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Dec 24 |
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How can we know God? @LazerA How about: how God interacts with creation? Knowing "that Hashem is the one power in the Universe" and that "there is nothing else" doesn't tell me that. |
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Dec 20 |
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Converts, kibbud av v'eim, and non-Jewish holidays @MonicaCellio If it's just a Chumrah , then the convert can do whatever( within Halakha ) they choose, and the better course of action would be to follow the Chumrah ( if they accept it's validity). But if it is Halakhah , strict or otherwise, then it is to be observed. If there is controversy or doubt over what is obligatory, what is a Chumrah , and what is allowed, I see little recourse but to ask a Halakhic expert( a Rabbi), who's authority you accept, about it. |
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Dec 20 |
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Mention of any Prophet in other holy books What do you mean by "announce the mission of"? And by "confirm the prior prophets"? |
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Dec 20 |
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Converts, kibbud av v'eim, and non-Jewish holidays If [strict] Halakhah says not to participate in these family gift exchanges, what is there to weigh? Why not decline with respect( like with other things they'd have to refuse)? As an aside: I would have thought that problems concerning interacting with non-Jewish friends and family should have been made clear to perspective converts( and resolved?) before they converted( so that they don't become "stumped at this time of year"). |
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Dec 18 |
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Will the king messiah be a prophet? For what it's worth, also towards the end of Igeret Teiman, the Rambam says "שהמשיח נביא גדול מאוד, וגדול מכל הנביאים מלבד משה רבנו ע"ה"( my translation: "... that the Mashiach [wil be] a great prophet, and greater than all the prophets except Moshe Rabenu , peace be upon him"). |
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Dec 14 |
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Why does Rashi say דבתם refers to the children of Leah? @ichangedmyid (1) the Te'amim don't group the two together, so the "ויבא יוסף את דבתם רעה אל אביהם" could refer as much to "היה רעה את אחיו בצאן" as to "והוא נער את בני בלהה ואת בני זלפה".I. (2) Why accept Rashi's word, without textual support, in one place, and not the other? (3) Where is the assumption in the Pesuqim ? Where do Chazal make it clear "that all the shevatim ... were involved in the sale of Yosef"? ( Reuven may not have taken part in the sale, but he was part of what led to it.) |
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Dec 7 |
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Why does Rashi say דבתם refers to the children of Leah? (3) Where does it say that the children of Bilah and Zilpah turned on Yosef and joined with the brothers who acted poorly toward them initially? |
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Dec 7 |
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Why does Rashi say דבתם refers to the children of Leah? (1) Why assume "דבתם" specifically refers to Benei ha-Shefachot ? The Pasuq actually start with telling us that Yosef was shepherding with his [unspecified] brothers( which may or may not include Benei ha-Shefachot), and as "דבתם" is in the second half of the Pasuq , it could refer to the [unspecified] brothers mentioned in the first half of the Pasuq . (2) " [W]ithout Rashi's comment", how would you know that "the children of Bilah and Zilpah ... were spurned by the other Shevatim"? |
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Dec 7 |
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Was Joseph considered a Tzaddik as he went down to Egypt? Maybe he was a Tzadiq is the same way Yishma'el was when dying of thirst under a bush in the desert, according to the Midrash ( brought in Rashi on 21:17 ). See: judaism.stackexchange.com/a/22103/1368 |
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Dec 4 |
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What is the Jewish view on creating an army to defend ourselves against armies? @ba I'm pretty sure that the only place the Mishnah Berurah is "quoting" the Rambam is where he says( in your translation):"And therefore, all of Israel had the minhag to fast on the thirteenth of Adar, and it is called Taanis Ester". This is the place where the Sha'ar ha-Tziyun cites the Rambam( probably referring to Hilkhot Ta'anit 5:5 ). |
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Nov 30 |
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Is one allowed to drink alcohol on regular weekdays? @ba a Chakham , in De'ot 1:9[4], is defined as "man whose traits are intermediate and equally balanced"( translation from here). In 1:11[5] it says that "[walking] in these intermediate paths" is a Mitzvat Aseh of le-hidamot bi-Drakhav ( "To emulate His ways"). So yes, it is a Halakhah , but no, it doesn't apply only to a "chacham". |
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Nov 29 |
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why do we start mincha shmoneh esrai differently? It may be worth adding that, according to the link brought, some Sidurim don't have "Ki Shem ha-Shem Eqra" said before Shemoneh Esreh at all( including in Minchah and Musaf). |
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Nov 29 |
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Why does the mohel say the brocha at the bris? @DoubleAA But who performs the public Torah reading( which is the Taqanat Mosheh), for which the Berakhah is said: you or the Ba'al Qeri'a ? |
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Nov 29 |
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Does the name Daniel really mean: 'G-d is my judge'? I was about to mention that Daniel in Ezekiel 14:12-20( and ibid. 28:3), is with a Tzereh under the Alef, but found that though in my older Koren Hebrew Bible( from 5726) it has דנאל with a Tzereh under the Alef , in the newer one( from 5750, i.e. 1990), like in the Mechon Mamre version, it has דנאל as Ketiv , and דניאל done the usual way as Qeri , and Wikisource is the same as the new Koren and Mechon Mamre, but with a Tzereh under the Alef as the Qeri. |
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Nov 29 |
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Why does the mohel say the brocha at the bris? @CharlesKoppelman Did you say "la-Mul et ha-Ben"( or "al ha-Milah"), which is the Berakhah the performer of the Milah says, or "le-Hakhniso bi-Bhrito shel Avraham Avinu", which the father says? |
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Nov 29 |
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Why does the mohel say the brocha at the bris? Shouldn't this question be asked the other way around( i.e.: If the performer of the act, and not the one in who's name it is done, is to say the Berakhah , like the Mohel who says the Berakhah before performing the Milah , why does the Oleh la-Torah say the Berakhah , when it is the Ba'al Qore' that performs the Qeri'at ha-Torah for him)? |
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Nov 23 |
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Blessing: who gets first? Regarding Jacob's blessings: In Genesis Ch. 48, though he blesses them together, he prefers to give the greater blessing to Ephraim, the younger of the two, and says "With you Israel will bless saying 'May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh' ",mentioning Ephraim before Manasseh. Also( regarding grandchildren), it would seem, he blessed those two grandsons before the rest of his own sons. |
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Nov 23 |
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Blessing: who gets first? Why not assume in whichever order the father prefers? |
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Nov 21 |
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Ben Drosai - what was his Zechus? @DoubleAA b) you can say "I am from Yerushalayim". I also said "If he were saying ... ( or even 'the Rama of/from Fano'), then 'F' would be correct". On the other hand, if you were known as 'Double AA of Jerusalem', it would be incorrect to transliterate it as 'דאבל איי-איי אוף ירושלים' just because ג'רוזלם is not the correct way to write the city's name( assuming 'Jerusalem' to 'Yerushalayim' is the same as 'Pano' to 'Fano'). Anecdotally, my fourth grade homeroom teacher( who taught most Hebrew subjects) always insisted וושינגטון should be pronounced Vashington . |
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Nov 20 |
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Ben Drosai - what was his Zechus? @DoubleAA (a) I didn't understand what you wrote about the Dagesh. I was referring to the Dagesh Chazaq, which come in the letter after the Mem ha-Shimush ( second reason, in the link I brought just now). (b) Fano is not Hebrew( I never said it was - read the end of my earlier comment), but the title "Rama mi-Pano" is. (c) I don't see why an English speaker need pronounce "deja vu" the way the French do( they don't pronounce Hebrew words the Hebrew way). |
