Iggeres D’Rav Sherira Gaon, part 27: Rav Ashi vs The Reish Galusa (Exilarch); The Legend of Bustenai
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- [Avodah] Adam 1 and adam 2 June 4, 2025Adam 1 and adam 2 ? did the rav think that the dialectic was resolvable or that one would continually oscillate between the two poles? Sometimes I think it may just be an issue of semantics. bsorot tovot joel rich
- [Avodah] amen June 4, 2025I put together a shiur on when to answer amen when aveilim are saying kaddish at different speeds. From a practical viewpoint, have you been asked this question and what do you tell people, especially when it?s so asynchronous that it?s not even toch kdei dibbur? If you only answer once, is it the first […]
- [Avodah] The census numbers in bamidbar June 1, 2025. R' Marty Bluke asks two distinct questions, but both concern whether (and to what extent) the census numbers were rounded. His first question focuses on *all* the shevatim. Most of them seem to be rounded to the nearest hundred, while one lone shevet seems to be rounded to the nearest fifty. It is puzzling […]
- [Avodah] The census numbers in bamidbar May 31, 2025If you look at the numbers 12 of the 13 tribes end in 00 and the 13th Yehuda ends with 50. So the numbers seem to be clearly rounded and so says the Meshech Chochma. However it is strange that only one tribe is rounded to 50. If the Torah was rounding to the nearest […]
- [Avodah] timtum halev May 31, 2025I know that in Y"D 81, both the S"A and B"Y are silent on the concept of > timtum halev, only the Rama mentions it. Yet I see the yalkut yosef seems > to bring down the Rama's position Do you know what the practical Sefardi > halacha is and why? > Bsorot tovot > […]
- [Avodah] Eilu Veilu May 30, 2025Two approaches to the above are Multiple Truths-The Ritva (Eruvin 13b) brought in the name of the French Sages: HKBH showed Moshe 49 ways to rule pure and 49 ways to rule impure for each and every matter. When Moshe asked how to know the practical ruling, the Holy One answered that this is entrusted […]
- [Avodah] gaal yisrael May 28, 2025I think there is a Rivevos Efraim on this. I don't have one at hand.
- [Avodah] moral frameworks May 28, 2025On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 06:04:09AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > I've wrestled for a long time with the subjective nature of balancing > competing goods There's no easy algorithm (e.g lashon hara and tochecha -- > when to hold em and when to fold em) I sympathize with your desire to […]
- [Avodah] moral frameworks May 28, 2025?This moral framework is also a casuistic (case-specific) judgment-based moral framework. I mean by this the following: Suppose you have adopted a specific moral theory and are now trying to apply it to a particular case. When you apply your theory to the particular case, the different moral appeals may each, taken alone, support different […]
- [Avodah] kol shehu May 28, 2025The gemara starting in beitza (16b) discusses eruv tavshilin requiring ?kol shehu? as a czait. Kol shehu is used in many places in the gemara and this is one of the few examples where it means a measurable amount. Interesting example of lack of consistent terminology complicating (my) understanding (or is it a forced interpretation […]