…impossibility of kashering earthenware vessels applies to substances absorbed through the medium of heat. Substances absorbed through long-term soaking, though technically con- sidered “cooked”, may be removed through soaking or…
…acts that do violate the law (see Maimonides, Laws of the Sabbath 21: 1). The rabbis apply the term shevut (absten- tion) to these kinds of activities. Tomeikh kaHalakhah Vol….
…indicate any variant texts. For the text in Sanhedrin 105b he notes that manuscripts פ and ק do not have the word mitzvot. Quickly searching the Bar Ilan Responsa CD…
…recordings, which could not have been forbidden when the practice first evolved. Innovative stringency has become acceptable, even if the innovation violates Halakhic principle, because stringency valorizes religious heroism which…
…the authors of the piyyut liturgy were “gedolei Yisroel,” “the great one’s of Israel,” a term that as we contend confers upon its bearer the valence of implicit covenantal canonicity…
…originally meant “the decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy”. Only in the 19th century was it used as a term for an athletic contest…
…contract a marriage for his minor daughter. For this use of the term mitzvah, see, e.g., Zevahim 48a; Y. Pesahim 2:4/29b. Cf. Yevamot 20a and parallels.). Furthermore, a father is…
…(yikahu) a woman who has been divorced by her husband; for each one [kohen] is holy to his God” (Lev. 21:7). The term “take” (kihah) signifies “marriage” (see Kiddushin 2a;…
…understood best in utilitarian, or, if you like, political terms; group-survival being identified with fixity and standardization. That is why where standardization and continuity are enthroned, halakhah turns into politico-halakhicsm…
…must be higher than the usual meaning of this term taken from Sabbath law. His conclusion is that it should be shoulder height when the women are standing. The basis…
…I would add that requiring a woman to endure significant anguish to carry a fetus to term is also morally debatable. However, NCJW seem to conclude without warrant that this…
…God in less physical terms than do the earlier books of the Torah” (xiii) covenant: “Deuteronomy emphasizes this metaphor so frequently that it was later referred to (in 2 Kings…