A Jew With Questions
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
The 70 who went down to Egypt
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When a person tells a lie, the initial lie is not that hard, what gets a person into trouble is all the subsequent the lies that they need ...
Sunday, December 18, 2022
The fantastical justifications of Chazal
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In last weeks parsha וישב the Torah relates a very straightforward story. Yehuda is traveling, sees what he thinks is a prostitute (it'...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Civilian casualties in Halacha
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This week's parsha וישלח has the story of the brothers and Shechem. The mefarshim are bothered by the brothers killing of everyone in th...
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Sunday, December 4, 2022
The Riches of Moshe
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The Gemara in Nedarim 38 (recent daf yomi) made the following statement: אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן : אֵין הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מַשְׁרֶה שְׁכ...
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Not blaming god for cancer
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Mishpacha magazine had a story a while ago about a Rabbi Meister who died from cancer. They printed the following quote from him: I have n...
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Avrahams impassioned defense of Sdom
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In Parshas וירא Avraham gives an impassioned defense of Sdom which is used by many liberal Jews to promote Judaism as being in favor of soc...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Rape in Chazal
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The Torah has a very different view of rape then we do today. The Torah sees rape as injuring the father by deflowering his daughter and de...
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