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Dec 26 |
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Are there any statistics regarding how many people convert yearly? Being that there is no central authority (at least outside of Israel), I can't imagine how there would be. I'm a ger and as far as I know, I was never "registered" anywhere beyond the NYC rabbi who coordinated it. |
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Dec 19 |
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High School Math in the Talmud Really, if a person doesn't find math intrinsically beautiful, it's probably hard to make a specific case for learning past arithmetic, given that most math is abstracted away from us in 21st c. Western society. Might want to look at the remarkable manifestations of math constructs in nature. Basic algebra is certainly related to logic though, so a good foundation in that is a good thing WRT Talmud. He should be able to cross over from e.g. kal va-chomer and represent that quasi-algebraically (if a > b etc.) |
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Dec 18 |
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What are the sources for women to wear/ not wear pants? I did not yet receive a response. |
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Dec 13 |
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What are the sources for women to wear/ not wear pants? Let me see if I can get clarification from him. |
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Dec 13 |
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What are the sources for women to wear/ not wear pants? @SethJ He writes "there is no issur; on the contrary, yesh bo mishum tzenius" - I understood this as a polar contrast: not only is there no issur, but it's actually an example of good tzenius. |
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Dec 13 |
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Tznius of the times Pants depends on whom you ask; see my answer to this related question |
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Dec 7 |
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Does amirah L'akum apply to robots? what @DoubleAA said. If we really want to go sci-fi, the question could spill out into "is a sentient android considered human for the purposes of agency in the Torah". It must be Friday. |
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Nov 26 |
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Inhaling prayers? I was trying to get around to asking this; thank you for posting! |
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Nov 20 |
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Cold-brew coffee on Shabbos @sam well, that's the question: is there any melachah here. Apparently there's no problem brewing tea, but that is only steeped for a short time. Could it be dash? |
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Nov 20 |
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Cold-brew coffee on Shabbos I explicitly excluded straining from the question. Based on your feedback, I removed reference to the press. |
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Nov 12 |
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Why should one have marital relations as if forced by a demon? It was clear to me in my own chasan class, as well as a reinforcement session I had with another rav later, who was a talmid of R' Henkin, that I was not encouraged to follow this halachah. I still don't understand what the fact of it being in SA is actually supposed to mean. |
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Nov 11 |
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Circumcision when danger to life, born Jews and potential gerim Ask Skylar at the blog... |
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Nov 5 |
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Do those who practice family purity get cervical cancer less? Try this search on PubMed ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/… |
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Aug 22 |
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Learning secular topics for parnassah The question works in theory, but in practice (at least in the professions), I don't think curtailing continuing education is a good idea. One wouldn't remain competitive that way. Additionally, there are precious few professions where one can coast and still meet his financial obligations in today's Orthodox world. |
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Aug 8 |
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What does “twice in seven years” mean regarding checking mezuzos? @ba if it's viewed as a cycle, I can check in years 2, 4, 9, 13, and 5-11 have passed with only one check. |
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Aug 7 |
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What does “twice in seven years” mean regarding checking mezuzos? @ba does it mean, then, that there should be no seven-year period without two checkings? Or is it a repeating seven-year cycle, where you might have seven years pass without a check? |
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Jul 27 |
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Paying bill for aveirah already done @msh210 yes, but it's the act that's impermissible, not the payment - no? I would think even more so with the animal, since the payment does not degrade the act any more, as opposed to the zenus. |
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Jul 23 |
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Invitation to nonkosher restaurant This is a valuable question, but you should modify it to be more general rather than personal advice - see meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/312/… -- and ask your rav! |
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Jul 5 |
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Biography on Rav Hirsch @MatthewMiller The Klugmann is a pretty well-researched and balanced work. |
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Jul 2 |
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Source for the practice of not blowing out candles/flames? @sam me neither, at least in Hebrewbooks, assuming the sefer I found there is the one they're talking about. |
