which we are reawakening. Similarly, we are reawakening now the neis that this day has experienced before.

    The Rivash explains that currently we light inside so we publicize the neis by lighting in the shul with a brocho even though the sefardim don’t make brocho on a custom like Halel.
    There is a custom to light in the morning in shul without a brocho. This is based on the Rambam who says that whenever the menorah is cleaned, it is also relit, so in the morning it was prepared for the afternoon and was lit. The Rashba holds that it was only cleaned but not lit. The question is what is the use of lighting it when you can’t really see the light in the sunlight? My answer is that this is a commemoration of the Mikdash and not for publicity and therefore it does not have to be seen.

    שבת כב,ב

    Tosfas explains that if you have two items on is constant and the other for publicity, if it is question of precedence then the constant comes first whereas if it is question of one or another but not both then publicity comes first. Therefore on Yom Tov we say a Yom Tov shmonei esrei with Shabbos in it and not a Shabbos shmonei esrei with Yom Tov in it.

    in reply to: Is America doing enough to deal with coronavirus? #1844468
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    Joseph, who cares. Are you saying they infected the US?

    in reply to: China’s “Manufactured” virus succeeded Big-Time #1844379
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    I heard once if the hat is to small, we don’t shrink the head.

    in reply to: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi #1844419
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    שבת כב,א

    It is a common practice to tie the two Rav Tanchums together. One, if we place a Chanukah menorah above 20 amos is pasul because people cannot see it. Two, the pit where Josef was thrown had no water but snakes and scorpions. The father of the Mattersdorfer Rav, the Maaneh Simcha ztz’l interprets this as a way of mussar. Sometimes people emphasize more the secular education over the Torah education as they don’t see the benefit in this world, They see the benefit of the Torah education only in the next world. They place the Torah education benefit designated by the Chanukah lightsc above 20 amos in the heavens. They are told that the logic is fallacious because if there is no water, Torah, who does not learn torah will be influenced by the yetzer hara, the snake and will acquire all the bad character designated by the scorpion which harms people.

    in reply to: Minyan #1844421
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    Maybe this time we can apply this Kitzur Shulchan Aruch:

    קיצור שולחן ערוך סימן כו סעיף כב
    אף – על – פי שאמירת הקדיש והתפלות מועילות להאבות, מכל – מקום אין אלו העיקר, אלא העיקר הוא שהבנים ילכו באורח מישור, כי בזה הם מזכים האבות, הכי איתא בזוהר הקדוש, בן יכבד אב כמה – דאת – אמרת כבד את אביך ואת אמך, ואוקמיה במיכלא ומשתייא, ובכלא, האי בחייו דאיתחייב ביה, בתר דמית, אי תימא הא פטור הוא, לאו הכי, דאף – על – גב דמית, אתחייב ביקריה יתיר, דכתיב כבד את אביך, דאי האי ברא אזיל באורח תקלא, ודאי מבזה לאבוי הוא, ודאי עביד ליה קלנא. ואי ההוא ברא אזיל באורח מישור, ותקין עובדוי ודאי דא אוקיר לאבוי. אוקיר ליה בהאי עלמא גבי בני נשא, אוקיר ליה בההוא עלמא גבי קודשא בריך – הוא, וקודשא בריך – הוא חייס עליה ואותיב ליה בכורסיא דיקריה ודאי וכו’ עד – כאן – לשונו. ויש לו לאדם לצוות את בניו להחזיק באיזה מצוה, ואם מקיימין נחשב יותר מן הקדיש, והוא תקנה טובה גם למי שאין לו בנים אלא בנות.

    If you are unable to say kaddish, designate a custom to follow to commemorate your loved one and follow it through your life. Follow the ways you were taught by your love one.

    in reply to: Chicken for the seder – I need advice, fast! #1844334
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    Mrs. Plony, do you eat gebrokts?

    in reply to: How should i occupy my 13 year old son? #1844308
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    Play board games, computer games and learn Torah with him.

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