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May 3 |
accepted | Electric Appliances and Mikva |
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May 3 |
accepted | Is it inappropriate to be overdressed for prayer (davening)? |
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May 3 |
accepted | Is there a problem with women wearing red clothing? |
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May 3 |
accepted | Do Israeli silver gifts (e.g. kiddush cups) need to be dunked in the mikva? |
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May 3 |
answered | Must I separate challah from pre-made dough? |
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May 3 |
asked | Must I separate challah from pre-made dough? |
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May 3 |
answered | What to do if Shabbat candles go out |
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May 3 |
answered | When is a Minhag no longer a Minhag? |
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May 3 |
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Tish'a Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? ויאמרו לו אמר-נא שבלת ויאמר סבלת how do we read Judges 12:6, was there ever supposed to be a different pronunciation between samech and sin? |
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May 3 |
answered | Is diversity a Jewish value? |
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May 3 |
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How to do Shnayim Mikra when the Aramaic Targum has multiple alternate wordings? Rephrased question for more detail |
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May 3 |
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Shemona Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? See mi.yodeya.com/questions/1309/shemona-veesrim-mi-yodeya/… |
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Apr 30 |
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Shemona Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? Kicking myself for not thinking of the ply-threads; that one's in Rashi on Chumash. Alex, are you using Bar-Ilan for these? That's how I'd do it if I took this more seriously ... |
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Apr 30 |
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Shemona Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? And hence the words in the core of Kaddish. |
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Apr 30 |
answered | Shemona Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 30 |
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Shisha Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? Verified. Cool. |
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Apr 30 |
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Is there a problem with women wearing red clothing? Yirmeyahu, you're describing this as a disagreement among rabbinic opinions; I don't see it. Everyone agrees with the Shach, that red is flashier. But "flashier" alone does not prohibit. (See Rabbi Henkin's essay and my answer above; the Talmud didn't prohibit flashy.) "Flashier" + "clearly non-Jewish as practiced today" prohibits. In the Rama's world (Krakow late 1500s), red met both criteria and was prohibited. In R' Moshe's (NY 1950s), it didn't meet the second criterion and was therefore permitted. R' Moshe isn't disagreeing with the Rama, he's describing a different situation. |
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Apr 30 |
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Is there a problem with women wearing red clothing? To re-prohibit red clothing, you'd have to argue that our world today is more like the Rama's and less like R' Moshe's, in that wearing red clothing would be a statement of trying to look non-Jewish. While much has changed in 50 years, I don't believe that to be the case. |
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Apr 30 |
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Is there a problem with women wearing red clothing? If I understood R' Moshe's words correctly, he said that in a situation where the non-Jewish women wear read and the Jewish women don't, yes red would be a problem. HOWEVER, as far as American clothing in the 1950s, he sees two categories of clothing: appropriate and inappropriate. There was no in-between category of "somewhat flashy AND Jewish women clearly avoided it as a practice." |
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Apr 29 |
answered | Shiv'a Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? |
