Iggeres D’Rav Sherira Gaon, part 31: Getting into the Gaonim
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- [Avodah] A woman reciting Birchas Gomel at the Bimah on shabbos September 18, 2025Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:28:17 +0000 (UTC) From: Harry Maryles > There is a fascinating article in JTA (linked below) where the Rav of > a MO shul allowed a woman to say Birchas Gomel at the Bimah on shabbos > morning.? There are very few details given in the article about exactly when […]
- [Avodah] A woman reciting Birchas Gomel at the Bimah on shabbos September 18, 2025> From: Harry Maryles > > There is a fascinating article in JTA (linked below) where the Rav of a MO shul allowed a woman to say Birchas Gomel at the Bimah on shabbos morning.? > My sense is that there is nothing wrong with that Halachicly. But My sense is also that this would […]
- [Avodah] birchat cohanim September 18, 2025On 18 Sep 2025, at 12:31?pm, avodah-request at lists.aishdas.org wrote: > > From: Joel Rich > > All other things being equal, should an ashkenazi ben chu?l in chu?l daven > at an eidot hamizrach minyan in order to receive birchat cohanim or daven > at an ashkenazi minyan? If he or she follows the […]
- [Avodah] birchat cohanim September 17, 2025On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 05:39:48PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > All other things being equal, should an ashkenazi ben chu"l in chu"l > daven at an eidot hamizrach minyan in order to receive birchat cohanim > or daven at an ashkenazi minyan? ... This may depend on what you believe about […]
- [Avodah] birchat cohanim September 16, 2025All other things being equal, should an ashkenazi ben chu?l in chu?l daven at an eidot hamizrach minyan in order to receive birchat cohanim or daven at an ashkenazi minyan? If the latter, should he make an effort to sit in at an eidot hamizrach minyan for the bracha? What if he would have to […]
- [Avodah] A woman reciting Birchas Gomel at the Bimah on shabbos September 15, 2025There is a fascinating article in JTA (linked below) where the Rav of a MO shul allowed a woman to say Birchas Gomel at the Bimah on shabbos morning.? My sense is that there is nothing wrong with that Halachicly. But My sense is also that this would never be allowed in a mainstrean Orthodox […]
- [Avodah] Kiddushin and Nisuin September 15, 2025On Sep 2, 2025, 2:42AM, at 2:42AM, Aryeh Frimer wrote: >Micha Berger nicely proves from Rabbbenu Tam (Sefer haYashar, shut >47:7) that Rashi requires making Eirusin and Nissuin on two separate >kosot. This suggests that eirusin and nissuin were back-to-back by >Rashi's day. I remember from my youth hearing that eirusin and nissuin >were placed […]
- [Avodah] Are We to Humiliate Sinners as Mitzvah Tochacha? September 14, 2025Chaim Baruch Kaufman challenged the assertion that we are only commanded to admonish our fellow Jew, but we are not commanded to bring about his or her repentance His challenge appears to be supported by the RaMBaM, DeOs 6:7 Mitzvah LeHachZiro LeMutav - the command is to restore him to good a *mitzvah* to correct […]
- [Avodah] Hashkafa RaMBaM September 11, 2025Some time back the following was posted The Rambam writes in 3 places in the Perush Hamishnayos (Sanhedrin 10,3; Sotah 3,3; Shavuos 4,1) and in the Sefer Hamitzvos lo taaseh 133 there is no psak on hashkafa unless it relates to Halacha. Here is a quote from one of the Rambam's (Sotah 3,3 the language […]
- [Avodah] wholeheartedness and recognition September 10, 2025?"? ???? ?? ????? ?? ????? ????? ??? ??? ???? ???? ????? ???? ??? ???? ??? ????? ???? ????"? ????? ???? (?????? ?"?) ????? ????? ??????? ????, ????? ??? ?????? ??? ???????. My free translation "Rabbi Yitzchak bar Marion said: The pasuk comes to teach that if a person performs a mitzvah, he should do […]