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Child #3, away at college, goes to CVS and buys #chametz. Yesterday. Using my credit card. 🤦 I find this out when I get the email receipt from CVS.
Normally I pay for his food at college.
There's a lot of #halacha I'm not so strict about, but not #Pesach.
"I need you to not be buying chametz with my credit card on Pesach," I tell him. He apologizes.
"I am taking that out of the money I owe you, because I can't be owning chametz on Pesach."
He agrees.
#Jewstodon #Mazeldon -
Child #3, away at college, goes to CVS and buys #chametz. Yesterday. Using my credit card. 🤦 I find this out when I get the email receipt from CVS.
Normally I pay for his food at college.
There's a lot of #halacha I'm not so strict about, but not #Pesach.
"I need you to not be buying chametz with my credit card on Pesach," I tell him. He apologizes.
"I am taking that out of the money I owe you, because I can't be owning chametz on Pesach."
He agrees.
#Jewstodon #Mazeldon -
Child #3, away at college, goes to CVS and buys #chametz. Yesterday. Using my credit card. 🤦 I find this out when I get the email receipt from CVS.
Normally I pay for his food at college.
There's a lot of #halacha I'm not so strict about, but not #Pesach.
"I need you to not be buying chametz with my credit card on Pesach," I tell him. He apologizes.
"I am taking that out of the money I owe you, because I can't be owning chametz on Pesach."
He agrees.
#Jewstodon #Mazeldon -
Child #3, away at college, goes to CVS and buys #chametz. Yesterday. Using my credit card. 🤦 I find this out when I get the email receipt from CVS.
Normally I pay for his food at college.
There's a lot of #halacha I'm not so strict about, but not #Pesach.
"I need you to not be buying chametz with my credit card on Pesach," I tell him. He apologizes.
"I am taking that out of the money I owe you, because I can't be owning chametz on Pesach."
He agrees.
#Jewstodon #Mazeldon -
Child #3, away at college, goes to CVS and buys #chametz. Yesterday. Using my credit card. 🤦 I find this out when I get the email receipt from CVS.
Normally I pay for his food at college.
There's a lot of #halacha I'm not so strict about, but not #Pesach.
"I need you to not be buying chametz with my credit card on Pesach," I tell him. He apologizes.
"I am taking that out of the money I owe you, because I can't be owning chametz on Pesach."
He agrees.
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/?p=33939 Western Wall prayer must be protected amid Israel’s security threats #America #halacha #Israel #jerusalem #Judaism #kotel #NaftaliBennett #Religion #WesternWall
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"In the final chapter of the #BookofEsther, the book itself is described as an #iggeret, a letter. This is an unusual term for a work that ultimately would become part of #Scripture. Rather than being presented as a formal #sefer or #scroll, the #megillah is cast as a letter of correspondence.
Because #MegillatEsther is framed as an iggeret, #Halacha treats it with greater flexibility. The requirements governing how it is written and how it is read aloud are less rigid than those of other books of Scripture. These leniencies reflect its origins as a letter sent to a dispersed nation to formalize the practices of #Purim and secure them for the future, and it is therefore preserved in #Jewish law in that same form.
The status of the megillah as a letter carries deep symbolism."
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"In the final chapter of the #BookofEsther, the book itself is described as an #iggeret, a letter. This is an unusual term for a work that ultimately would become part of #Scripture. Rather than being presented as a formal #sefer or #scroll, the #megillah is cast as a letter of correspondence.
Because #MegillatEsther is framed as an iggeret, #Halacha treats it with greater flexibility. The requirements governing how it is written and how it is read aloud are less rigid than those of other books of Scripture. These leniencies reflect its origins as a letter sent to a dispersed nation to formalize the practices of #Purim and secure them for the future, and it is therefore preserved in #Jewish law in that same form.
The status of the megillah as a letter carries deep symbolism."
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"In the final chapter of the #BookofEsther, the book itself is described as an #iggeret, a letter. This is an unusual term for a work that ultimately would become part of #Scripture. Rather than being presented as a formal #sefer or #scroll, the #megillah is cast as a letter of correspondence.
Because #MegillatEsther is framed as an iggeret, #Halacha treats it with greater flexibility. The requirements governing how it is written and how it is read aloud are less rigid than those of other books of Scripture. These leniencies reflect its origins as a letter sent to a dispersed nation to formalize the practices of #Purim and secure them for the future, and it is therefore preserved in #Jewish law in that same form.
The status of the megillah as a letter carries deep symbolism."
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"In the final chapter of the #BookofEsther, the book itself is described as an #iggeret, a letter. This is an unusual term for a work that ultimately would become part of #Scripture. Rather than being presented as a formal #sefer or #scroll, the #megillah is cast as a letter of correspondence.
Because #MegillatEsther is framed as an iggeret, #Halacha treats it with greater flexibility. The requirements governing how it is written and how it is read aloud are less rigid than those of other books of Scripture. These leniencies reflect its origins as a letter sent to a dispersed nation to formalize the practices of #Purim and secure them for the future, and it is therefore preserved in #Jewish law in that same form.
The status of the megillah as a letter carries deep symbolism."
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"In the final chapter of the #BookofEsther, the book itself is described as an #iggeret, a letter. This is an unusual term for a work that ultimately would become part of #Scripture. Rather than being presented as a formal #sefer or #scroll, the #megillah is cast as a letter of correspondence.
Because #MegillatEsther is framed as an iggeret, #Halacha treats it with greater flexibility. The requirements governing how it is written and how it is read aloud are less rigid than those of other books of Scripture. These leniencies reflect its origins as a letter sent to a dispersed nation to formalize the practices of #Purim and secure them for the future, and it is therefore preserved in #Jewish law in that same form.
The status of the megillah as a letter carries deep symbolism."
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"Unfortunately, many people know the holiday of #Purim, which occurs next week, only as the “#Jewish #Halloween” – as a big dress-up (or strip-down) party celebrated with meaningless mirth and carnival-like abandon.
I beg to offer a more sober, #theological, and #kabbalistic gloss on the #holiday.
#Tanach (the Bible), #Talmud, #Halacha, and #Kabbalah elevate #wine from beverage to blessing – linking joy to holiness, song to gratitude, and harvest to hope.Drinking wine on Purim is a method of catapulting our consciousness to a perfected world where God’s presence is dominant and evil is vanquished.
Throughout the Jewish canon, beginning with the Bible, the vital relationships between man and woman, between man and God, and between the Jewish people and their God are expressed via the metaphors of vine and wine."
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"Unfortunately, many people know the holiday of #Purim, which occurs next week, only as the “#Jewish #Halloween” – as a big dress-up (or strip-down) party celebrated with meaningless mirth and carnival-like abandon.
I beg to offer a more sober, #theological, and #kabbalistic gloss on the #holiday.
#Tanach (the Bible), #Talmud, #Halacha, and #Kabbalah elevate #wine from beverage to blessing – linking joy to holiness, song to gratitude, and harvest to hope.Drinking wine on Purim is a method of catapulting our consciousness to a perfected world where God’s presence is dominant and evil is vanquished.
Throughout the Jewish canon, beginning with the Bible, the vital relationships between man and woman, between man and God, and between the Jewish people and their God are expressed via the metaphors of vine and wine."
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"Unfortunately, many people know the holiday of #Purim, which occurs next week, only as the “#Jewish #Halloween” – as a big dress-up (or strip-down) party celebrated with meaningless mirth and carnival-like abandon.
I beg to offer a more sober, #theological, and #kabbalistic gloss on the #holiday.
#Tanach (the Bible), #Talmud, #Halacha, and #Kabbalah elevate #wine from beverage to blessing – linking joy to holiness, song to gratitude, and harvest to hope.Drinking wine on Purim is a method of catapulting our consciousness to a perfected world where God’s presence is dominant and evil is vanquished.
Throughout the Jewish canon, beginning with the Bible, the vital relationships between man and woman, between man and God, and between the Jewish people and their God are expressed via the metaphors of vine and wine."
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"Unfortunately, many people know the holiday of #Purim, which occurs next week, only as the “#Jewish #Halloween” – as a big dress-up (or strip-down) party celebrated with meaningless mirth and carnival-like abandon.
I beg to offer a more sober, #theological, and #kabbalistic gloss on the #holiday.
#Tanach (the Bible), #Talmud, #Halacha, and #Kabbalah elevate #wine from beverage to blessing – linking joy to holiness, song to gratitude, and harvest to hope.Drinking wine on Purim is a method of catapulting our consciousness to a perfected world where God’s presence is dominant and evil is vanquished.
Throughout the Jewish canon, beginning with the Bible, the vital relationships between man and woman, between man and God, and between the Jewish people and their God are expressed via the metaphors of vine and wine."
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"Unfortunately, many people know the holiday of #Purim, which occurs next week, only as the “#Jewish #Halloween” – as a big dress-up (or strip-down) party celebrated with meaningless mirth and carnival-like abandon.
I beg to offer a more sober, #theological, and #kabbalistic gloss on the #holiday.
#Tanach (the Bible), #Talmud, #Halacha, and #Kabbalah elevate #wine from beverage to blessing – linking joy to holiness, song to gratitude, and harvest to hope.Drinking wine on Purim is a method of catapulting our consciousness to a perfected world where God’s presence is dominant and evil is vanquished.
Throughout the Jewish canon, beginning with the Bible, the vital relationships between man and woman, between man and God, and between the Jewish people and their God are expressed via the metaphors of vine and wine."
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What an interesting #halacha question! Does the definition of "cooking" (bishul) depend on the context or day of the week? The practical answer is that you can't eat this food, but the interesting question is *why*. https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/294999
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Talmudic sages were active participants in ancient Mediterranean wine culture
A Ramat HaNad…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanWine #Wine #agriculturalknowledge #economicsystems #Halacha #Jewishfarmers #JournalofInterdisciplinaryHistory #LateAntiquity #Mediterranean #ShulamitMiller #UniversityofHaifa #Wine(Industry)
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2218819/talmudic-sages-were-active-participants-in-ancient-mediterranean-wine-culture/ -
Talmudic sages were active participants in ancient Mediterranean wine culture
A Ramat HaNad…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanWine #Wine #agriculturalknowledge #economicsystems #Halacha #Jewishfarmers #JournalofInterdisciplinaryHistory #LateAntiquity #Mediterranean #ShulamitMiller #UniversityofHaifa #Wine(Industry)
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2218819/talmudic-sages-were-active-participants-in-ancient-mediterranean-wine-culture/ -
Talmudic sages were active participants in ancient Mediterranean wine culture https://www.diningandcooking.com/2218819/talmudic-sages-were-active-participants-in-ancient-mediterranean-wine-culture/ #AgriculturalKnowledge #EconomicSystems #Halacha #JewishFarmers #JournalOfInterdisciplinaryHistory #LateAntiquity #Mediterranean #MediterraneanWine #ShulamitMiller #UniversityOfHaifa #Wine #Wine(Industry)
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Talmudic sages were active participants in ancient Mediterranean wine culture https://www.diningandcooking.com/2218819/talmudic-sages-were-active-participants-in-ancient-mediterranean-wine-culture/ #AgriculturalKnowledge #EconomicSystems #Halacha #JewishFarmers #JournalOfInterdisciplinaryHistory #LateAntiquity #Mediterranean #MediterraneanWine #ShulamitMiller #UniversityOfHaifa #Wine #Wine(Industry)
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Talmudic sages were active participants in ancient Mediterranean wine culture https://www.diningandcooking.com/2218819/talmudic-sages-were-active-participants-in-ancient-mediterranean-wine-culture/ #AgriculturalKnowledge #EconomicSystems #Halacha #JewishFarmers #JournalOfInterdisciplinaryHistory #LateAntiquity #Mediterranean #MediterraneanWine #ShulamitMiller #UniversityOfHaifa #Wine #Wine(Industry)
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A #halacha question to ponder: Is the flower of the oat plant kosher for Passover, if, for example, brewed as a tisane and drunk?
(I have my own answer, but I'm very curious to hear other opinions!)
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#Israel / Head of Israeli Yeshiva: according to the Halacha, all residents of Gaza should be killed, including elderly and babies; IDF standing orders take precedence
The head of a “Yeshivat Hesder” [a program which combines advanced #Talmudic studies with military service] in Jaffa, whose students serve in the #IDF after their studies there, said at a conference that took place yesterday (Thursday) that according to the Halachic principle, all residents of #Gaza should be killed. When asked specifically about elderly people and babies, he answered: "The same."
[Hebrew] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_VEKUNqIn4 or https://yewti.be/watch?v=g_VEKUNqIn4
@israel
@palestine
#Israel #WarCrimes
#JewishHalach
#Talmud
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Dear Avigal,
We offended the husband of my wife's best friend by not allowing him to participate via Zoom in our Passover Seder last year. When I saw him recently I sympathized with his desire to be with his family who were visiting us and I assured him that it was nothing personal - others had asked for this in the past, and we said the same.He is brogas. Never wants to speak to us again. Says we don't understand that family togetherness is the whole megila, the highest value, etc.
I apologized again for the hurt that this exclusion caused him, but said that this is our policy and it was nothing personal.
I can't apologize for what we did, because we'd do it again. I can only apologize for the fact that what we did caused him such pain and invite him to be with us in person in the future.
Now he's in town and pointedly not visiting us. On one hand, fine! Grow up!
But do I have an obligation to continue to apologize? And for what?
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The teshuvot for trans-inclusive Judaism are really interesting.
(Of course I immediately clicked on the circumcision and conversion one)
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Neat #halacha question: can #Jewish Mastodon help?
There's debate, I know, on whether it's kosher to pray from a #siddur #app. For those who say yes (w/distractions turned off), what is the status of the phone while doing so? Is it #kodesh (holy), like an actual siddur is, meaning if you touch something that isn't you have to wash your hands before proceeding? Or is it just a phone, and only the app has special status? Got #sources? Answers here good, there even better!
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Neat #halacha question: can #Jewish Mastodon help?
There's debate, I know, on whether it's kosher to pray from a #siddur #app. For those who say yes (w/distractions turned off), what is the status of the phone while doing so? Is it #kodesh (holy), like an actual siddur is, meaning if you touch something that isn't you have to wash your hands before proceeding? Or is it just a phone, and only the app has special status? Got #sources? Answers here good, there even better!
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Neat #halacha question: can #Jewish Mastodon help?
There's debate, I know, on whether it's kosher to pray from a #siddur #app. For those who say yes (w/distractions turned off), what is the status of the phone while doing so? Is it #kodesh (holy), like an actual siddur is, meaning if you touch something that isn't you have to wash your hands before proceeding? Or is it just a phone, and only the app has special status? Got #sources? Answers here good, there even better!
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Neat #halacha question: can #Jewish Mastodon help?
There's debate, I know, on whether it's kosher to pray from a #siddur #app. For those who say yes (w/distractions turned off), what is the status of the phone while doing so? Is it #kodesh (holy), like an actual siddur is, meaning if you touch something that isn't you have to wash your hands before proceeding? Or is it just a phone, and only the app has special status? Got #sources? Answers here good, there even better!
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Neat #halacha question: can #Jewish Mastodon help?
There's debate, I know, on whether it's kosher to pray from a #siddur #app. For those who say yes (w/distractions turned off), what is the status of the phone while doing so? Is it #kodesh (holy), like an actual siddur is, meaning if you touch something that isn't you have to wash your hands before proceeding? Or is it just a phone, and only the app has special status? Got #sources? Answers here good, there even better!
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This was quite interesting.
I’m too tired to look it all up now but I have two basic questions. Maybe someone can help me?:
1. Who decides/how are the rabbis who make #Halacha decisions in Conservative Judaism selected (elected?). How does this fit with the history of rabbinic #Judaism?
2. Reform Judaism’s Responsa are similarly given by a selected/elected body? What’s the process?
https://reformjudaism.org/rise-reform-rabbinate-rabbinic-road-out-wilderness
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This was quite interesting.
I’m too tired to look it all up now but I have two basic questions. Maybe someone can help me?:
1. Who decides/how are the rabbis who make #Halacha decisions in Conservative Judaism selected (elected?). How does this fit with the history of rabbinic #Judaism?
2. Reform Judaism’s Responsa are similarly given by a selected/elected body? What’s the process?
https://reformjudaism.org/rise-reform-rabbinate-rabbinic-road-out-wilderness
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This was quite interesting.
I’m too tired to look it all up now but I have two basic questions. Maybe someone can help me?:
1. Who decides/how are the rabbis who make #Halacha decisions in Conservative Judaism selected (elected?). How does this fit with the history of rabbinic #Judaism?
2. Reform Judaism’s Responsa are similarly given by a selected/elected body? What’s the process?
https://reformjudaism.org/rise-reform-rabbinate-rabbinic-road-out-wilderness
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This was quite interesting.
I’m too tired to look it all up now but I have two basic questions. Maybe someone can help me?:
1. Who decides/how are the rabbis who make #Halacha decisions in Conservative Judaism selected (elected?). How does this fit with the history of rabbinic #Judaism?
2. Reform Judaism’s Responsa are similarly given by a selected/elected body? What’s the process?
https://reformjudaism.org/rise-reform-rabbinate-rabbinic-road-out-wilderness
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This was quite interesting.
I’m too tired to look it all up now but I have two basic questions. Maybe someone can help me?:
1. Who decides/how are the rabbis who make #Halacha decisions in Conservative Judaism selected (elected?). How does this fit with the history of rabbinic #Judaism?
2. Reform Judaism’s Responsa are similarly given by a selected/elected body? What’s the process?
https://reformjudaism.org/rise-reform-rabbinate-rabbinic-road-out-wilderness
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While I’m on the topic (the topic being my stream of consciousness),
I think that being visibly #queer makes the lives of other queer people (young, perhaps closeted) better by showing them that they are not alone. In that sense it can improve their mental health.But this visible queerness (e.g. my Tom of Finland t-shirt) could make homophobic or ‘conservative’ people uncomfortable, arguably hurting their mental health.
How might #Halacha apply in this case, today?
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Shavua tov!
So finally I finished the whole book as my #ShabbatReading. It’s really good. I recommend anyone who is interested in how #Halacha fits into Progressive/Reform/Liberal #Judaism. I found his argument very persuasive.
#Babka #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #ShavuaTov #JewiahLaw #Theology #Aggadah
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Shavua tov!
So finally I finished the whole book as my #ShabbatReading. It’s really good. I recommend anyone who is interested in how #Halacha fits into Progressive/Reform/Liberal #Judaism. I found his argument very persuasive.
#Babka #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #ShavuaTov #JewiahLaw #Theology #Aggadah
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Shavua tov!
So finally I finished the whole book as my #ShabbatReading. It’s really good. I recommend anyone who is interested in how #Halacha fits into Progressive/Reform/Liberal #Judaism. I found his argument very persuasive.
#Babka #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #ShavuaTov #JewiahLaw #Theology #Aggadah
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Shavua tov!
So finally I finished the whole book as my #ShabbatReading. It’s really good. I recommend anyone who is interested in how #Halacha fits into Progressive/Reform/Liberal #Judaism. I found his argument very persuasive.
#Babka #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #ShavuaTov #JewiahLaw #Theology #Aggadah
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Shavua tov!
So finally I finished the whole book as my #ShabbatReading. It’s really good. I recommend anyone who is interested in how #Halacha fits into Progressive/Reform/Liberal #Judaism. I found his argument very persuasive.
#Babka #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #ShavuaTov #JewiahLaw #Theology #Aggadah
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Finding this book, The Story of the Jews, very interesting for all sorts of reasons. The Elephantine Jews were into intermarriage and all sorts of things that wouldn’t be approved of by today’s strict Halacha.
Of course they still became victims.