Tuesday, March 31, 2009
5 Nissan (Pesach)
Why do we say in Avadim Hayinu "liparoh bimitraim"(to Pharaoh in Egypt)? Why not just say to Pharaoh and we would know that it was in Egypt? Also why say it twice, even if we needed it the first time, we don't need to say again two lines later that Pharaoh was in Egypt?
Monday, March 30, 2009
5 Nissan (Pesach)
Why is the answer to the Rasha's question to smash him in the teeth and tell him you would have no part in the redemtion? All that that would do is completely make sure that he will never ever do Teshuva (according to the opinions that it's literal). What we should do is sit down with him and slowly and lovingly show him he's wrong. We've seen time and time again that that works. Hitting someone in the face has never been Mekarev anyone!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
4 Nissan (Pesachim)
Why is the time that the hungry are invited to the seder at the begining of maggid? If you're trying to show that you're inviting them for the seder than why not invite them at the begining of the seder by kaddesh? If you're trying to invite them for the meal than the time to say "kol dichphin... (All who are hungry....) should be by motzi matza or by the meal?
Friday, March 27, 2009
2 Nissan (Vayikra)
The Ba'al Haturim on Vayikra 1,1 says that the reason the aleph of Vayikra is written small is because Moshe wanted it to say Vayikar (without the aleph) implying that it was more of a chance, (like what it says by Bilam), because of his humility. Hashem wanted it to say Vayikra, to show Hashem went out of his way to come to Moshe out of his great love of him,so they wrote the aleph small. Why is this the only time Moshe has a problem? It says Vayikra in Shemos 3:4 (Vayikra Eilov) and Shemos 19:20 (Vayikra Hashem Limoshe) and its written normally with a regular aleph, why?
Thursday, March 26, 2009
1 Nissan (Rosh Chodesh Nissan)
The first Rashi on Chumash says that really the Torah should have started with Shemos 12- "Hachodesh Hazeh Lachem Rosh Chadashim" (this month should be for you the first month[referring to Rosh Chodesh Nissan]). The reason it doesn't is because this way we can see why we have Eretz Yisrael. Why would we have started from there, there are so many things that we learn from the Torah until there?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
28 Adar (pesach)
Why do we say "Kul Dichphin Yaysei Viyeichul...." (All who are hungry should come and eat...) from "Ha Lachma Anyah" in the privacy of our homes? The hungry will never have the slightest idea that we are inviting them. Why don't we say it in shul or some other public area? As generous as it is to invite people, its only useful if they find out!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
28 Adar (Vayikra)
Rashi on 4,17 says the reason just says "paroches" (curtain) not "paroches hakodesh" (holy paroches) like it does in passuk 6 is because over here we're dealing with when the entire community sinned. And its a mashal to a king who if all his subjects rebel he's not really a ruler but if only some of them rebel he's still a ruler. So too by the beis hamikdash, if everyone rebels than Hashem's ruler ship on the world goes down and the Beis Hamikdash isn't called holy anymore, but when just the kohen gadol sins it is still holy. Why are we calling it that everyone rebels? The passuk is dealing with when Beis Din makes a mistake and says that something assur is actually fine. If so, that's not a rebellion. Everyone still feels subservient to Hashem so his malchus is still intact. If so the beis hamikdash should remain in its original kedusha, and we should still be able to call the paroches the "paroches hakodesh"?
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