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Why does the neshama who has everything come down to this world? Because it doesn’t want nehame dekesufa, bread of shame. People don’t like to take a handout.
It says in one place that there won’t be any evyon, needy and in another place when there will be a needy? So Rashi resolves the contradiction in depends whether they do the will of Hashem. However, we know that tazadikim who follow the will of Hashem sometimes have to rely on others. Maybe the one who does the will of Hashem refers to the rich who are suppose to support the poor.
Syag, I would like you to live up to your screen name as silence is golden.
Smerel and Pepper you seem to agree with Trump so vote for him. I don’t. I am happy to be retired and get Social Security which was instituted by the Democrats who are there to protect it.
When we talk about toeiva isn’t it a toeiva to hear the views above about helping the less fortunate through your taxes?
When I took unemployment, I was required to show that I am looking for a job.
We need a springboard to jump from to be able to swim on our own. I was educated through the CETA training program which was eliminated by President Reagan because he was shortsighted by not seeing an immediate payback. It was instituted by President Nixon. It was the best investment in government training to be able to acquire the skills to gain those jobs which was paid back through taxes.
According to the Torah the father has to teach his son how to swim but if he can’t afford to pay for it, the rich were responsible. Currently the rich don’t do it themselves but pay through taxes that the government should do it. If the government does not do it, the money is not well spent.
He can’t make his own effort if one has no skills and requires a springboard to gain those skills. A person will drown if not taught how to swim before thrown into the water.
The sink and swim mentality of the Republicans is not Torah view. Similarly, the social liberal view of the Democrats is also not Torah view but that can be avoided.
Read also Fascist by Madeline Albright.
There is a book Hitler’s (ym’s) American Friends.
As mentioned above when you add wine to the kos drunk from, from the bottle before pouring it back, there is no reason before kiddush to add water to the bottle because the bottle never becomes pogum.
See MB O’CH 182,27 that if you pour back the wine in the kos that was drunk from bedeaved it will not pasel the wine in the bottle as it becomes batel but lekatchila we should add from the bottle to it before pouring it back.
It says by Achashverus in Meseches Megilla that they switched rulers periodically, Poras and Modai, Persia and Media, and now was not his turn but he paid them off.
Look at the Kli Yakar in Parashas Devarim on פנו לכם צפונה be hidden in galus and not show off in order not to make Eisov jealous.
When we examine Rashi we see that maybe Rashi meant something else. Rashi says that Sarah Imeinu died when she heard that כמעט ‘שלא’ נשחט he was not sacrificed. It should have said that she heard that he was almost sacrificed. When Sarah Imeinu heard that Yitzchak was not sacrificed, she taught that she was at fault by her upbringing him improperly thereby making him not worthy to be sacrificed, so she died. The Sifsei Chachamim explains that the meaning might be, before they had the the time to tell her that he was not sacrificed she died. The midrash asks where did Avraham come from? The Midrash answers from Har Hamoria. The meforshim explain that the question is what was his eulogy’s inspiration? To demonstrate that Sarah Imeinu raised a son who was great and worthy to be sacrificed on Har Hamoria.
The Democrats are at 50.
Decided Democrats take the Senate and Republicans the House.
We should give thanks to Sugihara who helped Mir to go to Shanghai.
mdd1, what happened to the chasiddishe yeshivas?
Sam Klein, the holier than thou, if you believe that Biden, who will be 80 in 7 days, is not by his mind then daven for him in אתה חונן.
What about Iraq and Afghanistan? Wasn’t the US in war?
Sam Klein, your logic is the Aruch Hashulchan’s view O’CH 75 about davening in front a woman’s uncovered hair. he says that since the women leider go like that, there is no hirhur anymore. However, the MB’s view is that two wrongs don’t make a right. We can look away when davening. Similarly we should find the messages through the Jewish dates.
Sam Klein, I think you should do teshuva. By creating gematrios on goyishe dates you are elevating the a’z and גדול עונו מנשוא, the sin to do that is greater than one can carry. To encourage people to do teshuva must be done through proper means otherwise that teshuva has no value.
Any gematrios on goyish dates is a coincidence and Sam Klein if I were you, I would stop this. I think what you are doing is worse than what Moish is complaining about. You are ovar on שם אלהים אחרים לא ישמע על פיך by elevating the a’z. Our months are counted by Jewish dates. The Torah does not recognize any goyish months. I would not make any gematrios on Kapitals (chapters) which is used as reference only as it was created by the goyim.
I am an equal opportunity employer. I will give credit when credit is due and vice versa.
Trump has had a bad attitude from the outset. I am a stable genius, know better than anyone else and have know need to listen to my advisors.
How many of the independent thinking advisors made Trump change his mind?
It strengthens the belief by actually uttering or doing it as it says heemanti ki adaber as in the Hagaddah Shel Pesach. The starting letters are שפה, the lips. One thing to want to do it and another to actually do it.
ujm, I am reading from yahoo news: Stacey Abrams conceded Georgia’s governor race to Brian Kemp on Tuesday night. Although some people seemed to gloss over the issue as an “oh well” situation, I think that Abrams deserved more.
Stacey Abrams never conceded for the previous election but conceded for this election.
I voted absentee. They can compare the signatures.
I did not like Trump’s policies elevating autocrats and degrading our allies. Giving tax breaks to the rich which to my knowledge has not increased economic activity but our national debt. Originally he down played the dangers of COVID causing over a million dead including some of my friends. I also give him credit for the acceleration of the vaccine production but not the encouragement of taking it. General Mattis, a recognized expert, was forced out. The advisors could stay if they kiss up to him. They were unable to disagree. Only yes men were kept.
CS, two wrongs don’t make right. If I have known, I would have not voted for him as it becomes a question in one’s trustworthiness but I don’t like one following Trump either.
I will repeat what I wrote on another topic about Trump:
Trump as president was grossly incompetent by encouraging his best advisors to resign and fire them otherwise because he considered himself a stable genius. A smart person wants to hear the advice of others and not hire yes men. He had no political experience. He destroyed all of our alliances and almost NATO. The US gains from its existence as the support of Ukraine. He forgot about the Domino Theory. He endorsed likewise a great football player which does not a senator make. Similarly, a TV doctor snake oil salesman does not make one either. J D Vance bought his position. The only good thing he did was the Abraham Accords. It is no wonder that he is being recognized as a loser.Trump as president was grossly incompetent by encouraging his best advisors to resign and fire them otherwise because he considered himself a stable genius. A smart person wants to hear the advice of others and not hire yes men. He had no political experience. He endorsed likewise a great football player which does not a senator make. Similarly, a TV doctor snake oil salesman does not make one either. J D Vance bought his position. The only good thing he did was the Abraham Accords. It is no wonder that he is being recognized as a loser.
dovrosenbaum, isn’t Zeldin a bizoyan and ziyuf Hatorah marrying a non-Jew and thereby having non-Jewish children?
There is a story of a Rebbi Yonasan Steif ztz’l where one of his talmidim (later my rebbi Rav Holtzer ztz’l at the Wiener Yeshiva ) came to him to avoid being drafted into the army. He gave him a lachash, incantation to say before appearing in front of the doctor. Say, the goats in the slaughter house are fatter than me, עיזי דבי טבחא שמינה ממני. When he uttered it, his hands developed green blotches, like a leper. When the doctor saw him, he threw him out, saying, what are you trying to do? Infect us. When he went outside, it disappeared.
This was an argument when the Yeshiva of Volozhin became in danger. The gedolim then did not stop learning whereas the Chasam Sofer said that we must protect yiddishkeit.
The halacha is one who comes late should say Baruch Sheomar and Ashrei and say Yishtabach together with the tzibur. We want a minyan to answer for Yishtabach.
Maybe he needs a friend so you should go with him.
The above is posted to the wrong topic.
They could have voted by mail. In New York were the yeshivas are threatened the answer is yes.
In New York they could have voted by mail. As the yeshivas are threatened the answer is yes.
Why do we trust him more than her when he intermarried and has non Jewish children?
We have to be careful that the chumrah, being overdone, should not lead to a kulah. The Chacham Tzvi wanted to be matir kitniyos as it requires to make more matzos and there is the danger of not being able to watch out for chametz. The Chayai Adam wanted to asser potatoes, so he was told that he is taking away the chayai adam. It says לא תוסיפו ולא תגרעו ממנו the addition brings to a diminution. Adam Harishon by adding not to touch ended up in eating from the eiz hadaas. The mashel is to the individual who borrowed some silver utensils. When paying back, he gave back an additional piece saying it gave birth. Later, he wanted to borrow an expensive candelabra. The lender thought, why not I will receive a smaller one back. The end was that the borrower never returned it by saying, it died. So when asked, how can it die? He said if you believe it gave birth, you also have to believe it died.
Benephraim, no I don’t know. The gadlus of Rav Yonasan Steif ztz’l was that he knew when not be machmir.
No, they are cases that we avoid being strict, nidos and eruvin. The gemora says כח דהתירא עדיף where Rashi explains to asser something is no big deal as anyone can do that but to be matir, one had to learn from his rebbis to justify it.