On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 05:50:47PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > May (one should) lchatchila build a below grade pump toilet knowing that it > will be used on Shabbat? According to the Taz (OC 340:2), pesiq reisha is derabbanan. In which case, it may even be mutar to flush the toilet, […]
Is there such a thing as psak in hashkafa? Fascinating https://www.yutorah.org/ reading/lecture.cfm/1144365 Rabbi Dovid Miller-Halacha and Morality: The View of the Rav (and R Dessler) Bsorot tovot Joel Rich
? R Reuven Feinstein mentioned that the Maharam Mrutenberg did not visit his father because of the halachic question who would stand for whom. He did not answer his own question concerning how this fits into kibud av as a hashkafa. Thoughts?? I wonder how true this story is. (We know that there are many […]
R Reuven Feinstein mentioned that the Maharam Mrutenberg did not visit his father because of the halachic question who would stand for whom. He did not answer his own question concerning how this fits into kibud av as a hashkafa. Thoughts? bsorot tovot joel rich
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 08:49:43AM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > The devil is in the details. There's no way to answer your question without > knowing more context, and exactly how HE phrased that which you quote as > "there must be a heter because everyone does it"... Let's start building […]
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 02:26:32PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > When Torah is accused of cruelty to animals, I often see people respond > that shechita is totally painless to the animal. They say that the knife is > so sharp as to be no worse than a paper cut, and […]
On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 12:52:45PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > In Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi, today begins Siman 173, Hilchos Orlah. I was > surprised to find that - according to the Kitzur - the critical dates for > establishing the age of a tree are 16 Av and 1 Tishre. […]
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 05:07:03PM -0400, mcohen via Avodah wrote: > Rabbi Reisman -- Parshas Korach 5785 ... > Now this is not the setting to go through the entire response, but I'd > like to share Rav Yerucham's response. Rav Yerucham did not, to our > knowledge, write a letter back, but […]
RJR's quote of Ben Azzai from https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.22a.16-17 got mangled by the digest software anyway. You can find it at that link, though. Here is a translation of mmore of the gemara than that quote, because I need more for my response: The Sages taught: One who experienced a seminal emission who had nine kav of […]