Avodah
- Ameilus BeTorah - Tikkun HaMidos - GraMicha Berger: Ameilus BeTorah - Tikkun HaMidos - Gra: [...] I have not. I have limited my comments to saying that the link you give is neither in Even Sheleimah nor could be implied in ES, since the book itself says that ameilus beTorah would make bad middos worse, not fix them! But since you […]
- darkei emoriSimon Montagu: darkei emori: [...] I don't see this as a question at all. The fact is that the idiom *doesn't* come from that pasuk, and plenty of Hazal's terms for things don't come from the relevant pesukim: Avoda zara, for example. But as Groucho Marx (?) said, if you don't like my theories I […]
- Circles Where It Is Not Done TodayJay F. Shachter: Circles Where It Is Not Done Today: [...] This is not true. Or, if it is true, it is true only because you are defining your terms idiosyncratically, to the point where you are saying nothing useful. Your point is well taken (anticipating a point that you are likely to make in […]
- free will - hashgachaRabbi Meir G. Rabi: free will - hashgacha: HKBH never says, "I really did not want that to happen, but what could I do?" He never has to say that. HKBH can make an omelette without cracking any eggs. We do not understand that - that is OUR problem. Chazal tell us that HKBH prepares […]
- free will vs hashgachaMicha Berger: free will vs hashgacha: I see chaos Theory as a great way to understand how a neis nistar can change a life or even the course of history. In fact, I keep a double-pendulum fidget toy, one of the simplest examples of chaos, in my pocket as a reminder. Hishtadlus can change […]
- Circles Where It Is Not Done TodayAkiva Miller: Circles Where It Is Not Done Today: . R' Jay F. ("Yaakov") Shachter wrote: [...] Yes, "Why do we care?" is indeed the most important question. I can't speak for anyone else, but to ME, the reason I care is because I do not know how to deal with this information. If I […]
- darkei emoriJoel Rich: darkei emori: Any ideas why chazal chose the specific nation of the emoris to label darchei haemori, which is a more general prohibition? (as in chukat haakum) KT Joel Rich
- darkei emoriSimon Montagu: darkei emori: On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 2:24 PM Joel Rich via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: [...] Maybe because they're specified in the pasuk "lo shalem avon haemori"?
- How were they told Moshe's nevu'ah is unique?Micha Berger: How were they told Moshe's nevu'ah is unique?: Something about the end of this week's parashah bothered me when I was maavir sedra. HQBH tells Aharon and Miriam that Moshe's nevu'ah is unique, and other nevi'im "bemar'eh eilav esvada, bachalom adabeir lo." (Bamidbar 12:6) Not so Moshe, who is peh pel peh, not […]
- darkei emoriMicha Berger: darkei emori: [...] Bereishis 15:16, in which Hashem talks about our return to Israel being timed to when the Emori will deserve to be thrown out. Except that the primary source in the pasuq is Vayiqra 20:23, "Lo seilkhu bechuqos hagoy asher Ani meshaleiach mipeneikhem... […]