העורך Editor

מצאתי:

From the English Parsha sheet, on Masei:

“Rav Sternbuch recalls how after World War II his mother was sure that Moshiach’s arrival was imminent. She refused to wear her best jewelry and nicest dress, stating that those were set aside for when Moshiach would come, and she waited for him every day.”

No, Mashiach didn’t, in fact, arrive then. But certainly Ms. Sternbuch’s realization Hashem was starting the process of redemption, after the blow of that Churban is correct.

Her son’s second-hand idea, that Jewry has merely left the “frying pan” of physical destruction in the Holocaust for “the fire” of even worse religious destruction (per גדול המחטיאו מן ההורגו), no more, makes a lot less sense.

And that’s without even going into the Torah sources (and knowing the past and present)…

כהמשך לכתבה אצלנו מהימים האחרונים:

כיוצא בו הגונב את המכס ואת החרם הרי זה שופך דמים ולא שופך דמים בלבד אלא כאילו עובד עבודת כוכבים ומגלה עריות ומחלל שבתות.

(שמחות ב’ ח’)

We mentioned the question here in the past.

I now see Chiddushim Ubiurim by Rabbi Chaim Greineman (Peah, end of Siman Alef) asks the same question, and answers perhaps those asking were in a position to help out.

Since certain “halachos” contradict everything the larger sugya teaches, one needs cognitive dissonance.

Everything about Kinyanim screams “Gemirus Da’as”. So, if you “understand” how Mechiras Chametz isn’t “Devarim shebilibo uvelev kol adam”, you understand nothing about Choshen Mishpat.

Tznius is about modesty. So, if you “understand” how women’s wigs are fine, you understand nothing about any related halachos whatsoever.

The same goes for Eruv, Agunos, giving away Eretz Yisrael, etc. etc.

(See a somewhat similar point made here.)