Community Blogs

Various members of the AishDas community maintain blogs. Including:

Recent posts from these blogs:

Rav Shimon Shkop on His 80th Yahrzeit
From: Aspaqlaria on 2019-11-07
A great Rashash - Sanhedrin 97a
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2019-11-03
6093, not 6000! 340, not 310!
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2019-11-03
Redeeming a Wasted Youth
From: Aspaqlaria on 2019-10-31
With G-d’s Help
From: Aspaqlaria on 2019-10-31
Epistemology in the Torah
From: Aspaqlaria on 2019-10-31
Chazal’s Use of Science
From: Aspaqlaria on 2019-10-31
Aryeh Kaplan on Evolution- A Missing Chapter of The Handbook of Jewish Thought | The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2019-10-27
Da’at Tevunot 3:6 (¶ 118 [beginning])
From: Rabbi Yaakov Feldman on 2019-10-24

Dreams
mcohen at touchlogic.com: Dreams: From: "Rich, Joel" <JRich at sibson.com>...Chazal seem to have mixed feelings about dreams but clearly there was a strong belief in some dream interpretation. Does this still exist within orthodoxy? Any current experts/publications in this area? Many years ago (after reading the section in R Dessler on dreams) I had the […]
Vayeira (from Rav Kook Torah "Salt of Sodom")
Cantor Wolberg: Vayeira (from Rav Kook Torah "Salt of Sodom"): The Talmud makes a surprising connection between the evil city of Sodom and the ritual of washing hands at meals. The Sages decreed that one should wash hands before and after eating bread. Why? The underlying motif of washing hands is ritual purification, similar to […]
Al tochlu mimenu na
Akiva Miller: Al tochlu mimenu na: On the Mesorah list, we are having a discussion about the word "na" (nun-aleph), which often seems to mean "now" or "please". It was also compared to some other synonyms. I interjected that "na" also appears in Shemos 12:9 with an entirely different meaning, "undercooked". […]
Dreams
Rich, Joel: Dreams: Chazal seem to have mixed feelings about dreams but clearly there was a strong belief in some dream interpretation. Does this still exist within orthodoxy? Any current experts/publications in this area? KT Joel Rich THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE ADDRESSEE. […]
mechilla
Rich, Joel: mechilla: An old question of mine- Why is the minhag haolam (common practice) to ask for mechilla (forgiveness) during asseret ymai tshuva (10 days of repentance) rather than before Rosh Hashana (when the initial judgment is written down)? KT Joel Rich THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE […]
parnassa segula
Joseph Kaplan: parnassa segula: Re the discussion about a particular parnassa segula having to do with the disposal of bread, I always thought the best such segula was to get a good education and/or learn a trade. Doesn’t always work, I know, but no segula always works. Joseph Sent from my iPhone […]
parnassa segula
Micha Berger: parnassa segula: [...] The AhS OC 180:4 says that the worry about crumbs had to do with the Roman shulchan, which was a small one-person thing. And if you permitted the staff to take the table out without gathering the crumbs, they would likely do so even with bigger-than-kezayis pieces. […]
parnassa segula
Zev Sero: parnassa segula: [...] It is indeed based on that. [...] Bread is different, because the gemara specifies bread, and yes, crumbs smaller than a kezayit are beteilim and may be thrown out. AIUI one may deliberately break up a large piece into pieces smaller than a kezayit in order to throw them out. […]
Adam Harishon
Micha Berger: Adam Harishon: [...] The Rambam (MN 1:1-2) says that until the sin, Adam and Chavah's challenge was to decide between truth and falsehood. And the snake provided the falsehood that they fell for. Potentially along the same lines, R' Dessler says that until the sin […]
benefit the deceased ?
Micha Berger: benefit the deceased ?: [...] How can it be? It's not like the chiyuv for the amud is really a chiyuv. Even qaddish is minhag -- and he could say that without taking the amud. For example, they say that R' Yisrael Salanter held that giving the amud to the other aveil is […]