[I don't think anyone will necessarily understand this shiur but if a person works hard - he can get it].
Sunday, February 28, 2021
Life Hack - Giving
How to give to worthy causes?
It is HARDDDDD to give away YOUR money. It almost HURTS for some of us!! [A famous gvir once asked a Rebbe how much he should give to a certain cause. The Rebbe said "A sum that hurts". The gvir said "10 dollars hurts...." And this guy has his name on buildings. זצ"ל!!]
But it is not your money. Just like your body is not YOUR body.
It is Hashem's money that he deposited with you to increase good in the world. Giving away the money of Someone who owns all the money in the world is EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brand New Insight Into The Avoda Of Shabbos
NOT NORMMALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
That is what we spoke about here - a hechere blik!!!
New Book !
I am writing a novel on the whole matzav.
It will be called "The Novel Coronavirus".
Please donate here!!!
Ho-il And Mi-toch
The Rashba says that the one who holds of מתוך also holds of הואיל.
Like - מה הקשר??
[You may listen to our recent lectures on this w/ more to come אי"ה בעז"ה בל"נ]
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Friday, February 26, 2021
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Elisheva Tova Bas Leah Genendel
(א) תְּפִלָּה לְעָנִי כִי יַעֲטֹף וְלִפְנֵי יְהוָה יִשְׁפֹּךְ שִׂיחוֹ. (ב) יְהוָה שִׁמְעָה תְפִלָּתִי וְשַׁוְעָתִי אֵלֶיךָ תָבוֹא.(ג) אַל תַּסְתֵּר פָּנֶיךָ מִמֶּנִּי בְּיוֹם צַר לִי הַטֵּה אֵלַי אָזְנֶךָ בְּיוֹם אֶקְרָא מַהֵר עֲנֵנִי. (ד) כִּי כָלוּ בְעָשָׁן יָמָי וְעַצְמוֹתַי כְּמוֹקֵד נִחָרוּ. (ה) הוּכָּה כָעֵשֶׂב וַיִּבַשׁ לִבִּי כִּי שָׁכַחְתִּי מֵאֲכֹל לַחְמִי. (ו) מִקּוֹל אַנְחָתִי דָּבְקָה עַצְמִי לִבְשָׂרִי. (ז) דָּמִיתִי לִקְאַת מִדְבָּר הָיִיתִי כְּכוֹס חֳרָבוֹת. (ח) שָׁקַדְתִּי וָאֶהְיֶה כְּצִפּוֹר בּוֹדֵד עַל גָּג. (ט) כָּל הַיּוֹם חֵרְפוּנִי אוֹיְבָי מְהוֹלָלַי בִּי נִשְׁבָּעוּ. (י) כִּי אֵפֶר כַּלֶּחֶם אָכָלְתִּי וְשִׁקֻּוַי בִּבְכִי מָסָכְתִּי. (יא) מִפְּנֵי זַעַמְךָ וְקִצְפֶּךָ כִּי נְשָׂאתַנִי וַתַּשְׁלִיכֵנִי. (יב) יָמַי כְּצֵל נָטוּי וַאֲנִי כָּעֵשֶׂב אִיבָשׁ. (יג) וְאַתָּה יְהוָה לְעוֹלָם תֵּשֵׁב וְזִכְרְךָ לְדֹר וָדֹר. (יד) אַתָּה תָקוּם תְּרַחֵם צִיּוֹן כִּי עֵת לְחֶנְנָהּ כִּי בָא מוֹעֵד. (טו) כִּי רָצוּ עֲבָדֶיךָ אֶת אֲבָנֶיהָ וְאֶת עֲפָרָהּ יְחֹנֵנוּ. (טז) וְיִירְאוּ גוֹיִם אֶת שֵׁם יְהוָה וְכָל מַלְכֵי הָאָרֶץ אֶת כְּבוֹדֶךָ. (יז) כִּי בָנָה יְהוָה צִיּוֹן נִרְאָה בִּכְבוֹדוֹ. (יח) פָּנָה אֶל תְּפִלַּת הָעַרְעָר וְלֹא בָזָה אֶת תְּפִלָּתָם. (יט) תִּכָּתֶב זֹאת לְדוֹר אַחֲרוֹן וְעַם נִבְרָא יְהַלֶּל יָהּ. (כ) כִּי הִשְׁקִיף מִמְּרוֹם קָדְשׁוֹ יְהוָה מִשָּׁמַיִם אֶל אֶרֶץ הִבִּיט. (כא) לִשְׁמֹעַ אֶנְקַת אָסִיר לְפַתֵּחַ בְּנֵי תְמוּתָה. (כב) לְסַפֵּר בְּצִיּוֹן שֵׁם יְהוָה וּתְהִלָּתוֹ בִּירוּשָׁלִָם. (כג) בְּהִקָּבֵץ עַמִּים יַחְדָּו וּמַמְלָכוֹת לַעֲבֹד אֶת יְהוָה. (כד) עִנָּה בַדֶּרֶךְ כחו [כֹּחִי] קִצַּר יָמָי. (כה) אֹמַר אֵלִי אַל תַּעֲלֵנִי בַּחֲצִי יָמָי בְּדוֹר דּוֹרִים שְׁנוֹתֶיךָ. (כו) לְפָנִים הָאָרֶץ יָסַדְתָּ וּמַעֲשֵׂה יָדֶיךָ שָׁמָיִם. (כז) הֵמָּה יֹאבֵדוּ וְאַתָּה תַעֲמֹד וְכֻלָּם כַּבֶּגֶד יִבְלוּ כַּלְּבוּשׁ תַּחֲלִיפֵם וְיַחֲלֹפוּ. (כח) וְאַתָּה הוּא וּשְׁנוֹתֶיךָ לֹא יִתָּמּוּ. (כט) בְּנֵי עֲבָדֶיךָ יִשְׁכּוֹנוּ וְזַרְעָם לְפָנֶיךָ יִכּוֹן.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Woke
״בלילה ההוא נדדה שנת המלך...״
Woke Megillah:
Listen And Live!
The Status Of Sefarim Looted From A Shul
The Unique Revelation Of Providence At Kriyas Yam Suf
Talmudic Methodology - Can Something Kosher Become Pasul?
Mitzvas Hatluos Ba-aretz Bizman Ha-zeh
Mitzvos Hatluyos Ba-aretz - Part 2
Mitzvos Hatluyos Ba-aretz Bi-zman Ha-zeh: Part 3
Bava Metzia 35b: Why Is The Renter Paid For The Owners Animal?
Bava Metzia 35b: Why Is The Renter Paid For The Owners Animal? Part 2
שומר פיו ולשונו שומר מצרות נפשו
The head of a seminary told the girls not to listen to their parents if they tell them not to get vaccinated. He added that if the parents ask him if he said so - he will deny it!!!
Problem is - he was being recorded and it is available for whoever wants to listen......
Lessons:
1] Recording someone w/o their knowledge is Halachically and morally problematic - especially in a case like this which will cause the recorded person a lot of embarrassment. So the girl who recorded him should do Teshuva.
2] In our world you have to be very careful what you say and do as recording devices are ubiquitous.
2] Everything we say and do is being recorded and videoed - from Above. Worth keeping in mind.
Monday, February 22, 2021
מגילה דרך זום
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Message For Teddy Cruz
Next time you want to sneak off to Cancun w/o getting caught - I can get you the telephone numbers of a few chashuva gvirim from Boro Park and they will tell you how to do it...
Listen And Live!!!
Shumas Meitav one and two.
All Shabbos one? [in memory of Rav Eisenbach ztz"l מגדולי רבני חב"ד]
Eidus Ben Grusha and Bas Kohen.
Hataras Nedarim and Hataras Nidui.
Yachid Mumcheh in Hataras Nedarim.
נפלאות מתורת השם ב"ה!!!
Who Are Our Rabbeim?
From an article:
In January 1991, on the eve of the Gulf War, I was forced home stateside from my Jerusalem yeshivah. As a yeshivah "refugee," I, with many others, wound up at Brooklyn's Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. For the duration of that fraught period, YTV kindly hosted and fed any displaced rabbinic student in need, providing both spiritual and material sustenance.
During lunch breaks, several rabbinic candidates would head to the dorm and listen to Rush Limbaugh as we ate. I had never heard of him before.
"You'll become addicted," a fellow refugee warned me with certainty. He was right (on the political spectrum), but also correct.
At a time when the Middle East's only democracy was under attack, Mr. Limbaugh was one of the few media voices passionately defending the Jewish state we'd just been forced to flee.
In a corner dorm room out of earshot of the busy lunchroom, a "ghetto blaster" — remember those? — was placed on a chipped, repurposed breakfast table. We budding bearded boys would sit on cold metal chairs and listen as Rush dissected, analyzed, and expounded — and entertained.
Life in serious yeshivos is all about ideas — philosophical, legal, theoretical, and real-world. But unlike university libraries, where even study groups are quiet, a yeshivah's beis medrash is characteristically abuzz with passionate debate. And in the yeshivah milieu, it's hard, if not impossible, to compartmentalize scholastic approaches to mastering subject material.
During commercials, we would-be scholars applied our well-honed skills to "Rabbi Limbaugh's" discourses. In our search for truth, we tried to find flaws in his logic and arguments. We rarely succeeded.
Day in and day out, before heading back to our Talmud tomes, we'd — only half in jest — pronounce Rush's beliefs "kosher" and our "idling" productive.
We "refugees" never evangelized our lucky find. We didn't have to. Over the years, friends would later report similar goings-on at other "brand-name" yeshivos.
Even today, I'm told, many yeshivah dorms have, at lunch, an unofficially assigned room where those living in the World of Ideas can — should they be so inclined — sit a spell to "visit" the World of Reality, with Mr. Limbaugh's normally booming voice faintly heard but well-listened to.
Having caught the Limbaugh "bug" during the Gulf War, afterward I continued listening devotedly. Life in yeshivah was, particularly by New York standards, idyllic, elevated, and proper, and we focused on bettering ourselves, our communities, and the world at large.
But complicating the latter goal was that, in nearly all decent fervently Orthodox rabbinical seminaries, there is limited access to secular newspapers. Mr. Limbaugh's daily broadcasts kept us updated not just on the nitty-gritty of political mechanics, but also on how America was changing socially. And, he would thunder, not in a positive way.
Rush's worldview reflected a traditionalist perspective that resonated with fervently religious Jews. (After all, the "Judeo" part of the value system refers to unadulterated Judaism.)
Mr. Limbaugh was a "woke" initiator for people of faith decades before modern progressives made similar moves for their causes. His call to arms not only informed his fans and followers of what was happening to our supposedly G-d-centered society, it psychologically empowered tens of millions who had been led to believe, based on mainstream media conditioning, that it was we traditional thinkers who were the statistical outliers. Mr. Limbaugh restored our belief that we could — and must — regain our voice.
For me, mastery of the issues Mr. Limbaugh raised was preparation for the real world, particularly against those who claimed to speak in the name of Judaism yet advocated behavior at odds with our millennia-old teachings.
Unlike some of my fellow students, I wasn't embarrassed to admit to listening to Mr. Limbaugh. Just the opposite. I would actually delve into the principles he advanced with my religious mentors and spiritual guides, allowing Rush's spark to be refined through the blowtorch of hashkafic clarity.
My rebbeim and roshei yeshivah were nearly always in agreement with him. In fact, they empowered me with the intellectualism needed to combat the ever-increasing attacks on the Torah-centered value system. Those attacks cropped up at college (when I pursued a journalism degree), at work, and most importantly, in my outreach interactions. Ideas initiated by Mr. Limbaugh and later "rabbi refined" filled my articles and columns. Thanks to the clarity he inspired, I never needed to utter the words: "Can I get back to you on that?"
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Thursday, February 18, 2021
The End?
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Sometimes - Better Be An Enemy....
A number of years ago there was a Rebbi in a Yeshiva who hadn't gotten paid for a number of months. The Rosh Yeshiva tried to explain to him what financial difficulties the Yeshiva was undergoing.
He related to the Rebbi that a certain rich man came to a Gadol and told him that other wealthy people had lost their money. What can he do to remain wealthy?
The Gadol told him to write a check to someone with whom he was angry. The wealthy man wrote a check for a million dollars [!!!] for a certain Rosh Yeshiva with whom he had a long-standing dispute.
What can I do, said the Rosh Yeshiva to the struggling Rebbi, that I am friendly with this wealthy man....
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
The Story Of The Diskin Orphanage
The way it all began…
Summer 1879/ 5639,
"and he would go every day to draw fresh air between the trees in the forest outside the city…and every day he would look…and see children clinging to trash heaps, tossed amid horse dung, half naked and barefoot, and he would ask, "who are these children?" And he was told that these were orphans who had lost their fathers and mothers, and poverty had deprived them of a home…" (from the impressions of his close disciple, Rav Yaakov Orenstein)
From that day onward, they had a home. The home of Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin became their home. He didn't build a home for them; he simply opened the door to his own home and welcomed them all in. Together with his wife, he turned his home into a virtual orphanage.The abandoned orphans now had a warm home. But who would build their futures?
An entire generation of orphans was liberated from the cycle of deprivation.The house becomes too small for the giant heart…
In Jan 1881 the first building was rented for the purpose of housing the precious orphans. The Diskin Home was founded, a home for those who had none of their own.
And a home it was, in every sense of the word; it provided hot meals and a warm bed, plentiful books and a large courtyard to play in, a home in which to live and thrive.The light is extinguished
and promise dawns…
Yet, amid the heavy mourning, there shone a beam of light. From mouth to mouth, RavDiskin's parting promise spread through the mourners, shedding light and encouragement throughout the crowd. There was a way to remain bound to their beloved leader. For Rav Diskin had promised: "Whoever supports the home that I founded, I will personally advocate on his behalf before Hashem, in this world and in the next."
The promise, and the merit of this great father of all orphans, stands forever.Who will save the orphanage?
Elul 5668/ September 1908
At the same time, his wife personally adopted individual orphaned girls who, for whatever reasons, could not adjust to life in an orphanage. She gathered them into her home, and with warmth and motherly love, raised them as her own until her dying day.
17 Elul, 5681/ September 20, 1912
Rabbi Yitzchak Yerucham, only son of Rav Yehoshua Leib, wished to establish a permanent dwelling for the orphans. He acquired property far away from the Old City, with one purpose: to grant his orphans optimal living conditions. There, on a faraway hill, he found the sprawling grounds he was looking for, with clear, healing air.
The distance did not deter him. Rabbi Yitzchak Yerucham was a man of vision, who foresaw the future growth and expansion of Jerusalem. And indeed, the entrance to Jerusalem is now marked by the cornerstone of this beautiful building that has turned into one of the symbolic sites of the city.Our feet stood at your gates…
Rosh Chodesh Nissan, 5687/ April 3, 1927
An emotional procession marched through the streets of Jerusalem: community leaders carrying Torah scrolls in their arms, followed by the children of the orphanage, festively dressed for the occasion and marching proudly in impeccable formation.
A crowd of excited spectators followed them to the magnificent new edifice whose construction had recently been completed outside the city's walls. The great leaders of Jerusalem spoke, emotionally bemoaning the loss of Rabbi Yitzchak Yerucham and his pious wife, who had toiled so tirelessly for the construction of this building and didn't live to see their dream come to fruition.
On 5 Nissan, the tender orphans visit their father's grave. No, not their biological father - the father who cared for them with devotion all the years and built them a home of their own.
They visit the grave of Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, who lifted bedraggled orphans out of the dust and gathered them into his own arms, worrying for their welfare. They then proceed to the grave of his son, Rabbi Yitzchak Yerucham, to thank him for continuing his father's legacy and building them a spacious new home.
And they entreat for all those who continue the holy mission, expending time and energy and endless funds to bring light into their lives.
Maschilin Min Hatzad
דיני נפשות מתחילין מן הצד: מנא הני מילי אמר ר' אחא בר פפא אמר קרא (שמות כג, ב) לא תענה על ריב לא תענה על רב
The mishna teaches that in cases of capital law, the judges commence issuing their opinions from the side benches, where the least significant judges sit. The Gemara asks: From where are these matters derived? Rav Aḥa bar Pappa says: The verse states: “Neither shall you answer in a cause [al riv]” (Exodus 23:2), and the Sages interpret: Neither shall you answer after the Master [al rav], i.e., do not dispute the opinion of the greatest among the judges. Therefore, were the judges to commence issuing their opinions from the greatest of them, and he would say that the accused is liable, no judge would acquit him.
רבה בר בר חנה אמר רבי יוחנן מהכא (שמואל א כה, יג) ויאמר דוד לאנשיו חגרו איש [את] חרבו ויחגרו איש [את] חרבו ויחגור גם דוד את חרבו
Rabba bar bar Ḥana says that Rabbi Yoḥanan says: The source of this practice is from here: When David decided to punish Nabal the Carmelite, the verse states: “And David said to his men: Every man gird his sword. And every man girded his sword, and David also girded his sword” (I Samuel 25:13). That was a case of capital law, and David, the greatest among them, was last.
STRANGE Gemara! First we have a pasuk from Chumash to prove that מתחילין מן הצד. Then R' Yochanan cites a pasuk from the Navi???
Monday, February 15, 2021
PIL-EI PIL-EI PLA-OS BEZ"H!
Yesod Din Rotzeach And Goel Ha-dam
Yesod Din Rotzeach And Goel Ha-dam - Part 2
Yesod Din Rotzeach And Goel Hadam - Part 3
Yesod Din Rotzeach And Goel Hadam - Part 4
Rambam Hilchos Meilah 2-5: Meilah In A Parah Adumah
Learning Historical Sensitivity From The Megilla
Is The Parah Adumah From Public Funds?
The Mystery Of The Parah Adumah And Korban Pesach
Rambam Hilchos Parah Adumah 1-9
Is There A Vaccine For THIS Epidemic That Kills Tens Of Thousands Yearly?
On Nov. 5, just 35 days after the deadly Las Vegas shooting, a man walked into a church in a small Texas town and murdered 26 people with an assault rifle. The coverage dominated the news.
But the day before, even more people – 43 – were shot to death in cities and towns around the country. And nobody really seemed to notice.
Shootings kill more than 36,000 Americans each year. Every day, 90 deaths and 200 injuries are caused by gun violence. Unlike terrorist acts, the everyday gun violence that impacts our communities is accepted as a way of life.
Of all firearm homicides in the world, 82 percent occurs in the United States. An American is 25 times more likely to be fatally shot than a resident of other high-income nations.
As public health scholars who study firearm violence, we believe that our country is unique in its acceptance of gun violence. Although death by firearms in America is a public health crisis, it is a crisis that legislators accept as a societal norm. Some have suggested it is due to the fact that it is blacks and not whites who are the predominant victims, and our data support this striking disparity.
Within the United States, the odds of dying from firearm homicide are much higher for Americans who reside in cities. Twenty percent of all firearm homicides in the U.S. occur in the country’s 25 largest cities, even though they contain just over one-tenth of the U.S. population. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that of the 12,979 firearm homicides in 2015, 81 percent occurred in urban areas.
There is even more to the story: CDC data also show that within our nation’s cities, black Americans are, on average, eight times more likely to be killed by firearms than those who are white. The rate of death by gun homicide for black people exceeds those among whites in all 50 states, but there is tremendous variation in the magnitude of this disparity. In 2015, a black person living in Wisconsin was 26 times more likely to be fatally shot than a white person in that state. At the same time, a black person in Arizona was “only” 3.2 times more likely than a white person to be killed by a gun. The combination of being black and living in an urban area is even more deadly. In 2015, the black homicide rate for urban areas in Missouri was higher than the total death rate from any cause in New York state.
These differences across states occur primarily because the gap between levels of disadvantage among white and black Americans differs sharply by state. For example, Wisconsin – the state with the highest disparity between black and white firearm homicide rates – has the second-highest gap of any state between black and white incarceration rates, and the second-highest gap between black and white unemployment rates. Racial disparities in advantage translate into racial disparities in firearm violence victimization.
Americans are 128 times more likely to be killed in everyday gun violence than by any act of international terrorism. And a black person living in an urban area is almost 500 times more likely to be killed by everyday gun violence than by terrorism. From a public health perspective, efforts to combat firearm violence need to be every bit as strong as those to fight terrorism.
Santa On Purim
Question
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Excuses Excuses:-)!
כשנתבונן בעצמנו נראה שאנו חיים רק על תירוצים. תמיד מוקפים אנו בתירוצים ותמיד אנחנו צודקים במבט אנושי במבט של עיני בשר מועילים התירוצים כשמגיעים לדין כל התירוצים בטלים מפני שיש אחד שהוא מחייב. אנו מתקרבים ליום הדין נתבונן בעצמנו במבט רציני ונווכח שאנו חיים רק על תירוצים.
הרב וולבה זצ"ל בהסדו על הסטייפלער זצ"ל
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Friday, February 12, 2021
To Enjoy Or Not To Enjoy
The emphasis of Rav Sorotzkin's talk [linked here] was that if one derives pleasure from this world then he cannot be a spiritual person. One's only true pleasure should come from ruchniyus.
This is not unequivocal. It is well known that the derech of Chassidus was to sanctify Hashem through the pleasures of this world. It is also not a practical approach. Rav Sorotzkin is a Gaon Olam and his pleasure surely comes from his Torah and Avodas Hashem, but most of us are not only not there but are not even in the same galaxy [I refer not to the smartphone but to the celestial venue]. It is just completely above and beyond where most Jews [I refer of course even to frum Jews] are holding.
The average guy is constantly checking his phone, receives and sends countless whatsapps, memes, jokes etc. etc. every day. He eats far more than he needs in order to remain alive and healthy [actually most people eat so much it is unhealthy], never thinking for a moment whether this food is absolutely necessary in order to function so that he can learn and daven well and be an עובד השם. He eats b/c it is pleasurable. If he can afford it, he goes on frequent vacations. He almost always has a car and often two or three. His home is filled with various devices and utensils designed to make his stay in this world more enjoyable. He [and his wife] constantly buy things they "want" but certainly don't "need". That is [in my assesssment] where most people are holding. There are of course exceptions but that is the rule. So to tell people not to get a geshmak out of Olam Hazeh is simply not effective.
We are a shvach-eh [weak] and very very very spoiled generation. We couldn't survive for ten minutes w/o going crazy if we had to live like people lived from the beginning of time until 60-70-80 years ago. [As Rav Moshe once put it - Some people can't survive for 5 minutes w/o devices that were invented two years ago]. For better or for worse that is the reality. I WISH people enjoyed learning so much that they didn't care abt. food or sleep but it ain't happening.
There were differing views in Chazal about how to relate to the pleasures of this world. It is not monolithic. On one hand, the Yerushalmi [Kiddushin] says that Hashem will take one to task for every permitted pleasure he could have derived from this world and didn't. On the other hand, Rebbe Yehuda HaNasi says [Avos D'rebbi Noson] that if you get pleasure in this world then you will not be allowed to have pleasure in the next world but if you don't get pleasure in this world then you WILL get pleasure in the next.
Here is an article by the Gaon and Tzadik Rav Leib Mintzburg ztz"l on the topic:
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Corona Why?
HaGaon HaGadol Rav Yitzchak Sorotzkin Shlita is just about the biggest Talmid Chochom on the planet. His wealth, breadth and depth of knowledge are staggering and mind-boggling. He has written over 70 sefarim, many of them on topics that almost nobody else wrote about, filled with incredible chiddushim. So we have to have tremendous Derech Eretz for him.
That being said - I listened to this talk and want to comment that I am not sure that his analysis is completely correct [one is allowed to ask questions on the Chumash and the Gemara and certainly on contemporary Rabbonim. תורה היא וללמוד אני צריך].
1] The whole Corona is b/c we are too immersed in Olam Hazeh? Maybe, but I can think of some other explicit aveiros that many of us do. Let's see: Sinas Chinam, Machlokes, Lashon Hara, Chillul Hashem and the list goes on and on. So OF COURSE we should scale down our gashmiyus but there is a lot more to fix and it is hard to attribute excessive gashmiyus alone as the source for this megeifa [UNLESS one is a Navi and received a Divine communication].
2] The Goyim are making evil גזירות to stop us from learning and davening? Nobody is stopping anyone from learning or davening. The regulations are in order to protect our health. The attitude of "us against them" is in my opinion, anachronistic. There is anti-semitism today but trying to stop Corona is not an expression of it. There are plenty of Chashuv Talmidei Chachomim who don't view the regulations as גזירות against religious observance but rather encourage everyone to follow them.
3] So much talk about the SPIRITUAL korbanos of the pandemic but nary a word about all of the physical suffering and death. What about all of the orphans and widows? Shouldn't we be feeling their pain?? Is the only thing that matters the soul? Rav Yisrael Salanter famously taught that "yenems gashmiyus is my ruchniyus". When a person suffers physically that should be a cause of great distress for me - not ONLY when he suffers spiritually. That is why we have a mitzva to give tzdaka which involves PHYSICAL MONEY or hachnosos orchim which involves physically feeling and otherwise attending to the bodily needs of others.
And what about the fact that every single person who got sick or died was infected by another PERSON. So who killed Rav Dovid Soloveitchik? Who killed Rav Yitzchak Scheiner? Who killed the Novominsker Rebbe? We can't know but Hashem knows and we have a LOT of [albeit unwitting] killers among us. A LOTTTT!!!
And what about all of those who weren't careful and were partially guilty of their own illness and/or death. That TOO, is a huuuuuge aveirah.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
LET'S LEARN!!!!!-:)
Mishpatim: The Foundation Of Chesed In The World
Mishpatim: The Special Recognition Of The Dogs And Their Reward
צדקה ומחצית השקל - לבירור חובתנו בעולמנו
The Dialectical Purim Story And Its Contemporary Significance
Is There A Mitzva Of Loaning Money To A Wealthy Person?
Is There A Mitzva Of Loaning Money To A Wealthy Person? - Part 2
Is There A Mitzva Of Loaning Money To A Wealthy Person? - Part 3
The Obligation To Loan And The Prohibition Of Interest
The Obligation To Loan And The Prohibition Of Interest - Part 2