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Posts by rosends‭

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Q&A How is Mitoch Shelo lishma ba lishma allowed?

I'm not fully finished with this question as I haven't researched all of my premises, and if someone can point me in the direction of a resource which would stop my question before it starts, that ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Can suicide be halachically acceptable?

This is a strange fact pattern that I thought of and I will explain my premises as I move through it, but the bottom line is whether a person can use suicide as a halachically acceptable behavior: ...

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Q&A Taking goods from Egyptians

During the plague of darkness, the Jews went around to scout out what the Egyptians had in their houses and then they "asked" for things before they left and the Egyptians gave them lots. No doubt...

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Q&A Shimon in Egyptian jail

After Yosef gave the brothers provisions, he kept Shimon (Bereisheet 42:24) there to guarantee that the brothers would return with Binyomin. They went home and didn't come back until they ran out o...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by rosends‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by msh210‭

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Q&A How is the latest time for Channukah candles determined?

One may light Channukah candles ad shetichle regel min hashuk, until people stop walking through the market, because after that there would be no pirsumei nisa, advertisement of the miracle, outsid...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by rosends‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Different Trop when laining

Ignoring the question of why, there is a practice of using different musical trop when laining the 10 commandments from when studying it. Are there other examples of different trop or pronunciatio...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Halacha applied differently dependent on the situation

I recall asking someone about whether a Jew could work in a non-kosher restaurant. One of the opinions I heard was that a Jew shouldn't because "odds are" that the person, as a waiter, will end up ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by rosends‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Tevillas Keilim on Used things

I was reading up on tevillas keilim and saw the following statements on this site: Utensils require tevila if they were given by a Jew to a Yehudi as a gift or if they were bought from a aino Ye...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by rosends‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A The Essence of Judaism

Judaism doesn't distinguish itself -- the other religions, as offshoots, differentiate themselves, Christianity by the abandoning of the laws and adopting Jesus, and Islam, by adopting Muhammed and...

posted 6mo ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Why is the system of listing unkosher animals inconsistent?

I am looking for resources that go through the section (Vayikra 11:1-30) with a fine toothed comb and discuss and explain the inconsistencies in how animals are described/listed. I have assembled a...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Tallow candles and Kashrut

There are candles that are made from beef tallow (https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2014/01/tallow-emergency-candles.html). If one were to burn one, residue and soot from incomplete combustion co...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by rosends‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by PinnyM‭

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Q&A Nemuel vs Yemuel

I am looking at the geneology of the 12 tribes and I found that Reuvein had son named Palu. Palu had a son named Eli'av and Eli'av had 3 sons, Datan, Aviram and Nemuel (Bamidbar 26:9) וּבְנֵ֣י אֱל...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Tzidkat'cha in the presence of a mourner

If one is in shul on a Shabbos afternoon and a mourner (who is in his 7 days) is davening there, does the minyan say Tzidkat'cha? My logic -- during the week,one does not say tachanun in the house...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by rosends‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Was Mordechai Consoled?

When Haman came home after leading Mordechai around, he complained to his wife, Zeresh. Her reaction was (from Sefaria) וַיְסַפֵּ֨ר הָמָ֜ן לְזֶ֤רֶשׁ אִשְׁתּוֹ֙ וּלְכׇל־אֹ֣הֲבָ֔יו אֵ֖ת כׇּל־אֲשֶׁ...

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Q&A Why is kosher wine sometimes boiled?

Kosher wine must never have been used for anything that he talmud sees as idolatry and the suspicion, dating back to talmudic times, is that an idolater's even slightly moving an open bottle, could...

posted 9mo ago by rosends‭

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Q&A Wine Making things treif

Non kosher food creates a status in dishes that requires that they go through a kashering process. I recall learning that this is at least partially to remove any residual taste or particulates fro...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by rosends‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by robbiefowler‭

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Q&A Inference of Opposites as Halachic process

In the Talmudic discussion of the Sotah ritual, the halacha is derived that, because part of the ritual requires uncovering the woman's hair, the obligation would otherwise be to keep the hair cove...

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Q&A 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...

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Q&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 aband...

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Q&A 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 por...

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Q&A 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 m...

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Q&A 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 th...

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Divrei Torah Preparing for preparing for Pesach

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Q&A 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 ...

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by rosends‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Fred Wamsley‭