tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post3568469649907132148..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Have you seen my Alps?joshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-17817463764304222342013-07-02T00:37:26.946-04:002013-07-02T00:37:26.946-04:00Hillel:
I had never heard that story about the tei...Hillel:<br />I had never heard that story about the teiva. Very funny.<br /><br />Regardless, it does not take away from the existence of the Yerushalmi, and solid precedence -- albeit not from this particular rabbi's beit midrash -- for what this travelling Jew was saying. He would / should not have been flummoxed had the good rabbi chosen to spoil the vacation by pointing out the gemara.joshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-42872498891954292832013-07-01T15:21:02.088-04:002013-07-01T15:21:02.088-04:00R' Waxman,
In fairness, there is also a story ...R' Waxman,<br />In fairness, there is also a story than when R' Hirsch went to a spa in Switzerland that was run by Reform Jews, he said of the experience:<br />"The spa was like Noach's teiva, and also it wasn't. It was like the teiva in that it had kofer both inside and out. But it also wasn't, in that the teiva saved humanity, and this spa won't save anyone." <br /><br />KT,<br />HillelHillelhttp://frozentorah.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-89179176704537222432013-07-01T12:49:36.906-04:002013-07-01T12:49:36.906-04:00I found this very timely. My parents were just in ...I found this very timely. My parents were just in Switzerland for a family simcha. Upon seeing the Alps, my father made the bracha of "Oseh Ma'aseh Breishit." My chabad relatives were stunned by this practice.Jonathan Kahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12892758590850664592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-72216897453789592662013-07-01T10:36:01.259-04:002013-07-01T10:36:01.259-04:00It is also strange that when he mentions the Gemar...It is also strange that when he mentions the Gemara in Shabbat he forgets the first question that will be asked in the World to Come which is "were you honest in our business dealings."<br />Rabbi Sedleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03216379873253870218noreply@blogger.com