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Progressive, halakhically-oriented Jew
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Jul 31 |
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“I never saw a tzaddik be abandoned…” - how do we understand this? It's from Psalms. If this is true, then David either had a very sheltered world or a very narrow definition of tzadikim. |
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Jul 30 |
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Speaking Yiddish vs. the host language at home edited tags |
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Jul 30 |
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Avoiding accidentally eating cheese I use the time-tested strategy of my Ashkenazi ancestry - lactose intolerance. |
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Jul 30 |
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Speaking Yiddish vs. the host language at home I think where the Jews were more integrated into society, they spoke the local tongue more. E.g., America, 13th c. China, late 19th c. Germany, 14th c. Spain. Where Jews were more restricted and forced into cloistering, they mostly spoke the Judaic tongue. E.g., post-16th c. Poland, Russia, ghettoized Venice. You see the same pattern with other ethnic groups - the more ghettoized, they less they speak the common tongue. |
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Jul 30 |
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How assur is mixed dancing? ask your rav... |
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Jul 30 |
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Can an Alien convert to Judaism? I'd argue this question needs a good deal more details on the nature of these aliens. Are they Star Trek-type humanoids? Ewoks? Wookies? Are they carbon-based? Are they Ender's Game-like buggers or maybe Xenocide-like pequeninos? Can they immerse in water? How do they communicate? How do they reproduce? |
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Jul 27 |
answered | Online tool for minyan management? |
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Jul 27 |
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Is one permitted to report inflated driving hours? This sounds illegal, dishonest and morally wrong. Even if it's permissible within a particular reading of halakha, it sounds detestable to me. |
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Jul 27 |
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Why do we still use the non-Jewish way of delineating chapters in tanach? my assumption is that this is because there were not many Jewish-run printing houses when we started reproducing the text en masse.... and then it became "the way it's always been" |
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Jul 27 |
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Havdallah after Tisha B'Av @Daniel according to my shul's bulletin, after the fast, "[o]nly the two blessings "borei p'ri hagafen" and "hamavdil" are recited. The introductory verses are omitted, as are the blessings over the spices and candle. " |
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Jul 26 |
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Mundane activities on Tisha B'Av doing dishes on a fast day is a pretty mournful activity if you ask me... |
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Jul 26 |
accepted | Source for meaning of parasha break in Numbers 26:1 |
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Jul 26 |
suggested | suggested edit on What is the etymology of סמאל? |
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Jul 26 |
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What is the etymology of סמאל? he.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%9C has an answer, but I can't translate it |
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Jul 25 |
asked | Source for meaning of parasha break in Numbers 26:1 |
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Jul 25 |
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Why do some people oppose Tav haYosher? @GershonGold they don't actually protest companies that don't meet their criteria - it's only a yes list, not a no list. |
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Jul 24 |
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Learning the shapes of the letters as a Baal Koreh @DoubleAA thank you. |
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Jul 24 |
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etymology of “Bnei Blial” added hebrew |
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Jul 24 |
suggested | suggested edit on etymology of “Bnei Blial” |
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Jul 24 |
revised |
etymology of “Bnei Blial” added hebrew |
