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- [Avodah] Normal People Don't Care About Those Things January 22, 2026On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 04:59:40PM +0200, Ilana Elzufon via Avodah wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 9:26AM Meir Shinnar via Avodah wrote: > > 1. the first person I know who is explicit about actions being primary is > > Mendelson. While he is viewed now by many as Reform,in his […]
- [Avodah] Normal People Don't Care About Those Things January 21, 2026'To the best of my knowledge, Rav Moshe Mendelssohn himself was most definitely Orthodox (although that term may be a bit anachronistic?), even if his ideas later became important in the development of Reform. The view that he himself was somehow Reform seems to be based primarily on ignorance.' Yes it is anachronistic to call […]
- [Avodah] covering tfilllin shel yad January 21, 2026...I had heard in the name of the R'YBS that one should return to their original dress state (eg not have one sleeve of the jacket on and one off) bc one should look good for tephila (hikon) no one meets the president with one sleeve hanging at their side. it looks stupid
- [Avodah] kol dalim gvar January 21, 2026Is kol d?alim a permanent tug of war as in (Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - Wikipedia) or is whoever prevails first now the permanent owner? KT Joel Rich
- [Avodah] msayea? January 21, 2026On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 06:11:34AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Is initiating a conversation with someone who is baduk that he will > speak lashon hara a violation of lfnei iver/msayea? Saying something positive about someone that the listener has or probably has a poor opinion of is avaq LH because […]
- [Avodah] msayea? January 21, 2026Is initiating a conversation with someone who is baduk that he will speak lashon hara a violation of lfnei iver/msayea? KT Joel Rich
- [Avodah] covering tfilllin shel yad January 19, 2026In a recent Q&A session Rabbi Shmuel Fuerst mentioned that while there is no requirement to cover your tfillin shel yad, the practice is to do so by pulling down your shirt sleeve immediately after putting on the tfillin shel yad. He quoted sources that a number of gdolim were reported to do so but […]
- [Avodah] hashmaat kol January 15, 2026?R? Joel Rich wrote: > What?s your understanding of the trigger level for noise which > evaluating hashmaat kol on shabbat? As I recall, R. Moshe writes that if a sound is audible in an adjoining room, it constitutes hashmoas kol. I do not recall any explicit definition of this in the Gemara, and it […]
- [Avodah] Normal People Don't Care About Those Things January 15, 2026On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 9:26?AM Meir Shinnar via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > > 1. the first person I know who is explicit about actions being primary is > Mendelson. While he is viewed now by many as Reform,in his lifetime he was > viewed by most to be Orthodox. > […]
- [Avodah] AI appliances and shabbat January 15, 2026On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 08:36:02PM +0200, Eli Turkel via Avodah wrote: ... > At CES, I expect to see a wave of new smart devices that step back from > direct sensors and instead use tiny disruptions in Wi-Fi and similar > frequencies to gauge activity around the home. They can sense human […]