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Yes yes for hierarchical categories, here and everywhere. A good hierarchy help structure information; just imagine being able to browse and drill down to more and more specific groups of questions...
Mishneh Torah, Talmud Torah, 6:14 lists 24 reasons for excommunication. # 20 is: טַבָּח שֶׁלֹּא בָּדַק סַכִּינוֹ לִפְנֵי חָכָם A Shochet who does not have his knife checked by a wise man. (general...
Given that this site is for Q&A's about Judaism, it would seem appropriate that any Hebrew (or Aramaic) language questions should in some way connect with or originate in “source texts”. (I rea...
Shulchan Aruch, Yore Dea 324:11, discusses what to do if the starter is tevel (has not had chala taken) and the dough is not (viz, it has had chala taken) or vice versa. So clearly chala must be ta...
Firstly, this is a very common translation (see the Google Search results here, which include various Kabbalah websites). As @msh210 alluded to in the comments above, "Z'eir Anpin" is the opposite ...
From the battle with Midian alone, Bamidbar 31:35, there were 32,000 captured as slaves. That was only some of the women - they actually captured many more and Moshe commanded them to kill the men ...
We'll need to decide whether we want a glossary of terms people may come across on the site without other explanation (which I'll call a "glossary") or a dictionary/encyclopedia of any and all t...
Years ago, in a year when US Independence Day fell on Shabbat, I was away at a kallah, a week-long retreat for people from many communities with study, social activities, and, of course, davening. ...
The haftara is recited only from the Prophets (Nevi'im), not even from the Writings (Ketuvim). This is the case as far back as the Mishna (Megilla 4:1-5). It wouldn't make sense to say the blessing...
In Orach Chaim 607:1 it says: צריך להתודות במנחה קודם סעודה המפסקת One must say vidui at mincha prior to the final meal before the fast. The Mishnah Berurah explains: קודם סעודה המפסקת - שמא...
Sefer Rokeach § 219, citing יש מפרשים, brought by the Eliyah Rabbah 625:1, says that the Jews dwelled in booths when they went to war against Sichon and Og, as well as during their conquest of the ...
Another is (command 46 in the Chinuch) "not to withhold food, clothing, and relations" from one's wife. Another is (command 348 in the Chinuch) "not to allow a non-Jew who lives in our lands to imp...
Here are some that I believe fit what you're looking for. Please inform me if I'm mistaken: Not to leave any idol worshipers in the land of Israel (Sefer HaMitzvos Lo Sa'aseh § 51; Sefer HaChinuch...
This is a bug caused by an attempted fix of Off formatting in comment ending in text in a RTL script and RTL directives in a username overflowed into the UI. The aforementioned fix involves setting...
I like the idea of divrei torah prompting "response" divrei torah. If we make the original d'var torah a question and use answers for the responses, though, then where would responses to those res...
You're asking your question in a very specific way, but it can be generalized to be: "Is it permissible to find ways to avoid fulfilling a mitzvah?. If it's forbidden, is it considered nullifying t...
There are instances when I cannot use my Oz Vehadar edition of tractate Menachos, and thus I am forced1 into using an older edition, i.e. the old-fashioned Vilna printings2, from, like, two-thousan...
The plain reading of Vayikra 23:43 says that Yisrael dwelt in sukkot while they were in the wilderness. Rashi on this verse says that the "sukkot" that Israel dwelt in were the divine clouds of gl...
We know that Lashon Hara L'toelet, for a positive purpose is allowed (under certain guidelines). For example, if I am helping someone not lose money by telling them that a person is a swindler, tha...
Some members of my family are required to take a "smell test" in order to attend school each day. Are they required to make a bracha בורא מיני בשמים like when usually smelling nice things, or is th...
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When bringing first fruits we are commanded to say the following to the priest: וּבָאתָ֙ אֶל־הַכֹּהֵ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִהְיֶ֖ה בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֑ם וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֵלָ֗יו הִגַּ֤דְתִּי הַיּוֹם֙ לַיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹה...
The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia answers that the division of the several treatises into chapters as well as the sequence of these chapters was the work of Rabbi [Yehuda HaNasi] himself although some c...
Throughout Parshat B'reishit, Hashem (God) is referred to in the plural multiple times. This includes in B'reishit 1:26: ויאמר אל-קים נעשה אדם בצלמנו כדמותנו... And God said: We will make a man in...
Rashi alludes to this in Beresheet 13:5: "WHO WENT WITH ABRAM — What brought it about that he possessed all this? The fact that he was accompanying Abram (Genesis Rabbah 41:3; Pesikta Rabbati, שמי...
