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Sep 21 |
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Going to a levayah (funeral) Are you (or Gershon) referring to M'gila 28b, where the question of the exact cause of attendees to come to a funeral is addressed regarding funerals of great people and their relatives? |
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Sep 21 |
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Tish'a Vetishim - mi yodeya? Is there nasog achor if "b'ris" is two syllables? |
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Sep 17 |
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Mikvah in Shower Some hold the requisite 9 kav simply come through in the normal course of showering. |
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Sep 15 |
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What exactly do you do and say when you fall Korim? Shalom, I have the same recollection. Also, I don't think fetal is the target position when prostrating oneself. According at least to one YU ראש ישיבה, it means lying fully face-down on the floor with arms outstretched in front. |
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Sep 15 |
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Is Muslim prayer rooted in Jewish prayer? My phrasing of the question was ill-suited to its purpose and I felt it would be disingenuous and confusing to completely rewrite a question to which people had already responded. |
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Sep 14 |
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Is Muslim prayer rooted in Jewish prayer? Unfortunately I do not know of a way to delete a question and retain the answers. I apologize for the inconvenience. |
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Sep 12 |
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Is it “Vay-SHA-vucha” or “Va-YASH-vucha” in Anim Zemiros? It seems both words mean "they equated You" as a transitive verb referring to the human effort to express and comprehend God's actions metaphorically because He is by nature removed from direct observation. Most lines of the song are allusions, so perhaps even if the meaning would not change, a search for the precedent for these words could at least yield the word more likely intended by the author. |
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Sep 12 |
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L'chayim vs. Lachayim It seems that chayim requires the definite article from the other two attestations of it in the first insertion: בחיים and החיים. |
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Sep 8 |
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Do you do a hataras nidui (rescinding of excommunication) before Rosh HaShanah? Yahu, I think that is an answer. |
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Sep 8 |
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Do you do a hataras nidui (rescinding of excommunication) before Rosh HaShanah? Were there a lot of excommunications where you went to y'shiva? |
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Sep 3 |
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ALL Names of God I purposely left the "names" tag off of this because I thought it was misleading. But now I'm not sure. |
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Sep 1 |
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What is it about pigs that's so despised vs. other non-kosher animals? What about the pig's complicity in frustrating the circum-siege efforts of the חשמונאים, which is what got it banned from being owned by Jews? (Bava Kama 82b) Or am I misunderstanding the question? |
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Sep 1 |
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Etymology of “Shtiebel” Cool! Why would shtiblach be named after bathrooms? |
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Aug 19 |
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Tish'a Veshiv'im - mi yodeya? Whose opinion is this? I seem to remember a מחלוקת in תוספות somewhere proposing 50 and 60 as possible cut-offs based on references to the ages of לויים in the תורה. . . |
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Aug 19 |
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What does Yarmulka mean? Why the extra 'h'? |
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Aug 13 |
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Shisha Veshiv'im - mi yodeya? Good find! I always pictured the boards that the hooks were attached to for hanging and skinning as being vertical. I guess you learn something new every number. |
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Aug 13 |
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Kiddush cup handoff Upon inquiry of a contemporary posek, I heard another good reason for holding the cup palm-up from underneath: the null hypothesis! He called holding a cup from the side "an American thing" and attributed it to the advent of (uncommon in Europe of old) stemmed קידוש cup. |
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Aug 4 |
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Sleeping on Food without a Bed Please cite the prohibition. Thanks! |
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Aug 1 |
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Aug 1 |
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Tish'a Veshishim - mi yodeya? Does the term ספרדי טהור exist? (I'm thinking by analogy to עליו השלום, which does exist but is not the exclusive meaning of ע"ה, since it apparently started out as the abbreviation for עבד השם.) |
