A talk at the Leil Hoshannah Rabbah Simchas Beis HaSho’eivah of Cong. Anshei Palisades about how to approach Simchas Torah 5785 in light of the events of the past year. How sadness and happiness are not contradictory but complementary, and the unique happiness of Ditzah.
The text of the story of Reb Yisroel Salanter zt”l and Simchas Torah can be found (in Hebrew) at:
https://rygb.blogspot.com/2024/10/atzvus-and-simcha-sadness-and-happiness.html
thank you you suggest: 1. the airline is only minorly annoyed/dont really care and therefore ok i think the reality is that they are v unhappy about it. they have sued skiplagged.com multiple times. they w definitely refuse to sell you the ticket if they knew you were going to skip 2. reducing the chances […]
That?s not what the Gemara says. It says explicitly that they were Dovid?s children. I wish I could paste Hebrew for the exact text. I looked at the major mefarshim on the daf I didn?t see any that said they weren?t Dovids children. On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 5:34?PM Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer wrote: > […]
They weren't his. They were children of yefos to'ar, but he did not sire all of them. Perhaps some of them. YGB On 2/27/2025 6:18 AM, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 1:13PM Micha Berger wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 07:53:25AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah […]
On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 05:53:39AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > How should we feel about seemingly permanent mutav sheyihiyu shogegin (e.g. > allowing rhythmic table drumming on shabbat according to some authorities.) Is that mutav sheyihyu shogegin? The Rama OC 339:3 then follows with a veyeish omerim (citing Tosafos) that it's […]
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 1:13PM Micha Berger wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 07:53:25AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: >> . So how do we understand that Dovid had >> 400 children from yefas toars! Did he have such a great yetzer hara that >> he couldn't control? > Ask […]
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 1:10PM Micha Berger wrote: > This Chizquni would answer your question about what is the mechuyav for > the 7MBN with an implied "Lamah li qera? Sevara hi!" Some of the 7 mitzvos are sevaras but not all of them. For example one tanna says that kilayim is one […]
On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 6:11pm (Israel time), R Marty Bluke wrote: > The chizkuni (Bereishis 7:21) asked how could hashem punish the dor hamabul > when they weren't chayav in anything? He answered that gezel is a mitzvah > that they should have known without any chiyuv. The obvious question on the > […]
On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 6:06am EST, RNC wrote: > is there any heter to use skiplagged.com, > or is it asur bc of gneivas daas? I think this is an interesting question, but it didn't get any bites. So, for those who don't know what the question is about, I'll me explain Skiplagging, […]
Why did Yosef advise pharaoh to plan for the seven years of plenty and seven years of famine in a way which would centralize the entire Egyptian economy under the pharaoh's direct control? bsorot tovot joel rich
After R' Simon Montagu's response, I did some more research on this - and the findings are distressing. The title page in Latin actually says it all. Here's Google's translation (after lifting the text with Google Lens: A WORK OF THE BOOK OF HEBREW BY THE LEARNERS A GRAMMAR Elaborated by the Hebrew Elias Levites, […]