Answers for Ask Judea Torah Show 10

[judeanoncapta]

First of all, I want to apologize for two things:

1) For the length of time it took to do this show(I'm sorry, I've been very busy. I leave home at 6 in the morning and come home at 11 at night.)

and

2) For the audio quality of this show. (Apparently my great microphone was lost during my move. I hope to find it soon.)

http://rapidshare.com/files/158031874/AskJudeaTorahShow10.mp3.html

I cannot wait to hear your new questions and look forward to answering them.

[q_q_]

Audio quality didn't work out badly.. Fortunately the volume was alright.

You don't have to apologise for anything!!

If anything we should apologise to you for adding to your already tight schedule.

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

Thanks for the response.  I believe the Rabbi you were thinking of was Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Schapira, who was rebbe of the Warsaw ghetto.   Incidentally, I recently picked up his mussar sefer, Chovath haTalmidim a few weeks ago.    It was in our beit midrash.  The introduction includes a somewhat lengthy biography piece about the rabbi, but this is an Art scroll produced book.  There is mention made of his other work Aish Kodesh, and I immediately wanted to read it (we don't have it here).  But his feelings about the uprising are not mentioned.   I was wondering, is this mentioned in Aish Kodesh, or in some other work about the Warsaw ghetto that you would recommend?  I was curious where you learned that he approved of it.   

The mussar text is pretty good.

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

Thanks for doing the program, the volume wasn't unbearable but hopefully you will find that better equipment.  Excellent work though, and I could manage to hear it in the headphones alright.

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

Also this was from answers to Ask Judea Torah Show 9, in response to a question of mine that you answered in that program:

Judea, if one can say the haskevanu etc no problem and don't even really need to connect geula to tefillah at maariv, like you have answered in this week's program, what was that whole discussion about last week where you were saying that the Yerushalmi custom was to say the shema and hashskevaynu before going to sleep?   Did they do both, maariv and shema with minyan and then again at home before going to sleep?  And did they include hashkevaynu in the minyan tefillah?

Can you briefly clarify to help my confusion here or should I ask this as a question in the next show?  Thanks.

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

Who was the rabbi you mentioned to Tzvi when you said he understood halacha and Torah minutae probably better than anyone on the planet, but you quoted as saying Jews should not be nationalist in any way?   I couldn't make out the name, so please spell it out here if possible.

[Tzvi Ben Roshel1]

Who was the rabbi you mentioned to Tzvi when you said he understood halacha and Torah minutae probably better than anyone on the planet, but you quoted as saying Jews should not be nationalist in any way?   I couldn't make out the name, so please spell it out here if possible.

 Rav Kanievsky

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

Who was the rabbi you mentioned to Tzvi when you said he understood halacha and Torah minutae probably better than anyone on the planet, but you quoted as saying Jews should not be nationalist in any way?   I couldn't make out the name, so please spell it out here if possible.

 Rav Kanievsky

I'm not sure that he said that it sounded like he said the 'gaon of... ' I couldn't make it out... but it wasn't when you were talking about Rav Kanievsky, I don't think.   It was someone else Judea brought up.   Maybe you're right, I'll have to recheck the audio tape.

[judeanoncapta]

Who was the rabbi you mentioned to Tzvi when you said he understood halacha and Torah minutae probably better than anyone on the planet, but you quoted as saying Jews should not be nationalist in any way?   I couldn't make out the name, so please spell it out here if possible.

 Rav Kanievsky

I'm not sure that he said that it sounded like he said the 'gaon of... ' I couldn't make it out... but it wasn't when you were talking about Rav Kanievsky, I don't think.   It was someone else Judea brought up.   Maybe you're right, I'll have to recheck the audio tape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogatchover_Gaon

[q_q_]

this is why when people listen, if they are listenening to the whole thing, then they should make notes into notepad

richard: 0:0
angelo: 3:14
donatello: 6:03
donatello-2: 7:49
raphael: 9:45
leonardo: 13:43

e.t.c.

If somebody had dome that then you'd have been able to find it quicker.

I have done the whole thing in the past..
 
But I find that nobody else even bothers to contribute the time when their own question is asked.

How about I make a template, like this.. And if somebody does listen to it now, they can add the times

AJ10

qq-1(sarah q on prophecies):
qq-2(yaakov q on evolution):
qq-3(ashkenazi jewish history):
qq-4(shul serv):
qq-5(trust in sages):
K-BT-1(zohar):
K-BT-2(zohar)
K-BT-3(Rabbi Weissmandl)
K-BT-4(rising up to revolt):
Tzvi(Biryonim - those that faught against romans[1]):
Tzvi:(fast of Gedalya)
Tzvi:(what does judea know about the town of Yitzhar's jewish demographics)
Tzvi:(yeshivot)
Tzvi:(sukkah walls)
Zelhar(who are Am Haaretz!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Zelhar(menashe and amon)
Zelhar(supernatural)
Tzvi(who is Rav Kanievsky)
Tzvi(speaking english)

[1]  - tzvibenroshel should have said this in his question, they are people that faught against the romans. But by luck he spelt it right so it could be googled. And judea explained it in his answer


NOW.

PEOPLE CAN POST IN THIS THREAD, TIMES FOR ANY OF THOSE, AND I CAN AMEND THIS POST AND ADD THE TIMES.

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

qq, I use musicmatch jukebox and the timing is off, so it would not help anyone for me to make up a list with the wrong times. 

[q_q_]

qq, I use musicmatch jukebox and the timing is off, so it would not help anyone for me to make up a list with the wrong times. 

what are you using that for?

BTW, the timing from that would still be fine.. If it was off by 5 seconds for some reason, then every time would be 5 seconds ahead or before. It's a constant.  So it would be fine.   Now, if your recording had judea talking  slower or faster, then the maths would be less quick and it might not be worth it!

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

Not sure why but I really like the program.  And I generally don't like change.   

In terms of the time inaccuracy, I'm not sure what it is, but when I jump from place to place in the audio file, sometimes the same track numbers will bring up different audio bits (ie the tape - minute/sec count - is further along or farther back even if I place the cursor to the same location/track number count).     It might still be useful if I jot down times though...