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Jun 25	comment	Bracha on Smoking @msh210 I simply don't understand how random particles of tobacco that mistakenly end up getting routed to the stomach instead of the lungs, can be called eating. It's totally unintentional; if I walk through a smoky room, presumably the same thing happens, yet it would be absurd to say a berachah there.
Jun 25	comment	Is one allowed to drink alcohol on regular weekdays? Why would one think otherwise?
Jun 25	comment	Bracha on Smoking @DoubleAA true enough, but the implication in the question was an eating berachah due to the ingestion of tobacco. But to address your point, I find it unlikely that cigarette smokers savor the fragrance, though I could be wrong. For cigars and pipes, on the other hand, I could hear that much better.
Jun 11	comment	Was it ever the norm for children to get married? My Iraqi ex-roommate's grandmother was 12.5, if I recall correctly. And my ex-chavrusa's grandmother (Ashkenazi) was 14.
May 11	comment	What is the source for the mitzvah of kiruv? Well IIRC one may be mechalel Shabbos to save a person spiritually as well as physically, so hatzalas nefashos is one place to start looking
May 11	comment	Paying bill for aveirah already done @Shemmy it's a good question, but assume for here that the seller is a Jew.
May 10	comment	Paying bill for aveirah already done All animals; it's a done deal, and they are passing on the fee to the adopter.
May 7	comment	Goshen, the most immoral part of Mitzrayim Is it definite that "oso makom" refers to Goshen, as opposed to Egypt in general?
May 4	comment	Would a baalat teshuva need a get from each previous sexual relationship? Agreed. I assumed that we are talking about no-daat-kiddushin unions here.
May 4	comment	Would a baalat teshuva need a get from each previous sexual relationship? ... but the safek would IIUC be whether this sort of relationship takes effect; so the bottom line is still either the first took effect, or none. So need a get from the first.
May 4	comment	Does Judaism consider virginity to be a virtue? Not a virtue per se. I would be more inclined to say that Judaism treats promiscuity as a vice. Priests have a higher degree of consecration, which may explain the prescription that the Kohen Gadol marry a virgin; not necessarily that it is a /virtue/.
May 1	comment	Cooking meat and milk as a chef I just asked her via Twitter
Apr 25	comment	All you need is love? What about "And Jacob loved Rachel?" The professor apparently has a psycho-philosophical difficulty with the verse (and is not alone), but it doesn't strike me as being a compelling argument that the verb doesn't mean "love."
Apr 17	comment	Mitzvah of living in Eretz Yisrael The work as a whole may not be one of halachah, but he uses halachic arguments therein. How is this "not showing research effort, unclear, or un-useful?"
Apr 15	comment	If someone has BO and can't smell themselves, may they say blessings? Is BO a bad odor WRT Torah? It's my impression that it's decay, not sweat, that is the issue. Also, for what it's worth everyone smelled strongly in earlier times.
Apr 10	comment	What justifications are there for not moving to Eretz Yisrael? @yydl this is done.
Apr 3	comment	Is it OK to eat non-certified-as-kosher sushi? Well, the fact that some sushi fauna are nonkosher would give me concern. Also I don't know if "so many pretty frum people" is grounds for a question; do you know if any rav rules that it is allowed? What [type of] community are we dealing with?
Apr 3	comment	Should a Jew who doesn't believe in G-d observe the commandments? "Should," from whose point of view?
Mar 28	comment	Commencing Shabbos: Shkiya behind a mountain Not according to the OU pesak in my answer, IIUC
Mar 28	comment	Commencing Shabbos: Shkiya behind a mountain Based on my Internet roamings on this earlier, there are two elevations: that of the person, and that of the horizon. IOW both being higher/lower myself, and the terrain at the horizon, are factors in the time of the sun's apparent setting. The question regards the horizon, but it sounds like the teshuvah you cite is dealing with the elevation of the person.