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| Edit | Post #287890 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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What exactly changed when Adam and Chava ate the fruit? In Gan Eden, Adam and Chava were unclothed. I recall reading that, had they not eaten of the Eitz HaDa'at, moshiach would have come and ushered in the messianic era (I'm not sure of a source for that, and it raises all sorts of questions about the necessary elements of tribulations preceding moshiach... (more) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287859 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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Preparing for preparing for Pesach There is an idea in Jewish law that it is incumbent upon each of us to begin to study the laws of a holiday 30 days before the holiday so as to prepare ourselves and help us become comfortable with that holiday. Much discussion has ensued about the scope and specific intent of this practice. Some ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years 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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287810 |
Sh'mot 7:18 "And the fish that is in the River shall die" (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287681 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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Why is Yemei singular? The first 2 verses of Parshat Vay'chi present me with a question, so I'm soliciting any help on this. Here they are, for convenience's sake (from Sefaria): וַיְחִ֤י יַעֲקֹב֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם שְׁבַ֥ע עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה שָׁנָ֑ה וַיְהִ֤י יְמֵֽי־יַעֲקֹב֙ שְׁנֵ֣י חַיָּ֔יו שֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֔ים וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287648 |
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— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287648 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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Reward for mitzvot pre-adulthood There is a conept that there is a s'char mitzvah, a reward for doing a mitzvah, and an oneish/punishment for "sinning". But there is also an idea that a child, under the age of bar/bat mitzvah who sins is not held accountable for the sin -- instead the father is held accountable. This is why the fath... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287544 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Who says Rebbi said Kiddush? I read the following statement on the Chabad.org website https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=12/9/2022 "The Talmud (Ketubot 103a) relates that even after his passing, for a time, Rabbi Judah would still visit his home every Friday evening at dusk. Wearing Shabbat clothes, he would r... (more) |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287531 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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counting for more than one minyan If one is in an open area in which more than one minyan is meeting, can he be counted for both minyanim simultaneously? If, at the kotel, one minyan has started and then someone leaves, and I am there davening with another minyan but I can hear the first, can I count for both? Or if I have finishe... (more) |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287433 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Embarrassing someone in private The gemara in Bava Metzia 59a make the statement that one should not "whiten his friend's face" (embarrass him). The section states > ואל ילבין פני חבירו ברבים מנ"ל מדדרש רבא דדרש רבא מאי דכתיב (תהילים לה) ובצלעי שמחו ונאספו קרעו ולא דמו אמר דוד לפני הקב"ה רבש"ע גלוי וידוע לפניך שאם היו מקרעים... (more) |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287200 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Why is Pesach in the singular? Simply put, why is Pesach in the singular while Shavu'ot and Sukkot are in the plural? Shavu'ot makes sense to me because the day celebrates the culmination of weekS. But I only made 1 Sukkah so why is it in the plural? Maybe because the pasuk says "Basukkot teshvu...". But what about Pesach? E... (more) |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years 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 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286929 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Korbanot of Rosh Chodesh on R"H During p'sukei d'zimra on a week day which is Rosh Chodesh, we add in, during the recitation of Korbanot, a paragraph about the sacrifices of Rosh Chodesh. On Shabbat, add in an extra paragraph with the korbanot of Shabbat. But on Rosh Hashana, we don't add in the korbanot of Rosh Chodesh even ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286919 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286919 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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When did the people learn of Shabbat and what did they learn (questions) Not really a dvar Torah but a longer set of questions trying to understand what the people knew about sh'mirat shabbat between (let's say) the 23rd of Nisan and the 6th of Sivan right after Yetziyat Mitzrayim (or possibly until they were commanded to build the Mishkan). I can't pose this as a questio... (more) |
— | over 2 years 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 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286718 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Was Avraham not modest? The Mah Tovu statement of Bil'am's, though intended as a curse was actually praise, and attested to (via Bava Batra 60a) the modesty of the children of Israel. They did not construct their tents in a way that others could see in to their private places. This sense of tzniyut was admirable. But one... (more) |
— | over 2 years 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286701 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Sentencing a defendant to death Let's say a Jew is serving on a jury that is deciding the sentence for someone (even more powerfully, a Jew) convicted (under US law) of a capital offense. The judge instructs the jury that the two possible sentences are death or a protracted incarceration. Can a Jew serve on such a jury? If the J... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286652 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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How did people understand references to 2 destructions before the first destruction? Note -- I know that this is not a fully formed question yet so I welcome any edits. There are "prophecies" and references which we understand to be about the destruction of the two temples and the building of a third beit hamikdash. How were references like this understood during the time of the f... (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286581 |
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/45992/can-an-automated-online-service-business-operate-on-shabbat (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286496 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Tamid as Kaparah? Each day, we recite the 8 p'sukim from Bamidbar 28 (1-8) which detail the rules of the twice daily Tamid. The Tamid is an Olah but I'm not sure of the exact purpose of the sacrifice. On weekdays, the text is preceded by a yehi ratzon which includes the following statement about our fervent wish fo... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286388 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |