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- titanu (You let us wander)elazar teitz: titanu (You let us wander): RJoel Rich commented, "I always wondered what titanu (you let us wander) was doing at the end of the al cheits." RZev Sero responded, "Isn't it usually translated as 'We have led others astray'?" "You let us wander," a translation I have seen only in ArtScroll […]
- Duda'imMicha Berger: Duda'im: [...] The idea is as old as the Septuigint, which translates "duda'im" to "mandragoras". Mandrakes are native to the area. But they are a narcotic. Eating mandrake isn't the safest thing in the world to do. It was indeed used as a medicine, but only in the tiniest of quantities. […]
- aveil daven on rosh chodeshMicha Berger: aveil daven on rosh chodesh: [...] Take a look at R Danny Mann's treatment at [...] The question was a case where the gabbai asserted the minhag RJR described, but the avel's rav said he should take all of Shacharis. So, a second piece -- who do you follow? Money quote (which ended […]
- aveil daven on rosh chodeshMicha Berger: aveil daven on rosh chodesh: Addendum: The implication I got from the Rama is that the problem with an avel taking the amud on R"Ch is Hallel. Which rules out being the Chazan for Shemoneh Esrei too. But there is still Chatzi Qaddish... Tir'u baTov! -Micha
- aveil daven on rosh chodeshZev Sero: aveil daven on rosh chodesh: [...] I had the opposite question arise. My minhag is that an avel does not go to the amud on any day where there is musaf. One rosh chodesh during my aveilus I davened mincha at a certain shul and the gabbai, knowing that I was an avel, […]
- Story detailsAkiva Miller: Story details: I understand that the Torah is not a history book. The stories have profound meanings, and our job is to figure out those meanings. And yet, the stories and events, in general, *did* happen in the physical, observable world. The pesukim must make sense on a practical level too. […]
- ger katanRich, Joel: ger katan: I was looking at ger katan and thinking that he must be patur from 7 mitzvot for, if not, conversion to Judaism would be a case of going to kedusha kala (if chayav as a ben noach but not as a jew). Thoughts? KT Joel Rich THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY […]
- titanu (you let us wander)Rich, Joel: titanu (you let us wander): I always wondered what titanu (you let us wander) was doing at the end of the al cheits. Are we blaming HKB"H for our freely made decisions? When learning Rambam's hilchot tshuva, it occurs to me saying that he can't make us do the right thing, but he […]
- Thanksgiving: Harmless Holiday or Chukos HaGoyim?Prof. L. Levine: Thanksgiving: Harmless Holiday or Chukos HaGoyim?: [...] Thanksgiving: Harmless Holiday or Chukos HaGoyim? « Insights into Halacha « Ohr Somayach<https://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/6105> Biur HaGr”a (Yoreh Deah 178: end 7) and Gilyon Maharsha (ad loc. 1). The Gr”a is bothered by the fact that the sugya in Sanhedrin seems to imply differently than the views […]
- ger katanMicha Berger: ger katan: [...] A qatan is patur because of being a qatan. But a normal case of geirus would be, if your given is true. Why do you only ask by geir qatan? And in any case, I don't see the qedushah kalah you describe being chal yet. But I am not sure […]