Iggeres D’Rav Sherira Gaon, part 24: Rav Huna, Rabbi Yochanan, Transitions & 2nd Generation Amora’im
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- [Avodah] halachic reality and scientific reality June 3, 2026On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 05:57:46AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > In a recent shiur, Rav Asher Weiss summarized his understanding concerning > differences between halachic reality and scientific reality. They are two > different realities where the former is set at sof hora (closing of the > gemara) and becomes a […]
- [Avodah] halachic reality and scientific reality June 3, 2026In a recent shiur, Rav Asher Weiss summarized his understanding concerning differences between halachic reality and scientific reality. They are two different realities where the former is set at sof hora (closing of the gemara) and becomes a matter of mesora. The latter continues to evolve. It would be worthwhile to try to understand the […]
- [Avodah] neglecting the law June 2, 2026On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 06:37:15AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > From the recently published Aggadot HaRav ... > There was another commandment at hand: Joseph, the old grandfather, had > commanded his family: "When God will indeed remember you, then you shall > bring my bones up out of here" (Gen. […]
- [Avodah] "updated" version of a story June 2, 2026On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 10:58:33AM +0300, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > Of course, I fully support what R' Micha Berger and R' Harry Maryles wrote > about this story. I only want to suggest that while this may appear to be a > problem per se, it is more accurately a *symptom* […]
- [Avodah] Fish out of water? June 2, 2026On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 12:35:58AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The mlacha of kotzer on Shabbat is generally defined as taking a living > organism and detaching it from the ground which is its chiyut (source of > life). The Yerushalmi (shabbat 48b) and many rishonim use this definition Daf Yomi […]
- [Avodah] Segulos and how they work June 2, 2026On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 09:03:32PM -0400, Michael Poppers via Avodah wrote: > If I may add one point that I don't think RJIR and R'Micha raised in their > respective, excellent V44n15 responses (if one or both did, please forgive > me for not thus understanding...): if someone can positively change herself > […]
- [Avodah] nefesh hachayim June 2, 2026On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 03:58:13PM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > R' Joel Rich asked: > > Fascinating, is he saying that the only reason contemplating > > yirah during learning is that it is intrinsic to learning because > > it causes his torah to be remembered, not as an independent […]
- [Avodah] electronic key card June 2, 2026On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 08:02:07AM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: >> https://torahinmotion.org/classes/electricity-and-shabbat-the-views-of-rabbi-nahum-rabinovitch >> and any other parts of the discussion you care to comment on. > Disclaimer: That's a 75-minute video, and I watched only the first 6 > minutes. Then I googled "Nahum Rabinovitch electricity shabbat" to *read* > how he […]
- [Avodah] normative standard May 31, 2026. R' Joel Rich asked: > Do you have an underlying approach as to when chazal used some > kind of normative standard and said that we ignore individual > deviation (batla dato) such as kviat seudah and when they said > we must look at that specific individual's' specifics such as > maaleh lugmav? […]
- [Avodah] Administriva: We are moving to Discourse,
but the emailing can continue May 29, 2026Our discussion lists are moving to https://aishdas.discourse.group/ . BUT, you will all start off with email interfaces to the Avodah, Areivim and Mesorah topics as per your current subscriptions. Why? A few months back I lamented the moribund state of email lists and how it was killing our chevraschaft. There was no clear consensus, but […]