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- [Avodah] dibbur May 15, 2024On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 05:59:43AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The Rambam in the peirush hamishnayot (Avot 1:16) categorizes types of > dibbur. 1. Mtzaveh (commanded) 2. Asur (forbidden) 3. Maus {disgusting} 4. > Ahava (beloved) and 5. Mutar (permitted. How do you understand 4 -- Is it a > mitzvah […]
- [Avodah] Rabbi Akiva's Students' Deaths as Soldiers in Bar
Kochba's Army? A thorough critique of the theory May 15, 2024On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 6:24?PM Zvi Lampel wrote: > ...I have not found a source that "sicarii" was a type of low-ranking > Roman soldier.) > I did find the following on Wikipedia: Originally, the accensi were light infantry in the armies of the early Roman Republic. They were the poorest men in […]
- [Avodah] dibbur May 15, 2024The Rambam in the peirush hamishnayot (Avot 1:16) categorizes types of dibbur. 1. Mtzaveh (commanded) 2. Asur (forbidden) 3. Maus {disgusting} 4. Ahava (beloved) and 5. Mutar (permitted. How do you understand 4 ? Is it a mitzvah or an inyan (and the flip for 3)? Is HKBH indifferent in cases of 5.? Bsorot tovot […]
- [Avodah] choices May 15, 2024If adam harishon had been given a choice of eating from the eitz hachaim or eitz hadaat, which one should he have picked (pun intended)? Why? Bsorot tovot Joel Rich
- [Avodah] Rabbi Akiva's Students' Deaths as Soldiers in Bar
Kochba's Army? A thorough critique of the theory May 14, 2024> > > https://asif.co.il/wpfb-file/6_2-pdf/ > > > by R. Shmuel Yismach, Igud Yeshivot HaHesder > > < > https://asif.co.il/files_author/%d7%94%d7%a8%d7%91-%d7%a9%d7%9e%d7%95%d7%90%d7%9c-%d7%99%d7%a9%d7%9e%d7%97/ > > > > RMB: The idea that the Y-mi's "iskarah" wasn't a lung disease (askara) but > the > type of low-ranking Roman soldier who carried a dagger (sicarii) also fits > Igeres R Sherira […]
- [Avodah] Tochacha May 14, 2024R Micha, I am sorry but I believe you are mistaken in saying - Lehalakhah (MB 608:9) it is prohibited to offer tokhachah more than once. That Halacha is limited to giving PUBLIC Tochacha This is clear in the Rama [608:2] And MBerrurah [608:8] ? where he clearly declares one is obligated to offer Tochacha […]
- [Avodah] Examples of disrespect among chachamim circa R. Akiva and
the deathly consequences May 13, 2024Rabbi Ari Kahn cites two Gemaras in which Rabbi Akiva himself criticizes a chacham for lack of sufficient respect for another chacham, and the deathly consequence Rabbi Akiva attributed to such behavior. (My translations.) *Nedarim 40a* ? one of Rabbi Akiva's disciples fell sick, but Sages did not visit him. Rabbi Akiva entered [his house] […]
- [Avodah] El Al Flights To JFK Airport In New York May 13, 2024This posting appeared in our sister mailing list Areivim, v42i22: > > Every few years it seems the issue of a Cohen on an airplane flying > over a cemetery comes up. > > I was at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, Long Island today. There > are over 250,000 graves there. > > After […]
- [Avodah] Rabbi Akiva's Students' Deaths as Soldiers in Bar
Kochba's Army? A thorough critique of the theory May 13, 2024On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 06:31:24PM -0400, Zvi Lampel via Avodah wrote: > https://asif.co.il/wpfb-file/6_2-pdf/ > by R. Shmuel Yismach, Igud Yeshivot HaHesder > The idea that the Y-mi's "iskarah" wasn't a lung disease (askara) but the type of low-ranking Roman soldier who carried a dagger (sicarii) also fits Igeres R Sherira Gaon referring to […]
- [Avodah] Tochacha Limitations Purpose May 13, 2024On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 12:49:53AM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > If I may begin with R Micha?s concluding comment > since the gemara severely limits the situations where tokhachah is > appropriate, > given our skills at saying things the first time in a way that would be > […]