Iggeres D’Rav Sherira Gaon, part 12: Babylonian Baraisos, Ancient Yeshivos, Tanya vs. Tanu Rabbanan
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- [Avodah] did Achashverosh have multiple wives? March 16, 2025i think the common understanding of the status of the ladies after being sent to the beit hanashim was that either they were either a) called back to become 'the' queen, b) or they went home, c) or (according the gra) they stayed there forever in limbo bc once test-driven by Achashverosh they could never […]
- [Avodah] did Achashverosh have multiple wives? March 16, 2025RMCohen asked whether Achashverosh had multiple wives. Well, obviously. What was the beit hanashim sheni for? The harem for the many wives! No girl who was test-driven by Achashverosh would ever go free. Either she became queen or concubine. At least that is how kings back then did such business. All the girls but the […]
- [Avodah] standard measures? March 16, 2025On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 11:22:47AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Is anyone aware of any surveys of when halacha looks to objective measures > (eg kzait) and when to subjective measures (eg maaleh lugmav)? When we look > at community "standards" (eg most people buy seeds to eat) and when we […]
- [Avodah] Yosef advise pharaoh March 16, 2025On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 02:50:12PM +0200, Danny Schoemann via Avodah wrote: > R' Joel Rich asked: > > "Why did Yosef advise pharaoh to plan for the seven years of plenty and > > seven years of famine in a way which would centralize the entire Egyptian > > economy under the pharaoh's […]
- [Avodah] skiplagged.com March 16, 2025On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 09:15:07AM +0200, Danny Schoemann via Avodah wrote: > > skiplagged you are lying about your destination to get cheaper tickets > > There is a precedent and recommended practice of lying about your > destination to a non-Jew. But... for safety. You would have to show it's allowed when […]
- [Avodah] tests? March 16, 2025On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 05:55:22AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Rabbi X touched on something that I have thought about a lot over the years > which is, is it possible that someone is given a test that the best result > they can achieve is one of imperfection (that the […]
- [Avodah] Dovid Hamelech had 400 children from yefas toars March 16, 2025On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 10:44:12PM -0400, Sholom Simon via Avodah wrote: > As a tangent, I listen to the shiurim by R Sholom Rosner for daf yomi, and > he has pointed out a number of times (I can't remember if this is b'shem > someone else, it probably is) that often the […]
- [Avodah] Dovid Hamelech had 400 children from yefas toars March 16, 2025> > > R' Marty Bluke via Avodah asked: > >> . So how do we understand that Dovid had > >> 400 children from yefas toars! Did he have such a great yetzer hara that > >> he couldn't control? > > Reb Sruli Bornstein has a fascinating Reid Bite about this. ( > […]
- [Avodah] did Achashverosh have multiple wives? March 12, 2025r moshe dovid valli (talmid chaver of the ramchal) writes as a dvar pashut (5:2-3) that Achashverosh had multiple wives besides Esther (just that she was the favorite of them) i guess this is logical. its unlikely that Achashverosh would limit himself to one wife. and jewish kings had multiple wives too is this idea […]
- [Avodah] standard measures? March 12, 2025Is anyone aware of any surveys of when halacha looks to objective measures (eg kzait) and when to subjective measures (eg maaleh lugmav)? When we look at community ?standards? (eg most people buy seeds to eat) and when we look to individual?s (eg this buyer usually buys to plant)? Bsorot tovot joel rich