Avodah
- [Avodah] Saying Sheimos Aloud December 17, 2025On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 05:54:00AM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > Near the beginning of Hilchos Chanuka in the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (139:1), > he uses the phrase, "ad shericham aleihem E-lohei avoseinu." I checked > several different recent editions, and they all printed that Shem with a > heh. Not a […]
- [Avodah] eit laasot December 17, 2025>From President Lincoln: ?By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, […]
- [Avodah] R'YBS / Kant December 17, 2025Conversation between Me and R J Ziring on one of his shiurim: Me: Wasn?t sure from what you were saying whether you believe post-Kant one can ?prove? religion in a traditional sense. (VS. R?YBS) R?JZ:? I do not agree with the Rav following Kant in general on this issue, but partially because I do not […]
- [Avodah] Saying Sheimos Aloud December 16, 2025. Near the beginning of Hilchos Chanuka in the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (139:1), he uses the phrase, "ad shericham aleihem E-lohei avoseinu." I checked several different recent editions, and they all printed that Shem with a heh. Not a kuf, or any other sort of typographical modification. I would love to know how the author […]
- [Avodah] Truth, Absolute Truth, Prophecy December 12, 2025. R' Meir G. Rabi asked: > HKBH knows what He's doing > DON'T MIX IN > Just do as you're told. > Why does this not apply to > Rivkah and YaAkov's meddling > to gain the blessings from Yitzhak I presume that "do as you're told" refers to the idea that from HKBH's […]
- [Avodah] The Ram of the Akeida December 9, 2025> > Michael Poppers wrote RAMiller asked, "What > was miraculous about that ram?" Interestingly enough issues relating to this (tangentially) are on yesterday's and today's daf! (Zevachim 85 & 96). (now how often does this happen?! ) This paragraph is from a shiur from R Sholom Rosner, https://alldaf.org/p/42929, starting at around 10:50. On these […]
- [Avodah] Unpassable tests December 9, 2025R' Joel Rich asked: > Does hkbh give one a nisayon that one cannot pass? I guess the > answer depends a lot on how you define the terms but in its > strongest sense doesn?t this imply that anyone who ever sins > hasn?t tried hard enough? I once spoke to a kohen who […]
- [Avodah] The Ram of the Akeida December 9, 2025In Avodah V43n73, RAMiller asked, "What was miraculous about that ram?" On a Mi Yodeya page (URL: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/48734/what-was-the-significance-of-the-ram-by-the-akeida), I noticed a few answers: -1- 3. The special nature of this ram was exemplified by, possibly, making it to the list of items created at twilight, in the fifth chapter of Avos. ... I was wondering […]
- [Avodah] Truth, Absolute Truth, Prophecy December 8, 2025The righteous King Chizkiyahu Was to be divinely punished for avoiding having children Because he knew that they would be evil, not only to themselves, but to the entire nation The Navi reprimanded him mind your own business not HKBH's business. InOtherWords, HKBH knows what He's doing DON'T MIX IN Just do as you're told. […]
- [Avodah] And so the game continued December 3, 2025"Why? Why didn't the ba`al qri'ah just write in the vowels? We are obliged to read the book of Esther from a parchment (which is, parenthetically, a better term than "qlaf"; books of the Bible aren't supposed to be written on qlaf, although they can be, they're supposed to be written on gvil) and yet […]