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I think, comparatively it is still better than anywhere else but EY. Hashem wants to awaken us to recognize כי גרים אתם בארץ נכריה that we are strangers in a strange land.
samthenylic, What is keeping him back is sinas chinom among groups, chasidim and misnagdim and chasidim among themselves. מה ה’ אלקך שואל מעמך כי אם ליראה what is the difference how, as long as we arrive to the right goal.
samthenylic, I learned by Rav Holtzer ztz’l in 1959 who thought me my bar mitzva peshetel. BTW there is an intersting story about him. When he was a young man he was called in to serve in the army. He went to his rebbi Rav Yanoson Steif ztz’l who gave him an incantation to say. Before entering to see the doctor, he said
עיזא דבי טבחא שמינא מיניה the goats in the slaughter house are fatter than I am. At ounce, his hand developed green swelled blotches. The doctor seeing him threw him out, telling him don’t infect us. When he went outside, it disappered.Gaon, I don’t think it was jewisih as history teaches us that Pilgrims were thoght by the indians farming and they thanked their GOD for helping them by eating turkey.
According to the Maarik there is no chukas hoakim when there is a reason for it. We give thanks to Hashem that we live in a land that does not discriminate and allows us to practice our religion peacefully.
Reb Moshe ztz”l has teshuva in Igros Moshe.
Our Thanksgiving Day is Succos where we thank Hashem Yisborach for the harvest.
It is an interesting play on words a turkey is called a תרנגול הודו a rooster of thanks.
samthenylic, What you are saying is a Klei Yokor Breishis 15:14 on ופרצת ימה וקדמה based on
Tehilim 44:26-27 Meshiach will come when we are on the lowest level and the only hope is Hashem.DY, There is a story were a king wanted to test Rebbe R’ Yonasan Eibshutz telling him that you are a chacham who is greater than a navi, so tell me how will I enter the palace. The Rebbe wrote down on a piece of paper מלך פורץ גדר a king breaks a fence and gave it to the king, so the king thought that the door or wndow is obvious. He went and created a new opening through the wall proving that חכם עדיף מנביא.
There is a mitzva to listen to CDC ונשמרתם מאד את נפשותיכם but there is no mitzva to eat romaine lettuce except maybe for Pesach.
Avi K, you know the GRA on כמה גדולים דברי חכמים שאומרים לא יקרא לאור הנר and they did not give a reason in the mishna that they might bend it because then people find an excuse that it does not apply to them as we find by King Solomon about marying many wives. The Baal Akedah explains by this הרהורי עבירה קשה מעבירה since people rationalize and try to explain an aveira.
It says חמורי סכנה מאיסורי we have to protect ourselves more from danger of illness than from issur.
Is Bodek excluded from the CDC warning on E. Coli?
Maybe because of mesackek bekuvya. The Rambam says as a profession because he spends his time frivilously and not does not care about social needs.
Look at the gemora in Perek Chelek where everyone of the talmidim thought that his rebbi is meshiach.
The Rambam says that as a profession is assur because because he is waisting his time and not being involved in the need of society.
Not everything was accepted. Reb Moshe’s ztz’l psak on cholov stam and mechitzas were not followed by everyone.
You know the excuse why they do it, high yeshiva tution, kosher extra expenses.
They only see what they want to see like those who only accepted kiddush hachodash only through edim but not through cheshban because they would recognize only what they can see.
I don’t consider honesty an option, but we must know for sure that he was dishonest which requires hearing both sides and not from hearsay. If you don’t trust someone, get it in writing. Someone lends money witout witnesses is ovar on lifnei iveir.
Avi K, We only hate secular jews if they influence others in their beliefs not letting them keep shabbos OTW we hope they do teshuva. Frum is one who eats kosher and keeps shabbos and how they behave towards the government is their own concern.
As an interesting point when one says he sees a rainbow it is loshan horah. Why, he wants us to do teshuva. Maybe, the Klei Yokor explains it says בימות רבי שמעון בר יוחאי לא נראתה הקשת at the time of Rabbi Shimon bar Yachai the rainbow was not seen, should have said there was no rainbow?
He says that that they relied on the gadol to protect them and did not look to see if there was a rainbow. According to this it is lashon horah because we don’t trust the gadol that he protects us or we don’t recognize the gedolim.Secular jews hate frum jews from jealousy.
Yom Kippur Katan should be said at least twice a year, Rosh Chodash Elul and Rosh Chodash Nissan.
The are both married with children of their own.
Avi K, I am familiar with all considerations. We followed Reb Moshe’s psak in Igros Moshe. They were told at a young age before anyone else would tell them. Besides, it is necessary to accept yiddishkeit at Bar and Bas Mitzva. The Tzitz Eliezer ztz’l says there is no yichud problem as they grew up as brother and sister, not biologically, so there is no problem. Also we were seen as father and mother so there was no problem.
The RMA YD 142:14 discusses semicha where his rebbi gives him permission to pasken. If his rebbi already passed on, it is not required.
Also it is necessary for gittin and chalitza. Could be like shechita where a person will not do it if he is not knowledgeable כל העומדים אצל שחיטה מומחים הם , so over here also he would not pasken if he is not knowledgeable.I adopted a boy and a girl with proper geirus as babies and b”H they follow yiddishkeit by being shomer shabbos properly.
DrYidd, It says in Pirkei Avos עשה לך רב which seems to agree with you. The importance is to trust your morei haroeh that he will give you the correct ruling when you need it.
Could be 4 places צבי is mentioned.
Asjhkanazim don’t say שעות עניים אתה תשמע צעקת הדל תקשיב ותושיע but others don’t say it because of the ר’ת of the verses.
Avi K, 770 is gematria בית משיח on Eastern Parkway. According to the Rambam, Moshiah will be a Jew who observes the Torah.
The above Nodah Bayehudah follows the Ritva in the beginning of Pesochim where we are taught that brochos are said before doing the mitzva, he gives the reason to use the brocho as means to be mechaven to be yotzei the mitzva, so shem yichud is unnecessary.
We find tzimtzum in Torah when Moshe Rabbenu was able to see Hashem’s back, the kesher of tefilin.
Could be the above was on the mind of the Nodah Bayehudah when he said צדיקים ילכו בם וחסידים יכשלו בם – YD M’K 93 when he was asked about saying שם יחוד before mitzvos, when you do more in one place , you might end up doing less in another place. לא תוסיפו ולא תגרעו – כל המוסיף גורע.
The problem is with chasidus that the chassidim end up doing less alone and rely on the coat tails of the Rebbe.
It says כל המחלה אשר שמתי במצרים לא אשים עליך כי אני ה’ רפאך the rishonim say we see from here that Hashem is a preventive doctor. When we daven shmona esrei let us ask to be prevented from illness and should not need any medicine. The Rambam explains in smona perokim that the body becomes sick when it is out of equilibrium, so we can holoistically keep the balance.
samthenylic – I went to Chasan Sofer from 1963-1968. I heard from Rav Shmuel ztz’l that an apple does not fall far from a tree, but in case of a storm wind it does, אמר אל הכהנים בני אהרן ואמרת אליו לנפש לא יטמא בעמיו don’t let a bad apple destroy the whole basket.
CS, My son came home with a joke: Why does the Lubavitcher cross the road? To be mekarev the chicken.
samthenylic – igen 2 1/2 evig, Julius 9, 1959 jontem Amerikaba – please post this as above.
CS, Do you have to be a chossid of a rebbe to be able to improve yourself?
I gave you a method to do this. They seem to believe that connetion to a rebbe makes them greater than anyone else, but they should believe the opposite that they are not worthy to be a chassid of the rebbe. Look at the translation I gave on Uncle Ben’s yiddish quote from one of the Rebbes.CS, I wrote this another thread. There is a practical way to improve oneself. It says והנה סןלם מצב ארצה וראשה מגיע השמימה this is compared to a human being who starts up from earth but by elevating himself has the potential to reach the heavens:
The Chasam Sofer gives us a strategy to improve oneself. There is always a conflict between the body and soul. We want to make peace between them as it says בקש שלום through ורדפהו meaning to create a small conflict. Let the soul do something small that the body does not like and allow the body to get used to it and then continue the cycle.
Meno, mentioned in SA O’CH 61:17
samthenylic – please explain yourself, what is the difference, according to the dictionary they both mean hope? Tesek kerem hogy magyaraza meg amit mondott.
Outside of davenen we find the Rashi on ורחל באה מן הצאן the pronounciation in the beginning or the end changes the meaning, where the Even Ezra clearly explains that the beginning is past and the end is current.
Some one asked once why we need a ת, ס, ש when they all sound the same? He was answered then how would you write כסילים מתי תשכילו using all the letters and retorting to him with the meaning that he is a fool.
Meno, mentioned above by besalel.
coffee addict, I appologize for קב which is correct.