Welcome to the Judaism community on Codidact!
Will you help us build our community of learners? Drop into our study hall, ask questions, help others with answers to their questions, share a d'var torah if you're so inclined, invite your friends, and join us in building this community together. Not an ask-the-rabbi service, just people at all levels learning together.
Activity for DonielF
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comment | Post #286278 |
Cf. the opening Mishnah of Pesachim: “Any place into which one does not bring chametz does not need a checking.” But does that mean if there is no place to check that one is exempt from the obligation to check? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285188 |
While this wasn’t the first place I’ve seen this, Rabbi Dovid Fohrman in his book _The Exodus You Almost Passed Over_ addresses this point. As we know, the different Divine Names refer to different ways in which we perceive His relationship with us. Pharaoh was used to the אלקים-type impersonal relat... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283825 |
Deuteronomy 11:22, 19:9, 26:17, 30:16. I’d argue Exodus 18:20 also.
Can you be more specific which differences you’re looking to be explained? Many of them can be chalked up to grammatical differences in context (ex. your first example is an imperative and a complete phrase, while your third exampl... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282958 |
It’s the Torah. The Torah and Quran are related perhaps but they’re not the same. The Torah is in Hebrew, the Quran in Arabic. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282297 |
@tzvi On what basis do we qualify it as _Biblically_ forbidden? Most forms of electricity are considered Rabbinically forbidden, if technically forbidden at all. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281538 |
My brother-in-law is a leftie Kohen. As a child, he wanted to train himself to write with his right hand, to remove the blemish. His Rebbe told him to stop, as the blemishes would be removed when Mashiach comes — not that switching hands wouldn’t remove the blemish, but that there’s no point. Read in... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281336 |
Effectively this would function similarly to the Community Ads feature over at SE, except that you always have access to all links, rather than a rotating ad. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281334 |
To clarify, the Ethiopian practice is to count, e.g., tonight as day 8? And then they still observe Shavuoth on what would be day 50 according to their count? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280892 |
Username checks out (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280889 |
Obligatory “universe was made in Perl” comment (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280691 |
@AA He is indeed dealing with the leading ה. I might be blind (ברוך פוקח כורים), but I don’t see where he addresses המוציא as a parallel. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280691 |
@AA I fail to see the relevance of that particular problem with this discussion, though it does raise the question of extending this problem to הפורש-סוכת being slurred. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280691 |
@man All the MORE so that we’d want the ה prefix, if the tense doesn’t matter! (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280814 |
Grammatically both המתיר and המוציא are in the same form, המפעיל for a generic verb root פעל. Why would המוציא be acceptable as past tense, yet המתיר we would insist is present? Surely the passuk of המוציא לך מים is enough to prove that the form _in general_ is past tense; why should one root behave ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280813 |
@Mithical Only on the founding of the CIC, because we all know a miracle needs to occur to get through government bureaucracy. But there's no Tachanun on any of these days. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280807 |
_DO NOT REVEAL SUGARY CONSUMABLES IN THE COMMENTS SECTION EITHER!_ (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280691 |
@user8078 The same way we can reconjugate להוציא to המוציא, I don’t see why it’d be a problem to turn מתיר into המתיר. I understood that explanation to refer strictly to in the middle of the phrase. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280591 |
There *is* a way to move posts between categories, correct? So if there's a post that someone intended to ask as a non-serious question but which can be asked instead as a legitimate one, we can always migrate it to regular Q&A (with the asker's permission, of course). Consider my question about merm... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280591 |
Hiding categories is a thing? If that works, then I fully endorse this plan. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280575 |
@manasseh I have not heard of such a psak but would not be surprised if someone suggests that. Playing music _in general_ may be prohibited for the reasons you cite (source being בשיר לא ישתו יין), but generally people who have even heard of the halacha seem to follow the leniency of the Rema (origin... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280575 |
@AA I would be inclined to agree with you. I guess I'm asking, how do those who do practice this service defend the practice? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280575 |
@Harel13 Even if you're correct, it's not clear to me that a practice which independently evolved, but which bears striking resemblance to an idolatrous practice, is permissible. For example, playing music in shul during davening (let's assume not on Shabbos itself, or else on Shabbos by a non-Jew so... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280559 |
The one thing you forgot is that if it was written by an apostate Jew one _must_ destroy it, rather than its simply not being Sheimos. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280554 |
I’ve heard it as “fleishike” only in Yiddish conjugation as a construct (“a meaty ____”) and fleishik in Yinglish (when using the Yiddish word in English context). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280509 |
Anyone know if conversion to Druze is allowed, or if one must be born Druze? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280508 |
Completely in favor (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279800 |
@Harel You can trivially compare calendars to one another; we do it on a regular basis between Gregorian and Jewish. The trick is that when two calendars use nonidentical year lengths, you need to keep track of how the difference adds up over time. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280480 |
@AA Would depend on your interpretation of the halachos I think. The simplest reading is that it’s Rabbinically prohibited, but I’ve heard some apologists claiming it’s their interpretations of the verses and therefore it’s really Biblically prohibited, or the opposite approach that they’re discourag... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279800 |
Good attempt, but you're forgetting something important: the Egyptian calendar didn't have leap years in the Julian/Gregorian sense, rather having a calendar of exactly 365 days, where each of the twelve months were exactly 30 days divided into 10-day "weeks," and at the end of the calendar was five ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279469 |
Very interesting! Also raises the question of why Hashem tapper Ephraim specifically to lead Malchus Yisrael. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279266 |
Consider the term used for vocals-only music, a term employed often during Sefirah and the Three Weeks: _a capella_, “as in the chapel.” (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279263 |
I would bet a good place to look is to try comparing Christian music with Christian art; maybe there’s a comparison to be drawn between listening to music praising their Messiah and observing (but not owning!) art which glorifies him. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279263 |
FWIW he writes elsewhere (don’t have the source offhand) that ideally one shouldn’t listen to music at all. Obviously the question only starts if one relies on the Rema that he cites there. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279108 |
They had Milah previously in fulfillment of a Mitzvah d'Oraisa in which they are obligated. You'd be right according to Rashi, but I'm asking according to Rambam. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279106 |
@robev Re your first comment: Both circumcisions are entering into the covenant of Avraham Avinu; but they've already entered into that Bris! Or maybe there's a difference between the two Brissim. Re your second comment: They'd still need it out of a doubt; maybe they weren't previously Bnei Keturah ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278991 |
@robev I'm unfamiliar with such a halacha, but if you can track it down, it would make for a good starting point for an answer. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278746 |
@magicker72 Not certain at all. I wonder if the line of thought had independently occurred to him, however, that one who merely misuses the Torah has not abused it to the point of necessitating such strong words being said against him. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278011 |
@ArtOfCode Editing works mostly fine on Firefox, but Safari consistently gives me issues. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278587 |
(2/2) On the second dream, they held their tongues and their hatred; but once Yaakov interpreted the dream, they fumed once more. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278587 |
The Gemara writes that "an uninterpreted dream is like an unopened letter" (Berachos 55a). So long as the dream is left uninterpreted, it doesn't come into reality. Yosef never interpreted his dreams; when his brothers interpreted the first dream, they immediately shoved their feet in their mouths. "... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278480 |
@sabba עיקר חסר מן הספר much? Even granting that, what do you do with Shavuos, which R’ Eliezer views as different? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278480 |
Of note is the parallel in Yerushalmi Shabbos ch. 15 wherein the contradiction is posed between the seventh of Pesach and the weekly Shabbos (Leviticus 23:3), as a contradiction not between לה׳ and לכם but between שבת and עצרת. That variation makes sense, since Shabbos and Shevi’i shel Pesach can coi... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278426 |
I wonder if it makes a difference whether the פטור in question is a הותרה or a דחויה. If it's a הותרה perhaps there is more of a reason to say it's a problem, since you're expressly casting off the Mitzvah, as opposed to the דחויה where the Mitzvah still applies and you just have an excuse not to do ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278131 |
@AA Even if that’s the correct answer, surely the same logic should apply for at least Erev Tisha B’Av? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278148 |
Be careful with this! This is indeed a valid opinion, that of Rashi, but Tosfos argue on almost every point mentioned here. Please ask your Rabbi for next year if you plan to blow for yourself. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278062 |
Re lying in testimony: Or at least according to those who learn מדבר שקר תרחק only refers to the judges. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278012 |
@robev If the situation arises where one would be forced to grapple with the prohibition, the only way out is by an action. If someone ends up as the guarantor on such a loan, the only way out is to rip up the document. But I realize that the case of Karban Pesach might work because you can’t just le... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278057 |
Updated from my [previous thread submission](https://judaism.codidact.com/a/276719/276722) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278012 |
@robev Strictly speaking you're not in violation of the prohibition against eating the Pesach after the zman if you never eat the Pesach. There is no commandment to eat the Karban, only to bring it. See, ex., Mishnah Pesachim 8:2 and other cases of יצא לבית השריפה ופטורים מלעשות פסח שני. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278040 |
@robev I interpreted לגבות מן הקרקע ומן הזיבורית to be one point. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |