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If the mitzvah of timcheh goes further than that, and is not delineated by the pasuk of v’hacharamtem, we’re back to square one i.e. it’s not delineated at all and the Torah’s reference to it ensures that it can never be fulfilled.

My bar-mitzvah pshetel was on the Korban Olah but if I ever have to suggest a topic to another parshas zachor kid I know what to recommend. 🙂

I can’t think of any geder stronger than having your spouse right there. AFAIK chazal couldn’t either.

A-It’s all asmachta anyway

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C-Even if it isn’t actually a drasha of that sort, if the pasuk limiting it to people and animals is clarifying the mitzvah, it is clarifying that the mitzvah means only people and animals. Incidentally, that’s what klal uprat is.

BTW, that’s my bar mitzvah haftara.

I had to look both of those up.

charlie: The theaters didn’t contain much pagan ritual, but they did contain poetry recital. Can you imagine any Jew — or anyone at all today — going to watch someone recite Catullus with gestures? And speaking of using modern communications tech for Torah, there will be a public hangout on google+ tomorrow night learning Hilchos Beis Habechirah. It will run from 8pm till the end of the fast.

Droid: You seem to be a yodea sefer, look it up yourself.

I was commenting on YY as opposed to IS. I also sometimes call you DH.

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Does that work?

You keep referring to me by my Hebrew initials. Do I know you IRL?

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charliehall: Theaters and circuses did not exist in ancient Egypt.

Joseph: My earlier words didn’t get through, so I’ll try again more moderately. Hizaharu b’divreihem k’gachalei aish. Or does that only apply to rabbis you like?

gavra: Can I recommend “Out of the Whirlwind” by Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik? While it is primarily a book about hashkafa after the Holocaust, it also deals with some of the issues involved. He also gave a shiur on the specific considerations a ben Torah should weigh when considering aliyah which is printed elsewhere.

I can’t say anything about aliyah, since I haven’t yet but I really want to.

I think shlishi is just trolling. Just because he isn’t (?) Joseph doesn’t mean we have to assume he isn’t another troll.

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The gemara says it davka about Chanuka, but IIRC acharonim mention it about achilas maror.

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(I always thought that line was directed to everyone who fell asleep during akdamus)

We say v’tzivanu on many mitzvos m’d’rabbanan. Why are you asking on netilas yadayim and not krias hamegilla or hallel? Or achilas maror for that matter?

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The k’deira blech is a different issue than the gum. The gum is a well-known kula which your rav (or his, for that matter) may or may not like. The blech could be simple ignorance. The k’deira blech was touted as a new thing to make various things muttar on shabbos but advertisements aren’t halacha teshuvos and people make mistakes. I’ve seen more than one older gentleman take an umbrella to shul on shabbos because he held with the local eruv.

That’s what I was thinking. We have two precedents for turning your back vs. one for not and that one has exceptional circumstances. Of course, one is supposed to walk out of the azara backwards unless hurrying out because of tumah (RaMBaM hilchos bi’as hamikdash).

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We see that the kohen gadol walks out backwards on yom kippur which would be mashma not like you. Then again we see that the leviim stand on the duchan with their backs to the heichal and that half the kohanim using the kiyor did the same. So it seems that your svara is good.

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There was one at a temp job I worked at for a month. The machine worked fine, it just made bad coffee :). No accounting for taste, I guess.

Isn’t Eric Cantor also Shomer Shabbos?

deiyezooger’s answer is a lot better than mine, though I will get back to you with a list of places where the gemara reconstructs details of wording.

Can I derail it with another two random questions?

1- In Yoma, the gemara gives a klal that every time someone turned during certain avodos, they would go yemin l’mizrach. This would involve the kohen turning his back to the heichal multiple times for each korban. What is the mailah of yemin l’mizrach that is docheh kavod? (I’m learning Yoma)

2- According to the mishna in Parah, the sreifas haparah has to be done chutz l’3 machanos. During Bayis sheini the paros were done on har hamishcha which was inside Yerushalaim which has a din like machaneh yisrael in the desert. How?

OK, shkeyach, now back to the game.

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It looks like we have two whole rounds already. For round three, I’m taking 1-23 inclusive.

When you think about it, the gemara has a very robust structure for preserving the mesorah and keeping track of every change due to takanos, pointing out chisurei mechsera even when obvious, etc. Every single change from how it was received has to be rigorously accounted for. In that light, the gemara doesn’t actually have a hava amina, it’s recording where it corrected an obvious garbling of the Mesora. (Isn’t it mind boggling when you think of how few of those there are?)