Ways To Learn Gemara, Its Universal Acceptance, and Calendar Problems
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- [Avodah] bitachon April 11, 2025I was listening to an interesting shiur discussing the Chazon Ish?s many nisyonot (physical health, childlessness, wife) and how he met them all with the bitachon that he was in good hands. Not that all would necessarily be good in the way most people would think. The speaker saw this as superhuman belief. While I […]
- [Avodah] nki kappaim April 11, 2025Is the common practice for anyone who touches a megillah to wash their hands first? (especially for megilat esther which is more likely to be touched by the general public)? Bsorot tovot Joel Rich
- [Avodah] sidur - history and variations April 6, 2025On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 05:05:52PM -0400, mcohen--- via Avodah wrote: > there have been multiple discussions on avodah about aspects, additions > and differences to the sidur that i think would have been resolved by > this insightful article on the history of development of the sidur by > Rabbi Aharon Lopiansky > […]
- [Avodah] sidur - history and variations April 4, 2025fyi there have been multiple discussions on avodah about aspects, additions and differences to the sidur that i think would have been resolved by this insightful article on the history of development of the sidur by Rabbi Aharon Lopiansky https://dialoguemagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Dialogue_No4_RLopiansky.pdf
- [Avodah] מעשה ידי טובעים בים ואתם אומרים שירה לפני April 3, 2025In the lead up to Pesach, I am trying to formulate a thought around the chastisement of the malachim by Hashem as cited in Sanhedrin 39b: ???? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ???? ????. The question I have is whether we have brought down any similar incidents of Hashem raising this same issue when other […]
- [Avodah] violation results April 2, 2025When the gemara correlates certain violations with certain results, other than just saying it?s a violation (eg not washing ntilat yadaim resulting in poverty), is it positing a value judgement on a level of the violation, existential cause and effect, a rational cause and effect (eg personality proclivities) or something else? Bsorot tovot Joel Rich
- [Avodah] The Second Aron April 1, 2025I wondered about the logtics of the second Aron Qodesh according to those who held a second Aron went out in front of the army when at war. What do they say was in it? Do they not believe both the second Luchos and the pieces of the first were in the same place? Was […]
- [Avodah] trolley revisited March 30, 2025. R' Joel Rich commented: > One of the things I?ve thought a lot about is the character- > ization of Chazal as being consequentialist or deontological, > etc. I just wonder if we are trying to put their thoughts > into our paradigms or whether they had their own different > paradigm which was […]
- [Avodah] trolley revisited March 28, 2025On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 06:27:21AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > One of the things I've thought a lot about is the characterization of > Chazal as being consequentialist or deontological, etc. I just wonder if we > are trying to put their thoughts into our paradigms or whether they had > […]
- [Avodah] standard measures? March 28, 2025On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 03:21:29PM +0200, Danny Schoemann via Avodah wrote: > > I don't know what he would do with a kezayis. Would he follow R Chaim > > Volozhiner, because the nearest thing to a subjective olive is using > > the more available olive in NCyour own region and time? […]