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 […]
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
On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 09:16:29AM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > R' Joel Rich asked: >> S"A O"C 131:4 states "nahagu shelo lipol al pneichem... bbeit >> hachatan." Does nahagu imply amcha did this and the rabbis didn't >> resist? > Isn't that how ALL minhagim get started? > In fact, my […]
I know we all assume Adam spoke Lashon haQodesh, but... Sanhderin 38b has Rav Yehudah amar Rav, "Adam haRishon spoin in the Aramaic language." Citing Tehillim 139:17-19 that slips into Aramaic in retelling what Adam said upon his creation -- "im tiqtol Eloak rasha". I have a theory that both are true. We know that […]
On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 06:08:01AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > I have been comparing sim shalom to shalom rav and was wondering about the significance of the ordering of the words (shalom, tova...) and why the > phrase aleinu val kol yisrael is found in sim but not in rav? Who […]