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  • in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2023188
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    K-cup, is Chabad more important than Hashem when it comes to capitalizing?

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2023147
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    K-cup, maybe you misunderstood. Every Jew has a Chelek Eloach Mimaal. Kol yisrael yesh lohem chelek.

    in reply to: Mothers' Names on Wedding Invitations #2023142
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    I just got an invitation from my Rebbi’s son, Rav Dovid Aryeh Ehrenfeld current Matisdorfer Rav Shlita, who is marrying of his son, designating his wife, mother of the chasan and the rest of the family. as above ubnei beiso.

    in reply to: Confusion on Lubavitch. #2023119
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    Did the Rebbe ever say that he is Meshiach? Hilel says that their will be no limos hamoshiach. Explains the Rav Abarbanel that techiyas hamesim will occur with the coming of Meshiach and no forty years will be in between them. That a dead person should become meshiach only works with this minority view.

    in reply to: Mishna Question #2023118
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    farbycoffe, don’t you read posts? Didn’t I say that leosid lavo we will understand Beis Shamai’s view and the majority will follow them, so we will therefore pasken like them?

    in reply to: do goyim have bchira chofshis? #2023117
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    The Shlah Hakadash says that reward and punishment, the second of the three beliefs which is a summarization from the Baal Haikarim of the Rambam’s thirteen, is a measuring stick of the nachas ruach we provide to Hashem through our performance of the 613 mitzvos. We should do mitzvos for this purpose and reward and punishment will come automatically.

    in reply to: Mishna Question #2022940
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    The Ksav Sofer on Parashas Yisro gives a mashel from his father the Chasam Sofer. A father had a goldmine and had multiple children. He wanted that the youngest child should inherit it, so he taught him the act of goldmining and divided the goldmine equally. Since the others did not know what to do with it, it automatically fell to the youngest child. The Torah Shebeksav is the goldmine and the Torah Shebaal Peh the act of goldmining. We received the Torah Shebaal Peh so we were able to understand the Torah Shebelsav. The Rabbenu Bachaya has another mashel where a king commands in writing his child to follow certain behavior and the reward given if followed by him. Being afraid that it will fall into the wrong hands who will demand the reward for their behavior, he passes part of his commandment orally.

    in reply to: Mishna Question #2022935
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    Moshe Rabbenu and the others could not transfer the Torah and determine our psak halacha wiith heavenly understanding. According to the above Ran it requires sechel enoshi, a human mind.

    in reply to: do goyim have bchira chofshis? #2022865
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    We have the neshama and the guf. The neshama has a tendency to strive towards above and the guf for below. Which overpowers which? The question is how can we both get a reward and punishment? If one has tendency to turn to the right, above why a reward? On the other hand, if the tendency is vice versa, why a punishment? They say that the tendency is to do the right thing and in order to reward us Hashem created the yetzer hara and that is for our benefit to get rewarded once we don’t follow him. Shechara ani venava. Now we have a tendency to do bad but we get punished because we also have the yetzer tov and the neshama.

    in reply to: Mishna Question #2022839
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    The Darashas Haran, Darush 7, explains that Rebbi Eliezer’s view was not accepted even it is emes according to the heavenly understanding, as once the Torah was given down to earth at kabolas hatorah, we must understand it through human understanding. Maybe, for the same reason currently we don’t pasken like the Beis Shamai but leosid lavo we will gain a higher understanding and the majority will follow the Beis Shamai so we will pasken like them.

    in reply to: Mishna Question #2022826
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    Torah Sebaal Peh was not allowed to be written down originally so the minimum was passed over to each recipient which sufficed then for their great understanding but as the Jews were in diaspora their minds became weaker and questions arose which they started to argue about. The Rabbenu Bachaya explains at the end of Parashas Ki Sisa that Rebbi, Rebbi Yehuda Hanasi only wrote down the minimum necessary for understanding. As the generations went on, more and more explanations and commentaries became necessary.

    in reply to: Fake Reviews #2022165
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    AAQ, the Chasan Sofer explains the pasuk by Yosef as Potifar’s wife spoke to him daily he did not listen to her. This is how the yetzer hara operates. He nudges a person constantly to sin as he has no good merchandise to sell. However, the yetzer tov does not talk so much as the merchandise talks. A lesson in marketing where good merchandise only needs description but not much convincing.

    in reply to: Why does it feel like Friday? #2022164
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    Yabia, see SA O’CH (128,44) the RMA there.

    in reply to: Why does Israel abuse frum people #2022154
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    All the chachomim on the above referenced list.

    in reply to: Halacha #2022126
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    What is the purpose of the semicha? According the RMA his rebbi gives him permission to pasken, so we have more chiefs than Indians.

    in reply to: attention #2022080
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    If someone says that they know everything, they really know nothing. Only Hashem knows everything.

    in reply to: Life in Israel is hard for most isreilis #2022060
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    As a sign of respect, Hashem should be capitalized in English.

    in reply to: The Salem Witch Trials #2022058
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    The Sefer Hachinuch 62 has an interesting discussion on kishuf, witchery. The nature is under the control of the Torah learners. To change nature through witchery is not the will of Hashem.

    in reply to: Why does it feel like Friday? #2022056
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    Shabbos should be keilu kol melachto asuya, where one should not worry about his daily work and consider it done. The RMA paskens that we don’t duchen on shabbos as people do worry and therefore, not being happy.

    in reply to: Halacha #2022031
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    I agree. They have to learn the halachas on the gemora they are learning. When I learned in the mesivta, we had a Rosh and Ran on the Rif shiur.

    in reply to: Why does Israel abuse frum people #2021979
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    Not I am not. I am upset at what is going on there. Look at list of the rabonon it includes litvish also.

    in reply to: Fake Reviews #2021985
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    There is a story where a student asked his rebbi for a recommendation letter and the rebbi signed it at the edge of the paper. Asked the student why? He said because it says midevar sheker tirchak.

    in reply to: Sports #2021898
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    We can learn from the goyim with what hislahavus to do mitzvos.

    in reply to: Why does Israel abuse frum people #2021766
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    All of our chachomim had foresight when israel was formed. What the Israeli government is now doing about kashrus was recognized then. Mods, Please allow this:
    See https://www. nkusa. org/Historical_Documents/TheRabbisSpeakOut.htm

    approving links isn’t an option, even if you ask nicely

    in reply to: What does “Yeshiva World” mean? #2021763
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    I am familiar with the Sopron kehila at 217 Hewes St, What you said is correct Rav Shimon Posen ztz’l the father of Pinchas Shlita at the above kehila left already in my time. My Rav in Sopron was Rav Aaron Meir Krausz who became Rav in Sydney, Australia and then lived in Monsey, NY.

    in reply to: Fake Reviews #2021741
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    I think it is assur to mislead people being goneiv daas.

    in reply to: Terra Chips #2021734
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    in reply to: What does “Yeshiva World” mean? #2021731
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    I did not but my rebbi the Wiener (Hadhauser) ztz’l was together with him in Tangier.

    in reply to: Terra Chips #2021664
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    Unknowingly copied the above from the OU website:
    If potatoes are subject to bishul akum, what about potato chips? Must kosher certified potato chips have bishul Yisroel status?
    This question hinges on the following inquiry. As noted, bishul akum applies only to foods that are “oleh al shulchan melachim” (served at royal feasts, henceforth abbreviated oas”m). Must the food be oas”m in its current form (which would exclude potato chips from bishul akum, since they are not served at royal banquets) or, does it suffice that the food category can be prepared in a manner that is suitable to be oas”m (in which case potato chips are subject to bishul akum, since potatoes can be prepared as a fancy food item)?

    Rabbi Belsky, zt”l subscribed to the former position and held that potato chips are not oas”m and bishul akum does not apply. Rabbi Belsky brought as evidence the statement of the Rama (YD 112:1) that rice bread is not subject to bishul akum, because it would not be served at a royal table and is not oas”m. Plain rice is oas”m, but nonetheless rice bread is not. This proves that we consider the actual manner of preparation and not the suitability of the food category.

    in reply to: Terra Chips #2021615
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    I mixed up Kof-K with OK but the above about granola of OK applies.

    in reply to: Classics and Beyond Chayei Sarah — Blessings From the Heart #2021608
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    When one puts aside their own needs for the needs of the other it shows that you love your friend more than yourself, therefore you are listened to first.

    in reply to: What does “Yeshiva World” mean? #2021596
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    My mother, being single and viral (32 years old) was sent by Mengele to the right and put to work filling granades with ammunition, escaped Aushwitz.

    in reply to: Terra Chips #2021597
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    GH, yes it is in the above article.

    in reply to: Terra Chips #2021578
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    I found the OK website about granola which apples also here:

    In terms of the question of Bishul Akum, granola does not require Bishul Yisroel for numerous reasons, including that it is not eaten as a meal, but rather as a snack food, and is not a food that can be classified as being of a royal nature. (It is not the norm to eat it with bread, a person does not invite one’s friend to come over just to eat it, etc.)

    in reply to: HaToirah Chosa al MeMoinam Shel Yisroel #2021568
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    Yaakov Avinu went back to collect the pachim ketanim, small pitchers. For tzadikim their money is zahav tahor, pure money through no ganeiva. By the negah the house is emptied before declared tamei.

    in reply to: Mazel Tov to the new AG Merrick Garland #2021558
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    in reply to: What does “Yeshiva World” mean? #2021553
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    Hungary had a big inflation requiring them to change their currency from Pengo to Forint. My father told me that they took an egg to the movies as money was not accepted for admission. My father had a confection business. The Germans marched into Budapest March 19, 1944. My father lost his wife and two children in Aushwitz. He was in labor camp in Mauthausen which I saw after the war. Horthy stopped deportation on July 8, 1944 and was forced to resign by kidnapping his son, so he abdicated October 15, 1944 having the Arrow Cross, who were worse than the Nazis, take over. My father remarried in 1946 (the sister of his dead wife, my mother). I was born in January 1948. I did not know that the Russians were in charge until the revolution in 1956. There is currently no yiddishkeit in my hometown Sopron which was a big kehila before the war.

    in reply to: Abbreviations? #2021408
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    אביי – אשר בך ירוחם יתום, Where an orphan consoles with You, as Abaye was an orphan brought up by Rabbe.

    in reply to: do goyim have bchira chofshis? #2021330
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    It says by Pharaoh that he was taken away the free choice. I think the meaning is that the help that we have against the yetzer hara was taken away from him. In Parashas Bo they ask the question about free choice where the Dubner Maggid explains that Pharaoh originally did not want but the makus changed his mind, so his freedom of choice was restored.

    in reply to: What does “Yeshiva World” mean? #2021335
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    In Hungary we only had one room, so we went to cheder.

    in reply to: Abbreviations? #2021153
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    BTW – By the way TGIS – Thank G-d its Shabbos

    in reply to: Abbreviations? #2021144
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    GH, Why Tishbu instead of Eliyahu? Maybe this is a proof to the Chasam Sofer, who asks how can we rely on him as the Torah is not in heavens? He answers that if Eliyahu comes in human form, he is like any other individual. So, the emphasis is that he is resident of his home town and not a malach.

    in reply to: My father has covid, please say tehilim #2021055
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    Baruch Rofeh Cholim

    in reply to: Mothers' Names on Wedding Invitations #2020948
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    By the chasidishe, they used to put the word ורעיתו to refer to the mother now they put וב’ב – ובני ביתו also והרבנית indicating the Rebitzin but the name is not mentioned.

    in reply to: What does “Yeshiva World” mean? #2020867
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    Higher level schools are called Mesivta the equivalent of Yeshiva in Aramaic.

    in reply to: Baruch Hashem: Obligatory? #2020711
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    By the 100 shofar kolos as it is part of tefila which the RMA says is not a hefsak, I say it.

    in reply to: Baruch Hashem: Obligatory? #2020709
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    Yabia, there is no gemora to say it but in SA O;CH 124,5 as noted by the Beer Hagolah 6, Tur in the name of his father, the Rosh. This is the reason when it is forbidden to be mafsik, we don’t say it.

    in reply to: Baruch Hashem: Obligatory? #2020704
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    It says כל הנשמה תהלל י-ה, על כל נשמה ונשמה תהלל י-ה, we should praise Hashem for every breath take.

    in reply to: Baruch Hashem: Obligatory? #2020693
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    The Rosh was a talmid from the Maharam from Rothenburg who was a talmid of Rav Yitzchak Ohr Zarua of Vienna. He was called Ohr Zarua because of a dream. He saw in a dream that Rebbi Akiva should be spelled with a ‘hey’ at the the end and not an aleph as the last letters of the pasuk אור זרוע וכו’ – ר’ עקיבה indicate. His rebbi was the Sefer Chasidim above, Rebbi Yehudah Hachassid.

    in reply to: Baruch Hashem: Obligatory? #2020689
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    That above is siman 3, where my father as taught to me, never said Hashem but Hashem Yisborach.

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