Avodah
- [Avodah] shechina image June 14, 2024The S?A O?C 98:1 says that in tfila one should think as if the shechina is opposite them. What mental images do you conjure up to accomplish this? Bsorot tovot Joel Rich
- [Avodah] Horeb doesn't discuss Taharas haMishpachah? June 12, 2024I couldn't see it there either. It's place would have to be in Section IV (chukim) chapter 69 - enobling of animal nature. And it's not there. He tangentionally refers to mikva briefly in that chapter, making the omission all the clearer. My guess is that he felt he couldn't discuss hit with his 19th […]
- [Avodah] Bas Kol June 10, 2024Let me try this explanation for the possible non- contradiction of the two bas kol stories. In the tanur story, Rebbi Eliezer asked for the BK to intercede. He went outside the usual parameters of deciding Halacha. In that case, even though the BK answered, the rabbis rejected it to make the point to other […]
- [Avodah] Onaah and economic models June 10, 2024Dear Ovedim, The premise behind coming onaah is that good are commodities asked they have an approximate market price. This is definitely true for some good, but it's it the rule out the exception? When ploughing through the analyses of the Pitchei Choshen on hilchot onaah,v it was relatable how well aware the author of […]
- [Avodah] To: Horeb doesn't discuss Taharas haMishpachah? June 9, 2024At least I couldn't find it. And if it's really not there to be found, anyone know why not? Tir'u baTov! -Micha
- [Avodah] "It is as if there was a bas kol..." June 6, 2024In YD 274:13 (this coming Friday) RYME writes, "... Uke'ilu Bas Qol Yar yatza dehalakhah kehaRambam." He famously says something similar about community eiruvin - "To what effect is any of this extended analysis, after Eiruvin spread out in most Jewish cities for many hundreds of year, just relying on this heater. And is it […]
- [Avodah] context? June 5, 2024>From the Steinsaltz institute -would your bet medrash entertain this? One of the best examples is the famous Talmudic teaching that follows the argument between Abaye and Rava about the laws of lost objects, Rabbi Even Israel said. ?You have three pages of discussion going back and forth, but then my father adds a few […]
- [Avodah] material success June 5, 2024My comment on the most recent Tradition : https://traditiononline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tradition-Spring-2024-SUMMIT.pdf A very sad read. I?d suggest that much of the phenomenon is due to the wrong frame of reference (what everyone else has) rather than on ?When Rabbi Zusha was on his deathbed, his students found him in uncontrollable tears. They tried to comfort him by […]
- [Avodah] editorial intent June 4, 2024On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 05:50:07AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Chulin [107a] a tells separately of rav yakov and rav ashi who posed rivit > sized containers (one glass, one clay) so that (per Rashi) people could > measure their own containers (for hand washing purposes)... The gemara says Rav Ashi […]
- [Avodah] Interest and modern economies June 4, 2024On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:55:07AM +0300, Marty Bluke wrote: > Dad Yomi recently learned the 5th perek of Bava Metzia which deals with > interest and the gemara stresses the severity of the prohibition of taking > interest. It is so severe that one who violates the prohibition is like a > kofer […]