YWN Coffee Room Nightly D’Var Torah

mod i am probably gonna send it on to you on monday tthough, if that is ok with you.

thanx everyone the drav torahs were great!!!!!

by the way anyone remember the brachos of Bnei Yaakov baal peh from way back when?? just curious. Every year I remember it when I skim over it in shul but the whole thing…. um Reuven Bechori atah koichi verishis oni…. ok ok I wont go thru the whole thing… I dont remember all of t w/o looking in anyway!

Shkoyach-oh dont worry its yashrus, and besides i need to be m’yasher the feministic world. (i wouldent be yotze zein my post if i didnt say a ma shehu thats chauvanistic lol srry).

Ill make you a deal let me do a day next week and ill come up w/ a nice jewish-feminstic vort. Deal??

Brooklyn19-Breath?? come on. What type a guy u want? I have freinds, mestama joseph has friends…we all do. Its like u have a whole family looking out for u!

Mussar HaTorah

14 Teves 5769 Vol. 10, No. 12 Parashas Vayechi

[Yosef]

against him and instead of punishment, he treated them with kindness

[You]

reactions of the king to such a brazen request. How could Dovid HaMelech have uttered such a prayer?

May we appreciate how beloved we are to Hashem, as His chosen people and His precious children. When we have the privilege of speaking to the King of all kings in prayer, let us always feel His affection towards us, despite our mistakes and shortcomings. Let us beg Him for all that we need, knowing in our hearts that He waits so longingly to grant us blessings of peace, health, happiness

and all that is good for us

MOTZEI SHABBOS VORT

by rebetzin BYM

Parshas vaYechi tells us that Yaakov wanted to tell the Shevatim when the Geulah would come. Rashi says he wanted “l’galos es haKetz” (to reveal the end), but “Nistama nevua malav”, Nevuah was taken away form him.

the Maharal asks, why is this Passuk even mentioned in the Torah? to tell us, we were SUPPOSED to be told when the Geulah would come, but only to have Yaakov suddenly forget?the Maharal beatifully sums it up in just a few words: the point of this passuk was in order to tell the Shevtaim, and future generations,

“L’galos SHEYAISH ketz”—that there WILL be an end to our galus–we dont know when, but we are assured by the Torah that there will be.

may the ketz come NOW

gut voch

–sorry so late, for all the israel habitants

just one more shtickl dvar Torah… (this is great the CR gives me a chance to use all my yiddish phrases!)

has to do a little with parshas vaYigash…

here goes

“Shivim Nefesh”–there were 70 people that went down to Mitzrayim…we all know that really, there were 69, but Yocheved was born on the threshold of Mitzrayim, right before they entered Mitzrayim, to galus.

the Maharal says that the reason Yocheved is born right before entering galus Mitzrayim, that she is one of the 70, is to show us that whenever Hashem brings galus, brings a Makkah, there is ALWAYS a refuah taht comes before it; whats the refuah?

Yocheved was the mother of Moshe Rabbeinu–who is called “moshia shel Yisrael.”

even BEFORE we entered Mitzrayim to galus as shivim nefesh, Hashem created the refuah–

“Hashem makdim refuah lamakkah”—always, even in our times.

may we be zoche to see that Refuah speedily in our days!

–this one will be iyH as a zechus for the chayalim fighting on our behalf in Eretz Yisrael…may they have hatzlacha and shmirah in all they do.

bym: nice dvar torahs tonight!!! your on a roll here!!!

jaymatt19: great vort there!! thanx!!!

thanks j-man, and mazal tov!

Thanks, JayMatt!

***Please Post On MONDAY NITE***. thanx

Parshas Shemos

Rabbi Label Lam

In Preparation- to Save a Nation

What had happened? Years earlier this young man had been in a terrible accident. His hand was mangled in a machine and he needed skin grafting. Ever since that tragic day he had suffered daily with an embarrassing reminder of the event. Strangely hair started to grow wildly on the palm of his hand.

It could be that in retrospect we can begin to appreciate that many of the best tools we gained to be able help others were gotten through our most rugged experiences in life. Moses, still in the grooming stage, had already developed a positive appreciation for even

Jewsishfeminist-Are u gonna check out my dvar torah tom.! Ill even may it b’zchus anything u want (except to make me a feminist).

Another typo.

??????? spelled backwards is ??? ????, peace and frienship.

Tonights D’var Torah

When all the shivtei ka died, The posuk says “vtimalie haaretz osam”. Frekd my rosh yeshiva, that they were supposed to live in goshen. That was the vision of Yaakov, as as yosef told reuven that mishpachas yaakov was supposed to live there for 5 yrs. So what happened?? Earlier on Yaakov when he reaches be’er sheva..he gets the chills, b/c he realizes once he goes down to mitzraim it wont be so easy to get back. Why?? So what happened?? Vatimale haaretz osam means that they filled the land with the mitzriem. As the posuk says in mitzraim they spread out quilkly through the land. Zugd my rosh they wanted to become one nation. They decided to assimulate with them.

In the time of the yivanim it says they were “moshech alav”. Back then they used to do sporting events when arum, so they could see who was jewish. So to be like everyone else they were moshech aluv. Its some sort of surgery to lift up the skin. They are still yotze mila d’aarisa but not drabanan.

Nowadays, Everyone says we need internet or newspapers arent so bad. You need to be worldly, and theres nothing wrong with it. The problem here is the Torah was not given to us so that we could look at what were are allowed to do and based on that assimulate ourselves amongst the goyim. B/c even though your not doing anything assur…by reading, and assimulating yourselves with them even in a muttar way is a massive sakana. There thought procces will become your thought procces, You midos will change and eventialy even though you started out very makpid, your gvulim will break. Why?? B/c musser in essential for a yid. With learning alone its hard to work on your yiras shamayim. Al achas kama v’kama when your hearing the views of the goyim. cont…

I feel a bit embarrassed that there has not been any action on this board basically all day.

Since multiple divrei torah are permitted, here goes:

The Vilna Gaon was once asked why the notes “Kadma V’azla” were assigned to the words “V’yimarriru es chayeyhem” (and he embittered their lives), since they are notes generally used for happier instances.

The Vilna Gaon replied that since the Egyptians embittered the lives of Bnei Yisroel, “Kadmu V’Azlu” Benei Yisroel got up (Kadmu) and left (azlu) 190 years earlier than destined.

Additionally, Kadman V’Azla is gematria 190

j-matt….short sweet and to the point 🙂

yashrus…not as short but still sweet and to the point.

thanks to both of you.

a little early, but here’s something on parshas shemos:

“And Moshe stood up and saved them” (2:17)

The Torah tells us here how Moshe saved Tziporah, who at that time was a complete stranger. later on we read how measure for measure, Tziporah saved Moshe’s life (4:24-25). We see from this, says the Chofetz Chaim, that all the kindness that a person does for someone else is eventually repaid to him.

Whenever you do a favor for someone else, you benefit yourself. Definitely, the highest level is to do kindness for others for the sake of a mitzvah without thinking of personal gain. But whenever you find it difficult to do an act of chessed for others, at least do it for the reason that good things will occur to you in the future because of your act. When you are kind to others, they will be kinder to you. If not right away, then in time you will be repaid.

*Rabbi Zelig Pliskin

Feministic Vort

Why is it that men say shelo asani isha and women say sheasani kirtzono…sounds chauvanistic no??

in truth the opposite is true…theres a pirush on davening that explains: If u notice Men ussualy are more easily persueded to do aveiros, men tend to have worse midos. While we get to learn more torah, women are technichly born alot holier than men. Thats pshat kirtzono..they were created to go acc. to his will. Its in their tevah to be good ppl. Notice how they are more emotionaly simpathetic to others…b/c that hakadosh boruch hus will. We men should learn a lesson from women and how they act.

yashrus, I approve :). really very nice..

(This is not for my wednesday vort).

The ratzon of HaShem in the creation was the creation of man. The pasuk says Elokim said to make man in his image of Elokim. In Kabbalah, Elokim is in the gevurah realm, which is female.

The other ratzon of HaShem was His resting on Shabbos on the seventh day. The seventh day in kabbalah is malchus, which is female. Shabbos is therefore a queen, and it contains the word bas (daughter). Moreover, in the beracha for Naftali (in Devarim) it states Naftali ??? ????. This is a remez for the connection between ???, the seventh day, and ratzon.

To make a long story short, the ratzon of HaShem is female. This is why females say sheasani keritzono, that they were made like his ratzon.

nossond: great vort as usual!!!! keep em comin!!!

asdfghjkl: Thanks for the compliment. You have fine middos like Aharon, because your comments, on all the Divrei Torah, probably keep this thing going.

Pashuteh Yid: great pshat!

I will add to it. Now that we have the Rashba’s teretz for the issur of ba’al tigra, why is the other heter used for the mitzva of blowing shofar, namely, that the chachamin are oker bshev v’al ta’aseh. Lichaora, you can only use the extra streangth of takanos chazal in regard to ba’al tigra becacause it is kollel all the mitzvos and chazal similarly make takanos for all the mitzvos. But on each particular mitzvah, you must use the stam heter of shev va’l ta’aseh.