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- [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 […]
- [Avodah] Interest and modern economies May 19, 2024Dad Yomi recently learned the 5th perek of Bava Metzia which deals with interest and the gemara stresses the severity of the prohibition of taking interest. It is so severe that one who violates the prohibition is like a kofer bakol and will lose all their money. The question is how do we reconcile this […]
- [Avodah] dibbur May 17, 2024> > On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 05:59:43AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > > The Rambam in the peirush hamishnayot (Avot 1:16) categorizes types of > > dibbur. 1. Mtzaveh (commanded) 2. Asur (forbidden) 3. Maus {disgusting} > 4. > > Ahava (beloved) and 5. Mutar (permitted.) > How do you understand […]