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Sunday, August 19, 2012

RAV KOOK ON PARSHAS REAH PART 2

(PLEASE LEARN THIS FOR THE REFUA SHELAMA OF RAV CHAIM KANIEVSKY-Rav Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim ben Pesha Miriam,Rav Shteinman - Aaron Yehuda Leib ben Gitel Feiga, Rav Weiss - Yitzchak Tuvia ben Rikal, Rav Yosef - Yaakov Chai ben Margalit Harav Shlomo Leib Ben Miriam - HaRav Shlomo Brevda Harav Yeshaya Yaakov Ben Raizel - HaRav Yeshaya Yaakov Portugal Harav Meshulem Fish Ben Tziril - The Toshe Rebbe Rav Yerachmiel Shlomo Hakohen ben Raizel. -Rav Yerachmiel Shlomo Rothenberg, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva of Mountaindale Rav Shaul ben Pasha-Gavaad Zurich, Switzerland and rav of Beis Medrash Agudas Achim for a refuah shleima b’soch kol cholei am Yisrael.)(AND L"N RAV YOSEF SHALOM BEN RAV AVRAHAM(RAV ELYASHIV ZT"L)

ranslated and abridged by Rabbi Chanan Morrison Parshat Re’eh As a condition for inheriting and keeping the Land of Israel, God commanded that all idolatry be destroyed. "Do away with all the places where the nations whom you are driving out worship their gods ... You must tear down their altars, break up their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah trees, and chop down the statues of their gods. You will obliterate their names from that place." (Deut. 12:2-3) The Torah stresses that this obligation to destroy idolatrous artifacts is primarily in "Eretz Yisrael". As the Sages commented, "'You will obliterate their names from that place' — in the Land of Israel you are commanded to pursue idolatry (until it is totally eradicated), but not outside the land." (Sifri; see Maimonides, Laws of Idolatry 7:2) Idolatry is clearly the antithesis of the monotheistic message of Judaism. The imperative to fight idolatry should not be limited to a particular location. Why does the Torah connect the eradication of idolatry to living in the Land of Israel?

RAV KOOK ON PARSHAS REAH PART 1

Translated and abridged by Rabbi Chanan Morrison Parshat Re’eh Surprisingly, but the Torah never spells out exactly where the Temple is to be built. Rather we are instructed to build the Beit HaMikdash 'in the place that God will choose': But only to the place that the Eternal your God will choose from all your tribes to set His Name there — you shall seek His dwelling place and go there.(Deut. 12:5) Where is 'the place that God will choose' for His Divine Presence? And what does it mean that we should "seek out His dwelling place"?

Friday, August 17, 2012

[chicago-aneinu] Please Daven

From an Aneinu member: Please daven for my father, Dovid Ber ben Leah, who had a heart attack yesterday and is having a procedure today.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

THE BAIS HAVAAD'S THE DAF IN HALACHA BERACHOS DAF 12 REMEMBERING THE EXODUS

RAV GREENWALD BRINGS DOWN THE M"B WHO BRINGS DOWN THE M"A WHO SAYS WOMEN ARE CHIEV IN THE MITZVAH OF ZECIRAS YITZIAS METZRIEM AND SAMUCH GEULAH LITIFILA BUT THE SHAGAS ARYEH SAYS THEY ARE PATUR B/C IT'S A TIME BOUND MITZVA.HOW WOLD THE M"A ANSWER THIS QUESTION.RABANU YONAH SAYS SOMEONE SAYS KRIAS SHEMA AFTER SHEKIA AND RABANU YONAH HOLDS LIKE RABANU TAM THAT ITS NOT NIGHT OUTSIDE TILL ITS TOTALLY DARK OUTSIDE.SO THIS PERSON WOULD HAVE TO REPEAT KRIAS SHEMA BUT NOT ZECER YETZIAS METZRIEM B/C THIS PERSON IS YOTZA AFTER SHEKIA.ZECIRAS YETZIAS METZRIEM IS AN AWARENESS LEVEL.A DAILY THING OF YETZIAS METZRIEM.WHEN THERE A DIFFERENT PART OF THE DAY YOU NEED A NEW AWARENESS.AFTER SHEKIA THE DAY IS IN A NEW PHASE ITS NOT TOTALLY DARK BUT YOUR YOTZA YOUR MITZVA OF ZECIRAS YETZIAS METZRIEM.THIS ANSWER THE PROBLEM OF THE M"A.

RABBI ELEFANT DAF SUGYA SHIUR Berachos Daf 11: Birchas Hatorah - Part 2

THE LEVUSH SAYS THE BERACHA OF LASOK BDIVREI TORAH AND THE BERACHA AHER BACHUR BANUIS A BIRCHAS HANENIN BUT THE CHAYA ADAM SAYS ITS A BIRCHAS HODA.THIS EXPLAINS WHY THE TZARPHTIM SAYS YOU NEED TO STAND BY BIRCHAS HATORAH B/C ITS A BIRCHAS HANENIN.RABANU TAM ON THE OTHER HAND SAYS YOU DON'T NEED TO STAND B/C ITS BIRCHAS SHVACH.LIMUD HATORAH NO NEED TO STAND EVEN F ITS BIRCHAS HAMITZVOS.RAV SHTERNBAUCH SAYS 1 SHOULD STAND.THE BELZER REBA WOULD SIT WHILE SAYING IT B/C IT TOOK HIM A LONG TIME TO SAY IT.ARE WOMEN VHIEV IN BIRCHAS HATORAH AND IF THEY ARE CAN THEY BE YOTZA MEN?TO HEAR A NICE CHASAM SOFER THAT SAYS WOMEN SHOULD SAY IT B/C THEY HELP THEIR HUSBAND LEARN SO THEY SHOULD THANK HASHEM. CLICK HERE

RABBI ELEFANT DAF SUGYA SHIUR Berachos Daf 11: Birchas Hatorah - Part 1

THE TORAH ARE THE WORDS OF HASHEM SAY BIRCHAS HATORAH 1ST.ITS A MACHLOKES RISHONIM IF BIRCHAS HATORAH IS DIURISSA OR DIRABANAN.THE DISTINCTION IS FOR A TZIBUR BIRCHAS HATORAH IS DIURISSA BUT FOR A YACVHID IT IS DIRABANAN.THE M"B BRINGS A NAFKA MINA WHICH IS IF THERE A QUESTION IF HE SAID BIRCHAS HATORAH IF ITS DIURISSA HE WOULD HAVE TO REPEAT IT BUT IF ITS DIRABANAN THEN HE WOULD NOT HAVE TO REPEAT IT.FOR MORE LIKE WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE IN SAFEK IF YOU SAID BIRCHAS HATORA?HOW DOES AVHAVA RABA REPLACE BIRCHAS HATORAH?WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DONT SLEEP AT NIGHT?CLICK HERE

[chicago-aneinu] Please Daven

Please daven for my son's friend's father, Chaim Yisrael Pinchas ben Shaindel, who will be undergoing very complicated brain surgery.