Recent content by rosends

And, to further muddy the water, one that is not a paraphrase nor literal, has to choose a particular "middle" road and that choice is agenda driven, often putting the interpretive cart before the horse. So, yeah.

Yeah -- not exactly my speed.

There are a variety of different things that get attached to the count, one being the kabbalistic consideration of the sefirot which are attached to each day. But that's not my focus. I just try to remember to count each night.

We count the days from the second day of Passover, 49 days (7 weeks) leading up to the feast of Weeks (Shavu'ot). We recite a blessing and count every night. Tonight, we counted 8 (1 week and 1 day).

so far, so good

We have a bunch of the stand by Maxwell House ones, plus I have a few others that I have had for a few years. But I also downloaded my synagogues haggadah companion for additional info. I downloaded and printed the Koren edition with commentary by R. Sacks but then discovered that I had an...

Chag Kasher v'same'ach -- a happy and healthy, and kosher Passover to all!

some places have already strongly discouraged kissing the torah.

I posted a few links above, specifically about identifying or recognizing the future messiah. The site you list is a good primer for the concept. There is much discussion about exactly what will happen, in what order and in what sense (literal or not) and which aspects are sine qua nons and...

Here is some information https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2811/jewish/Sighting-Moshiach.htm https://www.aish.com/jl/li/m/Who-is-the-Messiah.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150201054857/http://www.moshiach.com:80/questions/topten/how_to_identify_moshiach.php

Thanks -- chag kasher v'same'ach. I have already started to eat too much in anticipation of eating too much.

From dafyomi.co.il The first day, Hillel taught him Aleph, Beis, Gimel, Dalet; the next day, Hillel reversed the order of the letters. 5.The non-Jew: Yesterday you taught differently! 6.Hillel: You rely on me to know the letters - you can also rely on me regarding oral Torah! ----------- The...

That story is somewhat different from the one posted here. Same idea, though.

On the first night, you use the helper candle (the shamash) to light a candle on the right-most side of the channukiah. On the next nights, you put the candles in from oldest to newest (right to left) but light newest to oldest (left to right).

In Hebrew the spelling starts with a "chet" which makes a "clear your throat" sound, so the word is "ch" anookah. The English transliterations have their own way of signifying this sound (H with a dot, X, kh...whatever) but too many of them have decided to simplify the sound by putting a regular...