Halachos and Hashkofos of Sheker part 3
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- [Avodah] simchat torah October 29, 2025The rama in o?c 149:1 says it?s a mitzvah to accompany the sefer torah back to the aron. What mitzvah is it? at the end of the sif it records a minhag to bring children in to kiss the torah. How old should they be and did they just bring them in for this (and […]
- [Avodah] Trick or treat? October 29, 2025Interesting in C?M 267 we see that originally a middling identification mark was considered sufficient to return a lost object. However, when tricksters became more numerous, the court determined that it would require witnesses as well. It makes me wonder what caused the increase in tricksters and how perceived permanent had the increase to be […]
- [Avodah] 1960 de Sola Pool Edition of the RCA Shabbat and Yom
Tov Siddur October 29, 2025On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 7:57PM Aryeh Frimer via Avodah wrote: > 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 […]
- [Avodah] 1960 de Sola Pool Edition of the RCA Shabbat and Yom Tov
Siddur October 28, 2025Mechubadai, 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 latter, and […]
- [Avodah] Par He'elem Davar - Poetic Justics October 27, 2025Sitting in on a Daf Yomi Shiur (Zevachim 41a) Shabbos afternoon it hit me: The Par He'elem Davar was brought when the public followed a mistaken ruling on a matter that deOraisa is not spelled out black-and-white in the Torah. (If the Sanhedrin erred on an obvious point, they shouldn't have been listened to. What […]
- [Avodah] Names in Aramaic and other languages October 26, 2025. This is a follow-up to my post of about 7 hours ago. I suddenly realized that there are *many* people who use different names depending on the language, country, or culture they are in. In Megilas Ester: Hebrew: Hadassah, Persian: Esther In the gospels: Hebrew: Shaul, Latin: Paul At this keyboard: Hebrew: Akiva, English: […]
- [Avodah] Names in Aramaic and other languages October 26, 2025. [My questions here are more linguistic, and less Torah, so I considered posting this to Areivim. But I'm hoping for responses that are based on Onkelos' translation style, so that's why I'm sending it to Avodah.] In my learning of Onkelos, I have noticed that it is not unusual for a place to have […]
- [Avodah] ben sorer et al October 26, 2025Has anyone heard a good explanation as to why the gemara sanhedrin does not say that the argument is resolved by the fact that there is testimony that each case (ben sorer, bayit hamenuga) did actually occur? kt joel rich
- [Avodah] mugmar bkeilim October 26, 2025Does anybody know historically when mugmar was used to perfume clothes, was it a one time thing for when they were sold or was it an ongoing thing done every so often for people to perfume their clothes? KT Joel Rich
- [Avodah] yom tov sheini October 23, 2025On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 05:10:40PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > When rabbis discuss in a public shiur (vs in yeshiva) the need to observe > yom tov sheini shel galiyot ISTM I often hear "hizharu bminhag avoteichem > byadeichem" but not the follow on "zimnin dgazra hamalchut gzeira vati > lkilkulei" […]