Questions tagged [purim-torah-in-jest]
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PTIJ Lifnei Iver if you give food to a muslim during Ramadan?
Is it לפני עיוור to send a lot of food into gaza during Ramadan? If so, what if you send it at night?
No political answers please, just pure Halachic fake pilpul.
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PTIJ forgot to fast before laser-Mitzvah-versary
When a Jew goes up to the Torah for an Aliyah, he says “blessed… who selected us from all the nations to control his space laser station.”
As we all know, a Jew gets his turn controlling the ...
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PTIJ: Was Yitzchak Breslov? [closed]
I've been pondering which type of Jew each of the Avos was and I think I have proof to one of them. Genesis 24:63 states,
וַיֵּצֵ֥א יִצְחָ֛ק לָשׂ֥וּחַ בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה לִפְנ֣וֹת עָ֑רֶב
-"Yitzchak went ...
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PTIJ: Why do we glorify Pearl Harbor?
I don't think that our educational system should include songs which celebrate war. Is there any discussion why we teach children to sing about the attack on Pearl Harbor as if it was a divine ...
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PTIJ: Guide to being a super hero if you are Jewish
There have been many super heroes in Jewish history. For example, Rivka was actually Batman. See Onkelos on Bereshit 24:23:
וַאֲמַר בַּת מָן אַתְּ
And he (Eliezer) said "You are Batman"
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PTIJ: eating Chametz on pesach
Before Pesach, we say כל חמירא וחמיעא which turns all the Chametz we own into dust. Dust, as we know, is not food and certainly not Chametz. Thus, can one say כל חמירא and then proceed to eat all his ...
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PTIJ: What are some customs and traditions of the Yishletu Chasidim?
I haven't met very many Yishletuers, and am looking to get some more information. From what I've heard, their name comes from "yesh l'tu", since they go out of their way to make sure they do ...
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PTIJ: What came first the chicken or the egg? [closed]
What came first the chicken or the egg? The age-old question has bothered people forever. Any opinion from the sages is appreciated.
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PTIJ: Can my friend be eaten?
My Hebrew is far short of what I would like, so I often must rely on translation. In the translation I read:
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given ...
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PTIJ: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Just wondering if Torah sources have any answer to the world's most timeless and compelling question: why did the chicken cross the road?
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PTIJ: How can we have extra simcha when the trees are brought in if the tree is too big to move?
The gemara says in Taanit (29a):
מִשֶּׁנִּכְנַס אדר מַרְבִּין בְּשִׂמְחָה.
When adar comes in, we increase simcha.
What is an adar?
If we look at other places where the same word is used, we find ...
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PTIJ: How are we supposed to ever be bisimcha?
Dovid HaMelech tells us in Tehillim (100:2) "עבדו את ה' בשמחה", that we should serve Hashem with happiness. Yet the Mishnah in Taanis (4:6) says "מִשֶּׁנִּכְנַס אָב, מְמַעֲטִין ...
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PTIJ: How did the chickens get involved?
In explaining the various obligations on Purim, the codifiers insist that more than just men are obligated because "af Hen hayu b'oto hanes", even the hens were involved with the same ...
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PTIJ: Why do chasidim say they're Haman before performing mitvos?
I've noticed a very common phrase in Siddurim that is printed before mitzvos such as kiddush levana, birchas hamazon, etc... "הנני ממוכן ומזמן" which translates as "I am hereby '...
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PTIJ: Biden and the towel
The Mishnah says [Shabbat 22:5]:
אבל עשרה בני אדם מסתפגין באלונטית אחת פניהם ידיהם ורגליהם, ומביאין אותה בידן.
However, ten people may use one towel to dry their faces, hands, and feet, and may ...
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