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| 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) |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288104 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Why isn't Iyar 16 a fast day? There are fast days through the year which commemorate the process leading to the destruction of the temple. The way I learned them, there was a date marking the beginning of the siege, one for the breaching of the walls and one for the ultimate burning of the Beit Hamikdash. I just read on chabad... (more) |
— | about 2 years 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 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288032 |
related question https://www.religiousforums.com/threads/bshalach-question.267293/ (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288033 |
Are you referring to chazeret? I've never really known what it is... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287984 |
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— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287984 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Why is the verse about old age specifically read aloud in Selichot? Rashi there (Tehillim 71:9) understands "eit ziknah" not as a chronological age but "If I have aged with sins, meaning, I have sinned exceedingly." So the speaker is asking for Hashem not to abandon him even if he is mired so deeply in sin (at any age) that he feels he has a lack of strength to re... (more) |
— | about 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287924 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Why does the Written Torah include construction details? The understanding I have is that every word in the Torah (5 books) is important and what is related there is essential to building a Jewish world-view. Therefore, the stories and laws are to be pored over to glean every lesson available. Though the text spells out certain things, much is also left to... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287921 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Treif status of hands If I handle food that is patently unkosher, and it gets on my hands, do my hands have a status of "treif" that might impact my handling of certain things? Assuming I rinse them with water (whcih might not remove all the residue -- trief cutlery needs much more than a rinsing to allow it to be in u... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287913 |
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/59311/what-tribe-did-someone-belong-to-if-they-didnt-have-a-jewish-father (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287890 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287859 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Article | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287810 |
Sh'mot 7:18 "And the fish that is in the River shall die" (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287681 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287648 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287648 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287544 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287531 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287433 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287200 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286929 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | almost 3 years ago |