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- [Avodah] Normal People Don't Care About Those Things November 27, 2025In Avodah v43n70 someone wrote: > > Just listened to an interesting podcast interviewing Charles Murray > author of the recently released "taking religion seriously". > > He is an 83-year-old former agnostic who said that he changed his > mind due to weight of evidence, not that he is convinced but he > thinks […]
- [Avodah] And so the game continued November 27, 2025> > Not an answer to the question but a related story. A shul received a > set of clafs for haftorot and decided that they should be used every > Shabbat. But since most people couldn't say a haftorah from a claf, > the procedure was to call up the oleh, he would make […]
- [Avodah] counts November 26, 2025Any insights into why after listing out the various prayers, the Rambam in tfila 1:8 summarizes the counts on various days? Is he adding something? KT Joel Rich
- [Avodah] (no subject) November 26, 2025Does hkbh give one a nisayon that one cannot pass? I guess the answer depends a lot on how you define the terms but in its strongest sense doesn?t this imply that anyone who ever sins hasn?t tried hard enough? KT Joel Rich
- [Avodah] Right to haftara November 23, 2025Not an answer to the question but a related story. A shul received a set of clafs for haftorot and decided that they should be used every Shabbat. But since most people couldn?t say a haftorah from a claf, the procedure was to call up the oleh, he would make the brachot for the haftorah, […]
- [Avodah] Belief November 23, 2025? Question how would we categorize an orthodox individual who made the same statement as Dr Murray?? I?d categorize him/her as an Orthodox Jew who thinks that God has a better than 50% chance of being the explanation for our existence. Joseph Sent from my iPhone
- [Avodah] Belief? November 19, 2025Just listened to an interesting podcast interviewing Charles Murray author of the recently released ? taking religion seriously ? He is an 83-year-old former agnostic who said that he changed his mind due to weight of evidence, not that he is convinced but he thinks that God has a better than 50% chance of being […]
- [Avodah] Right to haftara November 19, 2025Fascinating (to me) report from R? A Lebowitz concerning R Schacter?s position that not all the minyanim in a shul should say the haftara from a claf because people who have yahrtzeit want to say the haftara and they won?t be able to do it from a claf. R? H Schachter reported that R?YBS held […]
- [Avodah] lev bet din matneh November 12, 2025Is lev bet din matneh a nice way of saying it?s ?impractical? to apply the letter of the law in a particular situation (so chazal, HKBH?) must?ve had this situational caveat in mind? KT Joel Rich
- [Avodah] sim shalom to shalom rav November 11, 2025On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 11:20 Micha Berger wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: > > Interestingly enough Rav Soloveitchik never said shalom Rav at all he only > > said sim shalom because shalom Rav doesn't appear in the Rambams siddur and > > […]