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@Moshi26, I respect that you’re standing up for proper Yidishe values.
However, whether it’s right or wrong, that doesn’t take away from the irony of discussing the issur of using YWN ON YWN!
You are having a disucussion with many anonymous users, many of whom are possibly women – about the issur of talking to women on a forum!
I can think of many Torah phrases that redicule this behavior: טובל ושרץ בידו, כל הפוסל במומו פוסל, קשוט עצמך ואחר כך קשוט אחרים, etc. etc. Of course this does not mean that we must be perfect before helping others in their Yiddishkeit, but you can’t do an aveira to help others refrain from that very aveira.
Imagine if one fine Shabbos morning, someone would (ch”v) start a thread about how terrible it is that people are posting on forums on Shabbos. That would be rediculous!
“20 years ago ben gvir wouldn’t even get percent . . . And ninety percent of them below the age of 25”
Are you too young to remember Rabbi Meir Kahane HY”D? (over 30 years ago)
Chassidus explains that the greatest joy is from light that comes after darkness.
This idea can be found in connection with all 5 things.
Generally, 15 Menachem-Av symbolizes the inner light and hope that is concealed in golus.
This is especially symbolized by the full moon of the month of Av. Of course, the moon is always full, but on 15th, the light shines brightly. That is why ישראל דומין ללבנה – sometimes our light is concealed. The greatest concealement is on Tisha B’av, and therefore, the full moon of the month of Av is the greatest joy and nechama.
It reminds us that despite being in the darkest golus, we will soon shine again with the coming of Moshiach.This is also stressed by the idea of כלו מתי המדבר: in truth, the Yidden stopped dying on Tisha B’av, but they only knew for certain on 15 Av. So too, Moshiach was already born on Tisha B’av, but the revelation and light of geula is specifically connected to 15 Av.
Gut Yom Tov!
May we be zoche to celebrate this 15 Av with the light of Moshiach in the most revealed way!@ujm, thanks for taking the words out of my mouth
@GadolHadofi, I guess that שנאה blinds you to the extent that you will find “Elokus doubts and suspicions” in everything in Chabad, as is apparent from your ridiculous and off-topic comment.P.S. If you truly have a burning question, start your own thread.
If it’s just לקנטר, continue to troll all of my comments.P.P.S. What is the meaning of the name “GadolHadofi”? Is it meant to be comparable to “Gedolei HaTorah”? Are you saying that there is דופי in the words of Torah chas v’shalom? It sounds like you have doubts in the 8th Ani Maamin…
[SATIRE]The possuk says (Devorim 30:3) – ושב ה’ אלקיך את שבותך
Rashi comments that it does not say והשיב (i.e. that He will return the Yidden), rather ושב – He Himself will return with the Yidden.
The Shechina dwells with Bnei Yisroel in their suffering in golus, and when we are redeemed – He will return with us.ושב ה’ אלהיך את שבותך. היה לו לכתב “והשיב” את שבותך, רבותינו למדו מכאן כביכול שהשכינה שרויה עם ישראל בצרת גלותם, וכשנגאלין הכתיב גאולה לעצמו שהוא ישוב עמהם.
Amen!
אחכה לו בכל יום שיבאujm, I was just wondering what got you suddenly curious about random waze facts.
huju, nice point. Where does Trump fly in?
ujm, contrary to popular belief, one is permitted (and obligated) to learn Torah on Tisha B’av, just it must be from the subjects which are permitted. No need to be completely bored out of your mind.
Unless you just got a new smartphone?
Sorry, I don’t understand. What king of “inspirational speakers” are you referring to? If these are comedians, this is terribly wrong. But somehow, I doubt this is the case.
“reflecting” and “strengthening our yiras shamayim” is what most inspirational speakers do. Please enlighten me as to what the balebatishe speakers inspire about other than chizzuk.
For example, over here: https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/tisha-bav-2022
I see nothing but true Torah inspiration.“can a shabbos goy do the replenishing for an individual on shabbos?”
It is permitted to ask a goy to turn on the heat since it is necessary for health and gzeiras amira l’nochri did not include heat.
The entire idea of Shabbos goy comes from this. Every Jewish house or building had a goy who would come in every Shabbos to take care of the fire.
“jews who lived in isolated cold climate with no nearby neighbors”
The only Jews I could think of were those in Siberia. No, they did not keep warm. That’s how they died.
I await the day when it will become acceptable to write the following hakdosha:
הוקדש על ידי הגאון הצדיק הבעל חסד עוסק בצ”צ
ר’ ראובן פלוני שליט”א
לעילוי נשמת הרוצה בעילום שמו ע”ה😊
(after all, we all know who really wants his name up. The niftar couldn’t care less!)
I respect the woman who I met today who was raised as a devout Christian but a few weeks ago learned that her mother’s mother was Jewish and completely concealed her Jewish identity after surviving the Holocaust.
She is ready to drop everything and learn what it means live like a Jew for herself and her son. This is the power of a Yiddishe neshoma!I respect the young bochurim whom I deal with daily who constantly put tremendous effort into holding onto & improving their limmud hatorah and Yiddishe behavior despite the immense struggles and challenges which they go through as a teenager in our day and age.
I respect Yidden who are so diverse and strong minded, yet are able to come together beautifully to show their respect to others despite our (sometimes major) disagreements.
This is great relief from other parts of the CR. It shows us that after all, we are still brothers.
Thank you ujm for bringing up this thread.
Hashem, see the achdus of Your children, ברכנו אבינו כולנו כאחד with all of the berachos, first and foremost – the brocha of the גאולה האמיתית והשלימה so we will be able to dance into Tisha B’Av as one and celebrate it as the greatest Yom Tov!
[Additionally, today I feel a special respect for our dear soldiers in Eretz Yisroel who are right now putting their lives at risk to be Hashem’s shluchim for the protection of millions of our brothers and sisters. Kol hakavod, may Hashem be with you]
@Reb Eliezer,
“The Satmar Rav ztz’l says that when Aharon Hakohen threw the gold into fire and the Eigel came out obviously it did not come from kedusha”
The way to discern if you are learning the right lesson from something is to think, is this adding in my Avodas Hashem, or the opposite ch”v.
Yes, if someone makes a gematriya which proves that in 2026 we no longer have to keep Shabbos, this is completely wrong even if everything “matches up perfectly.”
This is how we know that the Eigel was wrong even though we saw great miracles with it – since it goes against Torah.
However, if someone uses gematriya and remazim to give himself chizzuk in Avodas Hashem, kol hakavod.
[This is similar to the idea of calculating kitzin: The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains why many great tzaddikim (including the Rambam) calculated kitzin despite the fact that the Gemara and the Rambam are so against. The Rebbe explains that the Gemara was referring to those who publicized that Moshiach is coming at this date, and if he doesn’t come, we should give up hope ch”v. The tzaddikim however used kitzin as a way to strengthen the Yidden’s emuna in Moshiach]
For incredible chassidus shiurim in a very user-friendly manner (with a yeshivishe taam), check out Rabbi YY Jacobson’s shiurim on http://www.theyeshiva dot net
In the “series” section you can find plenty of text based shiurim on a huge variety of chassidus seforim (while obviously focusing on Chabad chassidus).
Moish26, I agree.
RebE, I agree with you about the general idea that we shouldn’t focus on goyishe dates. Additionally, gimatriyos without true Torah sources have very little validity – with respect to Sam Klein).
At the same time, there is the idea (taught especially by the Baal Shem Tov) that we must learn a lesson from every single thing that happens in the world, because if Hashem allowed us to see it, it must be for a certain reason.
Therefore, we shouldn’t be so quick to disregard anything as a meaningless coincidence.
Obviously, this does not necessarily mean that we must make Torahs and Gematriyos from everything we see, but nothing is by chance.
Everyone has their way to connect to emuna, if someone gets chizzuk from this method, zol zein.
common saychel, lol!
I hear that some tour guides even point out the burial place for the cows in Pharaoh’s dream!
Kuvult,
The reason is because this is the truth.
The entire world and everything in it were created בשביל ישראל, and מחשבתן של ישראל קדמה לכל דבר. The nations of the world know this, and it irritates them to no end.
The greatest tragedy is that the only people who have a hard time accepting fact this is the Jewish people themselves.
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@ujm, I think this should be your screen name!!!You gave me a good laugh!!!
You might have to do teshuva for providing such comic relief in the 9 days 🤣It’s hard to know so early.
אל תפתח פה לשטן@Shmiras Haloshon, ujm obviously has only seen wedding videos on VHS tapes, hence the ignorance.
dbrim, the people of this thread are not ignorant or self-hating, the Israeli government is.
The only one who ignored the first Rashi and declared Israel an occupation is…
Israel itself!When some goyim had “טענות” on them, instead of opening up a chumash (which every Christian and Muslim (l’havdil) believes in), they decided to give up land. THEY declared that this land is no longer a part of Eretz Yisroel (r”l). Then they continued to keep the military there, thus declaring that they are an occupation.
We, who learn chumash, know that Eretz Yisroel is the land gifted to us by Hashem, and is completely not dependent on the decisions and proclamations of a government of (majority) Jewish people, the UN in 1948, or the US. No one has the right to take it away from us, and there is no such thing as occupying a land that always belonged to us.
If only the Israeli government would realize the same thing.“Are we to expect a frum man to be so fickle as to have no control of where his eyes roam?!”
As a frum woman, you clearly know nothing about men (frum or not).
Also, often you are victimizing yourself by thinking that the complaints are coming by men who feel affected by women’s behavior. We men like to complain about EVERYTHING. Whenever we see something that seems to be an infringement on halacha or hashkafa, we like to make a whole tumult about it. Whether it is being done by women, men, children, politicians, or the government – we always have big טענות and start threads about it, etc.
Next time you see a man complaining about tznius, don’t think it’s a personal attack on you, realize that it’s just another halacha that he feels was violated that he has to shout about.
These two posts were approved in the wrong order:
Yserbius123,
Actually, I think I understand what you are saying. They don’t call it Israel but there is no real independent government there, and the territory is being occupied by Israeli forces, so it is technically “occupied territory.”
The Rashba writes (שו”ת ח”א סתקפ”א):
מצוה לפרסם עושי מצוהUnfortunately, nowadays, people’s decisions are largely affected by how the rich people behave. Just look at the power that Elon Musk and Bill Gates wield on matters like Covid and free speech. People respect their opinions.
When people see rich people give tzedaka, it inspires them to follow suit.
המעשה הוא העיקר – What will cause more people to give tzedaka? A plaque? Then make a plaque.
[This is similar to the idea of making a big deal out of Torah learning, with siyumim etc., because this shows that we value Torah. קנאת סופרים תרבה חכמה, people get inspired when we show the great value of learning. So it is with all mitzvos, including tzedaka]
מנחם שמו
Yserbius123,
Did USA occupy Afghanistan? Keeping the peace to protect your citizens and save lives is not called occupation.
Especially when it is in some non-independent terrorist “state”.I don’t understand the logic to say that “men will anyways hear female singers” –
I assume we are discussing a frum singer who dresses tzniusdik. Why must she dress tzniusdik? People will anyways see immodesty!Obviously, every person is responsible for themselves to behave tzniusdik in public. The same should seemingly apply to singing –
“קול באשה ערוה, שנאמר כי קולך ערב ומראך נאוה” (Brachos 24a).The comparison between a CD and YouTube is ridiculous.
On the other hand, @lakewhut has a very important point: Jewish female singers can be a good influence for Jewish girls instead of the other shmutz on youtube.
Of course, like everything in the life of a frum Yid, every singer must consult her personal rov who can inspect the pros and cons and rule accordingly. I assume that they do so, and therefore there is really no need for us to tell them what to do.
ujm,
Wow, that was beautiful!
I was slightly distressed by the sharpness of the argument above, so I was pleasantly surprised to see this heartfelt comment.
You have inspired me to learn from you in my own life.
Thank you for this valuable lesson.
If we all embrace this attitude, especially now in the 9 days, we can be sure that Moshiach is coming very soon.
RebE, I was too modest to quote your vort due to the ושל גבוה part 😊
@common,
“We dont know why and to ask why in my opinon is kifera”
As I brought from the Gemara in Menachos.
@Kuvult, thanks for lightening the atmosphere (even if it had to be macabre humor)@common saychel, I was just quoting you!
Sometimes we are quicker to point out how someone else needs to fix himself before seeing the same problem in ourselves.
As the Baal Shem Tov explains the reason why Nosson Hanovi gave Dovid Hamelech a mashal for the story of Bassheva, and only after Dovid gave a ruling in that case was he able to apply it to himself.
(הובא בלקוטי מהר”ן קמא קי”ג. וראה גם המבואר בלקוטי שיחות כ”ק אדמו”ר מליובאוויטש ח”ד ע’ 1208)@common, I’m going off topic in order to protect the readers from the “PURE loshen hora” of this thread. 😊
Some things are just completely incomprehensible, like the sudden death of an innocent 13-year-old bochur while bringing Yidden closer to Yiddishkeit.
At times like these, we must remember the Gemara about Moshe’s question to the Ribbono Shel Olam when he saw the terrible fate of Rabbi Akiva:
אמר לפניו, רבש”ע זו תורה וזו שכרה
א”ל, שתוק כך עלה במחשבה לפני
מנחות כט, ב-mobico,
“Anyway, to the best of my knowledge, the term Ahavas Chinam was coined by R’ Kook ZT”L”
This is indeed a widespread misconception. It is first found in the talks of earlier chassidishe rebbes.
See talks of the Kozmirer Rebbe (Rav Yechezkel Taub): כמו שחורבן בית המקדש היה על ידי שנאת חינם, כן לתקן זה צריך אהבת חינם, שכל אחד מישראל יאהב את חבירו בחינם
This was also quoted by his grandson the Modzitzer Rebbe.This is also quoted in the name of the Ahavas Yisroel of Vizhnitz.
“I did not know that it was used by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.”
Yes, he used the term many times. Another example (in connection with Rosh Chodesh Menachem-Av, yahrtzeit of Aharon Hakohen):
:בכך נוספת הדגשה מיוחדת בקשר בין חורבן בית המקדש בחודש אב ומיתת אהרן בר”ח מנחם אב: הסיבה לחורבן בית המקדש השני הייתה החטא של שנאת חנם. והתיקון הוא באותו עניין: הוי מתלמידיו של אהרן אוהב שלום ורודף שלום – אהבת חנם
(לקוטי שיחות חי”ח ע’ 412)But anyway, obviously, I agree with you that whatever we call it, the ikar is to actually love every Jew!
mobico, the מקור for the chiluk is from the fact that there is a chiluk in regards to שנאה:
When the Gemara describes the reason why the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed, it doesn’t just say that it was because of שנאת ישראל or שנאת אחים (like the lashon haposuk לא תשנא את אחיך), rather it emphasizes that this was שנאת חינם. See יומא ט, א.
Obviously אהבת ישראל is pretty much the same as אהבת חינם. But when using the latter term, we are EMPHASIZING that just as they hated other Jews who did nothing bad to them, so too we love other Jews even if they did nothing good for us.
This term was used by many gedolim in recent generations.
For explanation, see for example, the Lubavitcher Rebbe here:
https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=15944&pgnum=338If you don’t want to use the term, no problem. But try not to get irked.