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<DIV>Toby:</DIV>
<DIV>"That's like saying your sense of humor is a separate being from
you. "</DIV>
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<DIV>Yeah-- sometimes I just say these things also, because thats the minhag and
think like that. I know from reliable eidus rav yaakov weinberg interupted
slichos once and silenced the shaliach tsibur. anyways--what makes you think I
have as sence of humor? anyways-- either you are misaken or for hazal
hashem is schitzoid, which I refuse to accept.</DIV>
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<DIV>-- do you doven to your sense of humor or talk to it? there is a very
ancient strand that divides the midos-- especially din and rachamim as agents of
overseeing the world. it surfaces in Philo (life of moses 2:99) and
kabbalah many sources in zohar, ramban's rosh hashannah
derashot, Also in midrashim where they talk to hashem--b
shabbat 55 a-- midas hadin asks hashem--what is the difference between bnei
yisrael and idol worshippers.(megilla 15b) see sanhedrin 94a, and see
sefer haminhagim rosh hashannah 109 (hagahaot), -- which quotes the
aggada (midrash) telling us that midas harachamim was created and immediatley
complained to hashem that he should use midas hadin to judge the world.-- in
zohar "midas harachim" is "hesed" and "tifferes". and in the piyyut midas
harachamim is directly spoken to by the paytan- which is my point-- and
sefer yeraim siman 223 likewise and and shaarei teshuva shaar gimel (196)
has a whole discussion between the midos and hashem where hashem
reprimands them. but your sense of humor may be a biria bifnei atzma-- a special
creation too. </DIV>
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<DIV>btw-- why should we call it "neila"-- we asked for "psicha"-- pesach
lanu shaar.</DIV>
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