Only Kohanim need to do so.

לז"נ האי גברא רבה איש החסד והמעש  ר' יהושע חזקיהו  ב"ר אברהם זצ"ל* יום השנה כ"ב טבת  DID YOU KNOW? (200) According to the Aruch Hashulchan (O.Ch.1:26), Kohanim should be standing when saying Korbanos.

answer to the riddle

Parshas Hashavua Shemos                            RIDDLE Where in this week's Parsha do we find a story of a woman who was called Basya or Batya? ANSWER: NOWHERE: Pharaoh's daughter was named BISYA or BITYA and not Basya or Batya. Her name is mentioned only once in Tanach. (Divrei Hayomim 1:4:18) וְאֵלֶּה, בְּנֵי בִּתְיָה בַת-פַּרְעֹה, אֲשֶׁר לָקַח, מָרֶד. BTW: She was one of the wives of כלב בן יפונה

riddle

Parshas Hashavua Shemos                            RIDDLE Where in this week's Parsha do we find a story of a woman who was called Basya or Batya?

Clarification

Due to numerous requests to explain the Psak of Mori V'rabi Harav Hagaon R.Shlomo Miller Shlita.

The Halachic difference between hearing aids & cochlear implants is that hearing aids amplifies the sound which is heard through the ear.
Cochlear implants bypass the ear canal, they don't hear through the ear. It is as if someone were to tap them and they understand what is being communicated to them. It is not considered hearing.
Therefore the rule of שומע כעונה won't apply. 

Did you know? (199)

There is no Pasuk of ה' מלך ה' מלך ה' ימלוך לעולם ועד in תנ"ך.

Did you Know (198)

לז"נ ר' אברהם אשי בן הרב שמואל דאנאטה הי"ד ט"ו בטבת Parshas Hashavua ואלה שמות מי ישום אלם או חרש                      COCHLEAR IMPLANTS Mori V'Rabi Harav Hagaon R. Shlomo Miller Shlita holds, that those who have Cochlear implants cannot be יוצא מצוות where the rule of שומע כעונה is needed to be יוצא. Therefore they should always make their own Kiddush and not be יוצא with someone else's Kiddush.

When In Prague ..

Parshas Hashavua ואלה שמות   The Sefer מושב זקנים (Ba'alei Tosfos) writes," The last Pasuk in בראשית ends with ויישם בארון the next Pasuk  it says ואלה שמות . This is a רמז to put the name of the נפטר on the מצבה . " The daughter in law of R. Yonasan Eibshitz remarried to a second husband. On her מצבה, it was inscribed names of both her husbands. ( - אשת כ"ה שמעון , ומלפנים היתה אשת הנגיד  )  Shu"t Chasam Sofer (#6:4) is against engraving human faces on the מצבה. He quotes from the רדב"ז who was against pictures, even of lions on the Aron Hakodesh. The מצבות of the מהר"ל & the אליה רבה have lions engraved on them. The מצבה of the נחלת בנימן has a wolf on it. According to the Chasam Sofer (רדב"ז), it would  be אסור to Daven facing the  מצבה  of the מהר"ל, being the lion on the  מצבה is protruding.

ברכת תלמיד חכם

The מאירי (Moed Katan 9a) writes:  “A person should always cherish a ברכה from a תלמיד חכם. He should attempt with all his might to receive  a ברכה from him.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Efraim & Menashe were the first brothers in Tanach to get along with each other, therefore they deserved a special Bracha from Yaakov.

מאמר שלש שבועות

                                השבעתי אתכם בנות ירושלים  

The זהר in Parshas ויחי writes that “ בנות ירושלים  ” refers to the נשמה.  

The Gemoro (Kesubos 111a) says on this Pasuk in שיר השירים

                                                                                                        

Hashem made 3 שבועות
2 with the Bnei Yisroel and 1 with the Goyim.

1) They should not go up (to E. Yisroel) together by force like a wall

2) They should not rebel against the Goyim

3) The Goyim should not oppress the Yidden, harshly.

The אבני נזר (Y.D. 2: 454)  asks, "A שבועה to be valid

the נשבע needs to accept שבועה

Moishe was משביע the Bnei Yisrael to accept the Torah ,

they accepted the שבועה,  as Rashi says on the Pasuk 

of אלה דברי הברית - they accepted the Torah

באלה ובשבועה. Also, on Har Grizim & Har Aivol they answered 

אמן on the שבועה.

Where and when did the Bnei Yisrael ever accept the 3 Shavuos?

We don’t find Shlomo Hamelech to have gathered the Bnei Yisroel

to be משביע them to accept the 3 Shavuos.

The אבני נזר answers:

The 3 Shavuos were not done with the physical Bnei Yisroel, but with 

their שורש נשמותיהן למעלה 

That’s what the זהר explains השבעתי אתכם בנות ירושלם     

that it refers to the נשמה
We find this concept in Chazal of משביעין את הנשמה הוי צדיק ואל תהא רשע 

The אבני נזר concludes that since the 3 Shavuos were only 

with the נשמה and not the גוף, there is no punishment* 

for transgressing the שלש שבועות.

The  אבני נזר has a lengthy explanation of מתיר אני את בשרכם
The Satmar Rebbe R. Yoilish zt"l argues on the אבני נזר 
& holds that just for having in mind to establish a Zionist state
we were punished with the Holocaust, (Hakdamah Vayioel Moishe

The Elter Zaide Yaakov

The תרגום המיוחס ליונתן בן עוזיאל ,מס' סופרים פכ"א , פדר"א פל"ח ועוד מדרשים
say that "אסנת בת פוטיפרע was Dina & Shchem's daughter. She was transported to מצרים by מלאך מיכאל."

Yaakov bentched אפרים ומנשה who were his grand-sons and also his  great grand-sons

This answers the riddle

הפגנות לשם שמים

              הפגנות לשם שמים

R. S.Z. Auerbach zt"l writes (Halichos Shlomo 1:34) 

" One must be careful to act לשם שמים.
If one has a non-Frum person in his house and the norm  would be to serve him food & drink. The Halacha (O.Ch. 169:2) forbids us from serving them food unless they will wash (Netilas Yodayim) and make the appropriate Brachos.

However, if the non-Frum person will feel offended (even if he was asked politely) to wash etc. and might hate Shomrei Torah Umitzvohs  for acting this way, then it is better to disregard the Halacha in Shulchan Aruch of not feeding them because them hating Frum Yidden 
is a bigger מכשול."

mamorim have in common,is that not  one of them is a Mamar Chazal. Some are based on a Chazal but with different wording

Others are from Rishonim and Achronim and some the source is unknown

1 אותיות מחכימות 2 אין אורח מכניס אורח 3 אם לא יועיל לא יזיק 4 בא שבת בא מנוחה 5  ברא כרעיה דאבוה 6  דברים היוצאים מן הלב נכנסים אל הלב 7  המאבד עצמו לדעת אין לו חלק לעולם הבא 8  המתחיל במצוה אומרים לו גמור 9  די לחכימא ברמיזא 10  כבדהו וחשדהו 11 כל הכועס כאילו עובד ע"ז 12  כל הרודף אחר הכבוד הכבוד בורח ממנו 13  מי שיש לו מנה רוצה מאתיים 14  צרת רבים חצי נחמה 15  'לב מלכים ושרים ביד ה* 16 קבל את האמת ממי שאמרו

THE GREAT WONDER

THE GREAT WONDER The Mechaber in Shulchan Aruch (O. Ch. 580) lists additional fast days. One of the fast days is on the 9th day in Teves. “It is unknown what צרה happened on that day”. The ט"ז writes" תימה גדולה  (It's a great wonder) that the Bais Yosef doesn't know what happened that day. In our Selichos (אזכרה מצוק) it is written that Ezra Hasofer died on the 9th of the month". It is interesting, this Piyut is said, only by Ashkenazim. The Sefardim say  the Piyut “שעה עליון” and the Piyut “יושב בשמים”. In both of these Piyutim, it is mentioned that Ezra Hasofer died on the 10th of Teves. The Mechaber, being  Sefardi, must have held that Ezra died on the 10th and therefore there shouldn't be a wonder why he didn’t know what happened on the 9th of Teves. The Tosfos Chadoshim on Megillas Ta’anis writes that Yeisho Hanotzri ym”s was born on the 9th of Teves. Chazal were scared of the Nochrim, to publicize that we fast on his birthday.

Can You Answer This Riddle

 RIDDLE

Mother Goose tells the Shochet, " Eat your heart out, you can't touch me for the next two months, unless you eat my heart."

hint: הלכה מפורשת בשו"ע 

For answer click here 

Purim Toira For Chanuka

How do we sing/say in the Maoz Tzur  רוב בניו -על העץ תלית (the majority of his sons were hung) when only 10 were hung?




The Gemoro (Megillah 15b) says" Haman had 30 sons some say at least 70 sons and others say 208 sons".

Don't Embarrass Me

The Sefer (לקט יושר ( תלמיד תרומת הדשן writes, "If  one lives in a house of a non Jew (Apartment building etc.) he should light only one candle plus the Shamash. By increasing candles there is a greater chance ch"v of a  fire and that would embarrass the Mitzvah.

We find that those who use lettuce for מרור will dip it in חרוסת to remove  the toxins. Whereas all year round when eating lettuce they don't dip it to remove the toxins".

The reason is, that  we don't take even minute chances of embarrassing the Mitzva.

This Halacha (lighting only one candle) is probably not למעשה but the lesson of not  taking chances where you might  embarrass a Mitzva is למעשה and  discretion should be taken when such possibilities exists. אמבצי
  

Answer To The Riddle

                                                       Riddle

The only reason he needs to repeat the שמונה עשרה is that he said יעלה ויבא on Rosh Chodesh (in the שמונה עשרה).

Answer:
הלכה מפורשת בשו"ע

The ( רא"ש (מס' ברכות פרק ד':ב says if one is required to Daven two Shemonei Esreis to compensate for the previous Tefillah (תשלומין) then one needs to Daven the proper שמונה עשרה first and afterwards the  תשלומין שמונה עשרה. One may not reverse the order.(תשלומין first etc.)

The (רמ"א (או"ח סימן ק"ח :ט writes, "if one  Davened Rosh Chodesh Ma'ariv with two Shemonei Esreis (תשלומין for the previous Mincha) and he said יעלה ויבא the second שמונה עשרה and not the first שמונה עשרה then he needs to repeat the  שמונה עשרה (a third time)".

By not saying יעלה ויבא the first time and saying it the second time he shows that he considers the first שמונה עשרה as תשלומין for the Mincha of Erev Rosh Chodesh.

However had he not said יעלה ויבא on both שמונה עשרה he would not have to repeat a third time.

Hence, because he said יעלה ויבא (second שמונה עשרה)   on Rosh Chodesh he needs to repeat the שמונה עשרה

Riddle

Riddle The only reason he needs to repeat the שמונה עשרה is because he said יעלה ויבא on Rosh Chodesh (in the שמונה עשרה). Had he not have said יעלה ויבא he would not have had to repeat the שמונה עשרה. ?

THE CHANUKAH STORY (by The Chasam Sofer)

This Piyut is in the Sefer "חיים שיש בה"*   R. Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld Zt"l quotes in the name of the Chasam Sofer. 
The Piyut encapsulates the Chanukah story.



חשמונאים      נלחמו        ונצחו        כל         היוונים
חושים           נכנסו         ופינו         כלי        ההיכל
חביבים         נמצאו        ובקרקע      כד         השמן
חתום            נמצא         ובטבעת      כהן       הגדול
חיבתם           נגלית       והספיק       כל      השמונה    
חכמים          נמנו         וקבעו          כסליו     הבא
ח'               נרות          ולגמור        כל        ההלל

*מאת הרה"ג ר' יצחק שרגא גראס שליט"א
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