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Mar 19 |
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What kind of matza should I buy? Good point! I forgot to mention: ALWAYS CHECK THE PACKAGE! They make "not for Passover" matza too, so watch out! |
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Mar 19 |
answered | What kind of matza should I buy? |
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Mar 19 |
asked | What kind of matza should I buy? |
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Mar 18 |
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Why do Jews physically resemble members of their “host” nationalities? The geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza described racial features as "physiological frosting." Rambam Kilyaim 3:1 -- "you can have two types of plant that look different, but are really the same species, but they changed over time because they grew in different locations and conditions." Tiferes Yisrael on Sanhedrin 4:5: when the Mishna credits God with the amazing variety of people's different features, that means within a given race. As the variety between races is just caused by living in different places for a long enough time. |
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Mar 17 |
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Shnayim - mi yodeya? 2 are the number of questions tagged "number." (Can you rearrange that to make a palindrome?) |
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Mar 17 |
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Shnayim - mi yodeya? Another answer |
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Mar 17 |
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Breakfast cereal brachot The issue is the "significance" of the mezonos. I heard one rabbi suggest that the oats are there just to make the cereal sound more wholesome. Similar question with "licorice twists"; the flour might just be a binder or a cheap bulking agent. |
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Mar 17 |
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Echad - mi yodeya? That's Maharal. Showing how 13 goes to 1. 12 needs 1 to even it out to 13, to a complete 1. Like the 12 months need an extra to make 1 solar year (on average), or the 12 tribes need Jacob to declare "Shema Yisrael ... Hashem ECHAD." |
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Mar 17 |
answered | Shnayim - mi yodeya? |
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Mar 16 |
asked | Walking around the house after shiva |
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Mar 16 |
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Anyone know anything about Shlomo Kluger Yeshiva? And there's Yeshiva ChasaM Sofer vs. Yeshiva ChasaN Sofer, right? |
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Mar 16 |
answered | Make for yourself a website? |
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Mar 16 |
answered | Kashering cold dishes for Pesach |
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Mar 16 |
answered | Are you supposed to do the responsive parts of Hallel at the Seder? |
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Mar 16 |
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Were the people of Chelm really unintelligent? And the neighboring town is Lublin, in which the yeshiva was called "Chachmei (wise men of) Lublin." Always wondered how that fit in... |
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Mar 16 |
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Different traditions in Hebrew pronunciation That's reasonable. Adonai vs Adonoi are different forms of pronunciation; Ad'nai, Adanai, etc. are all just wrong, and the result of people rushing or not paying attention. |
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Mar 15 |
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Do “most leading Orthodox rabbis” really hold that brain-stem death is death? links and editing |
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Mar 15 |
answered | Do “most leading Orthodox rabbis” really hold that brain-stem death is death? |
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Mar 15 |
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Kosher accommodations in out-of-the-way US places I think there are places that can send kosher meals on dry ice just about anywhere? |
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Mar 11 |
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Searching for Chumatz before Passavor Clarification #1: it's never NECESSARY to do the ten-pieces-of-bread thing, only customary. (Does the kabalistic view differ?) Clarification #2: If you're leaving home 31+ days before Passover, AND you won't be coming back to the house on Passover, then you need not search for unknown chametz. You can use the declaration of "bitul" (nullification) alone. |
