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- [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: > […]
- [Avodah] Dovid Hamelech had 400 children from yefas toars February 27, 2025They weren't his. They were children of yefos to'ar, but he did not sire all of them. Perhaps some of them. YGB On 2/27/2025 6:18 AM, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 1:13PM Micha Berger wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 07:53:25AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah […]
- [Avodah] permanent mutav sheyihiyu shogegin February 27, 2025On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 05:53:39AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > How should we feel about seemingly permanent mutav sheyihiyu shogegin (e.g. > allowing rhythmic table drumming on shabbat according to some authorities.) Is that mutav sheyihyu shogegin? The Rama OC 339:3 then follows with a veyeish omerim (citing Tosafos) that it's […]