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What bracha do you make on smoothies?
If I put grapes, apples, strawberrys, watermelons, and other fruits and vegetables, as ingredients, in a smoothie, what bracha do I make, because its filled with foods of different brachos?
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Where is there a good online source to check how often a word appears in Tanach?
Where is there a good online source where you can check how often a word appears in Tanach?
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If you realize you're carrying on Shabbat, what's the best thing to do?
I've heard that you should put it down on a makom patur while still walking. However, a true makom patur is tall and skinny, like a post, and therefore possibly difficult to find.
I've also heard that you walk into a reshus hayachid - private…
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How can it be that David hamelech died on shavuos and Shabbos
The Gemara (Mesechet Shabbat) says that Shavuot can never fall on Shabbat. But it is known that David Hamelech was niftar on Shavuot and Shabbat?
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ribis and foreign currency conversion
I am afraid that I have only recently started to study this kind of thing and I completely unlearned compared to most of the contributors here, so I apologize if my question is somewhat unsophisticated.
Consider a Jewish person who grew up in the…
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Regurgitating Living Forbidden Species
The endurance artist David Blaine is covered in this video showing the technique where one could learn to swallow certain live animals. And, at will, regurgitate the live animal (for example, a frog).
The main question here is if a Jewish person…
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Why is the afternoon prayer called minchah?
The first mishnah in the fourth chapter of Berachot reads:
תפילת השחר עד חצות
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תפילת המנחה עד הערב
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תפילת הערב אין לה קבע
The morning prayer may be recited until midday ... The afternoon prayer may be recited until evening ... The…
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Hakanah; Teshuva Process
I'm reading the Artscroll biography Reb Elyah. It mentions that he completed a six year Teshuva process known as Hakanah, which includes almost constant fasting and other acts out of love for Hashem, as well as a year long Taanis Dibbur, a fast from…
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How to sing Karnei Farah and Yerach Ben Yomo
Hi I'm looking for different traditions (and sources!) about how to properly sing these very rare trop found in the Torah exclusively in Bamidbar 35:5 Does anyone have any idea which version is better / closer to the original?
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Why sell chametz to a woman?
I see that someone claims that, when it comes to selling one's chametz to a non-Jew before Pesach,
יש מחלוקות ודעות שונות איזה קנינים לעשות, ואם למכור לגוי או דוקא לגויה
— in my own, loose translation,
there are varied opinions… whether to sell…
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Other reasons to start teaching children with Vayikra
The Midrash (Tanchuma Tzav #14, Vayikra Rabbah 7:3) advises one to start teaching their children with parshas Vayikra, since the korbonos are pure, just like children are pure. This is brought by the Kol Bo #74 as the minhag,
subsequently brought by…
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Why is chicken "meat" (with regards to basar bechalav) and an egg not?
Why is chicken considered meat but fish is not? Also, why is an egg considered pareve? And if we can eat chicken eggs, why can't we eat caviar (fish eggs)?
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PTIJ: It's not Rosh Chodesh Adar for me yet. Do I need to filter PTIJ posts?
I live in the USA where it is not yet Rosh Chodesh Adar. However there are Israelis for whom it is Rosh Chodesh Adar, and they are posting Purim Torah questions to Mi Yodeya. Am I halachically obligated to filter out PTIJ posts until it is Rosh…
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The process of the evaluation of the Sages' wisdom when electing for the Sanhedrin?
Mishnah Sanhedrin 4,4:
"ושלש שורות של תלמידי חכמים יושבין לפניהם כל אחד ואחד מכיר את מקומו"
Three rows of the Sages sit before [the Sanhedrin of 71], every one of them knows his place
Rambam's explanation:
"בכל שורה מהם ג"כ כ"ג מסודרין ראשון ושני…
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What is the origin of the naming of Shabbat Shira?
Related to this question (about the reason for the name), what is the source or origin of calling the Shabbat on which we read Shirat Hayam Shabbat Shira?
We don't call the week on which we read the Shirat Hab'er a Shabbat Shira though its content…
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