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Regarding driving to Shul on Shabbos: Do it. Every time. Not only are you not required to keep Shabbos, because you are not Jewish, but you are also forbidden to keep Shabbos, for the same reason....
Judaism is not a religion although it has religious beliefs and practices. Judaism is both being part of an ethnic tribe (your Jewish if your mother is) as well as a complete way of life (actions d...
R' Ovadia Yosef in Yabia Omer 6, Y.D. 14, was asked by a religious girls school if it was better to enforce a dresscode which prohibited short skirts or pants, as the school had determined they wou...
EDIT: Having now read a sefer on this topic, I would edit my answer a bit--mostly just to say "It's complicated," but also to solidify these points: Technically, halacha follows the Ramban tha...
The Tanakh does not hold anyone to a perfect keeping of the law, but it does require repentance when sin is committed. Once the sin is understood, once the sin is understood, is punished. Repenta...
The biggest problem of Judaism is to define "should" or "must", as the rest of the understanding is derived from those terms. If we adopt the most straightforward approach of Rambam's that simplif...
Bâ€H. I don’t know if you’ve gotten your answer to this question yet, but I’d like to provide my standpoint on it, and we could discuss it. From what I can gather, you’re wondering why t...
The Shulchan Aruch in Orach Chaim 173:2 writes: בין בשר ×œ×“×’×™× ×—×•×‘×” ליטול ×ž×©×•× ×“×§×©×” לדבר ×חר ×•×—×ž×™×¨× ×¡×›× ×ª× ×ž××™×¡×•×¨× There is an obligation to wash...
I would like to discuss some aspects of צבע"ח. This topic is very loaded emotionally, and it is crucial to neutralize one's emotions while discussing it Halachicly. There's no Halachic reference t...
Obviously it is the case of textual corruption. Some verses got mixed up. The Sun and the Moon had to be created before the trees and grass because the latter can't grow without the former. Here i...
On the initial premise of plants requiring the sun for photosynthesis, and it certainly is the best light for developing plants, this site reports how scientists developed plants WITHOUT anything b...
R' Yochanan ben Zakai, in leading the Jewish people during and immediately after the Destruction of the Second Temple, issued many decrees aimed at responding to the new post-Temple reality and pre...
The Mishna reports in Menachot 10:4 that, after the required amount of premium flour had been extracted from the barley set aside for the Omer, the considerable amount tof leftover, mixed-quality f...
The Sefer Chassidim (composed during 1185 - 1215 by Judah HeHasid) says that the reason Shehechiyanu is phrased in the plural is because had it been phrased in a singular language, there are times...
The verse Lev melech beyad hashem refers to a step in which you have no bechira: After the nomination of the King, we need to see every action of the king as a realization of the intent o...
The biggest problem of Judaism is to define "should" or "must", as the rest of the understanding is derived from those terms. If we adopt the most straightforward approach of Rambam's that simplif...
Because it's suppose to bring into question, rumination and idealization the very idea and notion of what it is to be human and that of course comes with sin and of course Death. No matter how much...
As the frumteens Rav wrote: (i'm paraphrasing from my memory of what he wrote) The satan is always poised to foil the ultimate purpose of Creation, which is the coming of Moshiach and the resulti...
See the gemara in Yoma 22b. This was orchestrated in order to ensure the longevity of his kingdom. As Rabbi Yoḥanan said in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Yehotzadak: One appoints a leader ove...
Good question. (1) We each have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and the numbers keep growing exponentially in powers of two. So each one of us has A LOT of ancestors â...
The Tanakh does not hold anyone to a perfect keeping of the law, but it does require repentance when sin is committed. Once the sin is understood, once the sin is understood, is punished. Repenta...
It is a sin not to put an animal out of its suffering of pain and keep it alive, when it has a constructive purpose in its death e.g shechita for the sake of food. Bava Bathra 73b: ואמר רבה בר בר ...
Is there a list of all the stops that Bnei Yisrael made after leaving Egypt (in chronological order), and how long they stayed in each place, especially one which lists different opinions about the...
I was recently asked what the difference was between the words fleishik and fleishike, and was unable to come up with an answer. If it were just a matter of masculine/feminine case coming over from...
Sha'arei Efraim (9:19) writes that if the error was noticed before the blessings following the haftara were read, the correct haftara should be read at that point, and the blessings should be said ...
