Today’s Arukh HaShulchan Yomi is sponsored לע”נ הרב אליעזר בן יוסף הכהן, Rabbi Eliezer Cohen zt”l of Detroit, by his family, in honor of his yahrzeit this week. Rabbi Cohen was my wife’s main rebbe in high school, and one of the rabbonim/poskim for her family, the Schreibers. May his neshama have an aliyah.
Not an answer to the question but a related story. A shul received a set of clafs for haftorot and decided that they should be used every Shabbat. But since most people couldn?t say a haftorah from a claf, the procedure was to call up the oleh, he would make the brachot for the haftorah, […]
? Question how would we categorize an orthodox individual who made the same statement as Dr Murray?? I?d categorize him/her as an Orthodox Jew who thinks that God has a better than 50% chance of being the explanation for our existence. Joseph Sent from my iPhone
Just listened to an interesting podcast interviewing Charles Murray author of the recently released ? taking religion seriously ? He is an 83-year-old former agnostic who said that he changed his mind due to weight of evidence, not that he is convinced but he thinks that God has a better than 50% chance of being […]
Fascinating (to me) report from R? A Lebowitz concerning R Schacter?s position that not all the minyanim in a shul should say the haftara from a claf because people who have yahrtzeit want to say the haftara and they won?t be able to do it from a claf. R? H Schachter reported that R?YBS held […]
Is lev bet din matneh a nice way of saying it?s ?impractical? to apply the letter of the law in a particular situation (so chazal, HKBH?) must?ve had this situational caveat in mind? KT Joel Rich
On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 11:20 Micha Berger wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: > > Interestingly enough Rav Soloveitchik never said shalom Rav at all he only > > said sim shalom because shalom Rav doesn't appear in the Rambams siddur and > > […]
On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: > Interestingly enough Rav Soloveitchik never said shalom Rav at all he only > said sim shalom because shalom Rav doesn't appear in the Rambams siddur and > was a later geonic invention I don't know how far down the grapevine you […]
On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:49:20AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The rama in o"c 149:1 says it's a mitzvah to accompany the sefer torah back > to the aron. What mitzvah is it? at the end of the sif it records a minhag > to bring children in to kiss the […]
On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 08:22:54PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > > Why do you consider his contemporary generation a more important > > audience than later ones? If you aren't bothered by the Chumash > > referring to places we can't identify, why are you bothered by > > the Dor […]
On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 06:07:13AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Does anybody know historically when mugmar was used to perfume clothes, was > it a one time thing for when they were sold or was it an ongoing thing done > every so often for people to perfume their clothes? Laundering […]