Reb Eliezer

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  • in reply to: Thoughts on High Level of Gashmiyus ? #1610069
    Reb Eliezer
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    CS, you are saying what it says בשמים ממעל ועל הארץ מתחת this seems to be obvious, the Klei Yokor and others explain that when it comes to heavenly, spiritual things, look at people above you. Whereas, when it comes to earthly, material things look at people below you.

    in reply to: Gee thanks, anti-vaxxers #1610044
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    in reply to: Funny Shidduch Stories #1609923
    Reb Eliezer
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    Be careful roomates or sisters should not show up when it is not their date. The date might get derailed by him falling for the wrong person which is funny but it is not.

    in reply to: why were reshaim created? #1609827
    Reb Eliezer
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    square root of 2. Did you check the Rambam? You are so imprecise as the sqrt(2).

    in reply to: Why it’s better not to win the lottery #1609740
    Reb Eliezer
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    There is always a question which test his harder, poverty or richness.
    Keep in mind that Hashem puts you in the current state and He is the only One who can change this.

    in reply to: why were reshaim created? #1609722
    Reb Eliezer
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    Yaakov Avinu had a brother Aisov to learn what not to do and to learn with what love and enthusiasm that Aisov does aveiras to do mitzvos.

    in reply to: why were reshaim created? #1609717
    Reb Eliezer
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    The Rambam’s question above is a form of this question. Doesn’t Hashem’s knowledge eliminate free will? If he can do differently than He doesn’t really know what he will do? If He created reshaim than
    He doesn’t really know what they will be?

    in reply to: Why it’s better not to win the lottery #1609707
    Reb Eliezer
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    A person might forget who made him rich and say that his own might made him rich.

    in reply to: why were reshaim created? #1609667
    Reb Eliezer
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    The question 4,6 is the Rambam’s question in Hilchas Teshuva 5:5, where we must say that Hashem ignores his knowledge or there is no time element infront of him, everything is happening now. Why didn’t Hashem create the world from Noach on? Noach had to learn from what happened before him. Similarly, the tzadikim learn from the reshaim.

    in reply to: Muslims vs Jews #1609511
    Reb Eliezer
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    The Ramban says that Sara Imenu afflicted Hagar and therefore, when we don’t behave properly, we will be afflicted by Yishmoel, so the Baal Haturim says at the end of Chayeh Sarah, that Moshiah cannot come until he is destroyed.

    in reply to: why were reshaim created? #1609328
    Reb Eliezer
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    Relative to reshaim we are tzadikim. They are kept alive because Hashem is erech apayim who is waiting for them to repent.

    in reply to: Mega Millions – Bitachon Question For You #1608461
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    in reply to: Mega Millions – Bitachon Question For You #1608391
    Reb Eliezer
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    You have to do some kind of hishtadlus by buying one ticket as mentioned above in the name of the Lubavitcher Rebbe ztz”l, so even though you have no control whether you will win, but you did yours.

    in reply to: Mega Millions – Bitachon Question For You #1608346
    Reb Eliezer
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    DY, you might not have the zachusim to find it or given as gift, which you have no control over.

    in reply to: Mega Millions – Bitachon Question For You #1608209
    Reb Eliezer
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    coffee addict, watch the news. The Lubavitcher Rebbe ztz’l said buy only one ticket.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1608191
    Reb Eliezer
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    Joseph, Aren’t the women the special gender that protect the men from attraction by covering their hair, dressing ztuniesdig and minimize their time being outside rather than have the men avoid looking at them?

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1608176
    Reb Eliezer
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    Window shopping should be not be done alone.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1608164
    Reb Eliezer
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    Just as men go out for a reason so do women.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1608163
    Reb Eliezer
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    yes, but their is always a justifiable reason. They don’t go out for the fun of it.

    in reply to: Mega Millions – Bitachon Question For You #1608140
    Reb Eliezer
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    yes, one can win just as two

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1608122
    Reb Eliezer
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    I disagree that currently we can keep women locked up as the Rambam himself states that they are not prisoners. They need to take out children to the park for health reasons, and for car pools on secular holidays when buses are not available. If they leave the house, they have a good reason to do so. The men do their own jobs and they will not be affected by the women provided they dress ztuniesdig.

    in reply to: why were reshaim created? #1608111
    Reb Eliezer
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    The reshaim help the tzadikim to do good with the ferver they do bad.

    in reply to: Mega Millions – Bitachon Question For You #1608109
    Reb Eliezer
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    Joseph, one is hishtadlus. If you are not in it, you can’t win it.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1608103
    Reb Eliezer
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    Joseph, the reason the women are limited in their out going so that the men should not get attracted. If the women go outside in a tzuniesdig outfit, according the MB 75:2 mentioned above , the men will get used to them, as the men have their own reasons for being outside, and the women will not create an attraction. Reb Moshe says that even in a shul the mechitza is only for separation and not for protection of looking at the women. So currently when the women have reasons to go out, we allow them to do so because the men become used to it.

    in reply to: Mega Millions – Bitachon Question For You #1608093
    Reb Eliezer
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    If Hashem wants you to win, one should be enough.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1607970
    Reb Eliezer
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    I repeat again it is currently a bigger problem if they go out seldomly then frequently as I quoted from the MB 75 that what men are used to doesn’t affect them. At the time of the Rambam they dressed in burka like outfit so it did not make a difference and it was better going out seldomly.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1607960
    Reb Eliezer
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    Joseph, Don’t make yourself absent minded. I quoted Reb Moshe about the mechitza and the Mechaber with the MB in Siman 75.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1607812
    Reb Eliezer
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    About changing halachas according to the circumstances see RMA SA O”CH 334:26 when it comes to putting out fires on shabbos.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1607810
    Reb Eliezer
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    Anyway there is a Yerushalmi פיק חזי מה עמה דבר go and see how the people behave אע’פ שאינן נביאין אבל הן בת נביאין even though they are not prophets themselves but they descend from prophets.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1607807
    Reb Eliezer
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    It says in SA O”CH 75 דרכה לכסותה explains the MB s’k 2 כיון שרגיל בהן אינו בא לידי הרהור when he is used to see something will not attract him. Similarly, he is used in seeing women, they are not provocative and will not bring attraction to him.

    in reply to: Gee thanks, anti-vaxxers #1607487
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    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1607456
    Reb Eliezer
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    Joseph, you are being ridiculous לכ”ת. The Mordechai in the name of the
    Ravye which is logical is not a boich svara. Women who go out dressed tzinuisdig do not affect man. The man are busy with their work and don’t stare and look at women who are not in any way provocative, For this reason a mechitza in a shul can be see through according to Reb Moshe. As mentioned before, we are more stringent when it comes to a Shul because the yetzer hora is stronger when there is holiness, but outside we follow the logic..

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1607378
    Reb Eliezer
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    Joseph, the Aruch Hashulchan’s does not necessarily follow from saying Shema when hair is not covered to women who are dresssed tznuesdig. We can pasken not like him in his situation and still allow women to go on the street using the Ravye’s sevora above that we don’t get affected when we see them around because we become used to them.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1607333
    Reb Eliezer
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    CS, I think you meant to say Sarah by Pharaoh also Sarah by Avimelech, Rivkah by Avimelech and Dinah by Schechem.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1607302
    Reb Eliezer
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    I will repeat again. The Aruch Hashulchan 75:7 brings the Mordechai in the name of the Ravyeh that we rely on. Women go out to the street , for the reasons mentioned above, seeing them makes us get used to them and we don’t get affected like we find dancing with them was considered עץ בעלמא. For this reason no mechitza is necessary at a family dinner.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1607290
    Reb Eliezer
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    Joseph, currently if we followed halacha literally, all jewish men would be divorced.

    in reply to: Gee thanks, anti-vaxxers #1607237
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    in reply to: Looking to sell a between 100-250 used Excellent condition seforim #1607125
    Reb Eliezer
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    He met sign with karma.

    in reply to: Looking to sell a between 100-250 used Excellent condition seforim #1607112
    Reb Eliezer
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    If used properly we have something similar.
    מדה כנגד מדה – בדרך שאדם מודד מודדין לו
    which shows the hashgacha of Hashem.

    in reply to: Looking to sell a between 100-250 used Excellent condition seforim #1607056
    Reb Eliezer
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    coffee addict, I can argue on your logic, The Torah is passed on for free in order everyone should have equal access to it.

    in reply to: Looking to sell a between 100-250 used Excellent condition seforim #1606660
    Reb Eliezer
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    People will not buy a cat in a bag without knowing what you have.

    in reply to: Parsheh of the Week Interpretation #1606648
    Reb Eliezer
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    What is the big deal that Avraham left his fathers house when he was promised all his needs? The answer is in the pasuk that Avraham went because he was commanded by Hashem and not for any self interest.

    in reply to: The real reason for expensive jewelry #1606650
    Reb Eliezer
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    My wife a”h said to me, either buy me real jewelry or don’t buy me anything. She was happy to wear it, it made her feel good.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1606345
    Reb Eliezer
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    When women go out, they have a valid reason to do so. They are not prisoners as the above Rambam states.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1606092
    Reb Eliezer
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    Joseph, be realistic. Man are working so women must shop, take children to school when there is no transportation in a car pool, also families cannot support themselves without women working so we have to allow things for darchei shalom and sholam bayis. As mentioned before, we find the view that we become used to seeing women, so they don’t affect us. The Rambam and SA were in a different environment were women did not work so they were able to stay home.. How the children got to school , and shopping was done, I don’t know. The Aruch Hashulchan 75 saw this allowing to daven with their open hair, even though you can close you eyes or look away or they can cover their hair. Do you go out to a married friend for a dinner eating on one table without mechitzas?

    in reply to: Alchohol #1606098
    Reb Eliezer
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    There is a great discussion in Parshas Shemini among the rishonim about the ills of drinking.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1606043
    Reb Eliezer
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    Joseph I don’t know if you are married. We sometimes were invited to an another family get together without mechitzas. We currently go out so we are used to see women. When you go to a wedding or a bar mitzva because there is a mitzva involved the yetzer hora is stronger to disrupt it and we need more protection.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1605993
    Reb Eliezer
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    Joseph, if your wife is a queen, you are a king. The wife also represents you. If she goes dressed “beautifully”, it reflects on you. You can trust her that because of your mutual love she will not sway from you.

    in reply to: Lubavitch Hats #1605997
    Reb Eliezer
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    My wife passed away over eight years ago. I always bought her nice jewelry and dresses because it made her happy to look good.

    in reply to: Kapitel Yud Gimmel #1605868
    Reb Eliezer
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    It says in kapitel 121 מאין יבא עזרי like אעשה לו עזר כנגדו.

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