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- Modern hearing aidsYosef Gavriel Bechhofer: Modern hearing aids: Please do, thanks! […]
- Is it a proper warning, or is it lashon hara?cantorwolberg: Is it a proper warning, or is it lashon hara?: [...] Making a statement like that with no evidence, proof, documentation or anything else is wrong. Anyone can make any accusation, but we have a system where there must be proof. I think it is wrong to make an unsubstantiated claim.
- TRADITION High Holiday Reader 2021/5782Micha Berger: TRADITION High Holiday Reader 2021/5782: [...] The link wasn't usable. Try this one: https://traditiononline.org/2021-high-holiday-reader [...] Micha Berger The mind is a wonderful organ http://www.aishdas.org/asp for justifying decisions Author: Widen Your Tent the heart already reached. - https://amzn. […]
- Which foods should one avoid eating on Rosh Hashana?Micha Berger: Which foods should one avoid eating on Rosh Hashana?: [...] We don't eat nuts because agoz is 17 in gematria and cheit is... 18, But the Zohar, around Bereishis 3a or so, says that Hashem rejected ches and tes because they represent cheit. So you see you don't need the alef -- ches+tes […]
- bechira?Akiva Miller: bechira?: . R' Joel Rich asked: [...] I would think that, l'shitaso, one is not responsible for failures that are beyond one's nequdas habechira (nor does one get credit for successes that are within his nequdas habechira). But one IS held responsible if he doesn't make a sincere attempt to move his nequdas […]
- Is it a proper warning, or is it lashon hara?Akiva Miller: Is it a proper warning, or is it lashon hara?: . Someone wrote the following: (I will not say who wrote it, nor how they know me. It's even possible that I'm the one who wrote it.) [...] I'd like to hear from other people. What is your opinion? Does the above paragraph […]
- Machnisei Rachamim reduxMichael Poppers: Machnisei Rachamim redux: [...] And, AFAIK, it's not in the *nusach* of many *eidos*, whether Mizrach (e.g. if you can, please point out where "Machnisei Rachamim" is in Yitzchaqi's *machzor*, https://hebrewbooks.org/51105) or Ma'arav (e.g. KAJ/"Breuer's", so presumably minhag FfdM). [...] […]
- Machnisei Rachamim reduxZvi Lampel: Machnisei Rachamim redux: From: Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> [...] I don't think anyone has mentioned yet an additional data point: The Ramban in Toras Hashem Temimah (Kisvei Ramban, Mosaad HaRav Kook, Chavel, p. 171 apparently (some words are missing in the ms.) frowns on […]
- Is it a proper warning, or is it lashon hara?Prof. Levine: Is it a proper warning, or is it lashon hara?: [...] The first issue to deal with is "Do people thank that all hashgachas are equally reliable?" I think not. For example, there is a brand of delicatessen sold nationally that is not glatt that, as far as I know, no one who […]
- Is it a proper warning, or is it lashon hara?Joseph Kaplan: Is it a proper warning, or is it lashon hara?: RAM posted the following and asked our opinion about his post as set forth in the subject: “Someone wrote the following: (I will not say who wrote it, nor how they know me. It's even possible that I'm the one who wrote it.) […]