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Oct 16	comment	Why are there two different forms of the mitzvah brachot (“l-” and “al”)? @msh210 now that I think of it that way, it's not unlike lehaniach tefilin, where we've only done the mitzva if the tefilin are on for a length of time.
Oct 16	comment	Why are there two different forms of the mitzvah brachot (“l-” and “al”)? lehisatef batzitzis...?
Oct 12	comment	If it rains on my sukkah and I put up a tarp, should I stay in the sukkah? This is very interesting - how would a sukkah with something between the sky and the sechach be a kosher sukkah? Which poskim hold that way and why?
Oct 11	comment	Slant-roofed sukkah @RaffyVandVaart that's my last resort option, yeah.
Oct 11	comment	Slant-roofed sukkah @Alex so basically, the poles don't posul the sukkah the way a tree would, but the overall sechach has to be sufficient for a kosher sukkah without including that which is covered by the poles? This is interesting, because I would have assumed that the sukkah under the poles was not valid and thus could not be eaten under or slept under, but it sounds like it's just like "this part of the sukkah isn't covered with sechach - as long as the rest of it is, no problem". Needless to say, I'll bring this to my rabbi, who is more familiar with the S"A HaRav than the S"A and can advise.
Oct 11	comment	Slant-roofed sukkah My rabbi was my first stop - he told me that he had really never thought about that before and that I should ask around and let him know what I found. Am I reading the S"A right? I read it as "one who builds a sukkah underneath a roof where they have removed the tiles, as long as the framework is thin, it's kosher".
Oct 7	comment	Why do we bow down in the direction of the ark? Even so, one might ask (and the answer could be very long and thorough, starting from Bereshis bara...) why the Shechina is strongest in the Kodesh HaKodoshim.
Oct 5	comment	Why do we bow down in the direction of the ark? On your first point, there is also the minhag to bow slightly towards the Torah during hagba. We're certainly not worshipping the scroll - we're showing respect.
Oct 4	comment	Abbreviations before/after names @msh210 you're very right. There is an enormous difference between a heretic who proclaims themselves Moshiach and a tzadik and godol hador whose followers do so, largely posthumously. I was kidding, but I (would like to think I) was kidding about meshichists and if the Lubavitcher Rebbe ztz'l got hit with collateral damage from that there is no limit to my regret. Thank you for calling me out on it.
Oct 3	comment	Abbreviations before/after names @msh210 might as well leave it, as I've seen it appellated on the Internet often enough, r"l. In a century or so we can remove it or come up with a bacronym that places it on the other list below.
Oct 3	comment	Abbreviations before/after names Out of curiosity, is there more than one example (contemporary or not) for whom מה״ם was used? I've never seen it attached to various false messiahs of centuries past, but maybe only because the works of their followers are not extant.
Oct 3	comment	Shalom Rav / Sim Shalom - by Mincha according to Nusach Ashkenaz @Gershon for N"A davka I believe Shalom gives the correct answer. For N"S and Sefardi the connection is Maariv's nature as a less obligatory prayer and Arizal ruling that it is no different.
Oct 3	comment	Shalom Rav / Sim Shalom - by Mincha according to Nusach Ashkenaz Many (or at least some) Chasidim say Shalom Rav only at Maariv.
Oct 2	comment	Is there a list of Mitzvot and their corresponding body parts? @WAF the Chofetz Chaim (or is it Likutey Moharan? getting my daily seder confused) specifically states that there is.
Sep 28	comment	Why is Tikun Chatzos not widely practiced? In Breslev, we are particular to (try and) say it. I feel like there is another Chasidus that says it but I can't remember which one.
Sep 28	comment	Does anyone have the preceding declaration before Tikkun HaKlali? tk.r-inv.com
Sep 27	comment	Halachic authority of books Could you give some examples of where an later source challenges an earlier source without basing themselves on another earlier source?
Sep 27	comment	Why do the Philistines have many Giants? @IsaacMoses either that or it's the beginning of a discarded Daft Punk song.
Sep 27	comment	Why do the Philistines have many Giants? @IsaacMoses I count six questions...
Sep 27	comment	Why do the Philistines have many Giants? You would get more mileage out of these questions if you would link to a site with an accepted translation, like for example mechon-mamre.org. The site you are linking to is either deliberately mistranslating or exhibiting a profoundly flawed understanding of Hebrew.