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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. |
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Feb 7 |
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Taking a concubine (pilegesh) today @will re R Frand: more power to him for distinguishing between public policy and technical halacha. |
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Feb 7 |
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Please clarify Mishlei 24:21 regarding mingling with dualists Sounds like Gnosticism from your description. |
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Jan 17 |
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Can the chazzan use the vernacular quietly? @avi I don't follow your last comment at 21:14; my point was: assuming the Sha"tz has no formal halachic significance outside of the chazarah and devarim shebi-kedushah, it should not matter whether he uses Hebrew in the silent parts which are technically insignificant. |
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Jan 17 |
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Can the chazzan use the vernacular quietly? @avi seems to me the Sha"tz is only up there in non-public sections out of convenience or decorum; he's not actually effecting anything except for kaddish and amidah. No? |
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Jan 17 |
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Can the chazzan use the vernacular quietly? @IsaacMoses as always :) |
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Jan 6 |
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Did any Achronim comment on the American Revolutionary or Civil Wars? And here torahmusings.com/2011/09/finding-your-mendelssohn |
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Jan 5 |
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Beginner on Rav Soloveitchik Also: Abraham's Journey is wonderful. |
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Jan 5 |
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Beginner on Rav Soloveitchik I was privileged to attend a chabura on LMoF. It is awesome, but I needed the initiation in 20th-century theology, the background of the sefer, and RYBS's basic conceptual framework to really get the most out it. |
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Jan 3 |
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Water from hydroelectric plant for netilat yadayim? Now that I think about it, returning to "mechubar" status (e.g. entering a river after leaving the plant) may "reset" the water... not sure |
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Jan 3 |
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What do the names Pesil, Pesa, and Pesha mean? @AviPesa you don't know; so you speculate. Welcome to etymology :) In this case, I used "seems" b/c the page I linked to does not present any specific sources. |
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Jan 1 |
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Torah Im Derech Eretz and Torah Umada @ydk was that supposed to be ambiguous? Because it was. |
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Jan 1 |
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Torah Im Derech Eretz and Torah Umada That's R' "Hershel Schachter." It's my uninformed impression that RHS is more a talmudist/halachist and less a philosopher. But someone closer to him feel free to refute that. Torah uMadda is a slogan. I think it's meant to be open-ended, as evidenced by the number of interpretations even in R' Lamm's own book. As for Torah im Derech Eretz, there's R' SR Hirsch's conception, and then there are various peshatim on that expression in Avos, and... I presume you mean RSRH [judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/6224/… ? |
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Jan 1 |
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Hebrew Pronunciation- Sephardic Ashkenaz hmm, I do this. For me, when I was learning the alef-beis at age 20, I hit ayin, and felt like, "what gives? this letter has a pronunciation, right?" I added ches and kuf later. That's about the extend of my sefardization. I pronounce dagesh chazak also, though that's not sefardi per se, just correct. |
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Jan 1 |
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Why Not Eight Days Until a Convert's Circumcision? @Mbrevda From chapter 13 "The Conversion of Minors" in Lamm's Becoming a Jew, I do not get that impression; rather that a katan can become a ger. (He invokes "zechus hu lo.") p.193: "[at maturity] he is considered to have accepted the court's action on his behalf and to be a full-fledged Jew from the moment of his original conversion." See also the notes there. |
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Dec 30 |
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Why Not Eight Days Until a Convert's Circumcision? @Mbrevda adopt non-Jewish child, conversion is contingent on the child accepting it at coming of age |
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Dec 29 |
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After chumashim with notes and Rashi, what's the next torah commentary I should acquire and study? That Judaica Press English series you link to, has been discontinued, somewhere before Vayikra. |
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Dec 29 |
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After chumashim with notes and Rashi, what's the next torah commentary I should acquire and study? IMO this type of comparative study can obscure the fact that different approaches to mikra (or anything else) can be very different and have a personality - as you imply. This lends itself to being under-nuanced. I don't have any data on a "common path," but my inclination is to "dwell" with a single commentator for a while, to absorb that commentator's approach and perspective. |
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Dec 29 |
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After chumashim with notes and Rashi, what's the next torah commentary I should acquire and study? Older translation: Judaica Press, out of print??! Blue (older) or beige (newer) cover. amazon.com/HIRSCH-COMMENTARY-TORAH--7-set/dp/0910818126 I prefer that one, though stylistically the English is more difficult. Do not confuse the 7-vol set with the 1-vol severely abridged version. // New translation: feldheim.com/the-hirsch-chumash-1.html |
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Dec 28 |
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Who determines the kosher status of “new” foods? Consensus or organizations don't "make" a food kosher; they merely research the manufacturing process and decide whether they can vouch for the item's kashrut. It's up to the individual and/or his/her rabbi to decide whose certification to accept. |
