Judaism - Q&A

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Seeking advice as a chazzan in training

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by manassehkatz‭

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Seeking an explanation for the verse associated with the fox in Perek Shirah

1 answer · last activity 8 months ago by msh210‭

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Is there a source that the Shechina rests where there is peace between husband and wife?

1 answer · last activity 8 months ago by eliyahu‭

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Blowing a Shofar with a mask over the wide end

0 answers · last activity 8 months ago by MTL‭

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Question on Ekev: in what way are good things hard?

1 answer · last activity 8 months ago by Harel13‭

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At what distance may one hear the shofar on Rosh Hashana?

1 answer · last activity 8 months ago by DonielF‭

shofar rosh-hashanah

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Does "make for yourself a rav" normally terminate with the synagogue employment contract?

0 answers · last activity 8 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Did Moshe have free will when he struck the rock in the wilderness?

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by user8078‭

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Explanation about story in Maseches Shabbos.

0 answers · last activity 8 months ago by Dani‭

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Determining Reshus Harabbim if a street is not busy on Shabbos

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by eliyahu‭

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vegans in Tanach

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by Dani‭

tanach food

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Mamzer child of a Kohen

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Why is "chinam" translated as "baseless"?

2 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Dev-iL‭

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How does one pray Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur alone?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Examples of derivations

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by Lo Ani‭

tanach tefilla-prayer

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The Talmudic "Drakkon" and the Chinese "Long"

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by DonielF‭

avodah-zara-idolatry

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Is there any connection between the Sotah, the Mizbeiach, and the Beis HaMikdash keychain?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by DonielF‭

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What happened to the fruit brought by the spies?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Harel13‭

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If someone accidentally misses davening, but would have skipped it anyway, does he do tashlumin?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Lo Ani‭

tefilla-prayer

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Why does the incense offerer get a chosen buddy?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Isaac Moses‭

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Is it preferable to not say Mincha early on a fast day?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by Isaac Moses‭

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Sitting under the lights on Tisha B'av

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Dani‭

halacha tishah-bav

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May a Kohen become a surgeon?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by DonielF‭

kohen-priests medicine

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Havdallah during the nine days

2 answers · last activity 9 months ago by sabbahillel‭

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Why does Nun have an Aramaic name?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Harel13‭

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The End of a Period of Nezirut

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by rosends‭

nazir

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Taking pills with letters on Shabbos

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by ploni‭

halacha shabbat medicine

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What is the status of a-capella music during the three weeks?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by ploni‭

three-weeks music

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Can a terminally-ill patient give up his ventilator to save another?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Dani‭

halacha medicine

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Does the nascent Sanhedrin in Israel sanctify the new moon with witnesses?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by Harel13‭

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Why didn't Yitzchak help his father?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by Harel13‭

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Natural organic reduction as a burial solution

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Alaychem‭

halacha death-burial

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Different reading of Rashb"i story

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Alaychem‭

masechet-shabbat

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How obligatory is Eicha on Tish'ah b'Av?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by magicker72‭

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Origin of Three Weeks/Nine Days customs?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by Dani‭

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Where is 'Khina'?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Harel13‭

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Hatov Ve'Hametiv for wine that is not made of grapes

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Alaychem‭

blessing

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Who was Yitzchaki?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by user8078‭

parshanut--reading-tanach

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If a Zoom minyan reads torah (without blessings, as study), should the reader still chant?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What did the Kotzker mean by "If I am I…"?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by Harel13‭

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What is special about the Aleph-Bais?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Dani‭

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Why was Tisha B'av chosen as the day of crying for naught, when the Jews had cried previously?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by DonielF‭

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What is the purpose of tehillim at shemira?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by magicker72‭

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Do the requirements to honor a Kohen require one to honor a female Kohen?

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by JoelK‭

halacha women kohen-priests

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Contradiction in statements of Rabbi Avigdor Miller

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by robev‭

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Targum of yehoshua bin nun [closed]

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Isaac Moses‭

onkelos

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Why does everyone talk during pesukei d’zimra? [closed]

1 answer · last activity 9 months ago by DonielF‭

tefilla-prayer

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How did accidental killers sustain themselves while living in the cities of refuge?

2 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Alaychem‭

city-of-refuge masechet-makkot

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Prophetic styles in Melachim?

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by Harel13‭

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Are there guidelines to define if something is an aggada

0 answers · last activity 9 months ago by withoutatrace‭

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