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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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May 13 |
comment |
Implications of Samoa skipping a Friday The short answer (my summary of this article) is that since "According to almost all opinions, the Halachic Dateline is not determined by what the locals call 'Saturday,'" Shabbat the week of the time change (shabbat B) will start exactly 7 days after the start of the previous shabbat (shabbat A), and shabbat the week after the time change (shabbat C) will start exact exactly 7 days after the start of shabbat B. There's longstanding complication caused by the fact that the Chazon Ish and R' Tukachinsky disagree about what day Shabbat is to begin with, but this new change doesn't affect that. |
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May 13 |
answered | Parsha reading gap between Israel and overseas |
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May 9 |
revised |
Why is Lag Baomer celebrated the way it is (or at all)? Delete footnote references, since there are no footnotes in this answer. |
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May 6 |
revised |
Timtum Halev not b'derech achila added 5 characters in body |
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Apr 23 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Apr 17 |
comment |
Jewish tunes similar to non-Jewish ones @follick: Fixed. |
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Apr 17 |
revised |
Jewish tunes similar to non-Jewish ones deleted 11 characters in body |
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Apr 17 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Jewish tunes similar to non-Jewish ones |
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Apr 17 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Cutting tzitzis strings |
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Apr 15 |
answered | Leniencies for someone keeping Kosher in a non-Kosher home |
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Apr 9 |
comment |
Deliberately planning to do work for the community on Chol HaMoed: Is it allowed? Financial loss is a justification for permitting melacha that would otherwise be forbidden on Hol HaMoed. Loss of a potential profit is generally not a justification for permitting melacha that would otherwise be forbidden on Hol HaMoed. |
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Apr 6 |
answered | Deliberately planning to do work for the community on Chol HaMoed: Is it allowed? |
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Mar 28 |
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Do “most leading Orthodox rabbis” really hold that brain-stem death is death? @ShmuelBrill: science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1582616&cid=31484600 |
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Mar 27 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Mar 26 |
asked | Why did Moshe Rabbeinu object to the mirrors, but not the kumaz? |
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Mar 26 |
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What Bracha should you say on a Hurricane? @Shemmy: My source for the halacha in my previous comment about saying the beracha even if you only see the flash on the walls of the room you're in is Halacah Berurah (OC 227). |
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Mar 16 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Mar 7 |
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Berakhos recited over food - Mitzvah or Matir? We don't pasken by the first gemara, otherwise berachot before you eat would be d'oraita. (They're not.) |
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Mar 6 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 28 |
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Saying Hashem's name when studying @HachamGabriel: thanks |
