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Comment Post #294022 OK, so if he is halachically an oneis, would he say tashlumin? Or was the chiyuv not chal so he has nothing to make up?
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3 days ago
Comment Post #294022 I'm not sure -- if someone is medicated and knocked out, can he be an oneis?
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5 days ago
Edit Post #294022 Initial revision 7 days ago
Question Sleeping through a Zman
Here is a hypothetical case -- I get home from work on June 22 and I'm bushed. Totally knackered and it is only 5:30. I'm afraid, though, that I won't be able to fall asleep again tonight so I take a sleeping pill just to make sure. And out I go. I sleep from 6PM all the way through until 7AM, una...
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7 days ago
Edit Post #293921 Initial revision 22 days ago
Question A bracha for the mitzvah of counting
If, as it seems, the actual counting towards the Yovel is a mitzvah. This is the Mishne Torah as translated and noted on sefaria: > It is a positive commandment to count sets of seven years Sefer HaMitzvot (positive commandment 140) and Sefer HaChinuch (mitzvah 330) includes the commandment to ...
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22 days ago
Edit Post #293914 Initial revision 23 days ago
Question Why is this counting not a mitzvah?
We are required to count the omer because the pasuk states וּסְפַרְתֶּם לָכֶם so Mitzvah #127 here mandates that counting. There is also an obligation (#221 on the list) to count the years towards Shmita as it is written וְסָפַרְתָּ֣ לְךָ֗ (pasuk here) But for some reason, when counting to...
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23 days ago
Comment Post #293834 Do you mean the moments indicated in this discussion? https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/30076/shirat-hayam-trop-which-phrases
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about 1 month ago
Comment Post #293454 I have received 2 answers so far -- the first was that the door is not designed to hold items the way the drawer is and the second is that the door is mechubar l'karka.
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3 months ago
Edit Post #293454 Initial revision 3 months ago
Question Can a door become muktzeh?
If one goes to a hotel in which the doors have BOTH an electronic lock and a manual one built in, does the door become a basis l'davar ha'assur on Shabbat? The electronics are inside the door and are muktzeh (I think). So must one open the door with a shinui? I would like to understand whether ...
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3 months ago
Edit Post #293372 Initial revision 4 months ago
Question Benefitting from A"Z
I do not mean this as a practical question -- if I have to do that, I'll ask local authorities. This is more about the theory of the idea. I know that we try to separate ourselves from Avodah Zarah. I was looking at some messages about Aliyah and saw that an Evangelical Christian is volunteerin...
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4 months ago
Edit Post #293151 Initial revision 5 months ago
Question The Timeline at the Beginning
I'm trying to get a handle on the events surrounding the creation of man. Is there any resource which catalogues the events and opinions? Adam and Chava are created Erev Shabbos. According to one medrash, Chava conceives and gives birth immediately (possibly to both Kayin AND Hevel). The child(ren...
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5 months ago
Edit Post #293137 Initial revision 5 months ago
Question Which is a higher priority on Dec 24 at night?
This year, the first night of Channukah is the evening of the 25th of December. This question would be about a year in which Channukah starts on or before the 24th. In that case, one would be faced with contradictory sensibilities: 1. Lighting the Channukah candles in a way that encourages pirsume...
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5 months ago
Comment Post #293106 https://sephardicu.com/shabbat/electric-autonomous-car-shabbat/#:~:text=From%20the%20point%20of%20view,and%20enjoy%20it%20on%20Shabbat
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6 months ago
Edit Post #292925 Initial revision 7 months ago
Question 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...
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7 months ago
Edit Post #292862 Initial revision 7 months ago
Question 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...
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7 months ago
Edit Post #292804 Initial revision 8 months ago
Question 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...
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8 months 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).
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8 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.
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8 months ago
Edit Post #292693 Initial revision 8 months ago
Question 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...
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8 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.
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9 months ago
Edit Post #292156 Initial revision 10 months ago
Question 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...
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10 months ago
Edit Post #292016 Initial revision 11 months ago
Question 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?
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11 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
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11 months ago
Edit Post #291783 Initial revision 12 months ago
Question 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...
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12 months ago
Edit Post #291693 Initial revision 12 months ago
Question 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? ...
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12 months ago
Comment Post #291152 I was told it was because in Yiddish both are pronounced.
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12 months ago
Edit Post #291559 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Question 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...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #291415 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Question 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...
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about 1 year 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?
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about 1 year 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?
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #291358 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Question (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...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #291246 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Question 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)...
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about 1 year ago