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- [Avodah] editorial intent June 4, 2024On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 05:50:07AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Chulin [107a] a tells separately of rav yakov and rav ashi who posed rivit > sized containers (one glass, one clay) so that (per Rashi) people could > measure their own containers (for hand washing purposes)... The gemara says Rav Ashi […]
- [Avodah] Interest and modern economies June 4, 2024On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:55:07AM +0300, Marty Bluke wrote: > Dad 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 […]
- [Avodah] Counting in ASL June 2, 2024Here's the scene, which grew out of something that happened to me last night, but extended. A person who can hear and speak (BH and ba"h) was asked in the middle of Maariv about what night of the omer it was. Because he associate "speaking during davening" with actual speaking and both parties know American […]
- [Avodah] editorial intent May 30, 2024Chulin 102 a tells separately of rav yakov and rav ashi who posed rivit sized containers (one glass, one clay) so that (per Rashi) people could measure their own containers (for hand washing purposes). It made me think of a general editorial intent question. Why report two seemingly equivalent cases? Were these the only two […]
- [Avodah] Interest and modern economies May 26, 2024I don?t know if the modern economy is ideal but it has brought tremendous prosperity to the world. The average person today in a country like Israel or the US lives at a standard that was unimaginable at the time of chazal.
- [Avodah] [interest] May 26, 2024My impression is that many if not most poskim don?t view corporations in that way and prohibit interest to corporations owned by Jews. Secondly, most people today borrow money with interest to buy a house, car, or other purchases. Just look at the level of credit card debt.
- [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 […]