tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33149142687274431142024-02-07T15:35:01.242-05:00NishmaBlogWelcome to www.Nishma.org Blog! Your hosts are:
Rabbi Rich Wolpoe - BlogMaster; Rabbi Ben Hecht - Founding Director of Nishma. Our Goal is to shed Light and not to generate Heat on topics of Jewish interest.Nishmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237299801109329429noreply@blogger.comBlogger4857125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-2185192931046477962021-01-22T12:39:00.001-05:002021-01-22T12:39:04.752-05:00It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn<p> From <b>RRW </b><br />
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Rabbi Eliyahu Safran on the <i>parsha</i> -- hope you enjoy</p><blockquote><p><a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12740" target="_blank">Israel National News - It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn</a> <br /></p></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-84752016560465974242021-01-21T16:32:00.000-05:002021-01-21T16:32:49.477-05:00Meaning of Erevrav<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">From <b>RRW</b> <br />
Guest Blogger: Mitchell First </span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The Meaning of “Erev Rav” (Ex. 12:38)</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When the Israelites left Egypt, Exodus 12:38 tells us that an “erev rav”
also went with them. One of the meanings of the root </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ערב</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> is “mix,” so a common translation here (following the King
James Version) is “mixed multitude.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Can we say anything more about them? Let us review some interpretations:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-Onkelos: “nuchrain sagiin”= many strangers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-Rashi: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“taarovet umot shel <b>gerim</b>.”
Another view is that the reading in the last word here is “Mitzrim.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Ibn Ezra: people from Egypt who
mixed themselves in with them. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-R. Aryeh Kaplan: “a great
mixture [of nationalities]”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now let us review some of the commentators who write more expansively:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>1. S.D. Luzzatto (“intermarriage” interpretation):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He cites to Neh. 13:3: “They separated all
the ‘erev’ from Israel.” From Neh. 9:2, it seems likely that “erev” at 13:3 is
referring to an intermingling by way of intermarriage. (See also Ezra 9:2.)
Luzzatto concludes: “It seems to me that this ‘erev rav’ had previously mixed
with the Israelites, and that they were Egyptian men who had married Israelite
women and Egyptian women who had married Israelite men…” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My comment: While “erev” with this meaning fits the context in Nehemiah,
it does not fit the context at Ex. 12:38. (Note that there is evidence of such
intermarriage at Lev. 24:10.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>2. Rabbi Dr. J. H. Hertz (“riffraff-opportunist” interpretation): “The
mass of non-Israelite strangers, including slaves and prisoners of war, who
took advantage of the panic to escape from Egypt...” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My comment: This approach sounds
reasonable. See similarly Daat Mikra, first interpretation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3. Daat Mikra, second interpretation:
Non-Israelites who came now in support of the Israelites, to join them. The
Daat Mikra does not elaborate but cites to Philo (1<sup>st</sup> cent.). Here
are his words at <i>Life of Moses </i>I, sec. 147: “There also went forth with
them a mixed multitude…collected from all quarters, and servants, like an
illegitimate crowd with a body of genuine citizens. Among these were those who
had been born to Hebrew fathers by Egyptian women, and who were enrolled as
members of their father’s race. And, also, <b>all those who had admired the
decent piety of the men, and therefore joined them; and some, also, who had
come over to them, having learnt the right way, by reason of the magnitude and
multitude of the incessant punishments</b> which had been inflicted on their
own countrymen.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">See similarly Ex. Rab. 18:10, which the
Daat Mikra also cites. See also the first sentence of Luzzatto quoted below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My comment: Prior to the time of
the plagues, there also may have been non-Israelites living among the
Israelites, perhaps in preparation for being part of the people, or temporarily
for any reason. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note that both Deut. 29:10 and Josh. 8:35
refer to the </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">גר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> living among the
Israelites. (</span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">גר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> did not mean “convert”
until Mishnaic times.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, all these individuals may have come
after the Exodus, during the desert years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>----------<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luzzatto also writes at
12:38: “It has been said that these were Egyptians who mixed with the
Israelites in order to become proselytes, upon seeing the prodigious wonders
that God had done for them…It seems to me, however, that even if some people
were stirred to become proselytes, there would have been no reason for them to
leave with the Israelites, for the Israelites had never said they were going
away permanently, but were supposed to return immediately….”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luzzatto has raised an
interesting issue. From Moses’ statements to the Israelites at 12:17 and 25-26,
it seems that they knew they were not coming back, but Moses did not share this
with Pharaoh. Pharaoh seemed to assume that they would return after the holiday
he granted. See, e.g., 12:31 (“ke-daberchem”). What the non-Israelites would
have thought is a difficult question. If they were living among the Israelites,
presumably they would have known what the Israelites’ plan was. But if they had
not been living among the Israelites, probably they would not have known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless, in my view, they likely would
have attempted to leave with the Israelites anyway. Once out, they could have
continued on their own.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A scholar Shaul Bar suggested a novel interpretation in an article in <i>Hebrew
Studies</i>, vol. 49 (2008). There are three verses in Tanach where the word
“erev” is used and it could mean “mercenaries,” i.e., people that are paid to
fight on your side. This would come from a different meaning of the root </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ערב</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, the “take on a pledge” meaning, or the “exchange” meaning. The
three verses are Jer. 25:20 and 50:37, and Ezek. 30:5. (Admittedly, there is a segol
under the ayin in each, different from the tzere in “erev rav,” but this does
not have to be significant.) For example, Jer. 25:19-20 reads: “Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people, and all the
‘erev’….” The word that Targ. Yonatan uses in all three verses comes from the
root </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">סמך</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, which means “support.”
See also Rashi on all three verses and especially on Jer. 25:20: “u-mishanto
aleihem le-ezrah” (=he relies on them for help).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See also Soncino to Jer. 50:37: “foreign
traders or mercenaries.” So perhaps “erev” meant “mercenary” at Ex. 12:38. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bar also argues that if it does, we can better
understand how the Israelites can be described as “chamushim” when they left,
assuming that this word means “armed.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(But at the end of his article, Bar comes to the surprising conclusion
that the reference at Ex. 12:38 is to “intermarried ones”: mercenaries who
intermarried with the Israelites. He does not claim a “double meaning” to the
word at Ex. 12:38, although he could have. )</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another scholar points out that there is also an Akkadian word “urbi”
that refers to a type of soldier.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My comment: The “mercenary-soldier”
interpretation may fit the context in the three verses cited above, but it does
not fit the context at Ex. 12:38. Moreover, the story of Moses and the
Israelites at the sea depicts a helpless people without any help from
mercenaries/soldiers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>- There are no passages in either Talmud giving an interpretation of
“erev rav.” There is a passage at Beitzah 32b where an Amora who was not
treated with kindness criticized those who treated him<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and said that they must be descendants of the
“erev rav.” He observed that the seed of Avraham, in contrast, are “merachem al
ha-briyot.” But this is not the kind of passage that was meant to be taken more
than homiletically. (But see Rambam, Matanot Aniyim 10:2.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Another issue is whether the
“erev rav” are to be identified with the “asafsuf” of Num. 11:4. The identification
is more compelling if we can view “erev rav” as one word. The Samaritan Torah
has this reading. In this reading, the fourth and fifth letters are just
reduplicative, like “yerakrak.” The reduplicative term may also be disparaging.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many sources, ancient and modern, make
the identification. The fact that “mix” and “gather” are words with a similar
meaning supports the identification. On the other hand, if the groups were the
same, why was the same word not used. On this topic, see D. Zucker at
thetorah.com, “Erev Rav: A Mixed Multitude of Meanings.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Mitchell First is an attorney and Jewish
history scholar. Unlike “erev rav” and “asafsuf,” these terms in no way mean
the same thing. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:MFirstAtty@aol.com">MFirstAtty@aol.com</a>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-41501399060321865012021-01-19T16:47:00.001-05:002021-01-19T16:47:00.844-05:00"Death Train - Episode 1"<p>From <b>RRW</b> </p><blockquote><div id="ox-f17185987f"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://youtu.be/-XRT1iFzFQ8" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/-XRT1iFzFQ8</a></div></div></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-84816579453877155732021-01-19T10:35:00.001-05:002021-01-19T10:35:01.442-05:00123 Of The Most Powerful Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes<p> From <b>RRW</b> </p><blockquote><p><a href="https://www.keepinspiring.me/martin-luther-king-jr-quotes/" target="_blank">https://www.keepinspiring.me/martin-luther-king-jr-quotes/</a></p><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Some of my favorites</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“The
more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and
the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a
fascist society.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“In
the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of
wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by
drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct
our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not
allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again
and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical
force with soul force.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“People
fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other
because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because
they have not communicated with each other.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“The
art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a
small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“The
function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think
critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true
education.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“The
limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and
their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but
reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional
catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“I
believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final
word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger
than evil triumphant.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“We
must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of
the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good
in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover
this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“Man
must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”</span> </div></blockquote><blockquote><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">And 1 about MLK by RFK:</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“We
can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization –
black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with
hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther
King Jr. did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that
violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with
an effort to understand, compassion and love.... What we need in the
United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not
hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and
lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another,
and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our
country, whether they be white or whether they be black.” </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">―Robert F. Kennedy</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /><br /></div></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-18937286512832957812021-01-18T16:38:00.004-05:002021-01-18T16:38:32.900-05:00List of book-burning incidents - Wikipedia<p> From <b>RRW</b> </p><blockquote><div id="ox-060bb3478c"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_incidents" target="_blank">https:<wbr></wbr>//en.<wbr></wbr>wikipedia.<wbr></wbr>org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_<wbr></wbr>incidents</a></div></div></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-77239825678141563812021-01-18T10:19:00.001-05:002021-01-18T10:19:01.595-05:00Worldwide Prayer Rally for Rabbi Reuven Bulka -- Canada' s Rabbi<p>This evening-- Monday, January 18th -- at 7:30 pm EST, Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa, Canada will be hosting a Worldwide Prayer Rally for its Rabbi Emeritus, Rabbi Reuven Bulka, who, sadly, has been diagnosed with prostate and liver cancer. </p><p>In his over 50 years as Rabbi and, more recently, as Rabbi Emeritus, of the congregation, Rabbi Bulka has served his congregation and congregants with distinction while also becoming a most positive force in the entire community be it the city, the province, the country or globally, There is a reason why 680 News, the 24 hour news radio station in Toronto refers to him as Canada's Rabbi. (See, further, <a href="https://www.680news.com/2021/01/17/worldwide-virtual-prayer-rally-to-be-held-for-canadas-rabbi-after-cancer-diagnosis-2/">Worldwide virtual prayer rally to be held for 'Canada's rabbi' after cancer diagnosis</a> at <a href="https://www.680news.com/2021/01/17/worldwide-virtual-prayer-rally-to-be-held-for-canadas-rabbi-after-cancer-diagnosis-2/">https://www.680news.com/2021/01/17/worldwide-virtual-prayer-rally-to-be-held-for-canadas-rabbi-after-cancer-diagnosis-2/</a> ). His life's efforts have truly been a <i>kiddush Hashem</i>)</p><p>For more information on this gathering of <i>Tefilla</i>, please see <span class="aCOpRe"><span>www.<em>aprayerforrabbibulka</em>.<em>ca <br /></em></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-86406505155609917592021-01-17T16:50:00.001-05:002021-01-17T16:50:32.358-05:00"11 Things I've Learned From The Hasidic Jews 🇺🇸"<p> From <b>RRW</b> </p><blockquote><p><a href="https://youtu.be/CmcyN3sS4kY" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/CmcyN3sS4kY</a></p></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-91054811938655164502021-01-17T10:43:00.001-05:002021-01-17T10:43:02.492-05:00Quotes on Peace<p> From <b>RRW</b> </p><blockquote><div dir="auto" id="ox-8327c6dda2-line_space"><br /></div><div dir="auto" id="ox-8327c6dda2-line_space">“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” </div><div dir="auto" id="ox-8327c6dda2-line_space">~Martin Luther King, Jr.<br /><br />“True
love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads
itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the
whole world.” ~Mahatma Gandhi<br /><br /><br />“There are only two ways
to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is
as if everything is.” ~Albert Einstein<br /><br />“As I walked out the door
toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave
my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” </div><div dir="auto" id="ox-8327c6dda2-line_space"> ~Nelson Mandela<br /><br />“Not to mend one’s ways when one has erred is to err indeed.” ~Confucius<br /><br /><br /><br />“Hatred
ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the
two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote
love.” ~Mahatma Gandhi<br /><br />“To love another person is to see the face of God.” ~Victor Hugo<br /><br />“When we see God in each other we will be able to live in peace.” ~Mother Teresa<br /><br />“In this world, hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible.” </div>~The Buddha<br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-7523422833800581252021-01-16T19:35:00.001-05:002021-01-16T19:35:44.917-05:00Our Debt to Previous Generations<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Originally published 4/7/08, 8:54 AM, Eastern Daylight Time.</span></i><br />
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From our friend Cantor Richard Wohlberg [and our Mentor Rav Sholom Gold]:<br />
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A deeper meaning of the striking Mishnah in Avos 2:10,13,14), which adds yet another dimension to our interpretation: <br />
"Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai had five disciples… He said to them, 'Go out and see what is the best characteristic to which an individual ought cleave. R. Eliezer says, a good eye; R. Yehoshua says, a good friend; R. Yose says, a good neighbor; R. Shimon says, <i>ha'ro'eh et ha'nolad</i> to see that which will be born. R. Elazar says, a good heart.<br />
[Rabban Yohanan] then said to them, 'Go out and see which is the worst characteristic from which an individual ought flee?' R. Eliezer says, an evil eye; R. Yehoshua says, an evil friend; R. Yose says, an evil neighbor; R. Shimon says, to borrow and not repay; R. Eliezer says, an evil heart.<br />
One of the fascinating aspects of this Mishnah is that only R. Shimon seems to have bypassed the parallel structure of the two halves of the Mishnah: according to him, the good characteristic towards which one must aspire is the ability to see what is yet to be born, the outcome of events and experiences, the opposite of which he defines as to borrow and not repay rather than as not to see that which will be born, not to be aware of the outcome of events (which we could expect to find). It could very well be that his intent is precisely the parallel structure; after all, one who borrows and doesn't repay was generally not sufficiently aware when he borrowed the money that pay-day will soon arrive, and that he'd better be prepared for that day with sources from which to repay his debt. Be that as it may, R. Shimon's unique formulation within the Mishnah cries out for further commentary.<br />
I saw the following beautiful <i>vort</i>: Rav Shalom Gold of Har Nof, Jerusalem once suggested another interpretation for <i>ha'ro'eh es ha'nolad</i>: not one who sees that which will be born (which in Hebrew would be <i>yivaled</i>) but rather one who sees from whom he was born, one who understands that he did not emerge from an empty vacuum and realizes that he has a certain debt to pay to the previous generations which formed him. Once we realized our debt to pay to the previous generations (which formed us), we would possess a good eye, choose good friends and neighbors, and contain a good heart. It's all about <b>remembering</b> the past, <b>applying</b> it to the present and <b>recognizing </b>the consequences to our future. <br />
-Cantor Richard Wohlberg<br />
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Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br />
Rabbi Rich Wolpoe<div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Richard Wolpoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06757294561837786107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-23156234355770838552021-01-15T13:18:00.001-05:002021-01-22T12:01:50.088-05:00Parshas Vaera - Strangers in a Strange Land<p> From <b>RRW </b><br />
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Rabbi Eliyahu Safran on the <i>parsha</i> -- hope you enjoy</p><blockquote><div id="ox-2114332cc7"><div><a href="https://baltimorejewishlife.com/news/news-detail.php?SECTION_ID=45&ARTICLE_ID=139883&fbclid=IwAR0EGNkGV3-kY3_3EilS7oW8bdXZur2RmaoA9YXTQEZuoryf8IPfQpC71H0" target="_blank">Baltimore Jewish Life | Parshas Vaera - Strangers in a Strange Land</a></div></div><p> </p></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-27754359461821707432021-01-14T13:53:00.002-05:002021-01-21T16:33:44.995-05:00The Prayer for the Govt: Ha-Noten Teshuah<p><span style="font-size: medium;">From <b>RRW</b> <br />
Guest Blogger: Mitchell First </span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Origin of Our Prayer for the
Government (<i>Ha-Noten Teshuah</i>)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every Shabbat, after the <i>haftarah</i>,
our custom is to recite a prayer for the government. The prayer begins “<i>Ha-noten
teshuah la-melakhim..” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(=He who
gives salvation to kings…).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where did
this prayer come from?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before we address this, it is
important to point out that there are many sources in Judaism for the idea of
praying for the government. The most widely quoted source is Jer. 29:7, where
Jeremiah instructs: “Seek the peace of the city where I caused you to be exiled
and pray to the Lord for it…” Even before this, at Gen. 47:7, Jacob bestows a
blessing on Pharaoh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is also R.
Chaninah’s statement at <i>Avot</i> 3:2 that we must pray for the welfare of
the government since otherwise men would swallow each other alive. (This
statement was made when the hated Romans were ruling Palestine. So even
government by the hated Romans was viewed as preferable to a lack of
government!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, there is an
interesting legend in Jewish tradition that the Jews told Alexander the Great
that he should not listen to the Cutim and their request to destroy the Temple
in Jerusalem. Our Temple, the Jews explained, was a place where the Jews prayed
for Alexander’s kingdom. See the <i>baraita</i> to <i>Megillat Taanit</i>, day
of <i>Har Gerizim</i> (21 Kislev).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(For additional sources about Jews’ praying
for foreign governments in ancient times, see the 16<sup>th</sup> century work,
<i>Me’or Einyaim</i>, chap. 55.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>R. David Abudarham, writing in
Spain in 1340, mentions a custom of blessing the king in synagogue after the
Torah reading on Monday and Thursday<i>.</i> But he does not provide any
official text of the blessing and it does not seem that he was alluding to <i>Ha-Noten
Teshuah</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A custom of blessing the king on
Shabbat is mentioned in the <i>Orchot Chayyim</i> of R. Aaron Ha-Kohen of Lunel
(Provence), which is another source from around this time. See the section <i>Seder
Tefillat Shabbat Shacharit</i>, sec. 8. (See also <i>Kol Bo</i>, section 20, a
work perhaps by the same author.) A few other such sources in Spain and
Provence, starting around 1300, with the text of their “mi she-berach” blessings,
are collected by Aharon Arend, in chapter 10 of his <i>Pirkei Mechkar Le-Yom
Ha-Atzma’ut</i> (1998), at p. 181.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what is the earliest source for our<i>
Ha-Noten Teshuah</i> Prayer? The earliest is as a prayer for King Ferdinand V.
This is the king who later expelled the Jews in 1492! See Arend, p. 182. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was there a prayer for
the king in the Ashkenazic community in the time of the Rishonim?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Entziklopedia Le-Beit Yisrael</i> (ed.<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span>R. Halperin, </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>199</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>4),
entry <i>Ha-Noten Teshuah</i>, includes a statement that this prayer is
mentioned in a document from Worms, Germany from the year 1096. But we do not
have documents from Worms from the year 1096, so I decided to investigate this
mysterious claim. It turns out that there is a manuscript that describes the
rituals of Worms and includes a very short prayer for the king, but the prayer
is not <i>Ha-Noten Teshuah.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A.
Frumkin, in his edition of <i>Seder Rav Amram Gaon</i> (1910-12), vol. 2, p.
78, wrote that this manuscript was written at the time of the <i>gezerot</i> of
1096 and 1146.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He came to this erroneous
conclusion because the manuscript included some details from these times. But
scholars today realize that the manuscript, Oxford 2205, was written several
centuries later. Meanwhile, Frumkin’s statement assigning the above very early
time period to this manuscript has been followed by many sources, including the
above encyclopedia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The above
encyclopedia also erroneously assumed that the prayer in the manuscript was <i>Ha-Noten
Teshuah</i>, but it clearly was not, as Frumkin quotes the language of the
prayer. So all we learn from this manuscript is that Worms and perhaps other
parts of Ashkenaz had their own short prayer for the king, but we do not know
how early this prayer arose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going back to <i>Ha-Nanoten
Teshuah</i>, some claim that it is actually a subversive prayer with a hidden
anti-government meaning. The prayer begins with quotes from Psalms 144:10:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He who gives salvation unto kings,” and “He
who rescues his servant David from the hurtful sword.” But the subsequent verse
in Psalms, not included in <i>Ha-Nanoten Teshuah,</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">is: “Rescue me and deliver me out of the hands of strangers, whose
mouth speak falsehood and their right hand is a hand of lying.” Perhaps the
citation to 144:10 is meant to allude to the subsequent verse! Similarly, the
sentence in the prayer, “<i>ha-noten ba-yam derekh</i>...” is a quote from
Isaiah 43:16. But just prior to that, at 43:14, the prophet describes the
downfall of Babylon. Babylon may be a metaphor for governments of the Jews in
exile. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not convinced that the author
of the prayer intended these subversive hidden allusions. The material in the
nearby verses can easily be just coincidence. (An interesting scenario would be
if the prayer was written under government compulsion. Then perhaps the author
did intend an allusion to the nearby verses, as a subtle form of protest!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more insights into <i>Ha-Noten
Teshuah</i>, see the Jan. 2017 article by Jonathan Sarna at thelehrhaus.com.
Sarna quotes a famous line from “Fiddler on the Roof”: “A blessing for the
Tsar? Of course! May God bless and keep the Tsar…far away from us!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See
also the complete chapter 10 of Arend’s work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For material from the Cairo
Genizah relevant to our topic, see S.D. Goitein, “Prayers from the Geniza for
the Fatamid Caliphs…” in <i>Studies in Judaica, Karaitica and Islamica</i>, pp.
52-57. (These Caliphs ruled Egypt and its surrounding areas from the 10<sup>th</sup>
to 12<sup>th</sup> centuries.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a completely different
interpretation of Jer. 29:7, see R. Margaliot, <i>Ha-Mikra Ve-Ha-Mesorah,</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pp. 64-66.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- <i>The Complete ArtScroll Siddur</i>
does not include the text of either <i>Ha-Noten Teshuah</i> or the prayer for
the State of Israel. But there is a little box on the bottom of p. 450 with the
following statement: “In many congregations, a prayer for the welfare of the
State is recited by the Rabbi, <i>chazzan</i> or <i>gabbai</i> at this point.” The
texts of <i>Ha-Noten Teshuah</i> and the prayer for the State of Israel were
added by ArtScroll to its special “Rabbinical Council of America Edition” <i>siddur</i>.
But ArtScroll had to do some strange things to the page numbers of <i>Yekum
Purkan</i>, so that the added material would not change all the subsequent page
numbers!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>--------------------------------------------------------<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Mitchell First can be reached at MFirstAtty@aol.com. When he prays
for the government, he also has in mind government agencies, like the New
Jersey Transit Authority and the Metropolitan Transit Authority, that enable
him to get to work.</span></p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-85896468563327780912021-01-12T12:41:00.002-05:002021-01-12T12:41:16.760-05:00Regine Krochmal, nurse, Jewish resistance, survivor XXth convoy<p> From <b>RRW</b> </p><blockquote><p><a href="http://users.telenet.be/holocaust.bmb/eng/Krochmal.htm" target="_blank">http:<wbr></wbr>//users.<wbr></wbr>telenet.<wbr></wbr>be/holocaust.<wbr></wbr>bmb/eng/Krochmal.<wbr></wbr>htm</a></p></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-38914941568194069602021-01-11T18:15:00.006-05:002021-01-11T18:15:58.911-05:00Chareidi Education: Question and Answers<p> From <b>RRW</b> </p><blockquote><p><a href="https://cross-currents.com/2021/01/01/question-and-answers/" target="_blank">https:<wbr></wbr>//cross-currents.<wbr></wbr>com/2021/01/01/question-and-an<wbr></wbr>swers/</a></p></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-67183537577597830542021-01-11T10:07:00.001-05:002021-01-11T10:07:40.383-05:00Eggs Left Overnight<p> From <b>RRW</b> </p><blockquote><div dir="auto">From Mail Jewish</div><div dir="auto"><pre style="background-color: #f6f6e9; padding-left: 20px;">From: Jonathan Grodzinski <JGrodz@...>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:00:39 EDT
Subject: <a href="http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v35/index.html#VAD" target="_blank">Eggs left overnight without their shells</a>
I was introduced to this "issur" when a new masgiach (working for
Kedassia London UK whose hashgacha we have had for over 50 years)
visited our bakery and was horrified at our practice of peeling eggs
immediately after boiling (and cooling) and then refrigerating overnight.
He was not amused when I told him that we peel them then because the
shell comes off a freshly boiled egg with ease, whereas removing the
shell the following day takes much of the egg with the shell.
Similarly, onions were not to have their head removed and left overnight
(we were allowed to remove their bottoms instead)
I am not a cynic(?), but I am still (about eighteen months later)
waiting to be given the mekor (source) in Shulchan Aruch.
Now, Michael Hoffman says:
This gemara is not brought in the rambam or the shulchan aruch, but it
is mentioned l'halacha in the acharonim, such as the Pri Chadash. Rav
Moshe ztl discusses it in one of the later volumes of the Igros Moshe,
as does the Minchas Yitzchok in vol. 6.
Please could someone explain.
1. The gemara mentions this, but the Rambam and the Shulchan Aruch do not
2 Ergo the Rambam and the Shulchan Aruch hold that it is permissable
3. How can achronim (later authorities) forbid what the Ramabm and Shulchan
Aruch have permitted?
Further quote:
All major "heimishe" hechsherim in Israel (such as Eidah, Sheeris,
Landa etc.) are makpid on this halocho, but as far as I know, no major
hashgocho outside Israel are machmir on this.
As mentioned above Kedassia London are "catching up with their opposite
numbers"
Rachel Smith says
<<Some hold that the prohibition doens't apply if the food is changed from
its raw state (e.g. egg yolks or whites separated, onions or garlic used
as ingredients; some consider garlic or onion powder to be sufficiently
changed from the raw state to allow its use) >>
We are allowed to ignore the problem if we add 2% salt , or make an egg
mayonnaise mix
Jonathan Grodzinski (London UK)
4th generation Master Baker</pre></div></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-76228119118962636312021-01-10T15:30:00.001-05:002021-01-10T15:30:00.234-05:00Saving America<p> From <b>RRW</b> <br /></p><blockquote><div id="ox-9947a172a4"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.aish.com/ci/s/Saving-America.html" target="_blank">https:<wbr></wbr>//www.<wbr></wbr>aish.<wbr></wbr>com/ci/s/Saving-America.<wbr></wbr>html</a></div></div></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-32911546778515952332021-01-10T13:03:00.001-05:002021-01-10T13:03:26.827-05:00Shemirat Halashon<p> My first thought in commenting on what is occurring in the world, specifically the Unites States of America, was to direct people to my article on Nishma: Policy -- <a href="http://nishmapolicy.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-adversarial-system-and-torah-ethic.html">The Adversarial System and the Torah Ethic of Justice</a> (at <a href="http://nishmapolicy.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-adversarial-system-and-torah-ethic.html">http://nishmapolicy.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-adversarial-system-and-torah-ethic.html</a>). As I state in that article, the goal of an individual in disagreement with another cannot be simply to win. There are usually values in all perspectives and the goal must always be to find and properly connect these divergent values into a unity which reflect the Divine values of justice, truth and loving-kindness. Basically the article contends that the Adversarial System can promote dissension especially as it becomes further and further applied outside the limiting parameters of the courtroom. As we become more and more interested in the fight -- and simply winning the fight -- the violent outcome is chaos and this is what we are seeing. I invite you to read this article and consider how you can become part of the solution rather than the problem.</p><p>I have since also felt that while it is still was important to direct people to the above article, there was another important Torah value which necessarily further had to be be enunciated and that is the importance of our speech. The distinguishing mark of the human being is deemed to be the <i>koach hadibbur</i>, the power of speech and because this is so important within our very definition of being <i>ovdei Hashem </i>[servants of God] and reflecting the <i>Tzelem Elokim</i> [the Image of God] how we express ourselves in speech is most important. The call is to be most careful in what we say. From Torah we further learn that it is not enough to just be careful about what we say -- which is obviously extremely important -- but to also to be most careful in considering how we are possibly being heard and understood. Torah demands of us to be careful of our language. What we are now practically seeing is how important this actually is.</p><p><b><i>Shemirat Halashon</i></b>, <b>Watching What We Say</b>, must be our commitment and our message.</p><p>Rabbi Ben Hecht<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-28160552230594017402021-01-09T19:18:00.001-05:002021-01-09T19:18:19.624-05:00Mussar: Emotions Distort PerceptionsFrom <b>RRW</b> <br />
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Rabbi Eliyahu Safran on the <i>parsha</i> -- hope you enjoy</p><blockquote><p><a href="https://baltimorejewishlife.com/news/news-detail.php?SECTION_ID=45&ARTICLE_ID=139582" target="_blank">Baltimore Jewish Life | Parshas Shemos - I Cannot Do It</a> <br /></p></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Presented by Nishma.org</div>Rabbi Ben Hechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-76093463433607622172021-01-07T20:43:00.001-05:002021-01-07T20:43:28.598-05:00Exodus and Statesmanship<p> From <b>RRW</b> </p><blockquote><p>
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As Jews around the world begin the book of <em>Exodus</em>, and as we at
Tikvah prepare to launch our lecture series on Jewish statesmanship, I
thought I would share a few related lectures that show how the Exodus
story impacted some of the greatest non-Jewish statesman in the history
of the West.<br />
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On July 4th, 1776, a committee of Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin was
formed with the goal of selecting a seal for the nascent United States.
Two of these founding fathers chose images from the Exodus story as
embodiments of America. I discuss the implications of Franklin's and
Jefferson's suggestions in the second lecture, titled "America’s
Passover: Franklin, Jefferson, and the Seal of the United States," of my
<a href="http://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=n-2BmNSfy5VNvAPTElzCeeLnPLU6BRIPaCbaJCH2T1L-2BfQ9CDHydFDN1DA-2FpREQ2Sa6yr1rOCTBEPhNgxZPTFRKubyUXpDJ8e7-2Bc1vywoHTjw8zbydGEHCFK2SXjMLbNeL5B3BLI-2FehgxfGuhJHboNwvkW9UFEI2nm9Yjjoy-2B0Pejc7JN6IC0EQlEkvXXznRnlVdS3AgU6ClWJaJHB0khzghiaqWucqY-2FR80mPznq4EhZjIUv7s3c2mmmm-2FTe2WHhIcUCTOXh6Ads0Ha787qovioqrDPx8MOVJHKUI-2FoCb8oq-2Fomftdqx0gIVI34UAw6bxR8DGzCO9NtySwcqOp9JOjw-3D-3D90KI_E1d1yJ1Ucx8IiFrN25QPKrqMzZp3pP0wE987RpGuFGWjWM7wJLIYZnljWAs2VuQwj90KffvNo1GNARa9h5cAvfxCBiAK0qUZFI3LuURvrXZ7PeXCEdreAMdi9CSda7bv88rqu22jrAuAMNKmT-2FDqpRorddT3Mvpb-2FeJfY62AW-2FWQkt56nTBaCtJlywqLC7SUUqDZzfUsfIM5oYY7ai9ARmVamLLQYEdEy-2BX0Sallc-2BzGINqFqGvJAmWqtibAy7gkFg0NTo8Ziqs7tQR9Co193BX-2F42fzMt29lxZT4Fd232o8FP6Tv8qsC-2Fjd58KyZlMoO9p2PxZ3b-2F-2BFllQtAJx9imX1J9F3PvjFewfW-2Fu9oPp62DTmLWbgY0Xh07LuqJa7h-2FJCVZvt68OAZFgZeH4xZSA-3D-3D" style="color: #f26522; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong>Tikvah online course on <em>Jewish Ideas and the American Founding</em></strong></a>.<br />
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A century and a half after the Founders looked to Exodus for
inspiration, Winston Churchill wrote a remarkable and little-known essay
titled "<a href="http://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=n-2BmNSfy5VNvAPTElzCeeLvYoc7bg3aEYHkgC6RqWLeWApq29lGguFEsjTOPH020IsjdWwYNkr3fSXessdUAInIvIg89PRa3CFbch5CijkaJ4JGfQPrJ6E2Rfy1MZG3tgdUV8GQIhq7py0ibrZkipgJFOByjwfR1WOyVoIY-2Fow6C-2B3lsb5XPjtnKsxugwXurvovGMgtxj7UOg8qGMFcubzdL4GfNcOnonIzjZFMBLYC0-3D7EuT_E1d1yJ1Ucx8IiFrN25QPKrqMzZp3pP0wE987RpGuFGWjWM7wJLIYZnljWAs2VuQwj90KffvNo1GNARa9h5cAvfxCBiAK0qUZFI3LuURvrXZ7PeXCEdreAMdi9CSda7bv88rqu22jrAuAMNKmT-2FDqpRorddT3Mvpb-2FeJfY62AW-2FWQkt56nTBaCtJlywqLC7SUUqDZzfUsfIM5oYY7ai9ARjqM7UzPP9lEpdwvHaHosuIRWJKmIYyN6OkxcLb5o0wfgUzRaUwKk1trsOWdnGsucNNnkxhv3-2BINlcbrjC7ecu1MKZfrnZ2DaRe4V1fd4qkUxhBrwH0zLTrUZTikIcipCiU0lMm-2BHNYBopdQRClVgEzZqQN4dI6EgtGpV9mKhwO7RAzdj-2BJ2XJDODVTzbN3CWg-3D-3D" style="color: #f26522; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Moses: The Leader of the People</a>."
In retrospect, this interpretation of the Moses story is instructive
considering the legacy of Churchill himself, the greatest statesman of
the twentieth century. I consider what Moses taught Churchill in the
third of my lectures on the Hebrew Bible, available <a href="http://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=n-2BmNSfy5VNvAPTElzCeeLk7azPlO7R07aq7shvgwbtEuITuGSdUubCQAoGaAm-2BiCsR4cEMvKC8EY2kYLq7yGkKlbDaLWWRCTe2-2FXgrksuxc5ITT0DR8LtEQn0g6rC6kaUD-2FwJuNA9p4RNjEv2EncjNXYhWKaPk-2BJAMWq01AqTKFMbC3NAD2zHdCAEAL45zWBFidR_E1d1yJ1Ucx8IiFrN25QPKrqMzZp3pP0wE987RpGuFGWjWM7wJLIYZnljWAs2VuQwj90KffvNo1GNARa9h5cAvfxCBiAK0qUZFI3LuURvrXZ7PeXCEdreAMdi9CSda7bv88rqu22jrAuAMNKmT-2FDqpRorddT3Mvpb-2FeJfY62AW-2FWQkt56nTBaCtJlywqLC7SUUqDZzfUsfIM5oYY7ai9ARrFH0RF6WbfyHr7dfVXqcWy9uo6lCUxnPDYRJ1jRuTt26H0XJ7-2Fo0z8WciiGEWnJxncCnUsntkETGMZLrl-2BfCxV-2FOnujancj0GX6EUoY7dNEV-2F3PaR-2Fibp3SsgeqsS1xjwOxWLfOsRmoFuj1AgBEN5SMGXeSQkaJslETJfoDKmPs-2BVNJEMdWSq58J9N5CkzKrQ-3D-3D" style="color: #f26522; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a>.<br />
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Several years ago, at a public event at Yeshiva University, I discussed
with the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, and with Senator Joseph Lieberman,
the impact that the Exodus story had on America and England in the past,
and how we as Jews should utilize its tale as Jews in largely
non-Jewish polities today. The full conversation can be seen <a href="http://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=n-2BmNSfy5VNvAPTElzCeeLmOO-2FWEijeY1VnupWAzLT-2FuXIxRP1BRFhxVAMK-2B68gXtoQQbHecaRsVzaCXP8enh8SgvnJkbpa4VdfAEuyuJQhkqUBYTdTpz-2Bn7GWy0ldue-2BpCvWVCxZPf-2FiwnuQW07G2xK9ONdwn14S167FsZ1X1LZtxmnjqfS2cKePPTUwEeCy0JD98atA8dAWUenC2ZPrW-2BReuTZstLngHY2pfoEqsO14WuKV3EqznZQMUrxDCpGHLUP15NBSwzY9apcsRw5PHuxGqADhVjwkG53fYtWJ5Z-2F8wIrCShGrksTmS9oegNl1Tnfa1RutZzjhfe6uew9hVG7c8ER9JG-2Br8-2FZvqbFfiziYRuX544K5jlpkLJEGcQQimHde_E1d1yJ1Ucx8IiFrN25QPKrqMzZp3pP0wE987RpGuFGWjWM7wJLIYZnljWAs2VuQwj90KffvNo1GNARa9h5cAvfxCBiAK0qUZFI3LuURvrXZ7PeXCEdreAMdi9CSda7bv88rqu22jrAuAMNKmT-2FDqpRorddT3Mvpb-2FeJfY62AW-2FWQkt56nTBaCtJlywqLC7SUUqDZzfUsfIM5oYY7ai9ARk-2BCPa80Dtro23bDVgGHxaxzwFwR1biIygzYX7mc5nOIKksSUrExG9-2BzFwiQlceiBtkB3fGap2i99SfCLWtgoLTznV-2B55nHS6B8FwYeLSxP3lhEG-2FDnxjgOKKBkW7GZBaOPzXCZDuuCyyzQXG8xzkF-2BQQABUGXhwuaCCzRyo5qZkOTbR86ishQx94d1PZuB81g-3D-3D" style="color: #f26522; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a>.<br />
<br />
A reminder to please register for my upcoming Jewish statesmanship
series, which will begin in two weeks, on Monday, January 18, at 8 PM. I
am excited to take this journey through Jewish political history
together. You can register for it <a href="http://trk.klclick.com/ls/click?upn=SO0hDBEJHKewZANKU9uYtgP0spM6OD14-2F2U-2FowInxqKu-2FJiAtrYguY4BxMTpMQeMQ2rnooxZfSNQd6XDNsHOTxjmBU9pL4PTEMToSbWCAF6oOMS5QBN4w6QLuBqs8cH3cuJA7rWOiujxiHQ102YQ-2BBiOYoDJWKAn43qhaJCJudMSBdZK5V19iL7ysh9UONOWMbZ0BldR6WZwz-2BN7GRpvG0t4xKu4UhE16fZfgacdKh6drKiz6AL-2FKbTJPWEqgjTfqaoiIKQbKPK-2FJNwXbpMs80aO4-2BKqiR-2FVlb46HTDY0Ww-3Dxcog_E1d1yJ1Ucx8IiFrN25QPKrqMzZp3pP0wE987RpGuFGWjWM7wJLIYZnljWAs2VuQwj90KffvNo1GNARa9h5cAvfxCBiAK0qUZFI3LuURvrXZ7PeXCEdreAMdi9CSda7bv88rqu22jrAuAMNKmT-2FDqpRorddT3Mvpb-2FeJfY62AW-2FWQkt56nTBaCtJlywqLC7SUUqDZzfUsfIM5oYY7ai9ARgugpDvcSbJWFMhnce0I8HfO6WHX8EnlFM8SuK-2FJEmg1ZPQli9nVfhHFLITBDvj1-2BYP8pfAFvfVKEomMgApcWZPpex1zOvCvNBi85mSRJkyuxUbyAYyrNotve2rYuZ7WhuDqRZyL-2FQaTKs5LOl0RYLtQD3qUEdKNmIG5cpH20yPpwD7yB6qO34G9K2G9XtnjiQ-3D-3D" style="color: #f26522; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a>.<br />
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Looking forward,<br />
<br />
Meir Soloveichik</span></span></p>
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