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Question 5: What blessing should one recite over coffee and tea, and is there any problem with drinking them on Passover?
Response: I will answer the questions in order. Regarding the blessing, it has…
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Johann Adam Boller, Jacob Reischer
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Metz, Kingdom of France
(Metz, France)
Date:
1719
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Question: I was asked by the leaders of the holy congregation of Prostějov: A small piece of paper on which was drawn the image of a menorah, with the verses beginning “May God be gracious to us” from…
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Menaḥem Mendl Krochmal
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Nikolsburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Mikulov, Czech Republic)
Date:
Before 1661
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Regarding those who fight one another inside the synagogue over the seats which each one has designated for himself, as when one is late in arriving and finds that another person is sitting in his…
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Jacob Huli
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1732
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This disunity among us, the lack of piousness for one another, the civil war of murmurings in places where conversations and visits occur, evils that have caused the past and…
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Jacob de Castro Sarmento
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
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1723
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If I were asked to characterize in a phrase the change that religious Jewry has undergone in the past generation, I would say…
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Haym Soloveitchik
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New York, United States of America
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1994
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One widespread misconception concerning Judaism is the notion that Judaism is a religion which is not rooted in dogma. […] To be sure, membership in the community of Israel is not contingent upon a…
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J. David Bleich
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New York, United States of America
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1983
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I received your inquiry in which you asked me to express my opinion . . . concerning a curtain with multicolored images that was designated a Torah curtain, and which has been used for some time for…
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Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1732
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Zemah Davidsohn
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1863
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There is a severe admonition addressed to every individual within Israel not to add any precept on his own initiative onto those precepts which are written in the Torah, and…
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Simhah Isaac ben Moses Lutski
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Lutsk, Russian Empire
(Lutsk, Ukraine)
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ca. 1750
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For there are seven abominations in their hearts to ensnare the souls of the innocent, and they abolish public study of the Torah, and they cast off the yoke of the Torah from their necks and from the…
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Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna
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(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1772