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Source for quote from Rebbe Nachman zy"a
Does anyone know where the source is for the quote, "Remember: Things can go from the very worst to the very best in just the blink of an eye", I don't think this is an exact quote but if ...
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Is there a gemara that explains why our forefathers' prayers were answered right away?
I think I remember a gemara that says the reason why our fathers were answered right away as opposed to us is because they knew G-d's name. I am searching for it but I have not found it yet.
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Seeking to find a quote from Rashba on Kidushin
ולולא פירוש רש"י היו דברי התנאיים והאמוראים סתומות ולא היו ניתנים
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Were it nor for Rashi's commentary, Shas would remain a closed book to
us all.
I heard that the Rashba says the above in ...
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Touching dogs obstructs prayers - source?
One of the first things I learned in yeshiva was that there is some source that says that:
if one touches a dog, then their prayers are "held up in heaven" for 40 days.
I don't remember ...
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Yisro wanting to go back to convert people: Moshe says no!
In Parshas Behaaloscha (Bamidbar 10:29), the Torah says:
And Moshe said to Ḥovav, the son of Re῾u᾽el, the Midyanite, Moshe’s father in law, We are journeying to the place of which the L-rd said, I ...
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Animals in the Ark of Noach: a metaphor for the nations of the world
In Parshas Noach (Bereishis 6:19-20), we read the instruction G-d gave Noach to build an ark, and together with his family, to put in animals:
וּמִכׇּל־הָ֠חַ֠י מִֽכׇּל־בָּשָׂ֞ר שְׁנַ֧יִם מִכֹּ֛ל ...
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Ha'azinu as a spiritual remedy for heretical thoughts
The B'nei Yissoschor in the sefer Agra D'Pirka, as quoted by the sefer Kavod Shabbos (Parshas Ha'azinu, p. 548) says:
לומר בכל יום שירת האזינו: נראה לי בסגולה ללמוד בכל יום שירת האזינו,
והוא סגולה ...
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Sleep Paralysis in Torah?
My friend recently mentioned to me that he has sleep paralysis and I was wondering what the Torah has to say about it:
Why does it happen according to the Torah?
How does one stop it from happening ...
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What is the quote about 13 rivers of aparsemon?
Can some share the quote where this came from: "the righteous will bathe in 13 rivers of aparsemon"? I've seen it paraphrased online a lot but I can't find it in the reference listed (Avodah ...
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Source for Shofar customs
What are the different practices and sources for different practices of the quality of the shofar sounds (not Rashi vs Tosfos (ie: 3 vs 9 truah)); ie: where the note goes up and down (rootoos, ...
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Connection Between Shechem and Yitro? (and Amalek)
When Saul goes to war against Amalek, he tells the Kenites to withdraw from among the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15:6).
In Josephus's Antiquities, it is David who gives this warning when he is attacking the ...
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Original source of the term "Atzmus" in Kabbalah
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I know Chassidus and kabbalah often refers to the Atzmus (Essence of G-d). What is the original source of the idea?
I know the verse in the Torah mentions the bones, עַצְמ֥וֹת (Atzmos) of ...
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Egyptian priests as closet monotheists, and Joseph’s Pharaoh as a Canaanite?
An exceptionally rare 1936 book by Rev Dr Izak Goller, called First Chapter, includes the following:
A powerful shepherd king of Canaan had invaded and conquered Egypt,
and one of his descendants ...
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Humans allowed to engage mida k'negged mida?
In my related question, What is the difference between mida k'negged mida and nekama, it was brought that the point of midda k'negged mida (one of the points, at least), is to help someone wake up ...
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The Mitzva to Know Hashem = get to know Him. Diyyuk in Mishneh Torah?
I once heard Rabbi Manis Friedman Shlita prove, from the wording or some other clever diyuk, in the first perek of Mishneh Torah, that the Mitzva of (paraphrased) "knowing that there is a first ...
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