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- [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 […]
- [Avodah] Atonement via proxy - SaIr HaMishtaleAch May 27, 2025On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 07:44:20AM +0300, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: What is the rationale behind all kinds of serious aveiros that one has no regret for, and doesn't repent and yet comes Yom Kippur all is forgiven. How does that make any sense? Perhaps we may consider - We find the same […]
- [Avodah] Rabi Yehuda Hanasi - Yom Hakippur wipes away all sins
even without teshuva May 21, 2025On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 07:44:20AM +0300, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: > What is the rationale behind this? A person does all kinds of serious > aveiros doesn't feel bad about it and doesn't repent and yet comes Yom > Kippur all is forgiven. Why? How does that make any sense? Simple proof […]
- [Avodah] gaal yisrael May 21, 2025On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 06:04:07AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The piskei tshuvot (O"C 66) is pretty clear that the practice of the chazan > saying gaal yisrael quietly is baseless and should not be followed. Any > empirical data from your experience on the frequence of this practice, its > […]