weekend and a dvar torah too

sorry that i wasnt able to post anything till now, as i have been very busy with reviewing for my next smicha test. now im sure you are all just dying (G-d forbid) to hear what new news i have. well... not much ;)

last week we had a very special shuir from the Nutah Gavriel on the laws of Shabbos. now the only problem is it was in yiddush. now as im sure you've guessed i cant speak a word of yiddush although i can understand a bit. but the way he was speaking i was only able to glimpse (even less really) just how much i was missing out :(.

well dont be dismayed as friday night was a shul dinner with guest Rabbi Ari Raskin (who also happens to be the oldest of the cousins - hecht clan). - he is also the reason i couldnt update till now but that is not a woz at all!

he gave amazing speeches both friday night and shabbos day and finaled with an amazing shuir on women. the shuir was for women and as im sure you have all guessed i attended. to say the least it was incredible and eye opening - although i knew many of the topics, he explained thme very well and gave new insite into some.

but the one i would like to touch on momentarily - and please forgive me those who thought to leave their learning behind once they went on to the computer - is how he explained mechitzah (seperation between men and women in religous synagouges).

he explained as follows (and i apologize now for not being able to put it as clearly as him but i shall do my best): there is a law in shulchan aroch that when a man is being intimate with his wife he may not think of another women. now this is quite strange bc that would lead one to believe that any other time is ok???
obviuosly not! so what is this law trying to tell the husband - and to us?

first off it must be remembered that this law was written when multiple wives were still part of the custom. and therefor when a husband is married to two women but NOW is being intimate with one of them he may NOT think about the other. bc now is HER time!

so now if a man is being intimate with his wife and the phone rings, were he to answer she would have every right to be extremely angry. well when one is davening it is as if that person at that moment is having intimacy with G-d. therefor for a man - or woman - to sit with his/ her other wife/ husband at the time that is G-ds time is ridiculous!

G-d is saying that when you are with me you must be with ME! you may be married to another woman but for you to sit with your hand in her lap at time of intimacy with ME is insanity!

this is the reason why we sit seperatly. so that both man and women can be intimate with their spouse (G-d) without the disturbance of the other spouse.

well this is something to wet ones appetite on and think of during davening - or at least it touched me. hope that some of you also find this to be of some inspiration and if you have any questions or comments feel free to ask - although i may not have the answer (which is the likelyhood).

oh and btwy our test is rapidly approaching - yes i know i should be studying instead of posting but im in middle of a small break here ;). please say tehillim for our souls.

till after the test or maybe before

me - duh who else would be dumb enough ;)