Avodah
- [Avodah] T'ruas Amo Yisrael October 11, 2024In Avodah V42n68, RAMiller wondered why the *chasimah* for "Shofaros" mentioned *t'ruah* but not Shofar. Back in 2016, in a private message related to a M-J V63n3 reply of mine , I noted a Roedelheim-print footnote to the "Areshes..." for "Shofaros" which might be of interest to RAMiller and/or the list -- you can see […]
- [Avodah] Toras Chayim veAhavas Chessed October 9, 2024On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 10:51am EDT, I asked: > I want to ask a subtle question about the meaning of one part of Sim Shalom. > > Are we saying that Hashem gave us (1) Toras Chayim, (2) veAhavas Chessed, > (3) uTzedaqah, (4) uVerakhah, (5) veRachamim, (6) veChayim, (7) veShalom > > […]
- [Avodah] Intent? October 9, 2024On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 05:51:09PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Listening to a class on charity, the point was made that the donors' reason > for wanting their name on something may be positive... Kin'as soferim tarbeh chokhmah. Kin'as baalei tzedaqah... If you want donations to become a given, you may […]
- [Avodah] Wine October 9, 2024On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 07:46:12PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Some 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. However, I […]
- [Avodah] Wine October 8, 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. However, I have since found out that wine will not naturally ferment to more than 18% alcohol content. […]
- [Avodah] T'ruas Amo Yisrael October 6, 2024. Musaf for Rosh Hashana has three central brachos. The third of them is called "Shofaros", and ends with the words, "... Who hears the sound of the t'ruah of His people Yisrael with rachamim." For the past few years, I have been bothered by the fact that the word "shofar" does not appear in […]
- [Avodah] chasurei? October 1, 2024On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 5:22?AM Joel Rich via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > I heard R H Schachter quote the Gra as saying that when the gemara says > chasurei meohsera vhachi katani, it doesn?t mean that there are words > missing but rather that this is the proper understanding of […]
- [Avodah] chasurei? September 30, 2024I heard R H Schachter quote the Gra as saying that when the gemara says chasurei meohsera vhachi katani, it doesn?t mean that there are words missing but rather that this is the proper understanding of the original intent which was written in terse language. Anyone know where this appears? KVCT and Bsorot tovot Joel […]
- [Avodah] Intent? September 30, 2024Listening to a class on charity, the point was made that the donors? reason for wanting their name on something may be positive. I was thinking of a parallel to a prayer leader who prays with a beautiful voice. The Shulchan Aruch states that halacha views this differently depending on whether he?s doing so for […]
- [Avodah] Women kaddish September 27, 2024RMB > In contrast, REMT wrote on these "pages" that the only heter for > having multiple aveilim saying Qaddish is that saying Qaddish pushed > the avel to show up for minyan. Many men who were lacksidasical minyan > attendees started attending 3 times a day during aveilus, and keep on > going afterward. […]