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- [Avodah] (no subject) May 9, 2024Oops, I forgot the main point: > My point is that > the Kitniyoy Ban NEVER applied > but to foods that were actually COOKED like porridge > If they were NOT COOKED > even if they may have a type that would sometimes be cooked > it was not included in the ban Actually, […]
- [Avodah] Kitniyot during Pesach May 9, 2024On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 12:19:16AM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > My point is that > the Kitniyoy Ban NEVER applied > but to foods that were actually COOKED like porridge Mustard? In any case, corn meal IS cooked like porridge. It's called grits in the US, mamliga in Yiddish. […]
- [Avodah] (no subject) May 9, 2024Toby Katz responding to my post, re Kitniyot during Pesach, wrote that corn and peanuts are both New World foods They were unknown at the time the Kitniyos ban was promulgated Furthermore they ought not be included just as potatoes are not banned on Pesach. even though potato flour can be cooked and baked like […]
- [Avodah] inspect one’s property May 8, 2024The Chafetz Chaim in Seder Olam chapter 11 takes the Gmara in Chulin 105 concerning Shmuel and how often to inspect one?s property as a metaphor for how often to do a cheshbon hanefesh (self- introspection). He foreshadows Rabbi JB Soloveitchik?s loneliness in realizing that in the end, even though you have a loving family, […]
- [Avodah] kheref ayin May 5, 2024. R' Joel Rich asked: > My Thought -While it certainly is true that we need to believe that > hkbh has a plan and can reverse everything kheref ayin, we need to > guard against the possible reduction of our incentives to be an > active part of the resolution of the situation. You? […]
- [Avodah] kheref ayin May 2, 2024My Thought -While it certainly is true that we need to believe that hkbh has a plan and can reverse everything kheref ayin, we need to guard against the possible reduction of our incentives to be an active part of the resolution of the situation. You? Bsorot tovot joel Rich
- [Avodah] psak/feelings May 1, 2024Very interesting. I?ve heard him tell the same story, but I think the punchline was that even if the reasons were not strong, the psak was right (more of a testament to heavenly intervention in psak-along the line of the donkey of Pinchas Ben Yair) Bsorot tovot Joel rich > On 1 May 2024, at […]
- [Avodah] psak/feelings May 1, 2024RHS told the following story many times in shiur. The Chasam Sofer would write his teshuvos and leave them on the desk for his son, the Ksav Sofer, to review and mail. One day he saw that the teshuva that he had written the previous day was still sitting there. He asked his son why […]
- [Avodah] Popcorn et al on Pesach May 1, 2024Corn and peanuts are both New World foods that were unknown at the time the ban on kitniyos was first promulgated, and logically? should not be banned for that reason, just as potatoes, also a New World food, are not banned on Pesach.? Potatoes can be made into flour and cooked and baked in all […]
- [Avodah] psak/feelings May 1, 2024On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 7:26PM Micha Berger wrote: > ...I didn't directly mention that M[inchas Yitzchak. Rather, I repeated > that > RAW himself named him as an achron ...who thought a good > poseiq should be working from a good intuition (to paraphrase), but that > RAW personally didn't understand how he […]