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| bio | website | linkedin.com/in/gt6989b |
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| location | New York, NY | |
| age | 34 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
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May 1 |
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References for learning Aggada Thank you :), a translation of Peirush al Kama Aggados just also went out in Russian (together with Even Sheleima, and a peirush on both). Thi smay be useful for others looking for this book. Thank you. |
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Apr 30 |
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Cooking Parve food but with mixed utensils how much time passed since the pot was last used? Is there 60 times more food than the surface volume of the spatula, immersed in it? |
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Apr 30 |
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Cooking Parve food but with mixed utensils a good candidate to CYLOR. |
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Apr 30 |
asked | References for learning Aggada |
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Apr 25 |
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Is there any evidence that Rabbi Akiva's students fought alongside Bar Kochba? It was also my impression that we generally agre he was killed around 138 CE (end of the revolt), whihc puts his birth at 18 CE, and thus he was about 60 when the Second Temple was destroyed. |
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Apr 23 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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Apr 22 |
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Why are women exempt from (many) time-bound mitzvot? I've heard R' Akiva Tatz quote this in shiurim. I think the real meaning is not that they are exempt because they have the cycle, but rather, the presence of the cycle hints that they have an internal connection to time, which results in the cycle. Hence, they are free from external obligations, whose goal is to make us connected to time. |
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Apr 18 |
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Using a cell phone as a watch on Shabbos I don't think that works for moras ayin, but there are much more competent people on the site than me - perhaps someone will offer an opinion. Thanks for an interesting question. |
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Apr 18 |
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Using a cell phone as a watch on Shabbos Perhaps the problem would not be with muktzeh, but with moras ayin? |
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Apr 18 |
answered | Why do the middat hayom start with chessed and progress to malchut? |
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Apr 17 |
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Questions about the destruction of Sodom and the vicinity @nikmasi Perhaps the Rashi al derech remez hints to it, when he says the 4 of them were on the same rock (supposedly excluding Tzoar as well) - tzur (rock) is often used in derush and remez to hint at the source of something (e.g. Hashem is called Tzur Olamim, and this is one of the explanations). |
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Apr 17 |
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Questions about the destruction of Sodom and the vicinity @nikmasi I agree there is no outside sources, except the verse in Devarim is support that the city did not get destroyed after all. |
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Apr 17 |
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Questions about the destruction of Sodom and the vicinity @nikmasi He addresses (2) and (3) - Lot didn't know that there were others, and they did not live in Tzoar but came there that night together with Lot. (3) I don't remember what he says, like I wrote in the comment above. In my opinion, (1) makes him daven for Tzoar, and also bears homiletic meaning as well, hinting to him that he's only saved in Avraham's merit. |
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Apr 17 |
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Questions about the destruction of Sodom and the vicinity @nikmasi As for the Akeyda, his rendering has two tremendous strong points: explains the unusual verse in Devarim (why 4 cities there, not 5, if all 5 were destroyed like most rishonim claim) and establishes that the bargaining of Avraham avinu was not pointless - it resulted in specific salvation of a city. That would require 7 other tzaddikim (not 8) but also leaves a question why Lot would leave to the mountains. He asks it, but I don't remember what he answers. |
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Apr 17 |
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Questions about the destruction of Sodom and the vicinity @nikmasi I don't have such a source (hence "I think" before the relevant statement). |
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Apr 17 |
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Why did God destroy Sodom in such a strange way? @nikmasi Not sure about brimstone though. |
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Apr 17 |
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Why did God destroy Sodom in such a strange way? @nikmasi Further, I am not inclied to take "turning it upside down" literally, rather that which the city stood for (the concept that pure din, opposed to chessed and unmitigated by rachamim, can exist in reality) became inverted - i.e. Hashem illustrated clearly that the world would not survive on such din, that rachamim is necessary (as Rashi writes on Bereishis 1:1). |
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Apr 17 |
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Why did God destroy Sodom in such a strange way? @nikmasi See my answer on that question, that one name is used for convenince amongst all cities of the valley. It is common to refer to all 5 (or 4 that were destroyed as the Akeida claims) by that one name. |
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Apr 17 |
answered | Why did God destroy Sodom in such a strange way? |
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Apr 17 |
answered | Questions about the destruction of Sodom and the vicinity |
