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The Jewish Worker
Thoughts on Torah, working, living in Israel and how they go together.
http://jewishworker.blogspot.com/
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| (Published: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:44:22 -0400) |
| Who is entitled to an opinion about Torah issues? |
Why is it that most people would never offer an opinion on a complicated medical issue, legal issue, physics issue, etc. because they understand that they just have no clue, while on complicated halachic and hashkafic issues every Joe Yid feels that he has the right to offer an opinion even
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| Directory: Daily life & Practice |
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| (Published: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:53:44 -0400) |
| Why is Rosh Hashana before Yom Kippur? |
If you think about it logically Yom Kippur should come first. First we should do teshuva say viduy, fast, etc (all the things we do on YK) and then we would be prepared to be judged, namely Rosh Hashana.
The answer is as follows. For a person to do teshuva they need to understand th |
| Directory: Jewish Holidays |
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| (Published: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:57:12 -0400) |
| Did Chazal have scientific facts that no one else had? |
R' Feldman brings this claim as one of his proofs that Chazal's science is Torah M'Sinai.
How else could we explain numerous examples where the Sages had scientific information which no scientist of their time had? How were they so precise in their calculations of the New Moon? How did th |
| Directory: Jewish World |
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