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  • in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923366
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    The Arizal said on the hesped of Remak כי יהי-ה באיש חטא משפט מות ותלית על עץ when some one sins deserving death, hang them first on the tree. He translated it, If a person lacks judgement of death (so he didn’t deserve to die) apply the reason for the eitz hadaas.
    He also said ‘כל מעשר בקר וצאן כל אשר יעבר תחת השבט העשירי יהי -ה קודש לה he applied to the ten martyrs each died representing his shevat. Hashem was included in selling of Yosef, so Rav Akiva coming from gerim was in place of Hashem. Benephraim, don’t dismiss this, the rishonim had no reason to do this, they knew enough to find a pasuk directly related. It might be included in remez as gematrias are. We find remozim on halacha. A nazir thirty days is a gematria יהי-ה.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923339
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    There is an interpretation of mussar:

    כל הפוסל במומו פוסל – whoever faults someone, faults him with his own faults.
    אין אדם רואה את נגעי עצמו – one does not recognize his own faults
    שלך אי אתה רואה אבל אתה רואה של אחרים ושל גבוה – you don’t recognize your own faults but you recognize the faults of others and specially the faults of the holy. When someone degrades others, thinks he becomes greater.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923324
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    A view can also be interpreted for mussar. The Yalkut Hagershuni interprets the view of Rav Yehudah מין בשאינה מינה בטל בששים, one kind mixed with a different kind is nullified by a multiple of sixty, מין במינה אפילו באלף לא בטל, but one kind with same kind (having the same name, RMA, having the same taste, Shach) mixed with a multiple of a thousand cannot be nullified. A min (one who violates the Torah), if done lateovan, from desire, at sixty, the desire ceases and will stop, but if done lehachis, to anger, irritate, even he lives a thousand years, wil not stop.

    in reply to: Jews are way too comfortable in America ! #1923317
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    Look at the Klei Yokor in Devorim on Penu lochem tzafana, being hidden in galus and not to show of infront of the goyim with fancy houses causing jealousy. This was also the reason that the time of the redemption was withheld from Yaakov Avinu. When they know it will not happen in their time, the coming of Meshiach will be forgotten (Klei Yokor in the beginning of Vaychi). Shibud mitzraim came about for this very reason (Klei Yokor at the end of Vaygash). Some say the holocaust happened also for this reason. The germans became jealous of the jewish extravagant living, put them to work to weaken them, if able to, otherwise annihilated them.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923307
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    Sometimes a statement can also be interpreted baderech halotza, a joke. It says על שלשה דברים העולם עומד the world stands on 3 pillars. The Yalkut Hagershuni interprets this, that people stand up, have no patients, when it comes to these 3 things. Torah, people want to leave a drasha being too long, Avoda, davenen lasting long, Gemilas Chasodim, an Appeal. ברוך שבחר בהם ובמשנתם praised is the one who chooses them and their learning. People want to listen to the Torah of talmid chachamim but marrying them, were parnasa is hard, is thought twice and being held back.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923128
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    Another litvish learning:

    From the Griz son of Rav Chaim, who questions what is the meaning of shomeah keoneh? If it means that the listener is speaking then where is his megilla and loud voice, so it must be that the one listening is speaking with the speaker’s voice who has a megilla and speaks in a loud voice. A kohen who wants to be yotzei duchenen from another kohen must still raise his hand as that is physical mitzva lieing on each kohen personally which does not transfer.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923125
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    Another Chasiddish Derech:

    The Chasam Sofer on Shabbos 24 where the mishna says not to burn kodoshim on yom tov explains how the mishna can be interpreted according to the smart woman, the wife of the Sma. She holds that by yom tov lighting, the brocho should be said first before lighing and to light early. He explains that the two views of her are related leshitosa, once a brocho is said first it is yom tov and therefore even lighting early would be a question of burning kodoshim.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923093
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    Another litvish illustration:

    Matzah, is called lechem oni. Is this a din in sipur yetzius mitzraim (telling the story of yetzias mitzraim) or matzah? If it is a din in matzah, then we are not yotzei if the matzah is not left open on the table but otherwise not every matzah must be on the table just that we should tell it on any matzah.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923077
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    Should be above, not want to harm himself.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923075
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    Another chasiddic illustration:

    The Chasam Sofer in Nedorim 81 where it says that the chorbun came because shlo borchu batorah techilah, did not say birchas haTorah first, interprets it that they praised the secular knowledge before the Torah knowledge.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923067
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    Another chasiddic demonstation:

    The gemora in Shabbos tells the story of a min (atheist) saw Rava being so involved in his learning that he was pressing his foot on his hand and blood was gushing from it. So told Rava that you are a hurried nation as you preceded at Kabolas Hatorah naaseh (to do) before nishma (to hear). What is the connection? The Kol Aryeh sees as a discussion why Avraham Avinu did not circumcize himself until commanded. Maybe he did not want to harm yourself but you Rava belief that you are allowed to harm yourself. Maybe he waited to be commanded which is greater than not commanded but then
    why they preceeded naasey before nishma. So Rava answered him that we trust Hashem like a father who loves us and will not ask us to do something we are unable to do.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923030
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    Another litvish denonstration.

    The difference between aichus (quality) and kamus (quantity). Rav Chaim asks the question, how did they light in the mikdash with the oil added to menorah that burned after the pitcher was consumed being shemen shel nes, oil acquired through a miracle, that we celebrate Chanukah for? He answers that no new oil was added (quantity) but the same oil (quality) burned longer.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923027
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    Chasiddish:

    The gemora in Eruvin (6,2) says that whoever follows the chumras, stringent views of both the Beis Shamai and Beis Hillel,on him it says kesil bahoshach holech, the fool walks in darkness.
    The Ostrovtzer in Sefer Meir Einei Chachomim explains in a humorous fashion this gemora. The Beis Shamai forbids using kelim on shabbos as their view is shevisas kelim, the dishes and utensils, must also rest on shabbos. Asks the gemora Shabbos (18,2) according to them, how can we light shabbos candles? Answers the gemora that the lighter must give up ownership (mafker) of the canderlabra.
    There is another argument if hefkar must be complete both for the poor and the rich. The Beis Shamai says that it only needs to be for the poor, so their view is consistent and we can be mafker the canderlabra. However, if we go by the Beis Hilel by hefkar and the Beis Shamai by shvisas kelim, he/she will not be able to be mafker because by lighting acquires some ownership but we need to be mafker completely, so the fool will stay in darkness.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1923012
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    I will demonstrate the derech halimud (learning methodology) of both litvish and chassidish methods.

    Litvish:

    There is a custom in our shul to relight Chanukah candles in the morning. This is based according to the Sheorim Metzuyonim Behalach on the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch on the Rambam Hilchas Temidin Umosafin (3,12) who says that in the mikdash when the light went out in the morning, they would clean it and then relight it which being part of the cleaning process, so we make a zecher lamikdash, remembering how it was done in the mikdash. The Rashba in his teshuvas argues on this. They would only relight it in the afternoon. The question is, sheraga betahara mai mehana, why light in the sunlight when it can not be seen? I think this question only applies if the reason for relighting in the morning is parsumei nisa, publicize the miracle. However, if the reason is zecher lamikdash, then the opposite is true. In the Mikdash the light was not used to be seen, vechi leorah hi tzarich?

    in reply to: Jews are way too comfortable in America ! #1922962
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    rational, see the Aim Habonim Samecha Shaar 3 from tbe Yerushalmi and Tosfas Yom Tov on the Mishna Maaser Sheni (5,2) to build the Beis Hamikdash before the coming of Meshiach. The Satmar Rav ztz’l says that Eliyah Hanovi must come and tell us first how to build it as Melachim contradicts Yechezkal.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1922953
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    The Chasam Sofer said the day he did not learn Chovas Halvovas he was missing something.

    in reply to: Jews are way too comfortable in America ! #1922828
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    In order Meshiach should come, we must miss his coming and realize that we are strangers in strange land otherwise we are kept in galus until we arrive to this recognition.

    in reply to: Michigan just certified for Biden. What is the Presidents next move? #1922774
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    in reply to: How does this movie end? #1922748
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    I tell an other incredible story how my mother a’h got saved in Aushwitz. The right side was life and the left death. My father was married before my mother to her sister. Having two young daughters she was sent to the left and my mother being 32 years old to the right by Mengele ym’s. My mother seeing this in order to be together with them, left the right side and went after them to the left side. Twice a german soldier pushed her back to the right. My father being saved from labor camp, Mauthausen, after the war, through a heter of two witnesses seeing his wife sent to the left, was able to marry my mother.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1922720
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    By the Chasidim Avodah brings to Torah whereas by the litvaks Torah brings to Avodah.

    in reply to: How does this movie end? #1922665
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    The Hungarians are against immigrants as Trump. The Hungarian Revolution was October 23, 1956. My father, living in Sopron at the Austrian border, got involved in helping Jewish refugees to escape.
    We stayed in Hungary until February 12, 1957, Lincoln’s birthday being 9 years old. My father comes home at night and says, pack up we are leaving. He wanted to take a big family but was told that it was very dangerous, I will take you. We had to get into a last wagon of the train to exit unnoticed behind the train and hide in the bushes. We were met by two hungarian soldiers who took us to the border having to avoid search lights and there they left us on our own. We were walking on our own in no-mans land in plow-fields. Eventually we arrived in Austria. We stayed for 3 months in the Continental Hotel. Fom there we were taken to a dp camp in Upper Austria called Asten closed to Linz. We were there 2 1/2 years until we were able to America.

    in reply to: How does this movie end? #1922661
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    GH, Look at the Midrash Shmuel on Pirkei Avos (5,20) asking who wants a machlokus to stand? The Beis Shamai by showing an opposite view helped the Beis Hilel eliminate tunnel vision and arrive to the truth, so they also became praise worthy. The Beis Hilel, I think, because of their humility allowed the Beis Shamai to precede them to hear their view first. We will pasken leosid lavo like them. Where is the majority? I think, currently we don’t understand their stringencies but then umolo haaretz deah, we will come to a special understanding so the majority will follow the Beis Sbamai. Trump’s biggest problem is and was that he thinks he knows everything better than anyone else firing or pushing out all his best advisors as General Mattis.

    in reply to: How does this movie end? #1922658
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    GH, you know Rashi Bamidbar (14,44) on vayapilu laalos, loshan chozak, ingerish blaaz.

    in reply to: How does this movie end? #1922647
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    GH, addig jár a korsó a kútra, míg el nem törik. literally, as long goes the pitcher to the well until it breaks, meaning, the pitcher is the made from breakable material and breaks eventually. Trump just broke.
    Your saying above, when cooking, you must wait for bushal kal tzarcha otherwise it is kemachel ben darusai, half cooked and no good as it says ki im tzeli esh, fully baked.

    in reply to: How does this movie end? #1922599
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    There is a Hungarian saying, the pitcher is taken to the well until it breaks. Trump overplayed his hand.

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    Health, when it came to Trump’s impeachment, Republicans canceled witness testimony. Now in Pennsylvania he deserves canceling witness testimony.

    in reply to: Michigan just certified for Biden. What is the Presidents next move? #1922434
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    in reply to: Michigan just certified for Biden. What is the Presidents next move? #1922432
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    The transition funds were approved.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1922375
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    Rav Simcha Bunim tzl’l was a talmid of his brother in law Rav Paler ztz’l where he learned the litvishe way. In the Wiener we learned chasidish, no chakiros. We did make fun of it, where we questioned what sweetens the tea, the sugar or the mixing? The answer was the mixing and sugar was required to know how long to mix.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1922372
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    Yes, I once required to know in camp 10 blat gemora by heart with the lashon.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1922357
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    I learned together with Rav Menachem Fischer Shlita fom Monsey in Adas Yereim (Nachlas Yaakov) and Rav Noach Eisick Oehlbaum Shlita from Kew Garden Hills in Chasan Sofer. Look at his sefer Minchas Chen.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1922351
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    No, I learned 1959-63 at Adas Yereim, Wien in Williamsburg and 1963-68 in Chasan Sofer, Mattersdorf, originially on the East Side then Borough Park, by Rav Simcha Bunim ztz’l and Rav Shmuel ztz’l who gave once a week a shiur. Rav Tirnauer ztl’z taught a younger class.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1922316
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    There is a small booklet called תנו כבוד לתורה from Rav Shimon Furst available at hebrewbooks.org, which questions the litwish learning about bekios. In Chasan Sofer, to remedy this, we had two sedorim, one in the morning following the litwish derech and the other in the afternoon where we would learn for bekios. So, chasidishe emphasize more bekios as sinai veoker horim, sinai adef whereas the litiishe the sharpness. The was the argument between the Beis Shamai, sharpness whereas the Beis Hilel, bekios. I once heard that this is the argument by Chanukah. The Beis Hilel required sharpness which improves with age, so we light going forward whereas the Beis Shamai required better memory which occurs in the youth, so they went backwards. Also, what are we celebrating? The hatzala, going forward or the mapala, going backwards as by Sukkas with the oxen. The Orchas Tzadikim above is in Shaar Hatorah starting with Veod.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1922312
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    By the Chasidim to derive the halacha, we must learn the Tur and Beis Yosef as referenced by the Ein Mishpat on the gemara followed by the SA and its commentaries e.g. Taz, Megan Avraham, Machtzis Hashekel, Sma Shach, Beis Shmuel and then the Rambam and its commentaries.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1922290
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    The litwish way of learning is answering contradictions of Rambam through chilukim by differentiating through chakiros. Some seforim on chakiros as קובץ יסודות וחקירות and חקירות שמואל are available at hebrewbooks.org. The Shlah Hakadash and Orchas Tzadikim were questioning the use of this type of learning if it does not lead to halacha but sometimes it is important to differentiate between halachas as explained by the Chasam Sofer (Chulin,7) that the Rebbi, after the talmidim would compare two things, would say gleich or imgleich, similar or not.

    in reply to: If Trump does win, how would you react…? #1922176
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    I would be very surprised.

    in reply to: Derech of Hasidic Learning #1922175
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    We explain one thing in terms of another showing he goes leshitosa and the three rishonim, Rif, Rambam and the Rosh are emphasized as the Mechaber paskens according to the majority of them.

    in reply to: Georgia Hand Count Completed #1921667
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    health, change your name to mentally disturbed.

    This post should never have been approved,  not by us and not by you either. 29

    in reply to: Tucker Carlson Election Fraud Evidence #1921605
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    in reply to: Georgia Hand Count Completed #1921603
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    After the above handcount even Fox accepts the results 306 electoral votes for Biden and 232 for Trump. Ksav asher nichtav and nechtam ein lehoshiv.

    in reply to: Election Fraud #1921516
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    If there was fraud, then the Republican congressional candidates (winning) also lost.

    in reply to: Election Fraud #1921506
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    Health, you can scream fraud on a difference of hundreds of votes but not thousands of votes in multiple states. PA, GA, AR, NV, MI, WI. When any two are taken away, Biden still wins. Biden currently has 306 compared to Trump 232 electoral votes.

    in reply to: Short & Sweet #1921502
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    They say that Rivka Imenu grew up in the house of Lavan, so she was able to see through Esav recognizing who really deserves the brachas.
    When Yitzchak Avinu wanted to bentch Esav but he sounded like Yaakov, so why did he bentch him? The Beis Halevi explains that thinking that Yaakov might fool him, Esav made an agreement with Yitzchak that he will speak sounding like Yaakov figuring that Yaakov will speak like Esav but Yaakov did not change his voice.
    Originally, Esav came to Yitzchak wearing the hear shirt, from Adam Harishon whicb he acquired from Nimrod, and gave it afterwards to Rivka for safekeeping. Rivka gave it to Yaakov. When Esav returned, he could not find it and went to his father without it, so he smelled like the gehinam.

    in reply to: Eliminating vote by mail #1921454
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    johnklets, you are worse than Trump who accepts absentee ballots as valid.

    in reply to: Election Fraud #1921453
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    johnklets, you don’t know your history. The 9/11 Bipartisan Commission concluded that 9/11 happened because there was a question of succession to George W. Bush by delaying the transition. When it comes to the virus, Trump has gone AWOL and does not cooperate with the transition to get them up to speed endangering the US population.

    in reply to: Eliminating vote by mail #1921390
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    I am happy in NY, being over 70 and not having to wait in line, was able to vote through absentee ballots. Trump lost as he discouraged voting by mail. The Democrats did vote by mail but the Republicans rather than vote by person avoided voting altogether.

    in reply to: Election Fraud #1921383
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    Health, are you 100% sure that Biden will not be president? The safek pikuach nefesh requires to cooperate with the transition as it trumps shabbos. Trump also endangers our national security.

    in reply to: Eliminating vote by mail #1921373
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    1, you are as bad as Trump. What do you care if elderly people get infected with COVID by voting in person.

    in reply to: Election Fraud #1921357
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    Health, even if Biden gives up PA, he still won.

    in reply to: Dvar Torah Toldos – Of Radish and Lettuce: #1921313
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    The Maasei Hashem explains that when Aisov asked to be fed, Yaakov Avinu wanted him to sell his birthrite. Yaakov Avinu knew what was told the Rivkah Imenu, verav yaavad tzair, the old serves the young, saying, if you want me to serve you, I must be the older.

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