Unanswered Questions
246 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What are the Tumah implications outside of Temple?
What are the implication of tumah other than related to the Temple?
E.g., a pathologist in, say, Australia is contaminated with Tumas Mes all the time. Does he have to travel to Jerusalem to get ...
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What is the shitah of the Rambam regarding mevarekh mossi havero [מברך מוציא חברו]?
Before asking the question, I need to give some background information:
The Rambam in Hilkhoth Berakhoth 1:11 says,
כָּל הַשּׁוֹמֵעַ בְּרָכָה מִן הַבְּרָכוֹת מִתְּחִלָּתָהּ וְעַד סוֹפָהּ, ...
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What is the source of Rambam's cosmology?
In the Mishneh Torah third section of Yesodei a geocentric world is described with a number of spheres containing stars that revolve around the Earth due to the motion of the spheres that contain them....
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Reconciling Maimonides' Interpretation of Theodicy in the Book of Job: Eliphaz vs. Elihu
A question has been on my mind, and I would appreciate your opinion.
While studying chapter 23 of the third book of the Moreh Nevukhim, Rambam (Maimonides) seems to acknowledge the traditional view of ...
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Rambam: Thou Shalt Not Be an Idiot
According to this article:
I think racism violates some important meta-principles of the Torah,
particularly the thinking of Maimonides, for whom there is a 614th
commandment, Thou Shalt Not Be an ...
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Would the Exodus generation not have entered Canaan/spent years in the desert irrespective of sin?
R Avraham ibn Ezra and Rambam both posit that the Israelite slaves that left Egypt were not upto the task of war and needed to die out and be replaced with more courageous progeny (ibn Ezra) and/or ...
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Rambam Mishneh Torah handbook
Rambam’s Mishneh Torah is filled with particular words and phrases used repeatedly. It’s also organized in a very particular fashion. Both the word choice and the structure are used deliberately. ...
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Is there a hadran text recited upon completing the Rambam's Mishneh Torah?
Is there a set text for a siyum upon completion of the Mishneh Torah? Perhaps something like the Hadran said upon completion of a masechet of Talmud.
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Connection between the fall of Jericho and Sukkoth
Regarding the haqafoth (circumabulations) performed on Sukkoth around the mizbeah (altar), the Yerushalmi (Sukkah 4:3) records the following:
אותו היום מקיפין את המזבח שבע פעמים. א"ר אחא זכר ...
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Where to Find Original Manuscripts Of Mishne Torah
I have a couple versions of books from Mishne Torah: some of them are from Mishne Torah HaRav Kook edition, and the other book I have is Mishne Torah Hashalem Edition and it says there that it is ...
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The kotel and the Beis HaMikdosh now
There are some floorplans of the inside of the Beis HaMikdosh, for example in the first edition of the ArtScroll gemara Yoma. However, I am looking for a (sefer) picture that describes the exact ...
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The weapons of Dovid Hamelech in the Beis HaMikdosh
In 2 Melachim, 11:10, the Torah says:
And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spear and shields, that were in the temple of the L-rd.
Why did the Beis HaMikdosh have a ...
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Looking for a quote from the Rambam's Moreh Nevuchim
I heard in a shiur that the Rambam in his Moreh Nevuchim writes that when one asks you a fundamental question about your religion, you will not be able to give a concise answer due to the fact that ...
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Hebrew Dictionary for Mishneh Torah
I’m looking for a dictionary which contains words that one would find in The Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, not Biblical Hebrew. Any suggestions would be helpful.
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In the third Beis Hamikdash, will the outer gates have tall walls also on the outside?
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In Yechezkayl 40:6 and some other pesukim it talks about the gates for the outer walls of {the Ezras Nashim of} the third Beis Hamikdash:
Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and ...
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