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real-brisker: It’s definitely a hefsek as much as writing a check would be. You’re stopping davening to do something else.
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Joe: not always.
600kilobear: Askonim did hire someone, and she did blog properly about the Agudah’s hashkofa. The problem is that they hired her for PR in general as opposed to blogging and shut her blog down after a day or two. There won’t be an effective response from charedi askanim to the bloggers that don’t like them until they get their heads out of the sand and admit that the internet exists and that their constituents use it.
popa: Even when you’re allowed to talk m’ikar hadin, you’re still disturbing other people. If we –that is any of us — want to shmooze during korbanos (there should be another thread discussing why so many shuls don’t say them) we should do it in back.
Pac-Man: That’s not exactly true. Frum English speakers only do that when they are trying to sound more European/Yiddish. They usually do that when trying to be more respectful. I have no idea why, but that’s how it happens.
Busybody: Thanks. That was a typo.
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Large parts of Ezra-Nechemiah are written in English.
Going back to the OP, one advantage of the Koren translation over both Artscroll and JPS is that the Koren uses transliterated Hebrew for the names of people and places instead of the Hellenized “English” names. JPS always uses the Hellenized names, Artscroll uses them most of the time.
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m in Israel: Just a point of terminology, the Hebrew of the Mishna is a very different dialect from the Hebrew of the Tanach, which is why it has its own name — Mishnaic Hebrew. Also, almost two full books of the Bible are written in Aramaic. There are even a few words in the Chumash itself that are Aramaic.
I’ll look at it again later. Right now my Tanakh inside is in Chagai, just started.
When used by native yiddish speakers reb is the equivalent of Mr. When used by anyone else it’s almost always used to convey more respect than Mr. would.
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I disagree. The point isn’t that everyone knows who the tzadikim are and who the idolaters are. The point is that we all think we know deep down and the Navi is coming to remind us to check our assumptions every once in a while to make sure we ourselves are on the right side of that line.
The 1962 JPS translation is generally acknowledged as the most literally accurate translation of the Tanach. (Be careful not to get the 1917 one which is pretty much a poor imitation of the KJV.) Artscroll translates almost exclusively according to Rashi, (sometimes others) but it is not the way to go if you’re looking for a literal translation of the individual Hebrew phrases. Koren has a tanakh translation. Though I haven’t seen it yet, they have a very good reputation.
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Derech: The merkava was just an example of chariots that don’t look like chariots. Maybe he did go up in the merkava, maybe he didn’t. The words ???? ?? imply that the chariot he went up in wasn’t the one from Yechezkel because the maaseh merkava doesn’t mention horses.
What matters is if the purpose of this vehicle was to bring Eliyahu to shamayim or to another planet. Without any mekor, for saying such a chidush, you need to bring a proof that it is anything other than what is commonly explained.
We’re agreed. Of course there is also the opinion that he actually died and all subsequent instances of gilui eliyahu were his neshama being used as a malach (Radak quoting someone earlier) in which case the chariot didn’t bring him up, he went up as all neshamos do.
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You’re welcome.
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Why is it that of all the people who insist they remember previous lives, none of them remember being someone ordinary?
(if anyone remembers who said this, please attribute)
Rav Yaakov Hillel, known as one of the greatest (real) mekubalim of the generation said the following: “One has to understand that when the sifrei kaballa talk about hair and beards and fingernails the hair is not hair and the beard is not a beard. If you think that it is, of course it makes no sense!” (From a collection of drashos he gave in America)
My guess would be that this is even more true of words like “world” and “star” which even everyday language uses metaphorically.
Derech: A chariot of fire is a chariot of fire is a chariot where the wheels have legs and bodies that are not exactly wheel-like at all (the merkava). Does it make any difference in hashkafa, halacha, or anything else what the chariot looked like?
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Before I was born my parents bought mezuzos from a sofer. Shortly afterwards my mother was at a shiur for ladies given by this sofer and he said some things that were so strange that she decided she didn’t trust him and went to get them checked by a third party. Sure enough they were typed.
twisted: Traditional yemenite sofrim write on g’vil (pronounced Djah-wil by yemenites and some diqduq freaks) which is very soft and pliable. An ashkenazi sofer I know writes g’vil mezuzos for the reason you mentioned.
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Charlie: Halachic kefira is an opinion that renders its proponents kofrim according to halacha. For example, one who believes that there was a prophet greater than Moshe would be a kofer according to nearly all opinions.
Machashava means thinking. That’s why it isn’t very mainstream, in yeshivos or elsewhere. 😉
patur: You do know what the word “asserted” means, right?
Yes, many are, but by no means all. I’ve mentioned many times that some frum people think that manners are a davar assur. Not much we can do about it. The point is that it’s up to the rest of us to keep them in the minority by acting different.
Derech: The source for him being allowed to order other people to transgress is in Rambam Yesodei Hatorah perek 6 or 7, I forget. The nosei keilim bring all the raayos, one of which IIRC is Eliyahu.
Wolf: You weren’t wrong. You should stick to your guns until you’re proven wrong, not just asserted.
Chacham: The chemical difference is not in the chemical composition of the pigment, but of the other organic matter in the substance. The dibromide indigo was not synthesized in a lab, it came from living organisms so there are obviously other factors. I was going to post this on the other thread, but here is just as good.
twisted: One of the major points in favor of the Murex techeles is that it is the exact color of the indigo plant that is still used for most blue jeans. If you see a difference between the two it’s solely in the strength of the dye, not the actual pigment. In fact, the pigment in Murex techeles is the same compound as the pigment in kele ha’ilan. (BTW, I do have a pair of jeans that is the same shade as my techeles.)
popa: He should come soon and call your bluff.
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I second popa, HS kids have no spine.
I would say “You don’t want to threaten me, my boyfriend is a marine.”
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To make things more confusing, each of those six dinim have alternate meanings that people use at least as often as the ones given here. This leads to many misunderstandings and lots of pointless flamewars.
1) M’ikar hadin: The original chiyuv d’oraisa before any takanos were instituted, e.g. forbidding gerushin bal korcha, tzava’ah, karmilis and most of a woman’s rights under the kesuba are d’rabanan.
2) Chumra: Any shita more stringent than the most lenient opinion the speaker knows
3) Kula: Any shita more lenient than the most stringent the speaker knows
(both terms are used this way only to put others down and using the words this way is probably ona’as d’varim)
4) Hanhaga: Something with no halachic basis that people do for personal reasons like saying certain prakim of tehillim or trying to be yotze kol ha’deios on one particular mitzva that they have a cheshek for
5) Minhag: Things that rishonim bring down as minhag yisrael like saying baruch she’amar (RaMBaM hilchos tefilla)
6) amaratzus: People who follow an opinion the speaker never heard of/dislikes.
Hope this list helped. 😉
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600kilobear: Cut the nonsense. Plenty of the Russians with sfekos in their status in Brighton Beach also have grandparents who sacrificed to send their kids to cheder. You want to meet a couple. I know plenty. Also all of the most ehrliche people I know in my father’s age group are frum people who grew up frum but went to public school, including him.
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c) Since the first three brachos are praise not requests, it makes perfect sense to be talking about God instead of to Him. The question is why do we say most of the praises in the second person instead of the third?
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Don’t know about appliances, but cabinets and counters (as long as they aren’t stone) are small enough jobs that you should either do them yourselves or hire a good handyman instead of bringing in an actual contractor. It’ll save you money.
Joseph: Yes.
I really hope this doesn’t turn into yet another “thing” in kashrus. We have enough worthwhile things to fight about like the porcine coffee of starbucks. 😛
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I don’t think your Joseph. I suspected it a few times but I realized that as much as I disagree with you on just about everything and as much as you agree with him, you post coherently and civilly which is a dead giveaway.
80: Why are posts saying that a vegetable is kosher “anti-frum”? Or were people being rude about it?
FWIW, I never heard of any problem with corn and I’ve never found a bug in it.
Dr. Pepper: While that is a miracle, even soldiers from non-Jewish armies have similar stories. How about the story about how Rav Goren and his driver took Chevron?
rebbi1: Just an ox.