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Welcome to the Judaism community on Codidact!

Will you help us build our community of learners? Drop into our study hall, ask questions, help others with answers to their questions, share a d'var torah if you're so inclined, invite your friends, and join us in building this community together. Not an ask-the-rabbi service, just people at all levels learning together.

Posts by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 sour...

posted 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A 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 rela...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 o...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Mithical‭

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Meta 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, sorr...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 spa...

2 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta 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...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 s...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Maurice Mizrahi‭

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 b...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why is Pesach in the singular?

I don't have a source for this beyond what you already said about the text saying Chag HaPesach, but I offer this reasoning: Shavu'ot is, as you said, about the weeks (plural). For Sukkot, while ...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How do I look up commentaries on general patterns in torah as opposed to specific verses?

This is a research-methods question with a concrete example. I'm interested in the answer to the concrete example, but what I really want to know is: how could I look this up myself? There are so...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Did Avraham really not know about his nephews while they were children?

After the Akeidah, Avraham returns home and then the torah tells us, in Bereishit 22:20: "Avraham was told, 'Milkah too has borne sons to your brother Nachor (etc)'". The torah does not always rec...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Vaydaber vs vayomer when God instructs Moshe: what's the significance of the difference?

The torah records many places where God speaks to Moshe telling him to speak to others, generally to relay instructions. The common structure is: ... וידבר יי אל ... לאמר: ךבר But sometimes ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A The encampments in the midbar

There is a list in Bamidbar 33 of the places and transitions (they set out from X and camped at Y, they set out from Y and camped at Z, etc). This list doesn't say how long they stayed at each. I...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How long did it take to set up the mishkan?

When Yisrael spent 40 years in the wilderness, they sometimes camped for longer periods of times and sometimes for shorter ones, sometimes even just two days (Bamidbar 9:21 -22): וְיֵ֞שׁ אֲשֶׁר־...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why must the omer be counted at night?

I have been taught that we count the omer at night with a b'racha. Counting at night makes sense; it's the first opportunity to fulfill the commandment each day and we should rush to fulfill a mit...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What does the change from "a man shall not..." to "you shall not..." for one verse in Vayikra 20 signify?

In Vayikra chapter 20 the torah gives a long list of forbidden relations. Almost all of them are of the form "if a man (lies with, takes)..." or, in one case, "if a woman..." (third person). In V...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Worshipping outdoors in the COVID era, issues and options

This doesn't strictly answer your question, but I think the background information and context will be helpful. The halacha (Jewish law) is that we can violate any torah law to save a human life e...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why does the Torah mention Yosef in relation to Menashe but not Ephraim in the story of the spies?

Efrayim and Manashe both have different trope from the other ten, by the way. With Manashe there are extra words that the trope has to account for, but it's interesting that Efrayim, without that ...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A In the list of spies, why is Yosef added to the listing for Manashe but not to the one for Efrayim? [duplicate]

At the beginning of Sh'lach L'cha the torah lists the twelve scouts and their tribes. In general these names follow the pattern "from the tribe of (tribe), (somebody) ben (somebody)", with (genera...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Ha-Yarden ha-zeh -- what does the torah mean by this Jordan as opposed to the Jordan?

In Devarim 3:27, when Moshe pleads with God to be allowed to go into the land, God says to him: עֲלֵ֣ה ׀ רֹ֣אשׁ הַפִּסְגָּ֗ה וְשָׂ֥א עֵינֶ֛יךָ יָ֧מָּה וְצָפֹ֛נָה וְתֵימָ֥נָה וּמִזְרָ֖חָה וּרְאֵ֣...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭