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@GilStudent "כמ"ש באג"ב" "as is recorded in Agudat Betulah" This is of course a hallucination and RYE is referencing his Igeres Bikores

Full responsum here (with ChatGPT's translation) torahmusings.com/wp-content/upl…

One of the weirder responsa of Rav Ya'akov Emden is about a rabbi who ruled that a kohen may not go to the cemetery (become impure) for his married daughter's funeral. Clearly wrong (Lev. 21:2). But why didn't he come up with a better reasoning to justify his incorrect ruling?

@ezalmanov @bentziavtzon A futer(fas) is a sheath etc.

@bentziavtzon He lost me at puterfes. (Yes, I do recall the conversation here years ago that the name may originally been something like Puterpas.)

Reb Mendel how did you survive siberia what was your “ah” *smack in the face*

@Joshua_Skootsky Have seen that tournament mentioned numerous times in the current context

@querynotfound well, in 2026 Sindarov had a very good candidate's tournament. Some say the best of all time. But 2005 Topalov did this, and back then there wasn't a match for the FIDE title. So in some ways it was a bigger tournament.

Topolov had a monster tournament in 2005 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_Worl…

@arinohem This a thousand year-old chiluk between Western Europe (Ashkenaz) and Eastern Europe (Polin)

These people really are insane

@Etti_di_farina I personally have not had chametz on motzei pesach in a couple of years. Despite the great inyan there might be in doing so

I would like to know how/why anyone is hungry on motzaei Pesach after a 2 day Yom tov. (Pizza discourse subtweet).

@arinohem Like everything else, this has actually already long been a commonly used ironic rejoinder

Thinking of using the “so the child will ask” line for other questionable minhagim. “Totty, why do we wait until a boy turns 3 to cut his hair, and then do it at a grave on the hills of Meron?” “So that you should ask, my son. So that you should ask.”

@cohen_seba41362 @arinohem Folks will snicker at chassidishe vertlach and it's literally a Radak

@arinohem According to the Kimhi family yes sefaria.org/Sefer_HaShoras…

Is it?

@CraftsmanBob @cudiskafya Ch"v

@querynotfound @cudiskafya Is that supposed to be an insult?

For all those of us on here whose grandfathers went to some intense Chabad yeshiva back in the day and now generations later we suffer without any form of sugar on pesach…

@CraftsmanBob @cudiskafya What's five feet tall and definitely not gezha? This guy

@cudiskafya Just be like me and have regular sugar, even unboiled. Although, not sure exactly what one would use sugar for on Pesach anyways except matzah brai

@arinohem @cudiskafya Your "Shulchan Aruch says so but circumstances change" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by your shirt

@cudiskafya @querynotfound lol or maybe circumstances change and this isn’t like pig in the Bible

@cudiskafya This is not a knock on liquid sugar boiled before Pesach, which is based on a halachic cheshbon

@cudiskafya וצוקר אסור לאכלו

@mycr_karenina Earliest source I see is a rabbinic letter from 1819, printed in 1829. It would seem that it was invented in order to complete a rhyme: "b'non shel kedoshim - mi'geza tarshishim"

Friends, what’s the origin of the expression “מגזע תרשישים”

@Kanyna_Hora אינטערעסאנטע נושא

פיינע ליצנות אבער... די חתן (און כלה) שרייבן נישט אינטער אויף א כתובה... בלויז די עדים חתמנ'ן...

@peskie55 Some article links don't work unless you're logged in

@querynotfound Link is broken

Did I set out to write 25 pages on the biblical 'kumaz' and on peculiar chastity devices? I did not. Was it worth it though? You tell me! academia.edu/165203404/

@arinohem @shnayor the basics = learning how to understand without understanding

@shnayor lol i hear but i think that needs to come after youve grasped the basics

Increasingly convinced that one of the best elements of yeshiva education was the rebbis continuous hammering of the “what if” guy.

See pgs. 29-43 (I may also upload those pages separately) x.com/querynotfound/…

This may sound plausible, but is sadly factually false. This could easily be rectified by reading my recent definitive article on the subject!