Avodah
- [Avodah] one breath? February 5, 2025In discussing the practice of the congregation of saying the names of Haman?s sons out loud (in the book ?Jewish customs?) , Rabbi Doctor Zvi Ron states that Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch writes that the congregation should follow the Rogatchover Gaon (saying the names in one breath,) it does not appear that anyone is actually careful […]
- [Avodah] Dovid Hamelech had 400 children from yefas toars February 4, 2025Today?s daf Sanhedrin 49 states that Dovid had 400 sons from yefas toars who led his armies to intimidate his enemies. The heter of yefas toar is lo dibra Torah ela kneged yetzer hara. So how do we understand that Dovid had 400 children from yefas toars! Did he have such a great yetzer hara […]
- [Avodah] belief February 3, 2025On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 05:55:22AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > If I understand correctly, R'EW in the Kovetz Maamarim makes the watchmaker > argument to prove God's existence. He then goes on to say that this is so > obvious that anybody who denies it is doing so because of his […]
- [Avodah] hagba February 3, 2025On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 01:22:45PM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Any historical sources concerning when (and why) the change in how the > torah scroll was housed (what most people would call ashkenazi vs sfardi) > and how and when hagba/glila was done? Hagbah and Gelilah are described in Mes' Soferim […]
- [Avodah] The impracticality of Torah criminal law February 2, 2025After learning the first 45+ dapim of Sanhedrin it is patently clear that it?s absolutely impossible to convict anyone of a crime in a Beis din. The rules of evidence and the need for hasraah toch kdei dibbur make it virtually impossible to convict anyone. The Ran in derasha 11 famously writes that there was […]
- [Avodah] BDE Harav Elazar Meir Teitz February 2, 2025For any former Elizabeth JEC Bruriah Alumni currently living in Israel We mourn the passing of Harav Elazar Mayer Teitz Z"L (BGSS), husband of Elisheva (SCW 66), father of Avi, Rabbi Eliyahu (YC 84, RIETS 94), Yossie, Shifra Ben Dor and Yael Wachtfogel (SCW 92) and brother of Shulamith Ebner (YUHS 61) Dr. Rivkah Blau […]
- [Avodah] Tu biShvat Question January 31, 2025On Rosh Chodesh Shevat, we planted two three year old trees in our new yard in EY: a plum tree and a pomegranate tree. They were moved in pots, and planted with the soil. I believe that means they are still considered "three years old". Assuming that the greenhouse's claim that a "three year old […]
- [Avodah] reward? January 29, 2025On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 06:07:37AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Question asked of a rabbi who reported the halacha as being that a Jewish > institution could take funds from a non-jew as long as he received honor > for it because in that case there would be no existential reward […]
- [Avodah] reward? January 29, 2025Question asked of a rabbi who reported the halacha as being that a Jewish institution could take funds from a non-jew as long as he received honor for it because in that case there would be no existential reward granted him. Someone in the audience asked if that?s the case is the same thing true […]
- [Avodah] Aliyah procedure? January 21, 2025Maaseh shehaya. An oleh said the first bracha and in the middle of the Aliya suffered a digestive track issue and had to leave the Shul. What should have been the proper next steps for the reading and for the brachot once he abandoned the shulchan area? bsorot Tovot Joel Rich