Vol 30.37 - Hosafot - Supplement
Hebrew Text
Summary
259 - BereshitSource and explanation of Daat Zekainim (be, of Genesis) that the world was open from the North
/What is the concept of Resting Above on Shabbat if Creation is ongoing every second
/Torah's view on Evolution; Negation of Apologetics; contradictions in the theory itself; comparison to scientific journals
/negation of the "contradiction "of modern scientists to the accepted explanation of Torah concerning the age of the World;
Explanation of Saying: "Created worlds and destroyed them"
/Explanation of "day" of the Six days of the week
/Accepting Evolution denies the Mitzvah of Shabbat; Negation of "compromising" Torah to fit with Science
/Voiding the philosophy of Apologetics; Resolutions of opinions doubt etc
/ comments on R. Shteif's commentary on Torah
/The tradition of Large Hebrew letters of the Torah
/development of creation of potential matter, heaven and earth, time, future;
If non-Jews ( Bnei Noach) are obligated to sanctify Shabbat; If non-Jews ( Bnei Noach) are obligated to honor Parents;
The views of age of Creation (years); partial years;
Creation in Nissan or Tishrei; The view that the world was created in Tishrei 1; Date of the Flood
/Concept of "Light that was created on the First Day
/ Blessing on the striking of the Sun or Moon; If Chazal knew that this is a natural phenomenon
/Grass was not explicitly commanded to grow "after its kind"
/Dispute of the Rishonim if Angels have a body" The body is too small to contain the essence of the Soul yet the soul of a child is able to enliven the body of Og ( giant)
/Source of Chazal that Ramban brings (Gen 2:9) that "Three spoke the truth and were destroyed"
/Why women die at childbirth (R'L) for being lax in Candle Lighting
/King Chizkiah punished for not having children, Connection of his prayer conjoining Redemption to Prayer
/Reason for the differences of R. Meir's text of Torah
/Why Hevel's conception is not written; Reason for the name Hevel ( Abel)
/Who authored Sefer HaYashar and Yosifun (Josephus)
278 - Noach
"in his generation" - "if he would have been in the generation of Abraham etc" - Even though Abraham was 58 years old when Noach lived.
279 - Lech Lecha
"Neither from a thread to a shoe strap (Gen. 14:23)"
/ Necessity of "Priyah"; oral suction, through glass tube
/ Repudiation of view that society should ban oral suction/Explanation of Shut of Tzemach Tzedek that "Milat Moshuch" is d'Rabbanan
/ Explanation of Saying that (in a bathhouse) a Jew is not naked of Mitzvot since he has been circumcised
/ Circumcision of Abraham was physical/Customs of Chabad for Circumcision and the appropriateness of the Mohel learning Chassidut
/Jewish education for those not yet circumcised.
284 Vayeira
Concerning what is wriiten in Keter Shem Tov: "She said Solet ( course flour)"
/Advantage of Man over Angels who do not perform two missions (at once)
/ Debate about which angel saved Lot; "And they took him etc". Which angels does this refer to
/Difference between the names "Be'ar Sheva" in Parsha Vayeira and Parshat Toldot
/Debate about the explanation of the passage "And Maacah"
286 Vayetze
"Angels were ascending and descending upon it" ascending and afterwards descending
/ Engagement of a younger daughter before the older/Concerning what is written in many places that "that night Leah herself was Rachel"; Views in the number of stones that Jacob placed at his head
/ "and it was Light" Gematria ="Rachel"
/Explanation of passages: "and she named him Reuben, for she said, etc and she said, "Since the Lord has heard that I am hated"
/ Rashi's explanation of Gad "you betrayed me"; reason why "conception" was not stated by Zilpah because 'she was the youngest of them(Bereshit Rabbah)"
/Pronunciation of Yissachar ( 2 Shins)
289 Vayishlach
Prohibition to derive pleasure from the displaced tendon, (Gid HaNasheh )
/Bar Mitzvah learnt from Shimon and Levi and the connection to the name "Eliezer"
291 Yud Tet Kislev
Reason that Tachnun is not recited on Yud Tet Kislev/Response to the comments of the letter ( L.S vol,8 pg. 434)
/Setting time to study the Weekly Parsha of Torah Ohr and Likkutei Torah/ "Spreading your Wellsprings" - specifically Chabad Chassidut; Necessity of learning Chassidut
/ Necessity of learning Chassidut in our time/Concerning a compilation of Zohar similar to "Ein Yaakov"
/ Serving G-d properly through learning Chabad Chassidut/ Necessity of learning Pnimiyut HaTorah ( inner dimensions)
/Negation of the claim that there is no necessity to learn Pnimiyut HaTorah
/ Necessity of learning this specifically for those who have learned in a Yeshivah where Pnimiyut HaTorah is studied.
299 Vayeshev
Explanation of the passage:""They have traveled away from here" (They removed themselves from brotherhood);The dream of Yaakov - not musings of his heart
/Explanation of Ohr HaChaim (Vayeshev37:21) that an independent human being ( Ba'al Bechirah) is able to kill even someone who is not deserving of death ( Chayav Misa) in the heavenly court.
Miketz
Chanukah
Vayigash
Vayechi