Volume 43: Number 71
Wed, 26 Nov 2025
Subjects Discussed In This Issue:
Message: 1
From: Joseph Kaplan
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:11:07 +0000
Subject: [Avodah] Belief
? Question how would we categorize an orthodox individual who made the same statement as Dr Murray??
I?d categorize him/her as an Orthodox Jew who thinks that God has a better than 50% chance of being the explanation for our existence.
Joseph
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Message: 2
From: Joseph Kaplan
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:55:34 +0000
Subject: [Avodah] Right to haftara
Not an answer to the question but a related story. A shul received a set of
clafs for haftorot and decided that they should be used every Shabbat. But
since most people couldn?t say a haftorah from a claf, the procedure was to
call up the oleh, he would make the brachot for the haftorah, the ba?al
koreh would read the haftorah from the claf, and then the oleh would say
the ending brachot.
Sounds like a good compromise. Yes, except the ba?al koreh didn?t know all
the haftorot from the claf so he had a Chumash on the side which he would
use, a bit (but only a bit) surreptitiously, to read many of the haftorot.
And so the game continued for many years.
Joseph
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Message: 3
From: Joel Rich
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:46:04 +0200
Subject: [Avodah] (no subject)
Does hkbh give one a nisayon that one cannot pass? I guess the answer
depends a lot on how you define the terms but in its strongest sense
doesn?t this imply that anyone who ever sins hasn?t tried hard enough?
KT
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From: Joel Rich
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:46:46 +0200
Subject: [Avodah] counts
Any insights into why after listing out the various prayers, the Rambam in
tfila 1:8 summarizes the counts on various days? Is he adding something?
KT
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