Thursday, May 29, 2025

making a kabbalah for the future

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Rashi comments on (3:1) וְאֵלֶּה תּוֹלְדֹת אַהֲרֹן וּמֹשֶׁה בְּיוֹם דִּבֶּר ה׳ אֶת מֹשֶׁה בְּהַר סִינָי that even though the pasuk is speaki...
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Friday, May 23, 2025

sechora with peiros sheviis

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Yesh lachkor whether the issur of sechora with peiros sheviis stems from the fact that if one uses the peiros for barter one cannot fulfill ...

a hatred that never goes away

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וְנָתַתִּ֤י שָׁלוֹם֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ וּשְׁכַבְתֶּ֖ם וְאֵ֣ין מַחֲרִ֑יד וְהִשְׁבַּתִּ֞י חַיָּ֤ה רָעָה֙ מִן־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְחֶ֖רֶב לֹא־תַעֲבֹ֥ר בְּאַרְצְכ...
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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Rambam/Raavad on allegorical readings of pesukim

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Rambam opens the last chapter of Mishne Torah telling us that in the days of mashiach the lion will not literally lie down with the lamb; it...
Friday, May 16, 2025

some notes from the Ayeles haShachar

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Some he'oros from the Ayeles haShachar this week because I am preoccupied.  In some cases I left out his answers and some of the shakla ...
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Thursday, May 08, 2025

tochacha is not just for others; Torah on one foot

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1)  R' Gershon Edelstein z"l points out that the mitzvah of tochacha doesn't just mean going around and telling other people wh...

lifnei iveir -- bein adam l'chaveiro or bein adam laMakon? issur klali or issur prati?

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R' Yaakov Kaminetzky in Emes l'Yaakov on the parsha sets down a fundamental yesod in understanding lifnei iveir.  We think of lifnei...
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Thursday, May 01, 2025

korban oleh v'yoreid vs korbanos of metzora

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In the case of korban oleh v'yoreid the Torah allows a poor person to bring 2 birds, a chatas and olah, in place of animals.  Sefer haCh...
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R' Shayaleh's yahrzeit? Yom haAtzmaut?

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Such is the state of the world in which we live that in some shuls if I were to give a klop on the bimah this morning and announce no tachan...
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Thursday, April 24, 2025

why Nadav and Avihu had to be punished; how the opening of the parsha of kashrus is a response to their sin

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1)  Earlier this year  on parshas zachor I revisited the yesod the Meshech Chochma quotes from the Rambam many places: a nevuah l'tovah...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

R' Shlomo Zalman Auerbach's chiddush on what constitutes a hefsek

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No she'hechiyanu is recited in kiddush on shevii shel Pesach.  What if a person made a mistake and accidentally said shehechiyanu?  Is i...
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Monday, April 21, 2025

back where we started from -- or (hopefully) not; interesting chiddush of the Ben Ish Chai re: isru chag

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1) Chazal tell us that not only did Yam Suf split to allow Bn"Y to cross, but all the waters in the world split as well.  Some explain ...
Friday, April 18, 2025

התיצ⁠בו וראו את⁠ י⁠שועת ה׳ - a challenge, not a promise

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  וַיּ֨⁠וֹשַׁע ה׳ בַּיּ֥⁠וֹם הַה֛וּא אֶת⁠־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מִיַּ֣⁠ד מִצְרָ֑יִם  Why do we need the words בַּיּ֥⁠וֹם הַה֛וּא in that pasuk?  They ...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

why the GR"A objected to reading haggadah on shabbos ha'gadol

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I've seen some folks referring to this Shabbos as Shabbos ha'Gadol.  Technically, next Shabbos is Shabbos haGadol, but the MB (430:2...
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the avodah of the nasi vs the avodah of the eved

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Rashi comments on the korban of a nasi/melech   ⁠ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָשִׂ֖יא יֶֽחֱטָ֑א (4:22) that לשון אשרי, אשרי הדור שהנשיא שלו נותן לב להביא כפרה ...