by moi613 | Sep 3, 2026 | Hashkafa
everyone throws around the words chillul hashem for anything embarrassing, but what does it actually mean in the sources? 1. the gemara in yoma 86a defines it by example: a person who learns torah but is not pleasant with people in his business dealings, people end up...
by moi613 | Sep 3, 2026 | Hashkafa
the torah talks about chinuch in a lot of places and they seem to pull in different directions, so what is the actual system? 1. the straight obligations: devarim 6:7 says v’shinantam l’vanecha, impress these words on your children, speak them at home and...
by moi613 | Sep 3, 2026 | Hashkafa
it looks like across halacha ashkenazim end up on the stricter side and sephardim on the more lenient side, in basar b’chalav, in kitniyos, in cholov, in all kinds of places. why is that? is there a real difference in how the shitos developed, like the...
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...
