Avodah
- [Avodah] chasurei? October 1, 2024On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 5:22?AM Joel Rich via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > I heard R H Schachter quote the Gra as saying that when the gemara says > chasurei meohsera vhachi katani, it doesn?t mean that there are words > missing but rather that this is the proper understanding of […]
- [Avodah] chasurei? September 30, 2024I heard R H Schachter quote the Gra as saying that when the gemara says chasurei meohsera vhachi katani, it doesn?t mean that there are words missing but rather that this is the proper understanding of the original intent which was written in terse language. Anyone know where this appears? KVCT and Bsorot tovot Joel […]
- [Avodah] Intent? September 30, 2024Listening to a class on charity, the point was made that the donors? reason for wanting their name on something may be positive. I was thinking of a parallel to a prayer leader who prays with a beautiful voice. The Shulchan Aruch states that halacha views this differently depending on whether he?s doing so for […]
- [Avodah] Women kaddish September 27, 2024RMB > In contrast, REMT wrote on these "pages" that the only heter for > having multiple aveilim saying Qaddish is that saying Qaddish pushed > the avel to show up for minyan. Many men who were lacksidasical minyan > attendees started attending 3 times a day during aveilus, and keep on > going afterward. […]
- [Avodah] 1. Singular and Plural; 2. Torath Xayyim; 3. Eikha Rabba September 27, 2024> > Then I noticed She'asah li kol tzorkhi (Who does for me everything I > need)... And then I noticed that as a whole Birkhos haShachar flips > back and forth. The shelo asani-s are in singular, but then "ozeir > Yisrael", "oteir Yisrael" "hameikhin / asheir heikhin mitz'adei > gever" are all about […]
- [Avodah] Bikurim -- halakhah lemaaseh September 26, 2024Reb' Ilana Elzufon wrote: > On one foot (and I could be wrong), but just looking at the mishna it seems > that bikkurim have no minimum shiur (as we say every morning) and that > there is no problem similar to tevel if a tiny amount of bikkurim is mixed > in with regular […]
- [Avodah] Challah (Was re: Bikurim -- halakhah lemaaseh) September 26, 2024On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 11:23:27AM +0300, Ilana Elzufon via Avodah wrote: > preserving specifically hafrashat challa (currently derabbanan even in EY) > has anything to do with women's strong connection to that particular mitzva. As AhSY continues down YD 322, I encountered something else that differentiates challah. Wheat that grows in chu"l but […]
- [Avodah] Bakoshas Mechila and Being Mefayess September 25, 2024On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 12:41:35PM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > The RaMBaMs ruling that one must confess their interpersonal sins in public? 2:5 opens "Veshshevach gadol lashav sheyisvadeh berabbim", which to me would imply it's not an obligation. > Has anyone heard of the following being practiced or advocated […]
- [Avodah] Kamtza /Bar Kamtza September 25, 2024On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 8:36pm EDT, R Joel Rich wrote: > Response to a piece on Kamtza /Bar Kamtza: > The interesting question to me is whether there is self-awareness... > s and, if so, wonder how you convince anybody to > step outside themselves and realize that they are rationalization a deeper […]
- [Avodah] women kaddish September 25, 2024On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 09:06:27AM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > I've heard R H Schachter say that women saying kaddish can't be on the > other side of a permanent mechitza but must come on the side with 10 men > when saying kaddish... This was how Beis Brisk reports the […]