Halachot of Counting Sefirat Haomer When Passing Over the Dateline
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- [Avodah] trolley revisited March 30, 2025. R' Joel Rich commented: > One of the things I?ve thought a lot about is the character- > ization of Chazal as being consequentialist or deontological, > etc. I just wonder if we are trying to put their thoughts > into our paradigms or whether they had their own different > paradigm which was […]
- [Avodah] trolley revisited March 28, 2025On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 06:27:21AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > One of the things I've thought a lot about is the characterization of > Chazal as being consequentialist or deontological, etc. I just wonder if we > are trying to put their thoughts into our paradigms or whether they had > […]
- [Avodah] standard measures? March 28, 2025On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 03:21:29PM +0200, Danny Schoemann via Avodah wrote: > > I don't know what he would do with a kezayis. Would he follow R Chaim > > Volozhiner, because the nearest thing to a subjective olive is using > > the more available olive in NCyour own region and time? […]
- [Avodah] A Complete Unknown? March 28, 2025On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 08:20:19AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > I could not help thinking about R'YBS's presentation of repentance from > fear(myira) versus repentance from love (ahava). Often the former is > associated with trying to cut oneself off totally from their past, whereas > the latter is building on […]
- [Avodah] orthodox theology March 28, 2025On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 06:40:21AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > In a recent discussion concerning whether a specific rabbi was within the > pale of orthodox theology, I wondered what percentage of the rank and file > think about theology and what they would define as beyond the pale (or > […]
- [Avodah] hashavat aveida? March 26, 2025On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 06:24:50AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > If you are walking down the street in Jerusalem, passing by a construction > site where an arab worker is speaking on the telephone facing you and 3 > feet past him you see two 100 shekel bills on the street. […]
- [Avodah] trolley revisited March 26, 2025Note to presenter Enjoyed your piece on the trolley problem, it?s something I?ve thought a lot about over the years. A couple of comments: One of the things I?ve thought a lot about is the characterization of Chazal as being consequentialist or deontological, etc. I just wonder if we are trying to put their thoughts […]
- [Avodah] hashavat aveida? March 26, 2025If you are walking down the street in Jerusalem, passing by a construction site where an arab worker is speaking on the telephone facing you and 3 feet past him you see two 100 shekel bills on the street. You can pick them up and continue walking and no one will never notice. Should you […]