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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #292925 | Initial revision | — | 13 days ago |
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Becoming Tameii for the wrong reasons In biblical/temple times, would it have been wrong to vounteer to do something which will make one tameii if the motivation is to avoid a different obligation? If I don't want to spend time with my in-laws, would it be wrong to volunteer to get involved with a meis mitzvah because I know I would b... (more) |
— | 13 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292862 | Initial revision | — | 26 days ago |
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Why did we say A"H on the Shabbat before R"H? On the sabbath before the new month, we announce the upcoming new moon and on those days, we also do NOT say Av Harachamim (except during sefirah when the history of persecution is particularly relevant so we say it to mark the time of year). Is Av Harachamim contra-indicated by the nature of a Sh... (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292804 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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Variant Minhagim in Messianic Days Once moshiach comes, we will have resolution to all sorts of halachic issues which have been left unresolved (teikus for example and even, maybe eilu v'eilu cases). But what about minhagim, some of which having risen to a level almost of a binding halacha? Will there be a single nusach of tefilla? Wi... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #292693 |
effectively, aren't the kiddush and the mekadeish part separate brachot? Though it also makes me wonder why, at the seder, hamotzi is said BEFORE we say the asher kidishanu on the mitzvah of matzah (not even raising whether it is a safeik). (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292693 |
sort of -- I was thinking of the borei pri hagafen (or one on whatever one is making kiddush on) as being the thing through which we are being mekadeish the day, I would have thought that it would come after or as part of the construction of the bracha that mentions the mitzvah, not fully before it. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292693 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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Brachot on Mitzvot There are certain things that we do because we have been commanded to, and the bracha on these mitzvot includes the phrase "asher kidishanu" indicating that Hashem commanded us to perform these mitzvot. Why then do we not have such brachot for 1. Making motzi (since the bread defines the se'uda... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292341 |
I was wondering about this -- the haftarahs were (I thought) chosen to reflect the outlawed Torah reading of that Shabbat, so if we have all these that are connected thematically to the time of the year, they would NOT call forth what the Torah reading is for that Shabbat. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292156 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Why move from discussing Jews to non-Jews At the beginning of Perek Chelek in Masechet Sanhedrin, the text specifies that "All Israel has a share in the world to come." But when the exceptions are presented, Bilam is included and he isn't from israel, so I would have no hava amina that he would merit the next world. If the focus is on Jew... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292016 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Talit on Ninth of Av I have read that men wear a tallit gadol at Shacharit because of a connection to Avraham (the mitzvah was given in his merit and Shacharit is 'his' prayer). Why then are men instructed to wear it at mincha of Tisha B'Av? (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291903 |
oftentimes, groups make a siyum after splitting up the learning but don't check on whether each part was learned in order (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291783 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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Why isn't (or wasn't) Purim 2 days long in Chutz La'Aretz? We have a second day of yom tov outside of Israel because the delay (or the deception) allowed for uncertainty about the date of Rosh Chodesh, therefore, the certainty regarding the date of the holiday was compromised. But then why isn't Purim also 2 days long outside of Israel? The distance is th... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291693 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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When did the Torah become the Torah scroll we recognize? At what point did a sefer torah start to look like the sefer torah that we know? When Moshe wrote the torah, did he do so as a sofer, requiring kavanot and immersion and sirtutim and a particular kind of ink? Was the sefer attached to wooden staves? I looked at the DSS and didn't see sirtutim? ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291152 |
I was told it was because in Yiddish both are pronounced. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291559 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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How big a building can be included in the eiruv? In the movie Dredd (and in the comic books) the cities have huge apartment buildings in them which serve as mini-cities on their own (called "blocks" I think). Vast numbers of people can live in one building. Could a "block" be enclosed in a larger eiruv or is there a maximum sized building that c... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291415 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Pesach (oni) vs. Pesach (sheini) I noticed that Pesach goes from being a holiday marked by עני to one, a month later, called שני, moving from ayin (eye) to shein (tooth). Yeah, I know that the words don't actually mean that (poverty vs. second) but is there any discussion of the change in the nature of the day as it moves towards Pe... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291380 |
so even with no kavanah, I could make it through much of the omer with a series of mistakes and then pick up with a bracha most of the way through? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291358 |
one statement says "he should say to him, “yesterday was such and such.” Because if he had said to him, “Today is such and such,” he would not be able to go back and count with a blessing." What does that inability indicate? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291358 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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(non)Counting of the Omer 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 what if someone was not that careful -- has he competed that day's count? If I am walking outside a... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291246 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Adam's Age and lifespan 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 David, so he died at 930. But I just read a medrash which says that Adam was created at (approximately)... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290871 |
I was asked that last night and I think that there is a category of "chinuch" that (I guess) allows certain things to be said. Would Mitoch Shelo Lishma be a form of chinuch? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290871 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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How is Mitoch Shelo lishma ba lishma allowed? 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 would be great. One important tenet which I have learned is מתוך שלא לשמה בא לשמה, that we are direct... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290692 |
the local expert I consulted said "you can't try to help Hashem if the judgment is his" and i said "what about Pinchas" and he said "OK, so for someone on that level, maybe" (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290692 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Can suicide be halachically acceptable? This is a strange fact pattern that I thought of and I will explain my premises as I move through it, but the bottom line is whether a person can use suicide as a halachically acceptable behavior: A person commits murder during first temple times -- cold blooded, premeditated murder on someone who... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290644 |
It is better for a Noachide to be a righteous Noachide. Since converting through reform auspices would lead the Noachide to believe that he is Jewish, he might end up observing things forbidden to him, or not following actual Jewish law, and not focusing on the elements required of a Noachide. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290644 |
Many people are willing to "commit" to being a Jew if it doesn't impinge too much on their lives. That's not what marks a proper convert. Being able to participate in communal prayers might be a perk, but there are also obligations -- you can't have one without the other. The communal identity is par... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290644 |
Hello -- if one wanted to stick with an orthodox perspective, I would point out that a reform conversion would be tantamount to "no conversion" but someone having gone through that process might call himself Jewish which would cause confusion in the future. An orthodox conversion is a rigorous proces... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290635 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Taking goods from Egyptians During the plague of darkness, the Jews went around to scout out what the Egyptians had in their houses and then they "asked" for things before they left and the Egyptians gave them lots. No doubt, though, that some of the things given were related to the Avodah Zara that the Egyptians practiced. ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290466 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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Shimon in Egyptian jail After Yosef gave the brothers provisions, he kept Shimon (Bereisheet 42:24) there to guarantee that the brothers would return with Binyomin. They went home and didn't come back until they ran out of food (43:2) and at that point Yaakov says to them to go back down and buy some more food. Questions... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290408 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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How is the latest time for Channukah candles determined? One may light Channukah candles ad shetichle regel min hashuk, until people stop walking through the market, because after that there would be no pirsumei nisa, advertisement of the miracle, outside of the household (since there are no people who would see the candles). If so, is this a subjective... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290310 |
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/6097/phrasing-of-refuah-prayer-when-praying-for-a-non-jew (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290265 |
I have been in school minyanim which sing all 3 p'rakim with the proper trop and ones where people just "chant" on their own, and ones where things are more quiet. There is no set rule about an alternate set of t'amim (though I thought that the halacha includes a statement recommending saying with th... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290265 |
I would say not because both are said during leining. If one was reserved for leining and another for learning, that would interest me. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290265 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |