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Alex
Alex
2:02 AM
@DoubleAA "Israel not becoming a giant graveyard" Without reading the link I thought this was about someone trying to kill the whole country.
 
 
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mbloch
mbloch
4:40 AM
@DoubleAA interesting, I was aware of this but not what you are linking to. The space saving step is clearly to wait a year to collect the decomposed body before storing it for eternity. We'll have to see how this picks up, my guess is society will be even more conservative with burial that it is already in other areas
 
 
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Hot Stuff
Hot Stuff
8:48 AM
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Q: Did Rashi learn Kabbalah?

Bochur613On Bereishis 27:27, Rashi makes the following comment: כריח שדה אשר ברכו ה'. שֶׁנָּתַן בּוֹ רֵיחַ טוֹב וְזֶהוּ שְׂדֵה תַּפּוּחִים, כָּךְ דָּרְשׁוּ רַזִ"לִ: The Artscroll Chumash Rashi set comments in a footnote (don't have the exact text in front of me) that this could be a reference to a ...

rashi mysticism-kabbalah
 
 
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Double AA
Double AA
12:54 PM
@mbloch it's more about when than if. The current situation is obviously untenable long term. The only question is do we start switching soon before we use up hundreds of acres, or do we procrastinate for ~30 years until the situation is dire and we've already lost so much land forever.
The math here isn't complicated
 
 
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DonielF
DonielF
2:32 PM
@DoubleAA I’m not exactly understanding what their alternative plan is that they’re proposing
 
Hot Stuff
Hot Stuff
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Q: Minimum food on the Sabbath

michaelWhat is the minimum food a person needs to eat on the Sabbath? (I have an interest in water fasting, which means not consuming anything but water for days or weeks. The power of the fast depends on not eating anything at all.)

halacha shabbat food
 
Double AA
Double AA
@DonielF the short story is during temple times throughout the times of the Mishna and Gemara, people were buried temporarily while they decomposed and then about a year later the family collected the bones into a jar and kept it in a family jar room/plot/place. People stopped doing this eventually but the Halakhot for it and how it affects and effects Avelut are all still recorded all the way down to the Shulchan Arukh.
The proposal is just to resume to the traditional method of burial, just like many other "forgotten" Halakhot which have had to become relevant again in Israel.
 
msh210
msh210
2:53 PM
@Alex ditto
 
Joel K
Joel K
@DoubleAA A further advantage would be the reintroduction into more widespread usage of one of my favorite English words
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Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
3:14 PM
@DoubleAA why did we stop doing that, anyway? (Or should I ask in the obvious place?)
 
Double AA
Double AA
3:48 PM
@MonicaCellio you can ask, but afaik no one really knows. Probably some combination of living in lands with soft soil, poverty, small community size, and it not being practiced in surrounding cultures.
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
@DoubleAA oh, "conditions called for changing it when we went elsewhere, didn't resume the original practice when we returned to the land" wasn't something I thought of, but it makes sense.
 

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