The Meshech Chochmo’s Dream
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- [Avodah] Modern Orthodox December 18, 2025On Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 06:07:14AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > From Malka Z. Simkovich in Tradition > > Postscript > > Working on this essay gave me occasion to consider the rising tendency > > among Modern Orthodox American Jews to accept the notion that judaism > > cannot be authentically […]
- [Avodah] R'YBS / Kant December 18, 2025CC-ing RYGB to make sure he sees the PS at the bottom. (Twice, because I could never remember which mailbox he checks regularly.) On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 06:24:22AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Me: Wasn't sure from what you were saying whether you believe post-Kant one > can "prove" religion in […]
- [Avodah] Saying Sheimos Aloud December 17, 2025. As usual, I failed to explain my question adequately. Thank you to R' Micha Berger for pointing it out. He wrote: > I must be missing something. I see sheim Hashem in sefarim all the time. Yes, so do I. This has been bothering me for ages. I've long wanted to ask, just never […]
- [Avodah] Saying Sheimos Aloud December 17, 2025On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 05:54:00AM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > Near the beginning of Hilchos Chanuka in the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (139:1), > he uses the phrase, "ad shericham aleihem E-lohei avoseinu." I checked > several different recent editions, and they all printed that Shem with a > heh. Not a […]
- [Avodah] eit laasot December 17, 2025>From President Lincoln: ?By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, […]
- [Avodah] R'YBS / Kant December 17, 2025Conversation between Me and R J Ziring on one of his shiurim: Me: Wasn?t sure from what you were saying whether you believe post-Kant one can ?prove? religion in a traditional sense. (VS. R?YBS) R?JZ:? I do not agree with the Rav following Kant in general on this issue, but partially because I do not […]
- [Avodah] Saying Sheimos Aloud December 16, 2025. Near the beginning of Hilchos Chanuka in the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (139:1), he uses the phrase, "ad shericham aleihem E-lohei avoseinu." I checked several different recent editions, and they all printed that Shem with a heh. Not a kuf, or any other sort of typographical modification. I would love to know how the author […]
- [Avodah] Truth, Absolute Truth, Prophecy December 12, 2025. R' Meir G. Rabi asked: > HKBH knows what He's doing > DON'T MIX IN > Just do as you're told. > Why does this not apply to > Rivkah and YaAkov's meddling > to gain the blessings from Yitzhak I presume that "do as you're told" refers to the idea that from HKBH's […]
- [Avodah] The Ram of the Akeida December 9, 2025> > Michael Poppers wrote RAMiller asked, "What > was miraculous about that ram?" Interestingly enough issues relating to this (tangentially) are on yesterday's and today's daf! (Zevachim 85 & 96). (now how often does this happen?! ) This paragraph is from a shiur from R Sholom Rosner, https://alldaf.org/p/42929, starting at around 10:50. On these […]
- [Avodah] Unpassable tests December 9, 2025R' Joel Rich asked: > Does hkbh give one a nisayon that one cannot pass? I guess the > answer depends a lot on how you define the terms but in its > strongest sense doesn?t this imply that anyone who ever sins > hasn?t tried hard enough? I once spoke to a kohen who […]