Today is a special day

Today the 12th day of Adar is a special day. It's called יום טריינות. It's only because of the Chasidim we don't celebrate anymore 

this special day. 

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The real reason

                                     The real reason

The קרובץ לפורים is on every Bracha of the שמונה עשרה except on the Bracha “את צמח”.

Some claim the reason for this is, "All the wars were fought by מלכות בית דוד except for מלחמת עמלק which were fought by the grandchildren of Rochel. Mordechai was מתקן for Shaul Hamelech's war on אגוג. Therefore we don’t mention the נס when saying "את צמח דוד ."

The truth is, קרובץ, were written not only for Purim.There are קרובץ for Hoshana Rabah,17th Tamuz, 10th Teves, and 9thAv. They all have no קרובץ on את צמח.

The פייטן for קרובץ was R, Elazar b Hakalir. In his פיוטים, he generally follows the Yerushalmi over  Bavli.

According to the Yerushalmi, the Bracha of את צמח and וירושלים עירך, are combined into one Bracha.

Hence, no קרובץ for  את צמח

פסקי מורי ורבי הרב הגאון ר' שלמה מילר שליט"א

משלוח מנות           

*פסקי מורי ורבי הרב הגאון ר' שלמה מילר שליט"א

1) You are not יוצא with seltzer but you are יוצא with flavored soda.

2) There is no need to have two different Brachos to be considered  2 מינים

3) Two pieces of chicken one roasted and the other boiled etc. are considered 2 מינים

4) Two pieces of chicken, one the top and the other the bottom are considered 1 מין

5) Mixed vegetable salad is considered as 1 מין

6) Cut up vegetables to be mixed into a salad are considered 2 מינים

7) Sandwich (Hamburger lettuce & tomato etc.) is considered 1 מין.

8)  Coffee & tea you can be מיקל to send (all it needs pouring hot water)

9) Not having in mind to be (יוצא משלוח מנות (מתעסק you are still  יוצא

10)   משלוח מנות sent and the recipient wasn't aware until after Purim you are  יוצא

11) You may send to a non-Frum Yid who won't make a Bracha on the food.

12) A Choson may be מיקל to send משלוח מנות   to his Kallah 

13) You should try to send at least one משלוח מנות to be חשובע food & the size of 3 eggs.

14) If  a שליח delivers before Purim since recipient is not allowed eat it until Purim you are יוצא

15) If all משלוח מנות received were placed in one basket,(now Shiur Challah) it is not necessary to take Challah.

16) A Shiur Challah dough with the intention to send smaller cakes, Challas etc. to different

individuals, you still do make a Bracha. 

17) Applesauce etc., since it requires a dish, the sender may טובל the dish with a Bracha.

18) Candies etc. since it doesn't require a dish, the sender may טובל but without Bracha.

  

*לקטתי מספר שושנת ישראל (הרה"ג ר' מרדכי יהודה הלוי קנר שליט"א)

Megillah Leining (מוצש"ק)

                    Megillah Leining (מוצש"ק)

In Meseches Sofrim (14th Perek) it says that the Minhag is to read the Megillah the first two Motzei Shabbosos before Purim.

The first  Motzei Shabbos in Adar you read till בלילה ההוא. The second  Motzei Shabbos (tonight) you start from  בלילה ההוא

till the end.

It is unknown the reason or the source for it.

Zecher or Zeicher- What's the issue

Zecher or Zeicher- What's the issue

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The word for “memory” is apparently “zeicher” (Tehillim 111:4). The question is whether “memory of”

(סמיכות)

changes to zecher.

According to the Mesora, it is Zeicher and therefore in Ashkenazi Shuls (Yekes) they don't repeat it since Mesora

overrides Dikduk.

I think it is the Mishna Verurah to be one of the first Poskim who writes to repeat it twice*, although Minhag Chabad &

other Chasidim is to do so as well.

*There seems to be a Machlokes between R.Chaim Volozhiner & the Ma'aseh Rav how the Gaon read it and if he changed his mind later on in life.

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Netilas Yodayim for the Megillah

According to the Rema (O.Ch.147:1), You should not touch the Megillah with your hands unless you did Netilas Yodayim (wash hands) before doing so. 

The Clipper

The Ibn Ezra (Koheles 5) criticizes the Piyutim of the Kalir.*

He has four main complaints against them. 

1) Most of them are Chidos (riddles) & Mosholim (parables) 

2) Instead of Loshon Hakodesh he mixes in Loshon Hatalmud

3) He invents words & uses improper Dikduk (poetic license)

4) They are based on Medroshos & Agodos instead of Pshat

The Teshuvas Maharashdam (O..Ch 35) claims, 

The Sephardic Paytonim  have a simpler and easier

language. Everybody can understand the Piyut, whereas the

Ashkenazi Paytonim use difficult words and even the

Shatz (Chazzan) doesn't understand what he is saying.

He recommends Ashkenazim to switch to Nusach Sefard,

which is a superior Nusach.  He claims "Al Titosh Toras

Imecha is only applicable when there is a small Issur involved

 and not for changing a Nusach Hatefilah.

The Chasam Sofer (Hagohos O.Ch.68) writes that "the Mahrashdam

wasn't aware of the Magen Avraham (68) who writes. you are

not allowed to change the Nusach Hatefilah because

there are 12 gates in heaven, one for each Shevet. Each one 

has his own Minhag. The Yerushalmi says, they are all equal

you should not change from the Minhag of your fathers."

Had the Maharshdam been aware of this M.A., he wouldn't

have written what he wrote".

* Shabbos Zachor  

Piyut of the Kalir starts with

  

 אָץ קוֹצֵץ בֶּן קוֹצֵץ / קְצוּצַי לְקַצֵּץ

 בְּדִבּוּר מְפוֹצֵץ / רְצוּצַי לְרוצץ

 לֵץ בְּבוֹאוֹ לְלוֹצֵץ /פֻּלַּץ וְנִתְלוֹצֵץ

  כְּעָץ מְחַצְּצִים לְחַצֵּץ / כְּנֵץ עַל יוֹנָה לְנַצֵּץ

Translation

אָץ- He rushed

קוֹצֵץ בֶּן קוֹצֵץ - The clipper* son of the clipper  (רשע בן רשע)

קְצוּצַי לְקַצֵּץ - The clipped to clip (Bnei Yisroel -  the harmed to harm)

בְּדִבּוּר מְפוֹצֵץ - with slander 

רְצוּצַי לְרוֹצֵץ - The crushed to crush (Bnei Yisroel)

לֵץ בְּבוֹאוֹ לְלוֹצֵץ - When the רשע came to do evil

פֻּלַּץ וְנִתְלוֹצֵץ - The evil turned back against him

כְּעָץ **מְחַצְּצִים לְחַצֵּץ - for wanting to shoot arrows on Bnei Yisroel

כְּנֵץ עַל יוֹנָה לְנַצֵּץ - and wanting to devour like a hawk the dove

*בדרך צחות barber

על פי שירת דבור

Dont Mix Up The YOtzros

לז"נ אמי מורתי מרת געלא בת ר' אברהם אשי *זצ"ל

יום השנה ד' אדר

Even though the term Yotzros is

commonly used for all the Piyutim

said during Davening

The proper term for the Piyutim  during 

Davening, are as follows,

The Piyut said before

       נשמת     is called נשמת 

                  יוצר is called  יוצר אור

אופן   is called  והאופנים 

 מאורה    is called    יוצר המאורות

אהבה   is called   הבוחר באהבה

 זולת      is called   ואין אלוהים זולתך

גאולה      is called    גאל ישראל

The Piyutim said during Chazaras 

Hashatz are called ( קרובות (קרובץ   

which have four parts מגן,מחיה,מי כמוך,

and סילוק the last one before 

Kedusha

The seven Piyutim during Chazaras 

Hashatz of Musaf are called שבעתא 

*The Chavas Yair used the term  זצ"ל on his grandmother.

My mother too was a great צדקת ז"ל She spent hours every

day Davening all three Tefilos and saying Tehillim having in

mind countless people. She single-handedly ran her own 

Chesed organization helping נצרכים,אלמנות &יתומים etc.

Handover the Kesubah

Handover the Kesubah

According to the Orchos Chaim,

The חתן  should hand over the כתובה to 

the כלה in front of the עדים.

The reason to do so is, in case there was a 

problem with the  קידושין בכסף  (ring) so the

כתובה should act as a (קידושין בשטר  (הוי לי לאנתו 

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Buried in Gush Chalav

רבי מאיר בעל הנס      

According to the Yerushalmi (Kelaim 9:3), R. Meir died in

(חוץ לארץ (אסיא  and his body was placed in the sea in חו"ל.

The first source that mentions  R. Meir’s burial place

in E. Y. is in the Sefer גלילות ארץ ישראל. He writes that R. Meir  

the Tanna is buried in the city of Tveryah.

The Seder Hadoros  quotes the same  Sefer גלילות א"י  

who writes, " R. Yitzchok from Gush Chalav and 

R. Meir Baal Haness are both buried in Gush Chalav. The

Gelilos E.Y. also writes that he doesn’t know who they were.

R. Yakov Lipshutz in his  Sefer Zichron Yakov  (vol 2 p 30) writes, 

"The pushkes  for the poor in Eretz Yisroel  were  named after  an 

Ish  Chasid  V’kadosh who lived in Eretz Hakodesh a few hundred 

years  ago. He was famous – and was called R. Meir Baal Haness”.

Two of the most prominent and respected Frum historians 

(R. Yechiel Heilprin- Seder Hadoros  & R. Yaakov Lipschutz -

Zichron Yaakov ) both believed, that R. Meir Baal Haness  

and the Tanna R.Meir were two different people.

 1)                       R.M. is buried in Tveryah    RMBH is buried in Gush Chalav

 2)                       Seder Hadoros & Gelilos E.Y.  both don’t know who R.M.B.H. was

 3)                       Zichron Yaakov claims R.M.B.H. lived a few hundred years ago

                           R.M. the Tanna lived two thousand years ago.

             

  4)                     To donate  L’iluy  Nishmas a Tanna who was niftar 2,000 years ago

                           sounds  strange. 

                           A Neshama from 2000 years has reached its peak a long time ago.

  5)                    The hundreds of Tanoim & Amoraim most of whom were 

                          also, מלומדים בנסים   yet their Neshama doesn't need an Aliyah

                          and the Tanna R.Meir  needs our Zchusim for his Aliyas Neshama.

                                         

  6)                     The Loshon, בעל הנס is not found in Shas.  In Gemoro

,                           we only find the term מלומד בניסים.

Who Was He

Who was רבי מאיר בעל הנס?

a) Tanna R.Meir

b) R. Meir Arik

c) R. Meir Premishlan

d) R. Meir Kahane

e) None of the above 

אלהא דמאיר עניני- Its Not A Name

אלהא דמאיר עניני

According to the אגדות המהרש"א  (Avoda Zarah 18a)  the correct answer is (e)

The מהרש"א says, "It can’t refer to the Tanna R.Meir* because he was still alive. In his lifetime** he would not use

his own name attached to  Hashem's name".

The מהרש"א says “ מאיר is not a name. It is a word, המאיר who lights up the world. (המאיר לארץ ) Hashem who lights up the world (present) should help me

Or, "אלהא דמאיר" Hashem who lit up for us during the dark days of the Greeks withthe נס of Chanukah”. (past) He shall bring  Nissim and save me.

* עיין הגהות יעב"ץ ומהר"ל שחולקים על המהרש"א

**עיין רש"י בראשית ל"א: מ"ב ד"ה ופחד יצחק

Who Is Meir ?

אלהא דמאיר עניני*

Which Meir?

a) Tanna Reb Meir

b) Reb Meir Ba'al Haness

c) Reb Meir Premishlan

d) Reb  Meir Kahane

e) None of the above                     

*ע"ז י"ח.

Caveat emptor

In Shulchan Aruch,(CH. M.   232:19 ) it states 

Minhag is Mevatel (nullifies) the Halacha ( מקח טעות)

Today we can't claim   מקח טעות

(The buyer is stuck with the spoiled eggs and can't claim מקח טעות  )

Harav Elyashiv ruled this Halacha/Minhag is only applicable when 

someone sells  for profit since the Minhag in the business world

it is acceptable to claim a final sale - Caveat emptor.

However a woman borrowing eggs since there is no profit, then 

the original Halacha of מקח טעות kicks in and it is applicable.

Therefore she hasn't acquired the egg and is not responsible 

to pay for it*. 

The Shevet Halevi (10:133) writes "A woman who borrowed a dozen

eggs and two of them had bloodspots, She might not be

allowed to return a dozen eggs because there might be

a problem with Ribis (D'Rabonon)

*She is also not responsible for destroying the egg since it has no value

ואלה המשפטים

ואלה המשפטים                      

Rochel borrowed an egg from her neighbor. She cracked it

open and found a blood spot, so she threw it out.

Does Rochel have to repay an egg to her neighbor?

Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat  232:19

“If someone sells eggs to his friend and it was found to be

spoiled and inedible, It is considered a Mekach Ta'ous,(mistaken sale)

and the money must be returned. Today we don’t rule

like this. And a Minhag is Mevatel (nullifies) a Halacha”

(The buyer is stuck with the spoiled eggs)

This is the Halacha in Shulchan Aruch that we follow the Minhag instead of the Halacha.

Accordingly, we would think, the same rule applies to Rochel.

She is stuck with this egg and has to repay an egg to her

neighbor.

R.Y.S. Elyashuv zt”l ruled, Rochel doesn’t have to pay back

the egg.

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