Diane Rehm And A Bungled Interview With Senator Bernie Sanders
The Jewish Press reports Antwerp, Belgium will be without an Eruv this Shabbat (June 19-20), due to a clown, according to a report in Bechadarei Chareidim.
The actual article in Bechadarei Chareidim concludes with the sentence that the community is making efforts to come to some solution so that carrying will be permissible this coming Shabbos.
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15 Jun 2015
14 Jun 2015
Machloket
Stunning photo - Rainbow over downtown Fort Worth right now.
Moshe Rabbeinu tells Korach that if he is right, Hashem will create a new phenomenon and the earth will open its mouth and all the sinners will be swallowed. If not, then we know that Hashem did not send Moshe. Where did Moshe get this idea from?
Rav Shimshon Pincus explains that the Torah tells us (Korach 17:5), "V'Lo Sihiyeh K'Korach ViChaAdaso", we should not engage in Machlokes like Korach. The gemara (Sanhedrin 110a) says that if you enter a Machlokes, you are oveir a Lav. This issur, says Rav Shimshon, applies to both the side that is right and the side that is wrong.
Therefore he says, if the side that is right can win the machlokes unequivocally and unanimously, then he should do so. However if the side that is wrong refuses to yield and the argument continues, then even if you are right you must be Mivater and drop the machlokes. Not doing so would constitute an issur. Unfortunately in every machlokes the latter is always the case and the side that is wrong does not yield.
This explains what Moshe Rabbeinu told Korach. If Hashem creates an unprecedented Miracle and the argument will become null and void through the absolute demise of the other side, then it will be clear that I am right and you are wrong. But if you are still around in any shape or form and continue to argue, then I will need to concede and end the machlokes even though I am right. And so it was. The earth opened up and the machlokes disappeared!
We should not expect any such miracles in our own lives. We should make our point and move on, even if we are 100% right and the other side is 100% wrong, which is never the case. http://revach.net/avodah/ahavas-yisroel/Parshas-Korach-Rav-Shimshon-Pincus-If-Korach-Is-Not-Completely-Swallowed-Up/4590
Moshe Rabbeinu tells Korach that if he is right, Hashem will create a new phenomenon and the earth will open its mouth and all the sinners will be swallowed. If not, then we know that Hashem did not send Moshe. Where did Moshe get this idea from?
Rav Shimshon Pincus explains that the Torah tells us (Korach 17:5), "V'Lo Sihiyeh K'Korach ViChaAdaso", we should not engage in Machlokes like Korach. The gemara (Sanhedrin 110a) says that if you enter a Machlokes, you are oveir a Lav. This issur, says Rav Shimshon, applies to both the side that is right and the side that is wrong.
Therefore he says, if the side that is right can win the machlokes unequivocally and unanimously, then he should do so. However if the side that is wrong refuses to yield and the argument continues, then even if you are right you must be Mivater and drop the machlokes. Not doing so would constitute an issur. Unfortunately in every machlokes the latter is always the case and the side that is wrong does not yield.
This explains what Moshe Rabbeinu told Korach. If Hashem creates an unprecedented Miracle and the argument will become null and void through the absolute demise of the other side, then it will be clear that I am right and you are wrong. But if you are still around in any shape or form and continue to argue, then I will need to concede and end the machlokes even though I am right. And so it was. The earth opened up and the machlokes disappeared!
We should not expect any such miracles in our own lives. We should make our point and move on, even if we are 100% right and the other side is 100% wrong, which is never the case. http://revach.net/avodah/ahavas-yisroel/Parshas-Korach-Rav-Shimshon-Pincus-If-Korach-Is-Not-Completely-Swallowed-Up/4590
12 Jun 2015
The ruling
American judge rules Jewish family has NO claim to $20m painting that the Nazis took from their great-grandmother, telling her to 'give it up or go to a concentration camp'
"My servant Kalev, because he possessed in him a different spirit, and followed me fully, I shall bring him into the land to which he came, and his children will cast [its inhabitants] from it." Kalev merited receiving the city of Chevron because he did not listen to the plan of the Meraglim. Why was Kalev singled out for reward and not Yehoshua who also did not listen to the Meraglim? The Panayach Raza answers that Yehoshua had help in fighting against the Meraglim. Yehoshua was armed with Tefillah of Moshe who davened for him, "Koh Yoshiacha MayAtzas Meraglim" - "Hashem should help you against the plan of the Meraglim". However, Moshe did not daven for Kalev, therefore Kalev, who fought them on his own, merited receiving the city of Chevron.
The Ibn Ezra answers, since it was Kalev who silenced the Meraglim (as the pasuk says, "Vayahas Kalev"), he was the one to receive this gift from Hashem.
http://www.revach.net/parshas-hashavua/quick-vort/Parshas-Shelach-Kalev-Is-Rewarded/2347
דרכו האחרונה: הרב מיכאל ניסנוב הובא למנוחות עולם
דודי קאליש ובנו מוישי - כרחם אב על בנים | Dudi Kalish & Son Moshe Sing New Song
"My servant Kalev, because he possessed in him a different spirit, and followed me fully, I shall bring him into the land to which he came, and his children will cast [its inhabitants] from it." Kalev merited receiving the city of Chevron because he did not listen to the plan of the Meraglim. Why was Kalev singled out for reward and not Yehoshua who also did not listen to the Meraglim? The Panayach Raza answers that Yehoshua had help in fighting against the Meraglim. Yehoshua was armed with Tefillah of Moshe who davened for him, "Koh Yoshiacha MayAtzas Meraglim" - "Hashem should help you against the plan of the Meraglim". However, Moshe did not daven for Kalev, therefore Kalev, who fought them on his own, merited receiving the city of Chevron.
The Ibn Ezra answers, since it was Kalev who silenced the Meraglim (as the pasuk says, "Vayahas Kalev"), he was the one to receive this gift from Hashem.
http://www.revach.net/parshas-hashavua/quick-vort/Parshas-Shelach-Kalev-Is-Rewarded/2347
דרכו האחרונה: הרב מיכאל ניסנוב הובא למנוחות עולם
דודי קאליש ובנו מוישי - כרחם אב על בנים | Dudi Kalish & Son Moshe Sing New Song
The parsha of Tzitzis
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At the end of the Parsha we find the MiKoshes Eitzin being Michalel Shabbos and then immediately following this is the Parsha of Tzitzis. The Vilna Gaon offers an explanation for the connection.
On our Tzitzis we make five knots. In the four gaps between these knots we wrap one of the strings around the others. The number of times we wrap the other strings in these four gaps are 7,8,11,13 for a total of 39.
Similarly on Shabbos there are 39 Avos Melachos, which are categorized into four groups. The process of baking bread consists of 13 Melachos, making clothing 11, preparing parchment and writing 8, and the remaining Melachos 7.
http://revach.net/parshas-hashavua/numbers-amp-letters/http://live.feedjit.com/live/mashiachiscoming.blogspot.be/0//2361
At the end of the Parsha we find the MiKoshes Eitzin being Michalel Shabbos and then immediately following this is the Parsha of Tzitzis. The Vilna Gaon offers an explanation for the connection.
On our Tzitzis we make five knots. In the four gaps between these knots we wrap one of the strings around the others. The number of times we wrap the other strings in these four gaps are 7,8,11,13 for a total of 39.
Similarly on Shabbos there are 39 Avos Melachos, which are categorized into four groups. The process of baking bread consists of 13 Melachos, making clothing 11, preparing parchment and writing 8, and the remaining Melachos 7.
http://revach.net/parshas-hashavua/numbers-amp-letters/http://live.feedjit.com/live/mashiachiscoming.blogspot.be/0//2361
11 Jun 2015
Parshat Shelach
While I watched the short clip at Chadrei Charedim of the hachnasat sefer Torah in memory of Eyal Yifrach in which the crowds were singing, "HaKadosh Baruch Hu, Anachnu Ohavim Otcha" all I coould think was "Mi KeAmcha Yisrael."
אלעד חגגה: ספר תורה לזכר איל יפרח הי"ד
Anti-Semitic Attacks in NYC Up by 29% in First 5 Months of 2015
The Big Picture Continues: The War of Gog and Magog
אלעד חגגה: ספר תורה לזכר איל יפרח הי"ד
Anti-Semitic Attacks in NYC Up by 29% in First 5 Months of 2015
The Big Picture Continues: The War of Gog and Magog
10 Jun 2015
2 Jun 2015
Accepting insults
WZ has an article about Tahera Ahmad's complaint of facing discrimination on a UA flight when she asked for a can of Coke. The article contains a series of her Facebook posts which include, "I am truly dissapointed at the latest statement by United Airlines."
http://www.weaselzippers.us/225161-muslim-feminist-from-northwestern-u-alleges-islamophobia-by-united-airlines-over-diet-coke/
I am truly disappointed that the word "disappointed" was spelled incorrectly.
A comment posted on her Facebook page in response to her relating the incident included thanking Ms. Ahmad for the inspiring way in which she responded to an "ugly outburst of hatred."
"Our Rabbis taught: those who are insulted but do not insult, hear themselves reviled but do not respond, perform mitzvot out of love and rejoice in times of suffering, about them the verse says [Judges 5] “And those who love G-d are like the sun at its strongest shining.”
After googling the quote, I came across an interesting article titled HaNeelavim ve-Einam Olvim: The Value of Accepting Insults in Silence.
http://www.weaselzippers.us/225161-muslim-feminist-from-northwestern-u-alleges-islamophobia-by-united-airlines-over-diet-coke/
I am truly disappointed that the word "disappointed" was spelled incorrectly.
A comment posted on her Facebook page in response to her relating the incident included thanking Ms. Ahmad for the inspiring way in which she responded to an "ugly outburst of hatred."
"Our Rabbis taught: those who are insulted but do not insult, hear themselves reviled but do not respond, perform mitzvot out of love and rejoice in times of suffering, about them the verse says [Judges 5] “And those who love G-d are like the sun at its strongest shining.”
After googling the quote, I came across an interesting article titled HaNeelavim ve-Einam Olvim: The Value of Accepting Insults in Silence.
1 Jun 2015
What's in a name?
הרבי מויז'ניץ עבר תאונה • ומה אמר לנהג הפוגע
הילה, איילת, נועה, רחל, מיכל; מה דעת הגר"ח על שמות לבנות
Jewish Community Applauds 8-1 Supreme Court Ruling Upholding Religious Freedom in the Workplace
INN reports "Belgium is preparing to fire a police officer who wrote about his desire to kill Jews on Facebook.."
Read more: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/196129#.VWyJWJXvrIU
הילה, איילת, נועה, רחל, מיכל; מה דעת הגר"ח על שמות לבנות
Jewish Community Applauds 8-1 Supreme Court Ruling Upholding Religious Freedom in the Workplace
INN reports "Belgium is preparing to fire a police officer who wrote about his desire to kill Jews on Facebook.."
Read more: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/196129#.VWyJWJXvrIU
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