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Is being a book mark a mitzvah? When a string breaks off of one's tzitzit there are rules about its disposal. One may not treat it (according to opinions noted by the Rama) in a degrading fashion though they needn't be buried in a geniza. He writes (Shulach Aruch 21) וי"א דאף לאחר שנפסקו אין לנהוג בהם מנהג בזיון לזורקן במקום מגונה... (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286380 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286380 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Can one change the wording of davening? Note -- I am creating the hypothetical carefully so I can focus on an underlying halachic concept. A Baal T'shuva learns to daven in a very eclectic minyan -- people from all over and with all sorts of particular nuscha'ot join this minyan. This person picks up a siddur and does what it says. As i... (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286308 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Why are Matzah and Sukkah different in terms of intent? Bottom line question is why is a Sukkah different from a Matzah in terms of (not) requiring (expressed) kavannah in its creation? A Sukkah (according to the ruling of Beit Hillel on Mas Sukkah 9a) need not be made specifically to be a sukkah. Even the schach, strictly speaking, does not need to be... (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286278 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Could I keep K for P all year round and not search the next year? Is searching for/burning chameitz a distinct obligation or just an adjunct – a way to prepare for pesach? If I kept my house striclty kosher for pesach all year round (not actually that tough as I eat mostly chicken or fish and fresh vegetables and can have matzah for motzi until a month before Pe... (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286253 |
https://aish.com/challah-breaking-bread-on-shabbat/ (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286171 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Canaan's descendants and the curse In Bereisheet 9, Canaan was cursed and this curse was taken to be a statement on not just him, but his descendants (see the Haamek Davar on pasuk 24 for an example). Why would later generations be stained by a sin commited by Canaan, or fated by a curse placed on Canaan? If sons don't get punished... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286050 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Is there a timeline of creation, hour by hour? I have read talmudic accounts and heard of medrashim reagrding the timeline of the 6th day of creation and the "birth" of Adam and Chava (especially as it relates to Erev Shabbat) but I'm wondering if there is a source which provides a chronology of the entire week of creation, using a 24 hour clock.... (more) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285872 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Honoring parents under the law From this morning's blog post I used to feel bad for orphans. OK, that came out wrong. Please allow me to explain. As a religious Jew, I try to view my responsibility to abide by and fulfill the commandments as an opportunity, not just as a burden. I tried to take on things that gave me the cha... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285863 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Mishebeirach for cholim placement I noticed that on Shabbos, the gabbai at shul makes the mishebeirach for cholim between the 6th and 7th aliyot. I have seen this at other shuls (though I don't know if it is a codified rule or a standardized practice). I daven at a different minyan during the week and in that minyan, the mishebeir... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285689 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Animal product spoons and Kashrut Do food service products made from non-kosher sources create a kashrut problem when they are used with food (or even without)? There are spoons made from mother of pearl (from mollusk shells), used generally for caviar, and there are spoons carved from animal bones. Would using either of these mak... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285686 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285686 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Maariv with a mincha minyan I'm not fully finished with my hypothetical but it goes something like this: If I davened mincha at the earliest possible time, I can daven maariv before sunset. If I am called to help out with a mincha minyan that is meeting a little before sunset, can I daven maariv (let's assume, without jud... (more) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285381 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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What does it mean to speak of the Jews as a single entity? tl;dr in what sense did "the people" as a collective do/say anything? In the Artscroll A""Z 5b1, the commentary in note 1 points out that "The Jews referred to the manna as..." and later, that "the people exclaimed." This figure of speech, that the people acted in a certain, singular way, or said ... (more) |
— | almost 3 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) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285276 |
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285276 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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At what distance does a zman change? Simply put, how much physical distance on the globe/map effects a discernable change in time? If I compute the zman for something, I do so based on (for some websites) my zip code. But that zip code covers a large area. Is it possible within a zip code to have more than one "time" when a zman star... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285071 |
Wouldn't a gabbai keep track and announce? (more) |
— | about 3 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) |
— | about 3 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) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284927 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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Ya'akov as a trickster I'm trying to understand (the classical Jewish view of) the character of Yaakov. He gets the birthright by exploiting a situation -- he did nothing inherently wrong and WE see him as justified in getting the bracha, but he took advantage of his brother's weakness to get it. The optics are question... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284019 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Dancing in the vineyards on Yom Kippur The mishna (4:8) in Taanit reads > אָמַר רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל, לֹא הָיוּ יָמִים טוֹבִים לְיִשְׂרָאֵל כַּחֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר בְּאָב וּכְיוֹם הַכִּפּוּרִים, שֶׁבָּהֶן בְּנוֹת יְרוּשָׁלַיִם יוֹצְאוֹת בִּכְלֵי לָבָן שְׁאוּלִין, שֶׁלֹּא לְבַיֵּשׁ אֶת מִי שֶׁאֵין לוֹ. which is translated (l... (more) |
— | over 3 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 3 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 3 years ago |