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Apr 25 |
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Using water filter/purification system on Shabbos Here is a link that describes the same: 'filters' that work by surface contact with water, not as a screen. When they say 'surface contact' you can understand that, at a very fine level, the surface is very rough and water flows into all these craggy fissures and contaminants get stuck in the 'sharp corners', then the cleaned water flows back out. |
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Apr 25 |
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Using water filter/purification system on Shabbos White balls of the sort your mention are generally for the removal of chlorine and some other chemicals. They are not a screen that water passes through, though in both cases something that was previously in the water is left behind. A third kind of filter uses carbon in a similar way to the white balls, but leaving more. Some filters involve a UV light, which I think is more complex even when always-on: in this case the light destroys microorganism by cutting them into smaller bits. The cut bits may remain ('benignly') in the water that you drink. |
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Apr 19 |
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Is idolatrous belief forbidden for Jews, or is it just practice? added 390 characters in body |
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Apr 19 |
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Is idolatrous belief forbidden for Jews, or is it just practice? I agree with @Ariel's source. I think that if there is room to further split this hair, it is not worth contemplating unless someone has been put before the specifics of the situation and one is deeply-rooted in the bases of the law. |
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Apr 19 |
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Is idolatrous belief forbidden for Jews, or is it just practice? I am saying that if one thinks of those other gods in the way we consider Hashem, then it would be idolarity. To consider them gods in some sense like 'supernatural forces that grant insight / real things to those others that worship them' - there would seem to be no transgression. But without a source to cite for this kind of interpretation, I answer only to give you the direction of my study. |
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Apr 19 |
answered | Is idolatrous belief forbidden for Jews, or is it just practice? |
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Apr 16 |
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Why do people call cancer the machalah? I wonder that Satmar rov reb yoel is saying the choice of words here is not a minhag, but that to use the name of thing thus עֲשִׂיתֶֽם, but maybe if you don't use the name then it is like a prayer that Hashem may עָשָׂ֔הוּ otherwise. |
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Apr 16 |
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Why do people call cancer the machalah? Alzheimers and Parkinsons can't disappear |
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Apr 16 |
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Why do people call cancer the machalah? @Dave if I knew the name of every person I passed on the street then I (maybe nefesh or ruach) would be more consumed with the attention; but not knowing their names, I can allow the crowd to pass by. |
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Dec 25 |
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When did hashem stop the sun? added 403 characters in body |
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Dec 25 |
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When did hashem stop the sun? sorry, still building the rest of the list. My copy of World's in Collision is in a storage, where other references are readily indexed. Please excue the half-answer in the meantime. |
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Dec 25 |
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When did hashem stop the sun? added Velikovsky note |
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Dec 25 |
answered | When did hashem stop the sun? |
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Dec 24 |
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How tall was Adam? @DoubleAA I agree these are good questions. I will look to find good sources that can illuminate the discussion. Mostly, I think I have jump beyond conclusion to think that a large stature is concomitant with purity. |
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Dec 23 |
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How tall was Adam? @MonikaMichael הַנְּפִלִים הָיוּ בָאָרֶץ, בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם, וְגַם אַחֲרֵי-כֵן אֲשֶׁר יָבֹאוּ בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים אֶל-בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם, וְיָלְדוּ לָהֶם: הֵמָּה הַגִּבֹּרִים אֲשֶׁר מֵעוֹלָם, אַנְשֵׁי Genesis 6:1. If we take it that giants and half-humans were of such stature, then surely a pure being, as Adam was, could have held greater stature. |
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Dec 11 |
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tap water on Pesach Some discussion on kavush from the OU |
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Dec 11 |
awarded | Excavator |
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Dec 11 |
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Pharoh's privacy at the Nile punctuation |
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Dec 11 |
suggested | suggested edit on Pharoh's privacy at the Nile |
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Nov 11 |
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Is a Ger first or almost last for assistance? Attempted a better question |
