A Toras Dovid (formerly Ohr Somayach) shiur. First in a series on the topic of Communal Unity. This shiur addresses R’ Moshe Feinstein’s positions and the psak of the 11 Roshei Yeshiva.
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 11:12:46AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Comment to blog discussing a girl?s elementary school?s gemara celebration And then no one in digest mode could follow his question because the digest mangles Hebrew. > two thoughts If it's not a mitzvah for women to learn gemara, why wouldn't […]
Rashi Chulin 12a writes, Ein MeFarsemin HaDavar Are we to assume this is not the same as Halachah VeEin Morin Kein? And what might be the difference? What are the guidelines that direct us to not publicise such rulings? Does that apply exclusively to Bein Adam LaMakom or also to BALeChaveiro? Best, Meir G. Rabi […]
Sometimes, in life, we are faced with unanswerable questions. I recently experienced this myself, while I was reading Avodah Vol 43 Issue 26, and found myself confronted with the following question: > > Comment to blog discussing a girl?s elementary school?s gemara celebration > two thoughts If it's not a mitzvah for women to learn […]
Rav Refael Posen has a long note on this in his "Parshegen" (available online at onkelos.alhatorah.org). tl;dr -- it's for aesthetic stylistic reasons On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 2:09?AM Akiva Miller via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > . > I just noticed that in Shmini 11:13-19, Onkelos usually leaves the word > […]
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 06:54:00PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > I just noticed that in Shmini 11:13-19, Onkelos usually leaves the word > "es" (aleph tav) untranslated. I don't recall ever seeing this before. Any > idea why he generally translates it (as "yas", yod tav) in almost the whole > […]
. I just noticed that in Shmini 11:13-19, Onkelos usually leaves the word "es" (aleph tav) untranslated. I don't recall ever seeing this before. Any idea why he generally translates it (as "yas", yod tav) in almost the whole Chumash, but not here? Akiva Miller
Comment to blog discussing a girl?s elementary school?s gemara celebration two thoughts If it's not a mitzvah for women to learn gemara, why wouldn't we say ????? ???? ???? ????? ??? ?? ?? ???? ? ?"?: ??? ??? ???? ???? ??? ????? ???? ???, ?????: ?? ?? ????? ?' ????. and why (for boys as […]
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 02:53:08PM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > I was listening to an interesting shiur discussing the Chazon Ish's many > nisyonot (physical health, childlessness, wife) and how he met them all > with the bitachon that he was in good hands. Not that all would necessarily > be […]
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:13:50PM -0400, Henry Topas via Avodah wrote: > In the lead up to Pesach, I am trying to formulate a thought around the > chastisement of the malachim by Hashem as cited in Sanhedrin 39b... > > The question I have is whether we have brought down any similar […]
On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 10:24:41AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > When the gemara correlates certain violations with certain results, other > than just saying it's a violation (eg not washing ntilat yadaim resulting > in poverty), is it positing a value judgement on a level of the violation, > existential cause […]