On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 12:41:35PM +1000, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote: > The RaMBaMs ruling that one must confess their interpersonal sins in public? 2:5 opens [...]
On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 8:36pm EDT, R Joel Rich wrote: > Response to a piece on Kamtza /Bar Kamtza: > The interesting question to me is whether there [...]
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 09:06:27AM -0400, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > I've heard R H Schachter say that women saying kaddish can't be on the > other [...]
I?ve heard R H Schachter say that women saying kaddish can?t be on the other side of a permanent mechitza but must come on the side with 10 men when [...]
On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 11:23:27AM +0300, Ilana Elzufon via Avodah wrote: > On one foot (and I could be wrong), but just looking at the mishna it seems [...]
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 5:59PM Micha Berger via Avodah wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote: >> Do "we hold [...]
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote: > Do "we hold like" this Rashi? ... Okay, ignore the previous post. Bikurim is only bizman [...]
BH the bank, my wife, and I now own a home in Israel that has fruit trees in the yard -- apple, madnarin, and pomelo. We hope to add pomegranates [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 3:Za'akas HaGolah:A failed Asifah reveals the difficulty of escaping ideological strait-jackets.With Rav Meyer Schillerhttps://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/87130Please click on this link to contribute whatever you can to keep this [...]
If you haven't joined us yet, this is a good time to join us, as this is the first clip on the Zohar proper (until now we have been doing [...]
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggeret_of_Rabbi_Sherira_Gaon):Iggeret of Rabbi Sherira Gaon (Hebrew: אגרת רב שרירא גאון), also known as the Letter of Rav Sherira Gaon, and the Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon, is a responsum penned in the late 10th [...]
https://www.aishdas.org/raek/2shehein1.pdfRAEK quotes Ahad Ha'Am. You can find the passage at https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH990011673710205171/NLIpp. 94-95 in the book's internal pagination. Here are pictures of those pages:Podcast format at:https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAzMJ3GYO0?si=wh4FLiluT5UG04mV] [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 2:Hashgacha Pratis GPS:Was that Errant Turn the Right One?The Besht and Chazon Ishhttps://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/86614For further insight, please see my article, Bitachon, Hishtadlus, Histapkusat https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://agudah.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/JO2007-V40-N03.pdf&hl=en_US Please click on this link to [...]
This episode (and the next one IYH) are perhaps more relevant today than they were 100 years ago. The current war entails the issues of cruelty vs. mercy, humanitarianism vs. [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 10 Episode 1:זֶ֖רַע אַבְרָהָ֥ם אֹהֲבִֽיGimmel Elul, Shever and Zikaron:1. The Towering Achievement of Rav Avremel Ausband zt"l; 2. The Recognized Halachic Greatness of Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook zt"lhttps://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/86341Please click on this link [...]
Knock-Your-Socks-Off History of Churban Bayis II & the Bar Kokhba Rebellion part 6, ConcludedHow many Kohanim Gedolim were there and why?and When and why did the learning of Kodashim flourish?From [...]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPNLMEWkiBA?si=MeQO_JQUAd-cVJIx]RSZA zt"l on some Selichos IssuesA recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
Podcast format at https://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/86107https://www.aishdas.org/raek/2shehein1.pdf[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR4og2NWoVg?si=TuH-v-woTxM3QYGL] [...]
Zohar Al Pi Pshat Day 99. 12b: The Fourth Commandment:An Amazing Ralbag as Pshat in the ZoharThe Ralbag on והייתם כאלקים.I don't think the Ralbag ever learned Zohar, but it [...]
Knock-Your-Socks-Off History of Churban Bayis II & the Bar Kokhba Rebellion part 5, The Real Third MikdashThe evidence that there was a functioning third Beis HaMikdash at the time of [...]
A new Facebook page for theDailyZohar al pi PshatRecordings is at:Daily Zohar Al Pi Pshat | FacebookAll past recordings are posted there, and IYH it will be updated daily. [...]
Knock-Your-Socks-Off History of Churban Bayis II and the Bar Kokhba Rebellion Part 4:Changes to the Rules of WarHow the rules of war changed over time from not allowing even defensive war [...]
My number in Israel for the next two weeks is 055-331-0940. [...]
Rav Dovid Lifshitz zt”l (whose 31st yahrzeit is today) often spoke about the connection between shaleim as wholeness, and that of another conjugation, “shalom“, peace. Shalom is not simply a cessation of violence. That [...]
Parashas Behar is a list of mitzvos. The first section is all about shemittah and yovel. A family’s ancestral land cannot be sold into perpetuity. Instead, if someone is forced [...]
This week I’d like to discuss three seemingly unrelated questions about the words of the tephillah: The focus of Shabbos Mussaf davening is the paragraph that begins “Tiqanta Shabbos…” What [...]
Here’s my theory about the origin of this minhag. My point here is not really about advocating for the minhag. I just feel a need to push back when people [...]
והיה רגיל להוכיח אותי על שראה שאינני משתתף בצערא דאחרינא. וכה היה דברו אלי תמיד שזה כל האדם. לא לעצמו נברא רק להועיל לאחריני ככל אשר ימצא בכחו לעשות. [My [...]
Micha’s note: The following was a post written to the Mesorah email list by Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel zt”l, a rebbe-chaver of mine (more: a rebbe who insisted on treating [...]
(I put these thoughts together for a reply for my daughter Gavi, who pointed me to a medrash that “everyone in her neighborhood” were talking about, but I then was [...]
“Poteach et Yadekha“, oil on canvasHaim Masliach, 2021 A comment by Ilana Elzafun* brought this Seforno to my attention. This week’s parashah (Lekh Likha), Bereishis 16:13, describes Hagar’s prayer to [...]
Dear R Dr Broyde (Cc: Avodah), Over Shabbos, I read your article about getting ChatGPT to discuss whether a kohein in a same-sex marriage may go up to duchen. I [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:13 1. T The things we say can also link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with the upper worlds, as we’ll now see. After all, we’re [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:7 (¶ 118 [middle]) 1. We’d do well to take something into consideration, Ramchal adds here. It’s that just because something or someone is imperfect doesn’t mean [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:4 1. G-d allowed for a prosecutor in His court, famously known as satan 1. His role is to argue against the accused, which them enables [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:12 1. R. Chaim already spoke 1 of the fact that we could only link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with those upper worlds after we’d [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:6 (¶ 118 [beginning]) 1. Ramchal reiterates here 1 that wrong is a created entity 2 that was only designed to last for as long as G-d wanted [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:3 1. Given the above, the fact is that G-d doesn’t judge the world according to His foreknowledge but rather according to the way He wants [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:11 1. Following up on the thought offered in the last chapter that despite our being connected to physicality we’re nevertheless superior to angels, R’ Chaim now [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:5 (¶s 116 [end] – 117) 1. Ramchal says that he’s going to expand upon things he’d said above 1 and reveal things that are “deep” about [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:2 1. G-d appears in each Sanhedrin and court, influences it, and sees to it that justice is served 1. Now, in some instances [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:10 1. Given all of the above concerning our makeup and capacities, it’s reasonable to wonder whether angels are loftier than we are or we’re loftier than they. [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:4 (¶ 116 [beg.]) 1. Ramchal is about to offer something that will serve as a prelude to what’s to follow 1. It’s that even though G-d [...]
Derech Hashem 2:6:1 In the course of His interactions with the world 1, G-d arranged it so that phenomena that affect both the things that humankind brings about 2 and [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:9 1. Following through on the discussion of the previous chapter, R’ Chaim contrasts the situation of the generation that dwelt in the Sinai Desert 1 with that [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:3 (¶’s 103- 115) 1. It seems logical, doesn’t it, that goodness would be a product of something that emanates goodness while wrongfulness would be a product of [...]
Da’atTevunot 3:2 (# 98 – 102) 1. Ramchal starts to explain the role of wrong and injustice in the world with a proposition derived from Rambam1. It’s that when G-d [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:8 1. R’ Chaim offers a rather complex discussion here about the positioning of the Cherubs in the Tabernacle and Holy Temple in order to illustrate his point [...]
The website 18FORTY has a fantastic and thoughtful multimedia post on OTD that is worth watching, reading, and listening to. If you are reading this then you know I don’t [...]
Spoiler, there isn’t much substance to I what have to say. Also, I am spoiling the end of the Skywalker saga. After reading an excellent essay by Rabbi Harry Maryles [...]
I checked my recent writing history today and the last legit post of mine was really 3.5 years ago. For some that’s a long chunk of time. In that time [...]
My wife’s comment on Simchas Torah pretty much summed it up, “I feel like this is the biggest tease for you.” You see, my mom a”h was niftar right before [...]
When today comes around I usually think about things my father missed since he has been gone. I decided that this year I’ll attempt to list a number of things [...]
Walking out of shul, the morning after Yom Kippur, a follow early Sunday morning riser casually said to me, “Back to normal, right?” I was taken off guard (and also [...]
I have started this post about 2 dozen times over the past 3 years and I never seem to get more than about 300 words written about why I stopped [...]
I want to share something that Rav Efraim Twerski said at his Shabbos HaGadol drasha. After starting off with 10 questions Rav Twerski said over an amazing Torah from Rav [...]
So, tonight’s the 6th yahrtzeit for my dad, Avraham ben Zorach a”h (Al, of blessed memory). Like everyone else that has lost a parent I lit my 24 hour yahrzeit [...]
“WARMED BY THE FIRE OF THE AISH KODESH– Torah from the Hilulas of Reb Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna” by Rav Moshe Weinberger and adapted by Binyomin Wolf is more [...]