Author: Micha Berger

Avodah

• Street Minyanim/sh'as hadchak
  Chana Luntz: Street Minyanim/sh'as hadchak: [...] <<I would think that halakhah pesuqah is in contrast to ikar hadin. Iqar hadin is the theoretical what the law requires. Halakhah pesuqah is a pragmatic application of the law. It's going to include policy and slippery slope considerations, (and in the […]
• Wind Blows off Yarmulka While davening
  Prof. L. Levine: Wind Blows off Yarmulka While davening: [...] Q. I am davening Shemoneh Esrei outside and the wind blew off my yarmulke. Is it better to walk over and pick it up or to motion to someone to bring it to me? A. Ordinarily, during Shemoneh Esrei, both walking and signaling to others […]
• Street Minyanim/sh'as hadchak
  Micha Berger: Street Minyanim/sh'as hadchak: [...] I would think that halakhah pesuqah is in contrast to ikar hadin. Iqar hadin is the theoretical what the law requires. Halakhah pesuqah is a pragmatic application of the law. It's going to include policy and slippery slope considerations, (and in […]
• Eruv Tavshilin - Shavuos Erev Shabbos
  Chana Luntz: Eruv Tavshilin - Shavuos Erev Shabbos: [...] <<There are two opinions in the gemara on why Eruv Tavshilin was instituted in the first place: Lichvod Shabbos or Lichvod Yomtov. The first opinion is that it is indeed a ha'arama, and before the takana we simply did the ha'arama openly and that was how […]
• free public transport on Shabbos/Yomtov
  Akiva Miller: free public transport on Shabbos/Yomtov: . R' Zev Sero wrote [...] (For those buses that only [...] You seem to presume that the main/only problem is paying, or the maaris ayin that others might think I paid for the ride. To me, a much bigger problem is defining the line between which vehicles […]
• Eruv Tavshilin - Shavuos Erev Shabbos
  Zev Sero: Eruv Tavshilin - Shavuos Erev Shabbos: [...] There are two opinions in the gemara on why Eruv Tavshilin was instituted in the first place: Lichvod Shabbos or Lichvod Yomtov. The first opinion is that it is indeed a ha'arama, and before the takana we simply did the ha'arama openly and that was how […]
• HaRav M Sternbuch - Why We Eat Dairy Shavuos
  Micha Berger: HaRav M Sternbuch - Why We Eat Dairy Shavuos: Easier solution. In the pasuq (18:8), cream / butter and milk listed first. If that's chronological sequence, no problems. Who said they were in the same course as the veal? But to get back to Shavuos, it would mean he served them two separate […]
• Why we mourn during the omer Model" in New Jersey: Rabbi Aaron Kotler
  Micha Berger: Why we mourn during the omer Model" in New Jersey: Rabbi Aaron Kotler: [...] And I was adding why their death was a big deal. The timing of their death was during the one period where the loss of special avodah was felt AND one it permitted to mourn. So the setting would […]
• Eruv Tavshilin - Shavuos Erev Shabbos
  Micha Berger: Eruv Tavshilin - Shavuos Erev Shabbos: I am pretty sure we discussed this in the past, but I couldn't find it in the archive. Today's eruv tavshilin is a rarity as Friday is Yom Tov mideOraisa. We are permitting hakhanah on YT deOraisa for Shabbos. I was wondering how eruv tavshilin works in […]
• "shemo"s" as an acronym for shenayim miqra
  SBA: "shemo"s" as an acronym for shenayim miqra: From: Michael Poppers < > In Avodah V38n41, RSBA replied to [...] Personally, I have only encountered that acronymn inside the chassidish veldt.) << ==== [...] .but I cannot find it in my MG or in my ArtScroll BhT, . so RSBA, if you have a text […]