Our discussion lists are moving to https://aishdas.discourse.group/ . BUT, you will all start off with email interfaces to the Avodah, Areivim and Mesorah topics as per your current subscriptions. Why? A few months back I lamented the moribund state of email lists and how it was killing our chevraschaft. There was no clear consensus, but […]
On the Lehrhaus, R Chaim Katz suggests that R Sherira Gaon's "shamda" does refer to R Aqiva's students died fighting the Romans. But he suggests it wasn't during Hadrian's suppression of the Bar Kokhva revolt. See https://thelehrhaus.com/holidays/did-r-akivas-students-die-in-the-bar-kokhba-revolt There are a number of Maamarei Chazal that wouldn't work with my collapsed timespan. To give just one […]
Do you have an underlying approach as to when chazal used some kind of normative standard and said that we ignore individual deviation (batla dato) such as kviat seudah and when they said we must look at that specific individual's' specifics such as maaleh lugmav? (also many non-food applications KT Joel Rich
Rav Herzog reportedly said that he has a tradition that there will not be a destruction of the Jewish settlement in Israel. The Brisker Rav reportedly responded that he has a tradition that when people shoot, we run (Be-Ikvei Ha-Tzon, p. 215). Me-might these approaches be indicative of differing world views (more focus on the […]
. R' Isaac Balbin wrote: > Several mefarshim (and this is hinted at in Rus Rabbah) > understand Naomi's words not as a sincere recommendation but > as a nisayon ? she was actively trying to dissuade Ruth and > Orpah from following her, precisely to ensure that whoever > did follow her was doing […]
. For this post, I will assume that we agree that Lo Siten Michshol applies to all sorts of bad advice, but particularly to advice which encourages the listener to do something forbidden. Further, it applies even when giving advice to a non-Jew, if the advice is to do something which is forbidden for non-Jews. […]
Thank you for the comprehensive reflections on the history and context of that event. One must however consider that Chazal employed various events to highlight their perspective of the Divine Will their main objective being Moral lessons we must learn from these historical events and even if they exaggerated in order to embellish a point […]
On ?second day? yom tov in chul someone said to me I must be sleeping better here than at home (Yerushalayim). I responded ?no, I sleep better in Yerushalayim where I know HKBH exercises direct hashgacha over his people. Are there halachic implications of this direct hashgacha? kt joel rich
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