#halacha — Public Fediverse posts
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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.
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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 -
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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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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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
#Halacha
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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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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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Rambam at the end of Hilchos Talmud Torah rules that a talmid chacham is not allowed to forgo his honour when it is challenged in public - he must pronounce "nidui" (a harsh punishment) on the one who belittled him, because his honour is the honour of the Torah.
https://www.sefaria.org.il/Mishneh_Torah%2C_Torah_Study.7.13?lang=he&with=all&lang2=he
Now, what would Rambam rule in a case where the belittler - for whatever reason - was unable to control his speech, and involuntarily blurtted out an insult?
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Forgot the Alt Text on my previous Toot. So here it is:
“Reform Judaism may indeed have dispensed with the “rule of law,” the notion that every religious question must be submitted to rabbis for authoritative judgment, but it did not discard the law itself, the substance of halakhic observance as it has come down to us.”
From Mark Washowsky, Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice
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Just starting this book.
#ReformJudaism #LiberalJudaism #Halacha #Mazeldon #Judiverse -
Just starting this book.
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Two fun facts:
1. #NotAllChristians! Some of them observe #Shabbat on the correct day.2. According to #Christian #halacha, their days do actually start at the normal time. It’s how so many of them can go to football games and such on Shabbat, because they went to Christian Kabbalat Christian Shabbat services!
But yes, it’s a huge hassle for those who don’t know their own halacha.
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Two fun facts:
1. #NotAllChristians! Some of them observe #Shabbat on the correct day.2. According to #Christian #halacha, their days do actually start at the normal time. It’s how so many of them can go to football games and such on Shabbat, because they went to Christian Kabbalat Christian Shabbat services!
But yes, it’s a huge hassle for those who don’t know their own halacha.
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Poking at having #ChatGPT answer halachic questions and I can already see how this is going to be troublesome.
It answers easy questions quite well (giving a false sense of security) & can sort of argue for the answers too. It does sometimes quite badly on difficult questions, even if its argument is convincing on the surface (!). It is not always clear without background knowledge what *is* an easy halachic question.
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Poking at having #ChatGPT answer halachic questions and I can already see how this is going to be troublesome.
It answers easy questions quite well (giving a false sense of security) & can sort of argue for the answers too. It does sometimes quite badly on difficult questions, even if its argument is convincing on the surface (!). It is not always clear without background knowledge what *is* an easy halachic question.
