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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Edit | Post #290653 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Should a Noahide convert to Reform Judaism if no Orthodox community is accessible? As a Noachide wanting to convert to Judaism you are already on a journey. Such journeys are by their nature incremental, so even though your end goal isn't currently available to you, you might be able to get some intermediate improvements. Community is central to Judaism and it sounds like that's ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290468 |
Post edited: formatting? |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290468 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: How do you name a non-Jew for Mi Sheberach? Rosends pointed out a related question elsewhere with a variety of answers. Here is a compilation of what I learned there and by following links from there: - Chabad says (without citing a source): "When praying for a non-Jew, we mention the person's name along with his/her father's name." Anoth... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290353 |
Interesting, thanks! I did not know about the dropped-nun interpretation there. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290353 |
He does, but it doesn't say whether he took anyone with him. I would have assumed he wouldn't have, because he says "I" not "we" and also because a man's wife and children belong with him, not with his father-in-law. But the sons' absence from the counting is puzzling if they stayed. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290353 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Did Moshe's wife and sons remain with Yisrael during the time in the wilderness? In Shemot 18:2-4, Yitro comes from Midian to join the Israelites after the exodus, bringing Moshe's wife Tzipporah and his sons Gershon and Eliezer. This appears to be the torah's last mention of Moshe's family.[^1] Later, in Bamidbar 3:38 when the Levites are being given their assigned roles and e... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290310 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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How do you name a non-Jew for Mi Sheberach? Ploni is the child of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. The father is ill and Ploni would like to say Mi Sheberach for him in a minyan. How should Ploni form the name for a non-Jewish relative? "Christopher ben Lisa" would stand out (probably not what Ploni wants). Maybe Ploni should in... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290265 |
Do traditional congregations lein Sh'ma in the liturgy? I'm used to hearing non-trop Sh'ma plus trop v'ahavta etc, but I've had limited exposure to orthodox services and have no idea what's normative on this. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290241 |
I wonder if kashrut and tevillah are different. If I eat in someone's house and it turns out there's a problem with that person's kashrut, I've erred once. If I incorrectly assume that tevillah has been done, I'm erring every time I use it, right? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290019 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Halachically, what is bread? I was recently doing some baking, and it led to a household discussion: what makes bread bread, as opposed to mezunot? I wondered if it might be about ingredients. Bread, fundamentally, is made of grain, water, salt, and a leavening agent (setting aside the special case of matzah). Bread can als... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289791 |
Here's a non-paywalled [article](https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/in-first-leading-kosher-authority-orthodox-union-certifies-lab-grown-meat/) from Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, where I read about this. (I haven't yet compared it to the NYT article.) (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288032 |
Post edited: Fixed a tangential comment: Sivan 15 would have been after the giving of the torah. |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289519 |
Specifically [here](https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.56b.16?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en} in Sanhedrin. Thank you! (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288726 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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Should posting on Meta affect reputation? When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorry. Do you want us to change posts on Meta to not award rep for upvotes or subtract it for downvotes? ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288444 |
I like that interpretation. Is it your own? (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288250 |
Oh, I see now -- that's probably what you meant about no treif "flavor". (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288250 |
Does a cold drink transmit treifness the way hot food does? I thought I learned somewhere that cold foods that are not "strong" (like onions) don't make things treif, but I have no source and my memory is vague. So the answer might differ between wine served the conventional way and hot mulled wine... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288109 |
Thanks for confirming. (That's what it sounded like.) Thanks again for the answer, and welcome to Codidact! (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288109 |
Thank you. From what you said here, it sounds like the Rambam's guiding principle is not so much *conception* as some measure of being *far-enough along*. If the transfer happens before 40 days, does he say that the second animal is the mother? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288033 |
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— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288033 |
Yes, thanks for the reminder of what the word is. I'll edit. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288033 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Why two types of maror? Some seder plates (or layout instructions in haggadot) use two bitter herbs (I'm used to seeing horseradish and endive), one labelled maror and one labelled chazeret. Others have only a single space for maror. What is the second one for, and is this custom or something stronger? We eat maror twi... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #288032 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Why was Shabbat given in a roundabout way? Someone at my seder asked about the ordering in Dayeinu, specifically that "had God not given us Shabbat..." comes before "had God not give us the Torah..." -- but wasn't Shabbat given at Sinai, as part of the revelation? We then checked to confirm our memories, and yes, Shabbat is introduced as a s... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287951 |
@#53060 did your notes have any solid references? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287971 |
Yeah, we need to attract more people who are able (and willing) to write good answers. I've been noticing this trend on the front page too. I'd rather no answer than bad (e.g. rude or dismissive) answers, but I'd *rather* have more good answers. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287971 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: How can we grow this community? Our community is small. More than "people in general", I think we need to reach people who want to help us build this community. People who, beyond looking for answers to specific questions, want to engage in Q&A and knowledge-sharing for its own sake -- or, as we say, for the sake of heaven. I ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287913 |
@#53093 these are good points. So maybe these cases all have the same answer. I don't know, and would be happy to get answers that are broader than what I asked about. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287951 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Does a surrogate mother affect the Jewish status of the child? The child of a Jewish woman is a Jew. Is this status transmitted through birth or through parentage (genetics)? Specifically, if a Jewish woman acts as a surrogate for two non-Jews, what is the status of the child? A surrogate provides a womb for a fertilized egg from another couple. Non-Jewish... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287913 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Does a Jew with a non-Jewish father have a tribe? Vayikra 24:10 and on tells of an episode with a blasphemer. The torah tells us that he was the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian man. From a Rashi comment there I found my way to Vayikra Rabbah 32, which gives some back-story apparently from Rabbi Chiya (quoted from Sefaria): > He had ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287881 |
Also, a much more oft-stated "rule" is that when Hillel and Shammai disagree Hillel is right, but there are (if I recall correctly) six counter-examples. Outside of this passage, I've never heard the claim made about Rabbi Eliezer, but if he were "always" right I would have expected to encounter tha... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287686 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287700 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Why was Rabbi Eliezer ostracized? To my reading, the discussion that follows makes it clear that the rabbis were wrong to excommunicate Rabbi Eliezer. Rabbi Eliezer's excommunication is followed by various disasters, including the death of Rabban Gamaliel (who headed the Sanhedrin that excommunicated him) at the hands of heaven. ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287648 |
A related question/precedent might be whether there is reward for a woman doing a mitzvah she is not obligated in. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287433 |
Have you already checked whether the Chofetz Chayim has anything to say on this? (I can't remember.) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287290 |
Good point about the bracha. That's probably the difference here. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287290 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Why don't we stand for Hallel at the seder? At services that include it, we stand for Hallel. I've never learned about it but this makes sense; we're sanctifying God, like in Kedusha for which we also stand. But at every Pesach seder I've been to, including Hillel and Chabad communal ones, we sat during the Hallel parts of the haggadah. Why... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287176 |
Thanks for the pointers. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |