Can performing a mitzvah become a liability? What does it mean that I am doing something "bli neder?" "When I attended a Gemara shiur on Nedarim, I got the impression that performing hataras nedarim requires having a talmid chacham deliberate over the specific neder, until he concludes that there are grounds to release the neder. This seems to have no relationship to what we do on Erev Rosh Hashanah." "My friend Billy Nader says bli neder on almost everything. Is this being too frum?"
Although the importance of the tefillah of Tachanun is underappreciated by many,
it should not be; it is actually based on Moshe Rabbeinu’s successful entreating of
Hashem on Har Sinai to spare Klal Yisrael from punishment after their grievous
sins: “Va’esnapel lifnai Hashem (Devarim 9:18, 25) - And I threw myself down in
prayer before G-d,” (Tur, Orach Chayim 131).
A young engaged man and his fiancée naturally have very strong feelings for each other. It goes without saying that these will be expressed after the wedding, but what expression, if any, is permitted in the meantime? And while we're on the subject, is the attraction of men and women to each other really a good thing to begin with?
Only on the first day of Sukkot, when we fulfill the commandments of Sukkah and Lulav, do worldly matters “settle in” and take hold with the desired level of sanctity. Therefore, the fifteenth of Tishrei is the first day for reckoning transgressions.