Reb Eliezer

I clarify what I said before. The two posukim are next to each other. In Parshas Bo Shamos 12:16 talks about the permission on yom tov for אוכל נפש. Whereas in the next pasuk it talks about ושמרתם את המצות. If we say that it refers to kneading, then they are both kneading, but if it refers to cutting from the attached, then they both refer to cutting.

There are two kinds of Shamura of one is positive and the other is negative. Positively, we must watch the matzos from kneading so that it should be baked for matzos and negatively we have to watch the matzos from cutting that it should not become chametz. Tosefas in Betza 3:1 on the top of the page brings the Yerushalmi that on yom tov we are only allowed to work for food needs from kneading on. So therefore it follows that watching the matzos is also from kneading on. But if learn that yom tov you allowed to do work for food needs from cutting that the watching of the matzos would also be from cutting.

TGIShabbos, I currently set up the Menorah with wicks and oil. We are not expected to do what we cannot. Maybe we should make our own Tefilin and plant our own lulav?

People who don’t know I will describe what it took in Europe to get a chicken to the table. First we went to the market to buy a live chicken. Then we went to the shochat. Afterwards we had to pluck it and get the hairs off with hot water. Next we kashered it and cooked it.

Why don’t we have a prime minister? They hated the monarch George. They revolted against him, so they didn’t want to have a monarch.

I think it is based on the GRA’s view.

Joseph, You don’t seem to know you American history. President Washington refused to be crowned king. In other countries like Israel you ha ve a president and a prime minister. The president represents the state he is permanent similar to the queen of England but prime minister is elected every term. In America the president takes the place of the prime minister and the flag stands for the state. We have enough problems as it is with Trump thinking he is king. What would happen if he would be made king, you could not control his selfishness.

It says that it is forbidden to count תיפח עצמותיו so how can we count the time when Moshiach will come? Even the Ramban on אשר ברא אלקים לעשות calculates that Moshiach will come in the 5118. The Chasam Sofer explains that this was a suitable time, but we were not worthy of it.
There is a story about someone took along his son and a guest to go to the market in Germany a place called Leipzig. When they started to travel, the son asks how much more do we need to travel? The father gets very upset and tells him, what are you asking me we just got on the wagon. They were traveling a few hours, when the guest was asking the same question. He answered him another hour. The son get upset saying why did you scream at me before when I asked the same question? The father said to him that at that time it was not
appropriate to ask the question. The comparison is obvious that we in the akavta demoshicha so now it become time to ask.

The sefer עמודה שבעה compares it to a mikveh. A so comprises 144 eggs so 40 so is 5760. He said the world will be מטוהר, purified at that time.

I will repeat what I said before:

The word for marriage in hebrew is Nisuim to elevate, that is to put each other on a pedestal and only see good in each other. When loving each other, each partner is willing to accept criticism to improve each other spiritually.
I lost my wife around 8 years ago. When you become old and children are married off, there is someone who takes care on the other. Living together without marriage is goyish.

There are certain mitzvos that women accepted on themselves such as shofar and lulav. So, they make a brocho on them and you can blow shofar for them. They might be in the sukkah for the men תשבו כעין תדורו, sit in the sukkah the way you live at home.

There is a joke about this where someone says I found a job that doesn’t pay much but it is steady. What is it? I am on a lookout tower waiting for Moshiach.

The gemora says that one of the signs of Moshiach is when the young have no respect for the elderly.

The Magen Avraham asks the question, how can the women say in bentchen על בריתך שחתמת בבשרנו, he answers that not having it because it is unnecessary, is like having it.

This might be related to another argument whether to make a barocho on Tefilin in Chal Hamoed. If we are exempt there could be the prohibition of bal tosif.

The Chacham Tzvi considered an Ashkenaz left in his will (if I remember correctly) that his descendant women should not make a brochoh on positive time dependent commandments.

The MB 589:8 says that women are considered אינה מצווה ועושה, not directly commandment to do the mitzvos, who still get a reward for doing it.

See the the Sadei Chemed כללות מ סימן קלה to קלח in great detail about different mitzvos.