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- [Avodah] New Year for Trees July 9, 2025. In Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi, today begins Siman 173, Hilchos Orlah. I was surprised to find that - according to the Kitzur - the critical dates for establishing the age of a tree are 16 Av and 1 Tishre. Tu B'Shvat is not mentioned at all by the Kitzur in this siman! ArtScroll's footnote […]
- [Avodah] (1) Re: The Census Numbers In Bmidbar,
and (2) Half-Truths July 9, 2025Saying ?Hashem is lemaalah min hazeman? doesn?t really answer any questions or give explanations because we humans don?t understand what lemaalah min hazeman means. While I understand what each word means, I have no idea how such a concept can possibly work. So I interpret Hashem being lemaalah min baseman as simply saying that we […]
- [Avodah] (1) Re: The Census Numbers In Bmidbar,
and (2) Half-Truths July 9, 2025A side effect of spending time trying to make a moderation decision is that I had time to think about the content of that exchange as well. > From: > Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 17:32:18 +0100 > On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 at 16:25, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > > Way back when […]
- [Avodah] retirement? July 9, 2025I was told that rav gershon ribner was asked if someone who makes millions should retire and learn or continue to work. he said every yeshiva bochur would say stop and learn but lmayse the gedolim dont advise as such. he doesn?t know why but that?s lmayseh what they say that ? it?s not your […]
- [Avodah] (1) Re: The Census Numbers In Bmidbar, and (2) Half-Truths July 8, 2025Modeator's note: This discussion is somewhat on topic, being about HP and free will. But as you will see, it isn't the list's usual fare. With the current less-than-overwhelming volume, I chose to include it. But as a compromise, I am collapsing the following email exchange into a single post. I was able to trim […]
- [Avodah] Lashon Hara in the Torah July 6, 2025On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 09:59:17AM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: >> Hil' Geneivas Daas from comparing that event to the end of Bereishis when >> the brothers entirely lie about Yaaqov asking Yosef to forgive them rather >> than Hashem's only telling Avraham a partial truth. > > Not sure […]
- [Avodah] Lashon Hara in the Torah July 3, 2025R Micha suggested; We learn {WE, is that a reference to the Gemara or an Acharon?} Hil' Geneivas Daas from comparing that event to the end of Bereishis when the brothers entirely lie about Yaaqov asking Yosef to forgive them rather than Hashem's only telling Avraham a partial truth. {Not sure I understand the comparison […]
- [Avodah] Lashon Hara in the Torah July 3, 2025On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 04:29:34PM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > The Torah discloses Miryam's indiscretion > but not that of Aharon HaCohen > [although we ought to ask if the T did not why did Chazal] ... > Why does the T disclose the indiscretion of Sarah Immenu? We […]
- [Avodah] gzeira shava July 3, 2025On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:32:54AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The whole topic of gzeira shava has been my Moby Dick. Looking at all the > seeming cases within the talmud and trying to come up with an overarching > theory of everything has been very challenging. When asked in another […]
- [Avodah] Dairy and fish July 3, 2025On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:35:25AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Dairy and fish. Do we try to understand alternative narratives of what R' > Karo was thinking or take him at his word? Other places where this type of > analysis should be used? I am not saying that sort of […]