Travelling to the cottage/bungalow Friday Parshas Chukas

Travelling to the cottage/bungalow 

     on Friday עש"ק פרשת חקת*

R. Chaim Palagi zt"l writes** " Many, avoid travelling 

from the city to the country on ערב שבת פרשת חקת

מג"א תק"פ סק"ח*

**מועד לכל חי סימן ט'  ס"ד 

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Half Is Whole

What is commonly known as חצי קדיש (half Kaddish)

is actually the complete Kaddish.

The Tefillah of Kaddish is to be Mekadesh Sheim

Shomyim.which ends at Da'amiron Beolmo.

Tiskabal,Yehai Shlomo & Oseh Sholom were added

on to the Kaddish, when ending, the Tefillah it should

be accepted, we should have peace with each

other, and if  there is Ch"v Machlokes, Hashem should

help us make peace*

*Aruch Hashulchan O.Ch. 56:8.(I am not sure, why it is important to know)

Did He Change His Clothes ?

Parshas Hashavua

וישמע הכנעני מלך ערד ישב הנגב *    

Rashi explains that it was actually עמלק who was ישב הנגב but

disguised himself, by speaking in the language of  כנען 

so to confuse the Yidden when they will Daven to Hashem 

to save them from the enemy כנען instead of עמלק

Since they  wore Amaleiki clothing the Yidden

realized something doesn't make sense and Davend 

without mentioning any name of the enemy.

The Kalir in the Piyut of Shabbos Parshas Zachor writes

זכור יושב הנגב בלי על כערד כסות ולשון שנה

Seems that the Kalir holds that he changed both, his clothing

and language.

The (מהרש"א (ר"ה ג ע"א 'ר claims we can say that the

Kalir & Rashi are not arguing. The meaning of כסות ולשון שנה

is that the כסות didn't match the לשון since he wore Amaleiki

clothes and spoke Kanani language. (like Rashi)

*Bamidbar 21:1 

How can we and why do we?

How can we and why do we?

The Ramban דרשה לר"ה explains why Klal Yisroel adopted Babylonian names for the months.*

תמוז is a name of an עבודה זרה

 יחזקאל פ"ח הנשים ישבות מבכות את התמוז

Many attempted to answer how we may and why we did name the month after an Avoda Zara.

Harav Hagaon R. Chaim Kanievsky Shlita.

said, being it was the month they placed a צלם in the היכל 

I wasn't זוכה to understand any of the  answers (includings R. Chaim's).

*Originally the months had no names

but numbers 1st 2nd etc. except for 

אביב -זיו - בול -ירח האתנים 

No Mussar in Shul

       No Mussar in Shul

If someone tries to give you Mussar in Shul, you can tell him

that according to the Arizal* it is not proper to do so in a Shul**.

* see Magen Avraham O.Ch. 151:3

** even not during Davening

Dedicated To The Pope

                         ספר צמח דוד 

                dedicated to the Pope

                                          

Dedicating a Sefer to an individual or a family is very common today. One of the best known Sefer 

dedication is The Schottenstein Shas.

This custom goes back to the times of the Geonim, & maybe even earlier.

1) R. Amram Gaon dedicated his “Seder Hatefilos” to R. Yitzchok Bar-Shimon who sent him 

ten Golden coins for the Yeshiva in Mechasya.

2) R. Menachem b. Zerach dedicated his Sefer “Tzeidah Laderech”  to Don Shmuel Abarbanel.

3) R. Ovadia Seforno dedicated his Sefer “Ohr Olam” to King Henri 2^nd(France)

4) R.Dovid de Pomis dedicated his Sefer “Tzemach Dovid” to Pope Sixtus 5^th

5) R.Menashe b Yisroel dedicated his Sefer  “Mikveh Yisroel”(Hope of Israel) to 

The British Parliament, Courts of England  & Prime Minister Oliver Cromwell.

6) R. Mordechai Gimpel Halevi dedicated his Sefer “Tochachas Megillah” to Gustav the

President of Sweden.

7) Efraim Pinner* dedicated his “GermanTranslation on Meseches Brochos  to 

Tsar Nicholas 1^st (Russia)

*The Chasam Sofer retracted the Haskama he gave him.deded

What A Joke ?

           כחוכא ואיטלולא

The Mishna Verurah(24:7) writes in the name of the קדמונים

that by placing the ציצית over the eyes when saying

Parshas ציצית one is guaranteed not to become blind.

The Mishne Verura continues that

 "a blind man may hold his  ציצית in his hand even though it says וראיתם אותו since others can see it.

However, the blind man should not place the ציצית over

his eyes since it will seem כחוכא ואיטלולא." [It looks weird and 

laughable for a blind man seeking protection of not 

becoming blind.]

I was just wondering when some צדיקים do strange things during their עבודה no one looks at it as weird. 

On the contrary, it is assumed they have  deep Kabbalistic hidden  כוונות.

So too why is it considered weird & laughable when a blind man would place his ציצית over his eyes and we don't assume it to have a deeper meaning?

       Seems) that this privilege is only applicable)   ווייזט זיך אויס

to צדיקים. When they act strangely during performing Mitzvohs  we may not question it. We must assume they are performing with hidden Kabbalistic כוונות.

For the המון עם (simple Yid) they have to be careful not to 

do strange actions while performing Mitzvohs otherwise it

will be  כחוכא ואיטלולא

This May Be The Most Powerful Segula

The most powerful Segulah

*The most Segulos attached to a single חפצא של מצוה 

probably is, to look at or wear ציצית.

1)  (יראת שמים (בית אהרן פ' שלח

2) (פרנסה (בשם כתבי האריז"ל

3) (זכרון (חת"ס פ' שלח 

4)  (רפואה (בשם החוזה מלובלין

5  (חזון ונבואה (נועם אלימלך פ' שלח

6) (מצילו מיצה"ר (מ"ב כ"ד סק"ה

7)  (מצילו מכעס (כף החיים סקכ"ה

8) (עת רצון(להתפלל על קנאה,שנאה וכעס (קב הישר פ' פ"ה 

9)  ( מצילו מעין הרע (חיד"א דבש לפי צ:כ"ז

10) (מוספת קדושה לאדם (שערי תשובה ג :כ"ב 

11) ('תועלת גדולה לנשמה ( שער הכוונות דרוש ז 

12) (זוכה ורואה פני השכינה ( שו"ע כ"ד: ו 

        

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How Many Meraglim ?

PARSHAS SHELACH:

How many Meraglim did Moishe send to Eretz Yisroel?

a) 10

b) 12

c) 18

d) 24

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The Three Mitzvos

לז"נ הקדושים מלכה בת ר' מאיר שלמה ושני בניה

 הבחור ניסן והבחור פנחס בני ר' משה הי"ד      

יום השנה הוקבעה לכ' סיון                     

Parshas Hashovua--Parshas Shelach 

                     THE THREE MITZVOHS

The Bach (O.Ch.625) writes that there are three Mitzvohs 

that require special כוונה to know why Hashem commanded 

us to do this Mitzvah

1) Mitzvahs סוכה because it says למען ידעו דורותכם

2) Mitzvahs תפילין because it  says למען תהיה תורת ה' בפיך

3) Mitzvahs ציצית  because it says למען תזכרו

The Pri Megodim adds Pidyon Haben where it also

says - על כן אני זובח לה' כל פטר רחם

Harav Shmuel Wosner zt"l writes the reason the Bach

doesn't include Pidyon Haben is  because the Torah  

gives the reason to answer the son who asked מה זאת

and not that we need to have in mind when performing the Mitzvah why he gave us the Mitzvah of Pidyon Haben.

Chof Sivan

כ' סיון                    
In 1171, 31 Yidden were burned in the city of Blois France.
1) R.Tam was Gozer Ta'anis on כ' סיון  He said that this Ta'anis
is greater than Tzom Gedalya being it is like Yom Kippur.


2) After the גזרת ת"ח ות"ט  (Chmelnitski ym"s 1648-9) The Va'ad
Arba Artzos reintroduced the Ta'anis of  סיון 'כ
The מגןאברהם ס' תקפ ס"ק ה writes נוהגיןלהתענות כ' סיון בכל מלכות פולין

3) In 1946, The Gedolim in Hungary chose כ' סיון  as the day to commemorate the Holocaust by fasting and  Slichos.
A special Selichos for כ' סיון was printed in Budapest.

Did You Know (177)

DYING PIGS - TAKE OUT THE TRUMPETS

וכי תבואו מלחמה -- והרעתם בחצצרת (במדבר י: ט)                   

מצות עשה מן התורה לזעוק ולהריע בחצוצרות על כל צרה (רמבם הל' תעניות א:א)

ואם היה דבר בחזירים מתענין מפני שמעיהם דומים לשל בני אדם (שו"ע או"ח תקעה :ג)

The Rambam & Shulchan Aruch write there is a Mitzvah to blow

trumpets for every צרה not only מלחמה.

The Shulchan Aruch lists all the צרות where fasting and blowing

trumpets are required.

One of them is when there is an animal plague and the pigs die.

The reason for it is, human stomachs are similar to pig stomachs.

The (מגן אברהם (ס' תקעו  asks he doesn't understand why we don't

use trumpets today which is more important than fasting*.

*Trumpets is דאורייתא fasting is only דרבנן- see Rambam

The Pri Megadim, Ya'avetz, Chida, Shu"t Mishna Halachos & Shu"t Lehoros Noson

all try to come up with a reason why we don't do it today..

Riddle

Dying pigs, in need of trumpets?

?

Hint:  פרשת השבוע -הלכה מפורשת בשו"ע 

for answer click here 

Which Taanis ??

When do males start fasting from age 18 years and older

and females from age 15 years and older?

For Answer Click Here

just the opposite -vort from Reb Shach -parshas behaloscha

Parshas Hashavua

?except or but  אלא 

Rashi ( 9:10 D.H. "או בדרך")

פסח שני מצה וחמץ עמו בבית"

ו                                                                                                                                      ואין איסר חמץ אלא עמו באכילתו" 

(There is no Issur Chometz except if eaten together

with the Korban)

The Minchas Chinuch asks on Rashi, "We don't

find anywhere in Chazal that there is an Issur to

eat the Korban Pesach Sheini  together with Chometz."

The Meshech Chochmo (Ohr Someiach) made up his

own Limmud, why it should be Assur to eat the Korban

together with Chametz.

Harav Shach zt"l said  Pshat in Rashi is just the opposite,

ואין איסר חמץ there is no Issur Chametz

"אלא עמו באכילתו"  = But you may eat Chometz together

with the Korban.