My opinion is that R. Kahana is adopting a literary device known as a "mashal" to purposefully simplify a complicated situation. I support R. Kahana's mashal...
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brent kaufman
tachash2003
Oct 7, 2007 11:11 pm
If the reason for their not taking part in the State was simply because the zionists weren't frum then they would have never sat with them in the first zionist...
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Jeremiah Unterman
jerry.unterman@...
Oct 8, 2007 12:40 am
Mr. Kaufman, would you please be so kind as to enlighten us all on which particular decisions that "made it necessary to leave"? Jeremiah Unterman ... Mr....
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Lee Caplan
leescaplan
Oct 10, 2007 2:18 pm
The power of refraining from speaking lashon hora is tremendous, and people who do so for at least 40 days are said to be able to request anything from Hashem...
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David Hillel Nadoff
toratimecha
Oct 11, 2007 3:06 pm
[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/602] Rav Teichtal puts a remarkable spin on this entire subject in Eim Habanim Semeicha (p....
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David Hillel Nadoff
toratimecha
Oct 23, 2007 9:53 pm
[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/610] As we learned in part 5, Rav Teichtal adopts a teaching of the Chatam Sofer that...
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Michael
sruju123
Oct 25, 2007 9:29 pm
DEFENDING JERUSALEM When ministers of the current Government of Israel have publicly stated that the Prime Minister may be prepared to enter into a formal...
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Michael
sruju123
Oct 31, 2007 8:49 pm
Nach Yomi online starts Tomorrow- So "Chap" a Nach-TODAY! Nach is for every Jew; make it yours with Nach Yomi online Log on every day to study one chapter a...
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Tanhum Eless
tesamach
Nov 1, 2007 10:56 am
Michael <rosnerm@...> wrote: Nach Yomi online starts Tomorrow- So "Chap" a Nach-TODAY! Nach is for every Jew; make it yours...
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David Hillel Nadoff
toratimecha
Nov 2, 2007 4:16 pm
[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/611] In the context of our continuing discussion of Ahavat Chinam, it is appropriate to...
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Avner Dahan
avdahan
Nov 7, 2007 3:59 pm
Excuse me, David, but aren't you overlooking some other relevant pesukim in Tehilim, namely Chapter 139, 21-22 -- "Will I not hate those who hate You and...
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Rav Yoseif Bloch
yossie610
Nov 8, 2007 2:33 pm
Presumably one would explain that by looking at the last 2 pesukim there, wherein David says that Hashem should kill him if he has any improper thought (so all...
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David Hillel Nadoff
toratimecha
Nov 8, 2007 2:59 pm
[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/615] As we learned in part 7, the hatred of wickedness and love of righteousness extolled in...
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David Hillel Nadoff
toratimecha
Nov 12, 2007 4:13 pm
I received a couple of rather irate off-line responses to Part 8,* taking umbrage at my critique of the "Yated faction," which my respondents mistakenly took...
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David Hillel Nadoff
toratimecha
Nov 15, 2007 4:03 pm
[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/618] In his commentary on Tikunei Zohar (57b), the Gaon of Vilna declares: "The blessed Lord...
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David Hillel Nadoff
toratimecha
Nov 20, 2007 4:09 pm
[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/621 <../../../../../../message/618> ] Rav Eliezer Papo, the author of the mussar classic...
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DAVID NADOFF
ffodan
Nov 21, 2007 4:22 pm
Apropos of yesterday's examination of Rav Eliezer Papo's position on Ahavat Chinam and Sinat Chinam in Peleh Yo'etz,* I thought I'd repost the following...
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tesamach
Nov 21, 2007 5:18 pm
Our prayers are urgently needed! The Rabbanim of Chicago call upon you to join in a community-wide Tehillim gathering - Monday, November 26, 2007 at 7:00pm at...
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Avner Dahan
avdahan
Nov 26, 2007 2:31 pm
Please try to attend whatever is going on in your area. Today, Monday, Nov. 26: * Annapolis, 11 AM to 2 P.M., Gate 1, King George and Randall, organized by...
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Nahum Lesser
torateim@...
Nov 30, 2007 4:42 pm
Please pray for the speedy recovery of Rav Moshe ben Tirza HaLevi. Please have your shul make a Mishebeirach for him this Shabbos. ... From:...
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tesamach
Dec 2, 2007 4:52 pm
Rav Kook on Vayeshev: The Nature of Exile by Rabbi Chanan Morrison Joseph's pit is a metaphor for Galut, for exile. "They took Joseph and threw him into the...
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David Hillel Nadoff
toratimecha
Dec 5, 2007 8:58 pm
[I'm reposting this piece to correct a typo that has been irking me, but, more importantly, to remind everyone that, as Michael Rosner informed us in a recent...
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David Hillel Nadoff
toratimecha
Dec 6, 2007 5:27 pm
I. Diasporamania* In Eim Habanim Semeicha, Rav Teichtal frequently reminds us that the majority and finest of the Jews of the Babylonian Exile were so ...
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tilei_tilim
Dec 6, 2007 5:43 pm
... [snip, snip] YoungIsrael.org also has some good resources on Jerusalem-in-danger and things you can do to help, especially how to make high impact phone ...
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alnidxx
Dec 9, 2007 3:15 am
Dear Friends, in our collective zeal to act for the sake of maintaining the unity of Yerushalayim as the capital of Israel,let's not forget that Yehuda and...
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DAVID NADOFF
ffodan
Dec 9, 2007 9:49 pm
Be"H, posted from Yerushalayim, Ir HaKodesh, 6th night of Chanuka. In Part 1, we examined the teachings of Ramchal in Mesilat Yesharim (Chap. 19) regarding the...
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Avner Dahan
avdahan
Dec 20, 2007 2:32 pm
"The essential significance of the fast of the Tenth of Tevet, as well as that of the other fast days, is not primarily the grief and mourning which they...
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Avner Dahan
avdahan
Dec 26, 2007 4:23 pm
Bush Heading to Jerusalem President Bush will be in Jerusalem on January 9th to push his "Palestinian State in '08" proposal forward with East Jerusalem as the...
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tesamach
Dec 26, 2007 5:14 pm
When I guest-moderated the Chabura for David last summer, I noticed we periodically receive announcements and appeals that are not related to the subject of...
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David Hillel Nadoff
toratimecha
Dec 28, 2007 8:52 pm
In our tradition, we find two different models of the Divine process of Geula. There is a supernatural model typified by the redemption of the Israelites from...
