Iggeres D’Rav Sherira Gaon, part 33: Some Fascinating Vignettes from the Gaonate of Pumbedisa
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- [Avodah] Kiddushin, Nisuin and Electric Pump Toilets August 21, 2025Thank you for all the responses! As to Kiddushin and Nisuin, thanks for the information from AI. You obviously are good at crafting questions! However, the bottom line is that we don't know when, precisely, the custom disappeared and whether it was a takkanah or just an historical development sometime during the time of the […]
- [Avodah] Kiddushin and Nisuin August 21, 2025> > R' Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer asked I was asked twice this past week and didn't know the answer. > Does anyone have knowledge and, preferably a reference, as to when kiddushin and nisuin were consolidated? The Tur (1269-1343) mentions it in Even HaEzer, chapter 62 as the current practice. ??????? ??? ?????? ????? ??? […]
- [Avodah] pump toilet August 20, 2025but is it lchatchila to build one? bsorot tovot joel rich On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 4:43?AM mcohen--- via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > Do you have a reference for the heter for electric flush toilets? .. > > > > Heard from RS Miller multiple times. > > > > and […]
- [Avodah] pump toilet August 20, 2025Do you have a reference for the heter for electric flush toilets? .. Heard from RS Miller multiple times. and see pg 2 here [ https://www.bikurcholim.ca//wp-content/uploads/2019/09/shabbos_reference_guide_5781_pages.pdf ]( https://www.bikurcholim.ca//wp-content/uploads/2019/09/shabbos_reference_guide_5781_pages.pdf ) and its pashut (once you have the hanacha that we in NA are not choshaish for the CI on electricity)
- [Avodah] Transitions August 19, 2025If the transition in general from the bet medrash to the working world weren?t seen as natural, would that mean that the ?system? has room for improvement? bsorot tovot Joel Rich
- [Avodah] Kiddushin and Nisuin August 18, 2025Asked this of ChatGPT as well.? ?Got the following in seconds (again - can't vouch for its accuracy): Background - In biblical and early rabbinic times, kiddushin (erusin) and nisuin were two separate stages, often months apart. - Kiddushin created a formal bond of betrothal, prohibiting the woman to others but not yet permitting marital […]
- [Avodah] pump toilet August 18, 2025Found the following on ChatGPT (AI) in seconds. Can't vouch for its accuracy. But worthy of note: Halachic Perspectives 1. Automatic Toilets and Kavod HaBriyot A Q&A on MiYodeya (Judaism Stack Exchange) cites Rabbi Josh Flug (Sukkot To Go 5770), who permits using an automatic-flush toilet if no other restroom is reasonably available, relying on […]
- [Avodah] Is "l'ahava" a verb or noun? August 17, 2025. In learning Parshas Ekev, I came across the word "l'ahava" four times, most famously in the Shema, in the phrase "l'ahava es Hashem Elokeichem". As far as I could tell, *everyone" translates "l'ahava" as "to love". My problem is that "ahava" is unambiguously a noun, while the context of the pasuk demands a verb. […]
- [Avodah] Kiddushin and Nisuin August 17, 2025I was asked twice this past week and didn't know the answer. Does anyone have knowledge and, preferably a reference, as to when kiddushin and nisuin were consolidated? -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com
- [Avodah] pump toilet August 17, 2025Do you have a reference for the heter for electric flush toilets? Thanks! On 8/15/2025 8:05 AM, mcohen--- via Avodah wrote: > > May (one should) lchatchila build a below grade pump toilet knowing > that it > will be used on Shabbat?... > > the poskim are matir to use electric flush toilets?bc of […]