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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| 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) |
— | 2 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290310 |
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/6097/phrasing-of-refuah-prayer-when-praying-for-a-non-jew (more) |
— | 5 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) |
— | 5 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) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290244 |
Would a line of smoke constitute a connected stream or must it be literally liquid, or could it be something which looks like it flows? Would steam which condenses on the utensil count? (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290243 |
This calls into question the threshold of use. Do I have to hold each spoon? Lick it once? Use it for cereal? Is it about stated kavannah or demonstrated action? I have utensils that, after many years, I haven't actually used. When I put them in the drawer, did that constitute intent? (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290241 |
I would think that it would still be considered as being used under the same initial erroneous assumption. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289800 |
the three are connected because of the supposed Abrahamic linkage. There are distinct differences in concepts of prophecy and a whole lot of other stuff. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288717 |
But if on shabbos, we don't generally have the aveil daven for the amud (usually -- there are cases where it could happen) then is it still a shiva minyan (for the sake of no tzidkat'cha) because of his presence which would, even if he didn't daven for the amud on a Tuesday, stop tachanun (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288717 |
So it is the house and not the person? I recall that when I was an aveil and minyan was in shul I DID daven for the amud but I don't remember whether or not we said tachanun. What if (as was the case in the olden days) the person sitting shiva lived in the shul? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288250 |
there are definitely different rules for contact between hot and cold items but does the nesech status of wine transcend that? (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288186 |
https://images.shulcloud.com/1275/uploads/Events-Activities/Adult-Learning/Shavuot-5780-Study-Materials/Ruth-KriandKtivRCW.pdf https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/1003951/rabbi-mordechai-torczyner/ruth-week-12-kri-and-ktiv/ https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/14671/general-understand... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288144 |
The Baal Shem Tov name is a reference to a shem tov or a "good name" or reputation and refers to a phrase used in the oral law (ethics of the fathers chapts 2 and 4). (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288104 |
@#60327 you bring up what sounds like a rule/policy, that nothing was instituted after the time of the Nevi'im. Is that true? Wouldn't there be a derobonon possibility? (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288033 |
Wikipedia says that Chazeret (Romaine) is used for koreich but maror (horseradish) is used for achilat maror. Chabad.org talks about why romaine is useful as a bitter herb/chazeret (and is what is used for the Hillel sammich) but doesn't discuss why there is a distinction between the 2. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288032 |
related question https://www.religiousforums.com/threads/bshalach-question.267293/ (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288033 |
Are you referring to chazeret? I've never really known what it is... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287681 |
On Sefaria, but the Onkelos and teh TY have the plural https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.47.28?lang=bi&with=Targum%20Jonathan%20on%20Genesis&lang2=he (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287951 |
I have to check but I thought that the majority opinion is that everything follows the biologically birthing mother
https://repository.yu.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12202/4491/Honors%20thesis%20FINAL%20VERSION.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://jewinthecity.com/2021/05/is-surrogacy-permitted-acc... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287913 |
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/59311/what-tribe-did-someone-belong-to-if-they-didnt-have-a-jewish-father (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287881 |
@#8046 that's exactly what fascinates me. The bat kol doesn't say "R Eliezer is right" but invokes a (heretofore?) non-existent principle! (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287881 |
What is interesting to me is that the voice is speaking of a klal, a general rule of deciding a law, and yet this principle is not found on a list of such https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Klalei_HaTalmud#General (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287810 |
OK, so why not Ex 9:8? In the command to Moshe and Aharon: "And the Lord said to Moshe and to Aharon, Take for yourselves handfuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moshe sprinkle it heaven- wards in the sight of Par῾o.
וְהָיָ֣ה לְאָבָ֔ק עַ֖ל כׇּל־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם וְהָיָ֨ה עַל־הָאָדָ֜ם וְעַל־הַבְּהֵ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287810 |
Sh'mot 7:18 "And the fish that is in the River shall die" (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287531 |
associated questions that arose in discussion: can a person answer to two simultaneous chatzi kaddishs from two different minyanim? What about if one minyan just said borchu and one is about to say ashrei (different points in davening, same kaddish). Also, can one force someone to stay in a room by f... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287433 |
I have not looked -- I assume he would be against it but I don't know if he would analyze why the gemara spoke only in the public. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287290 |
Do we make a bracha on saying hallel at the seder? Isn't hallel a series of tehillim? Do we stand whenever we read tehillim? I think it would be useful to delve into the reasons that we stand for any particular thing and not others (or that thing at a different time.) (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #280936 |
My shul just sent out its bulletin in which there was a riddle about why we can't use a Shechyanu on the night of Sukkot (over sitting in the sukkah for the first time) to "cover" the mitzvah of shaking the lulav. The answer was "The time for the mitzvah of Lulav is during the day, and has not yet be... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287249 |
There are other sad or "negative" moments in prayer which we sing as well. For some people music is a memory aid or helps evoke an emotion and create a relationship with the words. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287176 |
Unfortunately, I can say i have only run into two scernarios: the first is when the commentator makes note of something at the first instance of a practice, the second is when the commentator waits until a "significant" instance happens and then mentions it. The third (every list of 2 should have 3 i... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287172 |
I always thought of bitui as an expression or figure of speech (how we say things, manipulating language possibly to hurt or mislead) whereas dibur peh is about what we say. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287028 |
the Bechor Shor seems to indicate that what Avraham didn't know was that Milcah had children as a result of a miracle parallel to Sarah's miraculous birthing so the children would be viable choices for a wife for Yitzchak. Even if Avraham knew of the kids' existence, he would not necessarily known o... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286929 |
I read that Rosh hashana "hides" rosh chodesh which is a ncie thought but if, as that chart indicates, in the temple, the Rosh Chodesh korbanot were given, then they weren't hidden. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286909 |
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/37735/can-one-bow-before-a-king-can-one-bow-to-a-statue-of-a-king (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286701 |
through conversation with a co-worker, I am tempted to expand this question so question the entire concept of participating in a judicial system (via jury service) in which the laws of evidence, warning, and penalty are all counter to halacha (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286642 |
I read this https://torah.org/torah-portion/olas-shabbos-5763-pekudei/?print-posts=pdf and it includes reference to a medrash that says "According to the same Midrash, the Mishkan was erected and dismantled each day (of the Seven
Days of Inauguration). According to the opinion of Rabbi Chanina, it w... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286581 |
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/45992/can-an-automated-online-service-business-operate-on-shabbat (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286523 |
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2912697/jewish/Why-Do-We-Count-the-Omer-Specifically-at-Night.htm https://ph.yhb.org.il/en/05-02-05/ https://www.etzion.org.il/en/holidays/sefirat-haomer/forgetting-count-omer-0 (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286505 |
The Malbim seems to address (some aspect of) your question https://www.sefaria.org/Leviticus.20.19?ven=The_Contemporary_Torah,_Jewish_Publication_Society,_2006&vhe=Miqra_according_to_the_Masorah&lang=bi&with=Malbim&lang2=en I'm not scholar enough to understand it but he and others point out that this... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286382 |
https://jewishlink.news/divrei-torah/39721-the-deja-vu-of-rivers-starting-a-new-year-with-covid-19 (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286308 |
Another problem with that is that if a frum Jew makes the matzah but doesn't have the intent (even if he follows the recipe the way he always does) then something is missing. And I can have a guy supervise the process to attest to the time limit and give it an OU but that says nothing about being mad... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286278 |
Yes -- we encourage friends to move in right before the holiday and then not to use any appliances or bring any food in until they are ready to turn over the Chag. Is that allowed or do they have to search anyway (and find something)? I know that people put out the 10 cheerios in case they don't find... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286254 |
I can only speak from various experiences -- many of the options you listed happen. My mother used to listen to the seder from the kitchen while she washed the dishes. I prefer the "disposable" option. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286253 |
https://aish.com/challah-breaking-bread-on-shabbat/ (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286253 |
On shabbos, aren't we supposed to put one on top of the other and cut from the bottom one, or some (I think) use the one on the right side or something. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286175 |
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22civil+disobedience%22+halacha&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS943US943&oq=%22civil+disobedience%22+halacha&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546l3.4559j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |