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Volume 40: Number 37

Fri, 27 May 2022

• 1. taking a stand? (Joel Rich)
• 2. Switching Sefirahs? Understanding Your Minhag and its Ramification (Prof. L. Levine)
• 3. Cooking on Yom Tov (Prof. L. Levine)

Simi Peters in ?Strauss, Spinoza and Sinai?

From a Jewish perspective though indeterminacy is a fact of life, the
inevitable consequence of human subjectivity and more significantly a
necessary condition for free will. Choices are only possible when there is
uncertainty. Freely chosen belief in God and fidelity to the laws of the
Torah would not be possible if the existence of God and the truth of Torah
could be proven mathematically. Our inability to reduce moral and ethical
dilemmas to binary truth values gives us the power to choose, giving us
both dignity and opportunity.

At the same time, with power comes responsibility. Those who are capable of
choosing are obligated to make choices. And if decision-making is a moral
imperative, neutrality is moral cowardice. An unwillingness to take a stand
? to truly commit to a value judgment or a course of action-reduces us to
helpless victims of circumstances. It regards the spiritual development
that comes from striving, sometimes failing, re-evaluating and trying
again. The centrality of tshuva (repentance) to Jewish life is a tacit
acknowledgement that our fallibility is an inextricable part of our
humanity ? not a design flaw but an opportunity to evolve to our greatest
potential.

The impartiality advocated by postmodernism is possible perhaps within the
framework of theoretical discussion but to the Jewish mind it is not a
viable option in the real world. Life requires us to make all kinds of
decisions and whatever we choose we must deal with the consequences of our
choices.

Me-How does this relate, if at all, to the concept of being chosheish for
all the shitot?


KT
Joel Rich
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Please see the article at https://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/5879
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Switching Sefirahs? ? Insights into Halacha ? Ohr Somayach<https://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/5879>
Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 493: 1 and 2). Although the K af Hachaim (ad
loc. 11) opines that there truly is no machlokes between the Shulchan Aruch
and Rema, and both truly mean that weddings are permitted from Lag B?Omer
on and not Lad B?Omer, it must be noted that this understanding is
categorically rejected across the board, as in his Beis Yosef commentary,
the Shulchan Aruch wrote ...
ohr.edu
by Rabbi Yehuda Spitz. As usual, Rabbi Spitz this topic most thoroughly.

From the article

33 Days

However, there is another opinion, attributed to the Baale iTosafos. They
maintain that in actuality the talmidim died throughout the entire time
period from Pesach to Shavuos. Yet, they did not die on days when Tachanun
was not said, including all days of Pesach, the Shabbosos in between, and
Rosh Chodesh. This adds up to 16 days. Meaning, of the entire 49-day
period, they died on 33 of those days. Therefore, as a siman to show that
they died for 33 of these days (in addition to several other reasons
detailed at length in a previous article titled ?The ?Unknown Days? of the
Jewish Calendar<https://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/5146>?),[13]<https://ohr.edu/5879#_edn13>
LagB?Omer, the 33rd day of the Sefirah, was chosen as a day of easing
restrictions.[14]<https://ohr.edu/5879#_edn14>


This means that at one time Tachanun was in Nissan both before and after Pesach!


YL

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The following is from today's Hakel Bulletin:

May one make tea or coffee on Yom Tov?
Yes. These drinks may be prepared as one does during the week without
adhering to the restrictions that apply on Shabbos. Nevertheless, a teabag
must not be squeezed.

Are there any limitations for whom one may cook?
As with all the melachos, one may only cook for Jewish people. Therefore,
one may not cook for gentiles, and one may also not cook for
animals?including one?s pets. In addition, it is forbidden to invite a
gentile guest to a Yom Tov meal even if all the food has already been
prepared. The reason is because the host might decide to cook some food for
his gentile guest.

May one cook for a live-in gentile maid?
It is forbidden to cook specifically for her, but one may add extra food to
a pot before it is placed onto the fire. Items that require individual
preparation may not be made. One may serve her food that has already been
cooked.

May one invite or cook for non-observant Jews?
A Rav should be consulted.

May one cook any quantity of food?
?    Under normal conditions, it is permitted to cook only as much as is needed for that day.
?    It is permitted to cook as much as one thinks may possibly be needed including second helpings.
?    If one is inviting guests, one may cook a larger quantity so that the guests will feel comfortable taking as much as they want.

Yitzchok Levine

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