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I understand there was a little fence in Bayit Sheni called "HaSoreg"/"The Grille" which was meant to warn away gentiles and tme'im from entering the Chayil part of Har Habayit (according to the mi...
Today I saw this question: History of Birkas haMinim, which got me thinking: Nowadays, that we don't have Tzdokim or little Judaic Temple-cults like the Essenes, whom is the Birkat Haminim directed...
I think the problem is that we spend so much time focusing on learning. We overly focus on intellectual stimulation. On another question LN6595 repeated their teacher's advice: [I]t is imperati...
On the one side of the family, we have the union between Tamar and Yehudah, which, while technically a fulfillment of Yibum, Yehudah thought she was a harlot. From this union came Peretz (Bereishis...
It would seem that it is proper to consider the consequences of your actions as if they were amplified by the public doing the same. The case brought down in the Talmud is removing a single sliver...
1. Where does the principle of halachic marriage annulment (afka'inhu) apply? There are five Talmudic cases where this principle is invoked: A man betrothed (eirusin) a minor (rabinically) and wa...
I’m stunned that this question wasn’t previously asked. The Gemara (Gittin 33a) discusses the concept of כל דמקדש אדעתא דרבנן מקדש - anyone who marries does so with the consent of the Rabbis. As di...
Rav Herschel Schachter in a "press conference" said in talking about Daas Torah whether Rabbis have the right to or authority to give their opinion in politics, or whether to vote is itself an obl...
This answer is from Dinonline: Killing Animals to Prevent their Suffering The Chazon Ish is cited (in Dinim Ve-Hanhagos Mi-Maran Ha-Chazon Ish Vol. 2, p. 40) as having been asked by a membe...
How does the concept of Tza’ar Ba’alei Chaim deal with putting an animal out of its misery by killing it in order to prevent unnecessary pain (of the animal)? For instance, when one sees an animal...
Ralbag has two explanations of the order of creation that can address this. The first explanation is that everything existed at once. The sequence delineated in Genesis is just the order in which t...
As quoted above from Maseches Shabbos page 105 ,the Gemara referring to the posuk אנכי ד' breaks down the word ANOCHI to imply-אנא נפשי כתבית יהבית literally saying according to some,'I MY SOUL I ...
A side note is that in general these forms are the Aramaic and Hebrew past participles respectively, or the ktila noun pattern. כתובה - [something is] written (Hebrew) כתיבה - [something is] writ...
Not sure about Tehillim 24, but I have seem Temanim (Jews of Yemen) and perhaps other Sefardim say Tehillim 23 before kiddush shabbos day.
I remember from when I was in elementary school that we try very carefully NOT to count the omer before we count the omer. We refer to the current count by stating what yesterday's count was. But ...
I am wondering what the range of opinions are, and what the key legal points are, on the question of whether cultivated meat can be kosher. The New York Times (paywalled) just published an article...
Not a complete answer, but the Gemara in Sanhedrin 64a says that Chazal davened to remove the yetzer hara for avodah zara from people because they were failing, and when Hashem agreed, the yetzer h...
I recall hearing of a medrash which explains that Adam harishon was supposed to live until 1000 years old but he saw that Dovid Hamelech would die as an infant so he "donated" 70 of his years to Da...
This is directly addressed in the Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim 168:6: פת הבאה בכיסנין מברך עליו בורא מיני מזונות ולאחריו ברכה מעין שלש ואם אכל ממנו שיעור שאחרים רגילים לקבוע עליו אע"פ שהוא לא שב...
Isn't this really two questions? What defines Judaism? How is Judaism different from other faiths?
I was reading up on tevillas keilim and saw the following statements on this site: Utensils require tevila if they were given by a Jew to a Yehudi as a gift or if they were bought from a aino Ye...
I recall asking someone about whether a Jew could work in a non-kosher restaurant. One of the opinions I heard was that a Jew shouldn't because "odds are" that the person, as a waiter, will end up ...
I'm not fully finished with this question as I haven't researched all of my premises, and if someone can point me in the direction of a resource which would stop my question before it starts, that ...
Residue from such candles would be a problem for kashrus. However, as long as there is no connected 'liquid stream' from the source candle to the dishes, you can simple scrub off any residue and t...
Anecdotally, if people know you're a Baal Koreh, they will often let you - or ask you to - Layn your Aliyah. Many years ago I used to help a Sephardi Minyan (I am 100% Ashkenazi) with anything from...
