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Rashi with sources in context
There's Chumash Rashi Ha'Shalem by Mosdot Ariel (link). Also available on Otzar Hachochmah. Here's an example of one page:
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Resources on learning blessings on food
If you are looking for an English guide to the laws of berachot, I would recommend the Yalkut Yosef Saka Edition Volumes 4-6 (especially for Sephardim). I would also recommend the Feldheim Halachos of ...
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Who is the author of this book - Sefer Maayan Moshe
The author of the sefer is Rabbi Moshe Shatz. The sefer is called Maayan Moshe : Mavo L'Torat HaSod
There are several sites that you can use for buying it:
MySefer (currently out of stock)
The blurb ...
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Someone left a sefer open. Who is affected by increased forgetfulness?
The source for the comment on the wiki is the Shach in SA YD 277, who confirms that there is an angel called "Shad" (Shamor Dapin) who causes:
על מי שמניח ספר פתוח ויוצא שמשכח תלמודו
on the ...
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Source on the life of Shlomo Hamelech
I haven't seen a biography, but I would recommend Artscroll's brilliant Ishei HaTanach by Yishai Chasidah which spends considerable time (fifteen and a half pages) on Shlomo Hamelech and is fully ...
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What am I supposed to be thinking about during Davening?
This is a very important question, but I think you are phrasing it wrong. Let me answer in a way that is a little too strong, for clarity:
You are not supposed to think of anything when you are ...
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Who wrote a collection of gemara arranged to mishnayos taharos?
The Radzhyner Rebbe, R. Gershon Henoch Leiner (1839-1890) composed the commentary 'Sidrei Tohorot' on Seder Tohorot, a compendium of the relevant pieces of gemara on the mishnayot of those masechtot.
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Are there any seforim that explain taamey halocho?
I recommend Peninei Halakha, by R' Eliezer Melamed, for this purpose. R' Melamed's detailed discussion of the practical details of each section of Halacha is integrated with a discussion of the ...
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What am I supposed to be thinking about during Davening?
By way of introduction, the starting point is to have an awareness of whom you are praying before. If you can channel the mindset that you are standing before the Divine Presence it helps to provide a ...
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What is the sefer "Sha'ar HaShamayim" that the Rema references?
The Maharshal, who was a cousin and student of the Rema, sent him a scathing letter in which he criticized him for utilizing an opinion of Aristotle. The Rema responded with this interesting responsum ...
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Where can I purchase ספר הבית היהודי volume 7 by Rabbi Aaron Zachai?
I don't know if you are looking specifically for a UK source? But it is definitely purchasable in Israel.
For example this site here and here has all 10 chalokim.
It would also seem to be purchasable ...
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Who wrote the comments published within Avnei Miluim?
Both of the people you mentioned have their notes published in Avnei Miluim.
Shir published the first section of the book in 1816, and included his notes at the end of the volume.
R. Yekutiel Asher ...
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Looking for a sefer abbreviated מק"ק
The sefer I was looking for was מקראי קודש by R' Zvi Hersh Grodzinsky. a three volume work on Hilchos Krias Hatorah.
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What should I do with these manuscripts?
Make copies
Find someone sitting in kolel or a younger student who’d like to make some extra money
Pay them to transcribe the hand written notes into text
Optionally, but ideally, find a Talmid ...
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Sefer on bal tashchit
There is a kuntres available on Hebrewbooks here - authored by Rabbi Yosef Dovid Cohen
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Chazon ish translation
If by masterpiece, you mean his commentary on the Talmud, this has not been translated. His masterpiece in emuna however titled Emuna u'bitachon has been translated and is published by Judaica Press, ...
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Hebrew source for a question in "Guidelines" chanukah edition by Rabbis Jaeger and Barclay
So for background the quote can be found in Chapter 2 on pages 19-20, no. 24.
The notes at the back read as follows:
מ"ב ס' תרעא ס"ק יח, מבית לוי להגר"ש ואזנר ח"י עמ' יג
And the ...
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Seforim on Suffering
Pain is a Reality, Suffering is a Choice is a book written by someone who lost their daughter at a very young age after their child was severely ill for years.
It is a very well-written book from many ...
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Who is the author of this book - Sefer Maayan Moshe
R' Shatz has undertaken to no longer publish this sefer. In it's stead he released Tarshish Shoham Veyashfeh which is an updated and revised version.
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Rav Moshe's pesak on milk
See this article discussing Rav Moshe's teshuvos about milk in America:
In his famous teshuva about regular (not specially-supervised) milk –
what we call “cholov stam”, Reb Moshe Feinstein zt“l ...
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What are the key differences between Tanya and Mesillat Yesharim?
Having studied both, I can say that there are basically no contradictions between the two. However, there is a difference in the approach. I would recommend watching this lecture which specifically ...
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What are the key differences between Tanya and Mesillat Yesharim?
Mesilat Yasharim teaches the path of Nevuah, the path of prophecy, meaning how to prepare oneself to become one of the B'nai Aliyah.
Like its author says in general, he is teaching the analog to the ...
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What are the key differences between Tanya and Mesillat Yesharim?
Rabbi Nissan Mendel, quotes the compilers foreword from the Alter Rebbe to his magnus opus, the Tanya. He explains that Tanya is:
[...] essentially a work on Jewish religious ethics. The author is ...
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Do fish feel pain?
Welcome to Mi Yodeya! The scientific journal Biology and Philosophy published:
The alternative view that fish instead respond to noxious stimuli
reflexly and with a limited behavioural repertoire is ...
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List of what noahides can’t observe
I would recommend the sefer called "The Divine Commandment" by Rabbi Moshe Weiner. I have been told for Chabad, it is considered "The Shulchan Aruch for Noahides" .
To answer your ...
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Book recommendation: commentaries on aggadah?
By far the most comprehensive analysis of the Aggadah sections of the Talmud that I have used is a series called
שיעורים בהגדות חז"ל
written by a רב חנוך גבהרד about 20 years ago.
Seems it came ...
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Are the stories from Chashukei Chemed real?
Rav Osher Weiss has stated in public that many of the cases are theoretical and never happened. I personally think that is obvious based on the nature of the questions he deals with.
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Does anyone know from which book this excerpt comes from?
I've just discovered that this excerpt is from the book The Story of Our Lives: An Epic Quest For The Soul of Our Tradition by R' Yaakov Klein.
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Text of Derashos HaRan online
Sefaria offers a digital version, with both Hebrew and English translations.
The English translation is done by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein.
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Looking for more information about this "Megillah"
While I didn't find information regarding the megillah specifically, it seems that it was customary for the yeshiva to solicit contributions through various 'gifts' given (or sold?) around the chagim. ...
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