Learning Mussar
- Excerpts from Chapter 4 “Frumkeit”
- Chapter 13: Summary: Removing the Impediments
- Chapter 14: Summary: A Short Guide to Mussar Study
Mussar Practice
- Chapter 5: Hislamdus [Teaching Oneself / Taking Lessons from Life] (ve’adim)
Intimate Knowledge of G‑d
Compassion Toward People
Splendor in Mind and Heart
Avodah
- Yaysay v'YaycholAkiva Miller: Yaysay v'Yaychol: . Kol dichfin, yaysay v'yaychol! All who are hungry, come and eat! Really??? This year too??? But we aren't merely refraining from inviting guests. We've gone so far as to ask close family to stay away, even those we've often hosted in past years. […]
- Pesach ShailosAkiva Miller: Pesach Shailos: . R' Yitzchok Levine posted From the YI of Midwood: [...] I saw Rav Schachter's teshuva, and he does indeed say exactly that. But I suspect that this response is based on a presumption that under normal circumstances, Tefilas Tal is said by the chazan prior to Musaf, and then […]
- Using Horseradish for MarorProf. Levine: Using Horseradish for Maror: From https://jewishaction.com/religion/shabbat-holidays/passover/whats-truth-using-horseradish-maror/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=shsh%20Tzav%205780%20(1)&utm_content=&spMailingID=32101090&spUserID=MjM3MTAxNzY3NzIS1&spJobID=1683116590&spReportId=MTY4MzExNjU5MAS2 […]
- Pesach ShailosZev Sero: Pesach Shailos: [...] This is RHS's psak, based on RYBS's shita, but I don't think it's correct to say that "the whole point of that minhag is to say hallel with the whole community". On the contrary, while that is a benefit, the *point* of the minhag seems to be in order to […]
- Pesach ShailosProf. L. Levine: Pesach Shailos: From the YI of Midwood Dear friends, The coronavirus which has come upon the entire world is testing us in many ways. It is very difficult to watch the list of people for whom we daven grow each day. Yet as a people of faith we take strength from our […]
- Kshering Metal SinksMicha Berger: Kshering Metal Sinks: [...] I don't know either, and for #2 your guess about runoff and chozer veni'ur makes as much sense to me as anything I could guess. But for #1, I would guess that it's because you can't kasher half a pot. If you pause, you have to kasher 100% of […]
- hand shakeMicha Berger: hand shake: [...] I think the underlying disconnect is that this rabbi (if it is who I think it is) assumes YU is still in the world of the Rav's YU. Where if a poseiq says something that doesn't jibe with experience, the sho'el would say "But wouldn't that be bad for my […]
- roll your ownMicha Berger: roll your own: [...] The qorei is obligated to read it two or three times before going up to lein. (OC 139:1) So, if the oleh was not forewarned of his aliyah and prepared, his reading would not only be kosher bedi'eved. AhS OC 139:1-2 cites a number of midrashim; the first of […]
- roll your ownmgluck at gmail.com: roll your own: R' JR: An oleh one Thursday (hopefully we will be back in shul soon) morning insisted on reading his own aliyah. I was surprised that the gabbai/Rabbi did not waive him off (given the reason individual olim stopped reading was so as not to embarrass others). Is this at […]
- roll your ownSimon Montagu: roll your own: On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:27 AM Rich, Joel via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: [...] Not particularly unusual in my experience of Sephardi batei kenesset. Embarrassment can arise if everybody does it and an individual is unable to, not so much if reading oneself is the exception. […]