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| Comment | Post #283665 |
After pasting into your word processor, have you tried changing the writing direction (not alignment) to right-to-left (and also maybe changing the [font](https://www.mechon-mamre.org/c/c.htm))? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281340 |
The Shoel Umeshiv isn't asking why there's no decree in the case of taking matsa to an expert.He asks since practically there isn't such a decree, Rashi's explanation can't be correct in the case of lulav.He answers that if he were taking the lulav out intending to fulfill the commandment there would... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280817 |
"Judaism has a rule that a man must decide to marry his wife" - more accurately (at least with regard to the Rambam you're quoting), a man has to *look* at his future wife. The reason is "שמא יראה בה דבר מגונה ותתגנה עליו" (Kiddushin 41a). It's easy enough to tell if she's pretty or not before 20. (O... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280796 |
If a shekel is 20 chews, a half shekel would be 10 (the Torah restricts it to age 20+ to make sure that even the slowest students already learned fractions so that they don't take too many bites and waste the coin) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280691 |
שאני התם דקרא כתיב could equally be an answer for מתיר אסורים at least (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280257 |
The food called "challah" in cooking isn't the challah that goes to the priests. The part that you take from the dough and say "this is challah" is the challah in the legal sense (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276921 |
Couldn't ונופל על פניו ארצה imply that this only refers to the part said with the head down, i.e. נפילת אפיים? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279757 |
@Harel13 Your version is from [Pesikta](https://www.sefaria.org.il/Pesikta_Rabbati.2.1) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279329 |
@Harel13 It wasn't taken that way :) the ignorance comment was only to point out that the idea was new to me (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279329 |
@Harel13 Don't let my ignorance stop you from writing your own answer, if there's anything useful you can bring from it (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279330 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Does the narrator of Numbers assert that the Anakim come from the Nephilim? For what it's worth, Frank Zimmerman ("The Perpetuation of Variants in the Masoretic Text," p. 468) cites this as an instance of two textual variants being preserved in the text. Version 1: >וְשָׁם רָאִינוּ אֶת הַנְּפִילִים בְּנֵי עֲנָק > >...and there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak... ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279329 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Did any ancient Jewish writers address the differences in Jeremiah's source texts? The rabbis of the Talmud and Midrash didn't use the Septuagint. The Septuagint is mentioned in Megilla 9a, which lists the changes made in the translation. The story only deals with the translation of the Pentateuch made for King Ptolemy. To my knowledge, the parts of the Septuagint outside of the Pe... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279306 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: (When) can one listen to Christian music, according to Igrot Moshe? Rabbi Feinstein's responsum forbids any Christian music of a religious character, even if it's not part of liturgy. Handel's Messiah is obviously included (the comment is wrong on this; he explicitly forbids וגם הניגון שחיבר איזה נוצרי ניגון על פסוק מתהלים). What he does permit is music composed by a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278866 |
Genesis 13:1 might already be adequate (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278600 |
@AA That's fair (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278600 |
@AA נסכו מים בחג can only mean the first seven days. Whether the judgment on water corresponds to the same days is another question (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278600 |
@AA No one said "proven." But in my opinion the beginning of Ta'anit supports my reading. Apparently everyone agrees that rain would be mentioned from the beginning of the holiday if not for the fact that it's not a blessing then (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278600 |
@AA My point is that the Gemara gives the judgment over water as the reason for the water pouring. It's logical that the judgment would be at the same time as the action performed because of it. It's not stated explicitly, though, so I only claim it as likely (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278600 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Does "החג" include שמיני עצרת? Rosh Hashanah 16a.15 provides an example where חג can only mean the first seven days, since the pouring of water didn't take place on the eighth day (Sukkah 4:1). Since it's also interpreting Rosh Hashanah 1:2, which you referred to, it's likely that the חג in connection to the judgment about rain is... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277031 | Post edited | — | about 4 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #277031 |
Suggested edit: more clear in first paragraph (more) |
helpful | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276837 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276837 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Who was Yitzchaki? He should be identified as Yitschak Hayyisraeli, an early Jewish-Arabic philosopher and commentator. The Ibn Ezra actually quotes him again in the very next verse as יצחק המהביל. Apart from here (Ibn Ezra on Genesis 36:31.1 and Ibn Ezra on Genesis 36:32.1), these two names (יצחקי and יצחק המהביל) ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276807 |
Re: "or that he never said it at all" - I found on [this site](https://www.zusha.org.il/story/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%94%D7%95%D7%90_%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%99_-%D7%95%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%95%D7%90_%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%94/): "אמירה זו הופיעה לראשונה בספרים של הוגים לא חסידיים שהושפעו מן החסידות (מרדכי ליפסו... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276713 |
Not entirely parallel, but Sanhedrin 92b.4 implies that there is inheritance after death and resurrection (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276664 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276664 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: When (if ever) can you read a non-standard haftarah, and how far afield can it go? The haftara is recited only from the Prophets (Nevi'im), not even from the Writings (Ketuvim). This is the case as far back as the Mishna (Megilla 4:1-5). It wouldn't make sense to say the blessing for the haftara, אשר בחר בנביאים טובים ("who chose good prophets"), before reciting any text other than... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276616 |
One minor point: the original problem was never that some people were illiterate, it was not knowing how to pray by heart, which is still applicable. Though arguably the question stands in a synagogue that provides everyone with a prayer book. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
@AA There's no point in continuing this discussion. Neither of us has a point to make that hasn't already been made (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
@AA It would be entirely self-consistent to exclude from a site about Judaism product recommendations or Hebrew language questions (or some other marginal type of question). And so it would be entirely self-consistent to restrict either or both to a separate category. And yet it would also be unneces... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
@AA Either could be included or excluded for separate reasons (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
@AA "Product recommendations, at least for products used in the practice of Judaism, are already fine in regular QA." Why? Because they were fine in Mi Yodeya? A priori, there is no reason to distinguish. "You...are making a reductio ad absurdum argument. But then we get nothing." No, we get the exac... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276437 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions purely about Hebrew in-scope? I think that questions about Hebrew and Jewish languages should be allowed. Knowledge of Hebrew/JL is useful for studying Torah and Jewish texts, even though requiring questions about it to be asked specifically with regard to a specific passage in a Jewish text (as was expected on Mi Yodeya) can som... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |