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...
by moi613 | Sep 3, 2026 | Shabbat & Yom Tov
rosh hashana is called “yom teruah” (bamidbar 29:1), a day of sounding the shofar, and the davening is the longest of the year. between shofar, musaf with malchiyos zichronos and shofaros, and hours in shul, what actually matters most? 1. what are the main...
by moi613 | Sep 3, 2026 | Shabbat & Yom Tov
following up on the eruv answer, which explained that chazal created the karmelit restrictions so people would not get used to carrying and end up carrying in a real reshut harabim. if most modern city streets are considered a karmelit and not a real reshut harabim...
by moi613 | Sep 1, 2026 | Shabbat & Yom Tov
a real reshut harabim d’oraisa, on the shitos that require 600000, seems impossible to enclose with an eruv. but chazal also talk about genuine enclosures, walls with gates that lock at night, like yerushalayim had. so: 1. if a huge city like manhattan actually...
by moi613 | Sep 1, 2026 | Shabbat & Yom Tov
what is eruv tavshilin actually doing, and where does it come from? how does setting aside cooked food before yom tov make it mutar to cook on yom tov for shabbat, what is the logic behind it, and does the food have to be eaten for it to work?
by moi613 | Sep 1, 2026 | Shabbat & Yom Tov
why do we still keep a second day of yom tov outside israel as minhag avoseinu when the calendar has been fixed for ages? why is yom tov only one day inside israel? and why does an israeli who happens to be outside israel for yom tov not keep the second day?
