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| bio | website | iit.edu/~kbloom1 |
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| location | Chicago, IL | |
| age | 30 | |
| visits | member for | 3 years, 2 months |
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Sepharadi Jew in Chicago.
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Aug 26 |
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How can people effectively bless when blessing is God's domain? @MonicaCellio: That's just the power of prayer: it is life-changing, and it does influence God to answer it. One's prayer is more powerful, and more likely to be answered the greater the merit the person praying has. And Yitzchack Avinu was way up there in merit. |
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Aug 26 |
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How can people effectively bless when blessing is God's domain? @jake: When Yaakov dressed up as Eisav, the blessing that Yitzchak gave him was explicitly not the blessing that God gave to Avraham of "great nation, chosen people, etc." Yitzchak gave him that blessing later when he left for Haran. |
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Aug 26 |
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Women and Mayim Acharonim From the AishDas thread above, you can also note Ari Zivotovsky's article who says this is the only justification that he's found for women not washing mayim acharonim. |
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Aug 26 |
accepted | Women and Mayim Acharonim |
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Aug 26 |
accepted | Why did Moshe Rabbeinu object to the mirrors, but not the kumaz? |
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Aug 26 |
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Why did Moshe Rabbeinu object to the mirrors, but not the kumaz? I suddenly realize that the kumaz may be no more objectionable than a piece of jewelry worn anywhere else on the body, given that it is forbidden for men to gaze at any of piece of jewelry. |
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Aug 26 |
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Women and Mayim Acharonim Sources saying both men and women should wash mayim acharonim include Ben Ish Chai, First Year, Parshat Shelach, #11 and Halacha Berurah 181:1. I took a quick glance at the Mishnah Berurah and didn't find anything there about men or women in particular. The source for not requiring it for (almost) anybody is Shulchan Aruch OC 181:10. |
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Aug 26 |
asked | Women and Mayim Acharonim |
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Aug 23 |
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What is the original source that a soul is split in half before conception? Notice that the top hit says "split in half when the first of the two is conceived." Other hits say "split into two halves when the older of the two was conceived" |
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Aug 16 |
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Is animal sacrifice practised among modern Jews? You just need to add that all of the sacrifices in the world mean nothing if the person doesn't also do teshuva -- show regret, resolve not to repeat the sin, and put in place measures to not repeat the sin. |
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Aug 13 |
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Is the winding פ in this sefer torah kosher? edited title; edited title |
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Aug 7 |
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One day yom tov for someone who spends every chag in Israel? improve title. |
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Aug 5 |
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Connecting Shas and Halacha Explain exactly where the Ein Mishpat is located. |
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Aug 2 |
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Nudity at home? @DoubleAA: This is more general. Someone could (and should) research whether a husband can be completely naked in front of his wife, and it would answer this question, but not the others. |
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Aug 2 |
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Nudity at home? Related questions: Can you see your wife unclothed?, and Can a mother undress in front of her daughter? |
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Aug 2 |
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Nudity at home? added 46 characters in body; deleted 4 characters in body |
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Aug 2 |
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Nudity at home? added 181 characters in body |
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Aug 2 |
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Nudity at home? @ba: you may be right. I've also seen the explanation of "maybe he'll see something about her that disgusts him" in the context of martial relations as meaning that the she may be degraded in his eyes from the situation that he sees her in (i.e. naked during marital relations), which possibly applies only in situations of marital relations. |
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Aug 2 |
answered | Nudity at home? |
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Jul 26 |
awarded | halacha |
