http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/ Daily Halachah Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:12:54 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1122 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1122 Though most brachos (blessings) begin "Boruch Attah Hashem, E-lokeinu Melech Ha'olam..." (Blessed are You Hashem our G-d, King of the world..." Shemonah Esray Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:34:20 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1121 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1121 Interestingly enough, the Medrash Tanchuma on this week's parshah (portion of the Torah Reading), Parshas Vayeira, begins with a discussion of the Halachos we Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:08:31 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1120 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1120 The Talmud tells us that the arrangement of Shemonah Esray was taken, at least in part, from Psalm 29, as we mentioned. The first brachah (blessing) in Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:43:08 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1119 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1119 What is so significant about the number 18, that there are so many allusions to it, and that Shemonah Esray was originally formed with 18 blessings? The Talmud Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:12:46 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1118 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1118 The Talmud (Brachos 28b) tells us that the eighteen brachos correspond to the eighteen times that King David mentions Hashem's Name in Psalm 29. The Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:40:11 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1117 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1117 Today's Daily Halachah is dedicated to my son Dovid Aryeh, who today becomes a Bar Mitzvah (i.e., today he has become thirteen years old), and who thus joins Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:16:24 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1116 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1116 The Orchos Chayim adds several more reasons for Chazal (our Holy Sages) choosing to have 18 blessings in Shemonah Esray: He cites Rebi Shmu'el bar Nachman (A Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:21:33 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1115 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1115 We have learned that the Men of the Great Assembly had numerous reasons for their arrangement of Shemonah Esray. The Orchos Chayim (from Rav Aharon of Lunen, Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:50:46 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1114 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1114 When the Jews began to return to Israel after the Exile to Babylon (in the year 3408 after Creation, which corresponds to 352 BCE), they realized that a lot of Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:10:04 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1113 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1113 Prayer has been likened to a ladder. It is sometimes called "Jacob's Ladder." In Genesis (28:10-22) we learn of our Forefather Jacob's Divinely inspired dream Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:44:10 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1112 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1112 Last night I merited driving HaRav Bentzion Wosner Shlita someplace. Rabbi Wosner is one of the leading Rabbis of the generation. We had several nice Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:44:10 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1111 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1111 The Bais Yosef (Section 112, s.v. Kasuv) cites a medrash that says that each of the brachos (blessings) of Shemonah Esray existed prior to the formation of the Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:04:32 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1110 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1110 We have learned that the first and last three brachos of Shemonah Esray are not requests, but are praises of Hashem. Therefore, during the first and last three Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:16:51 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1109 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1109 As we have learned, a great deal of knowledge went into creating the prayers as we have them today. Each and every word is based on Torah that was taught to us Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:30:20 GMT Mordechai Housman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1108 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyHalachah/message/1108 Around the year 3408 after Creation (252 B.C.E.), Ezra the Scribe, the Leader of all Jewry of the time, founded the Great Assembly. The Anshai Knesses