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Yehuda, it is silly to judge a style based on your small surroundings. What do they sing in your church? I never heard anything past the bells. Anyone familiar with old German songs can recognize the style.
Frum,
You think those guys don’t think? Listen to them. They are completely convinced that they are right, after arguing about it. Bottom line, you usually think what you want to think. We do it and they do it. You look for arguments that support you, and toss or ignore those that don’t.
We aren’t Amish and don’t advocate Rumspringa. We are Mechanech our children (we try to, at least) with a very strong foundation in Emuna. It’s not up to you to choose.
Rabbeinu Saadya Gaon writes that although it is important to understand the arguments, it is equally important to accept what you agreed to. Otherwise, you will have a different faith every day, and you’d be coming back, and switching between, religions twice a day.
From our comfortable pirch we do mull over some arguments and perhaps proofs. We feel moral and sensible. On the other hand I don’t think a person who cares about morality can justly make his life’s goal killing men women and children.
Our Minhag is Shaveh Kesef Kikesef. As a child I enjoyed the excitement of a present, that I can use, rather than money which I had no use of.
The popular song, which I don’t sing, matches the style of music from the era that Maoz Tzur was composed.
Moreover, the tune fits exactly with the rhyming pattern, and its parenthetical rhyme. AB,ABBB,CC,B.
Is this a Netflix question?
Shmend Rick,
I didn’t forget about Biyemei Matisyahu but I’m saying that the Yom Tov was established because of the Ness of the Ner. If not for that Ness this Yeshua would have gone the way of the rest of them. It would have been celebrated until the time when we forgot the rest of Megilas Taanis.
Obviously, now that we celebrate Chanuka, of course we thank Hashem for the Ness of winning the war. The Ness that stood out and makes This Yeshua different and special is the Ness of the Menora, but when it comes to being grateful and thanking Hashem, we thank Him for saving and helping us, rather than skipping that and thanking for a candle burning eight days.
A side point, the Meiiri is not a Terutz for the Beis Yosef’s Kasha by the way. He asks that Kasha and that is what he answers.
The Ikker Pirsumei Nisa is about the Ness of the oil. We thank Hashem for the Yeshua as well, but Chanuka was not established because of it. There were other Milchamos that we won. This one stood out because of the Ness of the Menora.
Purim, on the other hand, is all about the turn of events. On Purim we remember and focus on the Vinahapochu.
The Kriah on Pesach is not equivalent to Megilla, because it is not from the Mitzvos Hayom. Besides, reading about Ribis, although it mentions Yetzias Mitzraim, is a far cry from reading Parshas Shmos through Beshalach.
On Pesach we don’t need a Megilla or a Chiyuv Kriah because we have Pesach Matza and Marror, and there is a Mitzva to be Marbe Bessipur Yetzias Mitzraim. But mostly as I said, on Purim the whole point is Vinahapochhu, which is all about the turn of events.
They use Taama Dikra, and we shouldn’t.
If there was a need then Heshem would have been Meramez it, not that they would have found one had they really wanted to. Drashos aren’t playdoe.
If the Megillas Antiyochos is not part of Kesavim, then to read it as kesavim is a big problem, the same as Ben Sira.
Midwesterner, Rabbeinu Tam says that a karkafta Delo Manach Tefillin is only if that was done rebeliously.
Staying married will cause more hatred. Get devorced and love the Ger from a distance, like the rest of us who aren’t married to this Ger.
The Gemara in Kedushin, second Perek, says that Ve’ahavta Arei’acha Kamocha is a reason not to marry someone you wouldn’t like. I’m pretty sure Ve’ahavtem Es Hager works the same way.
Because it’s not Merumez in the Pasuk to write one.
By the way, we don’t just help Hashem’s children. We should help goyim, too.
About the two stages of Misa, the Gemara in Chagiga discusses the difference between dying and finishing the life span. The Malach Hamoves explained that there are times when a person is taken before his time, in which case his Ruach hangs around until his time. This would explain the ghost phenomenon, that the reported sightings are usually from murdered people. Since they were taken before their time they are still hanging around.
In Sanhedrin 92b it is Mashma that (at least in Olam Hazeh) someoen who is revived from the dead is Mechuyav in Mitzvos. Otherwise, their Tefillin wouldn’t be Kosher, and they wouldn’t be able to marry.
Now I see that the Ritva you mentioned actually uses this to prove that they are Mechuyav when they get up. Perhaps the Diyuk you are talking about is the Shita that the Ritva is quoting. Although I have to say, it is hard to be Medayek from the on ewho is asking on them. For all you know their answer will be to be Mechalek between Olam Hazeh and the future Techiyas Hameisim. One is an Olam Chadash while the other is a reversal of Misa, maybe.
By the way, the sound doesn’t disturb passengers. The plane’s engine noise is much louder than, “Hashem Elokeichem Emes”.
Aha. So the Amei Ha’aretz stewards on Continental are much more understanding because they’re ignorant.
There are many times and many ways that a Minyan can be organized without disturbing those who aren’t disturbed by the fact that you made a Minyan. The flight crew, if they care, can even let you know when is a good window for that.
Shaala 2 is a question put to Rebbe Yehoshua in Alexandria, towards the end of Nida. Check there to see what he called this question. I wonder what he would have said about many other, similar, Yeshivishe Qlerrs.
Jay, the Medrash says that Yaakov Avinu stayed married to Leah for that reason. The Gemara also gives such a reason.
Yekke, why do you say it wasn’t carried out? It says Vayachatz. That’s not a plan, that’s action. The problem with the Vort Baal Habooze quotes is that the Pasuk repeats Vayachatz after the incident with the Malach.
If you look you should notice that when they approached Esav to bow to him first it says Vatigashna Hashfachos, then it says, Vatigash Gam Leah. This is because they were not together. First the first group bowed, then the next group also approached and bowed.
This might be a Kasha on the Brisker Rav, too. Why did he continue to take caution if he already won? Perhaps, though, he was still afraid of what the Gid Hanashe injury, that the Malach scored, could represent. It turns out, as Chazal say, it was in the future.
It means, what do we gain by killing him. Rashi simply explains the meaning of the word.
About the Taliban question, it’s none of our business. I read a book from the nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, about his activities. It is full of intriguiging musings. At one point he writes that he won’t analyze the German mindset because, although possible, he doesn’t want to. This is a very true point.
People aren’t born bad, and almost anyone has a rationalization for what they do. Very few people do things because they are bad. Even when they want to do evil it is with the intent of showing who’s boss, or something like that.
However, internally bad or not, they are wrong. Dead wrong — in the sense that we kill them. Their soul gets judged by the One that knows the heart. We judge and act upon actions.
Benign, exactly. I wrote that earlier. We don’t actually relate to infinity, although we have no philosophical rebuttal of the existance of this concept. The finite has no relationship with in the infinite by definition. A circle can not be made of small lines, because it would take an infinite amount of small lines, hence the irrational number for that relationship.
There are a lot of mathematical gimicks, riddles and paradoxes based on the misunderstanding, or the non-existant relationship, of infinity. You can’t get there and you can’t come from there.
Now, being infinite doesn’t mean there are no parts, it means there are an infinite number of parts. Our perception of space is that it is infinite, yet no one suggested that we don’t exist in it.
When discussing infinity you have to keep in mind that the lingering problem is that we don’t relate to it. Realize when the argument hit that problem, and stop there. Very often people think up different arguments about this, which really amount to the same problem.
You can’t separate or subtract a part of something infinite, but you can find a part of it and discuss that finite part.
Think about this before saying it’s wrong and repeating my words back to me.
Learn how to disagree.
Don’t bottle up feelings, they’ll incubate. Be open, but know and plan how to express your feelings.
Try not to agree or disagree when you hear a complaint about a family member. Just be sympathetic to the problem and feeling.
Although it is your home, you are not a child in his mother’s home. Don’t act silly. You now have a role to fill.
You can bring proof from the cow.
I have a theory that the CR is WAY too uptight and self-conscious. I think if we have threads that we only respond with the first dumb thing that comes to our head, the CR would be in much better shape.
Yeah, I know.
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Popa, I told you you weren’t brave!
McCarthy
The next question is, could it be lashon Hara to read such diaries as, Megillas Eiva and many others?
Don’t let it get to you. Please. If nobody answered it’s because what you said was so profound that they were left open-mouthed. They were on that screen for ten minutes, typing and deleting, and eventually gave up on being able to add anything.
Bindir dondat.
Because the Mechabrim of “the present-day kesubah” understood that the women barely leave the house, so obviously they had no choice to learn while she works.
Do you think Rabbi Akiva had a different kesubah?
Numbers are very finite, and there’s very few of them.
One, two, three… hundred, thousand, million, bi-tri-quad-quin and other Greek numbers, which are limited as well.
The concept of counting doesn’t come with a limit, and is therefore infinite.
Ready, that’s only in the realm of something that takes up space.
Wisey, I meant nothing more than to sound ridiculous. That’s how it sounds to me when people say that when they personally don’t like a Shita.
One to ten is a name and method to count. The ability to count doesn’t end. Counting is the medium. Your question can only apply after you actually counted to infinity and you want to take off ten. That can’t happen, for the same reason you won’t get there.
Maybe we don’t Pasken like that Chovos halevavos.
Twisted, this was more common than you would like to think. The job of Asara Batlanim was to be there for a Minyan. B’nei Hayeshiva, who were supported by the Yeshiva’s garden, were away from home for long stretches of time. Do you want to institute that, while the families subsist on ??? ??????
Actually, the whole premise here is silly. Yes, it is his Achrayus to make sure there is money. If there is none, he will have to go make money. Until that point, ??? ???? ?? ??????? ???”? ??? ??????? ???”?.
The Yeshiva boychir knows that since Maase Yadeha Shelo, he is Yotze his Tzuzag by allowing her to use some of her income for herself.
Are you blaming your wife, too?
After 120, your children will see it and find out all the wierd stuff about their in-laws or grandparents. Not a good idea.
I don’t think the reason of the Issur has anything to do with it. The Torah doesn’t say not to do it for Avoda Zara. It says not to do it. Even if we understand some reason for a Mitzva we can’t Pasken from that.
I do think it is Muttar since it is coloring, not writing.
Well then I guess you’re right.
It’s just that inertia is what describes the resistance to change of mobile state, while momentum is the study of the energy of movement. When you are trying to explain to someone why you don’t fly to the back, the answer should be that you are moving along before explaining that you didn’t stop moving.
Yekke, your last post is obviously the basic answer, especially since we can say that in Chutz La’aretz he didn’t do Kedushin, as the Ramban writes regarding all other Mitzvos.
Also, even if we find that the Avos kept the Mitzvos, it’s not like they were Bar Chiyuva. It was more like an Inyan. In more Halachic terms, their Kedushin probably had the status Kedushei Ketana and Maamar.
The other answers are more like Afilu Im Tirtze Lomar…
ZeesKite, your whole attitude changed once you started running for mayor. It’s scary.
You think it makes a difference if the boat uses propellers, turbines, paddles, oars, horses or jet?
If you are in the open and the boat is going fast, you will land in the water.
As for the Mekach Ta’us problem, Yaakov was Mekadesh with Bi’a. There is a Chazaka that ??? ??? ???? ?????? ????? ????. This couldn’t be more true about Yaakov Avinu. He was ??? ????? since he rather that it be a good Keddushin.
From the Pasuk that Coffee Addict mentioned it seemed to me that obviously Leah didn’t know. There are Midrashim about Leah answering Yaakov Avinu in the morning that she learned from him how to trick people, but such Midrashim might be conveying an implied conversation rather than a real conversation. The Medrash says that he had in mind to divorce her but when she had children he kept her. In the end, he agreed to it as it says ?????? ????? ?? ??? ????.
The reason Rachel went along with it was not to embarrass Leah. According to this understanding, that Leah wasn’t aware of this being a trick, the embarrassment would be tenfold.
With this we come to understand another topic. Chazal tell us that when Rachel gave away a night to Leah in return for a plant, she lost her opportunity to be buried with Yaakov. “She made light of being with the Tzaddik so she wasn’t buried with him.” The question is, why indeed did she give up being with him for a flower?
However, now we can understand. Leah told her, not only you took my husband you also want to take what my son brought me? This can only be said by someone who really thought she was cheated of what was rightfully hers. Rachel went through her life acting as if it was she who cheated her sister. Now, faced with an accusation of attempting to cheat her again she had to think to herself how someone who is actually guilty of that would respond. Therefore, she answered, tonight can be your turn.
Indeed, inertia and momentum are the same mechanism. But, they are two word, used to describe two different situations.
There is not much choice. They can’t insist on fighting when the Hamas will tell everyone that they really wanted to stop.
What is the goal with staying on to fight? They are trying to get the Hamas to realize that they have to stop shelling Israel. They are not going to re-annex Gaza.
Perhaps at one point there was a choice, but now it’s past that point. They missed many opportunities. When the first rocket was fired it was understood that Israel would do something drastic to them, but they didn’t. England’s devastation in WWII was being hit by rockets. However, by ignoring it they turned rocketing into a form of disobedience. Now, when they react to being shelled it has to come with explanations.
They probably had the moral standing to re-inhabit Gush Katif when the first rockets came. Now, that would be ‘undermining the peace’, ‘disproportionate’, ‘colonization’, and a host of other great titles bestowed upon us by those who perpetrated these very acts in a real way. In a big way.
WIY, inertia is the resistance to movement. You mean momentum.
Uneeq, The bus does not have to keep pushing you. You accelerated together with the bus, since you were on the floor when it accelerated. The bus itself needs constant energy to keep moving because it has the wind and ground friction slowing it down. If not for those factors, as long as the bus is traveling on a straight line it would be able to keep on going.
There is nothing holding you back from moving so you keep on moving. If, however, the bus turns or slows down and you are not sitting down you will indeed ‘find yourself another seat.’
This can be observed in space. Once an object in space started moving there is nothing to slow it down and it keeps on moving. That’s how the satellites keep moving. They don’t have fuel tanks. They get one push in the beginning and they keep on moving.