Divrei Chaim
Divrei Torah & assorted musings
Monday, April 22, 2024
teeth and our spiritual DNA; why I don't like vegetables, haseiba and chipazon; the seder as a re-enactment of Yakov receiving his father's blessing
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1) The scariest thing about what is going on at Columbia, Yale, MIT, et al, is that the radical Jew hater students of today are the profess...
Friday, April 19, 2024
paskening tzaraas al tnai
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If you're still a reader here you know in the past few weeks we've been doing some of R' Shteinman's torah on the parsha. I...
what our response should have been this week
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The day after the Iran attack, I thought we should say hallel. Whether the "we" should be everyone, or those living in Eretz Yisr...
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Kozhiglover on why this shabbos is called shabbos ha'gadol
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My son quotes a letter of the L Rebbe in which he writes that it's not by accident that Pesach comes in chodesh ha'aviv. During the...
Thursday, April 11, 2024
the override switch
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1) Just to make it a chazakah of 3 weeks in a row with R' Shteinman's torah: R' Shteinman has a safeik whether the kohen who r...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024
matzah shrinkflation
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One or more of the local supermarkets has for years has offered a free box of 5lbs of matzah if you spend some amount on groceries before Pe...
Monday, April 08, 2024
ra'uy l'chimutz -- siman or sibah
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Last week I mentioned the Rogatchover's chakira whether the simanei kashrus of an animal are a siman or a sibah, i.e. is it the actual ...
Friday, April 05, 2024
the privilege of teaching Torah; tamei birds - why not rely on rov; Bruriah's attitude towards wrongdoers vs the bracha of la'malshinim
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Like I said last week, the Ayeles haShachar provides a lot of food for thought, and I could go on and on, but just a few more highlights: 1)...
Thursday, April 04, 2024
parshas hachodesh; simanei kashrus - sibah or siman; achila less than k'zayis - ptur onshin or not a maaseh achila; and more
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1) The gemara (Pesachim 6) has a din שואלין ודורשין בהלכות הפסח קודם הפסח שלשים יום which is derived from the fact that Moshe taught the hal...
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