Volume 43: Number 15
Mon, 03 Mar 2025
Subjects Discussed In This Issue:
Message: 1
From: Danny Schoemann
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:15:07 +0200
Subject: Re: [Avodah] skiplagged.com
Thoughts
> skiplagged you are lying about your destination to get cheaper tickets
There is a precedent and recommended practice of lying about your
destination to a non-Jew.
> They have sued skiplagged.com
That's not a real proof... It may be a great example of yelling after
Yi'ush.
> Chilul Hashem
If the amount of easily identifiable Yidden skiplagging is disproportionate
to their % of fliers, then it may be an issue.
Im Ikesh Titpatol comes to mind.
- Danny, who doesn't enjoy spending time in a flying sardine can.
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Message: 2
From: Danny Schoemann
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:03:57 +0200
Subject: Re: [Avodah] Dovid Hamelech had 400 children from yefas toars
R' Marty Bluke via Avodah asked:
>> . So how do we understand that Dovid had
>> 400 children from yefas toars! Did he have such a great yetzer hara that
>> he couldn't control?
Reb Sruli Bornstein has a fascinating Reid Bite about this. (
https://pca.st/episode/df681bfc-981f-4b34-ab04-cf4e52a686c9)
He quoted Rav Reuven Margolies zt"l who proposed that this was one of many
places where numbers were abbreviated and then badly deciphered.
I.e. Dovid Hamelech had ? (Tof) kids from YT. That's short for Tisha, and
he goes on to show from Divrei Hayomim that indeed there were 9
"motherless" kids.
Same for R' Preida. If he lived 400 years for teaching his student 400
times he would have been alive during the Geonic period, yet no Gaonic
writing mentions him. Tof could be Thishim, 90
He brings other fascinating examples.
A semchadik Adar
- Danny
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Message: 3
From: Danny Schoemann
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:50:12 +0200
Subject: Re: [Avodah] Yosef advise pharaoh
R' Joel Rich asked:
"Why did Yosef advise pharaoh to plan for the seven years of plenty and
> seven years of famine in a way which would centralize the entire Egyptian
> economy under the pharaoh's direct control?"
>
If you read the story as it's written (not how the ganenet tells it) you
will see that, with the exception of pharaoh describing the 7+7 cows, it
doesn't say that the "plentiful years" were gobbled up by the lean years
without any trace.
Au contraire, it seems that the 7 lean years lean on the plentiful years
(pun intended).
Yosef, therefore saw this advise as part of the deciphering of the dream.
That's a pshat I saw recently.
Kol Tuv
- Danny, son of"Nosson ben Bayla who needs a speedy recovery."
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