Monday, April 15, 2024

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

 Bava Metzia 42a

ואר"י אין הברכה מצויה אלא בדבר הסמוי מן העין-
-ת"ר ההולך למוד את גורנו אומר יר"מ ה' אלוקינו שתשלח ברכה-

One who hasn't measured his grain may Daven for
a Bracha that his grain should increase. The reason
for it is because something that is hidden from the
eye (unknown) the power of Tefillah can bring a
Bracha and change (increase) the original amount
of grain.

The Mishna (Brachos 44a)
"If a man whose wife is pregnant (after 40 days) and
Davens that she should give birth to a זכר it is considered
a תפילת שוא"  (in vain)

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

Why if one harvested 1,000 lbs. of wheat and he is
unaware of the amount his Tefillah can change it
to 1.200 lbs. but his Tefillah cannot change the gender
of the child even though it is hidden from his eyes ?
(pre-ultrasound) 
             

 

1 comment:

  1. Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:

    “…Zecharia, like so many of his contemporaries,
    worked for a time in a sweatshop.

    The shop he worked in, making pocketbooks, was located in a building just east of Washington Square [in Manhattan], site of the ill-fated Triangle Shirtwaist Company.

    On the Saturday of the great fire in [March 25,] 1911 [CE] that engulfed the building and killed 145 workers, Reb Zecharia was at home. It was the Jewish Sabbath.

    He learned two lessons from this: he vowed that his children would never become factory workers and he vowed that they would never work on the Sabbath.”

    CHRONOLOGY:
    Zecharia Derschowitz moved from Galicia to the USA in 1888 CE.
    He was the great-grandfather of Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz.

    SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
    (chapter 1, page 26) published in year 1991
    by Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374

    =================================
    Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz
    grew up Orthodox but later became secular.

    He said this about Orthodox Judaism,
    many years after he quit it:

    “I cannot leave my progeny any legacy comparable to the Orthodox commitment to, and intimate knowledge of, Jewish tradition and practice that my predecessors left me.

    Though I have not abandoned my Jewishness – far from it – I have also not carried on the tradition of daily religious observance and total immersion in the sources of the tradition.

    Sometimes I regret not having done so.”

    SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
    (introduction chapter, page 12) published in 1991
    by Little Brown &Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374

    =================================
    Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:

    “It is true that the American legal system
    derives much of its content from the Old Testament
    [also known as the Jewish Bible or Tanach]…

    When we were growing up, my friends and I would
    take great pride in discovering the Jewish sources
    of American laws, such as: the privilege against
    self-incrimination, the requirement of two witnesses
    for certain types of crime, and the very idea that
    punishment must be proportionate to the crime committed.”

    SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
    (chapter 10, page 318) published in year 1991
    by Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374

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    Why Israel’s 1967 Borders are Undefendable:

    www.jns.org/opinion/why-does-ronald-lauder-want-israel-to-be-only-nine-miles-wide/

    www.algemeiner.com/2017/10/27/israel-cannot-withdraw-from-the-west-bank/

    www.algemeiner.com/2018/10/09/no-mr-president-two-states-wont-work-best/

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