Avodah
- [Avodah] Interest and modern economies May 24, 2024. I wrote: > Imagine a nation where those who needed a loan could easily > get one, and it would be interest-free. R' Joseph Kaplan responded: > It would be nice to imagine that but my sense is it never > existed - hence the need for heter iska and, similarly, pruzbul > - […]
- [Avodah] Interest and modern economies May 24, 2024?Imagine a nation where those who needed a loan could easily get one, and it would be interest-free.? It would be nice to imagine that but my sense is it never existed ? hence the need for heter iska and, similarly, pruzbul ? and so it probably won?t exist anywhere ever other than in our […]
- [Avodah] Interest and modern economies May 22, 2024..If taking interest makes you a kofer then surely circumventing the prohibition through technical means is not what the Torah wants. So how can we have a modern economy Al pi Torah given the prohibition on interest? i would have thought that the prohibition on interest is a localized interpersonal Jew to Jew concept only. […]
- [Avodah] text/practice May 22, 2024[Transliterations of the citations and the Maharal are mine. RJR posted them in Hebrew. -micha] A recent series in my local shul on male head coverings included the following sources. Shu"T Maharshal, siman 72 Shu"T Har Tzevi Orach Chaim 1 siman 3 Shu"T Yachaveh Da'at cheileq 4 sinam 1 This one especially made me laugh […]
- [Avodah] Tochacha May 21, 2024On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 11:35:50AM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > That Halacha is limited to giving PUBLIC Tochacha > This is clear in the Rama [608:2] > And MBerrurah [608:8] -- > where he clearly declares > one is obligated to offer Tochacha in private until the sinner [repents] […]
- [Avodah] Interest and modern economies May 21, 2024. R' Marty Bluke asked: > With the Torah prohibiting interest does that mean a Torah > society cannot have a modern economy? I understand that there > are workarounds but those raise a larger question. If taking > interest makes you a kofer then surely circumventing the > prohibition through technical means is not […]
- [Avodah] Rabbi Akiva's Students' Deaths as Soldiers in Bar
Kochba's Army? A thorough critique of the theory May 21, 2024> > RMB: What I said about "iskara" [the idea that the Y-mi's "iskarah" wasn't > a lung disease (askara) but the type of low-ranking Roman soldier who carried a dagger (sicarii)] is found > in most divrei Torah > that refer to the idea at al. (Hit Google > > ...I think this element […]
- [Avodah] El Al Flights To JFK Airport In New York May 19, 2024On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 05:12:54PM -0500, Jay F. Shachter via Avodah wrote: > I don't know why El Al flights don't fly over the Holon cemetery > (maybe some reader of this mailing list can address that -- I would > thank that Iggroth Moshe Yoreh De`ah 164:276 [1973] is dispositive), > because […]
- [Avodah] Kitniyos May 19, 2024On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 09:40:23AM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > It seems that the Kitniyos ban may have been misinterpreted. The ban may > well only apply to cooked and baked Kitniyot but not to raw,fresh Kitniyot > such as sweet peas, sugar snaps etc.and peanuts and peanut butter. […]
- [Avodah] Rabbi Akiva's Students' Deaths as Soldiers in Bar
Kochba's Army? A thorough critique of the theory May 19, 2024On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:24:51PM -0400, Zvi Lampel via Avodah wrote: >> The idea that the Y-mi's "iskarah" wasn't a lung disease (askara) but the >> type of low-ranking Roman soldier who carried a dagger (sicarii) also fits >> Igeres R Sherira Gaon referring to their deaths as a "shamda". Persecution >> is […]