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Posts by Alaychem
I get double notification when my answer is commented AND "@Alaychem" appears at the comment (I know it's needless to be there).
Expending @PinnyM answer: מכות י א ...תניא ערים הללו אין עושין אותן לא טירין קטנים רש"י שם: לפי שאין מזונות מצויין שם Makot 10:A One does not establish them in small settlements... Rashi Beacuse ...
I miss the tooltip that auto-competes user's name after @ when commenting.
I ask for the sake of discussion, and by no means a practical advice What would be the halactic viewpoint of natural organic reduction as a burial solution? from the site's FAQ: Natural organic re...
Second attempt I'm not equipped enough to say it's unique, but I would say that Shmita and Yovel are very uncommon. Shmita - Every seven years, for a whole year, one may not preform agricultural ...
At the end of Rashb"i story of being in the cave (Shabbat 34:a), Rabbi Shimon causes the death of an elder that "misbehaved". I always read it like this: words in [] are added to the Gemara text A ...
Can one bless Hatov Ve'Hametiv on wine that is not made of grapes (like pomegranates, figs etc) like he would on a grape wine?
Hanania, Mishael an Azaria chose to be vegan instead of eating non-kosher food. דניאל א יב נס נא את עבדיך ימים עשרה ויתנו לנו מן הזרעים ונאכלה ומים ונשתה Daniel 1:12 please try your servants, for...
Last Shabbat, one of the community, who came from Ethiopia, gave a lesson about the different customs an traditions that they had back there at Ethiopia. He was pointing out several major differen...
It seems that there is a similarity between the "Drakkon" figure , as the Gemmara describes it, and the Chinese worshiped, mythical beast Loong. Avoda Zara 43a.6: תנו רבנן איזהו צורת דרקון פירש רש...
As you said, the word "Elohim" and "Adonai", even if written in Hebrew, can have secular status. רש"י בראשית יח פסוק ג ויאמר אדני אם נא וגו' - לגדול שבהם אמר וקראם כולם אדונים ... הוא יעמדו חבריו ...
I really don't like the vote count representation. Positive count, negative count AND a bar? That feels messy to me. If we want to differ a post with zero votes, and a post with 10 upvotes and 10 d...
I miss the post view counter. I really loved to see how much impact a question or an answer has.
