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Comment Post #282734 Keywords to search for to answer this question: "ערבות" and "יצא מוציא".
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Answer A: Which haftarah when Rosh Chodesh Av is on Shabbat?
The Rama (to OC 425:1) cites both customs: the usual rosh chodesh reading, and the usual weekly ("punishment") reading. He says "in a place with no established practice" read the rosh chodesh reading. G'ra there proves that the usual weekly reading is sounder, and Mishna B'rura seems to follow him. ...
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Comment Post #282418 I guess this is part of a larger question of what determines the paragraph breaks in the Torah. If we know that, then your question might be answered immediately (or might not. I don't know).
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Comment Post #282297 Not just doesn't care: if he's the person paying the water bill, he'd _rather_ the meter not tick.
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Answer A: Why does the Torah mention Yosef in relation to Menashe but not Ephraim in the story of the spies?
Ramban (to 1:32) suggests (in my own translation) > that because of the tales Joseph bore about his brothers [Gen. 37:2], He genealogically attributed the talebearer to him; or, that He honored both of them, but, for Ephraim, the honor of his leader [Joshua] sufficed.
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Question Were Abraham's and Lot's guests the same?
Genesis 18 describes "אנשים [=men]" who came to visit Abraham. Chapter 19 starts "And the two מלאכים [=messengers, or angels] arrived at Sodom…" and proceeds to call them, too, "אנשים". Rashi and many other commentaries to 19:1 take for granted that these were the same men as in chapter 18, which ...
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Comment Post #281785 Note that the stone appears also in Exodus.
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Comment Post #281720 If that's what's meant, then that's what should be asked.
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Comment Post #281720 I have to imagine it depends on the individual Muslim. There can't be a blanket rule that a group of people is considered שומרי מצוות בני נח.
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Comment Post #281379 [crosspost](https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/121802)
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Comment Post #281340 @manassehkatz see SA OC 458
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Comment Post #281340 @rosends I think you're saying much what Rabbi Rimon is.
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Answer A: Why aren't worried about carrying matza on Shabas?
The Shoel Umeshiv was asked the question even stronger: according to Rashi (Suka there), the concern is that he'll take it to an expert to learn "its shaking process or the benediction" to recite; and the latter seems to be a concern for matza too. I don't fully understand his answer, so I recommend ...
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Question Why aren't worried about carrying matza on Shabas?
The Bavli in various places (e.g. Suka 42&ndash;43) explains that the rabbis did away with blowing shofar and taking lulav on Shabas lest one "take it to an expert to learn, and carry it four cubits in public" thereby breaking the laws of Shabas. So why didn't they do away with eating matza on Sha...
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Answer A: Sidebar widget with "useful links"?
No. The list of useful links — even of very useful ones — is far too long to fit comfortably in the sidebar.
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Comment Post #281230 "we do sing Eliyahu Hanavi": news to me. But I haven't been at very many different people's _s'darim_. (But I __have__ seen many _hagados_ and don't remember seeing it in any.)
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Answer A: Why aren't we required to eat matzah every day during Pesach?
The Bavli (P'sachim 120) figures out from p'sukim that there's no requirement to eat matza after the first day. (Specifically, since the seventh day is listed as an "add-on" when work is forbidden but no mention is made of matza [Deuteronomy 16:8], it realizes matza isn't required then; and the other...
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Question Does all of Israel sell its chametz through the chief rabbinate? If so, why?
It's been reported that the same non-Jew buys all of Israel's chametz before Pesach. Indeed, I've heard that all rabbis in the country who are authorized to sell chametz transfer that authority to their respective municipal/regional chief rabbis, who transfer it to the national chief rabbis, who effe...
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Answer A: Seudah shlishit before Pesach: what's the source for omitting bread?
There were rishonim who held that things other than bread suffice, and they're cited in Shulchan Aruch (291:5, q.v.), who says that "the ruling is really like the first view that he must eat bread unless he's very sated", and Rama adds "…or he can't eat bread e.g. on erev Pesach".
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Question הֶעֱלֵיתָ vs. הֶעֱלִיתָ
When reviewing parashas Ki Sisa I noticed that 32:7 has הֶעֱלֵיתָ heelesa for "you lifted" whereas 33:1 has הֶעֱלִיתָ heelisa. Why?
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Answer A: After the destruction of the temple, why didn't we revert to a temporary mishkan?
The Bavli, M'gila 10, clarifies that once the temple in Jerusalem was built there is no longer anywhere else we can offer sacrificial offerings. Its holiness is forever and precludes other sites. Rambam (Bes Hab'chira 1:3) rules accordingly.
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Comment Post #280816 @manassehkatz I'm the downvoter. (1) The answer neither explains nor links to an explanation of why 3 _Tishre_ or 27 _Elul_ is relevant. (2) The question asks specifically for liturgy and this answer proposes none. (3) The answer mentions the statements of _Ben Zoom-a_ without specifying which ones o...
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