I’m sure this has been addressed by someone at some point, but if one lives in a doorman building, can one’s doorman be Jewish and on still work on Shabbat or Yom [...]
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It says Noah was righteous in his generation and commentators question whether this means “even in his generation” or “relative to his generation”. A related question is, both Abraham and Moses argued with God against destroying two cities and his people respectively. Why didn’t Noah argue with God not to destroy the world? (culled from [...] Israel: In the Beginning of a Love Affair Between a Land and a People One fact that has been repeatedly denied by Mr. Ahmadinejad, for example, is that the Jewish people have had a relationship with the land of Israel for thousands of years. …Why then, asks Rashi, does the Torah begin with [...] Genesis 1:1-6:8 The first parashah of the Torah, Genesis, covers from God’s creation of the World, to Noah. Its famous opening, alternatively “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” or “When God began to create the heavens and the earth”, catches some people by surprise. If the Torah, which means teaching in Hebrew, [...] Rabbi Michael Siegel has been a leading advocate for improving the treatment of workers in kosher food facilities. As the founding co-chair of the Hekhsher Tzedek program, Siegel was behind the release last month of detailed standards on how kosher companies should properly compensate their employees. Soon after the release of those standards, though, Siegel [...] As the Sefer Torah was rolled to the correct place for laining, Parshas Beha’aloscha, the baal kriah and gabbaim were astounded when they discovered that the parsha was nowhere to be found. They looked and looked again, but to their chagrin, Parshas Naso was followed by Parshas Shelach. What was going on? No one knew. … Numerous [...] An interesting thought experiment by Liz Fried on the ANE-2 list. I had a teacher once who used to tell us to construct the following thought experiment: Suppose you are to toss a previously unseen coin once or twice in the air and it came up heads both times. That would not be surprising. Suppose you [...] An old posting of mine to an email list followed by an article no longer online (but that I had saved) that discusses the reinvention of Judaism by the Deuteronomist [...] The ideal Conservative Jew: 1. Supports a Conservative synagogue by participating in its activities. 2. Studies as a Conservative Jew a minimum of one hour per week. 3. Employs learned Jewish values to guide behavior even when it conflicts with personal feelings or inclinations. 4. Increases personal Jewish living out of commitment and as a result of thought, by [...] But of course it does matter, and matters greatly, how the Chazon Ish knew this [Details of urology -BF ] . If one maintains like one of the local rabbonim, then one can deduce that personal righteousness of an individual is sufficient to grant him knowledge from On High about scientific matters. סוד ה’ ליראיו. [...] | ||||
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