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- [Avodah] Birchat Cohanim October 31, 2024On 31 Oct 2024, at 1:12PM, R' Micha Berger wrote: > One could have taken this far broader: > The Gra's and RCV's motive was fundamentally based on the relative weights > the Gra gives sevara and accepted practice / mimeticism / minhag Yisrael. > If the Gra had (e.g.) the AhS's attitude, he would […]
- [Avodah] Die! October 30, 2024On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:54:58AM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: ... > What emerges from this - in MY mind - is a very different story than the > medrash I cited above. Moshe did not *allow* his body to die. Rather, > Hashem commanded and Moshe obeyed. > I want to […]
- [Avodah] Birchat Cohanim October 30, 2024On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 10:40:18PM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Interesting new book: The Priceless Treasure of Bircas Kohanim by Naftali > Weinberger. (Full disclosure -- R' Weinberger's father is a friend). On page > 153 he recounts the efforts of the GRA and R Chaim Volozhin to reinstitute > daily […]
- [Avodah] AI? October 30, 2024On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 05:30:40AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > My comment on an AI panel: > Most of the professionals that I've heard speak on this topic are pushing > the joint model where the AI assists the professional with input, but the > professional makes the final decisions. What's […]
- [Avodah] AI? October 30, 2024My comment on an AI panel: Most of the professionals that I?ve heard speak on this topic are pushing the joint model where the AI assists the professional with input, but the professional makes the final decisions. What?s always interested in me in this model is at what point will the professionals lose some of […]
- [Avodah] Die! October 22, 2024. I was struck by the grammar of Devarim 32:50, where Hashem tells Moshe Rabenu, "Die on the mountain which you are ascending..." According to my verb lists, the very first word here, "u'moos" , is in the tzivui (imperative, command) tense. Many mitzvos are phrased in the imperative tense, such as "Sh'ma - Listen!". […]
- [Avodah] wine October 21, 2024?The sugar of grape juice can only ferment to 3 or 4% alcohol with wild yeast ? airborne yeast. For grape juice to exceed 4% alcohol, then the winemaker must add yeast. The yeast added to ancient wines produced between 4?11% alcohol. Alcohol kills these yeast cells and prevents levels of alcohol from exceeding ~10%. […]
- [Avodah] Birchat Cohanim October 20, 2024Interesting new book: The Priceless Treasure of Bircas Kohanim by Naftali Weinberger. (Full disclosure ? R? Weinberger?s father is a friend). On page 153 he recounts the efforts of the GRA and R Chaim Volozhin to reinstitute daily duchening in ashkenaz and the seeming divine intervention (jail and fire in the bet medrash) that were […]
- [Avodah] Mincha October 16, 2024R' Allan Engel wrote: > Serendipitously, I found an answer to this question in my Yom Kippur > machzor yesterday, quoted in the name of R' Chaim, the brother of the > Maharal MiPrag, in his sefer Iggeres HaTiyyul. See also Teshuvos Emunas Shmuel from R' Aaron Samuel Kaidanover. BTW The language of the Rambam […]
- [Avodah] Wine October 13, 2024Some of you may know that one of my pet peeves was that I was taught that the reason that wine was watered down in talmudic times was because wine was much stronger back in the day In my Latin lessons at school we learned exactly the same about Roman wines, that it had to […]