The Gemara About Rosh HaShanah part 1, Rosh HaShanah 16a – Uganda Shiur
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- [Avodah] obligated to return July 3, 2026> Not required- but what would his rav advise the ani to do? < Acting *lifnim mishuras hadin*, I would think, is not subject to *p'saq*/asking a *sh'eila*; and if one needs/feels the need to ask, the *p'saq* is now *halacha p'suqa* for the *shoeil* and no longer *lifnim mishuras hadin*. Sincerest condolences to R'Micha […]
- [Avodah] Shehecheyanu on Mitzvoth July 1, 2026> > ... he explains that "Since pidyon haben is a mitzvah that is > performed only once in a great while and it is an occasion of great > joy, Chazal required the father to recite a shehecheyonu prior to > performing the mitzvah." (Immediately after, he writes about saying > shehecheyanu at a […]
- [Avodah] Admin: BDE, no moderation this week July 1, 2026My son Shuby (Yehoshua Asher), a 27 year old man with Down Syndrome, could not be woken Sunday morning. I can't learn, so reading Avodah emails to moderate the list is on hold until the end of shiv'ah. Please continue writing in; but the queue will baclog until I return to duties Motza'ei Shabbos and […]
- [Avodah] yichud hashem July 1, 2026I always understood the use of the different names of HKBH similar to the understanding of HKBH gets angry ? it?s simply our perception. But what raised the question to me was thinking about Christianity and the claim that it?s not monotheistic because of the father-son Holy Ghost thing. I don?t know enough about their […]
- [Avodah] parshanut July 1, 2026I often wonder how much of any torah commentary was based on tradition and how much was based on the combination of the commentator?s DNA and life experiences. In my mind whenever I pictured Joseph trying to get Jacob to switch his hands in the blessing of the grandchildren, I thought of Joseph thinking that […]
- [Avodah] Shehecheyanu on Mitzvos June 24, 2026. Rabbi Yisroel Pinchos Bodner, in his "Halachos of Brochos vol. 2", on page 37-38, he explains that "Since pidyon haben is a mitzvah that is performed only once in a great while and it is an occasion of great joy, Chazal required the father to recite a shehecheyonu prior to performing the mitzvah." (Immediately […]
- [Avodah] obligated to return June 24, 2026Shulchan Arukh, Choshen Mishpat 259 ???? ??? ???? ????? ???? ????? ?????? ????? ??? ????? ?? ???? ???? ???? ?????? ??? ???? ????? ????? ????? ???? ?????? ?????? ???? ?? ???? (??? ??? ??? ???? ????? ???? ??? ????? ????? ????? ????): ------------------------------ ?Even though by the letter of the law, in a place where […]
- [Avodah] schar psiot June 24, 2026I was recently listening to a shiur on schar psiot which was discussing what level of tiebreaker is it? Should you walk to a farther shul even though the closer one has other benefits such as more intense prayer or quieter congregants? ------------------------------ I find it interesting that there was no discussion of what you […]
- [Avodah] Do Souls have agency? June 23, 2026Assuming the existence of souls & an afterlife (for souls) from a traditional Jewish perspective do souls in the afterlife have agency ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy))? (For purposes of this question, I'm bracketing out Free Will questions.) Most texts about the afterlife describe a series of stages/places/steps that a soul goes through without much choice on the […]
- [Avodah] shul building? June 17, 2026On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 06:33:53AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > I recently heard a rabbi quote another rabbi as understanding the following > as supporting spending large sums of money on shul buildings in chutz > laaretz: Megillah 29a: > It is taught in a baraita: Rabbi Elazar HaKappar says: In […]