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Q&A Tevillas Keilim on Used things

As I understand it, the Tevilah requirement comes in when: A vessel for use with preparing or eating food is manufactured by a non-Jew A vessel for use with preparing or eating food is owned by...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Different Trop when laining

Ignoring the question of why, there is a practice of using different musical trop when laining the 10 commandments from when studying it. Are there other examples of different trop or pronunciatio...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by rosends‭

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Q&A How do you name a non-Jew for Mi Sheberach?

Rosends pointed out a related question elsewhere with a variety of answers. Here is a compilation of what I learned there and by following links from there: Chabad says (without citing a sour...

posted 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Did Moshe's wife and sons remain with Yisrael during the time in the wilderness?

In Shemot 18:2-4, Yitro comes from Midian to join the Israelites after the exodus, bringing Moshe's wife Tzipporah and his sons Gershon and Eliezer. This appears to be the torah's last mention of ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How did people understand references to 2 destructions before the first destruction?

Note -- I know that this is not a fully formed question yet so I welcome any edits. There are "prophecies" and references which we understand to be about the destruction of the two temples and the...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Source of a tune

https://vocaroo.com/1L5y4gbqDCvZ has a tune that I've heard many times, always in a Jewish (usually liturgical) context. What is its origin? Who wrote it, when, where, etc., and what (if any) were ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Why is Yemei singular?

The first 2 verses of Parshat Vay'chi present me with a question, so I'm soliciting any help on this. Here they are, for convenience's sake (from Sefaria): וַיְחִ֤י יַעֲקֹב֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Embarrassing someone in private

The gemara in Bava Metzia 59a make the statement that one should not "whiten his friend's face" (embarrass him). The section states ואל ילבין פני חבירו ברבים מנ"ל מדדרש רבא דדרש רבא מאי דכתיב (...

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Q&A Why was Rabbi Eliezer ostracized?

To my reading, the discussion that follows makes it clear that the rabbis were wrong to excommunicate Rabbi Eliezer. Rabbi Eliezer's excommunication is followed by various disasters, including the...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can anyone explain the heavenly voice in the oven of Akhnai?

Starting at the beginning, since I don't read Hebrew, how accurate is the translation "Why are you differing with Rabbi Eliezer, as the halakha is in accordance with his opinion in every place that...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Fred Wamsley‭

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Q&A What exactly changed when Adam and Chava ate the fruit?

In Gan Eden, Adam and Chava were unclothed. I recall reading that, had they not eaten of the Eitz HaDa'at, moshiach would have come and ushered in the messianic era (I'm not sure of a source for th...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by rosends‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Our community is small. More than "people in general", I think we need to reach people who want to help us build this community. People who, beyond looking for answers to specific questions, want...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why is the verse about old age specifically read aloud in Selichot?

During the Slichot that are said leading up the Yamim Noraim, there's a section where the Aron is opened and some verses are said, the first few responsively. These are said responsively: שמע קו...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by rosends‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Hmm. One decision branch is whether to look for people like me, intellectually curious non-Jews. The upside is that someone intellectually curious may contribute good questions, and there may be a...

posted 1y ago by Fred Wamsley‭

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Q&A Why don't we stand for Hallel at the seder?

At services that include it, we stand for Hallel. I've never learned about it but this makes sense; we're sanctifying God, like in Kedusha for which we also stand. But at every Pesach seder I've b...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Did Avraham really not know about his nephews while they were children?

Haamek Davar to 12:1 ("Go you [=Abram] from your land, your birthplace, and your father's home"), in loose translation: It should've been written in reverse, as he'll first leave his father's ho...

posted 2y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 2y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Why isn't Iyar 16 a fast day?

There are fast days through the year which commemorate the process leading to the destruction of the temple. The way I learned them, there was a date marking the beginning of the siege, one for the...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Why is it Baal Shem and not Baal HaShem?

Forgive my ignorance; I am not Jewish but interested in Judaism, and know a bit of Biblical Hebrew. I'm confused about the term Baal Shem. I'm assuming Shem refers to God's name, as in HaShem. But...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Keelan‭

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Q&A Inference of Opposites as Halachic process

In the Talmudic discussion of the Sotah ritual, the halacha is derived that, because part of the ritual requires uncovering the woman's hair, the obligation would otherwise be to keep the hair cove...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Why two types of maror?

One possible reason, but I have no source for it being a requirement in any way, is that we have two different categories of Maror. One is things like horseradish - immediately and unequivocally bi...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Why is Pesach in the singular?

Shavuos is about the weeks. That's the easy one. Sukkos is about more than one Sukkah. Not just that we need to build more than one to celebrate the holiday, but because Vayikra 23:43 refers to th...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Korbanot of Rosh Chodesh on R"H

During p'sukei d'zimra on a week day which is Rosh Chodesh, we add in, during the recitation of Korbanot, a paragraph about the sacrifices of Rosh Chodesh. On Shabbat, add in an extra paragraph wi...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by rosends‭

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Divrei Torah When did the people learn of Shabbat and what did they learn (questions)

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Q&A Nemuel vs Yemuel

I am looking at the geneology of the 12 tribes and I found that Reuvein had son named Palu. Palu had a son named Eli'av and Eli'av had 3 sons, Datan, Aviram and Nemuel (Bamidbar 26:9) וּבְנֵ֣י אֱל...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Tzidkat'cha in the presence of a mourner

during the week,one does not say tachanun in the house of a mourner (or, if the mourner must daven in shul, in the shul). (Emphasis added to the key phrase.) Except, that's not the case, at least...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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