tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post6917429887121280896..comments2024-03-25T16:16:30.872-04:00Comments on YGB - יג"ב: Fron this week's Jewish PressYosef Gavriel Bechhoferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10264311760560329892noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-16257215183031530392008-02-11T13:29:00.000-05:002008-02-11T13:29:00.000-05:00Classical concerts are not dinner-dances. The ones...Classical concerts are not dinner-dances. The ones I have attended did not seem particularly provocative. And the atmosphere is very different, as you yourself acknowledge.<BR/><BR/>BTW, we were not in disagreement as to attending sporting events as R&R. The case may be made for that. We disagreed as to whether attending sporting events is in and of itself a cheftza of Avodas Hashem.Yosef Gavriel Bechhoferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10264311760560329892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-86757148339292555312008-02-10T13:00:00.001-05:002008-02-10T13:00:00.001-05:00oops - should have said " v'atzum"oops - should have said " v'atzum"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-14527813344614381602008-02-10T13:00:00.000-05:002008-02-10T13:00:00.000-05:00ygb,here in your old Chicago, there is a RY who te...ygb,<BR/><BR/>here in your old Chicago, there is a RY who tells yungeleit and some of his bochurim, that pro sports is a problem because of kochi v'atum yadi. BUT, minor league events are more acceptable. <BR/><BR/>I wonder though about your example of clasasical music. is it really worse to sit in a park on a beautiful sunny day, with your son and daughter, discussing the intricacies of the game (as i have with both my son and daughter), ignoring all the people around you as best you can. or go to a fancy concert - classical - where the level of tznius dress is as bad or worse than the ball game? some composers were known anti-semites. etc...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-62802647792407839962008-02-07T14:38:00.001-05:002008-02-07T14:38:00.001-05:00ygb@aishdas.orgygb@aishdas.orgYosef Gavriel Bechhoferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10264311760560329892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-88502776881929086882008-02-07T14:38:00.000-05:002008-02-07T14:38:00.000-05:00ygb@aishdas.orgygb@aishdas.orgYosef Gavriel Bechhoferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10264311760560329892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-57412855697814850652008-02-06T06:31:00.000-05:002008-02-06T06:31:00.000-05:00Sorry that the link to the Dvar Torah of HaRav Ela...Sorry that the link to the Dvar Torah of HaRav Elazar Rokeach ZT"L is not working. Bli Neder, I will try to have another Web site display it. However, if Rav Bechhofer SHLIT"A can receive and display the PDF file here, that will be the best solution.<BR/><BR/>Can Rav Bechhofer please give an e-mail address to which to send that PDF file. Yasher Kochachem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-5813610850963308142008-02-06T00:34:00.000-05:002008-02-06T00:34:00.000-05:00Can you repost the link i cant get to it?Can you repost the link i cant get to it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-12640743235445372382008-02-04T10:11:00.000-05:002008-02-04T10:11:00.000-05:00Another opinion:According to the Sefer Maase Rokea...Another opinion:<BR/>According to the Sefer Maase Rokeach (by HaRav Elazar Rokeach TZ"L, great grandfather of the first Belzer Rebbe)<BR/><BR/>http://web.archive.org/web/20050211030942/www.jct.ac.il/SeferToratHamishkan/SX/S4.PDF<BR/><BR/>there are differences between the Mishkan we would have had before the Cheit HaEigel (Parshos Trumah and Tetzaveh) and that we got after the Cheit (Parshos Ki Sisa, Vayakhel, and Pkudai).<BR/><BR/>Perhaps the Bais HaMikdash HaShlishi TVBB"A ("Mikdash HASHEM Konenu Yadechah" -- the ultimate in perfection) will -- unlike its predecessors -- be a return to the situation before Cheit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-62382808089823467312008-02-04T00:06:00.000-05:002008-02-04T00:06:00.000-05:00We paskin "ein bein" - so the tikkunim are still o...We paskin "ein bein" - so the tikkunim are still occurring.Yosef Gavriel Bechhoferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10264311760560329892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-79769390701090477462008-02-03T23:39:00.000-05:002008-02-03T23:39:00.000-05:00I thought If Moshiach is here the Tikkunim are ove...I thought If Moshiach is here the Tikkunim are over?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-88962794231380519912008-02-03T21:35:00.000-05:002008-02-03T21:35:00.000-05:00Mort is a wonderful correspondent. I'm sure he mea...Mort is a wonderful correspondent. I'm sure he meant absolutely nothing negative! He just wants me to blog more...<BR/><BR/>We need a third BhM because so long as we are in this world we still need the tikkun for chet ha'egel.Yosef Gavriel Bechhoferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10264311760560329892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-30131901058115908882008-02-03T20:26:00.000-05:002008-02-03T20:26:00.000-05:00According to the soforno this week Terumah The Mis...According to the soforno this week Terumah The Mishkan-Beis hamikdash was only needed because of the Chait Haegel if so why do we need a third Beis Hamikdash?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-25371942599943493732008-02-03T15:38:00.000-05:002008-02-03T15:38:00.000-05:00Mort:Please be respectful. We know that Rav Bechh...Mort:<BR/>Please be respectful. We know that Rav Bechhofer SHLIT"A is very busy with numerous Torah activities.<BR/><BR/>I doubt that the Rav needs my support. But to my simple way of thinking, if a spectator sport is not a Moshav Leitzim, then what is?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425001.post-13322318358102103862008-02-02T20:04:00.000-05:002008-02-02T20:04:00.000-05:00Nice.On an unrelated note, unless you have been so...Nice.<BR/>On an unrelated note, unless you have been so busy following the Giants and Jets this season :-), when are you going to get back to regular blogging?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com