#Halach

[frownyalfred]

joke’s on everyone sending me shit because I’m going to Jewishpost about Bruce Wayne even harder now.

reasons I think Bruce Wayne is a Jewish Dad (non-canon reasons, just things he does that remind me of Jewish Dads I know):

he has longstanding beef with multiple people downtown but won’t explain

currently walking around with an injury he should’ve seen a doctor about at least two years ago

observing his kid do something stupid and hurt themselves “why did you do that?”

either has no adult friends at all or has a bunch but they’re all kinda weird so he never brings them up

happiest with the NYT crossword and coffee strong enough to pass as rocket fuel

loves his children. has trouble saying this out loud, explicitly, to his children

can fall asleep anywhere

[hermthejewishwyrm]

"Its not that it's not kosher...its that its radioactive" - quote I overheard my father say into the phone

[learningftw]

ship of theseus is so easy. Yeah it’s the same ship. Each piece that’s replaced is batel b’rov of the rest of the ship and becomes the same ship as the rest of it. The only problem would be if you replaced the ikkar of the ship in one go. Now of course there’s a machloket about what the ikkar is- some say the mast, while others say it’s a continuous rov of the hull, while still others say that it’s just enough of the hull that the ship couldn’t stay afloat regardless of whether it’s contiguous- but the principle is simple.

[leahbasavraham]

[discworldwitches]

Rachel Adler - The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman

[strawberrysamara]

Fully accepting that I'm going to have to atone for this one on Yom Kippur but how do y'all think gender roles in halacha would work in the Omegaverse? I mean how many mechitzot and who goes on what side, are male omegas and female alphas expected to wear tichels/sheitels when bonded/married, how tf do ketubot/gittin work, who wears talliot? Does tzniut apply along primary or secondary gender lines or a secret third option? Shomer negiah??? Taharat ha'mishpacha??????

[kamil-a]

i had something to rebut this with but i got really into putting it in the water. Um basically i think that while you never want to look a gift horse in the mouth sometimes the 'imperfect ally' who doesnt get the gay stuff but is just happy to see you happy/think ppl should mind their own business or whatever is also like incredibly aggressively racist or transphobic. like accept personal help and defense as needed but you gotta stay on your toes. yayyyy a stingray just went past

[feygaleh]

but do niddah laws apply to lesbian couples 🤨

[greco-roman-jewess]

Things NOT To Do at a Bar Mitzvah:

Bring one(1) salted and smoked boneless herring carcass per male member of your group

[meanjewishdyke]

Binding the leather straps of tefillin tight against your skin each morning is more than just a ritual — it’s an act of connection, discipline, and submission to something greater. The smell of the leather, the way it wraps around your arm, tight and unyielding, feels both ancient and intimate, a link to countless generations of Jewish men who’ve done the same. But there’s power in that tightness, in that bond. The leather grips your skin, just as the mitzvot grip your soul, pulling you closer to your purpose, to your masculinity, and to G-d.

The black straps, worn as a symbol of strength and focus, press into your flesh, leaving marks — not unlike the marks of your own journey toward selfhood. Each wrap is a declaration of faith, but it is also a challenge: Can you be disciplined enough to carry the weight of who you are? Can you withstand the pull of tradition and the tension of transformation? The leather against your skin isn’t just a reminder of the commandments — it’s a reminder of your evolving masculinity, forged through action, struggle, and commitment. Every pull, every knot, brings you closer to your true form, a being reshaped by divine will and earthly struggle.

[laineystein]

It is almost 3am and my house is finally kashered for Pesach. Not a whisper of chametz to be found. I FEEL SO FREE 🥳

[hyperpotamianarch]

Why is Hannukah eight days if the oil sufficed for one day? Day 5.

Well, today I hit some sort of barrier looking for stuff. Perhaps I should've scoured every commentator on the Shulchan Aruch or the Beit Yosef to find other answers, but I chose to look at a more modern book instead - Aruch HaShulchan. Which, yes, is paraphrasing Shulchan Aruch. Aruch HaShulchan was written by rabbi Yechi'el Michel Epstein about a hundred or less years ago. That proved to... Well, complicate things. You see, Aruch HaShulchan felt somewhat satisfied with Beit Yosef's answers - but only somewhat, because he still felt the need to supply more answers. Being the person I am, though, I wanted to bring you the answers from the earliest origin I can find, and Aruch HaShulchan attributed the answers to someone else: Shiltei HaGiborim on the Mordechai.

I didn't even get to the answer itself, but I feel obligated to note that this is a fascinating route. Shiltei HaGiborim was rabbi Yehoshu'a Bo'az from the Baruch family - don't ask me about the phrasing, please, I'm basing it on his page name in the Hebrew Wikipedia. He was contemporary to the Shulchan Aruch, and rabbi Yosef Karo probably never saw his book. But he also quotes another book that the Beit Yosef did get to see: the Orchot Chaim, by rabbi Aharon HaCohen of Lunel. The latter was a rabbi of the Tosafot era in France, though I think Lunel is in Provence which was an entire thing unto itself at the time. That places us at around the 13th-14th centuries CE, if you were curious.

I could keep the chain of quotes, since the Orchot Chaim also quotes an even older book, but I didn't manage to find this particular point yet in this book, so I'll leave you with what he says: similarly to the answers we had for the previous two days, he has a different topic of celebration for this day. In his case, it's the rededication of the Temple.

That's actually another one that sounds way intuitive. The holiday is called Hannukah, for heaven's sake. In Hebrew, Hannukah means "rededication", or... well, there are a couple of possible translations, it also has to do with education and with initiating use of a house. Re-initiating said use doesn't have a separate word, though. So, yeah. Of course we celebrate the rededication of the Temple, which clearly started at the 25th of Kislev.

This answer is not without problems, but neither are the two of yesterday and the day before. By suggesting a different cause to celebrate on the first day from the other days you create a conundrum of why, then, are they all celebrated the same? With the answer from Shabbat, on the victory in the war, there's a rebuttal from the Turei Zahav saying that a victory in the war requires days of feasting and joy, like Purim. Since this wasn't the prominent component of the miracle, though, the days of Hannukah are days of Praise and Thanks, which is why the Hallel is a central commandment of the holiday but feasting is not - unless it contains praise to Hashem on the miracle. This actually has Halachic ramifications.

Tomorrow, if I'll manage to find the source, we'll talk about the other answer suggested in the Orchot Chaim, which is widely different from all the answers we've seen yet.

[roundearthsociety]

maybe if you don't want people to hate you for being catholic you shouldn't proselytize in the inbox of someone who has good reason to hate the catholic church, idiot

Ehh, I misjudged the tone of that ask I think. I was more going for "hey, we exist, maybe we all ought to remember the human behind the screen" but I can see how it got misinterpreted.

Idk if that warrants misgendering me though, nor for that matter uh.

That.

[leahbasavraham]

Not tonight babe I’m trying to make AI generated images of (more) halachically accurate Sinai stone tablets

[discworldwitches]

Rachel Adler - The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman

[anonymousdandelion]

Gittin 61a

@the Israeli rabbinate