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I heard that it comprises two greek deltas signifying the army of David. There is a big difference between a tzelem and magen david. A tzelem only has extremes. The catholics only go by extremes like celibacy. Therefore, goyim can only bring an aloh which is burned completely whereas we bring a shelamim where we make peace with Hashem by eating it lashem shomayim. A magen david contains no extremes but midpoints.
lower, see the Ritvo Yoma 73,2 who says when the kohen gadol had the proper machshava the tumim helped him to put the letters together.
Empire has turkey bacon, long strips like bacon smoked which is very good.
Lower, the Ritvo above says that when kohen gadol had in mind the first part of the shem called urim, the words would light up and when he had in part the second part of the shem called tumim, the words would be arranged in order.
Maybe that is why the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch was wrjtten in order not to have to consult the rabbi on everything.
Rabbonim are suppose to have semicha indicating that their rebbi is confident in them that they usually, being well learned, will not make a mistake.
The women show their Jewishness through their modesty without a wearing a veil or a burka.
We say הליכות עולם לו, אל תקרא הליכות אלא הלכות, we don’t need to wear a symbol to show we are Jewish. Our behaviour outside should show we follow halachas and we are Jewish. Wearing tefilin shows that we are tied to Hashem and we believe in Him.
The word מאימתי instead ממתי is very interesting. It is aramaic indicating that one person comunicates with Hashem as the malochim don’t want to understand it. It says הפך בה הפך בה why twice? Could be, first indicating that we should repeat what we learned more than once. The Ben Ish Chai explains that someone might turn around the Torah by questioning it, but don’t leave it like that. Turn it back. The word מאימתי, I was told, is not immutable through את-בש as the word צדקה which cannot be destroyed, but it turns itself back. All the letters
are included in the word.Abraham came to realize G-d on his own as his father was an idol worshipper. The stoty goes that he broke all idols to pieces except the largest one. He put a hammer in its hand and said to his father that it became angry on the others and broke them to pieces. Judaism only started from Mount Sinai where the Torah was given. After Adam sinned by eating the forbidden fruit he was banished from Paradise and they had to discover G-d on their own.
What makes us special is that we have our own customs and we are forbidden to follow customs of other religions.
Other religions believe in multiple deities. We believe in one G-d Almighty who needs no help from anyone else.
We believe in everything in the Torah even though it is unclear to us, because the lack of understanding is a deficiency in us. Kosher is healthier than non-kosher. Something we do without understanding is not wearing shatnez.Joseph, the last president wasn’t impulsive and he found a way around the red line.
Maybe husband and wife can sit next to each other, otherwise men sit next to men and women next to women.
The Shagas Aryeh 1, explains the view that krias shma is derabonon means that min hatorah we can say any divrei torah but the chazal designated to say krias shma.
The Kohanim lein krias shma before eating truma when they are able to eat.
Why does the misnah say קורין in plural? Explains the GRA there that evey person has to lein krias shma on his own and cannot be yotzeh from someone else.
I was born in Sopron and learned by Rav Simcha Bunim ztz’l who learned by Rav Paler ztz’l, so I had a taste of the litvishe Chakiros. I don’t know Gruber’s relationshps. I don’t know which Spitzer you are referring to. Which Kraus?, In my time the Rav of Sopron was from Monsey, Rav Aharon Meir Krausz originally immigrated to Sydney, Australia. He is a son in law of Rav Tzitron from Hajdu Dorog. The Soproner Rav, Rav Shimon Posen ztz’l already was in America. Rav Paler ztzl, the brother in law of Rav Ehrenfeld ztz’l, left the yeshiva and formed his own yeshiva, Mekor Chaim.
In the misnah it says בערבין in plural. Why plural? Ths Tosfas Chadoshim on misnah explains according to the Rabbenu Taam, there are two nights, two shkiyos. Ths GRA in Shnos Eliyohu, who does not follow the Rabbenu Taam but the geonim, says that the two nights start by the afternoon when the sun turns west and the shkia.
I also learned together with Rav Noach Eisick Oellbaum of Queens in Chasan Sofer being a talmid chaver of his.
See his Haggadah Minchas Chein.I learned together by the Hadhauser ztz’l with Wiener Dayan in Monsey, Rav Menachem Fischer shlita and Rav Binyomin Gruber Shlita , Rav Hamachshir at CRC in Chasan Sofer.
No, I never learned by him. I learned together with his sons.
Where is Reb Moshe ztz’l matir mixed sitting?
I learned in 1959 by the Rav Holtzer ztz’l, Rav Yishai Direnfeld, Rav Spitzer, Rav Bernfeld ztz’l and the Hadhauser Rav Lebovits ztz’l then in 1963 I left the Wiener in Williamsburg and went to learn in Chasan Sofer Mattersdorf (both rebbies ztz’l) on the East Side and then they moved to Boro Park. I never learned by Rav Avraham Chaim Spitzer ztz’l.
Sefer Raziel Hamalach suppose to protect against fire. The Seder Hadoros says that Adam Harishon got the sefer from him.
The above GRA about Chana I don’t understand as the Urim lit up the letters and the Tumim was supposed to put the letters together in the right order.
Benephraim, see the other threads Start of Shas and שהכל נהי-ה בדברו.
I am Wiener talmud but I came to America after he was niftar. My parents and my wife are burried in the same cemetery.
Avi K, there is a GRA that says that Eli Hakohen consulted the Urim Vetumim when he saw Chana praying and it lit up כשרה and he misread it as שכרה.
They say that priests also learn, but we learn with yiras shomayim. Maybe we start with krias shma to emphasize this. ‘ראשית חכמה יראת ה. It says Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (28,4) not to put the gemora on the lap and the elbows are on it .
The Pester Rav ztz’l brings down this Midrash in the above:
בעין יעקב בהקדמת הכותב, וז”ל: בן זומא אומר מצינו פסוק כולל, והוא: שמע ישראל ה’ אלקינו ה’ אחד. בן ננס אומר מצינו פסוק כולל יותר, והוא: ואהבת לרעך כמוך. ר’ שמעון בן פזי אומר מצינו פסוק כולל יותר, והוא: את הכבש האחד תעשה בבוקר. עמד ר”פ על רגליו ואמר הלכה כבן פזי משום שנאמר ככל
אשר אני מראה אותך בהר וגו’ וכן תעשו עכ”ל המדרש, .This Midrash connects somewhat shema at tamid.
The Kaftor Voferach writes that Rav Chaim from Paris wanted to sacrifice a korban pesach in the beginning of the six thousand millenium. The Chasam Sofer and Rav Akiva Eiger ztz’l discuss in great length how this is possible, but how is it he did not want to be makriv a tamid? So the Chasan Sofer answers that needs unity from the tzibur through shiklei tzibur which currently is not available. I think this explains why we include shekolim in the daf yomi. As it will remind us of the rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash when we will be able to bring the tamid again. So tamid is a unifying korban and therefore krias shma which we all say together corresponds to it. Rav Moshe ztz’l holds that smonei esrei said quietly together is tefila betzibur like the korban pesach.
Benephraim, The sefer of the Pester Rov ztz’l Chadoshim Gam Yeshonim on Brochos is available on hebrewbooks.org.
Could be that the korbonas indicate that we sacrifice ourselves for Hashem, see Ramban Vaykro (1,9), so is shema.
To understand further what the connection is to tamid, there is a Yalkut Shimoni in Parashas Voeschanan brought by Rav Yanoson Steif ztz’l in his pesicha, 6 on Brochos:
ילקוט שמעוני רמז תתלה
גלוי וידוע לפני שבית המקדש עתיד ליחרב ומכאן ואילך אי אתם יכולין להקריב קרבנות, אלא מבקש אני תמורתן של קרבנות שמע ישראל בבקר שמע ישראל
בערב ועולה לפני יותר מכל הקרבנוI am not saying that the number makes a difference just because of the fact it is a mitzva (one or two) we start from the day like tamid as explained before from the Chasam Sofer.
Krias Shema is a mitzva like tamid. By a mitzva the day comes first. The answer is that the Torah puts night first when you are lieing on a bed and being. up. But why? Because over here night comes first as the creation of the world where night came first. There is an argument between the Rambam and Ramban how many mitzvos they are. The Rambam counts them as one whereas the Ramban as two because as the Shagas Aryeh explains that it is a time dependent mitzva as the time for day is different than the time for the night.
Benephraim, did you see Tosfas that by kodshim day comes first? When it comes to doing mitzvos, we follow this but by krias shema the pasuk goes after creation where night comes first. This can be the second answer of the gemora which might question the pasuk itself. We always start with light and not darkness פתח דברך יאיר.
By the goyim day comes first , where they enjoy olam hazeh and then will be night in olam habo. The Hafloh explains that Avraham was able to keep shabbos as he worked on motzei shabbos.
So why does the Tur place day first? Also practically all mitzvos are performed in the day time. The pasuk goes after creation where night came before day as first is darkness, we suffer in olam hazeh and then light comes in olam habo.
Why does the SA start with day first? Maybe, currently krias shema and fefila are in place of the tamid where the day starts in the morning. The Chasam Sofer explains that by mitzvos the day comes first because of he opportunity in olam hazeh to do mitzvos יפה שעה אחת בעולם הזה מכל חיי עולם הבא but the mishna refers to the pasuk where night is first.
knaidllach, look at the Machtzis Hashekel above who was knowledgeable in the MA says to say it with a segol to be sure it is a present perfect and not just past. The Yaavetz above learns differently in the MA.
‘This is how a WW starts by nations attaching themselves to one side or another, so let us learn from history.
I found an interesting question להורות נתן טז,ג we find in Mislei 13, 19 תאוה נהי-ה תערב לנפש the Redak, GRA and Metzudos translated a broken desire and others translated a past desire is sweet for the soul. This is written with a kametz. So the shut mentioned says that this proves to say it with a segol even though in Sheilas Yaavetz 94 argues strongly to say it with a kametz. According to the Malbim, he translates it as desire is sweet for the nefesh habehamis, the human animal inclination.
According to the Meil Tzadakah above (if I understand correctly) we should use a present perfect in a bracha and not the simple past meaning continuing on.
This happens to be a big argument. After doing research the Otzar Hatfilos rules like the Magen Avraham in SA O’CH 204 s’k 14 to say with a segol from a sefer Chochmas Manoach and the Machtzis Hashekel SA O’CH 167 s’k 8 from Shut Meil Tzedaka 42, whereas the Yaavetz in his siddur rules to say with a kametz. The Chasam Sofer in his siddur has it with a segol.
Milhouse, you have no respect. דרך ארץ קדמה לתורה. See what I wrote the other thread ‘thick or thin’ .
לפני שיבה תקום והדרת פני זקן. Your love for Trump transformed you like him, not caring whom he hurts.Milhouse, Obama held back aid because of war escalation. Once you provide aid at the time when corruptiion exists, you cannot hold it back later because of your personal benefit by helping you in the election to come.
Milhouse, I speak with respect and don’t appreciate being called a liar. He said, very fine people on both sides which gave them strength and encouragement as approval of their behavior. Calling them out afterwards was not too helpful. The fault cannot be corrected anymore. He inadvertantly encouraged anti semitism.
חכמים הזהרו בדבריכם