Avodah
- [Avodah] Mincha October 13, 2024Serendipitously, I found an answer to this question in my Yom Kippur machzor yesterday, quoted in the name of R' Chaim, the brother of the Maharal MiPrag, in his sefer Iggeres HaTiyyul. The scan of the page can be found here (lower paragraph): https://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/machzor-why-minchah.jpg G'mar tov to all, ADE On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 at […]
- [Avodah] Wine October 13, 2024Some of you may know that one of my pet peeves was that I was taught that the reason that wine was watered down in talmudic times was because wine was much stronger back in the day In my Latin lessons at school we learned exactly the same about Roman wines, that it had to […]
- [Avodah] How to commemorate something October 13, 2024. I would like to posit two areas of halacha where, logically, we ought to commemorate a certain thing in a certain way, but we actually commemorate it in a very different - perhaps even diametrically opposite - way. The first is Lechem Mishne. By rights, someone who eats bread on *Erev* Shabbos ought to […]
- [Avodah] Wine October 13, 2024RJR asked about the wine in Chazal's times, which was said to be too strong and require dilution, and yet we meanwhile know that wine did not have a higher alcohol content back then. Bim'hila, but I think that a common fallacy is behind the question: That dilution was needed because alcohol content was too […]
- [Avodah] Mincha October 11, 2024This morning, at 9:59am EDT, I wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 08:38:39AM -0400, Joel Rich wrote: > > How do you think the various prayers got their names? This doesn't > > fully satisfy me. > > I think it's just a time marker. The afternoon Minchah was a daily > mandatory […]
- [Avodah] Mincha October 11, 2024On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 08:38:39AM -0400, Joel Rich wrote: > How do you think the various prayers got their names? This doesn't > fully satisfy me. I think it's just a time marker. The afternoon Minchah was a daily mandatory qorban immediately before the Tamid shel Bein haArbayim. (Just as the morning Minchah […]
- [Avodah] Mincha October 11, 2024How do you think the various prayers got their names? This doesn't fully satisfy me. *?????? ???"? ???? ????? ?? ? ???? ?* ?? ???? ??? ????? ?????. ???? ??? ???? ??? ???? ?? ???? ???? ????? ?? ???? ?? ????, ?"? ???? ?????? ?????? ?? ??? ?? ??? ???? ?? ???? ?????. [Tosafos haRo"sh, […]
- [Avodah] T'ruas Amo Yisrael October 11, 2024In Avodah V42n68, RAMiller wondered why the *chasimah* for "Shofaros" mentioned *t'ruah* but not Shofar. Back in 2016, in a private message related to a M-J V63n3 reply of mine , I noted a Roedelheim-print footnote to the "Areshes..." for "Shofaros" which might be of interest to RAMiller and/or the list -- you can see […]
- [Avodah] Toras Chayim veAhavas Chessed October 9, 2024On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 10:51am EDT, I asked: > I 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 > > […]
- [Avodah] Intent? October 9, 2024On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 05:51:09PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Listening to a class on charity, the point was made that the donors' reason > for wanting their name on something may be positive... Kin'as soferim tarbeh chokhmah. Kin'as baalei tzedaqah... If you want donations to become a given, you may […]