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Q: Writing with dry erase marker on Shabbos, is it permitted?

gustavoanalyticsTrying to figure out if I can use a dry erase marker for recreation and then erase whatever I wrote. Is this allowed?

 
 
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1:44 PM
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Q: How can people dance around bonfires on Lag Lo'Omer - it's darchei emori?

Joshua PearlIn Tosephto Shabbos 7:1, it says that one who dances by a bonfire is following in the ways of the Emorites. In light of this, how can so many supposedly frum Jews dance around bonfires on Lag Lo'Omer?

 
2:23 PM
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Q: Yehu punished for Yizre'el?

milHoshea 1:3-5: "So he went and married Gomer the daughter of Divlayim, and she conceived and bore him a son. HASHEM said to him," Call him Yizre'el; because in only a short time I will punish the house of Yehu for having shed blood at Yizre'el; I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Yis...

 
 
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3:52 PM
Woohoo! First tractate finished via shared responsibility! Yeyasher Kochachem to @msh210 and @Heshy on completing Yevamot! 8 tractates done; 55 to go.
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5:08 PM
@IsaacMoses YK to you, too, for aiding the completion of the last chapter
 
@msh210 if so, then don't forget @user15464, who posted the answer you selected, and everyone else who wrote posts that got linked, and who linked them!
I am quite impressed with how essentially communal this siyum effort is, even more so than your standard distributed siyum. Fitting for Mi Yodeya, and good to focus on during the Omer!
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11:40 PM
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Q: Source for parable about two fetuses

mblochI once heard/read a parable about two babies in their mother's womb. It goes something like this. Two twins in the womb are speaking of the world to come, one believes it exists, the other not. Suddenly a hole appears with light, one of the babies is sucked outside, the other hears agitat...

 

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