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| Comment | Post #281865 |
@MonicaCellio As a mashal one can say (as in the hagadah) our ancestors (before Avraham) were idol worshipers and they nations are attempting to convince us to become idol worshipers again. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281954 |
@robev Since this is only a parable, it cannot be literal. Thus while one can say that the *fox* (nations) is saying that originally the Jews were idol worshipers, it is now attempting to convince them to leave the Torah and become idol worshipers *again*.
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281954 |
@robev I added a sentence pointing out that the parable does not deal with this. It is only a claim by the nations that before the Jews received the Torah they were idol worshipers. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281865 |
I would say that the point is that the mashal of water being torah is what is important. That is that the fish will die out of the water just as the Jews will *die* if they try to survive without Torah and the *fox* are those who try to get the Jews to leave the torah. Obviously it could never have h... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281865 |
As a medrash it is not taken literally. Also the point is that the fox is lieing in order to con the fish into being victims and allow the fox to easily catch and eat the fish.
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281614 |
Just because some other religion pretends to make up a different name for a deity has no meaning for Judaism. It is just like xianity calling *god* jesus or greek making the chief deity zeus. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280891 |
@interested Actually the fact that the taharas hamishpacha groups in o many locations do keep hilchos niddah and that the mikvaos in so many cities are active show that you are mistaken. Your claim that women are not keeping hilchos niddah is like claiming that no one keeps shabbos or eats kosher foo... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280891 |
@interested Not necessarily. The halacha is that a woman who issues blood because of the menstrual cycle is tamei. The details of what happens inside the body do not matter. In any case, laws of the torah cannot be changed. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280891 |
What *new ideas* do you mean? Niddah is the issuing of blood during menstruation. That has not changed. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280480 |
Rabbi Avi Shafran said this https://religionnews.com/2021/01/15/twitters-cancelation-of-free-speech-isnt-a-legal-question-its-a-moral-one/ (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280509 |
@manassehkatz Since they seem to claim to honor Yisro as their founding prophet and are rigid monotheists, they would appear to be Bnai Noach. However, since they do not release details of their beliefs we do not really know. We will find out **after** the mashiach comes.
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280145 |
@rosends I do not know what the halacha is supposed to be. I had thought that it was all to the first son, but I do not know for sure. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280145 |
Once he has fulfilled the brother's child, wouldn't any additional children be his?
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279805 |
There are occasions in which the knife that removed the scales may not be kosher. This does not make the fish itself not kosher but requires that the immediate outside be removed.
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279782 |
I have seen that while the intention is to be all night, there are those that say if one of the candles goes out, it does not have to be relit that night. Since this is from memory, I cannot say definitely. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279757 |
@Harel13 The story is that they used iron spears to make a makeshift menorah. Gold is only the best way required to make as specified in the Torah. However, if necessary other metals can be used if sufficient gold is not available.
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278480 |
I do not understand the question. The reference is to a day which the Torah defines as a *moed* a fixed day as a holiday. Thus, the day is determined to be celebrated in the same way. There should be no question about celebrationg the days of Yom Tov in a different manner unless the Torah explicitly ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278223 |
@msh210 It is based on what Rashi says (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277195 |
@AA As far as I know a Vegan is someone who does not eat meat as a matter of principle. Thus, Doniel and Moshe would not have been Vegans as they ate meat when they could. Calling them Vegans would be like calling someone who was unable to get to the butcher shop a Vegan. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277192 |
While the temple existed there could be no Vegans as we had to bring kobanos. Vegand could thus exist only after the destruction of the secondtemple. Which was well after the tanach was sealed. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277195 |
@AA Moshe is different as he neither ate nor drank anything while he was on Sinai. That is a totally different situation (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277031 |
Moshe wrote the Torah at the end of his life. Thus everthing that he wrote had already happened (except his death).
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276911 |
They observe the new moon in order to be ready when the mashiach comes and the real Sanhedrin is reestablished after the temple has been rebuilt. However, this is not an official judicial act. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276879 |
Perhaps this may be like the way the bodies were handled in ancient days. That is, after the flesh was gone from the bones, the bones were reburied. However, perhaps this is what happens over the course of time in a grave anyways. In that case, what difference would it make as the resulting soil woul... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276707 |
@Harel13 That was still before in the time of the shoftim, centuries before Yirmiyahu near the time of the destruction of the first temple. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276707 |
By that time, Dagon had been removed as the idol being worshipped. That idol was from the time of Samson.
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276596 |
They seemed to own slaves even while they were slaves in Egypt. Shevet Levi were not slaves and they also owned (nonIsraelite) slaves.
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276597 |
Some commentaries seem to imply that they owned slaves in Egypt even while they were slaves to Pharoah.
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— | almost 4 years ago |