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| Comment | Post #277297 |
(The answer below didn't really clarify this explicitly, but the line that misled you ה' אֱ-לֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל תְּשׁוּעַת עוֹלָמִים is itself a later addition.) (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277328 |
Regarding when to close questions as opinion-based, Mi Yodeya's standard is described at https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4376/ and is definitely not "assuming nobody would be able to find a source for". What policy would you want? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277328 |
Regarding the "rampant closing of practical questions", Mi Yodeya's standing policy is outlined at https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3873/ and https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4774/ What policy would you want? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277328 |
What policies/rules would you want to implement to achieve this vision? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277192 |
@alaychem no, all the korbanot musaf and tamid and chataot and ashamot were mandatory (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277192 |
@sabba no, there were no korbanot between the two temples, which is during the time of tanach (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276982 |
On Mi Yodeya there was once a post that cited every lenient source on a sexuality-related question and only one obscure source for the restrictive position, even though there are way more strict sources that exist than lenient ones on that topic. Passers by wouldn't be able to tell that and the p... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276982 |
Another consideration is the pool of potential answerers on these questions would be significantly smaller and skewed away from Rabbi (on the ad hoc Rabbi-Troublemaker continuum). There's little reason to expect full or balanced answers to these questions in this format. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277233 |
It's not just a common misconception but a rather dangerous one (cf. the second bullet in the question ח"ו). (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277195 |
@DonielF I don't know, but either way Moshe qualified. Maybe close the question for now since clearly it's pretty unclear what exactly is being sought? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277195 |
@sabba why is that different than this case? Both are people who didn't eat meat temporarily under certain circumstances. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276416 |
Can we import and close this as a duplicate of https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/10873/ (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277195 |
Also Moshe ate no animal products while on Mt Sinai. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277171 |
@rosends it says that according to most opinions your case is impossible. Any mamzer would be a chalal not a kohein. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277191 |
Can we import that ^^ and close this as a duplicate? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277068 |
related https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276714 (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277068 |
I discourage you from copy/pasting it. Some people have been doing that but it seems to me quite short sighted, as it will create more problems later when we have to account for duplicates when the original is brought over (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277026 |
@msh did you mean to exclude the variant customs that split any of vayera, mikketz, teruma, tetzaveh, ki-tisa, vayakhel, pekudei, or chukkat and only allow customs of splitting nitzavim or mishpatim? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277026 |
@Isaac which close reason would you think applies? Too generic? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276960 |
So "may a kohein who is already a doctor study a surgery technique which is not used in pikuach nefesh situations"? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276988 |
The Shulchan Arukh says ואין מדליקין נרות בלילה, כי אם נר האחד, לומר לאורו קינות ואיכה Doesn't say anything about where you should sit (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277004 |
"if there is anything tailored for the individual or if davening is inherently geared towards being a communal experience" This seems like a false dichotomy. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277006 | Initial revision | — | about 6 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Is it preferable to not say Mincha early on a fast day? Regarding your concern about Anenu for the Ashkenazi practice of omitting it in the morning lest you come to eat, the Magen Avraham (Orach Chaim 565:3) felt that was not a problem even at an early mincha because Rama ruled (Orach Chaim 562:1) that Anenu can be said (in certain circumstances) on a... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276969 |
@LoAni so he has an important business meeting all afternoon, decides to skip praying, goes to his meeting, and goes home afterwards. Where did he forget anything? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276960 |
@DonielF I'm not sure I follow. Deciding to learn something can't be prohibited. If it turns out later that he is best placed to save someone's life, great. Are you asking about doing surgery while in training and he's not really needed to save the life? That's kind of the same as the general med... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277003 |
Note some communities add anenu even at shacharit (and some even at maariv) especially on fixed communal fasts. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277005 |
Though in some traditions, these words are recited even with a minyan and in some they are omitted even when alone. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276960 |
To be clear, pikuach nefesh trumps the prohibition of being near a dead body. Is the question only about surgeons who don't deal with pikuach nefesh situations, or about choosing to do something (study) that will cause you to be called on to help in pikuach nefesh situations more often? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276985 |
Are you asking if it should be a policy or if it should be an enforceable policy (via closure/deletion)? Encouraging people to look elsehwere first is different from forcing them to. I'm not sure what you are proposing (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276965 |
@DonielF are all the ways this site is different from MY also ways it is better? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276969 |
@robev how do you forget to do something you weren't planning on doing? If I don't eat ham for lunch today, it's not because I forgot to eat it. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276899 |
I'm not sure how that addressed my question. I have no way of knowing from "Does anyone have a source for the claim that the Satmar Rav, R' Yoel Teitelbaum, said to VP Hubert Humphrey, 'Sell weapons to Israel!" if Judaism is core to that question or not. Do I need to research the answer before de... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276972 |
The mnemonic is only useful if you understand what it means, so probably worth translating it (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276969 |
Why would he have skipped it anyway? I don't really understand the case (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276945 |
@manasseh No, the prohibition is not specifically writing. Drawing meaningful pictures is equally prohibited. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276899 |
"yes, if we assume that his saying it would be significant because of his position" Whose responsibility is it to determine if we make that assumption? Does it need to be explicit in the text of the question post? I know nothing about Hubert Humphery so would have no way of knowing a priori if th... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276948 |
@manasseh communal korbanot are not permitted on shabbat because of aseh doche lo taase. That principle can't be used to override shabbat laws because shabbat is both an aseh and a lo taaseh itself. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276874 |
"I'm proposing that if literally the first link when you search your question provides an answer, it's probably a low-quality question." This question should be closed then https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276943 (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276948 |
@manasseh personal sacrifices with a fixed time can be brought on shabbos. The classic examples are korban pesach and the kohein gadol's daily chavitin and yom kippur par (and par helem davar). I don't think nazir is included but it's not as simple as you say. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276948 |
https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%91%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%91%D7%A8_%D7%95_%D7%9B but that's generally not taken as an actual obligation (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276943 |
@manasseh i agree they are different. there is much less reason to allow eating meat or wine at a siyum since no one usually celebrates a siyum with meat and wine so the disregard for the mourning is more blatant. havdala, being at least a rabbinic obligation, is much more halachically special th... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276943 |
Fwiw on the rare occasion I've been present to celebrate a siyum during the nine days I've never seen anyone giving away their meat, if there was any, to a child. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276943 |
According to this meta proposal https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276383#answer-276874 this question appears off topic. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276943 |
What about Motzei Shabbos during the nine days that isn't Chazon? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276906 |
This is like your first example and open https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/15079/what-was-daily-life-like-for-jewish-women-living-in-al-andalus-in-the-10th-11th
This is like your third example and open https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/64238/if-the-lulav-and-etrog-are-biblica... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276906 |
Do you feel any of these examples would be on different sides of the scope line at Mi Yodeya? I'm having a hard time seeing a difference between their policy and this (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276922 |
Considering Friday Erev Yom Kippur, I don't find your argument compelling. Similarly a bris during the 10 Days of Repentance. (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276924 |
Similarly, what about when she goes to the grocery? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276916 |
Were Achamadenijad's [alleged] crimes not against Jews? (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |