Community Blogs

Various members of the AishDas community maintain blogs. Including:

Recent posts from these blogs:

Zmanim Part 3: Hours of the Day
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-02-25
Minhag Avoseihem b'Yedeihem as per the Yerushalmi Eruvin part 1
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-02-25
Zmanim Continued: Halacha and Science
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-02-18
Da’at Tevunot 3:7 (¶ 118 [middle])
From: Rabbi Yaakov Feldman on 2020-02-17
Seeking Eruv Pictures for the Fourth Edition
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-02-12
Sunrise, Sunset, Swiftly Flow the Zmanim
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-02-11
A Revolutionary Teshuvah from the Cairo Genizah on Yom Tov Sheni, Ninth, Tenth, and all 10 parts combined
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-02-10
Rischa Daraiisa Podcast
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-01-31
Talk on Parashas Bo: Makkas Choshech and Other Issues
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-01-31
Reasons Given for the Holocaust, Students' Q&A Part 3 (last part)
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-01-31
Reasons Given for the Holocaust, Students' Q&A Part 2
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-01-30
Reasons Given for the Holocaust, Students' Q&A Part 1
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-01-29
Derech Hashem 2:6:4
From: Rabbi Yaakov Feldman on 2020-01-28
The Holocaust: Reasons and Martyrs, touching on Israeli Soldiers As Well
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-01-28
A Revolutionary Take on Yom Tov Sheni, A Teshuvah from the Cairo Genizah...
From: Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer on 2020-01-27

Haneitz?
Micha Berger: Haneitz?: [...] I think I addressed the last question in my reply: Tefillah between alos and haneitz or between the 4th hour and noon are only okay in bedi'eved or hefsed situations. But I was confused about the first question: [...] On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 02:58:03AM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah […]
Haneitz?
Rich, Joel: Haneitz?: [...] Are you asking why AkhG set Shacharis during the first third of the day, and thus from sunrise to noon? Or why chazal say the best time to daven is at the beginning of that time range?
donkeys by Yoseif and his brothers
Micha Berger: donkeys by Yoseif and his brothers: [...] : chamor and saw chomer(material world) The Gra says a man riding a chamor is used as a symbol to show that they are in charge of their chomer side. Whereas Bil'am rode an ason. (I don't recall if the Gra gives "ason" symbolic meaning, or […]
Haneitz?
Micha Berger: Haneitz?: [...] Are you asking why AkhG set Shacharis during the first third of the day, and thus from sunrise to noon? Or why chazal say the best time to daven is at the beginning of that time range? Davening after amud hashachar and before haneitz or from the fourth hour to chatzos […]
Mistaken Minhagim
Micha Berger: Mistaken Minhagim: [...] Well, that last clause is an assumption. We don't always hold like the Rambam. There is ample precedent across a number of mitzvos of allowing payment of sekhar bitul. The Rambam says that talmud Torah is different because of the prohibition against turning the Torah into a qardom lachopor bo. […]
AI/ML(Machine learning)
Sholom Simon: AI/ML(Machine learning): Some thoughts on AI/ML(Machine learning) and a psak generator: But it will happen imho. And since lots of psak (if not all) has lots of unarticulated premises, it will be interesting to see what ML extrapolates. In the outside world the man machine partnership is one model (others say machine only! […]
A Purim Twist
Cantor Wolberg: A Purim Twist: 1) We're all familiar with the custom and law of making much noise when Haman's name is mentioned during the reading of the Megilla. The standard answer to why we do it is to drown out his name. I see another reason. We must make a lot of noise against […]
AI/ML(Machine learning)
Micha Berger: AI/ML(Machine learning): [...] In terms of the tech, we're not close yet, and may never be. To weave a derashah into my explanation of that sentence, the word "binah" can refer to thought in at least two ways: - from "bein", the art of making distinctions -- bein qodesh lekhol, bein or lechoshekh... […]
donkeys by Yoseif and his brothers
Rich, Joel: donkeys by Yoseif and his brothers: I spent some time looking for commentaries explaining the focus on the donkeys by Yoseif and his brothers. I realize it's probably projection but I came up with two possibilities. The first was that many places the donkey seems to be taking somebody to their destiny (Think […]
AI/ML(Machine learning)
Rich, Joel: AI/ML(Machine learning): Some thoughts on AI/ML(Machine learning) and a psak generator: But it will happen imho. And since lots of psak (if not all) has lots of unarticulated premises, it will be interesting to see what ML extrapolates. In the outside world the man machine partnership is one model (others say machine only! […]