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Maybe someone can explain to me why those who are machmir on this, eat it on the last day of Pesach? Chazal were very careful not to differentiate Yom Tov Sheini from day one. Here you are making a very clear statement that the last day is “only mi’dirabonon.

Why would you get an aveirah for forgetting something?

Yes, I give blood…..

I wish I could donate a kidney, but my doc would never clear me because of hypertension. I think it would make me feel like I did something really important in life. What could be more important than saving another life? I think it would be an automatic ticket to Olam Habah.

Anuran- Generally, if kidneys go, they tend to fail together. Studies have shown that people who donate kidneys have as long a life expectancy as anyone else.

Anyone who is able to, should do so. There is a major shortage and people die every day waiting for kidneys.

Any brand of machine Shmurah made in E”Y……

1)Less chance of becoming chometz by machines

2)Support the yidden in E”Y that make them.

3)I happen to think hand matzos taste like cardboard

Yes, Health they do. The one positive thing that came out of my loss of a child, is that I am more sensitive about what to say to someone else in a similar situation.

Even a friend and a family member said some terrible things, though they meant well. I think if people would think things through a little more about how it might affect the other person, they might keep their mouths closed.

I would never criticize anyone’s decision about where to spend Pesach. I would merely like to raise the following question.

With so many people out of work, and people needing to take from Tomche Shabbos to put food on the table, wouldn’t it be tremendous if every person took the thousands of dollars they spend on a hotel and gave it to tzedakos that need it desperately?

Wouldn’t this hasten the arrival of Moshiach?

Why don’t all you folks see the Rashi in Parshas Mishpatim on “Azov ta’azov imo”?

Rashi says “Pe’amim she’atah chodel, u’pe’amim she’atah ozer”. There are times you are supposed to help someone with a heavy load, and sometimes not.

Rashi gives two examples. Zakein v’aino lifi chivodo and beheimas oveid kochavim. An old man who passes someone with a heavy load weighing down a donkey, it would not be kovodik for the old man to help. Or if an akum is the one with a heavy load, the yisrael can withhold helping.

I think it is (and should be) pashut to any thinking, rational person, that if a woman was excluded from being helped (and vice versa) Rashi would have said so. You don’t need to ask shailos. You have a clear mitzvah in the Torah….

Mrs. Doubtfire-

Chopped nuts or ground nuts?

Thank You!

Thank you Oomis. Either way is fine, although I found that the non-gebrokts cakes that my ex used to make were always better (lighter, fluffier).

They also have the advantage that they can be eaten on Erev Pesach as opposed to the cakes with matzah meal which cannot.

My ex would bake some non gebrokt cakes for me to take to work on Chol Hamoed Sukkos, because they are shehakol and don’t require a Sukkah 🙂

You’re not embarrassed to write on YW that you wear colored shirts on Shabbos?

Some people have no shame….LOL

So according to Volvie, a girl should never take a walk outside, because she is then “parading herself around”…..

Hard to believe that with only two weeks to Pesach, people have not posted more recipes.

Help!!!!!

In Parshas Bo, we read about the last three makos; arbeh, choshech and makas bechoros. The story continues with HKB”H giving instructions for the

preparation and eating of the Korban Pesach and then the actual leaving of Mitzrayim.

Right in the midst of this narrative, before the instructions on the Korban Pesach, HKB”H informs Moshe about a new mitzvah. He tell Moshe “Hachodesh

hazeh lachem rosh chadashim”…..the mitzvah of Kiddush Hachodesh.

The obvious question arises. Why did HKB”H choose to tell this to Moshe right in the middle of the story of leaving Egypt? Couldn’t this have waited until

they left Mitzrayim? After all, no immediate action was required of the people when God gave this mitzvah?

Rav Soloveitchik suggested the following:

What is it that a slave has the least amount of use for? A clock. A slave works all day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Each day is exactly the same as the day before.

He has no need for time. What difference does it make if the clock reads 11 AM or 4 PM? Or if the day is Monday or Friday? The slave is forced to do exactly the same thing at each of those hours. After being in Mitzrayim for 210 years, time certainly had no meaning for Bnei Yisrael.

Now HKB”H comes and tells Moshe to tell the people….”You are soon going to be free”. And time will suddenly have meaning for you. And I want you to take

time and be mekadesh it!…I want you to make time holy by making Rosh Chodesh and hence the Yomim Tovim holy”.

If we examine the tefillah of Birchas Hachodesh we find a very puzzling formula. First, we recite the Yehi Ratzon asking for everything good for the coming month.

After “Mi she’asah nisim’……we announce the day of the week Rosh Chodesh will fall out on, and conclude with “Yechadshayhu HKB”H….” which once again

asks for a good month.

But this paragraph “Mi she’asah nisim la’avosaynu v’ga’al osom may’avdus lechayrus” is strange…..What is the mention of the geulah from Mitzrayim doing here

in the midst of Birchas Hachodesh? What is the connection???

The Rav explained that each and every month, precisely when we remember that a new month is beginning, we must also remind ourselves that we are no longer slaves

in Egypt and time is therefore very important to us. We must remember each and every month to make a commitment to use time wisely and to make it holy!!!

One major complaint I’ve had about Frumster is that there are many women who lie about their age (there are so many 39 year old women out there, it is unbelievable!). Yes, I know all about the “heteirim” to do so, but how does a person expect to begin a healthy relationship based on a lie?

Also, women tend to post old pictures of themselves. I dated two women from the site and when I met them I could hardly believe these were the same women as in the photos.

BP Totty-

I was a camper in MA from 1967-76. Then I worked there until 1980. I only enjoyed one summer….when I was 14 and in teenage camp (it was not called Heller yet).

The reason for this is that the camp was so regimented and run like a boot camp. I am not the only one to have complained about this. The teenage camp was more relaxed (i.e. you did not HAVE to play a sport if you hated it. You got to choose which sports and workshops you enjoyed).

As a staff member, things were better though being a Federation camp the pay was lousy.

Yes, Rabbi Sachs was great but I enjoyed his shiur to the staff even more than “Ha’aderes V’ha’emunah”. Terrible that his wife Malka was taken so young. She was truly a tzadekes and an eishes chayil.

Speaking of names….

Anyone know the names of Yisro’s seven daughters?

AND by the way…..

Did Nachshon have a seder in learning or was his tzidkus the fact that he showed emunah in HKB”H by krias yam suf?

Anyone think of that?

I’m sure you all remember the Rashi on “Vayay’ahser lo Hashem…….lo v’lo lah” Where Yitzchak and Rivka daven for a child and HKB”H only listens to the tefillos of Yitzchak and not Rivka, because as Rashi explains “aino domeh tefillas tzaddik ben tzaddik le’tefillas tzaddik ben rasha”. One cannot compare the tefillos of Yitzchok who was a tzaddik ben tzaddik to the tefillos of Rivka whose father was a rasha.

This seems more than a bit unfair to Rivka and even shocking. Why should her prayers be ignored just because of her father?

Further, Rashi seems to contradict a well known gemara which states that in the place that a ba’al teshuva stands, even a completely righteous person cannot stand (be’makom she’ba’al teshuva omade, ain tzaddik gamur yachol la’amode”) The argument for this is that it is easy enough to be observant if one grows up in an observant environment, but a ba’al teshuva, who tries to become observant later in life is usually forced to make changes in his or her lifestyle and circle of friends which can be quite difficult.

I saw something interesting which may explain this.

Perhaps it is NOT easier for someone who is frum from birth to be a tzaddik than for a ba’al teshuva! A ba’al teshuva, whatever his difficulties might be, has an enthusiasm for an exciting new way of life, new experiences, new friends which carries him through. On the other hand, someone who has grown up in an observant environment (like me) may find it much more difficult to MAINTAIN the enthusiasm for davening three times a day. Even if he is a tzaddik, who may be a son of a tzaddik and so on all the way back to the Vilna Gaon himself, he may be doing mitzvot by rote (like me) because it is the only way he knows.

When an important task is new to us, we perform it meticulously. After we have grown used to it, we tend to find shortcuts and cut corners, in ways which are detrimental to our performance.

Yitzchak’s tefillos therefore, were answered not BECAUSE he was the son of a tzaddik, but because HE was a tzaddik EVEN THOUGH he was the son of Avraham and had been doing mitzvot all his life. His enthusiasm for mitzvot was maintained throughout his life, which can be a very difficult thing to accomplish.

If we keep this lesson in mind, HKB”H will indeed answer ALL OUR TEFILLOT!

Pashuteh Yid-

Thanks for typing out exactly what I was about to post. (Why DO we waste our time on this site?)

I cannot believe Will Hill agreed with me (and seemed to think I had no doubt that wearing a hat is more important than tefilah b’tzibur) when I said it is a sad commentary on the state of frumkeit when such a question is posed.

It truly IS sad that people believe wearing a (black) hat equals being frum, and (ad kidai kach) that one should daven beyichiydus if a hat is not available.

I’ve read many krum posts here, but this takes the cake.

I think the yeshivos are responsible for this. They teach boys NOT to think. Each and every thing must be presented to a Rav or a Rebbe, no matter how simple.

This results in mass production of ignorant men, who if presented with a situation where there is no one around to ask a shayla of, are completely lost.

Very sad………….

Anyone heard of R’ Yosef Adler of Teaneck, NJ? He was very close to the Rav (he appears on the video about the Rav) and is known as a tremendous marbitz Torah, in particular that of the Rav ZT”L.

Joseph- Thank you kindly for your condolences. You cannot imagine how much it means to me.

JFem- Thank YOU for your backing. It’s good to know that some people on this site are intelligent…..

According to R’ Joseph’s opinion that the Israeli army is completely un-Jewish, there should be no need to change anything about the way we go about our daily lives, and no need for any special tefilos.

Funny thing, I saw a picture of some members of this un-Jewish army wearing tefillin. Never saw a goy in tefillin before.

Also, the National Council of Young Israel has an ongoing appeal for sifrei Torah that are needed for the army. They have sent over 150 seforim in the past few years as many small units want to have their own sefer. Now why would a non Jewish army need sifrei Torah?