גמרא נידה דף ד' ע''ב, הלכות מטמאי משכב ומושב. פרק ג' חלכה ז'

 

) גמרא נידה דף ד' ע''ב. אישה שיש לה ווסת כתמה טמא למפרע שאם תראה שלא בשעת ווסתה מטמאה מעת לעת. (ומה אם אין לה מחזור קבוע? אז כתמה מטמא למפרע עד הבדיקה האחרונה. הלכות מטמאי משכב ומושב. פרק ג' חלכה ז')) הרשו לי לתאר את מקור התמיהה שלי. לחכמים ראיית דם מטמאה אותה והולכת אחורה 24 שעות. ור' דוסא אומר אם היא רואה בשעת ווסתה, אז היא טמאה רק אז. הברייתא היא גם לחכמים וגם לר' דוסא. ביד החזקה הלכות איסורי ביאה פרק ט'הלכה ג', ראיית כתם חוזרת 24 שעות אחורה לנגיעת תרומה וקדשים. אבל מה שמטריד אותי זו השאלה "למה מתייחסת הברייתא?" כשהכתם חוזר יותר מ-24 שעות אחורה כשאין לה ווסת? אז למה להשוות את זה לראיית דם שחוזרת רק 24 שעות אחורה? או אולי הכוונה היא שיש לה ווסת ואז כתמה טמא למפרע כ''ד שעות, אז למה להגיד "למפרע" שונה ממה שזה חוזר אחורה 24 שעות–מעת לעת? הדרך שבה נראית הברייתא היא שאם הייתה משמעותה של 24 שעות, היא הייתה משתמשת באותו ביטוי המשמש לראייה בפועל. לא "למפרע" אלא "מעת לעת".

Why write music? you might ask. It certainly is no reason for bitul Torah. But I had  a  degree of difficulty in learning Torah. Mainly it was such that I walked away from it myself and found I could not really return to the straight Litvak Path. So I  recommend the straight path of Torah --the path that the Gra represents. No additions and no perversions. But that does not imply I am on this holy path myself. I wish I could learn Torah 24/7 as I should but I am finding that difficult. [Not that that is an excuse.]

[I wonder if I had not left the Mir in NY, how things might have turned out better.]

Old music files that I wrote around 2012

 j13 j14 j16 j55 j28 j27  [j files in this post are all in midi]

exodus 4 in mp3 [exodus 4 in midi][This last one was written in the 1990's on the way back from Uman]

organ [organ in midi](this one also is from the 1990's) j8 e-33  [e-33 in midi] mathematics [the basic music line here was written while by the ziun of rav nahman in uman and then put together in ny.]]

j61  j64

 j12 Some old file I wrote some years ago. v54

Normally I would just forget about old files, but I noticed that someone or other is looking at this blog, so I figured that it is right to share. That is not to say that these files do not need editing.

Kant held that the issue of causality does not apply among dinge an sich (things in themselves) and in fact Physics is formulated in such a way that things know to move to lower energy levels [the Lagrange formulation]. So even though causality is true, it seems that physics is in fact showing that in a deeper sense causality is not fundamental. 

So even though causality is true and even true locally, still the general way Physics is formulated nowadays with idea of things tending towards lower energy levels, [and how would that poor electron know about that?] shows that there is some level of reality that is transcendent

(things in themselves) means things without the characteristics that we the observers attribute to them. That is: the way they are without our contribution.

Why get into a shooting war? There already were plenty of close calls with the old Cold War. And it is a miracle that did not end in disaster..

 In the American Civil War, you did not have neighbors attacking neighbors. This is not the case in the Ukraine. The situation is such that such scenarios are probable. Such was the case when the czar abdicated. People that thought their neighbors were on the other side of the fence [Either the Reds [communistic] or the Whites [for the Czar] would murder.. And some cities would welcome a return of the old USSR. [as many people told me ].And other cities would not. The dividing lines are not set.

So I think that the USA ought to not intervene. 

Why get into a shooting war?  There already were plenty of close calls with the old Cold War. And it is a miracle that did not end in disaster.. 

The problem is that people do not understand the Ukraine. It is not the East that is divided. It is every single neighbor that has heard a word for the last 30 years about the "good old days of the USSR" is now going to try and destroy that neighbor. It is a civil war like nothing the West can imagine. Plus there is some strand of DNA in the Ukraine that tends to criminality. So to have USA troops over there is unwise.

Every word of Torah is "equal to them all" (i.e. all the other commandments).

 Where you see the idea of every word of Torah is equal to all (other commandments) is in the Yerushalmi on the mishna in peah תלמוד תורה כנגד כולם אפילו דבר אחד של התורה. "Learning Torah is equal to them all (other commandments),"--and the Yerushalmi says there, " even one word of Torah."

But this leaves me in a sort of contradictory position, for on one hand I think learning Torah [Oral and Written Law] is the greatest of all the commandments, still I do not think people ought to be paid money for doing so. To me it is like having trust in God. Trust in God is also a mitzvah [as brought in many verses]. But would you pay someone to have trust in God?

[ I might mention, that the strict definition of the Oral Law refers to the actual books written around the time of the Talmud. רבינא ורב אשי סוף הוראה As the Gemara says: "Ravina and Rav Ashi are the end of the period of teaching and deciding the law." So what comes later is second hand. So while the rishonim are important in order to understand the Oral Law, they are not the Oral Law.] 

כמו שאין תוספת וגירעון בתורה שבכתב כן אין תוספת וגירעון בתורה שבעל פה--רמב''ם באגרת

[When I  was in Shar Yashuv (of Rav Freifeld), I discovered this idea of the importance of every word of Torah. That lite a fuse under me. Later circumstances dampened my ardor, but I still wish that I could be learning Torah.]  (Incidentally he emphasized doing every chapter or portion of what one learns ten times. In Shar Yashuv they were very much into learning in depth. I now appreciate that much more than I did then, because I have that people that d not get the in depth sort of learning when young, never get it.]

[There is a difference between the Oral Law and explanations of the Oral Law. So while the actual Oral Law is only the books of the sages of the Mishna and Talmud, Tosphot would be in the category of what explains the oral law.