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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) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285689 | Initial revision | — | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285686 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285686 | Initial revision | — | over 2 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) |
— | over 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 |
| Edit | Post #285381 | Initial revision | — | over 2 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) |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #285276 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285276 | Initial revision | — | over 2 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) |
— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #284927 | Initial revision | — | over 2 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284019 | Initial revision | — | over 2 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 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
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— | 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 |
| Edit | Post #280935 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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Giving food to a spouse for Mishlo'ach manot I live with my wife and one of my responsibilities is to do the food shopping. Often, she gives me a list and I go. If I come home with something not on the list, can I hand it to her on Purim and have it count as my mishlo'ach manot (especially as the the mishlo'ach manot are "ish l're'eihu" and ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280934 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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Does charity on Purim have to be "new" donations? When giving matanot l'evyonim on Purim, I know that the mitzvah is fulfilled by giving money out on THAT day -- but must it be money that was set aside to be given on that day? If I have a box and I put money in it during the rest of the year, deciding on, for example, September 28 that the money ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280926 |
His language is expectant. Salvation WILL come from another place. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280926 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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Ein somchin al Hanes - Purim In the megillah, Mordechai tells Esther that if she doesn't go to the king, salvation will come from another source. While this is an admirable show of faith isn't he being somech al nes, reliant on a miracle? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280925 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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Shehecheyanu on Purim What is the shecheyanu for on Purim night? The one before the morning megillah reading is (according to the announcement in shul) for the mitzvos done in the daytime. But in the preceding night, what does it refer to? If it is in commemorating the mitzvah of megillah, then we are not fulfilling... (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 |
| Edit | Post #280824 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Can one fulfill the obligation of megillah on Purim via Zoom? I will quote from the guidance put out LAST YEAR by the OU and I will put in bold some salient points (Orthodox Union Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 1:17 PM ) > The clear majority of Halachic authorities do not consider Halachically adequate a Megillah reading heard over the phone or online. There is ho... (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)?
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— | over 3 years ago |