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- [Avodah] מעשה ידי טובעים בים ואתם אומרים שירה לפני April 3, 2025In the lead up to Pesach, I am trying to formulate a thought around the chastisement of the malachim by Hashem as cited in Sanhedrin 39b: ???? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ???? ????. The question I have is whether we have brought down any similar incidents of Hashem raising this same issue when other […]
- [Avodah] violation results April 2, 2025When the gemara correlates certain violations with certain results, other than just saying it?s a violation (eg not washing ntilat yadaim resulting in poverty), is it positing a value judgement on a level of the violation, existential cause and effect, a rational cause and effect (eg personality proclivities) or something else? Bsorot tovot Joel Rich
- [Avodah] The Second Aron April 1, 2025I wondered about the logtics of the second Aron Qodesh according to those who held a second Aron went out in front of the army when at war. What do they say was in it? Do they not believe both the second Luchos and the pieces of the first were in the same place? Was […]
- [Avodah] trolley revisited March 30, 2025. R' Joel Rich commented: > One of the things I?ve thought a lot about is the character- > ization of Chazal as being consequentialist or deontological, > etc. I just wonder if we are trying to put their thoughts > into our paradigms or whether they had their own different > paradigm which was […]
- [Avodah] trolley revisited March 28, 2025On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 06:27:21AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > One of the things I've thought a lot about is the characterization of > Chazal as being consequentialist or deontological, etc. I just wonder if we > are trying to put their thoughts into our paradigms or whether they had > […]
- [Avodah] standard measures? March 28, 2025On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 03:21:29PM +0200, Danny Schoemann via Avodah wrote: > > I don't know what he would do with a kezayis. Would he follow R Chaim > > Volozhiner, because the nearest thing to a subjective olive is using > > the more available olive in NCyour own region and time? […]
- [Avodah] A Complete Unknown? March 28, 2025On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 08:20:19AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > I could not help thinking about R'YBS's presentation of repentance from > fear(myira) versus repentance from love (ahava). Often the former is > associated with trying to cut oneself off totally from their past, whereas > the latter is building on […]
- [Avodah] orthodox theology March 28, 2025On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 06:40:21AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > In a recent discussion concerning whether a specific rabbi was within the > pale of orthodox theology, I wondered what percentage of the rank and file > think about theology and what they would define as beyond the pale (or > […]
- [Avodah] hashavat aveida? March 26, 2025On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 06:24:50AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > If you are walking down the street in Jerusalem, passing by a construction > site where an arab worker is speaking on the telephone facing you and 3 > feet past him you see two 100 shekel bills on the street. […]
- [Avodah] trolley revisited March 26, 2025Note to presenter Enjoyed your piece on the trolley problem, it?s something I?ve thought a lot about over the years. A couple of comments: One of the things I?ve thought a lot about is the characterization of Chazal as being consequentialist or deontological, etc. I just wonder if we are trying to put their thoughts […]