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| Edit | Post #282369 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Metered water tap on Shabbat Measuring is always a Rabbinic prohibition. It is only prohibited to directly measure something, but there is no problem to do an action that indirectly measures something out. See Shulchan Aruch 323:1-2, and Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchatah 29:32. I also don't believe there is a Psik Reisha here, sin... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #282058 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Were Abraham's and Lot's guests the same? From Berieshis 18:22 it seems pretty clear that they were the same people, as Avraham's guests headed to Sodom when they left. > וַיִּפְנ֤וּ מִשָּׁם֙ הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ סְדֹ֑מָה וְאַ֨בְרָהָ֔ם עוֹדֶ֥נּוּ עֹמֵ֖ד לִפְנֵ֥י יְהֹוָֽה׃ > The men went on from there to Sodom, while Abraham remai... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281333 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Rosh Hashanah vs Rosh Chodesh I'm not a grammarian, but I think that with Rosh Hashana the focus is on the coming year, and it is not a categorization of the day. Rosh Chodesh is a type of day, but not specifically related to the given month. So Rosh Hashana is "The beginning of THE year", not "New Year's Day", while Rosh Chodes... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281161 |
There are chareidi batei din that handle selling chametz, and I do not believe they go through the Rabbanut. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280814 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Why is מוציא לחם more of a problem than מתיר אסורים or מלביש ערמים? I understand that grammatically it is more correct to leave out the definite article, which is why Rava starts out saying that everyone agrees that מוציא is valid. However, we would rather add the "ה" to prevent slurring the words together. For this we would need a source that even with the article i... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280480 |
The Torah definitely doesn't guarantee free speech - that would require a positive statement, and there is not such statement in the Torah. A better question is if it values free speech, and if there are any sources which are relevant. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280501 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Why do Egyptian priests keep land while Levites don't get any Rabbi S. R. Hirsch comments on this (Bereishis 47:22), but really limits his observation only to noting that Moshe was not imitating the Egyptian law: > "Only the land of the priests he did not buy etc." Here we see a complete contrast, which opposes that theory which has become rooted in so many ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280448 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Lesser-known Shabbos Zemiros Are there any printed or audio/visual collections of Shabbos Zemiros which didn't make it into the standard repertoire? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |