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May 6	comment	The Brakhah 'Ha-Tov ve-ha-Meitiv' and Wine See Shulchan Aruch (OC 175) and the accompanying Mishna B'rura. This article may also be of interest.
May 6	comment	How much of the sefer torah did the king read each day? See the fourth section of this article, which brings 5 different interpretations about the type of Torah scroll from which the king would read (the possibilities listed are the full Torah, sefer D'varim, the particular section in Shoftim, the Aseres HaDibros, or a summary of all the commandments).
May 6	comment	Why did nobody succeed the Lubavitcher Rebbe? @Alex Thanks for clarifying about that point in modern Chabad thought.
May 6	comment	Can non Jews be buried in a Jewish Cemetery? "Rashi there comments that the gemarra shouldn't be understood as "with" literally, but "also" like we bury our own." This is also a literal interpretation, and a more plausible one from the context; a simple reading of the gemara does not imply proximate graves.
May 6	comment	Eating bread on Shabbos @DoubleAA "But one can fast on Shabbat." Under unusual circumstances (esp. ta'anis chalom), this might be true. Generally speaking, it's forbidden, and according to some rishonim is an issur d'oraisa. Are you referring to those poskim who permit a ta'anis chalom based on oneg, and extending that concept to a diet? Or are you referring to an absolute medical need?
May 6	comment	Why did Chava give Adam the fruit to eat? @not-vram Those are good questions. That's why I posted as a comment - left unexplained, it would be insufficient as an answer.
May 6	comment	Source for shuls flying in yemos hamoshiach? @Menachem And by the way, the other meaning I suggested about congregations reestablishing themselves there would also be a literal (if synecdochical) interpretation.
May 6	comment	Why did Chava give Adam the fruit to eat? "So that she wouldn't die while he would live and marry another" (Rashi, B'reishis 3:6).
May 6	comment	Source for shuls flying in yemos hamoshiach? @Menachem Nice source. It is still not explicit if he understood it as saying that they would miraculously fly, or if they would be moved by natural means (the latter of which might fit better with the part about "avert[ing] the halachic prohibition against uprooting").
May 5	comment	How are pre-creation >4000 BCE human civilization and pre-flood >2300 BCE civilizations that continued reconciled with Judaism? @AL I'm getting at a precedent for the fact that it is not per se necessary to intepret the flood as global - even if R' Yochanan did not address the issue of places far away. Anyway, according to R' Yochanan, there must have been a wall of water around Israel. (Depending on how you interpret the gemara, it's likely that even according to R' Yochanan, the people in Israel died from the heat effect. However, according to R' Yochanan, remnants of old civilization there survived [Z'vachim 113b] as did at least some of the animals [see Rashi, B'reishis 7:22; Ibn Ezra ibid. 7:21; Z'vachim 113b]).
May 5	comment	Forgot to say Yaaleh V'Yavo by Shacharis Rosh Chodesh - before the Molad Rosh Hashana 25a:הלך ומצאו רבי עקיבה מצר. אמר לו, יש לי ללמוד שכל מה שעשה רבן גמליאל עשוי, שנאמר "אלה מועדי ה', מקראי קודש, אשר תקראו אותם" (ויקרא כג,ד)--"אשר תקראו אותם", בין בזמנן בין שלא בזמנן; אין לי מועדות אלא אלו.
May 5	comment	Source for shuls flying in yemos hamoshiach? Is there a source that clarifies whether this means the actual buildings will uproot and fly to Israel or whether the congregations will reestablish themselves in Israel?
May 5	comment	How are pre-creation >4000 BCE human civilization and pre-flood >2300 BCE civilizations that continued reconciled with Judaism? @AL (1.) Echoing DoubleAA, see for example "v'hamayim lahem choma" ("And the water was a wall for them on their right and on their left," Sh'mos 14:29). (2.) Also, Noach needed to make an ark because HaShem told him to do so, regardless of whether the flood was global. (3.) R' Yochanan holds that the flood did not cover Eretz Yisrael (Zevachim 113, see there for more discussion).
May 3	comment	How are pre-creation >4000 BCE human civilization and pre-flood >2300 BCE civilizations that continued reconciled with Judaism? @Ariel There were people in Tanach who were exposed to explicit miracles and yet choose to worship avoda zara. Are you trying to make some more nuanced argument?
May 3	comment	How are pre-creation >4000 BCE human civilization and pre-flood >2300 BCE civilizations that continued reconciled with Judaism? @AL I'm not sure it's inconsistent to consider the possibility that both radiometric dating is flawed (which I'm not arguing one way or the other) and that the universe was created "in progress". I'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject to say whether it's plausible that conditions 4000 years ago could belie assumptions that underpin radiometric dating, but if they do that's not per se due to some attempt by HaShem to make the universe look old. Who knows how or why conditions could have been different before the Flood. (This doesn't address non-radiometric dating analyses, of course).
May 3	comment	How are pre-creation >4000 BCE human civilization and pre-flood >2300 BCE civilizations that continued reconciled with Judaism? I'm confused about #2. Levels of carbon isotope prior to the Flood have no bearing on whether light from distant stars was recently created in transit.
May 3	comment	How are pre-creation >4000 BCE human civilization and pre-flood >2300 BCE civilizations that continued reconciled with Judaism? @Daniel It's not exactly a duplicate, as it also asks about seeming continuity pre and post mabbul.
May 3	comment	Is it written anywhere that one must stand up for what he believes is right? @Bochur613 Ok, you should reword the question accordingly.
May 3	comment	Is it written anywhere that one must stand up for what he believes is right? @Bochur613 What do you mean by stand firmly? Not allow peer pressure to dictate your halachic and hashkafic paradigm?
May 3	comment	Is it written anywhere that one must stand up for what he believes is right? The question is broadly worded. An example might help clarify what you mean.