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Activity for Harel13
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| Comment | Post #277523 |
@AA that doesn't sound like much of a legal ramification for the act. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277523 |
@AA it seems so, Thanks! I didn't quite understand, though: What is the נפק"מ for that the child goes after the pagum - is the child, in our case, also a first-gen Egyptian convert? And if so, and if theoretically all of Yarcha's descendants married Jewish women, does this mean that all of his descen... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277523 |
@AA as I understand the situation, Yarcha himself was not allowed to marry a Jew, only a potential grandson. Yet he, Yarcha, did. What does that say about his descendants? Does it delegitimize them somehow? Or maybe it says nothing, but I'd like to know why. I don't know how else to explain it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277523 |
@AA exactly, yet Yarcha, a first generation Egyptian, married the daughter of Sheshan, of the tribe of Yehudah. I understand this should have been a no-no. Attai is the result of this marriage. Though only his own son would have been able to enter, things didn't exactly go that way because Yarcha wen... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277351 |
@DonielF thanks, I edited my question. Personally, I think that can be understood from pshat, too. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276949 |
It seems R' Ahron Marcus in Barzilai believes that Nun was originally a Hebrew word. He also says that Nun per the Egyptian meaning came from one of the Babylonian-Hebraic dialects. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277297 |
@AA yes, true. Thanks. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277343 |
Shual isn't a fox? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277342 |
I believe the fox is supposed to be that trickster sort of creature, much like the man who gets someone to build his home and then doesn't pay up. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277117 |
Giving English translations would be useful. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277081 |
For a practically math-know-nothing, could you explain how the points system works in more detail? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277077 |
I would to import https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/111420/was-there-a-soreg-in-bayit-rishon,
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/111133/is-there-a-list-of-the-different-types-of-deaths,
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/111052/nowadays-whom-is-birkat-haminim-directed-at... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277078 |
Thank you! 15 ch (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277068 |
@AA I won't. That's why I posted this question. I want to know how best to go about it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277068 |
@MonicaCellio in this case, one that I asked, but I'm asking here in general because it's unclear to me how this is actually done. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277047 |
@Alaychem agreed. Did you not look at my link? I wrote possibly because I have yet to really go through the book (or what's available on google...), but from what I saw, yes, it seems drakons and serpents were worshiped in certain places. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277047 |
@Alaychem [possibly](https://books.google.co.il/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA417&lpg=PA417&dq=%22drakon%22+roman+worship&source=bl&ots=JzOAF_NlWB&sig=ACfU3U10LKeiVJE39lClxgr0cqSLaE0a0w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLxrbTi4HrAhVxTRUIHduUD-w4ChDoATAIegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=cult&f=false) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277047 |
@DonielF but isn't סנפיר a fin and not a scale? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277026 |
As a leave-open reason, I think that questions such as this are helpful in getting to know one another and building an online community. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277038 |
@DonielF are you asking who was the first person to translate it as such? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277047 |
As cool as it would be to see a connection between the two, it's more likely that it is based on the Greek and Roman myths of the drakons/dragons. For example, [this mosaic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_in_Greek_mythology#/media/File:Reggio_calabria_museo_nazionale_mosaico_da_kaulon.jpg) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277047 |
Fascinating observation! (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276949 |
@DonielF I guess that's true. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a Hebrew meaning for Nun (other than the letter...). Any suggestions would be welcomed. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276949 |
@rosends, I highly appreciate the explanation. In fact, it may even explain why Nun is so often mentioned along with Yehoshua. I picture a scenario around something like: Elishama had lost hope of leaving Egypt, and so decided to at least attempt to prepare his son for assimilation into Egypt. His so... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276916 |
@AA yes, but he doesn't live in Israel, in which case, I figure he should be tried by a hypothetical state-sanctioned Iranian Noahide court. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276911 |
@sabbahillel is this what they do nowadays or all of the last 16 years? Also, מסתמא it's not an official judicial act as they aren't an official court. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276909 |
BTW, it seems Rabbi Steinsaltz quit after a few years. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276731 |
@Alaychem you make a very fair point about the metaphor. On your other questions, I need to think on some more. However, it still seems strange to me that Rashbi in your version could have rectified the situation easily by crediting the other sage. Why kill him? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276858 |
@MonicaCellio thanks. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276731 |
@Alaychem the root of the problem with your interpretation, in my understanding, lies in the metaphor Rashbi brings, with the prostitutes: In the second option, it makes sense: both the chachamim and, l'havdil, the prostitutes are usually competing but from time to time must come to agree on somethin... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276731 |
@Alaychem it seems to make more sense, considering the punishment. It seems to be a much greater chilul Hashem. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276846 |
Thanks @rosends! (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276837 |
Thank you for the very informative answer. With this and with what @Mithical brought on Rashi in the now-deleted answer, it makes me wonder why Ibn Ezra wrote so harshly against other rabbis. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276731 |
@Alaychem and you see this as a legitimate reason to turn the other guy into a pile of bones? Mainly because of this, the English Sefaria understanding and that of commentators brought by Sefaria, which you brought as the 2nd option, seems to me to make more sense. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276656 |
Paraphrasing Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky, O'Chavruta? What are we, Irish? (The original joke is about the translation of the Shema, O'Israel) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276811 |
@msh210 Rabbi Dan (Danny) Eliner הרב דני אלינר in Hebrew. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276793 |
Just a suggestion, but perhaps a point of difference was that with the meat, the instigators were the asafsuf and Bne"Y sort of got dragged along with them, but with the spies, it was entirely Bnei Yisrael's fault, which is the same as other events that happened on Tisha b'Av. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276731 |
I didn't quite understand your own take on the gemara: Is Rabbi Shimon angry at the sage because he gave R"S all the credit, thus making it seem as though R"S is taking all the credit for himself? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276774 |
@JoelK that's the feeling I got, but of course I may be completely wrong. You've got more experience than I on MY. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276742 |
I agree with @AA. It seems to me to be the same people, doing the same things, with more or less the same rules and guidelines. Only key difference I see so far is the platform. When the suggestion for the site was launched on the Meta a number of weeks ago, I had high hopes for something different. ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276724 |
@DonielF I wrote "and so forth". And "usually" - but not always. Maybe "often" would have been better... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276707 |
@sabbahillel both Ba'al Zevuv and Ashtarot are mentioned later in the Tanach as deities of the Plishtim. Did their worship end prior to Yirmiyahu as well? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276724 |
@DonielF generally those that refer to the Churban period, usually starting or ending with an idea that goes something like "and this caused the destruction". There are some better known ones like Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, Tur Malka, Neron Caesar, Titus and the fly, and others like Shulya d'nagrei. And ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276707 |
@sabbahillel I just remembered that Dagon is central to the Ark arc (pun intended) in Shmuel, so he wasn't just from Shimshon's time. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276714 |
@DonielF I haven't been around so much these last couple of weeks, but when I left it seemed to me that people were still debating what and when and how to import (and that still appears to be the case, though I may be wrong). If I'm interested in bringing up a subject here and now, how should I go a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276707 |
@sabbahillel that thought had occurred to me today. Do you have a source for this? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276652 |
If we stay with Judaism Codidact, we may be able to kasher the acronym JC (which usually stands for a certain figure from another religion...)... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276404 |
@AA I think that's because on MY it's only open for a short time every year. It's like opening up a dam. I think that at first, there may be a flood, but that things will calm down eventually and we'll achieve a good balance of questions. At the very least, we can have a trial period. @Dani if things... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276404 |
@Dani as long as it's kept in its own category, I think we'll be alright. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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