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The Midrash Shmuel explains כל מחלוקת לשם שמים סופו להתקיים all arguments for a Divine purpose will eventually stand. Who wants an argument to stand? The Beis Hilel because of their humility wanted to her the Beis Shamai’s view first to see an opposite view in order not to stumble by having tunnel vision. Thereby the Beis Shamai also became praise worthy as they helped the Beis Hillel to arrive to the truth. Leosid Lova we will pasken like the Beis Shamai as currently we don’t understand their stringent views but then we will gain a new understanding and the majority will follow them.
My rebbi said to make zahav tahor, pure gold. Everyone judges accoding to what they see.
ארון נושא את עצמו, as the kohanim where happy to carry the Aron, the Aron made itself light by carrying itself so as not to be a burden.
It says ורדפו מכם חמשה מאה ומאה מכם רבבה ירדופו, five chases a hundred and a hundred chases ten thousand. Asks Rashi it does not add up? Five to a hundred is twenty whereas a hundred to ten thousand is a hundred. Rashi answers that it is not similar when a majority perform. In English it is called synergy. More accomplish more. The whole is greater than the sum of all its parts.
You mean the more united we are as there is no such thing as the more echad either we are echad or not.
This unification explains the statement ישראל ואורייתא וקב’ה חד הוא Hashem and Yisrael through the Torah (which teaches us to love each other) becomes One.
The Raavad sometimes uses a harsh language on the Rambam to discourage relying completely on the Rambam.
There is a story where there was a grandfather, father and son. The father fed his father in a wooden plate figuring that a china plate he might break. When the grandfather passed on, the father want it to throw out. So the son said, father don’t throw it out as we need it for you. The Rav Abarbanel explains on honoring the parent, the children will follow how the father behaves towards his father. If the father honors his father, his children will honor him.
The reason we don’t know how to build it as there is a contradiction between Melachim and Yecheskel and we don’t know which to follow.
The most important to us is the separation of church and state.
The Aim Habanim Semacha quotes the Yerushalmi Masser Sheni (5,2) mentioned by the Tosfas Yom Tov there that we must build the Beis Hamikdash before the coming of meshiach.
The problem is that Eliyahu Hanavi must come first as we don’t know how to build it.שמע ישראל the holy Shlah explains that the word שמע emanates from וישמע שאול את העם Shaul united the nation, so unite Yisrael and that we all believe in Hashem that He is One brings us together.
We can demonstrate this where all the Jews are on a circle and Hashem is in the center. Through loving each other, we bring the points of the circle closer together creating a smaller and smaller circle such that eventually it will unite and be one with the center.
Chasidishe yeshivas learn in yiddish as I did.
The Sefer Chagvei Haselah explains that the Torah starts with a beis as the world was created with differences but the Aseres Hadibros reflecting the mitzvas of Torah unite us, so it starts with an aleph.
The Torah cannot be learned or performed without unity. Also one must be united with oneself not be two-faced and then can be united with others.
Torah shebaal peh, the oral law was also given at Har Sinai which was heard should be as clear the written law which is seen. The Rabbenu Bachaya gives a parable where a king wanted to be sure that his servants don’t take advantage of the rewards when commanding his son, so his said certain explanations orally. The Chasam Sofer gives another parable where a father has a goldmine which he wanted to give to his smallest child. He teaches him the act of goldmining and divides it equally but since the others did not know what to do with it, it automatically fell for the youngest child. The written law is the goldmine and the oral law the act of goldmining. This is like the Midrash Tanchuma where the Jews where given the written law and had to be forced on the oral law. The goyim never accepted the written law, so there was no reason to force them. Can also be that the Jews originally accepted the Torah with full will and then reneged by being scared from the great fire as explained by Tosfas but the goyim only questioned what the Torah contains and accepted nothing.
He needs a mirror not for the haircut which the barber sees but that he should not cut his neck.
שלחו מתם הזהרו במנהג אבותיכפ look at the second day yom tov when currently we know the calculations and we still keep it as we are afraid that a wicked kingdom might make us forget it. דזימנן דגזרו המלכות גזירה ואתי לקלקלי. The Chasan Sofer says that to follow a minhag, a custom is so important that it can break a heavenly decree.
See the RMA SA O’CH 339,3 and the MB there s’k 8,9,10
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כי ה’ נתן לנו כח לעשות חיל Hashem gives us the abilities, mind and understanding to mechadesh something in the Torah. The Chasam Sofer explains that a person is not allowed to say something new. All chidushim are hidden in the Torah and we are given the abilities to find them. The Rav Haflaah in Parashas Bo says that a kashye, a question comes from a Devine intervention, a siyata dishmaya which is usually required to get the hidden Torah revealed. He gives a parable to a simple person who is given a diamond. What am I going to do with it? As he likes gold, goes to a goldsmith to cover it in gold. The goldsmith being no expert, leaves some holes. The simple person only sees the gold. However the smart person sees the diamond under the gold. The kashye gets us to see the diamond underneath the gold.
The Binah Leitim explains איזהו עשיר השמח בחלקו, to be truly happy, we must share our wealth by making others also happy. All qualities in the mishna is a poel yotzei, something done to others. איזהו חכם הלומד מכל אדם. It says מתלמידי יותר מכולם, when one teaches, he learns. איזהו מכובד המכבד את הבריות it does not say המכבדים אותו, who is honored as he has no control over being honored.
I just listened to a presentation of AI and came to the conclusion that there is no a’z involved as it cannot do currently what humans cannot do except for speed. Do not worship the technology.
Can a computer with AGI solve the halting problem?
A human being creates data a computer uses data.
Can a computer solve with AI a non recursive non computable problem? Will another computer stop or be in a loop and will have to time out?
It still needs data to learn from.
A computer cannot make a decision on its own. It must be told what to do in each alternative case. The old question was to make a robot that can change a light bulb. It has to recognize which one is bad and have a soft enough touch not to crush it.
The Chacham Tzvi questions if the Maharal’s goilem can be counted for a minyan. Rava created one and Rav Zera destroyed it, why? Rebbi Elizer freed his eved, servant. Why did he not create one? Maybe Reb Moshe ztz’l says that a mechaleh shabbos can be counted but it does not make tefila betzibur.
My arrival was July 9, 1959. The day of departure was February 12, 1957. My father a’h got involved helping people to escape. Yaakov Miller’s family and Michoel Schnitzler’s family went through him. Being at the border of Austria, he thought that he can leave anytime. In the beginning when someone was caught escaping, would be sent back and they were able to try again. At the turn of 1957, the laws became strict with jail time. In February when my father wanted to take a big family, was told that it is too dangerous I rather take you. My father comes home at night and said, pack up we are leaving, We took one suitcase and got on the last wagon of the train to be able to get out in the back without being noticed and be able to hide in the bushes. After walking a while 2 Hungarian soldiers took over. At the border, search lights required us to crawl in order not be seen. The soldiers left and we were pointed to a direction and we walked in plow field which separated Hungary and Austria called nomans land. Everything was scary, a dog barking a tree whistling from the wind. After a while we arrived to an Austrian custom house. We stayed over in a motel and luckily we encountered a bus driver who took us to Vienna. The Joint placed us in a hotel called The Continental Hotel for refugees where we were for 3 months. From there we were relocated to a displacement camp in Upper Austria called Asten close to Linz. We stayed in wooden barracks. We had a cheder, secular schooling and an Ashkenaz and Sefard (chasiddish) minyonim. After 2 years the Hias flew us to New York. We lived in Crown Heights until my marriage in 1972. I took a bus to Williamsburg to the Wiener yeshiva. In 1963 I left it and went to Chasan Sofer on the East Side which moved to Boro Park.
Maybe this is the meaning according to the Rav Ben Ish Chai ztz’l of the pasuk לא יחצו ימיהם. The gemora says in Meseches Shabbos that Yitzchak Avinu was learning zechus on the Jews that half of the time they should not be responsible for sinning as they are sleeping, so we can divide their days. However one who takes ribus (interest from a Jew) sins also at night because the money makes money even when sleeping and therefore we cannot divide his days. ואני אבטח בך but I trust in you, so I will not take interest and my days can be divided.