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| 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 |
| Comment | Post #285872 |
Can one be mekayem the obligation incrementally? If I show some kavod, does that satisfy the mitzvah or must it be fulfilled completely, consistently and to the fullest extent for it to count? If I stand for my father on Tuesday and not on Wednesday, do I get "credit" for Tuesday or not at all? And w... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285872 |
The connection I see is that once the rav is a surrogate father (as if he sired him) the respect incumbent on a son to a father now falls on a student to a rav. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285872 |
By the way, I would even go so far as to say that it IS possible to show respect to a commentary by quoting it in the name of the rav who wrote it. If it brings ge'ulah to the world, I would think that that implies kavod. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285872 |
I saw and commented on the question. The Bartenura on P"Avos 1:1 seems to give these statements some similar normative-establishing authority so there's that. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285874 |
If the obligation to learn is lifelong, and "teacher" is inclusive of anyone from whom one has even learned "1 mishna" (which I would assume is a reference to any small amount of learning and not limited only to mishna) then one almost automatically sets teachers for himself whenever he learns in a s... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285522 |
this site has some of these ideas in it https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2896/jewish/What-Are-the-Ten-Commandments.htm (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285522 |
I also heard that they heard all the words said at one time but needed to hear them again linearly so as to make sense of them so it could be said that they heard them ALL from Hashem, and only some from Hashem. Is this related to the medrash that the people heard the first 2 from Hashem which takes ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285319 |
If the circumference of the earth is less in NY than it is at the equator or even farther north (Montreal for example where I'm getting numbers closer to 17500 miles) then the amount of distance would be lower - if that number/distance is less per second of difference, when might it start to add up?... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285071 |
Wouldn't a gabbai keep track and announce? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284927 |
rashi also says "כְּדֵי לְהַשְׂבִּיעַ עֵינוֹ שֶׁל אוֹתוֹ רָשָׁע וּלְתַוֵּהוּ עַל רִבּוּי הַדּוֹרוֹן:" so it was to satisfy greed, not avoid death (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284927 |
Where was Eisav about to kill Ya'akov? Both Avraham and Yitzchak also used trickery but in their cases, the text explicitly says it was to save their lives. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283924 |
Here is one source which discusses elements of this issue https://www.mishnahyomit.com/articles/Sotah/Shema%20and%20Tefillah%20in%20Any%20Language (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283676 |
@#53032 yes, but that seems like a relatively banal issue. Consulting the Urim V'Tumim was for matters of national importance (should we go to war) or something affecting the masses. The behavior of a single woman who looked like she was drunk rises to that level? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283676 |
why did Chana's behavior rise to such a level that it justified asking ANYTHING of the Urim V'Tumim? She was just a lady who was crying. Did he ask for divine clarification anytime anyone showed up? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283673 |
a couple of websites which seem to hint to the questions as being more than binary (at least I make that inference) https://images.shulcloud.com/1219/uploads/spotlightonurimvtumimtzav5781.pdf https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380244/jewish/Secret-Names-of-the-Urim-and-Tumim.htm https://... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282958 |
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/63255/jewish/The-Bible-with-Rashi.htm (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282734 |
http://westmountshul.com/documents/newpdf/ManagingYourMitzvosClass3Kiddush.pdf page 2 item 5? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282070 |
https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.13.8?lang=bi&with=Birkat%20Asher%20on%20Torah&lang2=en (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282070 |
It mentions both -- it introduces the tribe of yosef and then goes down a generation, first the older some menashe, then the younger son ephraim. It only needs to introduce the Yosef tribe 1 time
(more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281340 |
If, in fact, the concern is that one will go an ask an expert about the shaking of the lulav, then the equivalent would be a concern over going out to ask someone about the EATING of the matzah. I would assume that there is less worry over how to eat than how to shake because we have experience fulfi... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280934 |
If I have a box that I put change in all year, already having in mind that it is tzeddakah, can I take some of what is already in that box on Purim and set it aside and hand it to a poor person that day, or is the mitzvah the "creation" of new tzeddakah from funds that would otherwise not have been e... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280934 |
OK, can I separate it from funds already earmarked as tzedakka or must it be separated from "new" funds? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280936 |
So according to some, each reading gets 3 blessings, and each reading is a discrete mitzvah with its own Shehechyanu at having reached the milestone of fulfilling that mitzvah. But some say that the day reading does NOT get a shehechyanu on it but hedge that position by having in mind time separated ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280926 |
His language is expectant. Salvation WILL come from another place. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280923 |
We were outside and it was cold so we did what I have seen done elsewhere, just the first and last mentions. Some services don't pause for any noise at all. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280817 |
if a father arranges a shiduch, wouldn't it be disrespectful to him as a parent not to decide to marry the chosen woman? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280554 |
Do you mean "fleishike" as the same word with a schwa syllable appended? I never thought of that as a distinct form, just a result of accent and inflection or more "yiddish" like in pronunciation. We always used fleishik (though sometimes it was more like "fleishig"). I know in England they use "meat... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280509 |
@robev but the question is predicated on a claim that something happened. If that claim has no teeth then looking for proof one way or the other is a fool's errand. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280509 |
@mithical and what would that reason be? I can find nothing in halacha which would support his contention. Can you provide some reason to think that his understanding of Jewish law is to be relied on? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280509 |
is there any reason to think that this Druze was either telling the truth or knew that he was being counted as one of ten ( as opposed to being allowed to stay when there were 10 others)?
(more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280488 |
Just a note -- not every commentator sees the word "kohen" in 47:22 to refer to priests in a way parallel to the use of the word as it applies to the castes among the biblical Jews. If it is simply a title of rank/nobility then the difference in terms of land ownership is natural. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280480 |
with all the halachic limitations and the conventional wisdom of statements like וְלֹא מָצָאתִי לַגּוּף טוֹב אֶלָּא שְׁתִיקָה I'm not sure why there would be any notion of freedom of speech (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280261 |
But if I use a non-traditional method of heating, then the application of heat is no longer the same issue. And if I use a lower heat to, for example, melt something then the level of heat isn't the issue. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280236 |
regarding the S'forno's statement, is the deceased brother still required (through his living brother) to have a boy and a girl (is a dead person still mechuyav in the mitzvah??)
(more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280145 |
@sabbahillel if the children from the former sister in law can inherit from the dead brother's estate, then they ALL (?) belong to the dead brother's "line". If there is a clear cut halacha that says "only the first" or "only the boys" then that's great -- the rest would "belong" to the living brothe... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280145 |
@msh210 I don't know if it would (clearly, I'm playing fast and loose, inventing a time period where there is no automatic chalitzah, but expecting that multiple wives are not an option - mostly because I don't know how multiple wives plays into a yibum marriage and inheritance etc). My point simply ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280136 |
https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.36.15?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279768 |
Some of those words made sense. I know that I'm using Chrome Version 87.0.4280.88 (Official Build) (64-bit) here at work (I have to check to see if the problem occurs at home also). I am wearing black sox and had brocolli for lunch but I'm not sure if that is relevant. Computers these days seem compl... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279781 |
Yes, this is about the decision in the temple -- not in our houses as the personal obligation for Channuka candles is different. And I did see their language of "all night" and I guess they mean "over night until the next time it would be lit in the morning" maybe?
(more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279757 |
do the rules of kedusha apply to a makeshift menorah? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279757 |
it also begs another question -- why didn't the Greeks loot the temple and take the solid gold menorah? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279309 |
@curiousdannii it makes such an insertion unnecessary. The section is introduced "the spies said:" and then recounts what they said (including their use of the first person). To assume that part is an insertion by another voice makes no sense unless you insist that they said something which they coul... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279309 |
Verse 33 continues the narrative started in the middle of verse 32, introduced by the word "leimor" ("saying:"). The writer put down in words the event including what the 10 spies reported. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278486 |
I think you are asking a deeper question -- is there an essential tension between v'chai bahem on one hand, and R. Akiva's seeming interpretation that the only way to be mekayem a particular mitzvah is by dying. Maybe he knew that there were other ways of satisfying b'chol nafshecha but that martyrdo... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278964 |
Radak says coincidence, the Tzror Hamor says something about its being a remez and the Ohr Chadash ties it to Haman's ancestors. I think. I can't follow it https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.8.4?lang=bi&with=Ohr%20Chadash|Quoting&lang2=en I also found this -- good luck...https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278781 |
related to the underlying question https://www.yeshiva.co/ask/7539 and this document (question 6, point 2) http://download.yutorah.org/2016/1165/848382.docx (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278758 |
I get the sense that "shul" is the actual "sanctuary" whereas guests stayed in the building that housed the sanctuary. "The downstairs halls of the inn are used for the Rebbe’s shul and for tishen on Shabbos, while the upstairs quarters are divided into the Rebbe’s sleeping quarters, kvittel shtib, a... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278589 |
You have 2 separate questions here -- one is why the creation narrative says "let us" (https://www.etzion.org.il/en/let-us-make-man) and whether the word "Elokim" is actually a plural (https://outreachjudaism.org/elohim-plural/) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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