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Reb EliezerParticipant
Ukraine destroys its own economy by 45% to look good.
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Reb EliezerParticipantThe Chasam Sofer explains that we eat hardboiled eggs at the Passover Seder to reflect on the fact that we are an am kasheh oref, a nation with a hard neck which cannot be swayed from their religion and the eggs, the more we cook them the harder they get. The RMA says to remember Tisha Beav which falls the same day as the first Seder night. If not for Passover, leaving before the designated four hundred years, there would not have been a Tisha Beav the chorban, destruction of the temple.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe men don’t include women for tzenius reasons for mezuman but three woman can make mezuman on their own. There is an argument if they bentch gomal, was there a chiyuv placed on them in the first place? The Chasam Sofer explains that they used to light Chanukah candles outside and it was improper for women mixing outside with the men, so therefore girls do not light Chanukah candles now even inside.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Digul Mervava asked how a man could be motzei kiddush a woman when she is responsible biblically whereas he is rabbinically after davening, They answer because of arevus. So the woman might have a different chiyuv and therefore not motzei a man. Whereas validation of her bracha by answering Amen should not be a problem. Maybe, kol beisha erva.
Reb EliezerParticipantIn the gemora in Pesachim everyone agrees that at least 14 days before one should learn Hilchas Pesach and Shabbos Hagadol would be less than that. Bayum Hahu encourages zerizim, mivod yom, in the day time but that only apples bizman chiyuv, at the time being responsible which when matzah and maror is in front of us to be able to talk about it. The Massei Hashem explains that the question of doing it earler only applies on the one not questioning as it does not make a difference when we speak about yetzias mitzraim but for others it is obvious that we need something to question about.
April 8, 2022 9:08 am at 9:08 am in reply to: Making a Barocho on a Blossoming Tree in Nissan #2076901Reb EliezerParticipantSome say שלא חסר בעולמו כלום
See https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/2076894/female-trees-versus-male-trees-a-halachic-analysis.htmlReb EliezerParticipantTosfas in Betza about burying the dead by the Jews on the second day Yom Tov where you have people who force the Jews to work differentiates a gezeira and a chashosha. A gezeira like second day Yom Tov even though the reason doesn’t apply, is still forbidden. Whereas a chashasha like leaving water uncovered over night and worrying whether a snake might have drunk from it, if they are no snakes it does not apply. Kitniyos is a gezeira and not a chashasha.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Yaavetz brings from his father, the Chacham Tzvi, who said if I had a quorum, I would be matir kitniyos as the more matzos must be baked it becomes harder to watch out against chametz.
April 7, 2022 1:41 pm at 1:41 pm in reply to: Classics and Beyond Metzora – Like an Affliction #2076614Reb EliezerParticipantShould be above, that my whole life, I have been perplexed with this pasuk what it refers to.
April 7, 2022 12:43 pm at 12:43 pm in reply to: Classics and Beyond Metzora – Like an Affliction #2076550Reb EliezerParticipantThere is the peddler who sells by taking out a Tehilim from his sack and showing the words and covering up the words written before, who is the person who wants life loves his life and sees good? \Guard your tongue from uttering bad and your lips from speaking fakeness. So Rebbe Yanai said that his long life he has been working on to understand the pasuk. The Ben Ish Chai asks, how can we learn otherwise? He explains that the above maybe refers to what was said before and long life can be gained by being satisfied with one’s possessions, so the peddler told him that the above refers to what is coming of not speaking about others badly.
April 7, 2022 11:57 am at 11:57 am in reply to: Is there any difference between a religion and a cult? #2076521Reb EliezerParticipantYserbius123, a very good differentiation.
April 7, 2022 11:38 am at 11:38 am in reply to: Classics and Beyond Metzora – Like an Affliction #2076491Reb EliezerParticipantWhen it comes to a metzorah, the live bird is dunk in the blood of the dead bird and sent away over the field. Maybe, the chirping of a bird reflects speech. There is good, allowed speech and bad, forbidden speech. The Kohen, being responsible for teaching proper behavior, is limiting the good speech not to come to bad speech by the dunking to show that we are killing some of it off and then the bird can fly freely over the field, one is free to speak.
April 7, 2022 11:35 am at 11:35 am in reply to: Classics and Beyond Metzora – Like an Affliction #2076478Reb EliezerParticipantSo zacha, if he is worthy, than she will be an ezer, she will help by being kenegda, pointing out his faults in order not to have tunnel vision. Rashi says that a nega in the house was really good for him as valuables were hidden by the kenanim which he found when the house was taken apart, so it just looked like a nega, an affliction but really it was a find, a benefit to him.
Reb EliezerParticipantOn the Pri Chadash above, the Chasam Sofer explains the prayer that I should not falter in my psak making my friends happy. How can they be happy when one stumbles? They are happy that their friend did not make a mistake because they were there to correct them, similarly with the Shach above regarding the Taz where he was willing to argue to correct him. They both happened to have the same rebbi, Rebbe Reb Heshel.
Reb EliezerParticipantYou know the story with the Chayei Adam who wanted to asser potatoes and was told, you are taking away the chayei adam, person’s sustenance. The Geonim had no potatoes, so it was not assered even though we can make flower and bake with it. Maybe, a gezeira sh’ein rov hatzibur yecholim laamod bo, a prohibition that the majority cannot stand.
April 5, 2022 1:12 pm at 1:12 pm in reply to: Is there any difference between a religion and a cult? #2075749Reb EliezerParticipantJim Jones in Guiana, 1978 where 900 people killed themselves for his name is an example of a cult.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Rambam explains that hands and other bodily comparisons of Hashem is lesaber es haozen, for our understanding. The behavior for above is similar to the behavior of comparison.
April 5, 2022 10:53 am at 10:53 am in reply to: Is there any difference between a religion and a cult? #2075623Reb EliezerParticipantMaybe Shlomo Hamelech who says אל תצדק הרבה, don’t be too religious is warning about making Judaism a cult.
April 3, 2022 10:45 pm at 10:45 pm in reply to: Making a Barocho on a Blossoming Tree in Nissan #2075058Reb EliezerParticipantThere is a mistake in the bracha above not that but it should be שלא חסר בעולמו דבר וברא בריות טובות ואלנות טובים להנות בהם בני אדם.
Reb EliezerParticipantIn mathematics a minus times a minus is a plus.
March 31, 2022 9:24 pm at 9:24 pm in reply to: Making a Barocho on a Blossoming Tree in Nissan #2074633Reb EliezerParticipantReb EliezerParticipantAt Keitzad Merakdim it does say to dance with her or even in front of her but to say not to her but in front of her.
Reb EliezerParticipantMy rebbi, the Matersdorfer Rav ztz’l at my wedding, which would have been 50 years on lag baomer, did not allow the kallah to come to the men rather I was going back and forth between the men and women. There were two tables. The main table by the women and the smaller table by the men.
Reb EliezerParticipantSpeaking of tzurah the Chasam Sofer in O’CH 159 is lenient about shaving the beard.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe sefardim make a bracha on matzah the whole year mezonos and hamotzi on Pesach.
Reb EliezerParticipantAnimals have no bechira, so Yosef was happy that he was placed in the pit where scorpions were and controlled by Hashem than human beings who have a bechira as we say at tachnun Vayomer David el Gad.
Reb EliezerParticipantSay פותח את ידך with kavonoh. The Haflaah says that ratzon means satisfaction. Being satisfied and happy with what one is given.
Reb EliezerParticipantI have seen when davening shemonei esrei they remove it from behind the ears.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe rabbonim usually use a long gartel far from touching the kalla, so what is the question about tznius?
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Aseres Hadibros has 620 words, which encompasses all mitzvos according to the Rabbenu Bachaya in Kad Hakemach, does start with an aleph as the mitzvos protect us and unify us.
Reb EliezerParticipantLook at the above reference to see.
Reb EliezerParticipantMaybe, this explains why Chavah was not created first. The Torah starts with a Beis and not an Aleph. When it came to Kabolas Hatorah, the women had to accept it first.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Baal Haikarim combines the 13 ikarim to 3. One, believing in Hashem, two, reward and punishment and three, Torah was given from Hashem. Some convert it to, belief in Hashem, Hashgacha and Uniqueness, Hashem being One, which encompass the first three brachas of shmonei esrei.
Reb EliezerParticipantFrom the above posters we see that Lipa is not Lubavich.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Abarbanel explains that ch’v to say Hilel denies the coming of Meshiach but the argument is if 40 years will be between his coming and techiyas hamesim or they will happen one after another. If the Lubatvicher still believe that their rebbi is Meshiach who is not alive any more, they must follow the view of Hilel that first will be techiyas hamesim and then the coming of Meshiach.
Reb EliezerParticipantLipa Shmeltzer sang Aishes Chayil at my son’s wedding as a mitzva tantz which is available on youtube when googling lipa macarena.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe order of parshiyus are like by creation where the animals where created first for the benefit of the human beings. Water and sun for the plants, plants for the animals and animals for the humans. The Klei Yakar explains that only when learning Torah, which makes us better than them, can we eat animals. That is why an am haaretz is not allowed to eat meat as Adam Harishon, who did not learn Torah, whereas Noach who learned Torah was permitted.
Reb EliezerParticipantThere is story that when a clock was brought in to the Chasam Sofer’s shul, it was broken into pieces.
Reb EliezerParticipantIf the whole nega turns white, is tahor. Why? Isn’t white a sign of tomai? The Torah does not like fakeness. When seeing one’s faults we can avoid their friendship and one can repent. When the animals are enumerated in Parashas Shemini, the pig is prohibited by mentioning first its cut hoofs. The Kli Yakar asks that is not what causes its prohibition but its lack of rechewing? He answers that by showing its cut hoofs it reveals its fakeness and adds to its issur.
Reb EliezerParticipantWhen one is hungry, it is greater to teach a person how to fish than to give one a fish.
Reb EliezerParticipantThere is a differing view between the Torah and science whether the woman or the man determines gender. The Torah says that it is the woman whereas science says it is the man. Science says that the woman has two x chromosomes and the man has an x and y chromosomes. The man can either give an x or a y but the woman can only give an x. If the man gives an x, it is female or a y a male. Maybe, the woman creates the environment determining what the man gives. So it is still the woman who determines gender.
Reb EliezerParticipantIt says in the Hagaddah that Rebbi Akiva reclined in front of his rebbi, Rebbi Eliezer, so how can he recline? Rebbi Eliezer was strict with Rebbi Akiva so he would not give him permission. Therefore it says that it was in Bnei Brak where Rebbi Akiva was the Rav and the talmid can recline in front of his rebbi where he is the Rav.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe seudah goes with a shiur, a measurement for a meal which in this case is two slices as above.
Reb EliezerParticipantTzedakah does not have to be lishma as the mitzva is not the giving but making sure the other person has. The Dubner Maggid explains that an individual should only be granted money for survival. Hashem wanted to give him ten times as much to be able to give the survival amount for maaser. Therefore, if one gives maaser, will become rich.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe halacha is that if you set a seudah on mezonos, you make hamotzi and bentch.
Reb EliezerParticipantI think the Bnei Yisoschor explains the pasuk at the end of halel א-ל ה’ ויאר ל’נו where kel Hashem is 57 lights up nu which is 56.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe Chasam Sofer said that it is better to have a girl than a boy. We cannot ensure that he becomes a talmid chacham but we can ensure that she marries a talmid chacham.
Reb EliezerParticipantThe attitude toward parnassah is hidden in it. It has נס, נסה and פרה. Neis is for the rich by recognizing that one’s richness comes through miracles. Nissoh is for the poor who should realize that their poverty is a test. Parah is 5 X 57 (זן) = 285. The ending letters מנצפך = 280 is 5 x 56. This is called ממתק את הדינים by adding an extra one to it we are sweetening the judgements. This is also used to explain the 5 hoshanas for Hoshanah Rabbah.
Reb EliezerParticipantMordechai knew how she can do it without an aveira but Esther did not want to sacrifice herself on purpose as they can be saved without her.
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