Reb Eliezer

Let us remember zayin ador as mentioned above, the strength of Moshe Rabbenu to be mechadesh something and the mapalah of Haman ym’s which happened in the zachus of Moshe Rabbenu.

There is an interesting story which happened to the Chasan Sofer. He was learning at night holding a candle and in the middle he fell asleep. His gemora caught fire. Thw Chasam Sofer came in a dream to his daughter, Hindle, mother of the Chasan Sofer, telling her rush your son is in danger, so she rushed and saved her son. The family happens to have the burned gemora.

Abba_S, as pointed in SA O’CH 224,7 the nusach is Hashem gave from his wisdom to a human being. I think it is a futile brocho because trump has shown time and time again his lack of wisdom. He has gotten rid of his best advisorsn because of selfishness thinking that he knows better than anyone else, see Medrash Shmuel on כל מחלוקת לשם שמים . He encourages midas sedom by not caring for poor. The corona virus he dismissed rather than showing care for the nation. There was a network created by previous presidents for emergency services which was disbanded by him. I have not seen any personal wisdom from him. What he did for Israel is because of his family.

ברכות נו,א

A person dreams what he thinks in the daytime. How it is being interpreted becomes true through self fulfilling prophecy by working on it to make it true.

ברכות נה,ב

Talking about interpretation of dreams. How did Yosef know that the baker supervisor should be hung? I heard a mashel. A king commissioned 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 the man is not. How is it that the birds are not afraid from the man? Yosef saw that the birds where eating from the basket of baked goods held by the baker supervisor, so he must be considered dead.
The Dubner Magid explains why the Pharaohs dream interpreters could not interpret his dream with a mashel. A king wanted his son to gain knowledge for the future becoming king. When he returned, the ministers wanted to test him to see what he learned. So, one took a ring and placed it in his hand and ask the young man, what am I holding in my hand? The boy says, according to the formula we learned it must be a round object with a hole in the middle. So the minister asked him, so what do you think it can be? He says it is millstone with a hole in the middle. The interpreters of Pharaoh had all the formulas but they lacked common sense.

I heard in the name of the Satmar Rav, Rav Yoel ztz’l it says מראשית השנה עד אחרית שנה from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, but why doesn’t it say עד אחרית השנה? He explained that in the beginning of the year we think this will be the special year of redemption but at the end it is like any other year.
I heard that it says by Betzalel לחשוב מחשבות he had to know where to put what was donated. If someone had the proper mindset, as the Alshich Hakadash explains that what we give to Hashem was ידבנו לבו the desire to give through his heart as Hashem does not really need it because He has everything, he would make maybe, the aron with it. The Dubner Magid says that thereby he showed
that he loved Hashem more than himself by willing to give up something he loves for something else and showing that the second thing is more beloved than the first.

The table is like the mizbeach when one feeds the poor at the table as the mizbeach feeds the kohanim from the sacrifice.
The Rambsm emphasizes two places the importance of feeding the poor. In Hilchas Yom Tov (6,160) he says that someone who locks the door on the poor is not an enjoyment of a mitzva but an enjoyment of his own stomach. The other one is in Hilchas Megilla (2,17) where he says that there is no more greater or beautiful enjoyment than to make the poor and downtrodden happy. According to this, mishloach manos is based on matonas laevyonim not to ashame the poor, but according to the other Rambam above the Ksav Sofer says that it is based on the sudah in order to share with the poor. The SA O’CH 647,1 finishes up with טוב לב משתה תמיד where the question is if on Purim Katan we should make a sudah? So, says the Ksav Sofer that if he has good heart to give mishloach manos, than he can also make a sudah. The SA starts with the RMA quoting שויתי ה’ לנגדי תמיד keeping Hashem constantly in front of us as a King through fear and ends by get close to Hashem through love, so I heard that this is implied in ושני תמידים כהלכתם keeping the two tamids in front of us as the SA describes or keeping the SA in front of us constantly.

ברכות נד,א

Until now we talked about sight as a differentiation but now we talk about sight as a commemoration. Recognizing the greatness of Hashem through a miracle that many or one experienced.
The Magen Avraham (686,5) says that people can make like a Purim a national or personal holiday to commemorate a miracle that happened on a particular day. We are not diminishing by this the importance of other days. We don’t mix one enjoyment with another not to diminish from each other. The Chasam Sofer in Maseches Shabbos (22,1) starting Pesulah, says that there is a biblical mitzva to commemorate a miracle that happened to one from a kal vochomer, if servitude to freedom praise required certainly from death to life. Therefore the Behag holds that Chanukah and Purim are biblical but the method of commemoration whether throgh lighting candles or reading of the megilla, as the neis happened through the king not being able to sleep and reading a megilla, is rabbinical.

ברכות נד,ב

I one heard, יודו לה’ חסדו ונפלאותיו לבני אדם when we get cured we should thank Hashem who healed us but we see the wonder in the doctor, a human being. That is why we don’t find Moshe Rabbenu being praised in the Haggadah as he is a tool of doctor, Hashem. The Midrash asks on ויאמינו בה’ ובמשה עבדו – אם במשה האמינו בה’ לא כל שכן if they believed in Moshe than certainly they believed in Hashem? אם כן למה נאמר ובמשה עבדו so why does it say in His servant Moshe, to teach us whoever beliefs in the talmid beliefs in the Rav. The question is, it should have said, why does it say they believed in Hashem? Maybe, since all the abilities of Moshe Rabbenu came from Hashem it is obvious that if they believed in Hashem than they would also believe in Moshe Rabbenu as Shimon Hamosini did not need to learn to fear talmidei chachomim as their abilities come from Hashem whereas Rebbi Akiva was am haaretz, so for him that was not so obvious.,

ברכות נג,א

On Yom Kippur we take a rested candle but not Shabbos because, explains the MB ( 298,26), that Shabbos we take a candle to commemorate the creation of fire by rubbing two stones together which is the opposite. It indicates that it was not there before but on Yom Kippur, we want to show that this fire’s use was forbidden before and allowed now, therefore, the fire must exist from before.

There is an argument among the litvishe and chasidishe what is better, one should make kiddush for everyone or everyone should make kiddush for themselves? The Chasiddishe make kiddush for themselves and the litvishe one makes kiddush for all. They say that the rule טוב בו יותר מבשלוחו that he personally comes before the shliach does not apply as שומע כעונה hearing is like answering considering the person himself making the brocho, so we have ברוב עם הדרת מלך it is nicer to do things in a group.
In SA O’CH 298,14 says that one should make the brocho on the candle for all. They all enjoy the light at once. When it comes to make a brocho on a talis, we find in SA O’CH 8,5 we are given a choice either one makes the brocho for everyone or if they want one makes the brocho and the others answer Amen. The MB s’k 13 says that one making the brocho we currently don’t follow as people don’t know how each should have in mind the other one to be yotzei. We find in YD 19,3 that two shochtim with two animals one can motzei the other. Asks the Kreisi s’k 6 why over here there is an option as by talis above but by Milah YD 265,5 no option is given by two mohalim with two boys one makes the brocho and the other is yotzei. Maybe as he mentions there it is more in public.

ברכות נב,ב

The argument whether besomim or the candle comes first, maybe that according to the Beis Shamai we cannot avoid seeing the candle and therefore, not to bypass a mitzva praising Hashem for the fire He provides and provided us Motzei Shabbos, comes first. Whereas, the Beis Hilel looks at the levels of differentiation as explained before from lowest to highest, taste, smell, sight and the mind. In which case smell comes before sight as the sight is more reliable differentiation than smell.