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amother
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 10:51 am
b.chadash wrote:
Upon what do we recite a bracha, even though we cannot see it?


Thunder
Hearing good news
Hearing bad news
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 11:02 am
Who in the Torah was described as "Understanding and wise"?
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 11:03 am
When is it permissible to open the door of a room but forbidden to close it?
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 11:17 am
Which 19th century German rabbi was also an author who wrote many short stories and biographical sketches that we still have today?
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 11:17 am
b.chadash wrote:
When is it permissible to open the door of a room but forbidden to close it?


When a wild animal is in the room on Shabbos?
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 11:17 am
b.chadash wrote:
Which 19th century German rabbi was also an author who wrote many short stories and biographical sketches that we still have today?


Marcus Leiman
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 11:18 am
b.chadash wrote:
Which 19th century German rabbi was also an author who wrote many short stories and biographical sketches that we still have today?


Marcus Lehmann
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amother
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 11:44 am
You have 2 items, one is forbidden, the other permitted. When you mix them the permitted becomes forbidden and the forbidden permitted.
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 12:47 pm
cbsp wrote:
Marcus Lehmann


Correct!
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 12:50 pm
Who was the Shela and what does this title refer to?
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 12:53 pm
What is "Chasam Sofer" an acronym to?

Who was the second father-in- law of the Chasam Sofer?
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 12:54 pm
Where in sefer Bamidbar is there a reference to Bar Kochva?
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 12:59 pm
cbsp wrote:
When a wild animal is in the room on Shabbos?


Correct. But I think it would be for any animal, not just a wild animal?
(I don't own any animals, but can someone with a pet confirm if this is true? )
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 1:00 pm
b.chadash wrote:
Where in sefer Bamidbar is there a reference to Bar Kochva?


Bilaam Brachos.
Darach Kochav Liyaakov.
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amother
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 1:16 pm
LiLIsraeli wrote:
I don't think so. What I had in mind was when Shaul was told to kill all the animals of Amalek, and he left the sheep alive to bring korbanos. Those sheep were magically transformed people and that night Agag, the king of Amalek, fathered a child from whom Haman was descended.


But Agag was spared as a person, not as a transformed animal. This is explicit in the pesukim (Shmuel I 15:8-9):
וַיִּתְפֹּ֛שׂ אֶת־אֲגַ֥ג מֶלֶךְ־עֲמָלֵ֖ק חָ֑י וְאֶת־כׇּל־הָעָ֖ם הֶחֱרִ֥ים לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃
וַיַּחְמֹל֩ שָׁא֨וּל וְהָעָ֜ם עַל־אֲגָ֗ג וְעַל־מֵיטַ֣ב הַצֹּאן֩ וְהַבָּקָ֨ר וְהַמִּשְׁנִ֤ים וְעַל־הַכָּרִים֙ וְעַל־כׇּל־הַטּ֔וֹב וְלֹ֥א אָב֖וּ הַחֲרִימָ֑ם וְכׇל־הַמְּלָאכָ֛ה נְמִבְזָ֥ה וְנָמֵ֖ס אֹתָ֥הּ הֶחֱרִֽימוּ׃ 

(Shmuel kills Agag, in 15:32-33, but as you said, not before Agag fathers a child who would be Haman's ancestor.)
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 1:18 pm
b.chadash wrote:
Who was the Shela and what does this title refer to?


ישעיה בן אברהם הלוי הורוויץ

He wrote the tefillas hashlah
Shela is an acronym for Shnei Luchos Habris
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 1:19 pm
b.chadash wrote:
Who was the Shela and what does this title refer to?

His sefer shnei luchos habris
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 1:22 pm
amother [ Oatmeal ] wrote:
But Agag was spared as a person, not as a transformed animal. This is explicit in the pesukim (Shmuel I 15:8-9):
וַיִּתְפֹּ֛שׂ אֶת־אֲגַ֥ג מֶלֶךְ־עֲמָלֵ֖ק חָ֑י וְאֶת־כׇּל־הָעָ֖ם הֶחֱרִ֥ים לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃
וַיַּחְמֹל֩ שָׁא֨וּל וְהָעָ֜ם עַל־אֲגָ֗ג וְעַל־מֵיטַ֣ב הַצֹּאן֩ וְהַבָּקָ֨ר וְהַמִּשְׁנִ֤ים וְעַל־הַכָּרִים֙ וְעַל־כׇּל־הַטּ֔וֹב וְלֹ֥א אָב֖וּ הַחֲרִימָ֑ם וְכׇל־הַמְּלָאכָ֛ה נְמִבְזָ֥ה וְנָמֵ֖ס אֹתָ֥הּ הֶחֱרִֽימוּ׃ 

(Shmuel kills Agag, in 15:32-33, but as you said, not before Agag fathers a child who would be Haman's ancestor.)


But his wife transformed herself into a sheep. And I believe retransformed herself and visited him in jail that night and got pregnant.
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amother
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 1:41 pm
keym wrote:
But his wife transformed herself into a sheep. And I believe retransformed herself and visited him in jail that night and got pregnant.

There is a medrash to that effect that has since been lost (but it actually involves a cow, not a sheep) but it's far from the only explanation given as to how Agag fathered a child.

See here: https://judaism.stackexchange......tured for a long list of sources on the topic.
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Post Mon, Oct 11 2021, 1:52 pm
When is a father not a father ( no - not estranged or abusive)? Where is a sister not a sister? ( Not the same place.)

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