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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  A selfish person davens only for his needs

  But a selfless person dabens for his needs and for the other's needs. And the other can and should include Hashem.  "Make His will your will".

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  The entire month has the name Menachem Av yet

  We begin to decrease in sorrow already by midday on the 9th. In fact Tu b'Av is a joyous day. 

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  In the mid 1700's the Baal Shem Tov, the Maggid, the Alter Rebbe

  We're waging a ruchnious battle against jewish elitism, Napoleon, the Czars, etc on one side of the world ....  while  

  George Washington and his gang were battling a gashmious physical pro-democracy battle against tyrannical English and French kings on the other side of the world.

  Today in the West (including Israel) we enjoy the benefits of both those richnious and gashmious battles. 

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  Tomorrow is the happiest day of the year

  We know that when Adar comes in we increase in joy. And that when menachem Av comes in we decrease. 

  If we began to increase in joy on rosh Chodesh Adar, when does this increase in joy cease or reverse? On rosh chidesh Menachem Av. 

  That makes tomorrow the happiest day of the year.  

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  Notice that if the name "Av" came back from Babylonia

  We added the name "menachem" to the name Av.

  I.e. not just "the father" but "to comfort the father".

  So too, we had the name "Chesham" from Babylonia and we added the name "MARcheshvan". 

  Menachem means to comfort while Mar means bitter. Opposites. 

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  Midian was most successful at genocide by killing 200,000 yidden

  Wait! If about 3 million yidden went out of yidden and 80% died in the plague of darkness because they didn't want to leave America, etc, Mitzrayim. Then there were about 15 million yidden in Mitzrayim before the plague of darkness.  12 million died then.

  That would mean that Hashem Himself killed 12 million or 80% of the yidden at that time.  That would be bigger than the Midianites and even bigger than the Holocaust. 

  Interesting to note that our number has never gone above 15-18 million an ever decreasing percentage (today back to pre-holcause level)  of the world's population as it has grown to 8 billion. As if there is a cap on our number. 

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  There are thousands of words in many languages including English

  That are sourced on Hebrew.  One doesn't have to further than the English word "alphabet" to see "aleph" and "beis". 

  Query then why Hashem calls the months in the Torah by their ordinal position ("first month", "second month", etc) and not by the names we would eventually call them anyway? Hashem, above time, knew that the months would be called as we do, why them did He arrange this roundabout way to call the months (to go into golus and come back with the nonjewish names of months) instead of lichatchila giving the months the names they would have eventually. 

  This sounds like another example of GATHERING THE SPARKS around the world.  

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  Can we give meaning to nonjewish names of months?

  We have a basic principle that ALL is by hashgocha protis.  So even a nonjewish name of a person (e.g. Joseph isaac) is by hashgocha and has meaning. 

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  Talmid Harashba - Kedushas levi

  

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  Sarah Metzger -2 years ago

  Names of the Months & It's Meaning

  

  Sources:

  https://www.definitions.net/definition/kislimu

  https://en.wikipedia.org/

  https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2263466/jewish/Tevet.htm

  https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2835457/jewish/8-Facts-About-the-Hebrew-Month-of-Shevat.htm

  https://lethargicman.livejournal.com/18042.html

  https://www.balashon.com/2006/02/adar.html

  https://www.chabad.org/holidays/purim/article_cdo/aid/2863908/jewish/9-Things-Every-Jew-Should-Know-About-the-Month-of-Adar.htm

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