Avodah
- [Avodah] Concordance of Onkelos December 22, 2024. In the few years that I've been learning Chumash with Onkelos, I've become fascinated with his translation style, and I have many conjectures which would be a lot easier to research if I had the right tools. For example, consider the Aramaic word "rav" (resh beis), or, with the definite article, "raba" (resh beis […]
- [Avodah] Zmirot December 18, 2024On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 07:42:06PM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Anyone know of any sources which discuss why certain zmirot are associated > friday night while others are associated with shabbat day? Some of them may simply be because of the word "yom". While "Yom Zeh Mechubad" may refer to the […]
- [Avodah] Deceit by omission December 18, 2024On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 07:28:24PM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > Sometimes, a person will defend himself by saying, "No, I didn't lie; I > just left out some things." > Bereshis 31:20 seems to disagree: Because Yaakov failed to tell Lavan that > he was leaving, it *does* count as Geneivas […]
- [Avodah] schchita/death December 18, 2024On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 06:37:41AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > 2 According to chizkia a shuddering animal after shechita is no longer > living but not yet dead. Does this indeterminate status have any > implications for the human definition of death? Schrodinger's cat? Martin Gardner are two kinds of three […]
- [Avodah] pikuach nefesh December 18, 2024On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 06:35:06AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > R H Schacter and R A Weiss speak of pikuach nefesh as including > non-immediate threats to life. Is there a materiality standard or does any > decrease in life expectancy qualify? When it comes to smoking and "shomer pesa'im Hashem" […]
- [Avodah] fixed shaliach tzibur December 18, 2024A fixed shaliach tzibur historically was to be (at least aspirationally) ?most fit, greatest in learning and good deeds? (see S?A OC 581:1). Nowadays when the shatz is no longer motzi anyone (me-with the exception of the whole tzibur in R? YBS?s conception of tfilat hatzibbur), we?re not so picky (see AH?S 53:21 and MB […]
- [Avodah] wife’s responsibilities to her husband December 18, 2024An interesting question came up in our Rambam Chabura (see hilchot mamrim 6:6) concerning a wife?s responsibilities to her husband and her parents. I?ve done some research on the issue, but I?m curious as to what people think the source of a wife?s responsibility to her husband is (as expressed by the statement ??????? ???????? […]
- [Avodah] Ya'akov refused to be comforted? December 17, 2024On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 11:55:45PM +0000, Joseph Kaplan via Avodah wrote: > Akiva Miller has a lovely interpretation of Ya??'akov refusing to be > comforted upon being told of Yosef's alleged death: ... > The word in the Torah is > "l'his'nachem", with the letter tav, in the Hitpael form. He did not […]
- [Avodah] Ya'akov refused to be comforted? December 16, 2024Akiva Miller has a lovely interpretation of Ya?akov refusing to be comforted upon being told of Yosef?s alleged death: "After Yosef's brothers went to Yaakov, and presented him with the fabricated evidence of Yosef's death, pasuk 37:35 tells us (according to most translations) that Yaakov "refused to be comforted". That be accurate IF the Torah's […]
- [Avodah] Yaakov refused to be comforted? December 15, 2024. After Yosef's brothers went to Yaakov, and presented him with the fabricated evidence of Yosef's death, pasuk 37:35 tells us (according to most translations) that Yaakov "refused to be comforted". That be accurate IF the Torah's text was "l'hinachem", in the Nifal form, "to be comforted". But that's not what the Torah says. The […]