Avodah
- [Avodah] Zmirot December 7, 2024Anyone know of any sources which discuss why certain zmirot are associated friday night while others are associated with shabbat day? bsorot tovot Joel Rich
- [Avodah] Removing Wine from the Second Cup December 6, 2024. I found some comments about this in the Taamei Haminhagim uMakorei Hadinim, page 233, paragraph 538. His comments are in two parts. First he writes, "The reason that we discard a little from the cup with one's finger when reaching Dam Va'esh V'simros Ashan, and likewise when mentioning the plagues [and] D'tzach Adash B'achav, […]
- [Avodah] Deceit by omission December 5, 2024. 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 Daas. Comments? Akiva Miller
- [Avodah] Kiddush haSheim and Chessed - R Dr Hillel Goldberg December 3, 2024I am unsurprised that R Dr Goldberg routinely gives food to homeless people. But this article takes a position close to my own about what role Qiddush haSheim ought to have in this kind of behavior. The way I would put it is that it is our job in the world to emulate Hashem and […]
- [Avodah] The tzibbur saying Acheinu together December 1, 2024Nowadays/in recent times, the *tzibbur* arguably is also involving itself in/enunciating other aspects of *t'fila* that originally were meant to be enunciated only by the SHaTZ -- three examples are => during Bircas Kohanim, "kohanim am q'doshecha"; => during Mei'ein Sheva, the "magen avos" paragraph; and => at the beginning of Q'dusha, at least the […]
- [Avodah] infusions November 26, 2024I recently heard R H Schacter say that R YBS took an infusion in his old age in order to be able to fast on Yom Kippur. Anyone know any details? bsorot tovot joel rich
- [Avodah] schchita/death November 26, 2024Fascinating quantum physics/observer effects from the gemara chulin 121. Any thoughts, halachic or philosophical would be appreciated. 1 a jew shechts a non-kosher animal for a non-jew. If the jew intends that it will be eaten by a non-jew it will be subject to tumat ochlin even though the animal is still shuddering (i) apparently […]
- [Avodah] Al Tifrosh Min Hatzibur November 26, 2024. In today's Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi, halacha 17:10 is mostly about a couple of different scenarios where a person is in shul while the tzibur is saying Shema, and how he must say it together with them. That halacha ends with this: "Likewise, other things which the tzibur says - such as Ashrei, and […]
- [Avodah] How to spell and pronounce Yishmael November 24, 2024> > The name "Yishmael" .... I think it would be quite reasonable for > the Ayin to have a shva, and the Aleph to have a tzere, forming a > compound word: Yish-ma*-el, God-heard. That's the usual way to > construct this kind of name. Betzal-el, Mahalal-el, Nesan-el, > Sh'lumi-el, and many others - […]
- [Avodah] How to spell and pronounce Yishmael November 22, 2024. The name "Yishmael" means "G-d heard". I don't even need Rashi for that; Bereshis 16:11 says it explicitly. If so, I think it would be quite reasonable for the Ayin to have a shva, and the Aleph to have a tzere, forming a compound word: Yish-ma*-el, God-heard. That's the usual way to construct this […]