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- [Avodah] Lashon Hara in the Torah July 3, 2025R Micha suggested; We learn {WE, is that a reference to the Gemara or an Acharon?} Hil' Geneivas Daas from comparing that event to the end of Bereishis when the brothers entirely lie about Yaaqov asking Yosef to forgive them rather than Hashem's only telling Avraham a partial truth. {Not sure I understand the comparison […]
- [Avodah] Lashon Hara in the Torah July 3, 2025On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 04:29:34PM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > The Torah discloses Miryam's indiscretion > but not that of Aharon HaCohen > [although we ought to ask if the T did not why did Chazal] ... > Why does the T disclose the indiscretion of Sarah Immenu? We […]
- [Avodah] gzeira shava July 3, 2025On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:32:54AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The whole topic of gzeira shava has been my Moby Dick. Looking at all the > seeming cases within the talmud and trying to come up with an overarching > theory of everything has been very challenging. When asked in another […]
- [Avodah] Dairy and fish July 3, 2025On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:35:25AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Dairy and fish. Do we try to understand alternative narratives of what R' > Karo was thinking or take him at his word? Other places where this type of > analysis should be used? I am not saying that sort of […]
- [Avodah] Dairy and fish July 2, 2025Stet in the Beit Yosef: Fish and Milk, from Typographical Error to Typological Exemplar Stet in the Beit Yosef: Fish and Milk, from Typographical Error to Typological Exemplar Aton M. Holzer Dairy and fish . Do we try to understand alternative narratives of what R? Karo was thinking or take him at his word? Other […]
- [Avodah] gzeira shava July 2, 2025The whole topic of gzeira shava has been my Moby Dick. Looking at all the seeming cases within the talmud and trying to come up with an overarching theory of everything has been very challenging. One specific that issue I came across is on Chulin 137a. Please look at tosfot sv asia asia and explain […]
- [Avodah] fyi - m'mekomos on TIDE as l'chatchila (from Rabbi Reisman) June 29, 2025Rabbi Reisman ? Parshas Korach 5785 I would like to share with you a second thought. In 1933, Rav Schwab returned from Lita to Germany. He was born in Germany in 1908. At age 16, he traveled first to Telz and then to Mir. And for five years learned in the Litvishe yeshivos. And he […]
- [Avodah] The Census Numbers In Bmidbar June 29, 2025. Way back when Hashem put confusing numbers in His Torah, He knew exactly when and where R' Jay F. Shachter would post: > Obviously a man would normally know exactly whether or not > he was a firstborn. But how would a man know whether he was > 20 years old? He could know […]
- [Avodah] Admin: Apologies, I lost some emails June 29, 2025If you sent posts to Avodah and didn't see them yet, it's due to an error on my part. My apologies. Kindly re-submit them. Thank you, -Micha -- Micha Berger If you want others to be happy, http://www.aishdas.org/asp practice compassion. Author: Widen Your Tent If you want to be happy, - https://amzn.to/2JRxnDF practice compassion.
- [Avodah] agency June 26, 2025On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 8:15PM Joel Rich wrote: > I assumed, but it was not stated, that the ordering sibling paid for the > merchandise on order and the other siblings "owed" their share of the cost > to him. > In your understanding, if the merchant stiffed the ordering sibling, he's > […]