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  • in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039981
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    Hogy Vagy? How are you? tyuk, a chicken. In Hungarian we use a ‘v’ instead of a ‘w’, double v, not like in German. Magyar – Hungarian The Hungarian’s say ‘ודברתם ‘בם – beszelni magyarul, speaking Hungarian.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039976
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    The hardest word to pronounce for a Non-Hungarian is gyertya, a candle which has two double letters from the above list.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039974
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    CS, Thank you. In Hungarian every letter is pronounced always the same way.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039967
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    Philosopher, I was born in Sopron, Hungary. As you are not Hungarian, so it sounds like that to you but Hungarian is not English where everything is always pronounced the same way. The accent is always placed in the beginning. They have double letters cs, gy, ly, ny, sz, ty and zs. They are always pronounced the same way. The are vowels without dots or dashes which are pronounced one way and vowels with one dash and two dashes, one dot or two dots pronounced a different way. For example, an o with two dots or two dashes are pronounced differently and change the meaning. There are sounds that are not available in English but available in German.

    in reply to: Classics and Beyond Vayigash — Assessing and Reassessing #2039886
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    What is the gemora’s answer when Benjamin still received more, so Yosef showed favoritism? The GRA explains that what Benjamin received was the same in value given to him only to be meramez, imply the elevation of Mordechai in the future and how great he will become as the dictum maaseh avos siman labonim, the actions of the fathers reflect on the behavior of their children.

    in reply to: Vayigash, Vaychi and Shmos on Redemption #2039799
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    When we become too comfortable in galus, the goyim become jealous of us and end up ch’v chasing us out. The holocaust was an effect of their jealousy as above. The Germans ym’s learned their behavior from Mitzraim. See the Meshech Chachma in Parashas Bechukosai on Veaf Gam Zos in great detail.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039687
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    health, in SA by shabbos and yom kippur it says we rely on doctors. If we cannot trust doctors, whom do we trust?

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039686
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    I know the words, even more than what the Kalever ztz’l sang as the last stanza, questioning why is that not now already where the answer is because ומפני חטאינו גלינו מארצינו because of our sins we were exiled from our land. If you know Hungarian go to the zsido dot com site.

    Szol a kakas mar
    majd megviradt mar
    zold erdoben sik mezoben setal egy madar
    de micsoda madar?
    sarga a laba es kek a szarnya engem oda var
    var madar varj, te csak mindig varj
    ha az Isten neked rendel tied leszek mar
    de mikor lesz az mar?
    וביבנה המקדש עיר ציון תמלא akkor lesz az mar
    de miert nincs az mar?
    ומפני חטאינו גלינו מארצינו
    azert nincs az mar.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039669
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    If one is good looking but wants to make themselves more beautiful is a different story.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039661
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    This is related to the abortion thread where having a deformed child
    will destroy one mentally.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039648
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    I called a Moreh Haroah and agreed with my view.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039591
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    nomesorah, I applaud you. Your eloquent reply indicates your mesorah.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039589
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    bob, I don’t agree with you as milah, circumcision proves the opposite. It is OK to make one feel good to change for the better. A person’s mental health takes precedence over everything else. Bal tashchis is allowed when the benefit is greater than the loss as over here. Medical includes mental health. The Torah was not given for hinderance.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039530
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    CS, it you want to hear different versions go to youtube and search ‘szol a kakas’.

    in reply to: Denigrating Gedolim #2039466
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    When it comes to mixed dancing, I heard if you must, dance with your wife.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039524
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    Phil, you are a descendant and I am a born Hungarian, so they must have had a nickname (bece nev) for it. Google ‘kakaos sutemeny’ (baked cocoa cake). I speak Hungarian fluently even though I am 62 years here in America. I was 9 years old when I left with a Hungarian mother tongue being over two years in Austria waiting to come here.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039521
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    CS, go to youtube and search on kalever rebbe singing for Szol a kakas mar. The story goes that the Kalever Rebbe Rav Yitzchak Eisik Taub ztz’l heard the melody from a peasant and he liked it, bought it off from him and the peasant forgot it.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039463
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    The Kol Aryeh interprets the conversation between the min (apikarus) and Rava in Meseches Shabbos. Rava was so involved in his learning that he pressed his foot on his hand and blood was gushing out. The min commented that you are a hurried nation like your action by saying naaseh before nishma, how did you know you can keep the Torah before hearing it? So he explains that the min was questioning how Avraham Avinu waited to be commanded to do millah before doing it. If he felt that you are that allowed to wound yourself but I see from your actions that your view is that you can wound yourself, so it must be that is greater when commanded (metzuva veosah) but then why did the Jews say naaseh before nishma. Rava told him that we trust Hashem like a father who will not ask us to do something we cannot do.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039438
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    For Hungarians it is kakaos (made with cocoa) whereas kokosh (kakas) is a rooster.

    in reply to: Plastic surgery and Yiddishkeit #2039384
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    There is an issur not to harm, cut oneself but than how can we do milah? So, if the benefit is greater than the loss, it is mutar. The woman feels bad about herself, but the plastic surgery makes her feel good.

    in reply to: Denigrating Gedolim #2039239
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    I don’t remember the context as it was a long time ago. I went to the Yeshiva Chasan Sofer from
    5723 – 5728 lemisporom 63 – 68. He might have repeated some Torah bashem amro, from him.

    in reply to: Kiddish/Chillul Hashem #2039064
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    See Yoma 86,1, ואהבת – שתהיה שם שמים מתאהב על ידך, love Hashem Yisborach such that He will be blessed through your actions and behavior. People will also bless their parents, yeshiva, them and vice versa.

    in reply to: 80 Years Today of Pearl Harbor Invasion #2039024
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    According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary attack is a synonym of invade.

    in reply to: Denigrating Gedolim #2039011
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    ujm, he never said anything bad about him.

    in reply to: Why Do People Knock Agudath Israel? #2039008
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    ujm, how do I know that as long they protect me from COVID.

    in reply to: 80 Years Today of Pearl Harbor Invasion #2039005
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    ujm, no, they were deported in 1944 and freed in 1945. My mother lost her father, two brothers and sister and my father lost his wife (sister of my mother) two children and a brother.

    in reply to: How to end a first date when there’s no shadchan #2038964
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    I was matched up through a plumber who worked by both parties. My wife a’h and myself created a shidduch where the union is still standing strong.

    in reply to: Denigrating Gedolim #2038956
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    My rebbi, Rav Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld, Mattersdorfer Rav ztzl referred to him as Rav Yoshev Ber ztz’l
    and the Beis Haleivi having the same name.

    in reply to: Why Do People Knock Agudath Israel? #2038949
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    I got a Pfizer booster shot after 7 months of getting a J&J shot and a flu shot.

    in reply to: Denigrating Gedolim #2038513
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    ujm, do you put the Jewish year on a check? The suggestion is not to use numbers for months but the abbreviation of its secular name and just use the last two digits of the year.

    in reply to: Zos Chanukah #2038434
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    Let us not forget extra Torah learning as zos reminds us of זאת התורה.

    in reply to: Zos Chanukah #2038433
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    We can daven for not open nisim as one’s parnasa because someone seeing the menorah would not know that a neis occurred. Maybe he poured everyday a full pitcher of oil into it. Therefore, it is an obligation on us to publicize it.

    in reply to: Abortion Case #2038421
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    The woman has a right to choose within the confines of the Torah as the well as the man.

    in reply to: Why Do People Knock Agudath Israel? #2038422
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    When it comes to a vaccine mandate, one’s reason not to vaccinate must be truly fully evaluated as it affects not only them but also everyone else they come in contact with becoming a question of לא תעמוד על דם רעך, cause no harm to others. The mandate is a last resort to encourage people to vaccinate.

    in reply to: Talis Bag to be Placed on the Floor #2038423
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    lower, obviously the room was required for something else.

    in reply to: Abortion Case #2038294
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    BY1212, thank you for showing knowledge and understanding on the subject and as the many different circumstances determine the halacha, one should ask their LOR before turning to action.

    in reply to: Shelo Asani Isha #2038128
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    GH, my father z’l was involved to help emigrate families from Hungary, so he helped the Miller family to leave Hungary and we ended up in a DP camp together in Austria.

    in reply to: Shelo Asani Isha #2038133
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    GH, speaking of youtube, if you search there for lipa macarena, you can hear Lipa Schmeltzer singing at their wedding to my son, Dovi and his kallah, Gabriella Eishes Chayil 11 years ago for the Mitzva Tanz.

    in reply to: Denigrating Gedolim #2037676
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    It says in Pirkei Avos, איזהו חכם הלומד מכל אדם, who is wise who can learn from everyone even from Acher as Rebbi Meir did, who was able to eat the fruit and throw away the pit or the shells. However, we can only learn from someone who we can respect and look up to in appreciation like an angel.

    in reply to: Public menorah lightings and rooftop menorahs #2037681
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    Anyway, electric menorahs is a problem of lacking a shiur, so people might think that this is being lit for the mitzva even if one is lighting correctly inside.

    in reply to: Shelo Asani Isha #2037665
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    I heard once from the badchen Rav Yaakov Miller Shlita to explain the passage in Aishes Chayil. It says
    פיה פתחה בחכמה, she opens her mouth in wisdom ותורת חסד על לשונה as Torah of favor is on her tongue.
    The man has a mitzva to know the logic of Torah, so the yetzer hara interferes in its accomplishment.
    So. he cannot start with wisdom but with sharp funny insights into Torah. However, the woman has no direct mitzva to learn Torah but only to know how to perform her obligations to do her mitzvos. Her learning is a favor to Hashem and thereby there is no yetzer hara to interfere in her learning. She can directly, in mitzvos she is responsible, start with learning the wisdom of Torah.

    in reply to: Tal Umotor Reminder #2037649
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    Say Tal Umotor this motzei shabbos Dec 4.

    See:

    The Change This Motzai Shabbos

    in reply to: What is the issur in flying on shabbos #2037575
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    As by closing a door and a deer gets caught, when done to protect the house it is not a pesik reishe.
    The Rashba explains that if only an issur happens then even if not mechaven for it is a pesik reishe but if a heter can also happen and you are mechaven for the heter then if the issur happens it is not a pesik reishe.

    in reply to: What is the issur in flying on shabbos #2037558
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    in reply to: Near lynching attempt proves again the pure racism of “conflict” #2037553
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    If I read correctly they were saved by Palestinian Authority Security Forces who gave them over to the IDF. This was a neis:

    See https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2036785/frightening-breslover-chasidim-nearly-lynched-after-mistakenly-entering-ramallah-videos.html

    in reply to: Public menorah lightings and rooftop menorahs #2037543
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    AAQ, very funny but according to the Beis Shamai, Chanukah is against Parei Hachag, to commemorate the destruction of the goyim which should be done on Sukkos.

    in reply to: Shelo Asani Isha #2037542
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    The man was created to do mitzvos as the other brochos reflect but the woman was created for the benefit of the man to protect him from the yetzer hara and to have children. The Sefer Peninim Yekorim explains that by the Yofas Toar, Rashi says that the Torah is ‘only’ talking against the yetzer hara and not saying that the Torah is talking against the yetzer hara. As having children does not apply as the Yofas Toar will give birth to a ben sorer umoreh, who revolts against the parents, so the only reason to marry her is to protect him from the yetzer hara.

    in reply to: Dvar Torah Wiki: Why 8 days? #2037494
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    mendyonline, who says that allows you to endanger your health by destroying your body? The Taz says that Chanukah no sudah is required but lehodas ulehalel, thanking and praising, as they were endangered spiritually and not physically whereas on Purim they were saved from getting killed. We eat those foods for the oil by emphasizing the importance of oil. Also, cheese blintzes is eaten as their salvation came through cheese. The salty cheese caused the Greek general to get thirsty, drink wine thereby getting drunk and falling asleep, allowing Yehudis to behead him.

    in reply to: Denigrating Gedolim #2037485
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    We should respect them and not denigrate them. However, we are also not mechiyuv to pull their wagon by following their hashkafa.

    in reply to: Abortion Case #2037481
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    The Chasam Sofer explains what we say, I should not stumble and my friends rejoice. So he asks, how can the friends be happy on his mistake? He answers that they are happy that he did not stay by his mistake because they were there at the right time to correct him. So one asks Hashem that they should not need to correct him and rejoice because he will not make a mistake.

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