by moi613 | Sep 3, 2026 | Hashkafa
the work answer already covered the working side with berachos 35b, many did like rabi yishmael and succeeded. what is not covered is the ordering between work and marriage. 1. the gemara in kiddushin 29b brings a braisa: a man should learn torah first and then marry,...
by moi613 | Sep 3, 2026 | Hashkafa
the bittul torah answer covered how much learning a person owes and that normal life is not bittul torah. this asks the other side of it: what counts as torah in the first place. the sources make the mitzvah sound total. “vehigisa bo yomam valaila”...
by moi613 | Sep 3, 2026 | Hashkafa
anyone who spends time around chabad or breslov notices it: joy in everything. dancing, singing, farbrengens, hitbodedut, davening that sounds like it means something. meanwhile a lot of regular observant life can go rote, same davening, same routine, mitzvos on...
by moi613 | Sep 3, 2026 | Hashkafa
the denominations answer explained that the labels are historical and that halacha is what actually matters. two things were left open: what reform actually is, and a pattern many rabbis have noticed in america, that jews tend to land either orthodox or reform, with...
by moi613 | Sep 3, 2026 | Shabbat & Yom Tov
yom tov has a melacha allowance that shabbos does not: “no work at all shall be done on them, only what every person is to eat, that alone may be prepared for you” (shmos 12:16). cooking for the day’s food is permitted on yom tov. shabbos has no such...
