tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post5501159342459336633..comments2024-03-28T23:20:49.777-05:00Comments on Beis Vaad L'Chachamim: Vayakhel, Shemos 35:22. Rosh Chodesh, the Women's Holiday; and, Getting Things DoneEliezer Eisenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-12621514028857244422013-03-08T12:00:45.234-06:002013-03-08T12:00:45.234-06:00Reading this, I just realized that the kashe about...Reading this, I just realized that the kashe about how women can be chayav to build the mishkan, because it's zman grama- you can use the Tosfos Rid in Kiddushin to answer the kashe. The ikker chiyuv of building the mishkan was hishtadlus.Barzilai/Eliezer Eisenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-56350525616990523732011-02-23T07:49:44.706-06:002011-02-23T07:49:44.706-06:00Re: comment at Feb 21 9:36 pmNice how you cite the...Re: comment at Feb 21 9:36 pm<br>Nice how you cite the approach of other "religions"great unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-79783787802125974782011-02-23T07:46:59.260-06:002011-02-23T07:46:59.260-06:00pc- The Rambam in Beis Habechira 1:12 and the Chin...pc- The Rambam in Beis Habechira 1:12 and the Chinuch in 95 as explained by the Minchas Chinuch at the end in #18 say clearly that the chiyuv to build the Beis Hamikdash is on all of Klal Yisrael, men and women equally. In fact, I just saw the local Rosh Kollel at a wedding and he asked me how can women be chayav in this mitzva if you can't build it at night, so it should be zman grama. I answered him that although putting it together is not done at night, spinning and dying and fabricating are done at night and are part of the mitzva, too, so it's not zman grama.<br><br>In any case, as I said, everyone is chayav in this mitzvah. I know many meforshim talk about how you need nedivus, but that's only for one or maybe two of the three trumos, not for all.Barzilaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-55206356056582895772011-02-22T20:01:23.663-06:002011-02-22T20:01:23.663-06:00A similar concept is said in the name of R' Ch...A similar concept is said in the name of R' Chaim Volozhener. He points out that gold could used in many places. Gold that was given with the purest of intents was used for the Aron Kodesh. If the intent was alloyed with a little self-interest - getting in good with the Boss, so to speak - then it was used for keilim of lesser kedusha: the menorah, the shulchan, the mizbeach hazahav. If there was a trace of pride or exhibitionism involved, then it went for tzipui hakerashim and the vavim, etc.<br><br>How did Betzalel know what belonged where? That is the koach the Ribbono Shel Olam granted him: chosaiv machasavos.<br><br>On the same subject, the Dibros Moshe also says that coerced donations were of little value - but he goes one critical step further - coerced learning is also of little value relatively [k'eino metzuva v'oseh, except for one parsha in the morning and one at night]. This is at the end of the first ma'amar on Terumah.great unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-29803096996842494582011-02-22T18:51:47.132-06:002011-02-22T18:51:47.132-06:00"Does it make sense that they should be pattu..."Does it make sense that they should be pattur from the mitzvah and be chayav in the machshir?"<br><br>According to the divrei shaul (beginning of Vayakhel) nobody was chayav to donate to the mishkan - in fact he says the opposite - if someone did want to donate to the mishkan - he was checked to see if he was doing this with true nedivus halevpchttp://torahdownunder.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-65271119773771458062011-02-21T21:36:59.805-06:002011-02-21T21:36:59.805-06:00As always, there are people who co-opt it for thei...As always, there are people who co-opt it for their revolutionary ideology.<br>http://www.jofa.org/social.php/ritual/thejewishcal/roshhodeshbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-67922561580535826222011-02-21T19:29:54.425-06:002011-02-21T19:29:54.425-06:00Interestingly, various studies, including this one...Interestingly, various studies, including this one:<br> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2243890 <br>have demonstrated that the cycle is related to light, and very sensitive to artificial light at night. This gives rise to the concept that absent artificial light sources, a woman would synchronize to the moon.<br>More on this at wikipedia, with citations.<br><br>Given that, causing the cycles of the moon, and the menstrual cycle which is one of the onshim of Chava, are intimately related.<br><br>It is interesting that while chazal assumes an onah beinonis of thirty days, that is actually rather uncommon. Artificial light?great unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-38769525946841226742011-02-21T17:40:20.337-06:002011-02-21T17:40:20.337-06:00Also, considering how the Or Zarua associates wome...Also, considering how the Or Zarua associates women's lives with the renewal of the moon, it's interesting how makpid we are to not let women do kiddush levana. I know the reasons about their having caused whatever, but still.bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-11635749275593885492011-02-21T17:31:44.646-06:002011-02-21T17:31:44.646-06:00There is a commonly observed corollary: in order ...There is a commonly observed corollary: in order to observe the yom tov of Rosh Chodesh, one has to know precisely when it is. This is announced in shuls on Shabbos mevorchim. Which is why women are very strict about going to shul on Shabbos mevorchim.<br><br>As with so many Jewish minhagim, the primary halacha/minhag may not be observed, but the abizrai'hu have become halacha l'Moshe.great unknownnoreply@blogger.com