Avodah
- [Avodah] fyi - m'mekomos on TIDE as l'chatchila (from Rabbi Reisman) June 29, 2025Rabbi Reisman ? Parshas Korach 5785 I would like to share with you a second thought. In 1933, Rav Schwab returned from Lita to Germany. He was born in Germany in 1908. At age 16, he traveled first to Telz and then to Mir. And for five years learned in the Litvishe yeshivos. And he […]
- [Avodah] The Census Numbers In Bmidbar June 29, 2025. Way back when Hashem put confusing numbers in His Torah, He knew exactly when and where R' Jay F. Shachter would post: > Obviously a man would normally know exactly whether or not > he was a firstborn. But how would a man know whether he was > 20 years old? He could know […]
- [Avodah] Admin: Apologies, I lost some emails June 29, 2025If you sent posts to Avodah and didn't see them yet, it's due to an error on my part. My apologies. Kindly re-submit them. Thank you, -Micha -- Micha Berger If you want others to be happy, http://www.aishdas.org/asp practice compassion. Author: Widen Your Tent If you want to be happy, - https://amzn.to/2JRxnDF practice compassion.
- [Avodah] agency June 26, 2025On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 8:15PM Joel Rich wrote: > I assumed, but it was not stated, that the ordering sibling paid for the > merchandise on order and the other siblings "owed" their share of the cost > to him. > In your understanding, if the merchant stiffed the ordering sibling, he's > […]
- [Avodah] agency June 26, 2025On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 7:57PM Arie Folger wrote: > RJRich asked: >> Rabbi Fuerst posited the following case: A group of siblings agreed to >> purchase a set of 12 cups for their parents as a gift. Sibling A did the >> ordering and when the cups came two of them were cracked. […]
- [Avodah] agency June 26, 2025RJRich asked: > Rabbi Fuerst posited the following case: A group of siblings agreed to > purchase a set of 12 cups for their parents as a gift. Sibling A did the > ordering and when the cups came two of them were cracked. The > merchant told him to keep the cups and the […]
- [Avodah] name calling June 25, 2025------------------------------ ??????????: ????????? ?????????? ??????? ? ????? ???????????. ????????? ? ?????? ??? ?????????????. ???????? ? ?????? ?????? ?????????! as it is taught in a baraita: One who calls another a slave shall be ostracized. One who calls another a mamzer incurs the punishment of forty lashes. If one calls another a wicked person then the […]
- [Avodah] agency June 25, 2025Rabbi Fuerst posited the following case: A group of siblings agreed to purchase a set of 12 cups for their parents as a gift. Sibling A did the ordering and when the cups came two of them were cracked. The merchant told him to keep the cups and the merchant would send another full set. […]
- [Avodah] The Census Numbers In Bmidbar June 23, 2025In Avodah v43i32 someone wrote: > > If you look at the numbers 12 of the 13 tribes end in 00 and the 13th > Yehuda ends with 50. > No, it was Gad (see Bmidbar 1:25), not Yehudah (Bmidbar 1:27) > > So the numbers seem to be clearly rounded and so says the […]
- [Avodah] Lashon Hara in the Torah June 23, 2025The Torah discloses Miryam's indiscretion but not that of Aharon HaCohen [although we ought to ask if the T did not why did Chazal] Rashi explains it teaches us even though she respected and loved MRabbenu and only had the best intentions Why does the T disclose the indiscretion of Sarah Immenu? BTW, would someone […]