Posts by Yosef Farhi
ENGLISH BO 2013
YOU MAY NOT KNOW There is a joke that the kids say here in Israel.- Father and son were going on a long walk together. The son asked his father, “Dad, why does fire rise upward ?” His father answered, “I do not know, dear son.” A couple of minutes later, the son asked his…
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Lección de una anciana egipcia La capacidad de la mente humana de creer en lo que quiere, aun en contra de cualquier probabilidad, es asombrosa. El Midrash Hagadol relata el episodio siguiente: Cuando Moshé profetizó acerca de la muerte de los primogénitos, mencionó que habría un gran clamor en toda la tierra de Egipto, como…
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LESSON FROM A FROG Anyone who gets angry is considered as one who practices idolatry. (Shabbat 105b) Why is it like that? The last time I got angry, I did not feel that I do not believe in G-d. Such a thought did not even cross my mind. As a matter of fact, when people…
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Recuerdos de gratitud Moshé se mostró renuente a aceptar el puesto de redentor de los judíos de Egipto, justificando su oposición con el pretexto de “no ser un hombre de palabras y de poseer una boca y lengua pesadas (una forma de hablar poco clara)“. Moshé se refería al tartamudeo que había sufrido al quemarse…
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“WANNABES” When R’ Chaim Shmulevitz was eulogizing the Brisker Rav, he just cried as he was unable to speak, choked for words. He said that telling the stories of a person’s deeds is the way that people usually give an idea of who that person was. But when we’re talking about the Rav, stories of…
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