tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post1579421945910677232..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Posts so far for parshat Shemotjoshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-20209730380416375382010-01-07T10:26:11.116-05:002010-01-07T10:26:11.116-05:00Yanki Tauber, of chabad.org, wrote me the followin...Yanki Tauber, of chabad.org, wrote me the following email about the idea Josh quoted: <br /><br />Dear Saul<br />The peice you cite is actually from the Kotzker Rebbe (chassidic master Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, 1787-1829). It appears in the book Emet v'Emunah (as well as in various other works that quote his teachings). The attribution to the Lubavitcher Rebbe was in error, and this has been corrected on the site.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15636640451556610226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-16871094772244740702010-01-05T23:44:05.852-05:002010-01-05T23:44:05.852-05:00sorry - this i didn't actually see inside, but...sorry - this i didn't actually see inside, but got from Chabad's "parsha in depth":<br /><br />http://www.chabad.org/parshah/in-depth/plainBody_cdo/MosadTitle2/Chabad.org/AID/1150#<br /><br />maybe someone there could pinpoint the source for you.<br /><br />kt,<br />joshjoshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-59601737610720777102010-01-05T03:22:25.816-05:002010-01-05T03:22:25.816-05:00In 2007, you cited the Lubavitcher Rebbe's bea...In 2007, you cited the Lubavitcher Rebbe's beautiful explanation of the Midrash that states that Pharoh's daughter's arm became very long when she say Moshe in the basket. ("We are confronted with a situation that is beyond our capacity to rectify. So we resign ourselves to inactivity, reasoning that the little we can do won't change anything anyway. Yet Pharaoh's daughter heard a child's cry and extended her arm. An unbridgeable distance lay between her and the basket, making her action seem utterly pointless. But because she did the maximum of which she was capable, G-d did the rest.") Can you pinpoint the place the Rebbe said this (i.e. provide a reference)? Thanks.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15636640451556610226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-63248757996108959702009-01-18T09:31:00.000-05:002009-01-18T09:31:00.000-05:00thanks.thanks.joshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-79266090912723369472009-01-16T14:44:00.000-05:002009-01-16T14:44:00.000-05:00Hitting them all out of the Ball park like a seaso...Hitting them all out of the Ball park like a seasoned pro very Impressive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-78569328429231951382009-01-16T08:40:00.000-05:002009-01-16T08:40:00.000-05:00great question!I addressed it at the end of the po...great question!<BR/>I addressed it at the <A HREF="http://parsha.blogspot.com/2009/01/6-in-one-birth.html" REL="nofollow">end of the post I just put up</A>.<BR/><BR/>Shabbat Shalom,<BR/>Joshjoshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-51000066885714373122009-01-15T21:30:00.000-05:002009-01-15T21:30:00.000-05:00I thought of something this morning and I'm quite ...I thought of something this morning and I'm quite puzzled by it. Midrash Rabbo comments on a six-fold expression for population increase by saying that Jewish women gave birth to six babies at once. But Moshe was born by himself - unless you suppose that he had an extra five siblings that are mentioned nowhere else. This is such an obvious question that there must be an obvious answer, but I can't think of one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-67767551580695446892009-01-15T21:00:00.000-05:002009-01-15T21:00:00.000-05:00thanks. perhaps i'll do a post on it. I could add ...thanks. perhaps i'll do a post on it. I could add <A HREF="http://parsha.blogspot.com/2006/01/interesting-article-on-fe-mohels.html" REL="nofollow">the following</A>, from 3 years ago:<BR/><BR/>http://parsha.blogspot.com/2006/01/interesting-article-on-fe-mohels.htmljoshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-12558758362765258242009-01-15T20:33:00.001-05:002009-01-15T20:33:00.001-05:00Thing is was this baby alive or dead?Thing is was this baby alive or dead?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-2702687267123811732009-01-15T20:33:00.000-05:002009-01-15T20:33:00.000-05:00add this story you have a ready made postThe follo...add this story you have a ready made post<BR/><BR/><BR/>The following powerful story appears in “Hassidic Tales of the Holocaust” by Yaffa Eliach:<BR/><BR/>One of the forced laborers in the camps relates that one day he heard frightening cries of anguish the likes of which he had never heard before. Later he learned that on that very day a selection had been made — of infants to be sent to the ovens. We continued working, tears rolling down our faces, and suddenly I hear the voice of a Jewish woman: “Give me a knife.”<BR/><BR/>I thought she wanted to take her own life. I said to her, “Why are you hurrying so quickly to the world of truth…” All of a sudden the German soldier called out, “Dog, what did you say to the woman?”<BR/><BR/>“She requested a pocketknife and I explained to her that it was prohibited to commit suicide.”<BR/><BR/>The woman looked at the German with inflamed eyes, and stared spellbound at his coat pocket where she saw the shape of his pocketknife. “Give it to me,” she requested. She bent down and picked up a package of old rags. Hidden among them, on a pillow as white as snow, lay a tender infant. The woman took the pocketknife, pronounced the blessing — and circumcised the child. “Master of the Universe,” she cried, “You gave me a healthy child, I return him to You a worthy Jew.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-37984068976396813692009-01-15T20:31:00.000-05:002009-01-15T20:31:00.000-05:00You should do a Post on this.http://www.theyeshiva...You should do a Post on this.<BR/>http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=5571Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-61465905783060893802009-01-11T17:39:00.000-05:002009-01-11T17:39:00.000-05:00Did Moshe speak Loshon Hara hence SNAKE, or Moitze...Did Moshe speak Loshon Hara hence SNAKE, or Moitzeh Shem Ra and hence Loikeh Bigufo?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com