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- [Avodah] RESPECT March 6, 2025On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 06:41:58AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > If one's host culture deems a certain action (eg neck bow) as a sign of > respect, would a jew be required to do that action when their parent > entered the room? What does a kibud mean? If we are […]
- [Avodah] torah death penalties (horrific) March 6, 2025On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:43:59AM -0500, mcohen--- via Avodah wrote: > at simple reading, the torah death techniques seem very severe > (barbaric, horrific), overly painful, etc > except for hereg (sword) I think sereifah would also cause instant shock. Your imagination may vary, and I don't want to think about it too […]
- [Avodah] torah death penalties (horrific) March 5, 2025daf yomi - sanhedrin at simple reading, the torah death techniques seem very severe (barbaric, horrific), overly painful, etc except for hereg (sword) i know its a gezeras hakasuv, and i know all the standard disclaimers...very rare, maybe only once in 70 years, rare to find a case with 2 aidim with hasraah..etc neverless the […]
- [Avodah] RESPECT March 5, 2025If one?s host culture deems a certain action (eg neck bow) as a sign of respect, would a jew be required to do that action when their parent entered the room? Bsorot tovot Joel Rich
- [Avodah] orthodox theology March 5, 2025In a recent discussion concerning whether a specific rabbi was within the pale of orthodox theology, I wondered what percentage of the rank and file think about theology and what they would define as beyond the pale (or within it, for that matter). Bsorot tovot Joel Rich
- [Avodah] Yosef advise pharaoh March 2, 2025R' Joel Rich asked: "Why did Yosef advise pharaoh to plan for the seven years of plenty and > seven years of famine in a way which would centralize the entire Egyptian > economy under the pharaoh's direct control?" > If you read the story as it's written (not how the ganenet tells it) you […]
- [Avodah] skiplagged.com February 28, 2025Thoughts > skiplagged you are lying about your destination to get cheaper tickets There is a precedent and recommended practice of lying about your destination to a non-Jew. > They have sued skiplagged.com That's not a real proof... It may be a great example of yelling after Yi'ush. > Chilul Hashem If the amount of […]
- [Avodah] Dovid Hamelech had 400 children from yefas toars February 28, 2025R' Marty Bluke via Avodah asked: >> . So how do we understand that Dovid had >> 400 children from yefas toars! Did he have such a great yetzer hara that >> he couldn't control? Reb Sruli Bornstein has a fascinating Reid Bite about this. ( https://pca.st/episode/df681bfc-981f-4b34-ab04-cf4e52a686c9) He quoted Rav Reuven Margolies zt"l who proposed […]
- [Avodah] skiplagged.com February 27, 2025thank you you suggest: 1. the airline is only minorly annoyed/dont really care and therefore ok i think the reality is that they are v unhappy about it. they have sued skiplagged.com multiple times. they w definitely refuse to sell you the ticket if they knew you were going to skip 2. reducing the chances […]
- [Avodah] Dovid Hamelech had 400 children from yefas toars February 27, 2025That?s not what the Gemara says. It says explicitly that they were Dovid?s children. I wish I could paste Hebrew for the exact text. I looked at the major mefarshim on the daf I didn?t see any that said they weren?t Dovids children. On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 5:34?PM Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer wrote: > […]