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Sefardim don't do a Bris on Thursday if it  is a Milah S'hlo Bizmano (3d day Shabbos)

A Bone To Pick

Daf Hashavua

Gittin 68b -69-70

Daf Hashavua

The Mahril said that all Refuos and Lachashim  mentioned in Shas, are forbidden to be practiced.

It only works in certain conditions.  Someone who will try it and it won’t work , might ridicule the Chachamim.

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 Lachash is allowed because it is Boduk Umenuso (guaranteed) to work in all conditions."

I once heard that this Lachash only works if you use the Sefardic Havarah (accent).

The Ches and the Ayin (from chad, nochis and bola) are pronounced from deep inside the throat.

Pronouncing these two letters (sefardi) manipulates the throat, so that the bone will dislodge.

Father or Mother

Sefardim engrave on the Matzeiva, the name of

the Niftar  and the Niftar’s mother's name.

Ashkenazim engrave  the name of

the Niftar and the Niftar’s father's name.

Recently  Ashkenazim have a Minhag to add another

line at the bottom, and write Sheim Imoi/Imoh -----

The vast majority of the old Kevorim in Eretz Yisroel

had no engraving at all.

Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky zt"l, writes*, in the year 1928,

the Jerusalem Museum exihibited old coffins and bones

which were found on Har Hatzofim.  He went with Rav A.Y.

Kook zt”l and managed to convince the Museum to

return the bones for reburial.

(interesting- quiet Shtadlonus without public protests & riots,

 can sometimes be effective as well)

The Museum insisted  to keep the coffins. R.Y.M.T. noted

there were 23 coffins, from two families. 10 came from

one family and 13 from the other family.

4 of the 10 had engraved only the name. (Yehuda, Chana,

Miriam, Yehuda) The other 6 had no engraving at all.

The other family had all 13 coffins engraved. Two had

names without the father. Three had the name followed by

the word” Ben” (son) fathers name was illegible. Two women

both were called  Shalom. One was Eishes Yehudah, the other was

Eishes Elozor. One was Shimon Avi (father of) Yosef.  The other

five had  their names the sons of their  fathers.

These coffins were from Zman Bayis Sheini and followed

the Ashkenazi Minhag of naming the father, not the

mother.

Gesher Hachayim  2  p205

Ashkenaz /Sefard

Which Ashkenazi Yidden  should preferably not Daven in a Sephardic Minyan?

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People Of Ashkenaz Vs. Sfard

                                                                                                                                                     לז"נ האשה רות בת ר' צבי יהודה ע"ה  ז' כסלו

                                                                                                                                                     ולז"נ האשה פעסיל בת ר' בונם ע"ה ז' כסלו *

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In Siddur Rashi(13) it says: “All Kehilos in Ashkenaz are known for their thousand Tovos & Brachos. All of them are filled with Torah & Mitzvohs like a Rimon. Their Ma’asim are beautiful. They are Machmir in checking Treifos,Tevilas Nidah & wherever it is appropriate to be Machmir.

The Ramban in his Hakdamah to Kunteres Dinei Garmi writes :The Chachmei Hatzarfasim (French Ba’alei Tosfos) are our teachers and they uncover for us all the hidden  things

in the Torah.

The Maharshal (Hakdamah Chulin Y.S.S.) writes:

"Even though he ( Ramban) was a Sefardi, he recognized the truth and praised the ones who are praiseworthy."  

The Rosh (Teshuvh 20:20) writes: He only eats what has a Mesorah from Chachmei Ashkenaz. The Torah

 has been their Yerushe  since the Churban Habayis.

The Leket Yosher( p118) quotes the Maharash miNeustadt: "The reason Torah has held on in Ashkenaz more than in the other countries, because the Yidden lend their money to the Nochri  and charge them interest. They don’t need to work and have time to learn. Those who don’t learn support the Lomdei Torah, with their profits.

Reb Yakov Emdin (Mor Uketzia 53) writes : “My heart is happy and I thank Hashem with all my heart that he made me an Ashkenazi.

*She & her family were involved in saving from the Nazis ym"s

hundreds of families . Amongst them my Mother's hk"m entire

family.Yehi Zichrom Baruch