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Post-Shavuos Notes
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We provide the following post-Shavuos notes to our readers:
1) In a pre-Shavuos Bulletin, we had mentioned that the term "Simcha" is used two times by the Torah relating to Shavuous, and suggested an explanation. A reader noted a related ....
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Posted 6/2/2009 12:00 AM |
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Inner Pleasantness
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PIRKEI AVOS\THE ETHICS OF OUR FATHERS\2:10
Rabbi Eliezer said, "Do not be inclined to anger."
The dictum of "Do not be inclined to anger," applies to one’s relationship towards others and just as importantly, it pert ....
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Posted 6/2/2009 12:00 AM |
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Segula
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Many reasons are given as to why we read Megilas Rus on Shavuos. HaRav Yaakov Emden, Z’tl, in his Siddur Bais Yaakov writes that the preeminent lesson of Megilas Rus is the tremendous Chesed of Rus. With this, HaRav Emden writes, we can appreciate ....
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Posted 6/2/2009 12:00 AM |
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Posted 5/23/2009 12:00 AM |
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Parshas Bamidbar
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It says in this weeks Parsha :
"The sons of Yosef, the sons of Efraim, their
offspring...counted 40,500."(Bamidbar 1:33)
The midrash
explains the exact wording of the verse. The repetition of the word "sons" comes
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Posted 5/23/2009 12:00 AM |
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Erev Shabbos Halachos of Shabbos Series:
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A. The Sefer Shalmei Yehudah (10:15) on Hilchos Muktzah writes, in the name of HaRav Elyashiv, Shlita, that, although generally medicines that you were not taking before Shabbos are Muktzah to move or handle, certain “over-the-counter” medica ....
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Posted 5/22/2009 12:00 AM |
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Proper Kavod for Seforim
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As Shavuous is fast-approaching we provide our annual reminder on the proper Kavod for Seforim:
It is interesting to note that the Hebrew word for honor,” kavod”, is also used as a synonym for the Neshama--soul, as Dovid HaMelech pleads ....
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Posted 5/22/2009 12:00 AM |
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Readying Ourselves for Kablas HaTorah
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In one week from today, we will celebrate Matan Torah with Shavuos. Much in the same way as we get closer and closer to Yom Kippur do we feel a need to do Teshuva, or as we get closer and closer to Pesach do we feel a need to rid ourselves of ....
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Posted 5/21/2009 12:00 AM |
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Purity of Faith
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THE FAITH AND TRUST OF PSALMS______25:20-21
Protect my soul and rescue
me, let me not be ashamed for I have taken refuge in You. Integrity and
uprightness will protect me, for I have hoped in You.
In this heart ....
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Posted 5/21/2009 12:00 AM |
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Behar BeChukosai
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Rashi explains, "Im bechokosai teileichu" (If you walk in my chukim) as an exhortation to toil in the study
of Torah. Rav Wolbe (Shiurei Chumash) asks why the Torah refers to Torah study in the form of walking -
"teileichu." Shouldn’t the T ....
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Posted 5/18/2009 12:00 AM |
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Erev Shabbos—Halachos of Shabbos Series
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1. The following Halacha applies any time that we bentch, and we bring it here because we wash and bentch three times on Shabbos: HaRav Moshe Feinstein, Z’tl, in a Responsa (Igros Moshe, Orach Chayim IV: 41) writes that in order to bentch on bread ....
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Posted 5/18/2009 12:00 AM |
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Make It Your Business
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HaRav Boruch Ber Lebowitz, Z’tl, Rosh HaYeshiva of the Kamenitz Yeshiva is quoted in Growth Through Torah (p.287) as follows: "What can I compare to my situation? I wake up in the morning, and it is as though I have the Shaagas Aryeh, the Ketzos Ha ....
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Posted 5/18/2009 12:00 AM |
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Shabbos Sheva Brachos
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I’ve got 2 liters of wine with about 8 kilos of meat in a stew recipe that I
do, boiling out the alcohol on the kitchen stove. I found out that the cheap
wine I bought for cooking was Otzer Beit Din and therefore we hold that it ....
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Posted 5/16/2009 12:00 AM |
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Reb Shlomo Zalman- B'har / B'chukosai
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These parshios are so full of messages of love and closeness with Hashem and with our fellow Jews, it makes it difficult to choose what to tell you. B’EzH I am making the right choice. ....
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Posted 5/15/2009 12:00 AM |
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I Will Not Fear
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THE FAITH OF AND TRUST OF PSALMS 56:4-5
"In the day when I fear, I
will put my trust upon You!
In Elokim, I will praise His word; in Elokim I
have put my trust - I will not fear; what can man do to ....
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Posted 5/15/2009 12:00 AM |
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Working on our Words
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In this week’s Parsha we find the great Mitzvah of “VeLo Sonu Ish Es Amiso” (Vayikra 25:17)...each of you shall not aggrieve his fellow. Chazal (Bava Metzia 58B) teach that this Pasuk refers specifically to causing pain with words--Ono’as Dev ....
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Posted 5/15/2009 12:00 AM |
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Sivan's Twins
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The following is excerpted from the sefer Let My Nation Serve Me by Rabbi Yosef Deutsch, Shlita, (Artscroll) a wonderful work which provides both depth and feeling to the events in the Midbar leading up to Mattan Torah, and to Mattan Torah itself, ....
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Posted 5/15/2009 12:00 AM |
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On Bitachon
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In the first of this week’s two Parshios, Behar, we find one of the paradigm mitzvos given to us by Hashem in order to affirm and strengthen our Bitachon—trust--the mitzvah of Shmitta. We are incredibly commanded to let the source of our Parn ....
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Posted 5/15/2009 12:00 AM |
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Halachos of Shabbos series
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Erev Shabbos –Halachos of Shabbos series with Halachos from HaShabbos BeTifarta by Rav Avrohom Adas, Shlita, of Yerushalayim:
a. The following points relate to the Melacha of Sirtut-or tracing lines in order to cut something proper ....
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Posted 5/10/2009 12:00 AM |
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Posted 5/8/2009 12:00 AM |
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Important Numbers
