Month: July 2016 – ה׳ בתמוז תשע״ו

An Interesting Theory

Suicide via Soldier (in Israel)

 by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths

People in the U.S. are well familiar with the term “Suicide by Cop”.  This is defined as:

Suicide by Cop: Throwing yourself into a situation that will result in death by the police.  Example, Police tell you to get down and put your hands on your head. You pull out a black cap gun and take aim while running towards them.

It’s become clear that segments of “Palestinian” Arab society, the disturbed, the depressed, the unbalanced, are choosing to end it all via Suicide by IDF.  It seems to be an easy decision, since THEIR SOCIETY will honor their family and PAY their family if the depressed person ends it via attacking Israel.

Take a look, here a young Arab woman pulls a knife and walks zombie-like towards 2 fully armed Israeli soldiers at a bus stop…

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From Mystical Paths, here.

מקור מליצת ‘חדש אסור מן התורה’ בחתם סופר

מליצת “חדש אסור מן התורה” כנגד שינויי מנהגים מיוחסת לחתם סופר (דרך הרב עקיבה יהוסף שלזינגר זצ”ל). רבים נסתפקו מהו המקור המדוייק בחתם סופר (או שמא הוא רק בעל פה, כמו שכתב הרב ברנד שליט”א).

והנה ראה כאן משו”ת חתם סופר יו”ד סימן י”ט ד”ה ויען (מתוך היברובוקס).

צילום מסך:

ועיין שם שכלל זה מוגבל כמובן, ולא כמו שנפוץ בימינו. הוא כותב בסעיף זה ממש “וכן כמה טרחו ליישב מנהג היתר בחדש לפני עומר והכל ליישב המנהג ומ”מ בעל נפש יחוש לעצמו”. ויש לזה עוד ראיות בח”ס גופיה, ואין כאן מקום להאריך (הוא הרי היה תלמיד החדשן הרב נתן אדלר!).

וראה עוד כאן (אנגלית)…

Don’t Be a Moocher

To Ask or Not To Ask


by the Chazon Ish zt’l

The Chazon Ish, Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (1878-1953), one of the greatest Torah luminaries of recent times, lived in Israel from 1933 until his passing. His views, actions, halachic rulings and writings continue to have a major influence on the fabric of Torah life everywhere.

from “Kovetz Igerot 3:134”

“If your will is to ask something from your fellow (re’echa),
Weight it with scales – if you will attain your request,
And don’t say ‘what will leave me if I ask and he will refuse my request?’
Know, that you have lost a great deal with your action,
Because you are not guaranteed for yourself of not having aroused anger in your heart – on your fellow’s refusal.
Also your fellow’s heart becomes sneaky (mitganev), in thinking that your heart is on (i.e. upset with) him.
And you, between brothers you divided, and you’ve increased sinas chinam (baseless hatred, the cause of the temple’s destruction).
And he whose words are light (i.e. talks alot without thinking) and he is used to making requests – he hates and is hated.”

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From Daf Yomi Review, here.

Want To Understand Gemara? Slow Down!

Here are some excerpts from Daf Yomi Review:

Rav Wasserman taught that the Talmud is designed to be difficult. It’s purposely crafted to be difficult. He said every sugya (discussion) is like a tight knot in a ball of string. When you disentangle that ball of string, you have to go slow. If you’re impatient, you make the knot much worse. You have to pick out each piece, slowly and unravel it and by the time, you’ve decoded the sugya it’s one beautiful straight piece of string. Then you see that it was crafted into the smallest and most compressed and most beautiful space possible (i.e. could not possibly be written with fewer or better words. this applies also to every Rashi, Tosfos, and the like). It takes patience, it takes technique.

When you go through a complex piece of gemora, and you’re a little bit vague on point 1, the rest is an amplification of vagueness, and by the time you get to the end, you don’t know what’s going on. Gemora has a nasty trick, a nasty bite. A bite, of allowing you to get to the end and thinking, more or less you sort of understood, but something is a little bit back. And when you walk out and try to tell your friend about it you realize you didn’t understand anything from the beginning. that’s the way it works. Gemora is built in such a way that unless you have it all, you have nothing.

Read the rest.