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Apr 21	comment	Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? Woops! Thanks for the correction. I am so embarrassed ...
Apr 21	comment	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.
Apr 21	comment	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."
Apr 21	comment	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.
Apr 21	comment	Echad Ve'esrim - mi yodeya? Oops I just gave away my answer for "24." (And it doesn't involve Jack Bauer.)
Apr 21	comment	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 .
Apr 21	comment	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.
Apr 21	comment	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.
Apr 20	comment	Esrim - mi yodeya? Source please? (Is that in yesh nochalin?)
Apr 20	comment	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."
Apr 19	comment	What is the machlokes between the Gra and Ba'al HaTanya? "If you have no clue what I am referring to then this answer is not for you." -- I like that! Though it raises the question whether a website like this is the right medium for this.
Apr 19	comment	Reaching kedusha during silent shemone esre Interestingly, Rabbi Dr. Yosef Dov Soloveichik held that pausing and listening intently to the chazan would also be considered an interruption in your prayer (based on how he understood "shomeya k'oneh"), and thus it was best to just keep going with your own prayer. But Yirmiyahu's answer (that of Shulchan Aruch!) is the normative one.
Apr 19	comment	Reaching kedusha during silent shemone esre Tzvi, I think you meant "if you have not yet FINISHED the bracha of Sim Shalom." When you said "reached the bracha", people could think you meant "started it." I recommend you edit your answer.
Apr 18	comment	Live Vs. Recorded Music during the Omer R' Moshe Feinstein basically prohibits music year-round, and he explicitly writes that there's no distinction between live or canned music. I've always heard that (at least for American Jewry), our custom to abstain from music during Sefira is to follow R' Moshe Feinstein's view for this period (though we don't the rest of the year). Hence a reason to prohibit live or canned. Rabbi Moshe Bleich also has a piece about music during Sefira in Tradition, c. ~2009.
Apr 16	comment	Shemona Asar - mi yodeya? I heard the Biblical hint for this is that "Adam" appears 18 times before the first use of "Ish"
Apr 14	comment	Why does Halacha say to tie your shoes in a specific order? The "non-Jewish manner" there refers to a different color of shoelace that everyone could see. Not sure it would apply to the order of tying (whose results would be indistinguishable).
Apr 14	comment	Why the vast difference of opinion about the age of the Universe? See also mi.yodeya.com/questions/30/berieshit-vs-science . Two very related questions: "how old is the 'world' "? And "how to understand the story of Creation?"
Apr 14	comment	Chamisha Asar - mi yodeya? You could sing this one to the rhythm.
Apr 13	comment	Why the vast difference of opinion about the age of the Universe? Rabbi Dr. David Shatz has an article in Tradition Journal about a year ago about this question; Jeremy's answer is discussed there. He quotes Rav Kook that had the Torah spelled out that the Earth is a ball orbiting the Sun, the people would have been scared of falling off of it!
Apr 13	comment	Shalom Alaichem and vice versa I've seen that answer published. Chazal say that the mitzvah of greeting people is rewarded with longer life. Hence okay to start with Shalom Aleichem.