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Jun 13 |
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What is the source of the expression המבין יבין? @wfb: in which case it might be based on ומשכילי עם יבינו לרבים (Dan. 11:33), although there יבינו is transitive. |
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Jun 13 |
answered | Significance of number 613 regarding the mitzvot |
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Jun 12 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jun 6 |
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A Lubavitch custom of reciting zecher and zeicher in “Ashrei”? @DoubleAA: not that I know of, but it's short enough to translate: "Customs of the Rebbeim are of two kinds: (1) general customs, those that were publicized; (2) personal customs, those that they kept in private." |
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Jun 6 |
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Destruction of the world after 1000 years of Moshiach? @Curiouser, I hardly think that's correct, considering that Rambam classifies those who deny the future resurrection among those who have no share in the world to come, but are cut off and lost..." (Hil. Teshuvah 3:6), and that he lists it as one of the fundamental principles of Judaism (introduction to Chelek). |
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Jun 6 |
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From where do we learn that strangulation is the default execution method? For 2b, doesn't burning (swallowing hot lead) also not leave a mark, at least externally? (Indeed, the Gemara characterizes it as שריפת נשמה וגוף קיים.) |
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Jun 5 |
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A Lubavitch custom of reciting zecher and zeicher in “Ashrei”? @DoubleAA: see the 1st paragraph here, that the Chabad rebbeim had "public" vs. "private" minhagim, as Menachem said. Sometimes these go back to the customs of different communities. For example, in Lubavitch they didn't say Akdamus, but in Yekatrinoslav (where the Rebbe grew up) they did; the general Chabad minhag thus became not to say it, but the Rebbe himself used to say it in an undertone (and this Shavuos I was at a Chabad shul where they did the same). Other times, such "private" customs are based on ideas from Kabbalah, etc. |
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Jun 4 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Gabai speaking during chazaras hashatz, kaddish or kriyas hatorah for the sake of the tzibbur |
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Jun 4 |
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Why is Korach's rebellion referred to as בְּנֵי לֵוִי? Rashi to Num. 26:11 says הם היו בעצה תחילה, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Likkutei Sichos 33:170ff, sec. 1 and 5) explains that indeed this means that they were among the instigators of the rebellion (but that their thoughts of teshuvah saved them from utter destruction). |
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Jun 3 |
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Why is Korach's rebellion referred to as בְּנֵי לֵוִי? If no one else, there are Korach's sons. |
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Jun 3 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jun 2 |
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Did each person recieve the same amount of Manna (from heaven) @DoubleAA: you're right - I ain't a physicist. :) |
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Jun 2 |
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Why did Korach have to be buried alive? @joshwaxman, it may well include Korach himself. If Rabbah bar bar Chana describes (be it literally or metaphorically) hearing "the ones swallowed up with Korach" speaking from Gehinnom, then logically that can't include the sons - they'd have been long out of there by RbbC's times, no? |
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Jun 2 |
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Why did Korach have to be buried alive? @expern, that's exactly it: they have done teshuvah, but it is incomplete - every month they are made to see their mistake over again and to do teshuvah for it at a more intense level. This is something we don't find with other resha'im. |
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Jun 2 |
answered | Why did Korach have to be buried alive? |
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Jun 2 |
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Did each person recieve the same amount of Manna (from heaven) @expern: about your third comment, by the way, Noda Biyehudah there explains that indeed the Gemara isn't saying that a person must eat an omer daily (and that if not, his digestive system is bad), but rather that this is the maximum a person should be expected to eat. One who physically can't eat that much is indeed מקולקל במעיו, but one who is able to but chooses to make do with less is fine. |
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Jun 2 |
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Did each person recieve the same amount of Manna (from heaven) @expern (first comment): because while there's no question that it was a spiritual food, it was physical as well: it had mass (an omer), taste (whatever you wanted except for five things), rotted if left over, etc. (Second:) You're right, it does seem to be difficult to reconcile what he says with other sources. |
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Jun 2 |
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Why did Moshe conquer the land of Og and Sichon? @expern, I'm not quite getting you. They approached it, as in Eilu V'Eilu's answer, because how else were they going to get to Eretz Yisrael proper? (Unless you suppose that they should have bypassed Sichon's and Og's lands and come around from the north.) |
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Jun 2 |
answered | Did each person recieve the same amount of Manna (from heaven) |
