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- [Avodah] kavod av August 6, 2025R 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
- [Avodah] mutav sheyihiyu shoggim August 6, 2025On 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 […]
- [Avodah] Cruelty to animals August 6, 2025On 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 […]
- [Avodah] New Year for Trees July 30, 2025On 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. […]
- [Avodah] fyi - m'mekomos on TIDE as l'chatchila (from Rabbi
Reisman) July 30, 2025On 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 […]
- [Avodah] Distractions? July 30, 2025RJR'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 […]
- [Avodah] Distractions? July 29, 2025------------------------------ ???? ???????? ?????????, ???????? ???????? ??????? ?????????? ???????? ????????? ??????????. ?????? ???????? ????????? ? ??????? ????? ??????????? ???????? ????????? ????? ???????????? ????????????????. ben Azzai only whispered this halakha to his students, held that he did so in order that Torah scholars would not be with their wives like roosters. If the purification process was […]
- [Avodah] cruelty to Bilams Donkey July 27, 2025R Danny Schoemann suggested the only concrete complaint the angel had against Bilam was "how dare you hit your animal". Proving that cruelty to animals is a Torah prohibition. Not sure this perspective is legitimate I suspect that the word 'DARE' - how dare you hit is misleading, it is inaccurate The observation was how […]
- [Avodah] My Current Futile Life Project July 20, 2025. Y'all had some pretty good ideas, but MY Current Futile Life Project is to find a Chumash publisher who will give reasonable instructions for unusual haftaras. I'm just a guy in shul. I might remember whether this is a leap year or not, but without a luach in my hand, I have no idea […]
- [Avodah] mutav sheyihiyu shoggim July 20, 2025. R' Joel Rich asked: > If a rav says there must be a heter because everyone does it (eg > reading Jewish newspapers with ads on Shabbos and not worrying > about shtarei hedyotot) may one rely on that and read the newspaper > or is it another way of saying mutav sheyihiyu shoggim? […]