Comment by MichoelR on Mitzva Dream Team: the minimum number of individuals...
Not sure how it would fit into your question, but איסורבמות is an interesting try. There were times when certain mitzvos didn't apply (completely). - The Rambam talks about the example I gave,...
View ArticleComment by MichoelR on Shabbos shacharis - Shabbos and the nations
I also see that in the sefer Tefillah L'Moshe on the davening it quotes R"Y ben Yakar at length, in a peirush that sounds similar to the one here from the Shelah. I don't know how to find that...
View ArticleComment by MichoelR on Making matzah at home
@DoubleAA I got a friend (R' Moshe Schuchman from Star-K) to talk to R' Heinemann. He still sounded like he was being guarded, but I think agreed that there is no real time limit. But, you need to be...
View ArticleComment by MichoelR on How were Egyptian riches distributed among the...
Seems like the 2nd possibility is the one that would require evidence.
View ArticleComment by MichoelR on PTIJ: Can a Cohen go into a room with 60 or more...
What about a hotel? Does the tumah spread through the hotel like it would if all of them were in a single room?
View ArticleComment by MichoelR on PTIJ: Is a hot-dog a sandwich?
If he forbade himself benefit from a dog...
View ArticleComment by MichoelR on Would the Exodus generation not have entered...
Doesn't what they did wrong, illustrate how they needed to grow?
View ArticleComment by MichoelR on PTIJ: How is holding Mount Sinai up a good threat?
I also thought that the unnecessary description as a barrel makes it sound like that's part of the point. He wasn't so much threatening to crush them, as to just bury them, inside the mountain.
View ArticleComment by MichoelR on PTIJ: can the hunchback of notre dame convert
If people with thick hearts can convert, people with stiff necks can too.
View ArticleComment by MichoelR on PTIJ: Surprising revelations about King David
Is that supposed to be a slingshot?
View ArticleMessages from Hashem
I have heard from my teachers that when something major happens in the world, this is a message from Hashem. But it is a message for Israel and actually for the religious people in our nation- because...
View ArticleAnswer by MichoelR for Does the colouring of animals depend on what the...
I don't see any of the comments bringing Rashi on 31:10:וַיְהִ֗יבְּעֵת֙יַחֵ֣םהַצֹּ֔אןוָאֶשָּׂ֥אעֵינַ֛יוָאֵ֖רֶאבַּחֲל֑וֹםוְהִנֵּ֤ההָֽעַתֻּדִים֙הָעֹלִ֣יםעַל־הַצֹּ֔אןעֲקֻדִּ֥יםנְקֻדִּ֖יםוּבְרֻדִּֽים׃at...
View ArticlePosition of gedolim on AI chatbots
I have heard that some gedolim have recently expressed special opposition to Artificial Intelligence (in contrast to whatever their attitudes are for internet in general). Which gedolim have spoken in...
View ArticleShevuah worded in the negative
I've been bothered for a long time: Throughout Tanach, shevuos (oaths) and brisos (covenants) are phrased in the negative (where it doesn't just say, I swear __, like בינשבעתי ___). Generally language...
View ArticleYaakov, Lavan, and the sheep deal(s)
Yaakov tells Lavan that "You changed my wages ten times." [Chazal: actually a hundred times.] It's a sad story. If Lavan had just given Yaakov normal wages, מחציתשכר - splitting the outcome - or some...
View ArticleYosef and three times scaring his brothers
In the interaction between the Viceroy (really Yosef) and his brothers in Parshas Mikeitz, the Torah describes three different ways he frightened them.First, he claimed they were spies (מרגלים).Second,...
View ArticleYosef's dreams and time
I had an interesting idea, and I wondered if anyone knows of sources that use it.Yosef deals with three sets of dreams: his own, the dreams of the sommelier and baker, and the dreams of Pharaoh. In the...
View ArticleAnswer by MichoelR for Do any commentaries explain the charade that Yosef put...
If you really want recent, here is my peirush (updated with just this piece separated out) that deals with this at length. [The section starts on page 68, Parshas Vayeishev, and continues thru Parshas...
View Article18 minute matzah cutoff
Having learned some of the sources for baking matzah (OH 453-461, more or less), I discovered something that surprised me.The time for how long it takes to (possibly) become chametz is given as a shiur...
View ArticleRequests in the Amidah - hide and seek
The Amidah standing prayer is at the center of our tefillos. Every Amidah has three blessings of praise (שבח) at the beginning, and the blessings of thanks (הודאה) at the end.The weekday Amidah has...
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