All Questions
Tagged with am-yisrael-jewish-nation sources-mekorot
8 questions
16
votes
1
answer
739
views
Half Jew half Gentile
I always thought it was a misconception to be "half-Jewish". Usually the speaker means one of their parents are Jewish, making them either fully Jewish or fully Gentile.
However, I saw today that the ...
- 20.2k
11
votes
1
answer
2k
views
"Don't say 'lehavdil' between one Jew and another."
In today's Parashat Hashavu'a Chat, I used the qualification "lehavdil" (*) to apply to a pun that jokingly and innocuously related the actions of Datan and Aviram to those of a community member here.
...
- 48.6k
7
votes
2
answers
263
views
Shavuos as a Marriage
There is an idea (which I initially became familiar with in my misspent youth from tamei sources but subsequently have seen it mentioned in tahor one's) that Shavuos is, as it were, a marriage between ...
- 13.5k
3
votes
1
answer
87
views
National Character affecting its Jewish Community
In pg. 3 of this interview by R' Hamburger שליט“א, he asserts in the name of the Michtav miEliyohu (Dessler זצ”ל) that the character of each nation's non-Jewish majority affected the temperment and ...
- 13.3k
2
votes
3
answers
509
views
The Belzer Rebbe's approach to nationalism and zionism
In "The Rabbis Speak Out", the 3rd Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach is quoted (Kuntres 22 Cheshvan, p. 108) in saying that:
Zionism itself is founded on denial of G-d‟s providence, ...
- 11.6k
1
vote
2
answers
161
views
Source from the Bobover: What defines being Jewish: adherence to Torah?
I have seen in this article that the Bobover Rebbe, Rabbi Shelomo of Bobov, is quoted in ruling halachically that the Bobover Rebbe negates a racial definition of being Jewish;
rather, the yardstick ...
- 11.6k
-1
votes
1
answer
211
views
Which chag also celebrates or renews a brit or similar?
What do our rabbis of blessed memory say about Shavuos, or any chag that celebrates the purposes of that chag as well as at the same time celebrates or renews a previous brit or similar? From shul I ...
- 41
-8
votes
1
answer
128
views
Invalidating Jews as the Suffering Servant [closed]
I saw this post in which a rabbi explains why Is. 53 cannot be talking about Jesus. The essential line is
This tells us that someone who is widely respected BEFORE the arm of the Lord is revealed – ...
- 38.7k