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popa: I’d think so too, but the halacha is not to hang laundry up to dry right before shabbos because of maris ayin. Wouldn’t any normal person think that clothesline in the frum person’s backyard was filled before shabbos?
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Ashkenaz.
Frumguy: Where are all the truly ancient nuschaos with real mesorah? Morrocan, Spanish, Baladi, ??? ???, Italian, etc.
Ashkenaz is the only nussach on your list that predates the acharonim.
Chein: Forgive my density, but I don’t understand how it follows from the fact that there are hilchos deios, or as you put it “paskening hashkafa” that I quote “aggadita is also halacha.” What does one have to do with the other? Or are you saying that some people think all the gemaros about deios are “just” aggadita?
Normally it would be maris ayin to be seen walking in, but there may be room to be meikil at a rest area where you could be going in for anything and anyone already in there sees that it’s a soda.
Mod 80: Your case is a 3/4 Jew. A regular eved knaani is a half Jew.
According to ????? ?????? the reason is as follows: There is a segula to look for a letter from your name in the part of the sefer Torah being displayed at hagbah, so people skim the text with their finger, but it’s rude to point at something as holy as sefer Torah with your index finger so you use your pinky which is apparently more aidel.
I only know this because I was flipping through the sefer in my local shtibel a while ago. I didn’t know there were halachos about which finger to point with outside the beis hamikdash. When I lein on weekdays (including this morning) I usually use my middle finger since it’s hard to point with any other one with my tefillin on.
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OVKTD: My rebbi once said the ‘mekor’ for bouncing after the three steps forward is very simple. Really, you’re supposed stay where you stepped back to until kedusha when you step forward and bounce at the appropriate points. Somehow it got into people’s heads that it has something to do with stepping forward.
Sam2: Whether the sefer chasidim says it or not, I’m pretty sure the mekor is the RaMBaM. The shulchan aruch generally doesn’t bring the sefer Chasidim.
The reason it is important to stay bent the whole time is because “oseh shalom” is the fifth bow of shmoneh esrei (which the rambam says should be at the end of sim shalom, but we push it till after the “techinos” of elokai n’tzor) and if you get up in the middle you are bowing too many times, which the gemara calls yuhara.
Chacham: The earliest example of a Magen David yet found is from the Northern Kingdom, which was known for Avoda Zarah even more than Yehuda. Also, the Western occultist movement — which is about as idolatrous as you can get — adopted it as the “seal of Solomon.” When people call the Magen David a”z they don’t know it, but they are somewhat right by accident.
Bittul Torah alert.
We are discussing the issue in the most refined way possible.
If I wore a hat I would definitely get a shayne coat. As it is, I just wear a raincoat and a rain hat.
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Sam2: Which leads directly to the inyan in Chasidus Chabad called ??????? ??? ???????
Haleivi: Not “only.” Obviously it made its way into tanach because the most important meaning for Jews in general is the relationship between God and knessess yisrael, but you can’t take a whole sefer of tanach and divorce it entirely from what the actual words say.
If you think “chasdei Hashem ki lo samnu” is a better example, use it gezunteheit. As for why I think shir hashirim was used, because saying things like that to your wife is holy. Saying them to a waitress is not.
I took a shower in my work clothes. (Story on a new thread).
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I’m upset about people who claim to be upset about schools not taking English seriously who themselves can’t write a complete sentence in the English language.
HaLeivi: Kind of. Not always is saying it outside the context of the Torah removing its holiness. For example, “ani l’dodi” has a meaning kpshuto shel mikra as well, and in the context of one’s wife it is a holy statement which has adorned k’subos for centuries before it became fashionable to put it on jewelry.
klach: Regarding your second point, the gemara quotes partial pesukim all the time, as do all rishonim and acharonim.
Thank God, it is expected to hit New York “only” as a category one and the worst is expected to pass by noon tomorrow.
Since hurricanes were not a problem in Israel at the time that chazal were being m’taken brachos, they did not make one for hurricanes. Presumably you would make the bracha on thunder if your hear it, but that’s about it.
Chacham: Firstly, I did not know partial pesukim fell under that rubric. That “yesh l’histapek” might be the reason, but I’d respectfully question if it’s a good one. Secondly, I am in 10,000% agreement with you on that song!
It’s a major misunderstanding of a certain branch of mathematics made popular by a movie made in 1993.
klach: Even granting that we pasken that way for all pesukim, could you please ask your rebbi why he extends that halacha to a Rashi? The answer would interest me greatly.
Haleivi: The gemara in Sanhedrin refers to singing shir hashirim “in a tavern” i.e. coarsely, removing the holy meaning from the words. That would apply to many songs whose tunes don’t fit the words in any way, merely using them to have something to set to the melody. I’ve been saying that Jewish songwriters should write their own lyrics for a very long time.
LBK: I have been told that they will comment on the standards of other hashgachos (mashgiach tmidi vs nichnas v’yotze etc) if not the reliability. I’ve also gotten answers about other hashgachos from OU mashgichim but they were all “off the record” since I didn’t ask them on company time in their professional capacities.
The Rabbis who staff the OU kashrus hotline know or have access to information about most hashgachos worldwide. Try them. The number is 212.613.8241 but I doubt you’ll get a live person this close to shabbos.
popa: If my rov wasn’t in kashrus (which he was for a while) I would trust myself to find out the answer for me just as much as I would trust him. We’d probably ask the same people after all.
Amen. Thank you for the kind words.
I’m bumping this thread up ahead of the storm because people may have to repair wind damage.
For roof work I recommend Pat’s roofing.
I don’t have any recommendations for general contracting because of the two my parents used, one retired and the other is out of private business and now works for the city. The one I know personally is now working for a large company too, so he can’t take private jobs. There is a very good plumber named Avi Fishbein, but all plumbers will probably be overbooked after the hurricane so maybe other people can post recommendations too.
Ofcourse: I don’t know them or anyone who has ever used them so I can’t say, but see above.
Reb Ber: It depends how high you’re trying to go. 2 1/2 feet would be fine if the top of the ladder is 10 ft. up. 30 ft not so much. Spray sealants are useful but unless you’re talking about a kind I don’t know about they have two problems:
a- They are meant to be applied from about a foot away, not straight up the side of a house and
b- They are meant to be in addition to mortar, not instead of.
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Among ashkenazi kohanim, the Rapaport family is known to be meyuchasim. They have a shtar going back to the Sha”ch who is known to have had a shtar going back to Ezra. Historically, many gedolim who wanted to be podeh themselves on a kohen meyuchas went to members of this family. Sefardim have more families with yichus but I don’t know the genealogy. Maybe someone else here does?
And Feif Un of course.
As a matter of fact, fedoras are finally coming back in style in America. Now wearing a black hat will actually look respectable instead of just strange (speaking solely in terms of the outside world).
Charliehall, popa, Derech Hamelech, and deiyezooger. They’re all very knowledgeable people who post that knowledge regularly.
A kizayis is approximately 34 grams if you want the largest shiur (1.2 oz).
I have a related question. Since challa is one of the matanos that can be eaten b’tuma and b’gvulin, why don’t we give challa to kohanim in Israel? I know that people consider most kohanim today to be of safek yichus, but we have plenty of m’yuchasim as well.
Last purim I wore a long black silk dress with bows all over it but was not dressing as a woman. Ten points to whoever guesses.
gavra: It does not. The machlokes of the tanur should tell you that much.
What about dresses? At one time the rabbanishe levush looked a lot like a white sari.
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Tehillim 8:6
To the reactionary: Are you sure you want to be in a thread that quotes pesukim? Chumash has Akkadian loan words… 🙂
If I want a segula for good rates on liability insurance should I learn bava kama?
I second gavra.
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It was also used in correspondence when the author wanted to refer to an issue without saying lashon hara or angering the Christian censor. The first reason still makes the phrase useful.
See, we’re in agreement. *gasp* It can happen if we stick to halachos psukos.
Tomche: Ad d’lo yada refers to the brain, not the liver. Once someone is drunk, his sober friends should stop him before he gets alcohol poisoning.
Don’t overeat, as hard as it might be. I come home, wash on one roll, drink a glass of milk and build the sukkah on that and a couple cookies from shul. I used to eat a full meal first but I found that it caused me to get sick in the middle.
am yisrael chai: I think the sheitlach have a hole in the brain, not the lung. There are 46 other treifos, y’know.
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(Does that mean if we do tshuva the terrorists in Gaza will turn around and attack Egypt?)
Happy birthday. May it be a shnas bracha v’hatzlacha.
Wrong shani. Try again.
MDG: By circumstances, I’d lean towards your second theory. He was asked as a hypothetical so he would obviously answer l’chatchila.
hello99: So the mechaber’s “nachon” comes from Tosafos.