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Apr 22 |
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Rules for Cutting Nails Sometimes when answering a "what's the basis for Practice X" question, it can give the impression (certainly to some random online reader) that everyone agrees that one must keep Practice X all the time, so I added the dissenting opinion. See for instance www.yoatzot.org/question.php?id=5908 |
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Apr 22 |
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Intentional Shilu'ach Hakan It's not just about the reward (that's in the Chumash and Talmud). The Zohar says that the act of shiluach hakein itself causes (IIRC) an increase of Heavenly mercy towards us. (Don't ask me what that means or why.) Hence people would go out of their way to do it, even if they don't need or use the eggs. According to the non-Kabbalistic reasoning, this wouldn't be the case. |
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Apr 22 |
answered | Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 21 |
answered | Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 21 |
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Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? עבר יומו בטל קרבנו . "I never look back, darling." -- Edna Mode, "The Incredibles." |
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Apr 21 |
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Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? Woops! Thanks for the correction. I am so embarrassed ... |
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Apr 21 |
answered | Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 21 |
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Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? The other books with the different system being Psalms and Proverbs. Together with Job, they're known as ספרי אמ״ת. |
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Apr 21 |
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Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? "x-and-twenty" is also the preferred language for the date in a Kesubah. But for both Kesubah and sefirah, it's a pure number, "one-and-twenty day" (not "days"); vs "twenty-and-four bulls." |
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Apr 21 |
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Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? Argh but Exodus 38:24 is תשע ועשרים ככר . So it's "nine-and-twenty talent" (note the singular), but "twenty-four bulls." Is that a gender thing? Or do we put a pure number (uninflected) before monetary sums? This is a job for a real grammarian. |
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Apr 21 |
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Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? Oops I just gave away my answer for "24." (And it doesn't involve Jack Bauer.) |
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Apr 21 |
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Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? I think you're correct. I think if the number is just 20-something, the 20 goes first. See Numbers 7:88, עֶשְׂרִים וְאַרְבָּעָה פָּרִים . |
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Apr 21 |
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Rules for Cutting Nails If I recall correctly one of the main commentaries (Magen Avraham maybe?) says not to worry about the Rama's consecutive thing. |
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Apr 21 |
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Intentional Shilu'ach Hakan Yes. What I'd always heard was that by the reasoning of the Gemara, Ramban on Chumash, and Rambam, it's about being compassionate when/if you take the eggs, but no point of going out of your way to look for the opportunity. (For an extreme example -- there's a mitzva about how to handle a divorce, but try not to need a divorce! Some mitzvas are "do X"; some are "if you do X, do Y", where X is optional; some are "if X unfortunately happens, do Y.") But kabbalistically (Zohar?), shiluach haken is supposed to do great things, so people seek it out. |
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Apr 21 |
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Posek vs. Rabbi? added understanding the community |
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Apr 20 |
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Esrim - mi yodeya? Source please? (Is that in yesh nochalin?) |
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Apr 20 |
answered | Esrim - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 20 |
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Choices before birth To add to Alex: the Gemara says (Pesachim 54b) that we don't know what kind of job will be best for us; we have to figure that out on our own. Similarly, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan in his book on marriage writes that the "bashert" (before you're born, a Heavenly voice says so-and-so should be your wife) is the most-likely person for you, assuming he and she take the most likely choices in life. But either of you can use free will and choose to drastically change your life, at which point you get a new "bashert." |
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Apr 20 |
answered | Posek vs. Rabbi? |
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Apr 19 |
answered | Tish'a Asar - mi yodeya? |
