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- [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 […]
- [Avodah] women kaddish September 25, 2024I?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. I believe he also said that there should be 10 (or 9?) men answering for each person saying kaddish. Has anyone seen these […]
- [Avodah] Bikurim -- halakhah lemaaseh September 24, 2024On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 11:23:27AM +0300, Ilana Elzufon via Avodah 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 […]
- [Avodah] Bikurim -- halakhah lemaaseh September 24, 2024On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 5:59PM Micha Berger via Avodah wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote: >> Do "we hold like" this Rashi? > Okay, ignore the previous post. Bikurim is only bizman habayis. ... > So, new question... Why not? Yes, therew is no […]
- [Avodah] Bikurim -- halakhah lemaaseh September 23, 2024On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote: > Do "we hold like" this Rashi? ... Okay, ignore the previous post. Bikurim is only bizman habayis. Rambam Bikkurim 1:2 Tosafos Makkos 19a "mah" Bartenura Sheqalim 8:8 says this is shitas R Yehudah, and the Y-mi says we hold like RY […]
- [Avodah] Bikurim -- halakhah lemaaseh September 23, 2024BH the bank, my wife, and I now own a home in Israel that has fruit trees in the yard -- apple, madnarin, and pomelo. We hope to add pomegranates and mangos. (And someday maybe the Jewish Agency will approve our aliyah and we can reach this home. Our planned aliyah date was over a […]
- [Avodah] Toras Chayim veAhavas Chessed September 22, 2024I want to ask a subtle question about the meaning of one part of Sim Shalom. Are we saying that Hashem gave us (1) Toras Chayim, (2) veAhavas Chessed, (3) uTzedaqah, (4) uVerakhah, (5) veRachamim, (6) veChayim, (7) veShalom or that Hashem gave us a Torah of (1) Chayim, (2) veAhavas Chessed, (3) uTzedaqah... Is […]