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| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
| seen | May 14 at 13:05 | |
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Dec 1 |
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What is a source that allows one to treat one's house as all within four amos? Translation of sources: MB 1 There are those who say that WRT this, we say that the entire house is as 4 amos, but one should only rely on this when forced. Aruch haShulchan 4 Because there are those who are stringent and are careful acc. to the Zohar that it is forbidden to walk 4 amos without washing the hands. |
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Nov 30 |
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Can only the husband in a gentile married couple convert? "an orthodox conversion would be accepted by all." In theory; but in the last few years this has been an issue, especially in Israel. |
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Nov 29 |
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Eating Giraffe Meat See zootorah.com/VirtualTour/giraffe.html |
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Nov 14 |
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Does artificial meat grown in a petri dish have the halachic status of meat? @IsaacMoses yeah, I think I was just feeling curmudgeonly earlier. |
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Nov 14 |
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Does artificial meat grown in a petri dish have the halachic status of meat? Not sure if this is a distinction w/o a difference, but the issur (rennet) encourages the dairy to mature into cheese, whereas here, the other ingredients encourage/support the stem cells themselves to grow. So the end product is directly generated from original stem cells. If anything, that should be "worse." |
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Nov 13 |
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Does artificial meat grown in a petri dish have the halachic status of meat? Firstly, I would assume you need to start with material from a shechted animal; bu even that is not 100% clear. Interesting. Sounds like a question for a posek, not SE. |
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Nov 6 |
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Why can't I use velcro to tie a Lulav? Mine does |
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Nov 4 |
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Mitzvah of living in Eretz Yisrael Grr, poor 1989 walkman recording. Not much good walking down the street. Will try again on the train today. |
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Nov 3 |
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Mitzvah of living in Eretz Yisrael How can one "see" an audio lecture? ;) Downloading now... |
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Nov 3 |
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Mitzvah of living in Eretz Yisrael Probably more territory (incorporation of Kabbalistic elements into halachah) for an academic paper than a SE question, though it's probably already been written |
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Nov 3 |
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Mitzvah of living in Eretz Yisrael "Kabbalistic Halachic reasons" - ooh, I think I smell a new JStack question... |
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Nov 3 |
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Non-Israeli pulpit rabbis who actively promote moving to Israel Hah, reminds me of the story of R' Yehudah ha-Levi: over the course of his life, he became convinced that a person should yearn for EY. The Khazar king in the Kuzari called the Chacham out for not going, and eventually RYhL moved there himself from Spain. This, when it took weeks or months and EY was largely wasteland IIUC. |
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Nov 3 |
awarded | Student |
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Nov 3 |
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What justifications are there for not moving to Eretz Yisrael? I think it's time to fork this into a new question: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/11084/… |
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Nov 3 |
asked | Mitzvah of living in Eretz Yisrael |
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Nov 3 |
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What justifications are there for not moving to Eretz Yisrael? @avi: What's the cost of living in those communities? (not being sarcastic) |
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Nov 3 |
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What justifications are there for not moving to Eretz Yisrael? We need to clear up what "some level of mitzvah" means. Also, what "accepted consensus among the rishonim" means per se, and what the implications are for us. IMO a broad decision like moving to EY goes beyond mechanical halachah, i.e. involves a holistic look at the person and his/her life. |
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Nov 3 |
answered | What justifications are there for not moving to Eretz Yisrael? |
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Nov 3 |
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What justifications are there for not moving to Eretz Yisrael? @avi: not if you've concluded they're not going to follow you. |
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Oct 31 |
awarded | Commentator |
