Avodah
- [Avodah] Rabi Yehuda Hanasi - Yom Hakippur wipes away all sins
even without teshuva May 14, 2025. R' Marty Bluke asked: > What is the rationale behind this? A person does all kinds of > serious aveiros doesn't feel bad about it and doesn't repent > and yet comes Yom Kippur all is forgiven. Why? How does that > make any sense? This has bothered me for many decades, since the […]
- [Avodah] day definition May 14, 2025On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 05:59:51AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > What are we trying to make of the fact that while the Jewish "day" starts > at night, the tur chose to start his "day" (in orach chaim) in the AM (and > that IIUC all siddurim did the same). As […]
- [Avodah] Tur Organization May 14, 2025On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 05:57:58AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > I just noticed that the Tur does not describe his four volumes in his > introductions as the 4 turim until the fourth volume (choshen mishpat). > Certainly not a conclusive proof, but I wonder if it leans towards that > […]
- [Avodah] day definition May 14, 2025. R' Joel Rich asked: > What are we trying to make of the fact that while the Jewish > "day" starts at night, the tur chose to start his "day" (in > orach chaim) in the AM (and that IIUC all siddurim did the same). To me, this is based purely on practical considerations, […]
- [Avodah] Rabi Yehuda Hanasi - Yom Hakippur wipes away all sins even
without teshuva May 14, 2025What is the rationale behind this? A person does all kinds of serious aveiros doesn?t feel bad about it and doesn?t repent and yet comes Yom Kippur all is forgiven. Why? How does that make any sense?
- [Avodah] day definition May 14, 2025What are we trying to make of the fact that while the Jewish ?day? starts at night, the tur chose to start his ?day? (in orach chaim) in the AM (and that IIUC all siddurim did the same). Bsorot tovot joel rich
- [Avodah] Tur Organization May 14, 2025I just noticed that the Tur does not describe his four volumes in his introductions as the 4 turim until the fourth volume (choshen mishpat). Certainly not a conclusive proof, but I wonder if it leans towards that there was no overarching vision of what it would be when he started. Thoughts? Bsorot tovot Joel […]
- [Avodah] AI May 7, 2025------------------------------ Rabbi Gil Student (aka The Big Boss Man) introduced an interesting issue in his peace on AI and the golem. https://www.torahmusings.com/2025/04/ai-golem-and-not-so-silly-questions/ AI, Golem and Not-So-Silly Questions ?The more important point is that we do not necessarily have strictly halakhic tools to discuss the status of these unnatural beings. Therefore, we need to access our […]
- [Avodah] eat pre-havdala May 7, 2025One of my grandchildren asked me why we are not allowed to eat before Havdalah. My immediate response was that it was like not being able to eat before kiddush on Friday night. The Rambam links the two to an extent in chapter 29 of hilchot shabbat, but when I looked in the bet Yosef, […]
- [Avodah] Telling LH to AI May 6, 2025Is one allowed to tell LH to AI? Does the issur require that the bad impression of someone actually gets spread, or is any exercising of this bad middah assur? See https://riets.substack.com/p/can-you-speak-lashon-hara-to-chat (below) by R Daniel Z Feldman of YU's Kollel Elyon Tir'u baTov! -Micha Can You Speak Lashon Hara to Chat-GPT? May 05, 2025 […]