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Jul 23 |
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Pronunciation of מסכתא (tractate) @AdamMosheh Unless you are implying that it is because of that book series that Ashkenazi people pronounce it that way, I don't think that's much of an answer. |
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Jul 23 |
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Pronunciation of מסכתא (tractate) This series of books vocalizes it the second way. |
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Jul 23 |
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Maintaining Tzniut in Uncomfortable Social Situations You are encouraged to check mark the answer you found most useful beneath the voting arrows. Also, if you would like to merge your old account into your new registered one, just say the word. |
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Jul 11 |
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@msh210 It does sound that way. |
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Jul 9 |
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Is there a deeper significance of squares and cubes? It would be hard to say that the logic of the Emek Hamelech extends to cubes since they have six sides. |
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Jul 9 |
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Is there a deeper significance of squares and cubes? @mah-nishtana The תיבה was mostly pyramidal according to אברבנאל. |
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Jul 6 |
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What does the /shin/ marker (like Petucha/Setuma) at the end of Torah books mean? Am I reading correctly that ר is for "שירה" and ש is for "ריקה" or is the order switched somewhere? |
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Jul 6 |
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Reasons for the laws of the prayers in Aramaic 1) The interlinear Aramaic in ובא לציון is simply the תרגום יונתן of the same פסוקים so presumably it functions as תרגום usually does, to clarify the פסוקים by translation, and therefore is meant to be understood rather than recited and would constitute an interruption in the vocal recitation if announced with the rest of the words. 2) The paragraph that one would not say in private has directly to do with the public and its servants. |
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Jul 6 |
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Where does the comma go in the Birkas Kohanim, and why? And I think by "comma" we are all just referring to a subordinate phrase boundary and not an actual comma. |
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Jul 6 |
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Where does the comma go in the Birkas Kohanim, and why? @SethJ Same here, but it sounds much better to me with the comma in the first position because a) the phrase "המשולשת בתורה" would be very strange and not in keeping with the ways (משולש(ת is used in the תורה, and even more convincingly, b) הכתובה על ידי משה is parallel to האמורה מפי אהרן and the latter can only refer to this ברכה, not the entire תורה (unless you say כהנים were the פוסקים and therefore "said" the תורה as well...). |
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Jun 29 |
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How does one dispose of Tzitzis? Related: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/15178/… |
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Jun 29 |
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Leaving the King's road? It could be that we will stay on the "road" even after that. We will do many things after that traversal, but we are only mentioning the things relevant to our presumptive hosts, whose interest in us will end after we depart their lands. This is a guess, not an answer. |
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Jun 27 |
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Are marital relations on Friday nights a “double mitzvah”? What is a "double mitzvah"? Are you asking whether the act constitutes a fulfillment of pirya v'rivya, whether it fulfills oneg shabas, or whether it is possible to perform two mitzvos with a single act? |
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Jun 15 |
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If a person voids a purchase/sale, what happens to the Bracha? +1 Interesting question! But is a b'racha l'vatala l'mafre'a even possible? Can you invalidate praise of Hashem? |
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Jun 14 |
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Why don't we bow “correctly” during tefillah anymore? Sorry, I meant the g'mara here (toward the bottom). |
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Jun 14 |
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Why don't we bow “correctly” during tefillah anymore? @SethJ Thanks! On that topic, is the word "שיתפקפקו" correct and does it have the same meaning as "שיתפקקן", which appears in my version of the g'mara? I just noticed this discrepancy. |
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Jun 14 |
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Why don't we bow “correctly” during tefillah anymore? Can you cite the relevant halacha in Ramba"m? |
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Jun 12 |
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Did God create color in Genesis? I think "a world without technology" is an overstatement. |
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Jun 11 |
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Did God create color in Genesis? Is there an indication that color was created in the time of No'ach? Also, what do you mean by "the spectrum of hues and shades, etc."? Is the question about the quality of objects to reflect light a given frequencies, the perception thereof, the variability thereof, something else? |
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Jun 10 |
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Why do we still do chazarat hashatz? @DoubleAA The former, with the minority opinion being expressed by the Ra"sh that without sufficient answering the b'rachos are l'vatala. But now that I think about it I seem to remember learning that the concern of lo sisa in b'rachos l'vatala was a concern mid'rabanan with an asmachta. |
