tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post1245336277244991202..comments2024-03-28T23:20:49.777-05:00Comments on Beis Vaad L'Chachamim: Vayikra. Moshe Rabbeinu's Name, Echoes, and GhostsEliezer Eisenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-78608566733731182992014-03-09T12:01:41.767-05:002014-03-09T12:01:41.767-05:00Sorry. Now I understand what the "D" bef...Sorry. Now I understand what the "D" before my name stood for in your text. I see you have now corrected it. Have a great dayNachum Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-28889053661651626152014-03-09T11:46:20.851-05:002014-03-09T11:46:20.851-05:00Thank you for letting me know. For one thing, I un...Thank you for letting me know. For one thing, I understand why some people write anonymously. I did for years too, but I find it unpleasant, and I appreciate having a name to look at. Secondly, I was relieved to realize that I had confused you with a Rabbi Dr. Nachum J, in Efrat, because what you wrote was really out of character for him- he's not quite a Rambam rationalist, but he has no patience for the influence of anything but personal hishtadlus and lefum tza'ara agra. Dr . Nachum J writes to my personal address instead of posting online.Eliezer Eisenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-4794620217074586172014-03-09T11:30:02.491-05:002014-03-09T11:30:02.491-05:00I agree with you that the גר"א is a powerful ...I agree with you that the גר"א is a powerful מקור but I don't know why you find it such a חידוש. If, as Reb Elyeh Lopian זצ"ל puts it, a germ or virus can embed itself in the walls of a hospital causing future patients to be infected from it, a spiritual "virus" shouldn't be any worse!<br />Harav Shlomoh Harkavi הי"ד, the pre-war משגיח of Grodno, (מאמרי שלמה עמ סז) writes that the reason why at the מבול also 3 טפחים from the circumference of the world was washed away, was because the רשעות of the דור penetrated into the soil and would likely have re-infected the people again after the מבול!<br /><br />By the way, you have probably gathered that I'm the the Anonymous who wrote the מראה מקום in the first place (and also last week's מראה מקום to R' Chaim Friedlander זצ"ל). I only discovered your site two weeks ago and am having a lot of הנאה. May you be זוכה to continue being מהנה את עולם התורה for many more years.Nachum Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-55143529214997074972014-03-09T10:59:16.772-05:002014-03-09T10:59:16.772-05:00Thanks. I put them in. You must like his writing...Thanks. I put them in. You must like his writing a great deal to have such bekiyus.<br /><br />Truth be told, after all is said and done, despite all the rayos, if I hadn't seen it in the Gaon, I would resist it. I really think that Reb Meir Simcha opposed the idea. I really ought to quote his words verbatim.Eliezer Eisenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-66112241146534882992014-03-09T05:32:40.673-05:002014-03-09T05:32:40.673-05:00Thank you. I'm a great חסיד of Rabbi Eisemann&...Thank you. I'm a great חסיד of Rabbi Eisemann's שיעורים וספרים. The above you'll find in his פירוש על דברי הימים א page 402, in his book "Of parents and Penguins page 27" and you can hear it at http://www.diggingdeeperjewish.org/audio-weekly.htm in his שיעור on Parshas Shemos 5767.<br />The פשט in the משנה אבות I first read in the ספרים of הרב חיים יעקב גולדווכט ז"ל and subsequently found it in ליקוטי בתר ליקוטי which you can see here http://beta.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=10039&st=&pgnum=210 at the bottom.Nachum Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-28547437993894180522014-03-08T20:12:25.054-06:002014-03-08T20:12:25.054-06:00Both excellent additions. Rabbi Eisemann is a tre...Both excellent additions. Rabbi Eisemann is a treasure. My relationship with him, when I was an older bachur and he became mashgiach after Reb Dovid was niftar, prevented me from realizing what great depth and emotion were there, something I've come to realize from his writings. Although I always knew he was a gift for the bon mot- he once told me "Eliezer, my interest in you is exclusively administrative."<br /><br />bl'n I'm going to put both into the post. Yasher kochachem.Eliezer Eisenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-76913296984094227822014-03-08T18:25:33.470-06:002014-03-08T18:25:33.470-06:00חז"ל tell us that from the fact that the Tora...חז"ל tell us that from the fact that the Torah only uses the name which בת פרעה gave, we can see גדול שכרן של גומלי חסדים. Rav Moshe Eisenmann שליט"א understands this in conjunction with the מדרש לקח טוב and the ספורנו that the name she gave him משה (rather than the expected משוי) indicates that since he was saved by being pulled from the water, he would now have to spend his כוחות in saving others. It was that education she gave him which led to him to becoming the leader he was (who did so many great things for the nation, as the גמרא מגילה יג indeed דרשן-s from his other 9 names), which is the גמלת חסדים the חז"ל were referring to.<br />With regards the השפעה of our deeds on even inanimate objects. Rav Elyeh Lopian זצ"ל extensively uses this principle. I also recall learning that this is פשט in the משנה that שנים שיושבים ואין ביניהם דברי תורה הרי זה מושב לצים שנאמר ובמושב לצים לא ישב, where לכאורא the פסוק does not prove the point which the משנה seems to make. However what the משנה is saying is that you can have a situation where two people are trying to learn, but somehow "it's not going". The reason is because previously people were talking דברי לצנות there and that spiritually ruined the air and space, causing them now not being able to learn. That is why צדיקים won't sit in a מושב לצים i.e. where previously לצים sat.<br />Thank you for your great and insight-full שיעוריםAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com