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Apr 16 |
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Is Unitarianism considered to be idolatry? RHS - a recent Hilchos Beis Haknesses shiur on yutorah. |
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Apr 15 |
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Does Judaism permit sexual relationships outside of marriage? "According to interpretation" doesn't mean anyone can interpret any verse however they feel like it. |
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Apr 15 |
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Does Judaism permit sexual relationships outside of marriage? But remember that Judaism believes there's more to the law of the Bible than the literal reading -- we believe "an eye for an eye" means payment, for instance. |
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Apr 15 |
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Does Judaism permit sexual relationships outside of marriage? The verse on prostitution isn't so much as "for money" as it is "someone who's out there for anyone." (There were idol-worshipping practices at the time that had booths of women.) |
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Mar 22 |
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Working in a Potentially Sinful Industry @mekubal, excellent question; Rabbi Broyde was dealing with back-office employment questions, which appears to fit with the question asked here. If instead you play a very visible role that would imply you're involved in the sinful activity, that could certainly be different. |
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Mar 12 |
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Were condemned prisoners drugged prior to execution? @Nikmasi, that could have been before he was drugged; more likely, that's discussing a case of someone being taken out for execution by the Greeks or Romans, not Jews! |
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Mar 12 |
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Resuscitation of Aged Nursing Home Patients That's metaphysical means. |
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Mar 6 |
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Biblical significance of face veil ... however, Ramban points out the simplest explanation is that in fact, some prostitutes in Bible times did wear some sort of face covering. This is in fact supported by ancient sources: bible.ort.org/books/… |
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Mar 1 |
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Source that a woman is considered to have a bris milah Spins on this come up in other contexts, e.g. suppose a non-Jewish man had his genitalia amputated, hence circumcision is an impossibility; can he convert to Judaism? |
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Mar 1 |
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My father-in-law was a Cohen. Are my children Cohanim? @CharlesKoppelman, correct; I didn't see a good way of shoehorning that fact in here. |
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Feb 28 |
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Why is the Talmudic style so Confusing? ... and the chapter in Pesachim about how family dynamics play out with regards to the Korban Pesach starts getting into general discussions of family dynamics, and our relationship with G-d. |
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Feb 28 |
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Why is the Talmudic style so Confusing? That's a different issue. The Talmud's goal was to put down as much law and lore as they could, and if tangents are how they got there, so be it. It's still been suggested that keeping it difficult was part of how to keep it partly oral; it's also been suggested that some of what we see are notes from the lecture hall, and occasionally things went on tangents. By the way sometimes things fit better than you think; the destruction of the Second Temple is in a chapter called "those damaged", in the tractate on divorces; Sotah immediately veers into self-control for men (not "blame the woman") |
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Feb 22 |
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Is indirect matanot l'evyonim ok? My father has suggested that the preference for using a messenger for your mishloach manos is so people can't tell what's mishloach manos to those who aren't needy, and what's matanos l'evyonim to those who are. (As tzedaka is generally best done anonymously, you'd use a messenger for the latter.) |
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Feb 13 |
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Surviving the zombie apocalypse? Wow. Bravo... nice! |
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Feb 11 |
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Have recently-published allegations that Shlomo Carlebach was a sexual predator led to any bans of his music or conversions? The above Igros takes a nuts-and-bolts approach; if we simply applied it, we'd conclude that rock-and-roll composed by a shomer shabbos would be not prohibited by the concepts set forth there (there may be other issues, I don't know how Rav Moshe felt), while a stirring traditional melody composed by someone who denied the Divine origin of the Torah would be "inadvisable for a Torah scholar's wedding. With something like the concert there are other issues at play, such as secular influence and the moods conveyed by the music. |
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Feb 11 |
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The media in Shushan Well obviously Mordechai was Ish Yemini, a right-winger |
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Feb 8 |
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Eldad HaDani's Lasting Influence - Is there any? IIRC Eldad had ruled that women can't perform shechitah, which may have influenced Ashkenazic custom. |
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Feb 6 |
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When did the switch to matrilineal descent occur? Pre-Sinai, it was a matter of tribal identity, thus patrilineal. (Just as the laws pertaining to "Edomites" or "Moabite"s are patrilineal.) Thus the Jews had to keep Jewish names. Sinai -- i.e. the Torah as we know it -- changed all of that. A Jew is a different category of person, thus matrilineal; and what keeps us connected is the commandments, not the culture per se (hence no requirement on the names). |
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Feb 5 |
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What became of Moshe's sons and their descendants? @Fred, correct, we only know about this one. We do know that his offspring otherwise never got a mention, so they apparently didn't become leaders. It's also notable that Aharon was succeeded by his son, but Moshe wasn't. |
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Feb 1 |
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What are important topics to discuss before marriage? If someone's too immature to deal with conflict resolution, then maybe the parents need to be the one making that call. But someone needs to. And when the Nachlas Shiva's Tnaim says "if G-d forbid the couple will need a beis din, they will go to one and abide by it, or else he will pay several pieces of gold per day" - oh that's all rainbows and unicorns? R' Moshe Bick called for a more realistic approach to dating, which the Satmar Rebbe rejected. Rabbi Bick replied: you get all the honors performing weddings. I'm a mesader gittin, I clean up the messes! Listen to me! |
