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| Comment | Post #292152 |
This doesn't seem to answer the question. Even if it's good — as you say — to perform the bris on time, that doesn't explain why we wish the baby an on-time bris. Do we wish a newborn baby that his father say a proper blessing before eating lunch the next day, or fulfill any other command? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292145 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Why an on-time circumcision? I have frequently heard people wish a newborn baby boy that he "merit an on-time circumcision". Now, in general, an on-time circumcision is performed if the baby is healthy enough, and is not performed if the baby is not healthy enough. And that's certainly a good enough reason to wish the baby an ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291358 |
_Orach Chayim_ 489 is the main reference on the topic. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291152 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Why the odd pronunciation of "בני יששכר"? Rabbi Tz'vi Elimelech Spira of Dynów wrote a book called "בני יששכר" that is popular enough that he himself is sometimes called the "בני יששכר". But the phrase (whether referring to the book or to the man) is generally pronounced with both letters ש: something like /bɨne yisasxar/ rather than like /b... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289790 |
I've seen many Ashkenazim do so also. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287881 |
It shouldn't be surprising that this rule isn't on a list of practical rules of decision: after all, it's _not_ a practical rule. Rather, it's a rule of the divine voice, if you will, which is not accepted practically. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287810 |
That's not in the command to Moses/Aaron to bring the plague. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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Why does the command to bring locusts (only) include consequences? For various of the ten plagues, God tells Moses or Aaron to do something to bring the plague on Egypt: > Take your wand and tip your hand over the waters of Egypt… and they will be blood. Blood will be in the entire land of Egypt, even in the wood and stone. (Ex. 7:19) > Tip your hand with your... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287290 |
See https://oukosher.org/halacha-yomis/may-one-sit-during-hallel/ (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Did Avraham really not know about his nephews while they were children? Haamek Davar to 12:1 ("Go you [=Abram] from your land, your birthplace, and your father's home"), in loose translation: > It should've been written in reverse, as he'll first leave his father's home, then his birthplace, then his land. So it's implying an injunction of forgetting: that he remove h... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287243 |
Many thanks! This has been bugging me awhile. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287241 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Source of a tune https://vocaroo.com/1L5y4gbqDCvZ has a tune that I've heard many times, always in a Jewish (usually liturgical) context. What is its origin? Who wrote it, when, where, etc., and what (if any) were the original words? (more) |
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Why ra-VU in Numbers 20:13? Numbers 20:13 (with my own, loose translation): > הֵמָּה מֵי מְרִיבָה אֲשֶׁר רָבוּ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת ה׳ > > This was the Fight Water: the Jews fought God The word "רָבוּ" ("fought") has its stress on the last syllable, ra-VU, rather than the first, RA-vu. This would seem to imply tha... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285872 |
Regarding "I used to feel bad for orphans", see [רבי יוחנן](//www.sefaria.org.il/Kiddushin.31b.6). (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285872 |
"Then the orphan will be obligated, under the terms of the 'honor your father and mother' verse as applying to a teacher/rav, to honor that teacher." I don't see any evidence of this in what you've quoted from others. That someone is "as if he sired him" doesn't necessarily imply that the "honor" ver... (more) |
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A: If one designates a gift for another person, is it committed or can it be retracted? Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 241:1, in my own, free translation: > If someone gives a gift… the recipient acquires it only by one of the standard ways of acquiring property.… But by a verbal agreement alone the recipient doesn't acquire anything, and each party can renege.… And 243:1–2: >... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285188 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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On Pharaoh's not knowing יקוק Jacob and his sons, when speaking to Egyptians, consistently refer to God as ‏(ה)אלקים, "the god", and not by his name, יקוק, that distinguishes him from other supposed gods, or other names of his. (E.g., Genesis 39:9, 40:8, and 41:16–32 passim.) (When speaking amongst themselves, althou... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285101 |
Interesting. I've never seen this done afair. But maybe I've never been in a minyan that had shacharis duchening and didn't have anyone the gabay knew to be a Levi. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285071 |
Maybe. Is that what's done, in fact? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285071 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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How does a firstborn know to wash the kohen's hands? Mishna B'rura 128:22 says that if no Levi is around to wash a kohen's hands for the latter's blessing, a firstborn-to-his-mother should do so. Although Kaf Hachayim :40 notes that he hasn't seen this done, I'm guessing some communities must have this custom. My question is how this works in practice.... (more) |
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helpful | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284170 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Sh'mita and the home garden: what if anything is permitted? In general, whatever applies to crop farming applies to the home garden. Exceptions (like planting indoors, or not attached to soil, or on non-Jewish-owned land, or others) apply to both equally. That said, there are some leniencies relied upon for crop farming because otherwise the economy would fal... (more) |
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