Shiur on Pi Shnayim, Makkirei Kehunah, Ra’ui and Muchzak (Bava Basra 123b-124a)
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- [Avodah] ALL 24000 died May 10, 2026Hadrian speant a lot of time suppressing us after the fall of Beitar. The plowing of the Har haBayis didn't happen at the same time as BK's Temple building project. Beitar fell in the summer of 135 at the end of the BK revolt, historians seem unanimous on that. And the Hadrianic decrees ceased with […]
- [Avodah] ALL 24000 died May 10, 2026On Sat, May 09, 2026 at 08:32:21PM +0000, Ben Bradley via Avodah wrote: > Next, we can be sure that R Akiva died around the end or slightly > after the end of the Bar kochba revolt based of Chazal's reporting of > the circumstances around his death. Hadrian speant a lot of time suppressing […]
- [Avodah] ALL 24000 died May 9, 2026Stating historical theories about events reported in the gemara without comparing all relevant data points in Chazal and then adding known external historical dates is prone to be misleading. This is a case in point. First - the historical data points. The Bar Kochba revolt was from 132-135. The Hadrianic persecutions lasted from the beginning […]
- [Avodah] Arba'a Turim May 7, 2026On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 4:34?PM Micha Berger via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 12:00:12PM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > > In our parsha, Onkelos translates "tur" as "sidra" - an orderly > > arrangement... > > From which we get the word "tor", […]
- [Avodah] psak from aged May 7, 2026On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 01:49:19PM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > [I'm converting the opening quote to something our digest software can > handle. -micha] > > Rambam Hilkhos Sanhedrin 2:3: > Ein ma'amidim bekhol haSanhedrin > - lo zaqei muflag bashanim ... > Given the above, was there ever a time […]
- [Avodah] minhag hapashut May 7, 2026On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 06:14:12AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The Aruch HaShulchan uses the phrase 201 times in the AHS. In only one of > those cases (allowing bells on a Sefer Torah on Shabbat -- O"C 338:3) does he > add b'chol ha'olam. Any ideas? Could it be something […]
- [Avodah] Arba'a Turim May 7, 2026On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 12:00:12PM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > Most translations render "tur" as "row", but very unfortunately, most > people read that without realizing that "row" is an ambiguous word. They > think that the four turim are horizontal rows, like in a chart or table, > with the […]
- [Avodah] neglecting the law May 6, 2026>From the recently published Aggadot HaRav Thoughts? There was another commandment at hand: Joseph, the old grandfather, had commanded his family: ?When God will indeed remember you, then you shall bring my bones up out of here? (Gen. 50:25). Moses was fulfilling this commandment. Now a learned Jew with a sharp head would stroke his […]
- [Avodah] decision on one’s own May 6, 2026>From the recently published Aggadot HaRav (p. 76) Thoughts? However, there are questions about honoring parents, educating children, giving charity, helping others, guarding one?s tongue, general questions about faith, as well as various questions concerning thought and feelings, that were not necessarily ruled on by rabbis. Simple Jews would render decisions in such cases. Do […]
- [Avodah] ALL 24000 died May 3, 2026You aren't considering that they died as soldiers in War as per R' Sherira Gaon and others with the Gemara's description being that had they been united perhaps they would have not been slaughtered by the Romans. In this reading, Askera is a euphemism (see Lev Ivri from Rav Henkin) Rav Schachter, explained that Rav […]