Reb Eliezer

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  • in reply to: Inspiring Quotes #2028422
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    A stitch in time saves nine. The Midrash Shmuel interprets עת לעשות לה’ הפירו תורתך, when procrastinating in doing mitzvos by making time for Hashem (saying I still have time), the end will be that it won’t get done.

    in reply to: Giving Your Child an English Name #2028413
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    The Maharam Shick was forced to have a secular name, so he called himself Shick an acronym for Shem Yisroel Kodash, שם ישראל קודש.

    in reply to: Giving Your Child an English Name #2028129
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    Abaya was an orphan named by an acronym asher becha yerucham yasom, א’שר ב’ך י’רוחם י’תום, where in You a orphan consoles.

    in reply to: Inspiring Quotes #2028131
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    We must all hang together or we hang separately.

    in reply to: Controversial topics list #2028005
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    Science (olam keminhago naheg) helps to understand the Torah.

    in reply to: Klal Yisroel Needs an Official Central Yichus Registry #2027544
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    From the Torah, vayisyachsu al mishpechasam, where Rashi says that they all brought their yichus letter.

    in reply to: Is Artscroll gonna make a Rambam? #2027520
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    For your information, gonna is not a word but going to. There is a place named Ghana.

    in reply to: Klal Yisroel Needs an Official Central Yichus Registry #2027505
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    There is a shiur on it:

    Jewish Status: How To Verify?

    in reply to: Is Artscroll gonna make a Rambam? #2027499
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    I would say that people who learn the Rambam don’t need the Artscroll and others need halacha. The Raavad and Rabbenu Yonah were very harsh as they used the Rambam for halacha everywhere.

    in reply to: Yaakov Avinu’s sheep nigun #2027465
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    This is the first instance of cloning.

    in reply to: Classics & Beyond Vayeitzei -Relinquishing Control 2 Empower Our Kids #2027357
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    Yaakov Avinu emphasizes Lashon Hakodesh over Aramaic when he translates Yagar Sahadusei to Gal Eid..

    in reply to: סידור תפלה ישרה – צאנז #2027306
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    I think, an old version is available for download at https://hebrewbooks.org/7190 and reprint might be available.

    in reply to: Yaakov Avinu’s sheep nigun #2027158
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    At the collive web site above search for Yaakov Avinu.

    in reply to: Yaakov Avinu’s sheep nigun #2027122
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    Go to the collive web site and see Nemuoel sings Veato Amarto a Chabad song.

    –– from “Kfar Chabad” Magazine:

    Throughout his life, the Baal Shem Tov had a yearning to remember Yaakov Avinu’s melody. He once told his close circle of followers: “During my first incarnation, when I was a sheep in Yaakov Avinu’s flock, I used to listen to a beautiful melody, which is very pleasant for the ears and the soul. Yaakov Avinu always sang this melody when pasturing his sheep – when he could pour out his soul to his Creator – until he would hear Hashem’s voice blessing his (Yaakov Avinu’s) sheep.

    “I know for a fact that Yaakov Avinu also sent this melody with his sons when they went down to Egypt, to Yosef – as it is written in the Scriptures (Breishis 43:11): ‘And Yisrael their father said to them, “If it has to be, then do this: take from the song (zimras) of the land.”’ ”

    The Baal Shem Tov continued: “I merited to hear this melody only once more, which was when I happened to pass by a shepherd pasturing his sheep and singing this melody. When I heard it, I almost turned back into a sheep…”

    And when the Baal Shem Tov wanted to go to the Holy Land, he said: “Perhaps I will merit one more time to hear that melody ‘from the song of the land.’ When I do, I shall learn it thoroughly until I know it so well that I will never forget it again. And when this melody will be spread out so far and wide that everybody knows it, Redemption will come to the world…

    in reply to: Looking for the Lost Hour #2027118
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    The Midrash Shmuel interprets עת לעשות לה’ הפירו תורתך when making time for Hashem by procrastinating and saying I still have time to do a mitzva then the end will be that it will be forgotten and not done. Use time judiciously.

    in reply to: what is the origin of chanukah gifts? #2026817
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    For the above reason I made a bas mitzva for my daughter in an outside hall but just for women as it is improper to publicize a girl becoming of age and no change in public behavior of her reflects that. However, a boy puts tefillin on in public.

    in reply to: what is the origin of chanukah gifts? #2026804
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    The Serudei Aish says to make a Bas Mitzva as a necessity so the girls should not feel left out. Rav Moshe’s view is that it is like any other birthday party and thereby forbidden to make it in a shul.

    in reply to: do goyim have bchira chofshis? #2026799
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    That us why goyim only have 7 mitzvos as they have less bechira as stated above in Tosfas in Kedushin.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2026698
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    Why don’t you look and substance? Don’t be tofas hatafel unaniach kaikar as language devolves. Impacted in place of affected was frowned upon but now it is part of regular speech.

    in reply to: what is the origin of chanukah gifts? #2026683
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    Chanukah gelt, money is a custom but gifts is an appeasement like a Bas Mitzva.

    in reply to: do goyim have bchira chofshis? #2026674
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    If no free will, no sechar veonash, reward and punishment. It is the second belief of three, belief in Hashem, the above and the Torah given from the Heaven, according the Baal Haikarim as he summarizes the thirteen beliefs of the Rambam.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2026425
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    There is a joke where someone knocks on the heaven’s gate and he is asked, who is this? He answers, it is I. He is being retorted, another English teacher.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2026346
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    In yeshivas, translated from Yiddish, hold is used instead of up to as where do we hold and asks the gemora and answers the gemora but I learned gemora in Yiddish.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2026339
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    HaLeiVi, you like better the Ben Ish Chai explains? By me they have the same meaning. I did not put a subject in the front, obviously I mean the subject is the Ben Ish Chai. If someone else explains, I would have said, the Ben Ish Chai is explained. Why don’t you criticize the exchange of who and whom, the subject and the object?

    in reply to: Klal Yisroel Needs an Official Central Yichus Registry #2026294
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    in reply to: Mothers' Names on Wedding Invitations #2025957
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    Avira, in Kesuvas, Rav Acha danced with a kallah on his shoulders seeing her as a beam.

    in reply to: Trump is a Distraction, Much to the Detriment of the Republican Party #2025961
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    Stealth, I am too tired with your Demoncrats, and not with the obstructionist Rebublicans being in the bubble of Drumf.

    in reply to: do goyim have bchira chofshis? #2025818
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    Tosfas in Kedushin, (39,2) starting words, machshava, explains that by a Jew a good intention is like action but not a bad intention and opposite is true by a goy. Explains the Maharal with the Meharsha that a Jew is basically good and will follow up in action on his intention to do good but not bad and the opposite by a goy.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2025812
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    To whom do you return the kesuba to? There are both muchzakim here. The heirs the money and the wife the kesuba. Could be that since the kesuba is out of her hand here, she is not muchzak on it any more, so we say they paid it and she cannot collect the kesuba.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2025759
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    I think so in order to be paid as no shover is written.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2025657
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    I think the yesomim claim that the kesuba was returned to them after she was paid and they lost it and she claims that she lost it before it was paid.

    in reply to: Looking for the Lost Hour #2025288
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    The six divisions of misnayos have the acronym zeman noket זמן נקט, grab on to time – and do not waste it.

    in reply to: Short & Sweet #2025114
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    A tzadik ben tzadik has two zechusim whereas a tzadik ben rasha only one and half. We find what you say from the Alter of Kelm by Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov when they are mentioned in reverse order vezocharti es brisi Yaakov etc., indicating according to the Ksav Sofer, that each one was great not because of his father but by his own accomplishment.

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2025115
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    בית משיח = 412 + 358 = 770

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2024997
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    Ani reflects the hardest meseches, Eruvin, Nidah and Yevomus. Maybe, they are all related to unity where the center is the closest. We find, it says beficha, ubilvovecha laasoso. Says the Rabbenu Bachaya that the sides turn to the center so that the mouth, expression is from the heart and the action is fron the heart. Husband and wife have the closest relationship. Marrying a brother’s wife is somewhat further and bringing people together through an eiruv is even further. They should all turn to center. To understand the hardest meseches we need unity which correct sinas chinam, futile hatred and bring Meshiach in our time, Amen.

    in reply to: Day of Prayer Today Erev Rosh Chodash Kislev, Thursday #2024991
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    It is the expression by Yosef when Yaakov Avinu bows down to him in Parashas Vaychi, taaleh beidna ‘sagid’ leih, a fox when he is ruler is bowed down to, so was Yosef. This an Ethiopian Jewish holiday celebrating when Hashem first revealed Himself to Moshe Rabbenu at the burning bush choosing him as a leader.

    in reply to: Day of Prayer Today Erev Rosh Chodash Kislev, Thursday #2024895
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    Recommendation to say Tehilim 119 about the love of mitzvas (8 pasukim for each letter of the aleph beis, tamyeh apei).

    in reply to: Classics and Beyond Toldos – Our Birthright #2024893
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    The Targum Yonasan says that Eisov denied the after-life. However, the question is why did Yaakov Avinu say after Eisov asked for lentils to sell his birthright? The Maasei Hashem says an interesting pshat. Yaakov Avinu knew what was told to his mother, Rivkah that rav yaavod tzair, the elder will serve the younger. So, Yaakov Avinu said, if you want me to serve you, I must be the elder, so you must sell me your birthright.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2024855
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    When it comes to Ribis, it says lo yechetzu yemehem. Explains the Ben Ish Chai that Yitzchak Avinu said that half of time people are sleeping so they should not be punished as they are not sinning. However, one who takes ribis, even when he is sleeping his money makes money, so the days cannot be divided in half, but vaani evtach boch, I trust you, so I don’t take ribbis and my days will be divided.

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2024761
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    When it comes to Meshiach what happens to the gemora of tipach atzmosov, his bones be blown up for those who count the days towards his coming. There is mashel where one takes his son and a friend to Leibzig, the market (the most populous place in Germany). His son asks right away when will we get there? The father gets very upset, yelling, why are you asking me when we just started to travel. After a while the friend asks the same question, so he answers him in another hour. Says the son, why did you scream at me when I asked? The answer is obvious, it was not time to ask but now in the akavte demeshicha, the time when Meshiach can come, is the time to count and ask.

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2024579
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    The check reminds of the joke of the orthodox rabbi who was given money to place it in someone’s grave after his death, after he spent it he wrote a check.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2024546
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    ‘not vaday, still we’re concerned for choshid amamona choshid ashvua’. Froggie, I don’t know what you are saying. Only if we know for sure he did an aveira even a derabonon are we choshud as the words of the SA.

    שולחן ערוך חושן משפט הלכות טוען ונטען סימן צב סעיף ג
    וכל מי שחשוד ליקח ממון חבירו, {ט} חשוד על השבועה, (ח’) ודוקא שיש עדים שלקח ממון חבירו, {י} ו’] ג’) אבל
    בלא עדים אינו חשוד, (ג) ד} דשמא ({יא} ו
    [ב] ספק) ד’) ד) מלוה ישנה יש לו עליו שבשביל כך (ח*’) תפס אותו

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2024414
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    The Maharam Shick paskens not to place a secular year on a matzeva as it indicates the lack of life after death but try putting a Hebrew date on a check. In the Wiener cemetery, the matzeva writing is checked ahead of time and no English is allowed. We should use lemisporom on an invitation.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2024415
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    Little Froggie, I think that the SA answers all questions. Abbaye’s view is accepted when possible but a safek does not undo a vaday, so normally we are not chashud but if we know for a fact with eidim that he steals even rabbinically as playing cards, we are chashud and no shevua is placed on him.

    in reply to: Virginia governor #2023949
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    He won on a lie. They don’t teach critical race theory in Virginia public schools.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2023834
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    In SA CH’M 92,3 says that if we have witnesses that he stole, then we don’t let him swear as milva yeshena does not apply.

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2023790
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    It says that Meshiach is born on Tisha Beov.

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2023620
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    ujm, he does not believe in it when he uses it as the most of the world does. When we use a kapital, chapter for chumash, do we believe in the goyim’s believe who compiled it?

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2023198
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    Do you mitzvos because Hashem says so or the Rebbi says so?

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2023197
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    Chabad – Cherev al Habadim, sword when separation

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