Thursday, July 31, 2025

inyanei 9 Av: techi'as ha'meisim of Beis HaMikdash

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R' Shlomo Fisher (Beis Yishei) quotes from R' Yitzchak Isaac Chaveir and other sources that binyan beis ha'mikdash of the (near)...

inyanei 9 Av: saying shiras ha'yam in pesukei d'zimra; women reciting havdalah

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1) The Tur (559) quotes a view that on 9 Av in shacharis the shiras ha'yam should be omitted, as 9 Av is not a time of shirah. Beis Yos...
Monday, July 28, 2025

mitzvah for a ben noach to bury their dead?

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The Chasam Sofer comments ( d"h yatz'u ) on the pasuk  וּמִצְרַ֣יִם מְקַבְּרִ֗ים אֵת֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר הִכָּ֧ה ה׳ בָּהֶ֖ם כׇּל־בְּכ֑וֹר וּבֵ...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

a war for kedushas yisrael

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The Midrash comments on the pasuk וַיִּשְׁלַח אֹתָם מֹשֶׁה אֶלֶף לַמַּטֶּה לַצָּבָא אֹתָם וְאֶת פִּינְחָס בֶּן אֶלְעָזָר הַכֹּהֵן לַצָּבָא:...
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which haftara to read on shabbos rosh chodesh av

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There is already debate in the gemara (Meg 31) as to which haftarah to recite this shabbos.  Most communities follow the Maharil who writes ...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

when can a kohen become not a kohen? The chiddush of the Aderet and the bracha given to Pinchas

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The gemara Zevachim 101b tells us that even though Aharon and his children had been anointed as kohanim and been invested in their job durin...
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Friday, July 11, 2025

Hein Am k'Lavi Yakum -- having a self-image of greatness

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Thanks to current events everyone now knows the pasuk    הֶן   עָם   כְּלָבִיא   יָקוּם   וְכַאֲרִי   יִתְנַשָּׂא . .. (23:24).  HaKsav v...
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Thursday, July 10, 2025

tzaar baalei chaim

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The Rambam in Moreh Nevuchim learns from the fact that the malach admoninished Bilaam for striking his donley that there is an issur d'o...
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krias haTorah on 17 Tamuz - chiddush of the Shibolei ha'Leket

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The Shibolei Leket ( 263 )    says a chiddush regarding krias haTorah on 17 Tamuz.  On other fast days we start the kri'ah wih "va...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

Was the Be'er in the Zechus of Miriam or the Zechus of Avraham?

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Unlike the previous episode at Refidim where Moshe hit a rock and it produced water, in our parsha, 40 years later, Moshe was told to speak ...
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