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Where was the humility of Rav Yosef? The meforshim say that when one says that he is humble without any hargasha, feeling of greatness is true humility.
By Nevardak they said ich bin garnisht, I am nothing. So a bachur came to the yeshiva and said so. He was told you are not at that level yet. However, in Slabadka they emhasized the potential of a Jew being able to elevate himself as Yosef’s dream shteiging, climbing from the ground to the heavens according to the explanation of the Ksav Sofer. This could have been the argument between Beis Shamai and Beis Hilel by Chanuka whether to increase or decrease the number lit.
The gemora says that a menorah when placed over twenty amos, is not visible.
The gemora says that a wife protects the husband from adultery, so she says sheasani kirtzona, Hashem made me according to His will. When married, my existence becomes His will and girls are getting prepared for it.
There is a midrash that says, when the Jews heard by Kabolas Hatorah Anochi Hashem Elokecha, they answered baruch shelo asani goy. Why did they not say sheasani yisrael? The commentaries question it should have said, I am Hashem your G-d who created you not taken out of mitzraim. As we said that it would have been easier not to be created. The Maharsha explains that there are 365 lo sasehs, negative mitzvos which would have been kept by not being created whereas there are only 248 asseis, positive mitzvos having the requirement to perform them physically, therefore more could have been accomplished by not being created.
Another one is bima beamtza where one is not allowed to daven in a shul that does not have the bima in the middle which is required so that everyone should hear the reading of the Torah equally. This is the ruling of 100 Rabonim at Mihalowitz in 1866 even if will require davening individually Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
‘Reb E – I know this will be hard for you to accept but omicron isn’t causing deaths. I am fairly certain that it has not even caused any hospitalizations’. Syag, Ron Johnson and yourself were downplaying the effect of Omecron saying no one died from it or ended up in the hospital. It might only be true if vaccinated which you forgot to mention and encourage it. Your words indicate that you are not pro-life.
Avira. “but it’s along the lines of “haika ana” that ‘rav huna’ said in response to the gemara that said that when rebbe was niftar, humility ceased to exist.”
The gemora says to count the number of letters of a Sefer Torah by bringing it, so if an error is made, I will prove it directly. If was not Rav Huna but Rav Yosef:
תלמוד בבלי מסכת סוטה דף מט עמוד ב
משמת רבי – בטלה ענוה ויראת חטא. אמר ליה רב יוסף לתנא: לא תיתני ענוה, דאיכא
אנאWe follow in many things the Chasam Sofer and not Reb Moshe ztz’l e.g. mechitza and tefila betzibur.
Under the circumstances which the Tzitz Eliezer ztz’l indicates l’a, not wishing it on anyone, one has on whom to rely on.
This above from Wiki refers to the Shagas Aryeh not the Maharal.
According to Wiki:
A legend exists of his death. During his studies a bookcase fell on him, covering him with books. His students were able to rescue him after an hour or so and he related to them that he had been covered by the books of the authors with whom he had quarreled. He had asked forgiveness from all of them and they all complied save for one, Mordecai Yoffe (known as the Levush) who refused. He knew therefore that he was not long for this world, and pronounced the verse in Hebrew “Aryeh shoag mi loi yiroh”; i.e. that Aryeh (the lion, meaning himself) shoag (roars), but mi (an acronym of Mordecai Yoffeh, but can also mean ‘who’) loi yiroh (is not afraid).[4]
How about close to 800,000 deaths? Vaccinate and get protected. לא תעמוד על דם רעך, do not harm others!
No, but read his teshuva and see his extensive knowledge. At his laveya they carried his 21 volumes as a tribute.
This reminds me about the Shagas Aryeh who died through a seforim cabinet falling on him where he argued on all seforim by saying אריה שאג ‘מי’ לא ירא, when a lion roars who is not afraid? So R’ Mordechai Yaffe retorted that he is not afraid ( the above acronym is for him, lo yiro, is not afraid).
Are the Republicans the party of life or death? When it comes to abortion it is murder almost in all circumstances and when is comes to Omecron COVID-19 variant they downplay it.
The Tzitz Eliezer saw Reb Moshe’s view and still was matir in certain circumstances.
Look at the Jewish Virtual Library dot org in great detail.
The Tzitz Eliezer has 21 volumes of Shut at hebrewbooks.org one of the most prominent poskim. It is greater to be matir than to asser כח דהתירא עדיף.
Look at the Tzitz Eliezer Chelek 9, 51 Shaar 3 and Chelek 13, 102 under what condition an abortion can be made. Death might come through heavenly judgement not necessarily.
It says that one who is learning Torah lishma, for its own sake gains many things. It also says that one who teaches os achas, one letter should be called rebbi, my teacher as Doag taught David Hamelech two things alone. Asks the Baal Shem Tov what is the proof from two things to one letter? He explains that one letter can multiply and add other knowledge (para verava) but Doag only taught him those two things alone. An example is כל המוסיף גורע one who adds takes away as it says אמתים וחצי ארכו two in a half its length. The GRA explains that the proof is not from אמתים because if you remove the aleph, we don’t know the measurement. The proof is from וחצי when we add a vov it becomes two amos and half, otherwise without the vov the meaning is two amos is half its length and the length would be four amos, so the vov diminishes its value. So one letter changes the meaning.
I would like adoption to become more prevalent offering money to bring the child to terms or get a surrogate early. I adopted and converted my two children.
What about one who cannot afford it? Is that part of the wedding to collect money for it?
There is an difference in this when viability starts. For Jews only at birth as the Chezkuni in Parashas
Mishpatim (21,22) explains that he is only monetarily responsible on killing a fetus. Death comes through heavenly judgement. The Maharsha explains that Pharaoh went to Jewish midwives and not to mitzryim because they would be responsible for murder. So by the goyim viability is at conception.Text: I enjoyed our meeting and I am willing to go out with you again and then wait for an answer.
Saying, you are mamzer. A Jew when selling tzelems wanted to know with a mamzer or without a mamzer?
They wanted to bring a proof from the Torah for wearing a long jacket. It says borrow keilim (cloth) from the mitzryim and place it on your children. Why not on themselves? So they said, because it was too short. Maybe, there is no proof. If your children need clothing and you do then your children come first as we say in bentching that I have not seen a tzadik forsaken and the children look for bread because you will do everything to feed them.
Chanukah emphasizes the importance of learning and not forgetting it. The gemora says that the leaf of olive tea is dangerous for forgetting our learning. There is an antidote for it by uttering with the mouth our learning. I heard from from my rebbi, the Mattersdorfer Rav, Rav Shmuel ztz’l the implication of ועלי זית טרף בפיה the effect of the olive leaves can be undone through the mouth.
As I mentioned before, my wife a’h kept her family name as a middle name (not having any brothers but a sister) not hyphenated. It made her happy and it never bothered me.
GH, the Maharam Shik was forced to pick a last name, so he took Shik as an acronym for
ש’ם ‘י’שראל ‘ק’ודש’.The oil was found in a small pitcher compared to the one required for eight days when new pure oil will be available. So, do not demean a small pitcher because by Chanukah it will be required. That is what Yaakov Avinu symbolized. It also teaches us to fight the yetzer hara who wants to discourage us from using it saying, what is the use when it will not be enough. We never know when a neis will happen.
Also when fighting the yetzer hara (satan), according to the Shlah Hakadosh, ותקע כף he converted the כף, which is no good because it indicates a כף קמוצה, clenched fist and פה פשוטה and a open mouth, to פך a פה קמוצה, a closed mouth and a כף פשוטה and an open hand.
שלום רב לאוהבי תורתך ואין למו מכשול says the Rav Chida that שלום has the same letters as מכשול with a כף in the middle.The Chasam Sofer says on ויבא יעקב ‘שלם’ – שם, לשון, מלבוש keeps us separate in galus in order not to get assimilated.
My wife kept as a middle name.
I did some research on this. The Yerushalmi Shabbos (2,3) brings an argument on this. Rav Hoshiah there quotes the pasuk in Tehilim (69,32) which is also quoted in our gemora in A’Z (8,1) indicating that the same bull with one horn is the tachash which Adam Harishon sacrificed being a unicorn and maybe it was not taken into the teiva by the mabul and was recreated for the mishkan and then hidden afterwards.
I posted this at the site:
Restrictions against music at weddings even existed outside Eretz Yisroel. In the 19th century, the Maharam Shik of Chust in the Ukraine ordered all those who listened to him (which did not include everyone in his community as the Haskalah was on the rise) to not take musicians at weddings. He feared that the levity induced by music might lead to mixed dancing (Likutei Mahari’ch).
I saw that the Kalever did not allow a wedding to take place without him being present to make sure that there was no mixed dancing.
DBS, you seem to be right, I stand corrected as it was a פר
פר שהקריב אדם הראשון קרן אחת היה במצחו.I like sweet wine.
Should be above the levush and peyos were worn to avoid assimilation.
I don’t know if a plane is like a steamship or a ship carried by the wind.
The Chasam Sofer and the end of the above teshuva differentiates between a ship and a steamship where the ship rests and the water carries it, so it does not affect the person traveling whereas the steamship moves affecting the person traveling.
2scents, the Chasam Sofer does not like the movement of one’s body by the steamship which disturbs his rest on shabbos, so I don’t know what the answer to your question is.
The Chasam Sofer is in Shut Likutei Chasam Sofer 97.
The levush and peyos wear worn to be different to avoid assimilation.
Friday night we should rather make kiddush on pas, bread than other mashke.