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What colour was the פרה אדומה?

          What colour was the פרה אדומה?
     

We find in the Torah and Chazal, the colour “אדום” can be translated
            a) the actual red colour (red wine)  
            b) the red family, colour (brown, orange etc.)


1)   (Bereishis 25 : 30) הלעיטני נא מן האדום האדום הזה
 It is called red lentils, but its colour is brown.

2)   (Zecharya  1:8)  איש רוכב על סוס אדום   -  סוסים אדומים –
(A man riding on a red horse-red horse)
There are no red horses. There are brown horses.

3)   (Succah 35b)  An Esrog that was peeled and looks like a red date.
 Rashi explains, "All peeled fruits נהפך לאדמימות"  (turn red).
 Peeled or cut fruits turn brown not red.
     
4)   (Bechoros 6a Rashi)  סתם סוסים אדומים   (horses are usually red)
   Highly unusual
     
The colour of a פרה אדומה was not fire engine red nor red wine red.
There are no red cows and there never was.
.
The cow was brown. The uniqueness of the Para Aduma
was not that it was red. It was unique by being completely 
brown, not having two strands of hair in a different colour
other than brown. (white-black)
             
One might argue and claim it still needs to be a certain shade
of brown (orange or light brown etc,) However, we don't
find in the Rambam qualifying what shade of אדום is כשר.

Assuming אדומה is brown there is no reason to insist it to
 be a specific shade.
             
Perhaps, instead of a "red heifer" it should be translated a "brown cow"
   

The Holy Bible (Old Testament)

DAF HASHAVUA SHABBOS 116a וספרי מינין אין מצילין אותם     According to Harav Y.S. Elyashiv zt"l, A Tenach published by Goyim and even by missionaries is not considered ס"ת שכתבו מין The person who works in the print shop has no clue of the content in it. R.Elyashiv said he personally saw  Harav Bengis zt"l had such a  Tenach that had aTzelem (cross)  printed in it. R. Bengis took a knife and cut out the cross. Rav Bengis kept & used the Tenach.

Burning Of The Talmud -Parshas Chukas

24 wagon loads of the Talmud burnt                              


In the year 1244 עש"ק פרשת חקת, - Twenty four wagon loads
of the Talmud was burnt in the main square of Paris.

R. Yechiel of Paris had a student named Nicholas Donin שר"י,
who became a משומד.
He went to the pope accusing the Talmud of being against
the נוצרים & אותו האיש.

R. Yechiel of Paris and R. Moshe miKutzi (סמ"ג) tried to
defend the Talmud but to no success.

After the burning of the Talmud, R. Yechiel of Paris
moved to עכו. Hence the first of the Ba’alei
Tosfos in Eretz Yisroel.

The Maharam Mi Rottenberg wrote a  קינה about the burning
of the Talmud. Ashkenazim say this   קינה on Tisha B'av
(שאלי שרופה באש -קינה מ"א)

One of the powerful stanzas of the קינה.

 אוריד דמעות עדי יהיו כנחל ויגיעו לקברות שני אציליך משה ואהרן
בהר ההר ואשאל היש תורה חדשה בכן נשרפו גליליך

"I will shed tears until they flow like a river and reach the
graves of your two princes Moishe & Aaron who are resting
on the mountain of Hor.
And I will ask them, Is there a Torah that is new and therefore
your scrolls have been burnt"

R.Hillel Verona* writes the Talmud was burnt on the exact
same square, the opponents of the Rambam burned the
Moreh Nevuchim a few years earlier.
They now had realized that they had wronged the Rambam.

*Talmid of R. Yonah who was originally an opponent of the Rambam.
   

.Did the sing the שיר של יום?

.Did the sing the שיר של יום?               The Sefer תורה לדעת* asks, a) If the לויים actually sang the שיר של יום b) or they said it while the music was playing. The Mishna in M' Tamid we say every day it says,השיר שהלויים היו אומרים. The Rambam, (תמידין ומוספין פ"ו ה"ז)  writes ודברו הלויים בשיר From these two sources, it seems that they didn't sing it but said it. Anonymous from Lakewood sent in three sources from where it seems that they actually did sing the שיר.   הרב מתתיהו בלום זצ"ל* ואחיו גיסתי הרב משה מרדכי בלום שליט"א                             DID YOU KNOW? (220) מזמור לתודה during Shachris  should be sung  with the Trop. שו"ע או"ח נ"א :ט

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Gemoro Medicines -Daf Yomi

. DAF HASHAVUA Shabbos 109b              The מהריל said that all רפואות and לחשים mentioned in Shas, are forbidden to be practiced. It only works under certain conditions.  Someone will try it and if it won’t work might Ch"v ridicule Chazal. There is one exception, and that is if someone has a (fish) bone stuck in his throat. The Gemoro ( Shabbos 67a) says that he should bring another bone and place it on the back of his head and say" חד חד נחית בלע בלע נחית חד חד" This לחש is allowed because it is בדוק ומנוסה (guaranteed) to work in all conditions." I was just wondering if the Maharil's logic would also apply to the סגולות from צדיקים ומקובלים. Perhaps we shouldn't practice those סגולות in case it won't work and we might ridicule their סגולות.

The 10 composers

.               אדם - מלכי צדק - אברהם - משה - דוד-שלמה -אסף What do these seven people have in common with the בני קרח?   THE 10 AUTHORS OF TEHILLIM  A) The first Rashi on Tehillim writes, "The 10 people who said (authored) Sefer Tehilim are, אדם -  מלכי צדק - אברהם - משה-  דוד-  שלמה-  אסף -  3 בני קרח B) There are different מסורות as to how many Kapitlach (פרשיות) Tehillim consists of. a) Our מסורה is 150. b) The Yerushalmi (Shabbos #16 Hl.1) says there are 147 פרשיות. c) The מאירי on Tehillim has 151 C) According to Rashi the last Kapital Tehillim Dovid wrote was Kapital 72 and ended it with the Pasuk כלו תפלות דוד בן ישי D) The Kapital למנצח לבני קרח we say 7 times before the תקיעות on Rosh Hashana, was written by the 3 sons of קרח

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מחלוקת is beautiful

.                The Chasam Sofer in the (דרשות (ח"א קפ"ג ד"ה כן  explains the Chazal of "ת"ח מרבים שלום בעולם" Hashem created the Midos. בושה-עזות ,גאוה -ענוה, שלום-מחלוקת , The world is in need of them and cannot exist without them. However, all these מדות can be used for the good or ח"ו for the bad. מחלוקת in תורה learning is a beautiful thing. It forces the true פשט to come out. Talmidei Chachamim arguing in Torah reduces the bad מחלוקת & the need for it. Hence they are "מרבים שלום בעולם"

Parshas Shelach The Secular Zionist

.               Harav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld zt"l said, the חטא המרגלים was that they saw ברוח הקדש our generation where the majority in Eretz Yisroel will be  secular Zionist who will try to שמד the rest of the Frum Yidden. The מרגלים, therefore, held it would better to remain in the מדבר. On the other hand, יהושע & כלב held and told them וירשנו אתה כי יכול נוכל לה. We will overcome the Secular Zionist and have no reason to fear them.

👀Did you know? (178) -Parshas Shelach

    TAKE A L👀K

There are some Rishonim* who hold that every time 

one looks at his ציצית, he is מקיים מצוות עשה דאורייתא

of וראיתם אותו.

It seems from some Poskim that this Mitzvah can  

be performed even by looking at ציצית worn by others.

*סמ"ק,ריב"ש,רשב"ץ ועוד

The Amukah Prank

.                                       THE AMUKAH PRANK The  Amukah Segulah is a prank invented in the last 50 years. There is no source in any ספר or a קבלה from any reliable source. This Segulah was invented by a prankster. It caught on like wildfire because desperate people do desperate things. The prankster combined two Rashis next to each other as if it read כל פסולין שאין מוצאין אשה פונין והולכין שם והיא עמוקה "All Pesulin who can't find a woman turn & go there. (Where?) That is Amukah" (Prankster's Pshat) The Gemoro (Yevamos 17a) says, why is it called הרפניא? Because of all the פסולין (Mamzeirim etc.) who turn towards (go to) this mountain הר- פניא to find a spouse. (& having illegitimate children) רבא said "This mountain is deeper (עמוקה) than שאול (Gihenom) From Gihenom one can be redeemed whereas a Mamzer remains that way forever. עמוקה is not referring to the town Amukah but the word "deeper".

DID YOU KNOW? (219)

.                DID YOU KNOW? (219)        There are two* ברכות which are recited only in חוץ לארץ. 1) (המלך בכבודו תמיד ימלוך עלינו (מעריב לחול 2) אשר קדשנו בקדושתו של אהרן וצונו לאכול תרומה  In Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 322:5 it says חלת חו"ל since it is דרבנן a כהן who went to the מקוה may eat it. The רמ"א adds that when he eats it he is required to make 2 ברכות a) המוציא or מזונות b) וצונו לאכול תרומה *ידידי ובן דודי הרב אהרן  שליט"א added a third ברכה recited only in חו"ל ראה ביתו של נבוכדנצר אומר ברוך שהחריב ביתו של נבוכדנצר

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RIDDLE:

.                              RIDDLE: There are two ברכות which are recited only in חוץ לארץ. 1) (המלך בכבודו תמיד ימלוך עלינו (מעריב לחול 2) ?*  *Years ago this ברכה was recited mostly in ארץ ישראל. Today it is recited only in חוץ לארץ.

DAF HASHAVUA-1000 ALEPHS

. DAF HASHAVUA SHABBOS 103a  הכותב ב' אותיות - בין משם אחד בין משתי שמות (משם אחד - שתיהן אלפין (רש"י There are at least 3 פייטנים (Poets) who wrote a Piyut that has 1000 words uninterrupted every word starting with an Aleph. The first פייטן was ר' אברהם בדרשי   (Provence 13th century)   https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31343&st=&pgnum=1 The second פייטן was ר' משה זכות (Mantova Mantua17th century)  https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31344&st=&pgnum=1 The third פייטן was ר' יוסף כהן צדק (London 19th century) He wrote a הספד on the chief Rabbi R Noson Adler zt"l (נתינה לגר) Even the שער בלאט had all words starting with an Aleph. https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46930&pgnum=1

What about the rest of חזרת הש"ץ?

. The (דרכי משה (רמ"א (O.Ch.125) writes that the מהרי"ל didn’t talk from the beginning of קדושה till after the אמן of האל הקדוש.* What about the rest of חזרת הש"ץ? Yes, you are allowed to talk during חזרת הש"ץ if you are the Rav. The ערוך השלחן writes (O.Ch. 125) " If the Rav is asked a שאלה during חזרת הש"ץ he may and is even obligated to answer immediately during חזרת הש"ץ and should not wait for after Davening since it might be a time-sensitive שאלה." Perhaps, with this ערוך השלחן.we can explain the מהרי"ל of not talking only till after the ברכה of האל הקדוש. אמבצי  The כף החיים explains the מהרי"ל that this would have   been only when he wasn’t Davening with that Minyan*, otherwise you may not talk during the entire Chazaras Hashatz.

are you allowed to talk during חזרת הש"ץ?

.   The (דרכי משה (רמ"א (O.Ch.125) writes that the מהרי"ל didn’t talk from the beginning of קדושה till after the אמן of האל הקדוש. What about the rest of חזרת הש"ץ?

What fast are we talking about

which fast ?

When do males start fasting  from age 18 years and older and females from age 15 years and older ?

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