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Feb 13 |
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What are the parameters of Kiddush ha-shem? Should we understand from the Rambam that there is no "kiddush Hashem in public" which is distinguished from a kiddush Hashem in general, as with the distinction with regards to a chillul Hashem, for which a public chillul Hashem requires the presence of ten Jews? Interesting too that the Rambam does not qualify if those Jews must be valid witnesses... |
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Feb 12 |
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Pants under skirts @SethJ not to press the point, but I don't think the community I live in is self-sheltering or that it enforces those kinds of communal standards in any meaningful way. It's certainly not a "modern" community, but I don't think my wife felt like she was being socially obliged not to wear pants under her skirt - she just figured that since nobody else did it, it wasn't permitted. Maybe all the other women are assuming the same thing? Do you mind if I ask how you would define hashkafically the communities in which pants under the skirt is a no-brainer? |
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Feb 12 |
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Pants under skirts @SethJ that would probably be a stronger question in theory, but l'maaseh this just isn't done (at least in the communities with which I am familiar) and so maybe the real question is why don't women do this? Anecdotally, my wife has said how much she wishes she could do this, especially in the winter, and that it was too bad it was assur. She couldn't say exactly where she heard it was assur, only that no other frum women she knew wore pants under their skirts. |
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Feb 10 |
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Have recently-published allegations that Shlomo Carlebach was a sexual predator led to any bans of his music or conversions? @BruceJames j.se is definitely not a forum for airing such grievances. This has nothing to do with reporting to authorities. This is only loshon hora and motzei shem ra. By making such a poor comparison, you compound the problem by defending your aveira thru making a baseless claim against me - more motzei shem ra. |
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Feb 10 |
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Who wears a talis on leil Shabbos? @DoubleAA a fair point, I'll edit to reflect that |
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Feb 10 |
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Have recently-published allegations that Shlomo Carlebach was a sexual predator led to any bans of his music or conversions? @BruceJames I don't think it should name names. Something like "does an individual's halachically inappropriate private conduct cause their published works to pe prohibited, or retroactively invalidate conversions the individudal oversaw?" Perhaps even more generally, "if a rabbi sins, does it affect their halachic rulings?" |
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Feb 10 |
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Have recently-published allegations that Shlomo Carlebach was a sexual predator led to any bans of his music or conversions? This question is lashon hara. As written, it should be closed. Why not significantly generalize the question? |
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Feb 10 |
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Who wears a talis on leil Shabbos? @DoubleAA based on the Rambam, why not both? Or does maybe Rambam only base himself on 25b? I don't have it in front of me. |
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Feb 10 |
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Who wears a talis on leil Shabbos? @DoubleAA 119a, near the top: רבי חנינא מיעטפ |
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Feb 10 |
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Who wears a talis on leil Shabbos? @DoubleAA Did the shul in Yitzhar follow a particular minhag in this effect? Was it Rav Shapira's shul? |
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Feb 8 |
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What is the proper way to wrap a tallis? @DoubleAA today I learned. And maybe it's more than four amos, then. I could be remembering wrong. |
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Feb 8 |
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What is the proper way to wrap a tallis? @DoubleAA I'll look for one, but that's just how I remember learning it. I've never heard that anybody says lehisateif on a talis katan, and that seems to me an astoundingly novel basis for creating a bracha. We do wrap for more than four seconds, though - long enough to walk four amos, if I recall correctly, and we say "mah yikar..." while wrapping. Perhaps others are not as careful to wrap the appropriate amount of time. |
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Feb 8 |
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What is the proper way to wrap a tallis? @DoubleAA correct - the bracha for wearing tzitzis is "al mitzvas tzitzis", but "lehisatef" covers both. Those who do not wear a talis gadol say "al mitzvas tzitzis" when they put on their talis katan. Those of us who wear a talis gadol have in mind to include the katan when we say "lehisatef". |
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Feb 6 |
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When did the switch to matrilineal descent occur? @SethJ as I said above, for me the question is not one of deviance but of relationship to mesorah. Reform is probably less traditional than Karaism, as the latter at least presumably accepts (written) Torah miSinai. However, reform unmistakably and undeniably branches off of traditional Judaism, and can be defined in its terms - it does not regard Halacha as binding - whereas Karaism does not regard Halacha as being legitimate or something that existed in the first place. |
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Feb 6 |
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When did the switch to matrilineal descent occur? @DoubleAA to be totally clear, by mesorah I meant the oral tradition that Judaism holds to have been received at Sinai and developed by a chain of rabbis reaching from Moshe Rabbenu to our day. In this regard, the modern day sects, while holding heretical views from an orthodox perspective, are at least offshoots of this mesorah. Karaism self-defines as not a part of the aforementioned tradition. |
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Feb 6 |
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When did the switch to matrilineal descent occur? @DoubleAA your comment about comments being freer ground is well put. As for whether "my" mesorah is the "official one", come on. Surely we have to draw the line somewhere, and groups condemned as heretical by rishonim probably qualify as on the other side of it. That said, I don't know that it's worth a meta post - as far as I can tell, it is not a real problem at present. |
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Feb 6 |
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When did the switch to matrilineal descent occur? @DoubleAA are you being rhetorical? |
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Feb 6 |
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When did the switch to matrilineal descent occur? @Shraga this raises an interesting question, actually. It has been discussed in the past to what extent this site should be pluralistic with regards to conservative, reform, and other modern sects that depart from our mesorah, but karaism self-defines as being completely disconnected from our mesorah in the first place. What has it to do with Jewish law and tradition any more than any other "Abrahamic faith"? |
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Feb 4 |
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Which major gedolim have said Hallel on Yom Haatzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim? Nice answer, very comprehensive. As a minor point, I thought I read that in Mercaz HaRav they don't make a bracha... maybe I misunderstood? It seems unlikely to me that R' Kook z"l would have conducted himself differently from the yeshiva. |
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Feb 4 |
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Which major gedolim have said Hallel on Yom Haatzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim? @Fred I had thought of it but I didn't want to overcomplicate the question, or divide potential answers between the two. Maybe I should reconsider? Nice link, thanks! |
