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  • in reply to: Is Yiddish Holy? #1558120
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    md13, IDF uniforms have kedusha according to some recent poskim.

    except for expert yiddish speakers, english contains more capability to express more precise ideas like brisker torah or real theology.

    in reply to: Brisk #1554271
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    brisk was a reaction to modernity as is academic talmud. all methods have intrinsic and ancillary benefits,

    in reply to: Who is the new leader of Klal Yisrael? #1427270
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    jews have gedolim and gedolai hador. the desire for A gadol hador is foreign to our history. even Rambam or Rabbeinu Tam had others in their generation who contested their position.

    the exceptions were few and far between. to expect one gadol hador to follow another is like trying to name the greatest physicist after Einstein died. i think our last acknowledged gadol hador may have been the gaon of Vilna.

    in reply to: chazon ish esrogim #1377456
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    for two reasons i prefer esrogim from Israel over those from other countries. first, it is supporting the israeli economy. second, the chance of adulteration is probably lower.

    in reply to: Time to reinvent clock #1349695
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    ChadGadya, only RSZA ztl talks of midnight but lechol hadeyot, midday and midnight are ALWAYS 12 standard hours apart.

    to all: we announce the “average lunation/ molad” the actual molad varies by as much as 9 hours, i believe, given the elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun. chazal’s estimate of the average lunation was correct to 5 decimal places. the accumulated error over 1500 years is about three hours in the right direction, making the bias in RC later. in about 5000 years a sanhedrin will have to correct deleting one 13th month and one 30th day. nothing to lose sleep over. both the 19 year cycle and the average lunation are approximations, the lunation a remarkably good one, the 19 year cycle a bit less so.

    in reply to: How To Learn Trope #1349688
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    if you read hebrew, there is an excellent intro to trop in daat mikre on berashit by rav breuer ztl- about 20 pages. there is also a massive book in english probably around 600 pages and over 60 dollars that is a kol bo, based on rav breuer method.

    in reply to: Time to reinvent clock #1348558
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    to all the learned posters. shittot where chatzot does not occur at the exact astronomical point of midday have a complex halakhic history. there are at least three reasons that underlie this phenomenon. individuals like rav nosson Adler ztl, the CS ztl’s rebbe, RYCS ztl, RSZA ztl, RMF ztl maintained such a position. it was also minhag yerushalayim in the 19th century. to understand it requires a long shiur in zemanim. most poskim reject the shittah despite the many who in one way or another upheld it. even the minchat yitzchok forcefully rejects it despite its prevalence in the early yishuv.

    in reply to: Frum Doctors #1319872
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    doctors and other healthcare professionals turn to their LORs for halakhic advice; not to a blog, BH. individuals can rely on RSZA ztl’s view of electricity and use the phone in any situation of safek pikuach nefesh or even pikuach eiver. returning medical professionals also have poskim to guide them. frumkeit in this area can be costly and an issur de’oraysah. as Rav Chaim Brisker once noted in defense of one of his idiosyncratic psakim, i am machmir in pikuach nefesh.

    in reply to: Dealing with the refrigerator light on Shabbos #1304606
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    yehudayona, there is no heating element that gets to a relevant temperature, hence de’rabbonon at best

    in reply to: Dealing with the refrigerator light on Shabbos #1303669
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    yehudayona, psik raisha delo ichpat lai by a melacha derabbonon is also muttar lechatchila le’rov [oskim.

    in reply to: Dealing with the refrigerator light on Shabbos #1303487
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    huju, heat entering a refrigerator is a textbook case psik reisha delo nicha lai – the basis for heterim from many great poskim.

    in reply to: Dealing with the refrigerator light on Shabbos #1302835
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    ZTA, magnets work in many situations. we place a magnet in two different places that keep two separate lights off; it would cost over $100 for them to be permanently removed. we removed two other lights. the fridge came with our vacation home and some googling around and calls to the manufacturer helped solve the problem.

    in reply to: Friday of Chukas Attack #1159445
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    A bit of Torah knowledge would help, especially for Mashiach Agent. YK can never occur on friday because of lo adu rosh. that obviously makes Tzom gedalia never able to fall on friday. because the calendar from pesach to tishrei is fixed, tisha bav and shiva aser be’tammuz never fall on friday. because 2 of the months between tishrei and adar, can have 29 or 30 days, asarah betevet can occur on friday and we fast. when to end the fast once shabbat starts is a machloket at least currently. a personal taanit or a community taanit like erev parshat chukat can happen on friday.

    we do not realize that in the communities of ashkenaz (then largely germany and northern france) ALMOST ALL copies of the talmud and other manuscripts were destroyed and there was no printing until 300 years later.

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