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- [Avodah] Rambam September 11, 2024>From a Tradition Magazine book review: ?As the old saw has it, there is Maimonides, Yourmonides, Hermonides, etc. In the world of academic scholarship, there may be as many versions of Maimonides as there are scholars of Maimonides. Jolene Kellner has noted more than once that Maimonides serves as a Rorschach test: everyone looking at […]
- [Avodah] Context? September 11, 2024After sending out a bio of R Sternbuch to some folks I learn with, I stated : The reason I thought this important is it?s my feeling that one component of understanding responsa is knowing the context of the community that it was given in. South Africa was not, as I understand it, necessarily what […]
- [Avodah] DELAYING THE CONGREGATION THROUGH PROLONGED PERSONAL
PRAYER September 8, 2024Sunday, August 21, 2022, 3:25:47 PM, [R Joel Rich] wrote: > From the RCA Koren: ... > A recurring principle in the laws of the synagogue is the need to > avoid unnecessary > burdening of the congregation, primarily through delays of the service > when a good portion of the congregation will be forced […]
- [Avodah] Kol DePorish MeRubbah Porish September 8, 2024On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 12:58:01AM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > The classic case of KaVuA is where Chaim enters a butcher shop > 1 of 10 in the city > 9 of which are K and one is non-K The stores are niqarim, so they are qavu'os. Since, according […]
- [Avodah] Murder a Chok or Logically Compelling September 8, 2024On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 12:39:30AM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi wrote: > The third party is the Rodef - but we are unable to neutralise that Rodef > Rava Paskens, since in HKBHs eyes no one Js life is more valuable than > another > one may not kill EVEN in order to […]
- [Avodah] Kol DePorish MeRubbah Porish September 7, 2024R Micha argued that according to Tosafos (Chullin 95a "sefeiqo assur") qavua is when the item that is assur isn't niqar. Now let?s think about this The classic case of KaVuA is where Chaim enters a butcher shop 1 of 10 in the city 9 of which are K and one is non-K Chaim is […]
- [Avodah] Murder a Chok or Logically Compelling September 7, 2024Where Baruch is threatening the life of Aharon even if only inadvertently [he is standing on his air supply line] Baruch is a Rodef and must be killed. Where the threat is from a third party The third party is the Rodef - but we are unable to neutralise that Rodef Rava Paskens, since in […]
- [Avodah] Every Bullet Has Its Address September 4, 2024On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 6:57?PM Akiva Miller via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > "They" say that every bullet has a predestined name and address. > Unfortunately, I don't know who "they" are, and Google wasn't any help > either. > I have heard this as "every bullet has its billet" which […]
- [Avodah] rosh chodesh av September 4, 2024On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 05:50:20PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > What is the proper attitude to have onrosh chodesh av given it's the start > of the nine days (sad) and but also rosh chodesh (happy)? Is it a dialectic > state of mind? I am a big believer in halakhah […]
- [Avodah] Tzedaka allocations September 4, 2024On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 05:52:46PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Tzedaka is an area that I've found fascinating for a while. IMHO > halacha/hashkafa provides general guidelines, but leaves a lot up to the > individual. I've often thought that the process involved in allocations is > a wonderful opportunity to […]