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Feb 26	comment	Are there any Jewish sources that discuss vampires? metzitzah, really? :P how about matzos?
Feb 25	comment	Why does it matter that Mordechai was right-handed? @Daniel of course he did, it is well known that Mordechai spoke all the 70 languages, including English.
Feb 24	comment	Are psilocybin mushrooms permitted/prohibited/advocated in Jewish law or tradition? @Benny if you're questioning your faith over being able to do psychedelic drugs, I strongly recommend you take it up with your rabbi. If you prefer not to take it directly to your own rabbi, might I humbly suggest Rabbi Lazer Brody of Ashdod (rabbi_lazer@yahoo.com), who, being very involved in outreach in Israel, is no stranger to the large Israeli psychedelic community and can surely offer you fair and balanced guidance.
Feb 24	comment	Are psilocybin mushrooms permitted/prohibited/advocated in Jewish law or tradition? @ShimonbM it's a machlokes how much dina dimalchusa dina covers, but obviously all would agree that it cannot annul a positive mitzvah, such as arba kosos for example.
Feb 22	comment	Are psilocybin mushrooms permitted/prohibited/advocated in Jewish law or tradition? @Benny I think the error you are making with regards to the law of the land is that there are those in Israel who hold that the zionist government is inherently invalid and its laws have no bearing. I think you will be hard pressed to find traditionally observant Jews in chutz laretz who hold likewise, although the extent to which dina d'malchuta dina applies is certainly debatable, and many would indeed say it does not apply to drug use.
Feb 22	comment	Are psilocybin mushrooms permitted/prohibited/advocated in Jewish law or tradition? @SethJ also, see here and probably, from there, relevant scientific studies. I am reticent to research this subject further while at work. ;)
Feb 22	comment	Are psilocybin mushrooms permitted/prohibited/advocated in Jewish law or tradition? @SethJ for the record, as Kordovero notes, cannabis is a (very weak) hallucinogen.
Feb 21	comment	About what were rabbis ahead of the times? @DoubleAA in L"M II 10 Rebbe Nachman zy'a says that being b'simcha allows one to have a settled mind. Maybe not physical but at least an emotionally and mentally healthy thing.
Feb 21	comment	About what were rabbis ahead of the times? @DoubleAA Reb Noson zy'a says (I think in Likutey Halachos but maybe elsewhere) that a person who is happy will not experience suffering physically from any ailments they might have. Now that I think of it it's probably Yimei Moharnat, in the context of his intestinal illness.
Feb 20	comment	Modern Hebrew/Yiddish Names @DoubleAA I don't think it's so strange that he would hold differently than his father, but anyway I wonder if the psak in question rules with regards to names found in Tanach but not as names, like Aryeh or Chaya.
Feb 20	comment	Modern Hebrew/Yiddish Names @DoubleAA I don't understand your point - do you think he named himself?
Feb 19	comment	How to explain Kashruth simply For understanding of what they can offer us to eat, I have said "raw food vegan, no spicy, onions, garlic, or lemons."
Feb 19	comment	Have any science fiction authors ever featured Jews in a future world, either here or in space? There's also an episode that has (among many other religious leaders, by way of showing Earth's diverse religious outlooks compared to other worlds') a rabbi with beard and payos. It's only for a moment, though. Hardly a theme.
Feb 19	comment	Have any science fiction authors ever featured Jews in a future world, either here or in space? An early draft had Worf's adoptive parents as Russian Jews. Now they're just Russian but if you watch the episodes featuring them it's not hard to see it.
Feb 18	comment	Is it forbidden for the Jews to Establish a Nation of Israel? @MonicaCellio perhaps one could argue that reform reject outright the binding nature of (written and) oral Torah, while conservative permit at least the notion of arguing against what orthodoxy views as Torah from Sinai.
Feb 18	comment	Do other Chasidic communities follow Shulchan Aruch HaRav? @ShimonbM thanks! But I'll keep the edit because it makes for a more specific question.
Feb 18	comment	Do other Chasidic communities follow Shulchan Aruch HaRav? @ShimonbM that's a good point. I guess the question is more specifically whether other Chasidic communities regard it as a final authority. I will edit the question accordingly.
Feb 18	comment	Can I sit for “Kabbolas Shabbos” within 4 amos of someone saying the mincha Amidah? What makes you think that Kabbolas Shabbos is not considered prayer?
Feb 17	comment	Is it forbidden for the Jews to Establish a Nation of Israel? @Ali would you consider "Quranists" who reject completely the Hadith to be a legitimate difference of opinion within Islam? How about Bahá'í or Druze? These are all lehavdil like the "different denominations" in Judaism. Does this help you to understand why such views are not accepted from a traditional Jewish standpoint?
Feb 15	comment	How to teach the Purim story to children? @Aryeh that would certainly make for a good question. Having recently told the Purim story to my almost-two year old ka"h for the first time, I didn't really have any compunctions about saying "Haman hated the Yidn and wanted to kill us all" and certainly "Haman and his sons were all killed instead". I guess it doesn't really trouble me - is it really that different from lehavdil Hansel and Gretel? As for rape, I think I would address that in a more general sense of "wanting to marry her", which is not really untrue.