Volume 39: Number 30
Mon, 05 Apr 2021
Subjects Discussed In This Issue:
Message: 1
From: Zev Sero
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:49:03 -0400
Subject: Re: [Avodah] Can Egg Matzah Be Used for Lechem Mishna?
On 30/3/21 4:44 pm, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
>
> I don't understand. Is there a machlokes about the definition of matzah
> ashira? If I have egg matzah that was made with *apple* juice, is it
> matza ashira only according to *some* opinions?
According to the Rambam, 6:5, Matza is only defined as Ashira if it's
made with wine, oil, honey, or milk, but if it's made with Mei Perot
it's still Lechem Oni.
https://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/3506.htm#6
--
Zev Sero Wishing everyone a *healthy* and happy 5781
z...@sero.name "May this year and its curses end
May a new year and its blessings begin"
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Message: 2
From: Akiva Miller
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:30:05 -0400
Subject: [Avodah] To Atone for All our Sins
At the Seder, after Dayenu, we have a paragraph in which Dayenu is
summarized. "He took us out of Mitzrayim... and He fed us manna... and He
brought us to Har Sinai, etc etc and He built the Beis Habechira for us, to
be m'chaper for our avonos."
My daughter-in-law asked: Why do we need those last words? Let the list end
simply, like Dayenu itself did: "... and He built the Beis Habechira for us
[full stop]." Or, if some sort of editorializing is needed, let it be on a
positive note: "... where we can be close to Him" or "...where He can dwell
among us." But at this point in the Seder, (arguably) the very last words
of Maggid, where we have finally completed our trip from Genai to Shevach,
and from Yagon to Simcha, why do we sully the waters by mentioning our sins
(even if the context is forgiveness)?
My only guess is that these words serve as a bookend to Maggid's start ("In
the beginning we were idolators"), but that doesn't help much; is this
bookend really needed, or even helpful? Any other ideas?
Akiva Miller
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Message: 3
From: Marty Bluke
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2021 14:20:23 +0300
Subject: [Avodah] Moshe Rabenu got rich from the shivrei luchos
Today?s Daf (Yerushalmi Shekalim 14) states that Moshe Rabenu got rich from
the pieces of the broken luchos. This statement seems quite strange to me
given the living conditions in the midbar.
1. They didn?t need to buy any food or water, that came from hashem.
2.They lived in tents so did not spend money on housing.
3. There was no land to buy.
4. Their clothing didn?t wear out.
5. No one needed to work.
So given the above what did it mean to be rich in the midbar? What was the
value of the shivrei luchos if there was nothing to buy? How did this
wealth affect Moshe?s life in any way?
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