Monthly Archives: ‍‍ Shevat / Adar I 5771 - February 2011

Halakhah and Phenomenology – Symbolic Logic

Posted on ‍‍19 Adar I 5771 - February 22, 2011 by micha

This will only be of interest to people who care about Symbolic Logic and about the rules of birur, of resolution of doubt in halachic questions. But I found something I wrote back in 1994, and didn’t want to lose … Continue reading →

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A Quantum of Time

Posted on ‍‍30 Shevat 5771 - February 4, 2011 by micha

There are two halachic indivisible units of time. When it comes to interruption, or for defining a single statement (e.g. when correcting oneself in davening) the unit is tokh kedei dibbur — within the time it takes to say [“Shalom … Continue reading →