Halachic Tidbits Part 2 2010-10-13
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- [Avodah] Did Adam Speak Hebrew? November 7, 2025I know we all assume Adam spoke Lashon haQodesh, but... Sanhderin 38b has Rav Yehudah amar Rav, "Adam haRishon spoin in the Aramaic language." Citing Tehillim 139:17-19 that slips into Aramaic in retelling what Adam said upon his creation -- "im tiqtol Eloak rasha". I have a theory that both are true. We know that […]
- [Avodah] sim shalom to shalom rav November 5, 2025On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 06:08:01AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > I have been comparing sim shalom to shalom rav and was wondering about the significance of the ordering of the words (shalom, tova...) and why the > phrase aleinu val kol yisrael is found in sim but not in rav? Who […]
- [Avodah] sim shalom to shalom rav November 5, 2025I have been comparing sim shalom to shalom rav and was wondering about the significance of the ordering of the words (shalom, tova?) and why the phrase aleinu val kol yisrael is found in sim but not in rav? Who is that referring to? Thoughts? KT Joel Rich
- [Avodah] Ben sorer et al October 30, 2025On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:31:47PM +0000, Joseph Kaplan via Avodah wrote: > It always seemed to be that the witness was not being literal because what > is the likelihood that he actually saw all the things he said he saw which > none of his contemporaries had heard of... I thought that […]
- [Avodah] Names in Aramaic and other languages October 30, 2025I think we are conflating two subjects: Halachic vs legal names, and the original question of whether a name should get translated, eg in targum. The first category touches home: I bought my dirah before having Israeli citizenship, so the name on the paperwork is that on my passport: Mitchel Samuel Berger. To make ownership […]
- [Avodah] Oops Re: Names in Aramaic and other languages October 30, 2025[Actually, I lost track of which email RnIE was replying to, and I mangled her original emails. This provides some kind of meaningful context. -micha] On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 09:57:19PM +0200, Simon Montagu via Avodah wrote: >> Moshe/Moses, Carlos/Charles, and Ya'akov/Yankef are all seen as variants of >> the same name, *not* as […]
- [Avodah] Where was Dan? October 30, 2025. R' Micha Berger asked: > There are many place names in the Chumash that we today can't > locate. > Why do you consider his contemporary generation a more important > audience than later ones? If you aren't bothered by the Chumash > referring to places we can't identify, why are you bothered by […]
- [Avodah] Are We to Humiliate Sinners as Mitzvah Tochacha? October 29, 2025Brent Kaufman wrote: The commandment is to admonish, not to ensure the sinners repent. It seems this is inaccurate. We are commanded to continue to admonish until they accept or are readying to strike the admonisher. [RaMBaM DeOs 6:7] One who notices a co-religionist who has sinned or has taken an unhealthy life-path, has a […]
- [Avodah] Names In Different Languages; Exceptions Don't Prove Rules October 29, 2025Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that avodah-request at lists.aishdas.org would write on Tue Oct 28 23:05:26 2025: > > In my learning of On[q]elos, I have noticed that it is not unusual > for a place to have one name in Hebrew, and a seemingly unrelated > name in Aramaic.... > > I began to wonder […]
- [Avodah] 1960 de Sola Pool Edition of the RCA Shabbat and Yom Tov
Siddur October 29, 2025Areyeh Frimer asks: ?Is there someone on this list who has access to the de Sola Pool Edition of the RCA Shabbat and Yom Tov Siddur. I am interested in verifying whether R. De Sola Pool indeed translated "Bar E-lohin" in Berikh Shmei as "Angel" or "Son of God". I vaguely remember he did the […]