On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 4:34?PM Micha Berger via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 12:00:12PM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > > In our parsha, Onkelos translates "tur" as "sidra" - an orderly > > arrangement... > > From which we get the word "tor", […]
On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 01:49:19PM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > [I'm converting the opening quote to something our digest software can > handle. -micha] > > Rambam Hilkhos Sanhedrin 2:3: > Ein ma'amidim bekhol haSanhedrin > - lo zaqei muflag bashanim ... > Given the above, was there ever a time […]
On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 06:14:12AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The Aruch HaShulchan uses the phrase 201 times in the AHS. In only one of > those cases (allowing bells on a Sefer Torah on Shabbat -- O"C 338:3) does he > add b'chol ha'olam. Any ideas? Could it be something […]
On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 12:00:12PM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > Most translations render "tur" as "row", but very unfortunately, most > people read that without realizing that "row" is an ambiguous word. They > think that the four turim are horizontal rows, like in a chart or table, > with the […]
>From the recently published Aggadot HaRav Thoughts? There was another commandment at hand: Joseph, the old grandfather, had commanded his family: ?When God will indeed remember you, then you shall bring my bones up out of here? (Gen. 50:25). Moses was fulfilling this commandment. Now a learned Jew with a sharp head would stroke his […]
>From the recently published Aggadot HaRav (p. 76) Thoughts? However, there are questions about honoring parents, educating children, giving charity, helping others, guarding one?s tongue, general questions about faith, as well as various questions concerning thought and feelings, that were not necessarily ruled on by rabbis. Simple Jews would render decisions in such cases. Do […]
You aren't considering that they died as soldiers in War as per R' Sherira Gaon and others with the Gemara's description being that had they been united perhaps they would have not been slaughtered by the Romans. In this reading, Askera is a euphemism (see Lev Ivri from Rav Henkin) Rav Schachter, explained that Rav […]
this quote that i saw would answer all your questions.. The ???????? says they all died of a disease called ??????????. According to Harav Hagaon Y. Henkin zt"l and others, the ???????? uses ?????????? as a code for getting killed fighting the Romans. dk where to find this inside (or who 'others' is) mc
What were the last 1000 talmidim thinking after having witnessed 23,000 dying? It seems that Talmidim from other Yeshivos were not afflicted If Heaven forbid, in our times 500 talmidim would perish in an epidemic but only of one Yeshivah would there not be a massive outcry many days of Tefillos Fasting Exhortations from all […]
R' Joel Rich asked: > What would your answer be to > the last question in the thread > below? Does Dina Dmalchuta > play a role (given the debate as > to which areas of halacha it applies > to)? Would the evaluation be based > on the public perception of risk, > your […]