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Mar 27 |
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Halakha book for modern working place There is a book called 9:00 to 5:00 by Rabbi Shmuel Neiman. It is focused on gender relations and is quite restrictive. I'm not going to cite it as an answer since it doesn't focus on the ethical as per the question, but I feel like it bears mentioning in this context. |
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Mar 26 |
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Hand motions for trope in Torah reading Someone posted then removed an answer which referenced this article: jstor.org/stable/3263422 |
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Mar 26 |
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Hand motions for trope in Torah reading @l' did you devise them ad hoc with the readers in question? |
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Mar 21 |
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Different flour:oil ratios in the mincha sacrifices — how did the dough stay together? Here's a 3:1 AP flour/canola mixture. I forgot to use olive oil. flickr.com/photos/54284792@N02/6856560218 |
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Mar 20 |
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Different flour:oil ratios in the mincha sacrifices — how did the dough stay together? Well, efah is 72 log, and hin is 12 log, so it's 18:5 flour to oil for the thicker, assuming the log are equal (?). Figure like 3-plus cups flour to one cup oil. Sounds reasonable, batter-y. |
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Mar 15 |
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Why do people get Chassidishe Shchita? The Rambam wasn't a chossid ;) |
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Mar 13 |
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What was Moshe's “masveh”? @mochin that is the thrust, but they are related; the function informs the form. |
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Mar 12 |
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Moshe's Mask and Purim? this question inspired judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/15148/… |
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Mar 1 |
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Insults in the gemarah @Moshe: speculation on what count? |
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Mar 1 |
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Insults in the gemarah @AvrohomYitzchok indeed, but the question refers to those cases that clearly use derogatory language. |
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Mar 1 |
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What's the history of Hekhalot/Heichalot/Heikhalot literature? Lousy internet. Be less conflicting! |
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Mar 1 |
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What's the history of Hekhalot/Heichalot/Heikhalot literature? Here's a bibliography from a Bar-Ilan course: faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/bibmyshk.html |
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Mar 1 |
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What is the source for the current Shiurim that we have? @DoubleAA I was responding to "What is the source of these two opinions?" but I concede it's ambiguous at best. |
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Feb 29 |
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What is the source for the current Shiurim that we have? I hope this shows precedent for the Noeh position as presented in the question. Is that not part of what was asked? |
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Feb 28 |
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Is Mossad Assasination allowed in Torah? @SethJ that's what I was referencing, but my impression is that those are supra-halachic solutions. IOW to my ear, halachos of murder deal with the individual, and discretion was taken by societal leaders to eliminate threats to the public, e.g. taking out murderers who couldn't be convicted via edim ve-hasraah. Halachah never really entered into it. That's just my impression though. I haven't read through the teshuvos of Ezra ha-Sofer lately :P unfortunately. |
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Feb 28 |
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Is Mossad Assasination allowed in Torah? When I see בא להרגך I think showing up at my door with a gun, now. How clear is it that this would apply to preemptively selecting and killing a likely murderer? I think the supra-halachic precedent of killing societal troublemakers is more promising for this case. |
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Feb 16 |
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Circumcision when danger to life, born Jews and potential gerim @Yirmeyahu as opposed to the weight of this mitzvah requiring negotiation with pikuach nefesh, especially with the mitzvah's life scope as Shalom mentions in his answer. In other words, the premise of my question: perhaps, in the face of aggadic evidence of the import of this mitzvah (e.g. afterlife), we might be more lenient than usual WRT pikuach nefesh. |
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Feb 8 |
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Is kneeling and bowing down in Kung Fu an idolatry (Avoda Zarah)? to the OP: why/to what are you bowing? R' Akiva Tatz discusses bowing in some depth in Letters to a Buddhist Jew. |
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Feb 8 |
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Is kneeling and bowing down in Kung Fu an idolatry (Avoda Zarah)? @GershonGold can you elaborate? |
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Feb 7 |
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Taking a concubine (pilegesh) today R Rakeffet's point is a straw man IMO: we're talking about invoking dinei pilegesh to implement an altogether different style of relationship. At least potentially. |
