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Apr 13 |
answered | Why does the Torah forbid interest only on loans to Jews? |
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Apr 13 |
answered | Bar Mitzva during S'fira |
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Apr 13 |
answered | Shalom Alaichem and vice versa |
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Apr 13 |
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What is the machlokes between the Gra and Ba'al HaTanya? It's not just the proclamations, though. The Rebbe also references a letter by R' Shneur Zalman of Liadi (available online at hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31632&st=&pgnum=105), written during the Vilna Gaon's lifetime (to the chassidim in Vilna), in which he writes flatly that the Gaon "considers it absolute heresy to say that He, may He be blessed, is literally found within the most lowly and debased things." In short, then, this too indicates that the Gra's position is closest to #1 or some minor variant thereof, but surely not #3 (Nefesh Hachayim) or #4 (Tanya). |
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Apr 12 |
answered | Arba'a Asar - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 12 |
answered | Arba'a Asar - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 12 |
answered | Shelosha Asar - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 12 |
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yetsias Mitsrayim after 210 years due to hard work: possible? The 430 years mentioned in Ex. 12:40 begins with Avraham (specifically, with the Covenant Between the Parts), yes. But the 400 years specifically refers to זרעך, "your descendants" - and Avraham didn't have any of those at that time. |
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Apr 12 |
answered | why are there only 4 mothers |
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Apr 12 |
answered | yetsias Mitsrayim after 210 years due to hard work: possible? |
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Apr 9 |
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What is the machlokes between the Gra and Ba'al HaTanya? added 229 characters in body |
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Apr 9 |
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What is the machlokes between the Gra and Ba'al HaTanya? "Tzimtzum gamur" would mean "total withdrawal," which is the opposite of what the Baal Hatanya believes in. The Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l (whose letter I refer to in my answer) calls it "tzimtzum shelo kipshuto, verak ba'or." |
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Apr 9 |
answered | Shelosha Asar - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 9 |
answered | What is the machlokes between the Gra and Ba'al HaTanya? |
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Apr 9 |
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Baal Habayis in Bentching In your paragraph 2, yes, the Baal Hatanya's nusach (which of course Chabad follows) always has the mention of one's parents; R' Y.Y. Schneersohn (the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe) clarifies in a letter of his that this applies even after they are deceased. He further explains that the entire series of "Harachamans" in bentching actually refer to the ten Sefiros, and so "my father... and my mother..." have to be included, as Kabbalistically they represent Chochmah and Binah (loosely, "wisdom" and "understanding"). |
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Apr 8 |
answered | Shneim Asar - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 7 |
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Mail Delivery on Shabbos When you consider that you can have a gap in one place but then none in another place parallel to it (see also "kefarim hameshulashin," Eruvin 57a-b), then yes, it may well be possible. |
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Apr 1 |
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Mail Delivery on Shabbos Perhaps a better question is whether, even if not, the mail may be within the techum anyway. I've heard it said (though I have no source for this) that pretty much the entire Eastern Seaboard from Boston to Washington is all within one techum, because there is no gap between buildings wider than 70 amos (~110 feet). |
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Apr 1 |
answered | Achad asar - mi yodeya? |
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Apr 1 |
answered | Achad asar - mi yodeya? |
