Avodah
- [Avodah] Pirkei Avot chapter 2 mishna 9 September 18, 2024In Pirkei Avot chapter 2 mishna 9 the question is raised as to what is the most important characteristic that one can attach to. Rabbi Simon says that it?s the ability to foresee the results of your current actions. Rabbeinu Yona explains that the reason that this is so important is that when one sees […]
- [Avodah] Kamtza /Bar Kamtza: September 18, 2024Response to a piece on Kamtza /Bar Kamtza: The interesting question to me is whether there is self-awareness. If your analysis of R. Zechariah b. Avkulas is correct, was he aware of the deeper personality issue (paralysis of inappropriate humility) or did he convince himself that the reasons he gave for his inaction(Offering up a […]
- [Avodah] Safeik Plus Mi'ut September 12, 2024I was under the impression that we so ignore a mi'ut that there is no sefeiq sefeiqa unless each safeiq is roughly balanced. This is easy to explain if we take the Ra'a's sevara for sefeiq sefeiqa. Leshitaso, safeiq deOraisa lechumera is itself a din derabbanan. So, the second safeiq would be a case of […]
- [Avodah] HaMotzi meiChaveiro Alav haRaayah September 12, 2024AhSY is learning Hil' Bekhoros, and a recurring issue is who owns a safeiq bekhor. See in particular YD 315:2, but the same idea is repeated in the contexts of specific sources of safeiq. It made me think about homotzi meichaveiro alav haraayah, and if there is a machloqes about why. First, background: If the […]
- [Avodah] Context? September 11, 2024On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 08:14:19PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > After sending out a bio of R Sternbuch to some folks I learn with, I stated > The reason I thought this important is it's my feeling that one component > of understanding responsa is knowing the context of the community […]
- [Avodah] Rambam September 11, 2024On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 08:15:48PM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > From a Tradition Magazine book review: > > As the old saw has it, there is Maimonides, Yourmonides, Hermonides, > > etc. In the world of academic scholarship, there may be as many > > versions of Maimonides as there are […]
- [Avodah] Rambam September 11, 2024>From a Tradition Magazine book review: ?As the old saw has it, there is Maimonides, Yourmonides, Hermonides, etc. In the world of academic scholarship, there may be as many versions of Maimonides as there are scholars of Maimonides. Jolene Kellner has noted more than once that Maimonides serves as a Rorschach test: everyone looking at […]
- [Avodah] Context? September 11, 2024After sending out a bio of R Sternbuch to some folks I learn with, I stated : The reason I thought this important is it?s my feeling that one component of understanding responsa is knowing the context of the community that it was given in. South Africa was not, as I understand it, necessarily what […]
- [Avodah] DELAYING THE CONGREGATION THROUGH PROLONGED PERSONAL
PRAYER September 8, 2024Sunday, August 21, 2022, 3:25:47 PM, [R Joel Rich] wrote: > From the RCA Koren: ... > A recurring principle in the laws of the synagogue is the need to > avoid unnecessary > burdening of the congregation, primarily through delays of the service > when a good portion of the congregation will be forced […]
- [Avodah] Kol DePorish MeRubbah Porish September 8, 2024On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 12:58:01AM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > The classic case of KaVuA is where Chaim enters a butcher shop > 1 of 10 in the city > 9 of which are K and one is non-K The stores are niqarim, so they are qavu'os. Since, according […]