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Abarbanel explains (in my own loose translation):
…and so gave another rule related to Sukos, saying "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk".…
It seems to me… that idolators would do this when they got together: that is, they'd boil kids in milk when they harvested grain, thinking that they would thereby appeal to their ...
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Let's denote a year by what day is the first day of Rosh Hashanah and what day is the first day of Pesach. So, for example, "2-3" means Rosh Hashanah on Monday and Pesach on Tuesday. For our purposes, years run from Tishrei through Elul.
We have to consider the following yomim tovim: Rosh Hashanah, for which we're provided the day of the week; Yom Kippur, ...
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One says Al Hanissim all 8 days of Channukah (ShA OC 682:1). One who does not live in a city walled from the days of Joshua or in Shushan says Al Hanissim on the 14th of Adar (ShA OC 693:2). One who lives in a walled city from the days of Joshua or in Shushan says Al Hanissim on the 15th of Adar, even if it falls on Shabbat when the Megillah is read on ...
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My Ba'al Mesorah (my Rav, R' Mordechai Friedman) would offer his children candy for every question that they could come up with. I don't know how well this would work with his children today, as they are mostly grown.
He used the example of a politician engaging a reporter at a press conference. The reporter asks a question that he has been itching to ask ...
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Ramban gives the date of today's fixed calendar at about 386 CE. Before that point, the Jews in Israel received a messenger informing them of the proper date of yomtov, and thus kept one day. The Jews outside of Israel did not get a messenger in time and thus kept two days to play it safe.
Around 386, when the calendar was fixed, the policy became to keep ...
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In a non-leap year that starts on Monday and has 29 days in Kislev, no yom tov is Shabas in Israel or out of it. So zero days is the least.
In a non-leap year that starts on Shabas and has 29 days in Kislev, the first days of Rosh Hashana, Sukos, and Sh'mini Atzeres are Shabas, as is the seventh day of Pesach. No year has more, so four days is the most.
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The Gemara in Megillah 5a says that the reason we push off Tishah be-Av is because אקדומי פורענות לא מקדמי. In other words, since you cannot fast on Shabbos, Tishah be-av must be changed, and since it is a sad time, we push it off instead of moving it forward. Since this reason will not apply in the days of mashiach, there will be no reason to push it off.
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