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Dear Reb Yid, what you just wrote is what many gedolim particularly of the yeshivishe velt have been complaining about for years as it is said “ASHREI MI SHABALEKAN VETALMUDO BEYADO” and with this method of learning beiyun as the main limud of the day halevai we would be able to remember any amud gemara we ever learned in our entire lives!!!!! so my advice to you is to read an English Sefer written by Rabbi Jonathan Rietti Titled “A One Minute Masmid” which quotes many gedolim who said that in our yeshivas which were the litvish yeshivas(it seems to me to be the same problem in some chabad yeshivas as well) that they are learning to slowly and the main thing the bochrim are trying to accomplish is to make chiddushim which is a tremendous error. One should first cover mant blatt gemara rashi and select tosafos dealing with pshat and then eventually after doing that with alot of chzara one can learn beiyun better and can even be mechadeish alot of torah I hope I gave you an acc...

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Davening on an Airplane Q:  Is it permissible to Daven with a Minyan on an airplane, or should each person Daven on their own in order not to disturb others? A: It is permissible to Daven with a Minyan on condition that one coordinates it with the head of the airplane crew (Many Poskim write that it is forbidden to Daven with a Minyan if it disturbs others.  Ha-Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach [Halichot Shlomo p. 95.  Shut She'eirit Yosef of Ha-Rav Shlomo Wahrman 7:3], Ha-Rav Moshe Feinstein [Shut Igrot Moshe, Orach Chaim 4:20] and Ha-Rav Ovadiah would Daven on his own and  not together with a group so as not to disturb others, for fear of robbing another person's sleep. [Halachic Guide for the Passengers of El Al 9:1].  However, when  Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg was asked about Davening with a Minyan on an airplane, he said one should, adding that he does it all the time.  While strictly speaking it might be permitted to pray at your seat, Rav Schei...

Is Energy Healing A Form Of Avodah Zarah? By   Rabbi Noson Leiter (Reprinted from the Jewishpress.com) If the Practitioner attributes his mystical powers to an  avodah zarah­ -related term, utilizing his services is absolutely prohibited even if he deeply believes he is acting according to  halacha . A Taoist religious idea does not become ‘compatible’ with Judaism just because a  frum  Jew subscribes to it.”  * * * * * People who have exhausted conventional medical avenues sometimes turn to non-conventional services like “energy healing.” Such services may seem harmless on the surface, but they actually often involve the gravest class of prohibitions:  issurei avodah zarah . Practitioners of “energy”-based techniques claim to channel a mystical, non-verifiable force through themselves into a client – often via their hands – primarily employing mental techniques (often along with bizarre hand movements) to tap into t...

Say It With Chumros Parshas  Haazinu Elul / Rosh Hashanah Dvar Torah By Rabbi Yochanan Zweig  The forty days from the beginning of Elul through Yom Kippur correspond with the forty days during which Moshe beseeched Hashem to forgive Bnei Yisroel for the sin of the Golden Calf. Since Moshe was answered favorably, descending from Mount Sinai on Yom Kippur with the new set of Tablets, this time period is known as the “Y’mei Ratzon”, a time when it is possible to rekindle our relationship with the Almighty. 1 Consequently, Chazal record that during this time a person should accept upon himself greater “chumros” – “stringencies” in his observance. Most perplexing however, is the fact that we do not find any requirement to continue with these observances after the Yomim Nora’im. Performing these stringent acts during this time period only, appears hypocritical. What message are we relaying to the Almighty? Our Rabbis tell us that the word “Elul” is an acronym for t...

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Mashiach:  The Messiah Taken from the Mechon Mamre Website I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the mashiach, and though he may tarry, still I await him every day. --a popular paraphrase of Principle 12 of  Maimonides '  13 Principles of Faith The Messianic Idea in Torah Belief in the eventual coming of the mashiach is a basic and fundamental part of traditional Judaism.  It is part of Maimonides' 13 Principles of Faith, the minimum requirements of Jewish  belief , commonly recited daily as brought above.  In the  Shemoneh Esrei  prayer, recited three times daily, we pray for all of the elements of the coming of the mashiach:  ingathering of the exiles, restoration of the Torah-based system of justice, an end to the apostates and heretics, reward for the righteous, rebuilding of Jerusalem, restoration of the kingdom of the descendants of King David, and restoration of  Temple  service. Many modern scholars sugges...

 (photo courtesy of Circus Tent) Rav Chaim came to the 1st Agudas Israel Conference in Poland in the year 1912 but decided not to join the movement one of the reason being that having a central rabbinical authority stops Rabbonim from being able to Independent and be conscious of the times when they are doing the wrong thing.

Divrei Torah on Parshas Ki Seitzei by Rav Frand The Torah Addresses The Evil Inclination Here Parshas Ki Seitzei begins with the laws of the Yefas Toar [beautiful captive woman] in time of battle, one of the most difficult parshas in the Torah to understand: “When you will go out to war against your enemies and Hashem your G-d will deliver him into your hand, and you will capture its [people as], captives; and you will see among its captivity a woman who is beautiful of form, and you will desire her, you will take her to yourself for a wife.” [Devorim 21:10-11]. Because the woman is a goy, the Torah instructs that she be brought into the Jewish soldier’s house, made un-appealing (by cutting off her hair, etc.). He must then wait a month, and if after that he still wants her… “you may come to her and live with her, and she shall be a wife to you.” [Devorim 21:14] Rashi here comments (based on Kidushin 21b) “the Torah is speaking here only against the Yetzer HaRah [evil drives withi...

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Photo of Erloi Rav,Rav Vozner and Erloi Rav (Credit of Rav Shloymee Weinberg) On the path to greatness  Hashem says, "I brought you into this world and I gave you a steering wheel:  bechira,  free *will. You continued on the path of greatness and became greater and greater and greater. Rav Avigdor Miller  Principles of the Torah (#E-20) Simchas Hachaim Publishing

Complete Teshuvah Elul / Rosh Hashanah By Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein |  Series:  Nesivos Shalom  |  Level:  Advanced Complete Teshuvah 1 No one appreciates a job only partially finished. Yet, something about teshuvah demands that it not be done in half measure. The berachah in Shemonah Esrei that deals with our repentance speaks of our returning to Hashem “in complete teshuvah.” We do not attach the notion of completeness to any of our other requests in our fixed prayer. Something unique to teshuvah signals that if it is not complete, it is just not going to work. We can isolate several elements that comprise complete teshuvah, in contradistinction to ordinary teshuvah. The first is that the teshuvah should be effective. A person can be moved to offer effusive words of regret. He can cry his heart out before Hashem, and his teshuvah will predictably be brief and fleeting if he lacks the precursors for effectiveness. The most important of thos...